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VOL. XXII. NUMBER 10.
DM IS CHIIRGEO
WITH SEILING SUGAR
IT TOO HIGH RITE
Frank Alleged to Have
Charged 37 1-2 Cents.
Bill to Resume U. S. Sugar
Supervision Is Repotred
The United States department of
justice Monday morning swore out
a warrant for the arrest of J. Frank,
a retail grocer of 273 Pulliam street,
on charges preferred by United
States Attorney Hooper Alexander,
accusing Frank of “asking and rei
ceiving excessive .prices for a neces
sity.” The specific charge was that
Frank sold sugar at 37 1-2 cents per
pound.
Frank will be arraigned before
Commissioner Carter some time Mon
day for a preliminary hearing.
He will be tried under what is
known as the federal profiteering
law, which was recently amended
providing a penalty clause for prof
iteers, allowing a maximum of five
years imprisonment or a $5,000 fine.
Frank’s Defense
When told that the Fulton county,
fair price committee had fixed eight
een and one-half cents a pound as
a fair price for grocers to charge
for sugar, Frank said it was his
information that this price applied
only to brown sugar, and that the
Committee had never considered
lump sugar prices at all, classing
that kind of sugar as a luxury.
Frank stated that he was selling
no granulated sugar at all, only the
lump sugar in two-pound boxes for
sixty-five cents a box.
Mr. Alexander when told that the
grocer claimed to have paid twenty
eight cents a pound for the sugar,
or fifty-six cents foi' each two-pound
box, said that an inquiry would be
made into that phase of the case,
and that more than likely other, war
rants would follow.
BILL would continue
U. S. SUGAR CONTROL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—The Mc-
Nary bill proposing continuation of
federal control over sugar during
1920 was reported today to the sen
ate and placed on the calendar with
a view to early action.
In a majority report, Senator Mc-
Nary, Republican, of Oregon, author
of the bill, and chairman of the sen
ate subcommittee, which investi
gated fehe sugar shortage, declared.
“A serious situation will ensue,” if
the sugar equalization board’s con
trol over sugar is not continued an
other
Minority views, presented by Sen
ator Ransdell, Democrat, of Louis
iana, expressed agreement in the
plan to. continue the sugar board,
with ‘authority for its purchase of
Cuban sugars, but opposed giving
the board power to buy and seel do
mestic sugars as an unwarranted in
terference with natural economic
laws and as likely to unduly de
press prices of Louisiana and other
domestic sugar.
Shortage Not Real
Senator McNary’s report suggested
that the present sugar famine condi
tions largely are psychological and
not due to present shortage, but to
fear of future shortage and the an
ticipation of this situation is re
flected by speculation in the sugar
trades. Data in the hands of the
committee, the report stated, shows
about 730.000 tons of Cuban and do
mestic sugar are available for dis
tribution until January 1, which
quantity will provide for consumption
above normal during this period.
The world shortage of sugar was
estimated at 2,000,000 tons over the
pre-war average.
“The Cuban crop,” the report stat
ed, “if not controled by this govern
ment, working through the sugar
equilization board, will supply a field
for competition, with the resultant
effect of extraordinary high prices
for raw sugars with corresponding
reflection of increased prices to the
consumer.”
American sugar consumption per
capita annually, the majority report
stated, as increased from seventy-five
to ninety-two pounds, “due in part
to a larger consumption of
meats and fountain drinks containing
sugar.”
Majority Report
Regarding the senate committee’s
refusal of the sugar board’s request
to provide for licensing power in the
sugar trade, the majority report
said:
“While serious misgivings are en
tertained by the sugar equalization
board of its ability properly to func
tion without it being given legis
lative authority to license manu
facturers and dealers in sugar, it
is the opinion of your committee that
a serious situation will ensue if the
law creating the sugar equalization
board is permitted to expire. It is
believed that if the life of the sugar
board is extended until December 31,
1920, and by appropriate legislation
the board is authorize dto acquire
the domestic and Insular sugar crop
of 1920 plus the Cuban crop, that
its power to regulate the refiner an*
his charge to the broker and their
charge to the final consumer can
be fixed by the control board would
exercise over the 1920 crop by rea
son of the acquirement of the crop.
