VOLUME 33—NUMBER 33.
LaFollette Saves Millions
Every Day to Oil Consumers
Nation-Wide Trust Cuts Prices as Winconsin Senator
~ Starts Inq Yy; Price-Fixing System Robs Users of
Gasoline.
• TRUST CUTS PRICES as WISCONSIN SENATOR
STARTS INQUIRY; FRICES-FIXING SYSTEM ROBS USERS OF
GASOLINE.
By Charles M. Kelly.
More than a million dollars saved
each day to user of gasoline—that is
Senator La Follette's latest contribu
tion to the American people. It is
just a beginning. W hat he will ulti
mately save them will be determined
when an investigation of the oil in
dustry now being made by a senate
committee of which Mr. La Follcte
is chairman has been completed. He
at least can be depended upon to
fight to a finsh.
Made Cut Promptly.
Hardly had the investigation start
ed when the oil monopoly announced
a reduction of 2 cents a gallon in
the retail price of gasoline. It is es
timated that the daily consumption
is around 50,000,000 gallons.
There have also been reductions
in the price of crude and refined
oils, effecting additional savings.
If a mere threat of publicity is
sufficient to bring the oil monopo
lists to terms to the tune of more
than a million dollars a day. a full
revelation of their methods should
result in permanent benefits that
may be almost incalculable.
Prices Are Manipulated.
* The senate committee is making
inquiry pursuant to a resolution
tfitroduced by Senator La Follettc.
Already it has developed some amaz
ing information. For one thing, it
proven that the price of gaso
line moves up or down at the bidding
of those who control the industry,
without any regard to the much-ad
vertised law of supply and demand.
When the largest stacks in the
history of oil production were im
pounded, the price of gas reached
almost its highest mark.
When production was increasing,
the brakes were put upon distribu
tion, and millions of gallons forced
into storage, until storage facilities
became inadequate.
The great oil producing and dis
tributing companies are so closely
itllicd that it is not possible to Veil
where one begins and aonther ends.
jiVVhen prices are increased by the
*tstandard they are also increased by
every other company. When there is
a fc*ut it is uniform i neverv city and
hamlet in the country.
Monopolist Must Explain.
The production and distributors
deny every suggestion of price fix
ing. but they have yet to explain 10
Senator La Follette’s committee
these most unusual features of their
busienss.
Witnesses called by the commit
tee have been put on the gril by
(iilbert Hoc, a celebrated New York
lawyer and former law partner of
Fords orv
A ' "V THE. UNIVERSAL TRACTOR
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half with kJp \ <r r ~\ MS )
the Fordson urn J J
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y&l' This Value
Cut your hoOT* l Has Never
in the field D
! over half — j 06611
the Fordson Duplicated
Give yourself | It takes something besides
an 8-hour j engineering to furnish a
j you, can with tractor like the F ordson
the to sell at this astonish
w Fordson ingly low price.
" ' That something is owner
confidence built on permanent satisfac
tion. There are 170,000 Fordson tractors
in use—wherever Power Farming is being
done Fordson is showing superior service.
If you are not using a Fordson now, start right.
The working ability of this remarkable power
plant is cutting farming costs in half in almost
every kind of work done, at the draw bar
or from the belt.
Ask: us for all the details —call, write or phone.
LOUISVILLE MOTOR CO.
AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS.
Louisville, Ga.
THE NEWS AND FARMER
Senator La Follettc. who has been
retained by the committee to give
personal direction to the investiga
tion.
Mr. Hoc is in complete sympathy
with the contention of Senator La
Follettc that the fist obligation of
the government is to protect he in
terests of the public. He is determ
ined that there shall be a complete
revcalmcnl of everything related to
oil that in any way influences the
monopoly’s attitude toward the peo
ple and the prices of its products.
Before he gets through with the
long list of witnesses who have been
summoned it is expected that some
fur will be flying.
Before a witness was called Sen
ator La Follettc had prepared and
sent to every oid company a ques
tionnaire which was intended to put
before the manufactures committee
every esential fact relating to pro
duction, distribution, and consump
tion.
Background for Inquiry.
These concerns were requested to
return their profits and losses cov
ering a period of the last three
years. They were also commanded to
give information concerning their
organization, the names of officers,
directors and stockholders, their in
terlocking relationships, and the
methods employed by them in meet
ing competition, if there is compe
tition.
