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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1913.
NO. 36.
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FOlllS THE Fill
OF TURK EMPIRE
Public Demonstration Against
Ceding to Wishes of Europe
Forces the Ottoman Cabinet
to Resign
(By -Associated Press.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 23.—The
Turkish-cabinet resigned today in con
sequence of public demonstrations and
protests against its action in acceding
to the wishes of the European powers
over the Balkan settlement.
Ma'noud Sh'efket Pasha, foreign min
ister, has been appointed grand vizier
in place of Kiamil Pasha. ,
Talaat Bey has been appointed min
ister of the interior, a position he held
in a previous cabinet. In a statement
after his appointment he said:
“The change in the cabinet means
that we are going to save the national
honor or perish in the attempt.
“We do npt want a continuation of
the war, but we are determined to keep
Adrianopje at all costs.
"That is an indispensable condition
of peace.”
Fears of Resumption
of War Dispelled
(By Associated Press.) t
LONDON, Jan. 23.—The immediate
consequence of the decision of the Turk
ish grand council to conclude peace with
the Balkan allies will be the cessation
of hostilities between Greece and Tur
key and the surrender of the Turkish
fortresses of Adrianople, Janina and
Scutari. At each fortress the Turkish
garrisons will withdraw with the hon
ors of war.
Difficulties may arise concerning the
fate of Scutari as no one knows to
whom it is to be surrendered, whether to
the Montenegrins, to a provisional Al-
^ banian government or to representatives
of the powers.
King Nicholas, of Monenegro, insists
that he must enter Scutari at the head
of hie troops. Otherwise he says the
reign of his family in Montenegro is
doomed, because he, contrary to the ad
vice of his generals, refused to try to
take Scutari by storm a*, the beginning
of the war, in order to avoid the certain
heavy losses which his small army'
would have suffered.
He preferred the temporizing policy
of laying siege to th* fortress, and
should Scutari for this reason be lost
to the Montenegrins he alone will be
considered responsible.
Members of the Turkish peace delega
tion in London show signs of depres-
. sion but they are determined that the
era of concessions must now be regard
ed as finally closed. They say they are
convinced that the powers will support
them in rejecting demands of the allies
for a war indemnity.
All ’fears of a resumption of the war
having been removed, the allies are
how planning tlie early withdrawal of
large bodies of troops. The delegates
In London, however, think' that a month
may pass before the final signatures
are put to the peace treaty as the set
tlement of exact frontiers, the ques
tions of indemnity and the guarantees
in regard to the mosques and sacred
places of Adrianople still have to be
arranged.
Austro-Hungarian Troops
Demobilize at Once
(By Associated Press.)
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 23.—De
mobilization of. the Austro-Hungarian
troops called at the colors in connetcion
with the Balkan crises began today. •
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS
FAVOR REDUCED TARIFF
Northern Manufacturers Op
pose Any Reduction on
Cotton Schedule
(By Associated Press."*
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Proposed re
duction of the cotton tariff was again
under fire at the hearing today before
the house committee on ways and means.
There were a number of witnesses left
over from yesterday’s program and a
short list of supplemental witnesses.
Southern and northern manufacturers
do not agree on £he extent the commit
tee should go in cutting the cotton tariff.
It has been indicated that the com
mittee might drop the minimum ad va
lorem rate on cotton cloths to 10 per
cent, 6 per cent below the present Uo-
derwood schedule. While the southern
men are disposed t<^ concede compro
mise reductions, the northern men are
fighting for retention of the tariff at
approximately the present figures.
Tariff on the '"commoner grades of
tapestry and other jacquard figured
goods weighing over six pounds a square
yard, now dutiable at 60 per cent ad
valorem may be cut. Chairman Under
wood, of the committee, indicated that
at the outset of today’s hearing when
Theodore F. Miller, of Philadelphia, rep
resenting upholstery interests, urged re
taining of the present rates.
Charles M. Howard, of North Adams.
Mass., representing the cotton print
goods manufacturing industries, wanted
the print cloths rate retained.
Chairman Underwood reiterated that
the committee was proceding with the
primary purpose of raising revenue,
that protection was only incidental and
that; the committee could not allow any
rate so high as to prohibit importation.
A permanent non-partisan tariff com
mission was advocated by both Mr.