Having acquired the product, it is
reasonable that the refiner and the
dealer who must have the sugar will
uncomplainingly confor mto any rule
or regulation imposed by the board.”
Clothing Prices Reduced
By Large Manufacturer
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.—Mr. Jas. D.
Bell, head of the Bell Tailors, Adams
at Green St., Chicago, 111., said to be
the largest made-to-measure clothing
establishment in the world, recently
stated that his firm is now able to
quote prices on Fall and Winter
suits 35 per cent below what others
ask. To prove his point, he showed
the writer a very attractive piece of
all wool casslmere for which they
ask only $20.00 a suit’-made to indi
vidual measure, whereas the same
fabric is now being offered by mer
chants at $30.00 to $32.00 per suit.
Even larger savings are offered on
their higher priced suits. Every
treader of The Journal should write
Mr. Bell for his price list, and a free
«*ppy of his style book No. 386, which
contains large cloth samples of many
beautiful patterns.
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BUDAPEST —General Horthy
is now in command o£ the new
Hungarian army. Formerly he
was Admiral Horthy and com
manded the Austrian navy.
TO ASK VOTE ON
• PEACE TREATY ON
NEXT THURSDAY
Administration Forces Agree
to Debate Until Following
Saturday Committee
Drafts Proposal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Adminis
tration forces today decided to ask
for a final vote on the peace treaty
on Thursday, November 6.
Voting would be continued under
this proposal until the following Sat
urday at 3 p. m., when if no resolu
tion of ratification had received the
necessary two-thirds vote, other
business might be takn up.
This proposal was drafted at the
meeting of the Democratic steering
committee today and will be put up
to Republicans in the senate at the
first opportunity, Senator Hitchcock
said.
The tentative agreement to be of
fered by Hitchcock has six clauses
as follows:
The senate to meet each day at
11 o’clock and no senator to speak
more than once or longer than fifteen
minutes on each pending question.
All amendments to the treaty to be
voted on at today’s session.
Tomorrow and Wednesday to be
given over to consideration of reser
vations. A vote to be taken on res
ervations at 3 p. m. Thursday, and
the treaty thereupon to be reported
to the senate by the committee of
the whole.
The vote on the resolution of rati
fication embracing such reservations
as have been adopted shall take
place before adjournment, Novem
ber 6.
If it receives the necessary two
thirds vote the president shall be
notified.
If it docs not receive the required
majority, Friday and Saturday to be
given over to consideration of other
resolutions of ratification proposed
b ythe minority of senate foreign,
relations committee, these to be vot
ed upon not later than 3 p. m. Satur
day, November B’.
Individual resolutions may be vot
ed upon the same day if the commit
tee resolutions fail. If no such reso
lution receives the necessary two
thirds majority it shall thereupon be
in order for any senator to move to
take up the railroad bill or any other
business and this question Shall be
decided without discussion.
Democratic members of the foreign
relations committee sat with e
steering committee at the meeting at
which this program was agreed upon.
At 2 p. m. Senator Lodge called up
ns propos' 1 for 'inar.im > consent
to vote on the resolution of ratfica
ricn November 1?
Officer and Others
Held for Death of
Automobile Drivers
EL PASO, Texas, y Nov. 3. —Of-
ficials at Las Cruces,' N. M., were
investigating today the fatal shoot
ing of John T. Hutchings, automo
bile race driver, near Lanark, N. M.,
sixteen miles west of here, yester
day by a party of four men and four
women, one of them a major in the
United States army. The eight are
being held at Las Cruces, on charges
of murder. Major F. M. Scanland,
one of the eight, declared the shoot
ing was accidental. He said they
were shooting at a target when
Hutchings passed in his car in the
El Paso-Phoenix road race.