The replies to these questionnaires
furnish a background for the in
quiry. Witnesses arc under a heavy
handicap to tell the truth, for their
answers to questions are being
checked up with the questionnaire
information. To say that they can
not always be reconciled betrays no
confidence of the committee.
The questionnaires disclose that
when stocks of crude oil and gaso
line were at their peak the price
to the public was being constantly
jacked up. Since last spring the cost
of gasoline to the consumer has been
advanced 4 cents a gallon. That
means an unwarranted tribute of
more than *2,000,000 a day.
Seek Answer to Mystery.
Every few weeks somebody some
where give an order to add a cent
to the retail prices, and instantly
every gas filling station in the coun
try announced anew price.
Betailcrs never could tell when
they went to bed one night what
the price was going to be next morn
ing.
How the information was impart
ed in a manner so thorough that the
retailer in SanFrar *iseo and the
retailer in New York knew at the
same moment that anew and high
er quotation had been made is one
of the mysteries that Senator La
Follette's committee hopes to clean
up.
INVESTIGATE STOPPAGE
OF TRANSPORTATION IN
WEST DUE TO STRIKE
Washington, Aug.—A decision to in
j stitute a special department of jus
; t ice organization to investigate al
leged illegal stoppages of transpor
tation service incident to the rail
strike in the west, a formal relaca
tion of some of the interstate com
merce commission priority control
of coal distribution, publication of
federal safety inspectors’ survey of
railroad engines, and preparation of
official estimates that soft coal pro
duction for the week is rising above
8,000,000 tons, or 100 per cent more
than was coming up a month ago,
were among elements that emerged
today out of the government's ac
tual contact with the industrial sit
uation.
In the middle of these develop
: ments, John 1.. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, whose po
! sit ion has been a dominant one in
I the continuation of the deadlock
! which has kept the anthracite fields
|of Pennsylvania tied up, arrived in
; Washington and began a scries of
I conferences shortly after White
House expressions indicated confi
dence that the long-delayed settle
ment there was to be looked for at
once.
Attorney-General Daugherty an
nounced that a separate investiga
tion organization would be built up
immediately in Los Angeles, in
charge of Hiram C. Todd. United
States attorney for northern New
York, whose duty will he to conduct
inquiries into the possible criminal
ity involved in the series of train
stoppages and interruptions to in
terstate commerce in the west. Like
wise, the attorney-general seut for
mal instructions to all federal dis
trict attorneys to follow up any vio
lations of federal court injunctions
obtained by railroads to prevent
strikers and their sympathizers from
molesting operations in shops and
yards. The law, Mr. Daugherty
said, must be “impressively enforc
ed*’ in the matter.
GOOD GAME TO BE PLAYED AT
WRENS
The North Augusta team of the
city league of Augusta will play the
Wrens hall club in Wrens on Labor
Day. September 4. This will prob
ably he one of the best games of
the season played in this district,
and ball fans from all over the coun
ty will attend. Mr. John Strother,
Mr. Norla Hardeman and Mr. Jim
Hardeman of Louisville will play for
Wrens in this game.
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
REMAINS IN THE U. S.
Boston. Aug.—The national cham
pionship in lawn tennis doubles re
mains in the United States. The
Australian invasion which has its
triple objective, the Davis cup, the
doubles title and the singles cham
pion, was defeated in its secondary
phase today when W. T. Tilden, 11..
and Vincent Richards, playing
titli sis, turned back Gerald L. Pat
terson and Pat O'Hara Wood, An
tipodean stars, after losing the first
set. The scores were 4-6, 6-1, 6-3,
! 6-4.
j rilden attained another title today
also, pairing with Mrs. Molla Bjur
stedt Mallory to combine the nation-
I al titleholders in men’s and women’s
I singles as the national mixed dou
! hies champions. Their victory over
j Miss Helen Wills and Howard O.
I Kinsey, fellow Californians, was ac
! complished without great strain, 6-4,
6-3.
Of greater interest among the
spectator host, probably the largest
that has ever seen a tennis program
in this city, was the singles match
which Mrs. Mallory won from Miss
Wills. The champion, who defended
i her title successfully against the
girl recently at Forest Hills, N. A’.,
j found her more a difficult opponent
today and it was only after losing
the first set to her and hair-line de
| cisions in the third that she won,
3-6, 6-3, 7-5.
