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ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICE
J. L. & S. GILLESPIE, Editors and Publishers
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ISDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 17, 1919
GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI;
SUBSCRIPTION: «Sg?5c TSSSSUS
VOLUME 4—NUMBER 93
THREE ISLANDS IN
NEW YORK HARBOR
Southwest of Manhattan, Approxim
ately 20 Acres, Constitute Ellis Is- j
A
land, Undeni Congressional Inquiry.
Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 17—Ellis Island,!
known for years as "the open door to
the oppressed of every land" and
which has become the subject of a
Congressional inquiry by reason of its
new character as a place of deten- !
tion for hundreds of anarchTsts and
other da. gerous radicals, is really ;
three small islands in New York bar-;
bor about one mile southwest of Man- j
Their total area is approxi-.
hattan.
mately 20 acres. 1
Upon these islands, known as Nos. j
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1, 2, and 3 are nineteen large and
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small building of brick and stone,
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many of tnem handsome structures,
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of four and five stories, used as the
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United States Immigration Station;
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for this port and through which,
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from July 1 to December 1 last, near
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ly 80,000 aliens entered the Land of
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Opportunity and Freedom. Hundreds
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of "undesirables," it should be stated,
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were at the same time sent back to .
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the lands of their birth. The immi
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gration service here employs 372
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workers including inspectors who
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board incoming ah,ps. . ;
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Island which, m Summer, gives the i
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foreigner his first glimpse of the;
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wonders of the New Worlds metro-,
polis, a pleasing view of beautiful
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lawns and flowers, well-kept buildings
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and a fine harbor with the marvelous
skvline of New York in the distance,
should have metamorphosed daring
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the war into a big detention place for
political criminals and the foes of or
ganized government.
The fact is, Ellis Island, according
to the authorities, was intended as a
prison for such offenders. Federal
judges, in the past two years, acting
under the authority vested in them,
liberated 557 so-called "dangerous
aliens" either upon their own recogni
zance or in the custody of their lawy
ers, according to Representative Is-1
sac Siegel, a member of the House
Immigration Committee which is in
vestigating the Red periL During the
same period 697 anarchists, bolshe
vists an dother radicals have been
sent from various parts of the Unit
ed States to New York. Of this num
ber 85 ar enow in custody of Acting
Immigration Commissioner Byron G.
Uhl, the successor to Frederic C. j
Howe, who until recently, and since
1913, had served as Commissioner, j
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West Injured—Car Driven By Miss ;
Charlotte Winfrey.
The six year old daughter of Mr.
R. E. West was run over by an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock at the intersection of Carroll
ton Ave., and Howard Street, which
driven by Miss Charlotte Win
was
frey. stenographer for Stoner & Co.
The child wee hurt on the head and
hand, but it is not believed that her,
Physicians
injuries are serious,
however, wem unable to ascertain
whether or not the little girl received
f !
intemal l jun . .
Miss Winfrey was driving west on
Carrollton Ave - she reach .® d
Howard street the traffic was consid
erably congested at this point. ci y
water wagon was being e ' *
corner and another rapidly moving
automobile, going Sou , cad ® ias
Winfrey to stop her car When she
again started in first speed, thehUle
girl attempted to cross the street in
front of the car. The child grew ex
citeiand started forward several
«me», and turned back. Misa Winfrey
thought the little girl was going to
wait until the car had passed and as
she drove forward, the child ran di
rectly in front of tiie automobile. The
front wheel passed over er y
Mias Winfrey stopped the car quickly
before the rear wheels struck the gu-1.
The little girl was given medical at
téntion at-once. Mr. West, the father
of the injured child .called upon'Miss
Winfrey yesterday afternoon and ex
onerated her from all blame. Mr.
/ ' West stated spectators who saw
the acci dent told him that Miss Win
tny vu not'ut lunlt ,snd the child
ran directly in froat of the car.
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BREAD MADE OF •
FLAXSEED SKINS
From Which The Oil Has Been Pres
sed, Is The Only Kind Petrograd
Residents Can Get.
Associated Press
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HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec. 17—
^ Qnly #braad the ma j or i ty of the !
residents of Petrograd have been able
to obtain for months has been the so
called » duranda /> made from flaxseed
skins from which the oil has be en
presse d, M. Saponen, a Petrograd art
dea i er w ho recently succeeded in es
cap j n g from Bolshevist Russia to Fin
j andj w h 0 discloses this situation says
tbe bread is highly irritating ttfid
M. Saponen expressed the opinion
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that, if the Allied blockade continued,
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the worst months for Bolshevist Rus
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sia would be March and April. He
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stated that, though unemployment
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was general in Petrograd, it was dif
ficult to hire workmen owing to their
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weaknened condition and apathy. The
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propertied class, who are not allow
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ed food rations, get nothing .except
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what they manage to buy surrepti
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îously by selling their furniture and
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other possessions.
