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STEEL OR PLANT TO LOCATE HERE h rt I. it CONCERN WILL BUILD FACTORY r SOME MILES ABOVE NEW r ORLEANS. EMPLOYES 2500 OPERATORS I n 11 r Will Occupy 300 Acres With 100 h Feet of River Frontage-Coistruc- P tion Will Begin as Soon o As Possible. h C New Orleans, La. - Estbhlishment of a million-dollAr steel car plaut near New Orleans was announced by E. 13. Rowan, local real estate broker, I who was instrumnental in bringing 1 this corporation to the city. Three I hundred actes with 100 feet of river frontage have been sold to the Gen- t eral American Tank Car Corporation and active construction of the new plant will begin as rocn as the title to the property is passed. t The General Amcrican Tank Car t Corporation, one of the largest and oldest builders of steel cars, was cap italizeti in West Virginia in 1902 and was lated in Bradstreet's and Dun's June, 1919, report at $10,000,000. It manufactures flatcars and gondolas, ard specializes In tank cars used In pretroelum, chemical and othlr in dustries shipping their products in liquid form. In conjunction with the manufacturing of steel cars the com pany will have a large steel foundry. It probably will also manufacture steel tanks used by petroleum refin eres. A machine shop will be part of the plant. Max Epstein, president, and Ellas Mayer, secretary of the corporation, have been in tha city several days ar* ranging for the transactions. Other oticers of the company are David Copland first vice prelsident, and H. P. Butler, second vice Dresident. The company operates a plant em ploying 2 5ý0 men at East Chicago, Ind., in the great steel district, and two smaller plants, one at Sand Springs, Okla., and one at War-en, O. Headquarters are in New York and Chicago. 'The acreage of the New Orleans site is twice as large as that of the Chicago plant. The plant here not cnly will serve the South, hut is ex pected to handle all the concern's ex port business to Europe and Latin America. The concern ships cars all over the world. This is to be the first steel car plant south of St Louts. Steel and material will be brought from the Pittsburgh district ty river. The company is identified with one of the largest mid-continent oil refin ers operating two refimnees in Okla homea. FOR HURRIED READERS. Minden, La.-Chas. Ferguson, oil field worker, tonight blew of the hand of his roommatte, named 4)aly, and walked to the office of Sheriff A;if. Phillips and surrendered. her goson camne in the sherfif'f . office carrying the shotgun with which he fired the fatal charge. He said he had been beaten and robbed by Daly. Alexandria, La. - The residence of Leo Siess was damaged by fie to the amount of $5,000 and -was only par tially covered by insurance, The household effects were badly damag ed by smoke and water. Opolousas, La. - Eugene Richard was acquitted by a jury here when tried for the second time before Judg·, ,avy on the charge of having min" '1 Or ed Octabe Joubert near here Ia Au gurt. Shreveport.-Fire partially de. stroayed the machinery pavilion at the State Fair Grounds. The ibulldtnq was erected in 1912 and was balued at $i,'(iO. The origin of the fire was not determined. I New Orleans.-Lawrence C. oBur phy, 66 years, tanknman of, Chemibal fire Engine No. 13, Algiers, was ta1k. en to Charity Hosepital, suffering from injuries inflicted by a fire hose. New Orleans. - Herman D. Pallet, New Orleans dairyman convicted oi the murder of his father several years ago, has been refused further clem ucy by the State Board of Pardons. Jeaneratte.-A meeting of Jeafie: *tte returned soldiers, the' leo Gau trean Chapter of the Americal- Lth Sicon, was organized, with Dr. M. . Morvant, post commander. Baton Rouge, La.-Mliss M'ry Oar rison, 58 years old, was run down an' killed by an automobile here todad when she became confused whil crossing the street and backed int the car, which was moving ats a noz mel speed. New Orleans. - Lew Rose, recent I eonyicted of piermitting lewd dant' ing at his Dauphine Theater, was sea ancid y .H ulcge LAthdry to serve thir ty days in the Parish Prieon and pa; a Ano of $305. Eunice. - There were held In Eu nice two separate public improveraen tax colt ctloas and both were qarrie unanimously. One was for a WA Issue of $150,000, for the purpose o, hard surtacing the streets of the en tire town and draining the town. Nlew introduced la'~ t s c. itby Ctolfslliq~~ ty Monroae be pujed. the bs snont of isortuir7 ~i'ndeirtakae t sPa - Iort will not lia persmtlt cia at -t·~: vt-·;;;;;; ' -' -;;;;;;;;; Lake Charles, La. - A dtick hunt the .Laccasine Bayou near Hayes nday apparently has resulted in a lgedy. C. W. Cossock of Hayes is lieved to have drowned by falling m a gasoline launch while reach a for a duck. A M. Limbocker and C. Andrepont of Lake Charles were the party The men becane sepa ted from Cossack and when