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Subscription $1.50 a Year In Advance Established June 12,1883 J Good Government, Pure Homes and Godly Hearts Grantsville, W. Va., Thursday, January 12, 1922. Published Every Thursday Mornlnn 38th Year Whole No. 1964 West Virginia News Briefs IE Moil Impotramt •vents of mntiro state covered fry our rtrrtspondwits E Slstersvtlle.—Russel U. Adams is elected president of Klwanis club. Adamston.—William George, mer chant, Is fined $-■’> und costs for de lating diphtheria quarantine. Huntington.—SIv-story annex, 70 by 200 feet, will soon be added to the Hotel Huntington at a tost of about $250,000. Princeton.—Fire destroys the Prince ton bakery leased from the Prince ton baking company to the Kyan-Rad ford Halting Co. Clarksburg.—Central West Virginia Angus breeders association is organiz ed here with Solomon Harper, of Buck kannon, as president. Welch.—Acquittal was the verdict In .the cases of “Buster” Pence, William Salters and C. E. Lively, charged with killing Ed Chambers here August 1. Parkersburg.—Charles Corliss, of New Martinsville, is elected president of the Ohio River gravel company the million dollar concern recently chart ered. Clarksburg.—The Harrison county court at the term just completed tried 31 felony cases, including five murders xvith four convictions and one disagree ment. Huntington—James Lemley, Norfolk & Western railroad employee died as ■a result of burns received when a Roller exploded in the railroad shops iat Williamson. Five persons were in jured. Huntington.—Shelby Christian, has been appointed deputy to State Tax Commissioner Walter S. Hallahan. He Is connected with the license tax de partment and will maintain his head quarters In Huntington. Huntington.—Woman's club plans to testabliah a “moonlight” school and present I>r. Dtmean Spenth, of Prince ton to discuss “Western European Civ ilization and American Ideals” in a aeries of lectures from February 13 to 18. Charleston.—A large delegation of citizens from Nicholas county and elsewhere appeared before the state road commission In behalf of the con atruction of a state highway from Cauley Bridge to Belle, Swiss. Smn 'juersville, Webster Springs and Elkins. Martinsburg.—An attempted jail de livery here was frustrated by authori ties whose attention was called to an bnusual condition in the jail by the sound similar to that of a rat gnawing. Investigation developed that metal plates of a cell flooring had been looe ed and bolts removed. Huntington.—The tenth annual short course in coal mining at the University of West Virginia will open June 12, It was announced following the second day of conference here of the mining extension department. Professor A. C. Callen, in charge of mining work, said 200 had enrolled. Morgantown—Harry E. Tibhett", •uperintendent of the Case Hill coal company, recently informed state po lice o>f the existence of a moonshine •till In an abandoned section of a coal mine on Scott's Run, five mile* from Morgantown. Since the destruction of the etlll Tibbetts has received letters threatening him with death unless he Rives up $200, the value of the still. Logan—A five story hospital to cost approximately $150,000 will soon bo built nt I/>gan by nn association of Huntington and I>o»gun physirinns. The contract has boon awarded to V. E. Taylor, of Huntington. The associa tion la composed of Irr. IF. I>. Hatfield land associates of thp Huntington fJen '•ral and Kessler-Hatfield hospital, of Huntington, will unite with I>r. S. It, Jewsori, of Ix>gan. In forming a Hunt lngton-Logan association. Morgantown.- From $4 to $6 per ton was saved far^n bureau members (lur ing last yenr *!y pooling fertilizer ord - ers through! the state Farm IVureau Federalloi^rjind in many cases the sav ing was eg« n greater according to the Becretajv, J, It. McLaughlin, who has compered the prices of dealers 1n many counties with Federation’s state wide pi^.'e. Furthermore, this saving extend ed else to farmers not in the Farm Hu /Teau since the local prices were fre quently forced down In nn effort to compete with the Farm Itureau price. The total saving wast certainly not less than $100,000. Huntington -Approximately $2,000, 100 have been spent by the united mine Workers In trying to organize the W’dllamson field, according to an es timate made by Albert T. Manka, who for several years has been a labor or ganizer. Huntington—Number of election pre cincts In Huntington will he Increased from 86 to 06 and In Cabell county from 41 to 71 In the event that the Ca bell county court, approves recommen dations by the county committees of the two major parties. m Huntington.—Chesapeake & Ohio railroad offldnls of entire system hold loss and damage conference here. Williamson*—Hurry Schwachtcr heads committee of Jews selected to raise funds to build synagogue here. Mingo Junction.—Two-story apart ment house burned ami four families made homeless. Loss estimated to be $25,000. Clarksburg.