FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
The appointment of Lord Byng of
Vimy as governor general of Canada,
has been as well received as could be
expected from a people many of whom
are looking forward to the day when
the representative of the crown of
Canada will be named on the recom
mendation of its own government.
There is no evidence that the Canadi
an government was consulted in the
slightest degree before the appoint
ment was made. The job of a govern
or general of one of the group of Brit
ish nations of today is a new kind of
job. llis job is to save the face of
an obsolete order of things. His task
is to preserve the semblance of an au
thority that no longer exists.
Byng made his reputation in the
late war when, in command of the
Canadians, he captured Vimy Ridge
in the spring of 1917. The significance
of Vimy was that no position could be
retarded as “impregnable" in the face
of troops trained and equipped ns the Canadians were. After Vimy, Byng
was elevated to the commandershlp of the third British army. He was cre
ated a lord, and handed $lf)0,000 in cold cash as a “gratuity” by a grateful
parliament. He is a younger son—the seventh son of the earl of Stafford.
Lady Byng is a novelist, author of “Barriers” and “Anne of the Marsh
lands.” But Rideau Hall will not know the voice of children’s laughter, for
the Byngs are childless. ,
Eberle Leads Pacific Fleet
Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle (por
trait herewith) commanding a battle
ship division in the Atlantic lleet, has
been named as commander in chief of
the Pacific lleet, with the rank of ad
miral. He succeeds Admiral Hugh
Rodman, who will be assigned to com
mand the naval operating base at
Hampton Roads, Va.
Vice Admiral II. P. Jones has
been assigned to command the Atlan
tic fleet with the rank of admiral,
succeeds Admiral II. B. Wilson, who
assumes command of the naval acad
emy at Annapolis.
This would seem to indicate that
the new naval administration has no
present intention of reuniting the
American battle fleets. This issue has
been much discussed ever since the
order dividing the fleet was issued
former Secretary Daniels. It has been
under consideration since the begin
ning of the Harding administration.
Some weeks ago officials gave strong intlm&tions that the issue was not one
for the navy department alone to decide and that there were international
problems involved which made the fleet policy of the government a matter of
major consideration for the President gnd all his executive advisers. Whether
the issue has been settled finally hasn’t been definitely ascertained, but the indi
cations in official quarters are that the redistribution announcement will con
stitute the only change in policy contemplated at this time.
Rear Admiral John D. McDonald, commanding the navy yard at New
York, becomes second In command of the Atlantic fleet and in command of
the battleship force with the rank of vice admiral. W. R. Shoemaker, be
comes vice admiral of the Pacific fleet.
Amundsen Escapes Starvation
Capt. Roald Amundsen, discover
er of the South pole, and his band of
Arctic explorers have been rescued
from the' frozen North after a two
months’ battle with the elements fol
lowing the disabling of their polar
ship Maud. Amundsen and his men
were landed safely at Nome, Alaska.
The explorer and his party were
picked up at East Cape, Siberia, by
the fur steamer Herman after they
had crossed the Bering straits on foot.
Although Amundsen had outfitted his
ship with provisions for five years,
the intrepid party faced starvation
through inability to transport the
stores.
Amundsen is not disheartened by
his misfortune. He plans to lead an
expedition back to his ship as soon as
the waters open. He will tow the
Maud into Nome for repairs. Amund
sen left four men on the vessel to
guard the stores.
Amundsen left Seattle last summer on an attempt to reach the pole. He
. provisioned his vessel for five years at Nome and then sailed north into the
'ice’fields.
■' Amundsen’s greatest fame came when he discovered the "Northwest pass
age” by circumnavigating the globe through the narrow waters between the
Arctic ice packs and the coasts of America, Asia and Europe.
OFFER OF CREDIT
TO COHON RAISERS
FEDERAL reserve offers cred
IT FACILITIES TO HANDLE
COTTON CROP
FUTURE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT
Says Spirit Of Optimism Will Be
Tangible Help To The
Southern Farmer
Washington.—For the purpose of
reviewing the credit situation and de
termining what further credit will be
needed to facilitate the harvesting and
orderly marketing of this years cotton
crop, as well as the hold-over, from
last year, the federal reserve board,
wires one of the Washington special
corresuondents to the Atlanta Con
stitution, recently held a con
ference with the governors of the
federal reserve banks of Atlanta, Rich
mond, St. Louis, Kansas City and Dal
las, the banks located in or brought in
closest touch with the member banks
in the Southern states.