they turned they found the launch in itch he was sitting empty. Baton Rouge, La. - There is no rk of Christmas spirit in Baton U juge as the holidays approach, rep- O sentatives of the Red Cross have td their desks in the banks antt c fstoffice for several days disposing Red Cross Christmas seals and t 'alth bonds and more than half the ty's quota of $3,000 has been raised. Baton Rouge, La. - Judge Rufus aster presided at the December ses on of the Federal District Court are, at which the case of the nited States vs. Veto Colina, Mike incent and George Moore, charged t ith breaking .into freight cars on ie Y. & M. V. R. R. was continued t ralil the next session. Latayette. - The Sixth Ward of its parish is planning to drain more lan six thousand acres of low lani 1 est of Carencro, bordering on the Lcadla and St. Landry parishes. The urmers and other property holders re practically unanimous in favor of ie movement. Rayville. - Coloinel Thomas J hackleford. national chairman of the Inanco committee of the American otton Associatofon, before a large nd enthnsias'ic audience at Winn oro, declar'.d fourteen Southern !ates would unite in a movement to hake New Orleans the world cotton enter. Franklin. - The first freeze of the iresent winter arrived, ice being in ,vidence everywhere. Although the reeze was severe enough to kill the 'tarding cane, most of the farmers lave gotten through harvesting their rop and the little cane that is still a the fields will be saved without mny trouble New Orleans. - Mrs. A. L. C'tnla ian, 25 years old, stopping at the Cos nopolitan Hotel, attempted suicide 3arly Tuesday morning by swallow* ng antiseptic tablets. She was taken to Charity Hospital, but was released rrom the institution later in the day. Family troubles she told the police, were the cause of her act. Shtreveport, La. - More than 50, 000 barrels of oil were transported laily from the North Louisiana fields during the week. One of the most notable gains in production was made by the Claiborne oil field which show ed an aevrage of 14,600 barrels of oil taken care of daily. Covington, La. - Women here have been active in aidirg the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign with Mrs. J. C. Burns as the Covington chair man and E. G. Davia parish director. New Orleans.-Thomas Brown, sea man on the ship Lake Fisher, anchor ed at St. Maurice avenue, was accn dentaly shot and' died shoitly after ward in the Charity Hospital. Monroe, La. 'T. E. , Flourncy, president of the Quachlta National Bank, has purchased the Endom transfer property on Desiard street for $62,000. Shreveport, La. - Three of the tour big leases of the Claiborne field were each credited with a completion, the total new production of which is 1,,250 barrels. Monroe. - Herbert F. McDougal, secretary and manager of the Fersh ing Highway Association, was given assurance by C. T. Cross, seretary of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, that Monroe would have the good roads necessary to secure the hikh way. New Orleans. - Work at the big shipbuilding plant of the Foundation (;ompany on the Industrial Canal has been resumnd, when 1,400 sheet metal Weorkers who quit returned to their Jobs. ' Franklinton, La.-Bogue Chitto river bas been riing and has fach ed a stage of 18 feet. This is the higheatL stage this stream has attained since 190t, when a stage of 22 feet was regilitered, New Orlitans.-Mrs. C Lacy was mo elepted financial seeretat7 ef the Lt4 dleW Jandeendint Ieineoarlent Assao ·~~t l'ji.t .'i Third district for th.~ thirtilenventh. -time at. the annual meeting. Forest Hill. - Garden vegetable: and young pigs and calves were kill Sbyl he ffeeze.' 'The groamd was Iset to atea deptbh 0 two inches l'~vmets whelThd sngartane uncut losi Weir h)e&t cane... , Alexandria, La. - Major J. A. Wil llams of Colfax was appointed bi Governor Pleasant judge of the Thir t(enth Judicial District Court, viec W. F. Blachuan, resigned. The dia trict. includes Iapides and Gran parishes. Lake Charles, La. - Lee Rodolf( Intmlred 4aite *iie by shooting her it thy ek a ,double-barreled shot gun, and then fird the i otl# load it his own face. The woman filed ini stantly, the man living tree hours. 11p1 matt circleR that V ~~P~ i re~ s rilnt a ~ r~t Ws Brit~sh ~zba S:d* -·theeI HOLDCONFERENCE ON TKIKE SETTLEMENT Wilson Names Board to In. vestigate Wages and Con ditions of Miners. Washington.