—M. .T. TTenderson elco ted president of Kiwanis club over Po lice Court Judge Glenn P. Williams and W. I. Tibbetts. Bridgeport.—Stout gas company op g7ini7.«M] by C. A. Lawson and others to ♦trill immediately on farm of William Gray, near here. The company is capi talized at $25,000. Sistersville.—Improvements to cost nboi^t $50,000 are to ho made to the Tyler county court house, which is to he remodeled and an addition built. Tlie contract will soon be let. Farmington.—Fire destroys general store and i>ool room owned by Charles Stewart, a restaurant and store owned by John Ciatto and a repair shop con ducted by Itocco Bovo. Huntington.—William Maier, Jr., of Huntington, who recently won the Rhodes scholarship for Oxford at Har vard, lias won the Way man scholar ship. lie is 23 years old. Huntington—It would cost $350,000 to construct a sewer system that would take care of Huntington’s needs, ac cording to a rough estimate made by John II Sanborn, former city engin eer. Wheeling.—The congregation of the First English Lutheran church here accepted the resignation of Dr. E. G. Howard that he might accept the call from the Fourth Lutheran church of Springfield, O. Charleston.—The general municipal code so many years in course of pre paration and the building code which has been before council and its com mittees the last two or three years were finally adopted by council on sec ond reading of the ordinance embody ing them in one book. Morgantown.—A gift, estimated by geologists to produce a total revenue in excess of $3,000,000 was made to West Virginia University and the city of Morgantown by Dr. I. C. White, state geologist. It consists of 1,000 acres of coal land In Marion county. The re venue is to be divided equally between the university and the city. Elkins.—Negotatjons which have been in progress for some time are about to be closed, which will result in Halliehurst, the home of hte Elkins family here, being presented to Davis Elkins college. The mansion was built by the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins and crowns a hill top in the estate of 300 acres now in the center of the thriving city of Elkins. Charleston.—Between July 20 and Decemberl, 30 arrests for violations of the game laws were made by game wardens, according to the records in the state game and fish commission’s office. Of these, 30 were convicted. One of the violations was the killing of a deer In I’oeahontas county. Two hun ters were arrested and before the com missioner were fined and sentenced to imprisonment. Clarksburg.—Although two passeng er coaches the dining car and baggae cnr turned over on their sides in a ditch when westbound Hnltimore Si. Ohio, railroad passenger train No. 3 was wrecked as the result of a broken rail at Independence, eight miles east of Ornfton, nobody was hurt. All the physicians of Ornfton were called to the scene when first news of the aeci dent was flashed. St. Albans—The organization of the St. Albans saving and loan association with a capital of $.">00,000, was per fected by a number of local business men at a meeting In the city hall The object of the organization, it is said, is to encourage and help citizens to buy their own homes, fFenrge E. Thom ns. one of the promoters of the organ ization, reports that $.">0,000 of the stock had been subscribed. Charleston Work is actually In progress on West Virginia’s statewide road Improvement plan. Two projects along the Midland trail crossing the state through the Kanawha valley and j probably other projects in other parts | of fhe state has been started. The pro | Jects referred to tire situated In Pul man county and in Fayette county, for which contracts were let November 17. Of the seven other contracts award ed in that letting, It is ret>ortod by tho state road commission that builder* construction equipment Is being deliv ered to the Jobs as rapidly as jtosslbl* and grading will soon start on all of them. Welch.—Following the confirmation of his appointment as Minister to Para guay, William .T. O’Toole exfmets to leave for South America about Feb ruary 1. Charleston.—A raid conducted by federal agent* on all alleged rende vous of dope peddlers shortly after midnight resulted in three arrests and the seizure of a large quantity of nar cotic*. A charge of illegal possession of narcotic* wa* placed against Slim Robert*, Ilennie Pushkin and L. T. Melton. VOTE $9,250,000 FOR PROHIBITION First Bill Passed By House Under Budget System Is For Treasury EFFORT TO CUT FUND FAILS Measure Sent to the Senate Without Record Vote, Practically No Op position Arising — Effect of New System Is Evident. Washington.