As a result of this meeting the fed
eral reserve board and the governors
of the federal reserve banks announce
that the federal reserve banks, in ad
dition to credits already extended, are
able to stand ready to extend further
credit for the purpose of harvesting
and marketing the coming crop in
whatever amount may legitimately be
required, either directly to their mem
ber banks, or, under the ruling made
by the board recently, indirectly to
non-member banks acting through the
agency, and with the indorsement of a
member bank. These loans will be
made by the federal reserve banks up
on notes, drafts and bills of exchange
issued or drawn in accordance with
the terms of the federal reserve act
and the regulations of the federal re
serve board.
This announcement, following the
statement of Eugene Meyer, Jr., man
aging director of the war finance cor
poration, that his board stands ready
ind willing to asisst the Southern farm
ers in the exportation of cotton as
demonstrated in a $5,000,000 loan to
the cotton growers of the Mississippi
delta district, brings a decidedly more
roseate prospect to the farmers of the
South, as well as those who are so
vitally interested in their prosperity.
Governor Wellborn of the Atlanta
federal reserve stated that he is much
pleased with the action of the board,
and that, in his opinion, it will do
much to atsbilize the cotton market.
He explained that it was almost im
perative that some such action be tak
en in view of the fact that the incom
ing crop was nearly here and that, in
addition to that, it becomes necessary
to market a large part of last year’s
crop which has neyer been sold. As a
result of the action of the federal re
serve board,, he believes that a spirit
of optimism will be created which will
result in tangible benefit to the South.
At the present time the five reserve
banks in question are lending to their
members $457,000,000 or more than 26
per cent of the loans of the entire
system, the Richmond bank borrow
ing from other reserve banks twenty
million dollars, and the Dallas bank
borrowing sixteen million dollars for
that purpose. The total loans of these
five reserve banks to their member
banks exceed their reserve deposits by
one hundred and ninety-two million
dollars, whereas the reserve deposits
of the other seven reserve banks ex
ceed their loans to their members of
on hundred and eighteen million dol
lars. The amount now loaned by these
reserve banks, to their members is four
and a half times the amount borrowed
at an^ one time by all the national
banks of the country prior to 1914,
or before the establishment of the fed
eral reserve system.
i_lghtning Hits Engine; Fireman Hurt
Memphis, Tenn.—Clyde C. Coke, a
fireman, sustained injuries which
probably will cause his death when
the Frisco system freight engine on
which he was riding through the
yards here was struck by lightning
during an electrical storm here re
cently. The engineer, who was
momentarily stunned, says that Coke’s
body was surrounded by a mass of
flames for an instant before he was
hurled from the engine cab by the
Dawes Begins
Brig. Gen. Charles Dawes, chair
man of the Central Trust company at
Chiea^p, has assumed in Washington
;his duties as director of the budget.
He announced after a conference with
Mr. Harding that the President would
draft several leading business men of
the country to assist, “without com
pensation,” in reorganizing the finances
of the government on an economical
tiiid scientific basis.
Declaring that if he relied on the
assistance granted him under the bud
get law, “fine might as well be handed
a toothpick with which to tunnel
Pike’s peak,” General Dawes brought
with him from Chicago William. T. Ab
bott, vice president of the Central
Trust company, to serve temporarily
as assistant director of the budget.
General Dawes asked that the
War department detail to him “two
great co-ordinators,” Brig. Gen. George
Van Horn Moseley, a regular army offi
cer, who was Pershing’s assistant chief
nols, anid Col. Henry Smlther, who was
of ruppij.
on Budget Job
of staff in France and hails from Illi-
assistant chief of staff of the sendee
bolt.
4 Killed, 20 Wounded In Italian Riot
Rome.—Four persons were killed
and twenty wounded in fighting which
took place recently between fascisti
and communitsts at Mansone and San
Stefano, according to report.