Howard and by Arthur H. \ Lowe, of
Fitchburg, Mass., Mr. Lowe wanted the
present tariff on ginghams and other
fabrics retained.
The English now have absolute con
trol of the market for the higher grades
of bed spreads and the American man
ufacturers supply the cheaper goods,
according to George A. Tenney, of
Claremont, N. H., who advocated a
gradual reduction of the duty on lower
grade bed spreads and increasing duty
on the better ones.
“All we ask,” he said, “is to be put
on the same basis of tabor as the Eng
lish, to enable us to compete with
them."
COREY ADMITS THAT
STEEL POOL EXISTED
Former President of U. S. Steel
Corporation Tells of Inter
national Agreement
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The United
States Steel corporation and the Beth
lehem Steel company participated for
four years in an international pool in
armor plate which divided up the busi
ness of “neutral markets.” William E.
Corey, former president of the steel cor
poration, so testified today at hearings
in the government’s suit to dissolve
the corporation. It was the first direct
testimony the government has been able
to obtain as to the existence of such
a pool.
Mr. Corey, who resigned as president
of the steel ^corporation in 1910, was un
able to recall today that the armor
plate pool had existed until his mem
ory had been refreshed by the reading
of minutes of the Carnegie Steel com
pany, quoting him as advising against
joining with the “armor commission” in
the erection of an armor plate plant in
Japan. This was in 1902, shortly after
the organization of 1 the steel corpora
tion.
The witness then testified that a com
mission of armor pilate manufacturers
in England, Germany and France had
existed as late as “1904 or 1905.”
The Carnegie Steel company and the
Bethlehem Steel company were the,
American members of the combination,
he said.
“What was the agreement of those
ir. the pool?” asked Judge Jacob M.
Dickinson, attorney for the government.
“I was not familiar with the detals,”
said Mr. Corey, adding that Colonel
Millard Hunsicker, representative of the
Carnegie company abroad, conducted the
negotiations.
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"High-cost-of-liviaj^
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IS GLORIOUS,
isn't it?
The
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Time -
Played
DAVANT MAY NAME
GAMBLE SECRETARY
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 23.—Mr. Thom
as Gamble, Jr., former editor of the
Americu-s Times-Recorder, it is expected
will be named as secretary to Mayor
R. J. Davant.
Woman Admits Using
Another’s Name to
Enter White House
SOUTH CAROLINA WOULD
R, G. Ulmer, Prominent Plant
er, Found Dead Near Savan
nah-Negro Suspected
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 23.—Lying
face downward in a little road about 100
yards from the Ogeechee road, four
miles from Savannah, R. C. Ulmer, a
prominent planter, was found murdered
this morning and his faithful dog was
lying by his side.
The shot was heard last night about
8 o’clock. Mr. Ulmer went coon hunt
ing with Joseph Drayton, a negro boy,
last night, and was walking ahead car
rying the lantern.
The fatal shot was fired at close
range, almost blowing off one side of
Mr. Ulmer’s head.
After the killing, Drayton, it is al
leged, went to the house .stole a pair of
shoes, and hitching up Mr. Ulmer’s horse
and buggy, drove 4 to the limits of
Savannah and left it. \
Legislature Asks Congress to
Repeal Fifteenth Amendment
. of U. Si Constitution
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CfOLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 23.—A con- !
current resolution asfting congress to I
fepeal the fifteenth amendment to the !
lonstitution of the United States, which ;
Save the negroes the vote of suffrage j
passed the house of representatives of \
{he South Carolina general asembly this |
fnorning. .
The resolution encountered some op- •
position but went through 70 to 46. The
resolution asks the representatives from
!his state and the senators in congress
horn this state to work for the repeal
>f this amendment.
The resolution was framed by the
toouse committee on federal relations
Ind introduced by its chairman. Repre-
lentative Fred Williams.
The resolution will likely pass the I
lenate without opposition and‘be for
warded to congress, and the memorial
Kill likely be placed before that body |
In a few days. Governor Blease is a
f/arm advocate of the repeal of the fif
teenth amendment, as is United States
Senator Tillman.