After Hutchings was shot, Oliver
Lee, his mechanician, drove the car
with the wounded driver into Las
Cruces and returned to the scene of
the shooting with county officers who
made the arrests. Hutchings was
driver for General Pershing during
the American punitive expedition into
Mexico and had been a contestant in
most of the automobile races of the
southwest. His home was in Alamo
gordo, N. M.
Those under arrest are Major
Scanland, Harry C. Overstreet and
“Chalk” Altman, of El Paso, and
Fred Jackson, of Alpine, Texas. The
women are Billie Bennett, Mrs. Over
street, Mrs. P. L. Holbrook and Mrs.
E. M. McPherson, of El Paso.
Hutchings was shot through the
spine and died after being brought
I to an El Paso hospital.
Haste’ll Never Bring
This Hunter Trouble
CHARLOTTE, Mich.—L. Z. Slos
son, circuit court crier, is nothing
if not cautious. Treeing a coon, he
was about to shoot it. Then he be
thought him of the law. Putting the
hired man on watch, he hurried to
his office to find if the season was
open, then hurried back and shot the
coon.
Profiteer Gets Prison Term
LIVERPOOL, England. Six
months’ imprisonment was the sen
tence dealt out to a coal dealer here,
convicted of overcharging and short
weight.
FAIRBURN 811
MO SHORT.
AUDITORSREPORT
Shortage Probably Will Be
Larger Still, Says Report,
Which Holds W, B, Green
Responsible
The audit of the Fairburn Bank
ing company, announced for the first
time Saturday afternoon, places the
minimum loss of the bank at $90,000
and charges that the shortage is due
to “the wrongful acts” of W. B.
"Green, Its vice-president.
It states that investigations not
yet completed will apparently make
the shortage larger, and that there
13 an additional loss, the responsi
bility of which has not yet been
fixed, which will add another $15,-
000 to the shortage, making the to
tal loss $105,000 at the least.
Since the bank’s capital, $50,000,
and the bank’s surplus, $30,000, to
gether make but SBO,OOO, the loss
over and above them is $25,000, an
amount which, it Is stated,\ will ei
ther have to be made up by the
stockholders or result in the bank’s
going into the hands of a receiver.
Which action will take place can
not be told until the final report on
the audit is made. This is expected
early this week, when State Bank
Examiner W. J. Speer either will
give the stockholders a chance to
make up the shortage or will ask
for a receiver.
The final report will also bring
about the immediate commitment
hearing of Green on charges of em
bezzlement, and of Mrs. Catherine
Queen Bradstreet and her husband,
Clarence Bradstreet, who are also
charged with embezzlement.
It was stated Saturday night by
Attorney Reuben R. Arnold that as
soon as Green’s attorney, George
Westmoreland, returns to the city,
the date of the hearings will be
fixed and that they are almost cer
tain to be held this week before
Justice of the Peace Homer McDan
iel, in Fairburn.
Announcement of the bank’s short
age was made Saturday afternoon in
the form of a preliminary report by
W. O. Martin & Company, the audi
tors, to Mr. Speer. The report in
full follows:
“Hon. W. J. Speer,
“State Bank Examiner,
“Stat© Capitol,
“Dear Sir: We have been work
ing very diligently upon this
audit since Monday, October
the 13th. We were very much
hampered by the fact that most
of the bank records were burn
ed. This accounts very much
for the delay in announcing the
result. We wil give the general
figures reserving the exact
amounts, dates and other details
for our full report, believing that
the best interest of all concerned
will be thereby conserved.
“We beg to state that the
result of our investigation
shows that the bank has suf
fered as the result of the
wrongful acts of Mr. W. B.
Green, its vice president, a di
rect loss of more than ninety
thousand (90,000.00) dollars, as
certained and proved by the ex
amination so far made. There
are additional items yet to be
determined as soon as all pass
books, certificates of deposit,
now outstanding, and other
similar matters are turned in,
for record and verification. It
is apparent that the shortage
will be larger when all these
items come in.
