“General” Coxey
Of Coxey’s Army
Dies at Age of 97
MISSILLON, O., m — “Gen
eral” Jacob S. Coxey died Friday
night, 57 years after his ragged
army of unemployed marched into
Washington and into the nation's
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history.
He was 97, and he spent more
than two-thirds of that long life
fighting for a losing cause—print
ing-press money the government
could use without paying interest
to banks.
s “Coxey's army” set out from
here in the spring of 1894 on a
35-day march to Washington. The
objective was to get Congress to
use the easy-money method for
a giant road-building progam to
ease the hardship brought on by
the panic of 1893. The march
failed.
But Coxey's belief in the ideas
inspiring that march never wa
vered. Only five weeks ago, on
his birthday, he voiced once more
his enthusiasm for money reform
as the answer to the country’s
economic troubles.
U. S. Rejects Red Proposal
For Japan Peace Treaty
WASHINGTON, >(/P) — The
United States, Saturday, rejected
a Russian proposal for a Pacific
• big four conference to “embark
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upon preparation” of a peace
treaty with Japan.
The American note was handed
to Soviet ambassador Panyushkin
by Assistant Secretary of State
George W. Perkins.
Panyushkin told reporters he
had received a “reply on the Jap
anese question.” State Depart
ment press officer Michael Mc
Dermott said that what he got was
the American response to a note
from Russia on May 7.
While officials would not dis
cuss the text pending publication,
it was learned that it followed pre
cisely the line disclosed by Mc
Dermott on May 8. At that time
he described the Russian proposal
as a “mockery” intended not to
promote but rather to “stall” a
peace settlement with Japan.
A New England spinster has a
vivid memory of Texas country.
She was struggling with a hot
cup of coffee in a small town rail
road station, trying to gulp it down
before the train pulled out. A cow
boy, seated a couple of stools
away, noted her plight, and seeing
the conductor waving at the wo
man, came to the rescue—
“Here, ma’am” he said, “you
can take my cup of coffee. It’s al
ready saucered and blowed.”
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Bob Hope Plays Great?
In Golf Championship
PORT CAWL, Wales, Bob
Hope, -the Hollywood comedian,
fell a first-round victim of Chris
topher Fox, a tall, pipe-smoking
Englishman, in 'the British ama
teur golf championships today,
' but the gave his gallery of about
| 1,000 a good time while it lasted.
! He lost 2 and 1.
Bob visited abouit half the traps
on the course, scrambling from
one side of the fairway to the
other.
“A great game, isn’t it?” he
asked a spectator at the fifth hole.
“Yes,” was the prompt reply,
“What game are you playing?”
Hope’s first tee shot trickled
only about 100 yards into the
rough.
Contempt of Congress
Charge Draws $1000 Fine
WASHINGTON, </P) — Dr. Ed
ward A. Rumely was fined $1,000
and given a six-month suspended
sentence for contempt of Congress.
Rumely, 69-year-old executive
secretary of the Committee for
Constitutional Government, was
convicted by a jury April 18.
Judge Richmond B. Keech said
he had given the case “extra
ordinary consideration” and “save
for this man’s age I would com
mit him” to jail.
After the sentencing, Dr. Rume
ly issued a statement saying “I
have not and do not now hold
the Congress of 'the United States
or its committees in contempt.”
The prosecution grew out of
Rumely’s refusal to supply cer
tain records asked by the House
Lobby Investigating Committee
last summer.
1,500,000 Chinese Sent To
Siberian Labor Camps
TAIPEH, Formosa, (/P)—Nation
alist Chinese sources said Satur
day that 1,500,000 persons on -the
Red mainland were sent to Si
beria as laborers recently.
Many of them, the reports said,
were relatives of Chinese now
living in Formosa.
The reports said the exile was
a form of execution “because they
will never come back.”
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With mercury occupying a high
position on the list of strategic
and critical minerals required for
defense, almost a dozen U. S. met
allurgical companies have written
or telegraphed the Alaska Devel
opment Board during the past 30
days requesting information about
potential sources of supply in the
Territory.
Mercury is another mineral for
which the nation must depend
upon foreign countries, mainly
Italy and Spain, for a supply. Im
ports furnish 90 per cent of dom
estic industrial requirements.
Since January 1, prices for this
vital metal have risen more than
$100 per 176-pound flask to an
all-<time high of $220-$230. Such
, premium market conditions offer
an unprecedented opportunity for
, Alaska operators and prospectors
i interested in mercury production,
the Board stated.
No mercury was produced in
Alaska during the 1950 season,
owing to unfavorable markets.
About 100 flasks were produced
in 1949, and a similar amount;
j during the previous year, at an'
i average price of $80 per flask.
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in purchasing mercury from Al
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