In Golden Chariots
Suffragettes Will-
Enter Washington
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Riding tri
umphantly in six goldeh chariots, es
corted by marching sisters troups of
“petticoat cavalry;” the suffragette
leaders of Baltimore will enter Wash
ington to take, part in the suffragette
pageant March 3, according to an an
nouncement today from national suffra
gist headquarters. The chariots are to
be drawn by white steeds.
“And in chains behind our chariots,”
said one of the leaders, “we may pa
rade some of our unfair male critics.”
The suffragists faced a double dilem
ma today, their funds were running
low, the undertaking being more expen
sive than they thought, and the thou
sands of women sympathizers in the
government’s employ were beginning
to fear that their participation in the
celebration might be considered under
the civil service laws as “pernicious
political activity.”
The leaders were confident that a so
lution for both problems would be
found.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—When Sec
retary Charles D. Hilles opened the
White House mail today he gasped
with astonishment on reading a frank
and free confession from a Washington
woman that she had ’’broken into” the
White House receptions for years un-
'■'olOT’R.
Mr. Hiles would hot disclose the Iden
tity of the writer whose ingenuousness
he acknowledged, commanded his ad
miration. The letter read: “I have
been attending the White House recep
tions for years but I am tired of using
someone’s else ticket. Wilt you please
send -me one for the next reception in
my own name?”
The coveted cards admitting guests
to the White House on the ocasion of
the four big affairs of the winter are
much sought after and especially so
this season since President-elect Wil
son, has intimated that tne receptions
would be abandoned during his ad
ministration.
Today’s appeal, however, was the
most unique that has yet passed under
Secretary Hilles’s notice. No informa
tion was forthcoming as to whether it
would be successful.
3. A. MERRITT NAMED
ORDINARY OF GREENE
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GREENSBORO, Ga., Jan. 23.—George
A. Merritt was elected ordinary of
Greene county in a special election held
Wednesday to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of James H. McWhorter.
Mr. Merritt represented Green county
tn the last legislature.
HOTEL FIRES WAITERS
ON EVE OF STRIKE
(By Associated Press.'
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Waiters agi
tating a strike found their plans an
ticipated today when the Hotel Knick
erbocker management discharged every
one* of the 250 waiters and ’bus boys
in its employ.
When James B. Regan, the proprietor,
called all of the men into the main
dining room, they believed he was to
announce the concession of their de
mands, but instead he declared he had
been harassed beyond all endurance by
their dissatisfaction and reiterated de
mands. Captains ar.d all were forced
to walk out.
ENGLAND MAY GIVE
$15,000,000 FOR COTTON
(By Associatod Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 23.—Introduction in
to parliament of a bill guaranteeing a
$15,000,000 loan for the development of
cotton growing in the Sudan was prom
ised by Premier Asquith this morning
in an address to the British Cotton
Growing association.
unPy Looking Clerks
Have Stronger Grip
Than Brawny Laborers
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The gov
ernment clerks whose physical culture
exercises consist mainly in driving a
pin or pounding a typewriting machine,
have more powerful grips than the
brawny workers in stone quarries, ac
cording to a series of tests made by
Gordon Law, physical director of the
Y. M. C. A., the results of which were
made public today.
Mr. Law found that the average la
boring man’s grip was 99.9 pounds,
while the average clerk’s white and
well kept hand gripped 111.3 pounds.
The physical director offered no ex
planation of the difference between the
two classes of men. The most power
ful of the quarrymen set a high mark
for his fellow-workers with a record
1 of 135 poupnds, but a clerk outgripped
him by fiv e pounds.
PACIFIC ROADS ARE IN
A TRIANGULAR TANGLE
Union and Southern Make
“Some Progress” in
Dissolving
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—“Some prog
ress” toward selecting the differences i
between the Union Pacific and Southern I
Pacific interests, respecting the Central 1
Pacific railroad, was made at a con- j
ference here today. Robert S. Lovett, |
chairman of the Union Pacific board of
directors, made this statement after the
meeting, but added that there was no
assurance that a final satisfactory
agreement would be reached.
Judge Lovett said the discussion had
now become a triangular one with the
federal government one of the princi
pals.
The only information obtainable re
garding the recent conference between
Judge Lovett, Frank A. Vanderlip and
M. L. Shift and Attorney General Wick-
ersham, in Washington, was that the
federal officials were offering some as
sistance in the plan of dissolution.
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WONDER' IF
HE'LL CARRY
IT ANY
further !
