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KENNA, ROOSEVELT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, APRIL 7 1921
NO. 3
WEEKS NAMES.
NEW ARMY STAFF
NO ONE NAMED FOR MAJOR
GENERALS PLACE BUT
WILL BE SOON
IS ALMOST SECJAXER'S LIST
One Lest Name Appears On List To
Be Sanctioned fay President Hard
ing Which I That of Brig.
Gen. C. R. Edwards.
LIEUT. W. D. CONEY IS DEAD
DEATH COMES AFTER FALL
FROM AIRPLANE '
Was Attempting to Mjffce Another
Transcontinental Flight When His
Plane Was Wrecked.
Natchez, Miss. Lieut. W. D. Coney,
who was injured recently while at
tempting to make a transcontinental
, Washington. Secretary Weeks an
nounced that President Harding would
appoint the following chiefs of serv
ice. 11 of the officers failed of con
men t:
' To be major generals: C. S. Farna
worth, chief of Infantry; Charles T.
iMenoher, air service; W. J. Snow,
field artillery; W. A. Holbrook, caval
ry; George O. Squire, chief 'signal o'
flcer John L. Chamberlain, Inspector
general.
i To be brigadier generals: Herbert
M. Lord, chief of finance; Amos A.
Fries, chief of chemical warfare serv
ice. All o f the officers failed of con
firmation during tbe lust session of
congress. ,
Secretary .Weeks indicated that a
new chief of staff of the army to suc
ceed Major General Peyton C. March,"
would be selected before the . special
session of congress convenes April 11.
He refused to discuss the matter be
yond saying that the . "name of the
new chief of staff will probably be an
nounced before congress meets."
Compilation of the list of nomina
tions for general officers is expected
to be completed soon by tbe secretary.
I
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MaJ. Gen. Chat. T. Menoher
The list, it is understood;, will be
almost a duplicate of that sent to con
gress by former Secretary Baker,
which failed of confirmation. One im
portant exception, however, may be
the inclusion of the name of Brigadier
Clarence R. Edwards, former com
mander of the 26th (New England) na
tional guard division overseas, to head
the list of major generals. His name
did not appear In the Baker nominations.
RENE VIVIAN! IS IN THE U. S.
Came To Visit Pres. Harding, But
Will Not Say Why.
New York. Rene Vivian!, former
premier of France and now envoy ex
traordinary of the French government
to this country, arrived on the steam
ship Lorraine. He will confer with
President Harding to see whom he
came "on a mission of courtesy."
A small reception committee, com
posed of city and state department
officials went down the bay to meet
the official and brought him back to
Battery Park, where thousands had
assembled. Although the exact time
of his arrival had not been announced,
the crowds waited patiently.
He declined to discuss the official
' nature of his visit to this country bo
fore having talked with President
Harding.
"I have come to the United States,"
he Bald, "to pay the president of this
great republic
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Lieut. W. D. Coney
flight from Jacksonville, Florida, to
San Diego, California. -
TJie death of the lieutenant, whose
back was broken In the fall, resulting
in a complete paralysis of his body
from the chest down, was not unex
pected, and his physicians had an
nounced earlier that he could live.
Mrs. E. F. Coney, mother of the
lieutenant, of Brunswick, Georgia,
Mrs. W. H. Devoe, an aunt of Jack
sonville, Florida, and E. F. Coney, a
brother, of Brunswick, Georgia, were
with the filer at the time of his death.
Lieutenant Coney is a son of the
late Edgar F. TJoriey, a lumberman of
Brunswick.
At the outbreak of the Mexican
trouble in 1916 he enlisted with the
Brunswick rifles, an Infantry organiza
tion; find saw service on the border.
Returning to Brunswick in 1917 about
the time the United States entered
the European war, he entered the of
ficers training camp at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Georgia, ntsre he was com
missioned a second lieutenant of in
fantry. Later he was transferred to
the air service.
Wat Flying Instructor.
He was assigned as flying Instruc
tor during the war and had no oppor
tunity to see service at the front.' On
the day Jie was injured the announce
ment was made at San Diego, Cali
fornia, of his promotion to a first lieutenancy.
TO REDUCE INCOME TAX
Senator Penrose Outlines Program for
Revenue Legislation.
Washington. A general scaling
down of all Income taxes, with reduc
tions in the levy of small incomes as
well as the heavy surtaxes on large
earnings was prestaged by Senator
Ponrose of Pennsylvania, chairman of
the senate finance committee. Senator
Penrose outlined the plans for revenue
and tariff legislation on which con
gress will be called to act at the spe
cial session beginning April 11.