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"Bartering is extensively practiced
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in Petrograd and Moscow as well as
coantry ,-. cotlti nued M. Sapo
non. "No one may legally possess
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more than 5,000 rubles. When people
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have nothing more with which they
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mav trade they must join the Lom
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munist party m order to get work.
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That is difficult however for the bur
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f ols,e - A '' ' he located people tnr
to move urto the country where condi
tions are better.
causes stomach trouble.
Last March, foreigners, who up to
that time had enjoyed special privil
eges, became the objects of persecu
tion, declared M. Saponen. This gra
dually increased until June when for
eigners, especially the English, were
attacked wholesale.
Th eGermans after the Brest-Lit
ovsk conference could do as they lik
ed, but a change came with the Ger
man revolution. The German diplo
mats were badly treated and after
June 1 all Germans shared the fate
of other foreigners.
There has been little home life in
Petrograd since July 1, M. Saponen
stated, when parents were ordered
to take all meals in the Communal
eating houses. This order has not yet
been extended to Moscow.
Owing to the closing of millinery
shops and other places employing
large numbers of women, those who
were physicially able went into the
munition works and other factories.;
rema i n d er were shut off from a
livelihood and were f orced to shift for
themselves as best they could.
What police protection Petrograd
enjoys is given by women, said M.
Saponen ,and continued:
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A year ago every person was a
j aw un ^ Q himself, the authorities do
ing little to suppress lawlessness, but
since spring the police and miltia, \
made up of women from the Baltic j
provinces, have been trying to keep j
order .In Moscow there is a regular
niilitia, the members of which are of- ;
ten, themselves, arrested by soldiers." j
Although burglars caught in Pe
trograd are promptly executed by the
Bolshevists, robberies are still fre- j
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quent.
Wines and vodka are still obtain
»Wo " l exorbitant prices.
Asked if the Bolshevists were show- ;
ing any signs of factional division, M. j
Saponen said that none would admit;
publicly that there was not unanim
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Board KCÜUCeS I axes
Qj| Short Term LcaSOS
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reduce the assessed^ valuation of the,
short term leased lands in the Six
teenth Sections, at their nieetmg
which was held at the courthouse yes-j
terday. The valuation was reduced :
86.00 on cleared apd 83.00 on wild
lands. This reduction does not apply
to long term leases .
After transacting this business, the
Board adjourned. _
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INCREASES IN ZEAL
AMONG STUDENTS
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In Colleges Of England Since The
War, According to Statement
Of Viscount Bryce.
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MANCHESTER, Eng., Dec. 17—
There has been an increase in zeal
among the college students of this
country since th ewar, according to
Viscount Bryce. Speaking at the un
iversity of Manchester he said that in
al lthe universities, notably in Oxford
and Cambridge, the numbers of stu
dents had grown until it had become
difficult to find accommodations for
them.
At Oxford, he continued, they had
told him that men had come back from
the war hungry and thirsting for
learning. They were training them
selves with an energy which was sel
dom seen, even under the pressure of
the compeittion that existed before
1914. Moreover, the intellectual vit
ality of the stndents was high, prov
ing that so long as the British people
maintained their patriotism, strength,
force an dîntellectual life the country
would pull through.
Referring to th eduties and func
tion which universities would dis
charge in the future, Viscount Bryce
said that he did not think that in the
whole range of human thought there
was any subject at this moment which
was more important in the interests of j
the country and of the world than the
study of economic problems. j
*t was not merely for practical
purposes, or the merely utilitarian;
P art of life tha * we should study;
j languages an dhistory, he said. Half (
the business of life was concerned
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with knowing how to use men and wo
men, how to understand them, how to
; get on with them, how to turn their
j faculties to the best account.
"It is good for us" said Lord Bryce, !
that we should get to know not only
men but nations. These are times in 1
which no nation can any longer live
a life of isolation. We have stood
apart from the European Continent,
secure in our immunity from invas
ion, and our people have given too
little thought to what was passing in
0 ther nations and studied too little the
which we have maintained
thenu ßut the war hag shown
^ ^ ^ fortunes are bound
^ the fortunes of the rest of the
: worW . H tas shown us ^ not even
c(Jntinent cut off from U5 b a t ;
^ that no t le „
longer stand outside the cricle."
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supplement for each State in the Un
01 ? containing all the census figure
to the state in question.