—The House passed the first annual supply measure drafted under the budget system—the treas ury appropriation bill carrying ap proximately $169,000,000, of which $9,250,000 is for enforcement of pro hibition during the fiscal year begin ' ning next July. The measure was sent to the Sen ate without a record vote practically no opposition developing to its vari ous provisions. Only one amendment wjis adopted while several sections were eliminated on points of order. Representative Hill, Republican, Maryland, made an unsuccessful at tempt to cut the amount provided for prohibition enforcement to $250,000, but his amendment was quickly snowed under Little discussion was provoked by prohibitionists and, the Hill amend ment disposed of the House proceed ed to consideration of other features ! of the bill. I » On a point of order by Represen tative Walsh, Republican, Massachu setts, provision for a $10,00d salary for an undersecretary of the treas ury was eliminated. The effect of the budget system, members said, was evident in the few changes proposed. A year ago the various appropriation bills were the target of dozens of amendments and points of order. Bogus Dry Agents Face Graft Charge. New York.—Two men who posed as Federal prohibition agents offer ing protection to saloon keepers in Queens at the rate of from $25 to $75 weekly, were arrested here and confessed, the police say, that they had collected more than $2,500 in the last month from about 35 cafe proprietors. Both were held for ex tortion. The prisoners gave the names of Charles Madden and George Palmer. Negro Kills Two Detectives. New York.—Detective Francis J. Buckley died as the result of a bul let wound. He was the second vic tim of an alleged Negro gangster who turned on his captors 200 feet from the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth ' street police station. Detective Wil j liam A.- Miller was the other victim. [ Buckley and Miller were taking the Negro, wanted for assault, to the po j ,,ce station when he broke away and fired a revolved concealed in his belt American Killed by Mexicans. I Mexico City. The War Department has ordered the pursuit of a band of 40 robbers who shot to death Tim othy Costello of Pennsylvania, an American citizen, on his ranch near Texcoco, 15 miles northeast of Mex ico City. James Kelly, a British subject and partner of Costello, fled to safety through a hail of bullets. Spectacular Fire In New York. New- York.—A spectacular fire of I undetermined origin caused damage estimated at more than $100,000 in ! n «lx-8tory garment manufacturers’ building in Thirty-third street, be tween Broadway and Fifth avenue. One fireman, struck by falling debris, was injured seriously, six others were slightly hurt. Fud Thief Taken; Three Pal* Escapes i Newark, N J.—Four thieves stole 25 fur coats valued at $20,000 from ! "f Sallsbury-Jacobson * to. ^ Three of the men escaped with the loot in an automobile truck. The fourth man, who was captured was Identified as Warren Smith Newark, who, police say, was at liberty under hall on a charge of | stealing automobile tires. Joan of Arc Statue Unveiled. I Washington. — Described ns "evi denre or the friendship between the two republics,” a statue of Joan of Arc was unveiled here in the pres enre of President nnd Mrs. Harding. Ambassador Jiissorand of France and prominent government officials. New York Restaurant Raided. Now York. Prohibition agents raid < d Jark's restaurant at Sixth avenue i and Port^r-third streef and haulod away noarly $100,000 worth of liquor In motor trucks. A large crowd of shoppers witnessed tho raid. Job for Man With Big Family. Youngstown. — Mayor CJeorge L. Olos offered a Job at. $100 a month” v lth rent free and garden space, to the Youngstown man who has the largest family of children. The place is that of guard at the city's reeer Minnesota Canal Builder la Dead. Duluth, Minn.—Napoleon Orignon, aged 79 years, prominently identified with the construction of the Duluth ship canal, died at his home hore. MRS. GOTO Unsurpassed in beauty is the pop ular verdict in Tokyo concerning Mrs. Goto, wife of the son of Baron Goto, mayor of Tokyo, Japan. SUDDEN DEATH OF SENATOR PENROSE Only Doctor and Nurses Were Present When Statesman Answers Summons Washington, D. C.—Boies Penrose, senior senator from Pennsylvania, died suddenly at his hotel apartment here from pulmonary thrombosis. He roic efforts were made to save him, and while it was realized that he was gravely ill, his death was described as sudden. Except for his nurses and physician, the Pennsylvania senator, long a pow er in politics and in the Senate, was alone in his large apartment on the top floor of a hotel overlooking the city when he passed away. Up to with in five minutes of his death his condi tion had been described as “quite com fortable.” Then he lapsed into un consciousness, and died peacefully. Senator Penrose had been holding his seat in the Senate since 1897. He was aged 61 on November 1. Boies Penrose occupied a position distinctive from that of any other man in the annals of Pennsylvania's states manship. He was in public life con tinuously for more than 35 years, a service unequaled by that of any other Pennsylvanian. His service in the United