“There is an additional loss,
the responsibility for which has
not yet been definitely placed
which will have the effect of
further adding to the short
age about fifteen thousand (15,-
000.00) dollars.
“Therefore, it is seen that the en
tire capital and surplus of the bank
has been entirely wiped out, and
there is in addition, a depletion of
the banks assets of twenty-five
($25,000.00) thousand dollars or
more. The figures which we have
given are minimum figures and be
fore the final completion of this
work may be increased. Just as soon
as our work is coxipleted, a full and
detailed report will be furnished you.
“Respectfully submitted,
“W. O. MARTIN & CO.
‘Auditors and Accountants.”
“Atlanta. Georgia,
‘November 1, 1919.”
The sale of the grocery store al
leged to have been a gift from Mrs.
Catherine Bradstreet to her father,
A. P. Queen, was completed Satur
day morning, it was announced. The
store was seized by J. H. Longino,
receiver for Mrs. Bradstreet and W.
B. Green, and the sale was made aft
er the consent of the attorneys for
Mrs. Bradstreet and the Fairburn
Banking company. The name of the
purchase- and the purchase price
were not announced-. No other prop
erty in the hands of the receiver has
been sold, it was stated Saturday.
Bibb County Mob
Sboots and Bums Negro
MACON, Ga., Nov. 3. —Macon was
quiet today following the lynching
shortly after midnight of Paul Jones,
a negro, wh oattacked a white woman
last night near the Camp Harris
site, on the outskirts of the city.
Jones was captured by a sheriff’s
posse, which later was forced to sur
render the prisoner to a mob of sev
eral hundred men. The negro was
riddled with bullets and the body
burned.
Stomach Trouble or Tape-
Worm Banished
Many persons who suffer from
stomach trouble really have a tape
worm and don’t know it. A guar
anteed remedy which has proven
to be remarkably effective in ex
pelling tapeworms and giving quick
relief in all forms of stomach trou
ble is being sent on free trial by
the Schoenherr Co., Dept. 55, Milwau
kee, Wis. They guarantee it to re
move, in less than one hour, any
tapeworm with its head. No pain,
no dieting, no danger; also, to re
lieve any form of stomach trouble
!»r it costs nothing. Take advantage
of their free trial offer. Write them
today.— (Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919.
Mrs. Peter Hewitt
Brings Jeweled Anklet
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Flexible jeweled anklets are the
latest thing. So says Mrs. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, who has returned
from France where she went to
study reconstruction problems.
This photograph was taken on
board the Mauretania just before.
Mrs. Hewitt landed at New York.
GIGANTIC SHIPPING
PROGRAM FOR U. S.
PLAN OF SENATOR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A gi
gantic shipping program for the
United States which will enable her
to compete with other great coun
tries in the contest for foreign trade
was advocated today by Senator
Jones. j.
He announced his intention of in
troducing two bills for this purpose,
providing for the establishment of
a new shipping corporation, without
capital stock to take over all ships
acquired through the war and all
vessels and property at present in
the, hands of the shipping board and
the emergency fleet corporation, oper
ating them for the benefit of the
government.
Under these provisions, the emerg
ency fleet corporation will be dis
solved and the continuation of the
corporation for a period of thirty
years will be authorized.
“With foreign trade once more sub
stantially established,” said Senator
Jones, “which can be done in the
thirty years which the corporation ;
is given life -by my bill, the entire j
business ultimately can be sold and I
controled by private ownership.’’
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Nearly every one is interested in
puzzles, and in presenting this Fig
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It is surprising what can be done
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TWAS A WHIRLWIND AFFAIR!
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Whether or not he’s the son of Glenn Curtis, millionaire in
ventor and manufacturer of airplanes, we’ll say he’s a “speed
burner.’’ Arriving in Seattle one evening, seeing Betty Wright in an
Orpheum act, meeting her after the show and marrying her thef next
day has all the ear-marks of quick work! Young Curtiss, who is
said to have served for twenty-seven months in the British Flying
corps, says he is a son of the famous builder of the NC-4. Glenn
Curtiss, Sr., denies the soft impeachment. <The inventor is forty
one years of age and the bridegroom twenty-beven—figure it out for
yourself.