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THE NEXT DANCE TO'GO UNDER THE BAN
BROUSSARD ASKS PROBE
OF FEDERAL SUGAR GO.
Louisiana Congressman Says
Company Is Working
Under a Disguise
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Representa
tive Broussard, of Louisiana, charge^
in the house today that the Federal
Sugar refining company, through Frank
C. Lowry, head of its sales/ department,
was conducting a fight /or free sugar
under the disguise of a “wholesale gro
cers’ committee.” And introduced reso
lution for its investigation.
LAST INAUGURATION CAMPAIGN
COUPONS WILL APPEAR TODAY
In Friday’s issue of The Journal the
last coupons for the Inauguration Trip
Campaign will be published. Under the
rules governing the campaign all cou
pons clipped from the paper must be de
posited at The Journal office within ten
days after their publication. The cam
paign closes at midnight of February 1,
just ten days from Friday, therefore,
no more coupons will be published after
that date.
| During the remaining ten days of the
j campaign the boys who are working for
! one of the 125 free Washington trips
I Offered by The Journal, can boost their
j standing by securing paid-in-advance
I subscriptions to this paper. A liberal
j number of certificates, or coupons, is
(tallowed on every paid-in-advance sub
scription to either The Daily Journal,
Daily and Sunday Journal, Sunday Jour
nal, or Semi-Weekly Journal.
Op Friday The Journal will announce
the names of the boys in the various
classes of the campaign who are to be
awarded watches for the work done by
them during the period between Jan
uary 9 and 18. These watches will go
to the boys who obtained the greatest
number of coupons on paid-in-advance
subscriptions during the period named.
Owing to the amount of labor in
volved in checking up the boys, two or
three days will be required to definitely
determine the watch winners.
Sucli a brief period now remains be
fore tne close of the inauguration cam
paign that every one of the boys entered
should redouble their efforts to obtain
a place in The Journal’s inauguration
party.
JURY ACQUITS EPTING
Was Charged With Aiding
Sneed to Slay Al, G, •
Boyce, Jr,
(By Associated Press.)
MEMPHIS, Tex., Jan. 23.—Beach B.
Epting, charged with complicity in the
killing of Al G. Boyce, Jr., who was
shot to death by John B. Sneed, was
found “not guity” by a jury here to
day.
Sneed killed Boyce in Amarilla, Sep
tember 14, 1012. Epting was charged
with having assisted Sneed in his al
leged plans for the shooting.
In the trial Epting testified that he
went to Amarillo with Sneed as his
servant and that Sneed “had misled
him.”
Sneed will he tried soon for the kill
ing of Boyce. He has already been ac
quitted of a charge of murdering A. G.
Boyce, Sr., whom he snot at Forth
Worth, January 13, 1912. Both shoot
ings were the outgrowth of the eldpe-
ment of Mrs. J. B. Sneed with Al Boyce.
Jr.
WILSON NOT ANXIOUS FOR MAN AND WIFE TO SUE
SHERIFF FOR ARRESTS
Says
TH0MASVILLE FARMERS
BUSY WITH SPRING CROPS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Jan. 23.—Anybody
having business with a Thomas county
farmer now will probably find it neces
sary to climb over fences and walk
through plowed fields before he can
reach him, as from early dawn »untn
dark every farmer in the county is as
bus;) as the proverbial bee getting his
land ready iov planting the spring crops.
The weather for the past week or two
has been ideal for the work, and prep
arations • for the crops have gone ror-
ward with a rush. Owing to the unsual-
ly large sugar cane crop and the longer
time taken in grinding it some of tne
farmers were behindhand with their
work, but they have been making up for
lost time and on every side in riding
through the country plows are seen go
ing. and the fields ar e looking, many of
them, in fine shape. Much new land Is
being broken, too, and indications point
to some large orops being planted fhls
season. With the black eye to cotton
last year, it is thought that the acreage
will be smaller this season, it is rather
early as yet to say definitely, as the
south Georgia farmer is a proposition
that cannot be counted upon when it
comes to planting cotton, and the exact
acreage that he will put in the fleecy
staple can never be known until it Is
actually planted.
However, That He V\
Be Content With Commit
tee’s Arrangement
(By Associated Press.)