States Senate extended through a longer period than that of any other man Pennsylvania has sent to that body. He was the only man the state has elected for four full terms in the Senate, and he alone of all Pennsylvania’s public men attained leadership of his party there. He was the only Pennsylvania senator who has held the chairmanship of the com mittee on finance, the most powerful committee of the Senate, and he was the first Pennsylvanian to be elected to the Senate by the votes of the peo ple. Carnival Toll In New York. New York. — Father Knickerbocker turned his pockets inside out to pay the piper for piping in the new year with a celebration that overspread Manhattan from Harlem to the Bat tery. Police records show four vio lent deaths attributable to holiday over-indulgence; 16 men and womon In hospitals with gunshot or knife wounds; a half-dozen poisoned by bad liquor, and scores of summonses serv ed in attempting to make it the driest New Year's eve Broadway ever had seen. Rescuer Loses Life In Mine. Ellsworth, Pa.—One man was killed and five Injured, two seriously, follow ing an explosion of undetermined or igin in a section of Mine No. 1, Ells worth Collieries Company. The dead miner, Albert Gilbert, an assistant foreman, was overcome while engaged in rescue work. The five injured men were the only miners working in the section when the explosion occurred and were rescued speedily. Fire Damages Church. New York — Fire martin* in the electric pipe organ of the Zion and St. Timothy's Kpiscopal church in West Fifty-seventh street. nearly destroyed that edifice, and spread to the adja cent Hotel Clintonla. The hotel was not seriously damaged. Damage was estimated at $300,000. Blast Kills Four Miners. Birmingham, Ala. — Four miners were killed and four other seriously injured In an explosion in the Docena mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Ship Seized With Cargo of Liquor. Washington. D. C.—Seizure of the British Bchooner Messenger of Peace with a cargo of more than a thousand cases of liquor off the North Carolina coast was reported to Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Clifford by the coast guard station at Elisabeth City. N. C. The ship, the report said, was stranded on Ocracoke bar, off the coast of North Carolina, and on being floated the vessel and Its crew were taken into custody by a coast guard cutter. 'INDICT FORMER N. Y. ‘m CHIEF H L. Hart. Ex-Assistants and Drug Firms Charged With Conspiring To Defraud FLOOD OF LIQUOR LOOSED Missing Permits On Which Liquor Was Fraudulently Obtained Num ber About 250, Each Calling for An Average of 250 Cases. New York.— A bombshell was ex plofled in New York federal prohibi tion headquarters. Breaking of the seals on a secret indictment, returned some weeks ago by the federal grand jury investigat ing enforcement of the Volstead act in this city, revealed the fact that Harold L Hart, a prominent Bing hamton attorney who formerly served as federal prohibition director for the State of New York, headed a list of a score of defendants charged with con-1 spiracy to defraud the government through liquor withdrawals. Indicted with Hart were two other high enforcement officials, three poli ticians and a number of the "drug” concerns and their officers. The indictments followed an inves tigation of several months, which j started with the seizure of a truck load of liquor on the road between Philadelphia and Baltimore, consigned to the Central Drug Company. Agents who made the seizure noted that the permit was of the series of 247,000. At that time the legal permit number for Hart's office was 131,000. Hart is alleged to have countersigned the bo I gus permits. Various distilleries were approach ed by holders of similar permits, and not doubting their validity, allowed the liquor to be withdrawn. No flg ] urea have been issued as to the quan l tify of liquor obtained fraudulently I but the missing permits number about 250 and each calls for an average of 250 cases. 'ROPES FOUND ROUND NECKS Embalmer Describes Scenes At Open ing of Soldiers’ Graves In France. Washington.—Rufus P. Hubbard of New York, employed by the American graves’ registration service in prepar ing bodies of American soldiers for shipment from France, told a Senate committee that on three bodies disin ' terred he found a rope around the neck of each and a black cap over each face. Called as the first witness at the resumption of the hearings of the committee investigating charges by Senator Watson, Democrat, Georgia, that American soldiers were hanged without trial in France, Hubbard de clared there was nothing in the coffins by which the bodies could be identi fied. "The bodies were identified by the cross on the outside of the coffin, and the black caps were not removed be- i fore the bodies were shipped to the United States for burial,” Hubbard testified. Trolley Mishap Injuries Score. Cleveland.