STATE STRIKE IS
FAVORED ID GET
FREEASSENIBLAGE
Pittsburg Leaders Ask for
the Approval of General
Walkout From Other
Unions in Pennsylvania
PITTSBURG, Nov. 3.—Union lead
ers in Pittsburg, in the interest of
the steel strike, began today to for
mulate plans to help secure from
state unions approval of recommen
dations passed by the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor, which
adjourned its special convention here
yesterday.
Featuring the recommendations,
adopted in the form of resolutions,
was a call for a state-wide strike
of organized labor as a last resort
to secure “free speech, free press
and free assemblage.”
The state federation may issue
such a call,* according to the resolu
tion, when in the opinion of the ex
ecutive council it is deemed neces
sary “to compel respect for law and
the restoration of liberty as guar
anteed by the constitution of the
United States and of the state of
Pennsylvania.”
James H. Maurer, president of the
federation, announced that he ex
pected no opposition from the inter
national unions concerning the pro
posed walkout, but rather their
hearty approval.
Among other resolutions adopted
one urging railroad men, miners
and steel workers to combine forces
and refuse to make settlement that
did not include the three unions.
The situation in the Pittsburg dis
trict was reported by both strike
headquarters and by officials of the
steel corporations as being “as
usual.”
The commissaries maintained for
needy strikers and their families are
expected to increase food distribu
tions 100 per cent this week, it was
announced at strike headquarters.
PROBE BOMBING OF
STEEL WORKERS’ HOMES
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa„ Nov. 3.
State troopers were rounding up sus
pects today in conrtecti’on with three
bombings here yesterday in which
five homes of steel workers were
damaged. The explosions occurred
within a few minutes of each other.
N 6 one was injured.
STEEL STRIKE AT CANTON
IS REPORTED AT END
CANTON, 0., Nov. 3.—The steel
strike here was at an enn today. All
former employes of the Stark Roll
ing Mills returned to work. The
Canton Sheet Steel company has been
running full force for some time, and
today the United Alloy Steel com
pany, the largest steel plant in Can
ton, reported a large force at work
with many more men applying than
could be taken care .of.
Rent Beds in 8-Hour
Shifts at Omsk
OMSK —Sleeping in Omsk is just
a problem of renting a bed for eight
hours. And that is all one can rent
in this Siberian city. Where 400,-
000,000 are trying to live in accom
modations for 40,000. And the beds
are rented in eight-hour shifts.
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DHL WITH COIL
AND OTHERSTRIKES
Secretary Lane Will Bring
the Locomotive Engineers’
Suggestion Before Cabi
net Meeting Tuesday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Secre
tary of the Interior Lane said today
that at the next cabinet meeting he
will call attention to the proposal of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers for appointment by the gov
ernment of a commission to deal
with the coal strike and the general
industrial situation.
A weekly meeting of the cabinet
is scheduled for tomorrow.
Secretary Lane said he regarded
the proposal as an indorsement of
the offer made by President Wilson
to the miners to submit their de
mands to a commission to be ap
pointed by him.
It is considered likely that the
cabinet will recommend to the pres
ident that he name such a commis
sion, provided the coal mine strike
is first declared ended.
Indorsement of the commission
proposal by other sections of organ
ized labor would tend to show that
labor is seeking justice and not sim
ply more power, officials here be
lieve.
Favor Code
President Wilson and other of
ficers of government, it is under
stood, hold the opinion that an in
dustrial code must be drawn up, and
subscribed to by the workers and
the employers, else many serious
strikes will come in the train of
the steel and coal walkouts, and with
no liaison between labor and the cap
italists, the situation will become
steadily more acute and interfere
with production more widespread.
Since the original industrial con
ference dissolved after having split
on the rock of collective bargaining
the president has been considering
calling another one, to make a fresh
start. His list of delegates, It was
learned, is partly made up.