The other national champions
were decided. Arnold W. Jones, of
Providence, R. 1., succeeded to the
national junior championship vacat
ed l)v Richards, winning with sweep
ing stroke from Lewis N. White, of
Austin, 'lex., 6-0. 6-0, 6-1. Young
David O’Loughlin, of Pittsburg',
playing in knickerbockers and new
tan shoes, won the bos’ champion
ship by defeating M. T. Hill. Jr., of
Newton, 7-5, 6-3.
TWO NEGROES KILLED
IN SHOOTING SCRAPE
Williston, S. {’., Aug. 29. (Special)
—ln a shooting scrape which took
place Sunday afternoon, Aug. 27, at
the colored Baptist Church at Rey
nolds station, about 6 miles from
here and about 4 miles from Black
ville, two negroes arc dead and the
third is in jail, seriously wounded
but not fatally. From what can be
learned an argument started be
tween Emmett Hughes, Charlie
Mitchell and a negro named Dychcs.
Shooting soon started and Hughes
and Dychcs were instantly killed
and Mitchell was shot through his
chest. Mitchell is in the Barnwell
jail. The inquest was held over the
two dead negroes Sunday night.
Other arrests may follow as it is
thought more than these three took
part in the shooting.
Hughes lived in Williston and the
other negroes lived near here.
MONTANA PRIMARY
Helena, Mont., Aug. 29.—Forty
five precincts of the 1,534 in Mon
tana, gave for the Republican nom
ination for United States senator:
Wellington 1). Rankin, 1,050; Carl
I). Riddick, 976; Charles M. Pray,
797.
In the race for the Democratic
nomination 17 precincts gave Ilur
ton K. Wider, 844; Tom Stout, 892
and Jaincs F. O’Connor, 321.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. AUGUST :il, 1!)2:L
Louisville Takes Stand
For Law And Order
Some clays since Louisville had occasion to compliment
a neighboring town on the fact that she refused audience to
a lecturer belonging to a certain organization. Louisville on
Tuesday found oppor.unity to take her stand against the same
organization.
The Ku Klux Klan has lately made a special effort, it
seems to promote and arouse interest in the order and we
have heard with misgivings of publicity campaigns to be
waged in this and neighboring counties. No fears need ever
be entertained however when the Louisville people are
brought face to face with an issue where partiotism and fair
play are at stake.
Hand bills were distributed on the streets of our town last
week announcing a lecture in behalf of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tuesday afternoon the lecturer arrived and was told that
the Court House could not be used for such a purpose. The
gentleman understood from a number of the leading citizens
of the town that the sentiment of the town was opposed to
the Klan and therefore he left by the first public- conveyance.
Less any one fear that the man came here under false pre
tenses we will state that eve were told that some weeks ago
an advance agent came here, saw the proper authorities,
requested the use of the court house for a public lecture on
“Patriotism” and took his departure. When the hand bills
appeared on the street they announced the Ku Klux speaker.
The News and Farmer takes this opportunity to endorse
the action of the town authorities in this matter. We are
unequivocably opposed to the Klan and to the things that it
tolerates. As for its ideals and aims as stated in the con
stitution we find them harmless but we believe that the un
derlying principle—at least in so far as actions speak louder
than words—is fundametall.v wrong. This is the time for
all good men and true to come to the aid of then
country but not with their faces hidden and their names
unknown.
The need of the day is the man who unflinchingly takes
his stand on the side of order and law, who fearlessly states
his convictions, and caring not what others may do or say,
feels that he and his household will uphold the majesty of
the Law. The cure of public ills lies in the ability of the
individual to support constituted authority, not in avenging
personally the wrongs against society but in standing be
hind those whose business it is to bring to justice the of
fender. If the Klan endures our sheriffs, marshalls, jails,
Juries and Judges are hollow mockeries. If the Klan endures
no man’s life or property is safe. If the Klan endures our
Constitution—the very principles for which this country was
I founded, will be flouted and disparaged. But the Klan can
[not live. Wise men( Public sipirited men, the country, over,
! see the danger and warn us of the rocks. The ideas that the
Klan seems to foster—surely to tolerate—will not last as
long as the country is dotted with towns like Louisville and
Waynesboro—they will not endure as long as religous free
dom and trial by jury are the sacred possession of the humb
lest citizen. Unless the Klan unmasks and ceases certain
practices it will fall as surely as truth crushed to earth will
rise again—as surely as the stars and stripes float over Am
erica. It could not be otherwise in this, the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
AUGUST REPORT ON
THE COTTON CROP
American Cotton Association
Puts the Condition Per
Centage on August 23rd at
56.2.