—The rear car of a dou ble-header interurban headed toward , Akron on the Akron, Bedford and , Cleveland line, tipped over at Stop 36, injuring more than a score of pas sengers, several seriously. Several pf the passengers were pinned beneath the wreckage. Both trolleys were i crowded. Floods Menace Lives In Panama. Panama. — Torrential rains have | flooded the River Tulra, In the pro^ vince of Darien, and the villages ot Pinogana nnd Yavisa are inundated The authorities at Real De gj.nta Maria report that two lives have been lost and there is heavy property damage. They have asked for assist' ance. 0. A. R. Organizer Is Dead. Pana, 111.—James C. McQuigg, one of the organizers of the. Grand Army of the Republic, is dead here, aged 83 years. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention which nominated former President James A Garfield. Woman Loses Fight for Mayor. Greenville,*S. C. — Miss Addle Ta tham, the first South Carolina woman to run for office as mayor, was de feated in the city election at Walhal la. She received 29 votes against 194 for James M. Moss, her oppo nent. Panama Shipping 8ets New Record. Panama. — Shipping through the Panama Canal in 1921 set a new high record. The tolls for the calendar year were $10,325,718. approximately $30,000 more than the previous year, according to the official report. Fire Damages Altoona Stores. Altoona.—Property in the heart of the business section her| was dam aged to the extent of Ifilooo by fire of unknown origin. A shIQ compnny, a hat and a five and tf/-cent store suffered damage to stocl Jolty Bandits Get New York.—Three Jostled twc grocery st^ a rear room, 'robbed and whistled merrily as1 past several customers tc In Gotham, ^ly bandits i** men into » of >6,000 |y walked safety. DEXTER S KIMBALL Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the col lege of engineering, Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., who has assumed office as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the largest engineering society in the country. ONE MAN IS KILLED 40 HURTJIU CRASH New York Elevated Cars Are Telescoped in Rear-End Collision New York. — One man was killed and 40 persona injured, some serious ly, when a southbound train on the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad crashed into the rety end of a stalled train at Fortieth street. The motorman of the rear train pulled out of the Forty-second street Btation apparently thinking that the train ahead of him was in motion. He tried to apply the brakes, but, accord ing to his account, they failed to work. The impact was terrific. The first two cars of the moving train were of wood, the last two of metal, and all four cars of the stationary train were metal. The two light wooden cars of the moving train were crushed be tween the heavy cars at either end of them. The passengers in both trains were | thrown from their seats. Those in the steel cars escaped with shock and slight injuries. Those in the wooden cars were thrown into a mass of wreckage. Women were screaming and injured men moaning in the two destroyed | cars. The only light was from street lamps and from windows of adjoining i houses. A few men w'riggled loose ! and felt their way through splinters which filled the car like a cane-brake j to windows and doors, but these were too badly obstructed to permit a way out. HARD BLOWS DEALT LIQUOR ‘Dry” Agents Confiscate 6,000,000 Gal lons pi Beverage; Arrest 40,000. Washington.—The ghost of John Barleycorn enters the New Year wav ering under a series of staggering blows struck by prohibition agents ' during 1921, according to internal rev enue reports just made available. The government forces confiscated 6.000. 000 gallons of alcoholic bever- I j ages during 1921, the report showed, , while 40.000 persons were arrested for alleged violations. The Confiscations, it was pointed out, were 30 times as J large as in the preceding year. The ”dry" agents swept into their net property and liquors valued at 112.000. 000 In the last 12 months. This was a valuation almost six times as large as the confiscations during 1920. j Aviators Set New Record. < Mineola, N. Y. — Flying without a stop for 26 hours 19 minutes and 35 Roconds, part of the time in a snow- I norm, the remainder through gales so cold that the oil pump of their I^arsen monoplane quit working and finally forced them to descend. Edward Stin son of San Antonio. Tex., and IJoyd Bertaud of San Francisco, set a new 1 world's record for continuous flight ! in a heavlor than air machine. The 1 previous record of 24 hours 19 minutes 1 7 seconds, was made by two French « it Etampes. , I Steal* To Buy Food for Children. j Chicago —Edward Dolfln, 43 years ild, father of seven children, who con fessed to holding up four men and 1 tealing $5 to buy food for his fam ily, was sentenced to from three to < 20 years In prison by Judge McKinley. ' Liquor 9*olen From Home. Chicago.