The proposal of the railway men
giving him the opportunity to act.
The suggestion of the loeomotive
engineers was:
Engineers' Suggestion
“As a remedy for the present tur
bulent conditions, we suggest that
immediate steps be taken to assemble
at Washington an industrial commis.
sion that will recognize bargaining,
as this is a time for deliberate ac
tion on the part of all concerned in
a peaceful solution of the present
conditions.”
While such an organization’s prime
object would be the drafting of an
industrial code acceptable to both
sides, government officials believe
that one of the first concrete prob
lems to be put before it would be
settlement of the coal strike. Pres
ident Wilson is ready to initiate
mediation provided the miners first
return to work. It was considerefl
probable the industrial commission,
called at the instigation of labor,
would be able to arrange a truce
which would insure the nation a sup
ply of coal and at the same time
give the president a chance to en
gineer a permanent settlement.
Railway Demands
It was learned that in proposing
the new conference the railway men
had in mind their own demands,
which are at present before Rail
Director Hines. His reply to them
will be submitted to the railway
union’s membership for a strike vote.
Leaders of the unions foresee what
such a walkout, coming on top of
the coal and steel strikes would mean
to the country just at this tiipe when
an effort is being made to increase
production and get the domestic ma
chinery running smoothly again to
bring down prices. They recommend
the convening of an industrial con
ference on a new basis, in the hope
that through it a railroad strike
might be avoided.
The brotherhoods' proposition will
have the support of practically all
cabinet officers, according to the
first reaction to the suggestion. The
government is looking for away out,
and the brotherhood leaders had a
long conference with Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and also with Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, before making
public their proposal.
A number of senators are expected
to line up behind it. Several of them
have been making suggestions in the
same direction as the railroad men,
but the latter’s is the first con
crete idea that has been put forward.
Whale of Year for Wales
VICTORIA, B. C.—Prospects of
an extremely successful whaling sea
son are entertained, according to the
vice president of the Consolidated
Whaling corporation. Up to date
700 whales have been taken.
BEATS GASOIJNEAT
15 CENTS A GALLON
New Invention Makes Fords Run
3 4 Miles on Gallon of Gasoline
and Start Easy in Coldest
Weather—Other Cars Show
Proportionate Savings.
A new carburetor which cuts down
gasoline consumption of any motor
including the Ford, and reduces gas
oline bills from one-third to one-half
is the proud achievement of the Air
Friction Carburetor Co., 213 Madi
son St., Dayton, Ohio. This remark
able invention not only increases the
power of all motors from 30 to 50
jxj- cent but enables every one to
run slow on high gear. It also makes
it easy to start a Ford or any other
car in the coldest weather without
previously warming the motoi;. With
it you can use the very cheapest
grade of gasoline or half gasoline
and half kerosene and still get more
power and more mileage than you
now get from the highest test gaso
line. Many Ford owners say they
now get as high as 45 to 50 miles
to a gallon of gasoline. So sure are
the manufacturers of the immense
saving their new carburetor will
make that they offer to send it on
30 days’ trial to every car owner. As
it can be put on or taken off in a
few minutes by anyone, all readers
who want to try it should send their
name, address and make of car to
the manufacturers at once. They
also want local agents to whom they
offer exceptionally large profits.
Write them today.— (Advt.)
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In Banks Before
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WASHINGTON —R eformed
bandit, bank robber and kidnap
per, Pat Crowe, who won interna
tional notoriety by kidnapping
Edward Cudahy, son of the Chi
cago packer, and collecting $25,-
000 for his ransom, has geen giv
en employment in a Washington
bank. The position was secured
for him by the Prisoners’ Aid So
ciety. Crowe ig now a gray-hair
ed, benignant appearing man in
his early sixties.
BALLOTS TUESDAY
TO DECIDE ISSUES
IN FOUR STATES
Labor, Prohibition and Oth
er Questions Before Vot
ers —Massachusetts, New
Jersey Races Interesting
NEW YORK, Nov. B.—The stage
is set today in four states and nu
merous municipalities and judlclal
ists for elections tomorrow that will
provide rehearsals for next year’s
presidential, senatorial, congression
al and state contests.