--President Wilson Sat urday appointed Henry M. Robinsor of Pasadena, Cal., John P. White and Rembrandt Peale as members of the commission to investigate wages and working conditions in the coal indus try, provided for the in the strike set tlement agreement. Mr. Robinson will represent the pub liec, Mr. White the miners and Mr. Peale the operators. D)uring the war all three appointees were prominent in war work for the government, Mr. Robinson with the shipping board and Mr. White and Peale as advisers to Fuel Administra tor Garfield. President Wilson, In an identical let ter to the three members, said that ii a readjustment of coal pricep should be found necessary he would transfer to the commission, subject to its unan imous action, the powers heretofore vested in the fuel administrator for that purpose. "No settlement can be had in this matter," the president's letter said af ter reviewing the coal strike situation at length, "permanent and lasting in its benefits as affecting either the miners, the coal operators or the gen eral public, unless the findings of the body are comprehensive in their char acter and embrace and guard at every point the public interest. To this end I deem it important that your conclu sion should be reached by unanimous action." -The president said that on accept ance of the appointments he would cal an early meeting of the commissior in Washingftn, "so that you may la] out plans for your work." TWO STATE FARMS WERE ABANDONED The November Report of the Prison Commission Filed With Governor. Austin, Tex.-The John D. Roger and Adams farms were abandonei during the month of November, ac cording to the November report of th state prison commission, filed wit the governor this week. The abandor ment of the two farms is reported i a brief note in the report. The Roger farm was abandoned November 25, th forces being transferred to Huntsville the Adams farm was abandoned Nc vember 24, forces transferred to tb Imperial farm. The cause for abal donment of the farms is not given. The commission reported a total ( 2775 convicts on handi on December which was 51 less than on Novembs 1. During the month 54 convicts wei pardoned and 11 paroled; 87 new col victs were received, 15 recaptured, returned by sheriffs, 1 returned frol parole, 66 discharged, 23 escaped, died, 5 delivered to sheriffs. Of the new convicts received, 1 were from McLennan County, 6 fro' Ellis, 5 from Harrison, 5 from Brazo 3 from Dallas, 3 from Houston, 4 fro Johnson, 3 from Denton, 3 from W8 ler, 2 each from Lamar, Falls, Tarran Fort Bend, Tom Green, Leon, N varro and Runnels; 1 each from Cas Nacogdoches, Trinity, Upshur, Marti Hill, Travis, Orange, Henderson, C manche, Parker and Freestone cou ties. The convicts were distributed follows: Huntsville prison, 466; 1 L sane asylums, 24; state-owned farn 2044; state-leased farms, 241. ( state-owned farms the convict fore are as follows: Harlem, 235; Eai ham, 261; Imperial, 250; Ramse 487; Wynne, 105; Goree, 76; Clemei 5 145; Ferguson, -298; Retrieve, 9 r Darrington, 40. State-leased farm i Bassett Blakely, 92; Blue Ridge, 149. 1 Cummins Railroad Bill Passed. Washlngton.-The Cummins bill, pI ing the way for return of the railroa ' to private operation, passed the si I- ate Saturday by a 17te of 46 to 30, 01 e ing a prolonged discussion of the me a ure and making the holiday recess t .congress possible. It went throu without ·thange in the anti-strike a other important provisions arot which the senate measures wi drawn, and was sent to conference adjustment,,uring the recess, with 1 Each bill passed by the house Novr er 17. Final enactmentht-the penr nent railroad reorganisation leglh tloW is hoped fot by leaders early p< 1- Sugar Production. a New Orleans.--Sigar prodiuction I. Louisiana this year is less than l it that of last year,.according to the i liminary report for 1919 issued Frit by Lionel J.. James, Louisiana fi 1l agent of the United States bureau I crop estimates. Wiliams Again Named. . Washington. -.Johip' Skelton -1 ,t lams was again nominated Sature by0President Wilson to be contro of the currency. n5 Waterproofing. t- To make cloth waterproof dino1 a tes poltuds of rein in-tour gallons hot linsed oil. Pour into a tub f"which a--wringer hua been attach FPid cloth evenly lengthwise, maki a 9rlp i9nhet wide, Pass t th ig t hotosoon as i * s1uto i 1trebat let ifty )rari~a :~~· A- ·:.·. T FALL'S CHARGES AGAINST CARRANZA A resolution requesting President Wilson to withdraw recognition of Carranza and sever diplomatic relan tiolns with Mexico has been introduced by Senator Fall (Rep.), New Mexico, chlairman of the senate committee chargeld with an investigation of the Mexican situation. "I charge." said Senator Fall, "that the Mexican embassy, the con sulate general in New York and the consulate general in San Francisco have been actively engaged in the dis tribution of bolshevik propaganda and that this has been done with the knowledge and consent of Venustiano Carrnnza." Senator Fall's resolution follows: "Resolved by the senate, the house of representatives concurring, That the action taken by the department of state in reference to the pending con troversy between this government and the government of Mexico should be approved, and further, that the president of the United States be, and he is hereby requested to withdraw from Venustiano