St. Matthews, S. C., August 29.
The report of the American Cotton
Association is herewith presented,
covering an estimated percentage of
the growing crop from July 20th to
August 23rd, an estimated forecast
of production with reports on boll
weevil and caterpillar infestation,
and views of county correspon
dent s:
Con. crop. Con. crop Con. crop
Aug. 23 July 20 June 20
State. Per Cent. Per Cent. PcrCent.
N. C. ... 70 72 73
S. C 46 61 61
Ga 49 59 63
Fla 68 74 73
Ala 68 77 70
Miss 63 74 75
La 56 74 69
Tex 53 68 70
Ark 68 80 71
Ten n 81 88 80
Okla 57 80 75
Mo 59 90 90
Ariz 85 85 90
Cal 85 90 90
U. S. Av. ..56.2 73.4 70
For purposes of comparison, the
condition of the cotton crop in the
United States monthly for the past
ten years, as furnished by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
is given below:
Yield Pci-
Year May 25. June 25. July 25. Aug. 25. Sept. 25. Acre.
1922 69 6 71.2 70.8 ... .. . 144.0*
1921 66.0 69.2 61.7 191! 12.2 124.5
1920 62.4 70.7 74.1 67.5 59.1 178.4
1919 75.6 70.0 67.1 61.4 54.4 161.5
1918 82.8 85.8 73.6 55.7 54.3 159.6
1917 69.5 70.2 70.3 07.8 60.4 159.7
1916 77.5 81.1 72.3 61.2 56.3 156.6
1915 80.0 80.3 75.3 69.2 60.8 1 70.3
1914 74.3 79.6 76.4 78.0 73.5 209.2
1,913 79.1 81.8 79.6 68 2 64.1 182.0
1912 78.9 80.4 76.5 74.8 69.6 190.9
10 Year Avc... 74.6 76 9 73.0 65.3 50.5 168.9
Par Yield Per
Acre Lbs. .. 221.5 215.8 224.4 256.0 280.2
'lndicated yield per acre based on this report.
According the method employed
by the Crop Reporting Bureau of as
certaining the average condition of
the crop throughout the belt based
upon the total acreage in cultivation
the average condition of the growing
crop as ascertained from our cor
respondents to August 23rd is 56.2
per cent. Applying this average to
the total acreage of 33,693,260 acres,
with an estimated yield of 141
pounds of lint per acre, the fore
cast of the crop is fixed at 10,322,-
720 bales.
Summary of the Report.
The August report indicates a re
duction in the condition of the
crop since our last report to July
20th, of 17.2 per cent. The average
deterioration for August is 7.7 per
cent, showing that the deterioration
for the past month has been 9.5 per
cent heavier than the normal. This
is due to excessive infestation of
boll weevils east of the Mississippi
River and continued drought in the
! Southwestern States. Practically
I three-fourths of tlie counties in the
1 boll weevil areas reported heavy
j infestation and damage to the crop.
[The states of Georgia, Mississippi.
! Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas rc
| ported presence of eaterpillers and
in several counties in these states
' the infestation was reported to he
heavy.
Forecast of the Crop.
The forecast of the crop is based
upon the estimated acreage planted,
less the abandoned acreage as ascer
tained by the association amounting
to 33,693,260 acres, and not the acre
age estimated by the Crop Reporting
Bureau. The forecast of 10,322,720
hales may be larger or smaller ac
cording to the future condition of
the growing crop. Correspondents
from many sections of the belt
claim that the crop has stopped
growing and the yields anticipated
thirty days ago will never be made.
There is nothing at present upon
which to base improvement during
the month of September, but on the
contrary, continued heavy deteriora
tion is apparent.
AMERICAN COTTON ASSO.,
Harvie Jordan, Secretary.
COLORED PEOPLE HAVE
CONVENTION HERE
Sunday Schools All Over the
State Were Represented.