The part labor and socialists, as
well as the “new vote”—that of
women and first voting males—will
play in the trend of political thought
will be watched with interest.
Chief among the political Issues to
be settled at the polls will be the
Massachusetts gubernatorial con
test. In that state Governor Calvin
Collidge, Republican, is running for
re-election against Richard H. Long,
Democrat, a shoe manufacturer, who
was also Governor Coolidge’s oppo
nent at the last election. Governor
Goolidge is making the race as a
“law and order” candidate, his sup
porters using his record in fighting
Boston’s police strikers as a main
argument for his election. He is
being fought by the Central -Labor
union of Boston.
Next in Importance to the Massa
chusetts election is that in New Jer
sey, where Edward I. Edwards, dem
ocratic candidate, is running against
Newton A. K. Bugbee, Republican,
for the governorship. The issue in
the Jersey contest is a “wet” and
"dry” one, Edwards being in favor
of a liberal “wet” program, while
Bugbee has been forced to assume
the “dry’ end of the argument. Ex
ceeding unpopularity of the Public
Service corporation, the principal
traction company in the state, and
Bugbee’s alleged sympathy with the
corporation, will cause his defeat, his
opponents declare.
In Kentucky Governor James D.
Black, Democrat, is engaged in a
hot contest against Edwin P. Mor
row, Republican. Although the state
is normally Democratic to a decided
degree, Morrow lost the election four
years ago to A. O. Stanley, now sen
ator, by only 471 votes.
Harry Nice, Republican, is running
against Albert C. Ritchie, Democrat,
for the governorship in Maryland.
Confidence in a Republican victory is
based oh a swing in the Baltimore
elections last May when the city,
normally Democratic by 30,000, went
Republican by 10,000.
The prohibition question will have
an added interest by the balloting in
Ohio on a proposition* of a referen
dum on the federal amendment. A
provision in the Ohio constitution
provides for a vote on the prohibi
tion amendment, the fact that the
law is now fundamentally in effect
apparently not affecting the Interest
Ohio voters are taking in the elec
tion.
In addition, every city in Ohio
elects a municipal ticket tomorrow.
In New York, tomorrow’s contests
will be mainly judicial. The Issue is
being fought between Tammany and
anti-Tammany candidates. The fight
started when Charles F. Murphy,
Tammany leader, refused to sanction
renomination of Supreme Court Jus
tice Newburger.
Other local contests are those for
president of the board for aidermen,
president of Manhattan borough,
seven supreme court justices and
borough surrogates.
Speaking of Smart
Boys, How About This
12-\ ear-Old Planter?
DALTON, Ga., Nov. 3. —Undismay-
ed when his father informed him
that he couldn’t spare a mule from
the farm work when it came time
to plant his cotton club acre, little
Johnny Albertson, instead of quit
ting as most boys would have done,
talked the matter over with his lit
tle brother and arranged with him
to take turn about putting .the cot
ton planted and planting the acre
by hand. When one would tire, the
other would take hold, and as a re
sult they got a fine stand.
The little fellow is just twelve
years of age, being one of the young
est members of the cotton club; but
in spite of his inexperience and dif
ficulties he has already secured one
500-pound bale, and will probably
get a second within the next week
or two off the one acre he cultivated,
standing a good chance to win the
biggest prizes offered in the club.
To Continue Passports
LONDON.—The war is over, but
the British passport system is likely
to be continued for years to come.
The purpose will be to keep unde
sirables out of British territory.
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.25 A YEAR.
REPORTS INDICATE
ILL UNION MINES
IRE VIRTUALLY IDLE
Strike Leaders Obey Injunc
tion Orders Secured by the
Government and No Dis
order Anywhere
Coal Supply Would
Last Three Months
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov 2.