—Rare wine and liquors to the amount of $100,000 were stolen 1 from the $1,000,000 Glencoe home ol l James A. Stonehill, millionaire whole- , sale dealer, it was learned. The , raiders, heavily armed, broke Into i the house, despite a network of burg* lar alarms, and overpowered the . guards there. They then cracked the iquor vault. According to the re >ort made to Chief of Police John Yfeaney of Glencoe, the robbers took the liquor away Ip a big moving van. FRENCH ACCEPT LilT ONU-B0ATS Agree in Principle to American Plan Barring Use Against Merchant Ships BRITISH BEHIND PROPOSAL Reserve Final Approval Pending Dis cussion of Precise Language of Dec laration, In Which Definition of Rules May Be Asked. Washington, D. C.The American proposal to prohibit use of submarines against merchant vessels, now the pre dominant issue of the arms negotia tions. has been accepted in principle by France, but her delegates have re served final approval pending a dis cussion of the precise language of the declaration. \ British acceptance previously has been given, and although neither the Italians nor the Japanese had receiv ed final instructions, there were indi cations that neither Home nor Tokio would interpose serious objection if the proposal received France’s full ap proval. The exact nature of the French res ervation was not revealed, but the im pression was gathered in some quar ters that it might concern such a defi nition of the terms of the declaration as would make it clear just what con duct would be expected from mer chantmen in view of their immunity from submarine attack. The French delegation, however, in mnking known its acceptance in prin ciple, has emphasized that France not only agrees to the original proposal of Elihu Hoot that the new prohibi tion on submarine warfare become ef fective when all nations have agreed to it, but also to the amendment of Arthur J. Balfour, which would make the prohibition immediately effective as between the five great powers. At the same time the French have accepted the additional Hoot declara tion under which any submarine com mander violating the rules of interna tional law would be liable to trial for an act of piracy. Robbers Escape at Police Station. Binghamton, N. Y. — Five robbers escaped from the police station at Montrose, Pa., after a pistol battle. The men were arrested in a motor car for failing to account for its own ership. At the police station they re fused to answer questions. Left in charge of a deputy for a moment, they drew guns, backed the deputy against the wall and fled to the car. As they were driving away other oficers open ed fire on them. Later the car was found abandoned at Tlngley, Pa., with bullet holes in it. Society People Fight Big Fire. New York—The Westchester Coun try Club, located on Pelham Pay, waa burned to the ground by a fire of ac cidental origin. The Iobh is estimated at $250,000. Society men and women hurriedly left the ballroom, formed a bucket brigade and worked for nearly an hour In a temperature of 10 above zero in an ineffectual attempt to save the structure. Women guests man aged to save tapestries, paintings and furniture valued at thousands of dol lars. Captain Is Now Sea Hero. New York—Captain A. R. Randall of the steamship Hudson, acquitted re cently of a charge of abandoning a small boat, in distress off Ambrose Channel lightship, is now sung as a hero, following receipt of a radio giv ing details of his rescue of six mem bers of the crew of the French fishing schooner Relne des Mers. Captain Randa'i! sighted the dismasted schoon er in a storm off the Newfoundland hanks, and Immediately put out boats which effected a perilous rescue. The captain was lost. Altoona Mill Resumes, Altoona, Pa. — After being Idle throughout the greater part of 1921. the Altoona Iron Co.'s mill resumed operations, giving employment to sev eral hundred men. A sufficient nurf/. her of orders are on hand to kcej^he plant going for several weeks .-tain the outlook is favorable for ari<Vtional business. Two Navy Airmen Killed. Pensacola, Fla.—Lleuts. Frank fllo man of Oakland, Cal., and Klton C. Herseman of Weston. W. Va„ aviators from the nnval air station here, were killed when their airplane went Into a nose dive at an altitude of 1.000 feet and crashed off Fort Barrancas. Florida Special Wrecked In Georgia. Atlanta.- 8ix sleeping cars of fl-.A Royal Palm, crack Jacksonville Chl cago train of the Southern Railway, were derailed near Juliette, Oa., ac cording to word received here. It was reported no passengers were Injured. American Slain at Shanghai. Shanghai.—One American sailor is dead and four others are sufferlrtg from knife wounds as the result of4* series of street fights between Rail* and American sailors here. A brawl a cafe in which an Italian sailor w beaten by an American, led to gt, eral street fighting in which parti] from Italian men-of-war hunted do^j isolated groups of Americans and tacked them with knives. Fift< Americans, who were badly outm bered, were Injured.