Carranza the recognition heretofore accorded him by the United States as president of the republic of Mexico, and to sever all diplomatic relations now existing between this gov ernment and tlfe pretended government of Carranza." Ji. W. ALEXANDER TO SUCCEED REDFIELD Joshua Willis Alexander of Galla* tin, Mo., w'ho succeeds VWilliam C. Red field as secretary of commerce, has tc > resign his seat in congress to take thf position. He was born in Cincinnati January 22, 1852. In 1872 he way ' graduated from Christian college Missouri. In 1872 he moved to Galla S tin and in 1875 he was admitted to tlh bar. Almost immediately he enteret public life, serving as public adminis S trator, member of the board of educa tion, mayor and state legislator. Hi resigned as judge of the Seventh Mis souri district to take his seat in thi Sixtieth congress. He was named by President WI1 son as house member of the Unites States commission to the internationa conference on safety of life at sea, anm was selected by the commission to b chairman. The conference was in set slon in London from November, 1911 to February, 1914. He married th daughter of the late Judge Samuel A. Richardson in February, 1876, and hi wife and seven children-four sons and three daughters-are living 1 SENATOR M'CORMICK'S BUDGET PLAN Senator McCormick of Illinois will introduce a budget bill at this session of congress. He attacks the Good bill as faulty. He says his bill differs from that of Mr. Good, chiefly, in placing the budget bureau under the secretary of ,; the treasury, who is made strictly a financial officer and diverted of extra neous functions, such as administration of public buildings and public health service, and in empowering the budget bureau to reduce departmental appro priation estimates. "My bill," said SenamTor McCormlck, "is not the handiwork of one man. Its actual text comes from the hands of two trained draftsmen; it embodies in principle the ideas of students of pub lic administration and finane like See retary Glass, President Nicholas Mur ray Butler, Governor Lowden, and l ex-Congressman Fitzgerald. "It will not further divide respon sibility for the financIal policy of the - government as the Good bill must it it should become law. My bill seeks 1 make the secretary of the treasury a true finance officer, surveying the fie of expenditur0 as well as that of revenue. The Good bill would make tl president, already the most overburdened executive in the world, his or - finance officer." HARRIS: CONSUL GENERAL IN RUSSIA .B E. L Harris of Rock Island, I consul general for the United Stat in Russia, is having lots of experienc these days, according to reports fr( the Land of Chaos. But then he's be I I having such experiences for the it twenty years in Uncle Sam's consul service. He was appointed to his pre ent post In 1918. Living on a tra i he has traveled all over Siberia sir r- then. Hle arrived in Omsk Novemt a 10 of last year and witnessed the I 1* cession of the present Kolchak ge 1* ernment to control of Siberlan affal 3- His "district" is bigger than the Urvli if States. He has a staff of consuls a hi vice consuls scattered over many the d sands of miles. dintMr. Harris' duties have sent h e into many lively places. He was i r ~.; years in Turkey, witnessing the re te latlolls which kept that country Rl enterNewsoneerUnion violent turmoil. 'He was sent to.Sn a tigate tig massacres of Armenians a- Turks at Adana. He has served In all the Ballkai states and in Greece. I ct five and one-half years he was at Stokkhotnm. LEFFINGWELL MAY SUCCEED GLASS If Russell Cornell Leftingwell l ofNew York has been much talked about as a L' likely successor to 'Secretary of the Treasury Glass, who resigned to accept the appointment as senator from Vir ginia to dll the place left vacant by the death of Senator Mmirtia. Mr. Letfingwell is forty-one years il old. He is a member of the law firm of Cmrvath &s Henderson of New York. er He is a Yale. giriduate, was a-student ofticer at the Plattsburg training tamp in 1917, but was induced by Wflliam 3. McAdoo, then secretary of the treas '* ury, to become special counsel to'the f secretary in connection with floating :o the first war loan, and late la .1917 I. was appointed assistant secretary of Ig the ti'easury. M Mr. L~fngwell's law partners are i. affliinaed Silh the Republican party, t" butt It is upderslood that Mr. g. S wegl bas obt taken any part Ii ll 4 ties. Mr. Lefllngwell is said to '! F'. the cordial support of Secret and lI und&ratoo 4been is dormed also by former Secretary doo. In the best naformed administra WILL FIGHT HIGH 1 PRICES TO FINISillUt Palmer Asks the Assistance of Every Man and Woman C in This Country. Chicago. Ill1.