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 23.—President
elect Wilson indicated today he was
not esepcially anxious that a reception
or any other substitute be provided for
the inaugural ball, which he opposed.
He was told that some doubt had been
expressed by rqembers of the congres
sional inauguration committee as to
whether a reception in the rotunda of
the capitol could be arranged,, as the
governor recommended.
“I shall be perfectly content with
any arrangement the committee may
make,” said Mr. Wilson.
“Suppose they are unable to arrange
a reception, either?” he was asked.
“I shall be perfectly content.”
The governor was urged again tod^y
to visit the Panama canal before it is
filled with water and indicated that he
would try to go.
“It all depends on how long the extra-
| ordinary session of congress lasts,” said
I the governor.
National Committeeman Josephus
| Daniels, of North Carolina, came to
j Trenton today with a delegation to of-
, fer the president-elect a summer home
at Asheville.
Macon Couple Allege Rough
Treatment at Hands of Bibb
Deputy Sheriffs
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., Jan. 23.—A damage suit
will be filed against; the sheriff’s office
here and the Macon Railway and Light
company* by Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carver
for illegal arrest and rough treatment
at the hands of the deputy sheriffs.
Carver was arrested at his home on
Walnut street several days ago after a
considerable scrimmage between the of
ficers, himself and wife. She claims that
the officers threw her to the ground
and placed his knee against her body
to prevent her from assisting her hus
band. Since Carver’s arrest she has
been confined to her bed.
Carver is one of the striking elec
tricians and is charged with inciting a
riot. He is still in jail and unable to
give bond. The members of the local
union, however, are working to have
him released under bond, which has been
assessed at $2,000. While members of
the Central Labor union here are in
sympathy with the strikers, they have
not yet taken a hind in the strike.
Police Are Aroused by Daring
Taxicab Robbery-Six High
waymen Spring From. Ma
chine and Hold Ujp Cashier
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The police
are aroused again by so-called taxicab
robberies. A particularly bold one was
carried out last night when six high*
waymen leaped fpom a taxicab that
had drawn up in front of a wholesale
provision house on Thirty-sixth street
and with revolvers in hand held up four
men employed in the place.
While some of the men covered the
employes with their pistols one of the
bandits climbed a wire fence and got to
the cashier’s cage. He emptied the
drawer of $800 in cash. Then he and
his fellows escaped in the cab. They
overlooked $5,01)0 which was in an open
safe. , . ;
JOHN K. SHIEEOS GETS
THE TENNESSEE TOGA
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Named to Long Term in
U, S, Senate
Three Daily Eggs
Laid by This Duck
ROCKEFELLER RETURNS
TO JEKYL ISLAND HOME
(Ay Associated Tress.)
FERNANDINA, Fla., Jan. 23.—Wil
liam Rockefeller and party, who fled
to Nassau some weeks ago, today board-
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) } Billings yacht here to return to
DALTON, Ga., Jan. 23.—Three eggsj Jekyl island, where the oil magnate has
per day is the high record set by an! tvinter home.
Indian Runner duck owned by J. A. j par * y arrived in a special car
Crawford, the local postmaster, and Mr. I £ ron \ Balm Beach, and immediately
Crawford is willing to vouch for the! hoarded the yacht,
(By Associated Press.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. J3.—Th«
Tennessee legislature today elected Chief
Justice John K. Shields, of the state su
preme court, United States senator tot
the term beginning March 4.
John Knight Shields is a native oI
Grainger county, Tenn., and fifty-five
years old. He was admitted to the bat
In 1879, being assisted In practice wltn
his father, the partnership continuing
until 1898, When the father retired and
the son became associated with R. E. L.
Mountcastle, now Democratic national
committeeman from Tennessee.
H e served as chancellor In 1892-94- wa»
elected assistant Justice of the state su
preme court in 1902, and re-elected In
1910, the last contest being one of nota
ble campaigns of the state. At that
time Judge Shields led the ticket known
as the “Independemt Judiciary", ticket,
against the so-called “regular Demo
cratic” ticket. Sungeguently he wa,
elected chief-Justice. —
Judge Shields was married December
7 last In New York to Mrs. Jeannette
Cowan. He is a Democrat.