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justice Sir John Hankey Renders
Important Decision Against
English Government
Associated Press
LONDON, t)ec. 17—Justice Sir John
Hankey of the King's Bench Division,
today declared the government does
not possess the power to prohibit the
importation jef certain goods, there
fore its proclamation to this effect was
nvalid. The judgement was consider
d#one .of the most important ever
endered against the government.
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APPEAL IS MADE
TO NEWSPAPERS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—An a P-;
peal to the publishers of the coun-|
try to exercise all possible economy ;
in the use of news print paper, was :
issued today b ythe House Postoffice
Ask All Possible Economy Be Exer- 1 .
cised In Use of News Print
Paper.
Associated Press
Committed which decided to defer for
gix monthSj ætion on the -Anthony
Bd | proposing that daily newspapers
containing more than 24 pages, be
denied second c i ass ma ili n g rate.
g very newspaper in the country
wag urged by the committee to re
duce tbg consumption of paper ten
per cent for a period of gix months
Snpfial Train Been
opetldl A rdl11 DCCI [
Arranged For G WOOd
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^ Chamber of Commerce of ,the in
auguration of a special train hand
lin £ express and parcel post matter
between Memphis and Greenwood, via
Clarksdale. This service has been es
tablished to avoid the delay incurred
handling this traffic on the regu
lar passenger trains, of which serious
complaint has been made a number of
times. The train from Memphis will.
reach Greenwood about 2:80 vp. m.,
leaves shout 10 a. m.
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Medical Society
WW+b Offipprs
HileCtS UlUCerS
At a recent meeting of the Leflore
County Medical Association, the fol-j
lowing were elected officers fèr the
year 1920: Dr. J. C. Adams, Presi
. nr . r v nillesnie Jr vice
, .J w B Dickins sec
tre _' '
retary and treasurer. _ -
The Y. &. M. V. R. R. has notified
(BERGER IS ISSUE
IN THE ELECTION
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Called For December Nineteenth In
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The Fifth Congressional Dis
trict Of Wisconsin
Associated Press
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 17—Vic-!
tor L. Berger is the issue in the spe
cial election called for Dec. 19 in the
fifth congressional ^districct of Wis
consin. The Socialist leader, who was
elected to the present Congress but
denied his seat following his convic
tion for violation of the espionage
act, is again the nominee of his par
ty. He is opposed by Henry Boden- !
stab, a republican, whose candidacy is
backed also by the democratic organ- ;
ization and a local society known as
"The Good Government League.
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The fifth district is looked upon as
the socialist stronghold in Wisconsin.
Berger carried it several years ago
when he was elected to Congress the ;
first time, and again at the regular
election in November, 1918. At the
latter-time he had a plurality of more ;
than 5,000 votes, polling 17,920
against 12,450 for Carney, democrat, j
and 10,678 for Stafford, republican. !
Carney instituted the contest which ;
resulted in Berger's loss of his seat. !
Berger was the unanimous choice of
a mass meeting called hurriedly be- j
ca *q se G f lack of time for taking the
usual party referendum. The Berger
meeting approved his "every act, word
and writing.
Berger seeks reelection reiterates j
The platform on which
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many of the Socialist party principles
and declares against prohibition, aga
inst "the impertinent presumption
any clique or party in the House of
Representatives" and against "medd
ling in the internal affairs of any for
eign country—Russia, Germany and
Mexico."
Bodenstab also announced that he ;
is against prohibition. The nub of
his platform is the declaration
; ize an d Bolshevize this country." j
j p^or to the primary election, the
; Soc i alists were more active than th e
; fusionists at least with regard to the
b i dbl g o; f meetings. Berger was
; d in ^ of his speeches as hav
fa said that he hoped t he soldiers!
refuse to ^ the place ofj
; striking coal miners and declared that
the former German Emperor would*
j not use "regular troops" to intimidate
i strikers. At another time he said "if;
this district is made up entirely of
horge thieves than a horse theif is its
only true representative," in arguing;
for his own election.
Bodenstab in outlining the issue at
an organizat ion meeting of one of the ;
tranches of the Good Government
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" U is not } Tue Socialism that e
fifth district is confronted with It is
something much worse. It is Bolshe
viSm. The Socialists whom Mr. Ber
f» reposent» .re a kroupof md.vïd
nais who do nothing but stir up em
ploye against employer and employer
against employe. Now they are try
i n g to overthrow the accepted form
government of this country. Mr.
Berger is trying to irritate old scores
for his own benefit.
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keep inviolate the fundamental prin
ciples of our government, and stand
opposed to every attempt to Berger- j
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ment bn* ever cored a sick man.