The following approximate fig
ures on the present supply of coal
were furnished by one of the lead
ing statisticians on coal In the
country:
Normal number of tons mined
and consumed daily, 1,750,000.
Number of tons above ground,
17,000,000.
With the number of miners re
duced by half, it can be assumed,
he said, that the production will
be cut in half, thus making it
necessary to draw about 800,000
tons of coal daily from the re
serve supply to meet the nation’s
demands. If this condition con
tinues for more than three
months, the supply of coal will be
exhausted, according to these es
timates.
With their leaders muzzled by an
injunction restraining them from
fostering the strike in any w&y, the
bituminous coal miners of the coun
try went on strike Friday at mid
night, despite the efforts of the
United States government to pre
vent their action. According to fig
ures given out Monday, approximate
ly 400,000 men are out, and virtually
all union mines are closed, though
400 non-union mines are running full
blast. A
The injunction was the first move
of the United States government to
control the national situation aris
ing out of the strike. It restrains the
leaders of the miners from issuing
-any messages, oral or otherwise, and
prohibits the giving of orders or
encouragement or the distribution of
strike benefits. The court order was
secured on Friday, Judge C. B. Ames,
assistant attorney general of the
United State?, presenting the petition
which was signed by Judge Ander
son on the showing set forth by
Judge Ames that a national dis
aster Impended, and on the general
grounds that the government has
the right to enforce its laws and
protect the people from calamity.
In presenting the petition Judge
Ames made it clear that the case
will not involve the general right
of workmen to organize or to quit
work. He stated that it would have
no bearing on other industries and
merely involves “the right or labor
during war to restrict or destroy
the supply of food and fuel.”
Despite government efforts the
strike went into effect at midnight
Friday, with mine leaders express
ing their confidence in the certainty
of a complete tie-up.
The injunction shifts the govern
ment’s fight to the heart of the
coal field territory and actually
will mean the first offensive war
fare to prevent industrial chaos by
the closing of the soft coal mines.
Frequent meetings of the cabinet
will be held to keep in touch with
the situation.
Troops Mobilized
Approach of the zero hour found
the government secretly moving
troops to strategic points in the
affected areas.
The troop movements were as
carefully guarded as during the
war, and every precaution will be
taken to prevent the mining regions
from being plunged into a condition
approximateing civil strife.
An executive order fixing maxi •
mum prices for bituminous coal was
signed Friday by President Wilson.
Prices of anthracite are not affected.
Both the house and senate have
passed a resolution pledging their
support to “the national administra
tion and all others in authority” in
their efforts to meet “the present
emergency.”
Developments in the strike of
bituminous coal miners Saturday
were:
Two companies of infantry and
a machine gun company from Camp
Gordon entrained for Knoxville Sat
urday morning under command of
Major M. A. French. They will join
the Fifth division detachment al
ready there on strike duty.
Later Developments
Committees to take charge of coal
distribution in the eight regional rail
road districts were appointed by Rail
Director Hines. The committees will
have headquarters at Philadelphia,
Atlanta, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chi
cago, Boston, New York, Cleveland.
Chicago, Boston, New York and St
Louis. Fuel Administrator Garfield
will have a representative on each
committee. Personnel of the com
mittees was not announced but it
was said they would be made up
of operating officials and Garfield’s
representatives.
All coal miners in the Chattanooga
district joined the country-wide
strike, union leaders claim. Approx
imately 3,000 men are affected, it
is estimated.
Operators in west Kentucky fields
composed of Hopkins, Webster and
Christian counties, stated that all
mines were running as usual and
they expected no deviation from con
tract agreement with the miners,
which provides they shall remain at
work under terms of pay and hours
of labor agreed on last year.
Governoi Kilby issued an order
mobilizing 600 Alabama national
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CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc
tors and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have pas.sed
and the attacks have not returned.
I wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R.
P. N. Lepso, 13 Island Avenue, Mil
waukee, Wis., and ask for a bottle
of the same kind of medicine jvhich
he gave me. He has generously
promised to send it prepaid, free to
any one who writes him.”—(Advt.)