The election of Judge Shields occa
sioned little surprise. During the
morning his friends were confidently
claiming that he would get seventy-one
votes when balloting hour came. He
received slxty-nlne votes,
to a choice, sixty-six.
It was a Knoxville field day in the 1
deadlock. In hope of changing the as
pect of the contest, the fuslonlsts en
tered Attorney General Charles T.
Cates, Jr., like Judge Shields, a Knox
ville man, In the race, and for years
one of Judge Shields’ closest friends
In the assembly.
When the Joint convention began the
galleries were packed and the excite
ment was intense. Many women were
present.
Judge Shields' vote was made up of
fifty-pne Democrats, nine independent
Democrats and eight Republicans and
one Shelby countlan. General Cates
received sixty-one votes.
The election of Judge Shields as sen
ator will create a vacancy in the state
supreme court, which Governor Hooper
will fill by appointment.
The court will choose the chief Jus
tice.
The vote today on the short-term
senatorship: M. T. Brown, Democrat,
fifty-four; W. R. Webb, Independent
Democrat, thirty-two; J. H. Underwood,
Republican, thirty. Rest scattering.
Necessary to elect, sixty-six.
Necessary
NAVAL AVIATORS IN
STRENUOUS PRACTICE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—-Lieutenant
J. S. Tower, U. S. N., commanding: the
navy aviation camp at Guantanamo,
Cuba, has reported to the navy depart*
ment that already a strenuous program
of winter practice was being carried
out.
He reported also that the officers of
the Atlantic fleet In winter training off
Guantanamo were co-operating with the
aviators, many of them already having
requested Admiral Badger, commanding,
to allow them to take a course in avia
tion in addition to their regular du
ties. So far as possible this instruc
tion will be given.
and
which
set sail at
truth of the duck’s wonderful feat.
I once.
This wonderful duck is the only one
possessed by him, and he knows there FATHER AMD LITTLE GIRL
is no mistake in the record made. "Wed
nesday morning the duck laid an egg at
7:30 o’clock, the egg being found in
the nest at the regular hour it is visited.
At noon several members of the family
saw the second egg laid by the duck
on the lawn, the same ones seeing the
duck lay the third and last egg a short
time afterwards.
This testimony of eye-witnesses can’t
be doubted, especially when the above-
mentioned witnesses are absolutely re
liable.
Boat Abandoned
MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 23.—The British
bark Alexander Black, from Mobile Jan
uary 8 for Cienfuegos, has been aban
doned in the Gulf of Mexico in a water
logged condition. Captain Cogswell and
all members of the crew landed last
night at Progresso, Mexico.
PERISH IN FLAMES
(By Associated Press.)
CANFIELD, Ohio, Jan. 23.—Flames
that destroyed a farm house near here
today caused the death of Curtis Shafer
and his daughter Effie, and fatally burn
ed Mrs. Shafer and another daughter.
A son ten years old escaped. He was
unable to explain the cause of the fire.
FLOOD DRIVES MANY
TO T0PS 0F HOUSES
HENDERSON, Ky., Jan. 23.—Relief
parties in this section daily are discov
ering new instances of destitution
among sufferers from the Ohio river
flood. Yesterday thirty persons—men,
women and children—were found hud
dled in one room in a house located on
the crest of a knob surrounded for
^miles around by water.
There was, no food in the house and
the only material available for building
a fire was wet driftwood. Similar con
ditions were found in a room at Smith
Mills, a small town, near here, complete
ly surrounded by water.
Still another relief party yesterday
found many persons living in the sec
ond story of thheir homes, with no
food and exposed to wind and rain/
storms which have beset them during
the past several days. About five miles
below here, in Walnut Bottoms, it is
reported 200 persons are destitute.
Faces “House Famine”
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., Jan. 23.—For the
first time in the history of the city,
Columbus today faces a “house fam
ine,” which has become a decided bar
rier to the steady increase in popula
tion, and it is an unmistakable indi
cation of the rapid growth of the com
munity during the past year.
COST OF GOING DOWN
IS GOING UP RIGHT NOW
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.-r-The cost
of being buried is going up. Members
of the State Retail Monuments asso-
slation, in convention here today, are
discussing the .advisability of advanc
ing the prices on tombstones. Grave
diggers in all the cemeteries in this
part of the state are planning to or
ganize a union preparatory to demand
ing an Increase In pay.