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Weather Bureau Experts Search The j
Heavens In vain Fo^ Alleged Con
spiracy Between Planets
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 The
Weather Bureau experts scanned the
leavens and the weather reports in
ain today for any sign of the alleged
onspiracy between certain planets to j
roduce storms which would bring the
/orld to a sudden end. Certain astro
ogers have made such a prediction,
causing an uneasiness among the sup
rstitious. Scientists, however, gener
lly scoffed at the idea.
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PARIS, Dec. 17—After further con- ■
sidération the Austrian requirements
for relief from distressing food con
ditions, the Supreme Council today,
decided it would be necessary to furn
ish relief to the amount of seventy
million dollars.
Aid Austria In
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impanel Grand Jury
To Investigate Strike
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 17—A
Federal Grand Jury was empanelled
here this morning to investigate the
alleged violations of the Lever Act
and the Anti-Trust laws in connection |
with the recent strike of the bitumin
ous coal miners.
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>reat Britain To
Release IL S. Goods
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Associated Press.
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Great
Britain is prepared now to release
American owned goods, seized during ;
the war upon the establishméht of j
their American ownership, the State !
Department was advised today.
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Render Decision
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Associated Press
MADRID, Dec.
courts have just decided that the sub- j
ject of a photograph and not the pho- !
tographer is entitled to the prize in a
beauty contest. In countries where
these contests are no novelty it is not j
likely the question would arise but |
these affairs are new in Spain and, :
when the prize in a recent contest ;
was awarded the photographer who
took the picture of the winner decid
ed that the prize should go to him.
The question was- fought out in the
courts and resulted in discomfiture
of the photographer,
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Local Observer.
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No use for daddies to try—they
simply can't dodge the coughing up.
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Get rid of those troublesome "war
tacks -es" in your pocket by l^Fyin
Red Cross Christmas seals with them
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CONSENS THE R.R.
BILL IN SENATE
No Final Action Will Be Taken Be
fore Christmas According To
Indications.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Protest
ing against the enactment of the Cum
mins Railroad Bill, now before the
Senate, Samuel Gompers President of
*^e American Federation of Labor and
epresentative of the Railroad Brother
hoods, together with spokesmen from
farmers organizations, today urged
Chairman Cummins of the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee to with
draw the measure and give the gov
ernment operation of the roads a fair
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peace time test. Tl|e Brotherhood's
representatives announced they in
tend to urge President Wilson to use
his influence against the passage of
the bill. Senator Cummins expressed
his intention of laying the request be
f ore the committee,
NO ACTION BEFORE XMAS
WASHINGTON, Dec .17—The Sen
ate today continued the consideration
of the Cummins Railroad Bill .desig
ned to meet the requirements of rail
roads, when they are returned to pri
vate control.* It is considered impro
bable that final action will be had on
the bill before the Christmas recess
and some concern is felt among Sen
ators as to whether President Wilson
will carry out his announced inten
tion of turning the roads back by Jan
uary 1st. Many believe the President
will await some legislation before or
dering the relinquishment of govern
ment control.
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Forty Three Killed
In Explosion Tuesday
Associated Press
BERLIN, Dec. 17—(Tuesday) —
Forty three persons were killed and
niore . than a hundred injured in an
ex pf° s i° n Mariensiel, near Wilhel
ms haven today,
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Capture of Kiev
Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 17—A Bolsheviki
statement received from Moscow,
claims the capture of Kiev and the
occupation of Kupiansk, southwest of
Kharkov. \
Secretary Lane, However, Discloses
DENIES FILING
HIS RESIGNATION
The Fact That He Expects To
__ Leave Cabinet
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Secretary
Lane today issued a statement deny
ing the published reports that he had
placed his resignation before Presi
dent Wilson, but disclosed the fact
that he intends to leave the cabinet,
when he can do so without adding to
the President's "burdens and Wor
ries' .
Asks Permission To
Test Prohibition
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| permission 0 f the Supreme Court to
permisslon the Supreme Court to
s-,. it,
IntCfflSl RCVCIllIC
Office Located Here
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! the Internal Revenue
|Groenwood, for the coming year. Th»
offlce Wl11 ^ in the ^«rthouse, and
will pro bably be opened in January.
<phere will be only four of these divis
ion offices in the State located at
Greenwood , Vicksburg, Meridian and
Associated Press
The
institute original proceedings to test
the validity of the National Prohib
1 ition Amendment and enjoin the Fed
eral officials in enforcing same.
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The Chamber of Commerce announc
ed some time since that it had suc
ceeded in locating a division of office
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! Columbus.
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Elevator Plant
Burns In Meridian
Associated Press
MERIDIAN, Miss., Dec .17—The
plant of the Meridian Grain Elevator
Co., was destroyed by fire last night.
The loss was between fifty and sev
enty thousand dollars.
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