The street* were •nnusiuilh crowd
ed Saturday afternoon, and the roads
around Louisville were filled with
ears during the entire week end. ow
ing to the fact that the colored peo
ple were hosts for {lie colored Sun
day school convention of this dis
trict. Something over a hundred
out of town delegates were regis
tered by Jessie Green, who h supci
inlendent of om of the Sunday
schools. The sessions were all well
attended, both of the churches being
needed for the crowd and even so.
man.' people were denied standing
room. The rowd and I end ing thi
Sunday morning meeting was esti
mated at two thousand.
The News and Farmer has received
the following communication, which
we publish in full::
The Walker Baptist Sunday school
held Iheir fourth annual session
with the St. Paul Baptist church.
Louisville, Ga.. beginning Friday
morning. August 25. and ending the
night of August 27. 1022. There were
delegates from various parts of the
state and each one made an excel
lent report. Barbecue and basket
dinners were served on the ground
each day and the young men. six in
number, furnished plenty of bread.
We wish to thank our white friends
for their good wishes and hospitality
towards us during the session. Ex
cellent programs were rendered each
session, and all the delegates re
turned home Sunday night report
ing that they were royally enter
tained while attending the session.
The grand total of collections was
*544.14.
W A. M'CLOUD.
HEY. A. I) DKANTINAC.
QUESTION OF SUCCESSOR
FOR LATE JUDGE LINDSEY
Gossip from Good Sources
Says Ex-Gov. Nat. E. Har
ris or Mr. John J. Hunt
Will Be Successor.
Atlanta, Ga.. August 29.—Gossip
from usually well informed sources
today says that the appointment of
a successor to the late Judge J. W.
Lindsey as pension commissioner
will most likely go to one of two
men. It will probably be tender
ed by Governor Hardwick to former j
Governor Nat E. Harris, one of the 1
most beloved Confederate veterans
in the state, or to Mr. John J. Hunt,
of Griffin, a veteran well known
and beloved throughout the state. ,
Former Governor Harris is not in 1
Atlanta at this time, and it is not
1 known whether or not he will like
ily accept the tender if it is made 1
j to him.
i Governor Hardwick is not here )
today, and for that reason it can j
not he learned whether or not he
has made up his mind in respect
to the appointment, but it is known i
that the appointment is to be made j
in a few days.
PROSPERITY WAITING
TO BE WELCOMED,
New York Banks Foretell
Great Business Revival and
Quote Figures,
Washington, August 29. — Predic
tions of prosperity to come have
been taking much space in the pub- j
lie press for the last year. Opinions
of many men supposedly qualified
to speak with authority have been
sought and eagerly published. But '
here is not a prediction based on
hope or “general conditions” but
upon statistical facts. Some New
York banks took the trouble to
gather up the facts and present them
as real evidence. According to
these figures, bank clearings in 165
cities are 15.7 per cent higher than
a year ago; industrial employment
in New York state 11 per cent and
throughout the country 15 per cent;
pig iron production 177 per cent;
zinc production 84 per cent; copper
production 20 per cent; automobile
59 per cent; sugar melting 78 per
cent; electric power production 21
per cent; building contracts 61 per
cent., etc.
These figures are the true index
,of what has happened and a firm
foundation on which to build a tre
mendous prosperity for the immedi
ate future.
From these facts the hanks draw
the obvious conclusions that real
here and but waiting
the settlement of upset industrial
conditions to be visible. As an of
ficer of one of these organizations
put it: “When all allowances have
been made for the clouds now over
head and for the great seriousness
of the forces of disorganization as
expressed in the strikes, the domes
tic economic position presents pleas
ing contrasts with that prevailing I
one year ago, when American busi
ness was at the lowest ebb in many
years. To measure some of these
contrasts is to gain the two-fold con
viction that business recovery has
been substantial and that, when
strikes are settled, the revival will
logically continue many months be
fore reaching the crest of anew
prosperous era.”
COTTON shipped to BAT
TEY & CO., The Efficient
Cotton Factors of Savannah,
Ga„ yields satisfaction as is
evidenced by the large vol
umn of business entrusted to
them. Isn’t it to your interest
to try them? Do it now and
be convinced.
Savannah Cutter
Wins Ail Honors
Coast Guard CuttF • Yama
craw" Returns to ~ > ort
With Highest Honors
Cape May Meet.