--Attorney (General A. Mitchell Palmer Tuesday mapped out the program of the department of ius tice to bring down the cost of livming at a meeting of 100 city officials. heards of civic organization. and cluota!wn ni of Illinois, called 'by Governor frank - O. Lowden. Pledging the full power of his de partment in the prosecution of hoard ers and profiteers, Mr. Palmer call!ed for the assistance or every man a;ld woman in the country for a national fight against high prices. Explaining the plan of action where by fair price committees in every com munity become .'gents of the federal government in enforcing its decrees. Mr. Palmer laid down a program of five things which if carried out, he thought, would do much to deal a death blow to the high cost of living. They are: 1. Organization of fair price coinm mittees in every city and county, back fed by mayors and prosecuting attor neys, with committees supporting United States district attorneys. 2. Organization of women to refuse to buy anything but actual necessities until prices come down. 3. Holding of "conservation and economy" meetings in every commun ity under the auspices of civic bodies. 4. influence of mayors and prose 0cutors to be brought to bear on the "warring elements" to prevent "fac tional disturbances in industry," and particularly to bring about an indus trial peace of at least six months' du e ration. d 5. Remobili'ation of the "four-min ;- ute men" to deliver "work and save" - addresses in theatres each night. e "Despite all objections and obstacles I ; I purpose to go through with this cam e paign," Mr. Palmer said. "If indus trial conditions do not get too bad dur I- ing the next few months we can bring d relief." ! The chief cause of the high cost of, I living, he said, were decreased produc. ci 1e tion incident to the war, inflated cur- I rency, due to government borrowings, 3, and heavy taxes, which he charged were passed on by business men to the is ultimate consumer. Activities of the department of jus Stice, he said, had already uncovered! 219 cases against food hoarders, which e had resulted in the libeling and dis-; tribution in eighteen states of millions a of dollars worth of food. Ninety-eight cases had been brought I against profiteers, many of whom were indicted, and some of whom were serving sentences. Mr. Palmer described the efforts to I have congress continue the operations of the Lever food act six months after declaring of peace, and also to pass a law requiring the price at which an article left the producer to be stamped on the article. "If we can get that law we will stop i profiteering," he said. "When you go to the shoe store if you see plainly stamped on a pair of shoes the whole sale price of $4.50 you simply aren't going to pay $18 for that pair of shoes. "An organization of women, organ ized as they never were before, will do more to bring down prices than any single movement. Their power is in calculable. "One of the greatest crimes of the to day is idleness. If men and women Id would do 10 per cent more work he prices would come down 20 per cent, n and it they would economize and save 10 per cent this problem of high cost of living would be solved." SAir ervice Action Delayed. Washington.--Action on various pro posals for a united air service was de e ferred Wednesday until after the tes Christmas recess by the house mili am tary committee. !en sat Brazil Gets Vessels. lar Rio Janeiro.-The Brazilian govern 'e- meat has been advised that the peace in, conference, in making a distribution ace of former German warships, has al ber lotted to Brazil six torpedo boats. ov- rI's. Earth Tremors Felt. ted Laredo, Tex.-Earth tremors felt in md Mexico City Wednesday caused "terri ou- ble panic, especially among the igno rant, who believed the dire prophecies aim of the end of the world. lve !VO* in New U. S. District Attorney. oes- Washington.-Archibald Bond of by Muskogee was nominated Friday by E'or the president to be United States at- I torney for the Eastern.district of Okla' homa. Flying Field Closed. Fort Worth, Tex.-Major T. J. Han· ley, commander of Carruthers FlyiLtg Field for 18 months, has been ordered to Hampton, Va., according to a mes sage received Wedhesday. The field was formally closed also. Big Land Purchase. Bay City, Tex.-A syndicate formed of Northern capitalists has bought 5000 acres of land lying west of the Colorado River near Bay City, known as the Robbins tract. First American Woman's Club. Soresis, the first woman's club or ganit in America, was established 'u 18 by a group df women protest ing hcainst the exclusion of waoief as guests at a banquet tendered Charles Dickens, then visiting in New York city. Not ~oh gregt Coming to Them. %id iukbisgals he knows tWe et s and maybe three, who bragged about not bein' profiteers, simply be UUspe tbey never had a good chance 12 Millie sed last 'KILL I ML 'IlLL. ASCARA Staidard ej -la tab Op nn ho J a rr~q Toabort and pr plication4 Thepli calomse M' . edead onlym Prmie g3e5o I. 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