The senator declared that he hoped
that the finance committee would be
able to begin the preparation of the
new tax bills within the next week.
The plan, he said, is to draft these
measures while the house ways and
means' committee is working on the
tariff in order that the revenue legis
lation, will be ready for congress as
soon as the tariff is out of the way.
While still in a formulatlve stage,
Senator Penrose asserted that the new
program of federal taxation contem
plates the abolition of the excess
profits tax entirely.
SIX ARE KILLED
EXPLOSION
BOOTLEG MANUFACTURE OF
FIRECRACKERS AND EX
PLOSIVES CAUSE.
MANUFACTURERS ARE HELD
Many Are Homeless and More Than
100 Are Injured as the Results of the
Blast Which Caused Many Small
Buildings to Collapse.
Chicago. Manufacture and storage
of fireworks in a manner prohibited by'
city ordinances was blamed by city
and police officials for an explosion In'
the heart of the west side tenement;
district which killed at least eight per
sons, injured 100 or more, rendered
dozens temporarily homeless and dam
aged buildings blocks away.
Two men were held In Jail In con
nection with the disaster and two oth
ers, possibly killed in the explosion,
were sought by the police.
The explosion wrecked the ware
houses of Weil and company, paper
dealers, where a dozen' men were
working. All were believed to have
been killed.
Next door was the firm of Singer
and Shaffer, dealers in novelty mer
chandise. Chief of Police Charles
Fitzmorris and Fire Attorney Shirley
High, after completing investigations
declared that the Singer and Shaffer
firm had manufactured fireworks In
and around the warehouse in violation
of city ordinances ' and that compila
tion of these fireworks was to blame
for the disaster. They, declared the
firm frequently had been warned to
discontinue the manufacture and had
been repeatedly warned that fireworks
could not be stored within the city
limits.
Men Admit Charge.
According to Mr. High and Chief
Fitzmorris, the two men held in jail
both admitted that the firm manufac
tured fireworks and that It had con
ducted an illicit trade in this product.
Dozens of salesmen toured the central
west taking orders, they were Quoted
as saying.
More than a ton of T. N. T., dyna
mite and other explosives is believed
to have been consumed in the' ex
plosion. Scores of fireworks labels,
pieces of firecrackers and torpedoes
were found near the wreckage. In a
nearby building were 7,000 pounds of
torpedoes, according to the police, and
evidence indicating that hundreds of
pounds of gunpowder and dynamite
recently had been shipped to the firm,
was said by the police to have been
found.
Four Are Identified.
Only four of the eight persons
known to be dead had been identified.
The other bodies were so badly man
gled as to be unrecognizable.
Many persons whose homes had
been so badly damaged by the ex
plosion as to be untenable were given
temporary quarters in the Garfield
school bouse where 1,500 children
were attending school at the time. The
roof of the building was damaged but
the children escaped unhurt.
JOHN BURROUGHS IS DEAD
Was On His Way Home From Call,
fornia When Death Came
Utiac, N. Y. John Burroughs, natur
alist, died on a New York Central train
near Klngsville, Ohio, on his way
home from California. He had been
very ill for six weeks with an abscess
on the chest and heart and with kid
ney complications.
He was so eager to get home tht
the long Journey was undertaken,
with the hope that he could survive.
The end came suddenly, a few min
utes after he had asked: "How near
home are we?"
His physician, Dr. Clara Barrus, hlSj
granddaughter, Ursula Burroughs, and
the Misses Eleanor and Harriet Bur
roughs accompanied him on the Jour
ney. Rate On Cotton Reduced.
Houston, Tex. The Mallory and
Morgan lines announce a reduction ot
sixteen cents In the rate on cotton '
Tires and Tubes
Boots and Patching
Accessories
and Supplies
Phone 42
P. & R. GARAGE
Elida, New Mexico
Acetylene Welding
Expert Mechanics
W. E. LUCAS
PROPRIETOR
ED. J. NEER.
Undertaker and Embalms
LICENSED BY 8TATE BOARD '
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Residence, 67 three rings. Agent for Roswell and AxaarUio
(nnousa PorUles, New Mexico.
Complete Line of Caaketa and Robes
Tha Old Time Preparations Are Good
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the end of the chapter. All correct compounded and bearing
the guaranteeing label of
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ELIDA, N. M.
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Material iaahpoori and Hardwire.
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Kcnno, Now Mexico.
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