Savannah. Ga., August 29 The i
coast guard culler Yamacraw r<
turned to this city, her home port,
yesterday, with the pennant and sil
ver eup awarded !>;. {lk headquart- .
rrs of the coast guard service dur
ing the recent maneuvers of the cut
tejs off Gape May recent G The
crew has been warml> commended
for their showing reeentl.v and i >
pccially for winning the highest tro
phy for being the best drilled outfit
in the battalion of coast guard cut
lers.
Gol. B. I. Travis, commander of
the 118th Regiment of Field \rtil
lery. "Savannah's own," yesterday
answered unfavorable the request of
Augusta citizens to transfer one of
the batteries of this regiment to
that city.
HARRY WILLS KAYOES
TUT JACKSON IN 3RD
New York. Aug. 29. Harr Wills.
New Orleans negro Heavyweight,
knocked out “Tut” Jackson, of Wash
ington Courthouse, Ohio, tonight in
the third round of a scheduled 15-
round bout.
Jackson went down from a hard
right to the stomach after two min
utes and five seconds of fighting in
the third round. They were in a
series of clinches, neither punching
effectively when Wills sent in his
knockout blow.
Wills led the fighting all the way
and sent the Ohio negro to Hu* floor
in the first round hut Jackson was
up at the count of eight. In the
second round they exchanged hard
rights to the body hut Wills stag
gered Jackson with left and rights
to the head.
JUDGE HARDEMAN TO SPEAK
Judge B. N. Hardeman Saturday
announced that lie will make four
speeches in Jefferson county before
the September primary. On account
of his duties and the short time be
fore the elections these four speeches
will take up all of his time in the
county. His dates as announced are
as follows:
Avcra Thursday. August 31, at
4 p- nu .
Wad ley—Friday, September 1. at
4 p. m.
Bartow —Saturday, September 9. at
1 p. m.
Wrens- Monday, September 11, at
I p. m.
Best Wishes to the
IWHSJMLIY
and
Louisville District School,
1922-23 Session.
We have been headquarters for
School Supplies here for 26 years.
--THE
REXALL STORE
Louisville, Georgia.
“Going Since 1896—Growing All the
Time.”
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVAN< -E
FORD NOT BLUFFING ’
m HEADQUIUfTERS.
Word from Detroit Manu
'acturers Office That Ho Jr-
Fight Hold Up of Coal
Brokers by Shutting Dow
Plants.
Detroit, Mich Aug.—■ Reiteration Hint
Henry Lord wa> not bluffing*' in
his decision to shut down his big au
tomobile plants here on September
16th. as part of a fight against
what he terms a "hold-up" on the
part of coal brokers, and denial of
various reports that causes other
than the fuel shortage were respon
sible for his action, were made to
day at the Detroit manufacturer’s
offices.
\ report from Louisville that when
the 75,000 Ford workers in the De
troit district were released on Sep
tember 16th. Mr. Ford would advise
them to take employment with the
railroads in an effort to break the j
rail strike, was denied emphatically.!
The statement was termed ridicul- |
ous. “There may be individual cases I
of Ford workers anticipating the
lack of employment making applica
tion for work with the railroads,”
it was stated, “but Mr. Ford certain
ly is not going to advise the men
to attempt to break tlie rail strike.”
\ not her report that met emphatic
denial was that lack of business fig
ured in the decision to close the
plants. Figures were cited to re
fute it. “When the decision to close
the plants was reached,” it was stal
ed, “we were four weeks behind in
orders for Ford ears and three weeks
behind in orders for Lincoln cars.
We had only just caught up on or
ders for tractors.** The decision to
suspend operations came, it was re
iterated. ala time when the Ford
company was doing the greatest
business in it* history. Production
figures showed 5,100 ears being turn
ed out daily against orders for 5.200
a day, it was pointed out.
A statement from Secretary Hoov
er that present prices of coal would
add but *1.50 to the price of F'ord
cars also came in for sharp criti
cism. and the inquiry: “Does Mr.
Hoover think we should turn over
| to the profiteers from *7,000.000 to
*10,000,000 that would Fie represent
ed in the increased cost of coal?”
There were no developments dur
ing the day. it was said, to support
the hope that the shutdown could he
averted.