Big Chair Company Resumes Work
Chattanooga, Tenn. — The Milne
Chair company, one of the largest
concerns of the kind in the South,
which has been completely shut down
for two weeks, and before that time
operating on a curtailed basis, resum
ed operations recently.
Situation In Upper Silesia Is Critical
London—The situation in Uper Sile
sia has become critical again in con
sequence of a French note to Germa
ny demanding that the German volun
teer units be disarmed and threaten
ing to send reinforcements to the
French troops unless compliance is
made.
New Chairman House Appropriations
Washington.—Representative Mar
tin B. Madden, Republican of niinois,
was elected chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations of the house.
GEORGIA HAPPENINGS
OF TIMELY INTEREST
Dublin. — Eunice Taylor, young
woman boarder at a resort in East
Dublin, was drowned in the Oconee
river several miles below this city
recently, when she failed in an at
tempt to swim the river. The high
water and strong undercurrent swept
her body down stream and it has not
yet been located.
Macon.—Sixteen of the persons con
victed recently in connection with an
alleged conspiracy to rob the Ameri
can Express company of merchandise
valued at a million dollars will carry
their cases to higher courts, it was an
nounced recently after fheir motion
for new trials were overruled by
Judge Evans. Dan McLennan, a con
ductor of Florala, Ala., was the only
man who won his fight for a new trial.
He was fined $5500 April 30 and was
I allowed a new trial because of “in
sufficient evidence to connect him”
with the alleged conspiracy, the judge
said.
Hazlehurst.—Ben Dow, a negro
about twenty-five years old, was in
stantly killed by Andrew Roddenberry,
a young white man living with his
father on a farm approximately five
miles from Hazlehurst recently after
he had been shot with a pistol in
the hands of the negro. Several dogs
belonging to the negro had just killed
one of the Roddenberry sheep, it was
stated, and it is declared by eye wit
nesses that the negro was following
his dogs and making no effort to pre
vent them from destroying the drove.
Young Roddenberry ran out of his
father’s house with a pump gun, it
is said, stating that he was going to
kill the dogs, but just before he reach
ed them the negro met him.
Americus.—H. D. Stephens, foreman
in the woodworking department of the
Americus Automobile company, was
seriously hurt recently when a plank
which he was feeding into a plailer be
came unmanageable and struck him
heavily in the side. Besides being in
jured internally, Stephens had a large
gagh cut in his right hand, and was
otherwise injured. Dr. Herschel Smith,
who happened to be at the Lawson
Drug company nearby, rendered
Stephens emergency assistance, and
he was removed to his home on Hamp
ton street.
Columbus.—Bud Cannon, a well-
known farmer of Harris, was convict
ed at Hamilton recently of making
liquor and was given an indeterminate
sentence of from two to five years,
which is the longest sentence ever
given for the making of liquor in that
county. Four others have been con
victed during this term of the Harris
county superior court on a charge of
making liquor, but recommendations
of misdemeanor punishment were
given in every instance except the
Cannon case.
Fairburn.—The modern and well
equipped dairy barn of “Uncle Joe”
Upchurch, the famous barbecue
specialist, was destroyed by fire re
cently during a heavy rain and elec
tric storm. The origin of the fire is
attributed to lightning. Eleven bales
of cotton and several hundred dollars
worth of feed stuff were destroyed.
None of his fine herd of Jerseys and
Holsteins were in the barn at the
time of the fire. The estimated loss
is $3,000. There was no insurance.
Americus.—In a double-raid made
recently by Sheriff Lucius Harvey, of
Americus, and Sheriff C. M. Christian,
of Webster county, two large stills
were confiscated and brought here.
One of the stills, it is alleged, belong
ed to Wade Fraisier. Officers say it
was found upon his plantation three
miles from Americus only a short
distance from his home. The other
was found and confiscated by Sheriff
Christian on the King place, in the
Gooseberry district of Webster county.
With the still on the Frazier place
were found live barrels filled with fer
mented beer, and everything was in
readiness to begin a run, although
the still was a new one and had never
been fired. A warrant was issued for
Frazier, charging a felony.
Griffin.—A prayer upon his lips and
a crucifix clasped in his manacled
hands, Jack Kelloy, the young Atlanta
man convicted of the murder of Leroy
Trexler, a taxicab driver, plunged
through the gallows trap in the rear
of the Griffin courthouse recently,
without confessing the crime for
which his life was forfeited to the
law. Neither in the enclosure where
in the law consummated its vengeance
nor in all the throng in the streets
outside, was one single friend of Jack
Kelloy save Father Hasson, the Cath
olic priest who administered the last
sacrament to the doomed man, and
who placed in the cuffed hands the
emblem of the Catholic faith in which
he died. He had requested his wife
in Atlanta to come to him and bid him
a last good-bye, but she did not come.
To his sister-in-law he had telegraphed
the same request, and she did not
come.
Eastman.—The photographic print
of a cedar tree was left upon the back
of Travis Grimsley, youngest son of
J. J. Grimsley, by a stroke of lightning
which recently rendered the youth
unconscious for only a few minutes.
The boy was sitting in a swing on the
front porch of his home when light
ning shattered a cedar tree a few feet
in front of his house. The current
passed through the boy’s body. A
bolt of lightning burned a round hole
in the cap of Jakie Burch, the 15-year
old 6on of C. C. Burch.
LEGISLATIVE^ LETTER
Happenings and Activities of In
terest Pertaining To Georgia
Lawmakers Now In Session
At The State Capitol
After a long and heated debate, a
bill was rapssed requiring the Bible to
be read in all public schools of the
state, provided that parents object
ing to having the Bible read to their
children may have them excused from
the reading.
The bill was introduced by Sena
tors Fleming, of the Tenth, and Bond,
of the thirtieth, and these two mem
bers, along with Senator Nix, of the
fifty-first took the lead in. urging the
senate to pass it. After a hard fight,
passage was secured by a vote of 30
to 20. Senator Nix then made an un
successful attempt to secure its imme
diate transmission to the house.
Senator Jackson, of the twenty-first,
took a firm stand against the measure,
declaring that it was simply a “sign
of the wave of religious fanaticism
which is sweeping over the legislature,
and a measure which will cause much
trouble throughout the state.” After
the bill was passed he served notice
that when the senate meets he will
make a motion to reconsider.
Presentation of Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick’s graduated income tax
measure and of the general tax act in
the house for passage; the chief
executive’ decision not to order an
investigation of the agricultural de
partment, and what it believed will
be the decisive fight against the state
highway commission, will be the most
important features of this week’s ses
sion of the general assembly.
Despite the fact that the house high
way committee rendered unfavorable
reports on three measures designed
to limit authority of the highway com
mission, distribute the motor vehicle
license funds among the counties on
a post road mileage basis, and allow
the board fifteen per cent for overhead
expenses, the general agricultural
committee number two announced
Recently that it had recommended pas
sage of the Davis bill, containing prac
tically the same provisions.
Hearing of the proposition of Sen
ator Haralson, of the Fortieth, call
ing for a sale of the property of the
present governor’s mansion and devot
ing the proceeds to the purchase of a
new mansion, with the surplus going
to pay the bonded debt of the state,
was held remently before the senate
committee on public property. Defin
ite action by the committee referred
until a meeting to be held soon.
Robert C. Alston, and Frank A.
Hooper, of Atlanta, spoke for the bill
and Representative Ben Fowler, of
Bibb, opposed it, Atlanta was also
represented by a delegation of citizens,
including President Lee Ashcraft of
the Chamber of Commerce; Colonel
W. L. Peel, H. Y. McCord, J. R. Smith,
Walter P. Andrews and former Repre
sentatives John Y. Smith and Walter
Hendrix.
The income tax measure and the
new general tax act will now be the
centers of debate on the floor of the
house. Through the addition of new
subjects and increases on the old
items, the act—the first to be pre
pared since 1909—would bring the
state approximately $3,000,000 accord
ing to Chairman J. W. Culpepper, of
the ways and means subcommittee of
the appropriations committee.
Advocates of the income tax as
sert that approximately $4,000,000
would he added to the state’s coffers
through its operation. In order to ob
tain immediate funds from taxes fon
gasoline and soft drinks, Chairman
Culpepper is planning to have special
bills introduced in the house soon.
The method of their operation, he as
serted, had not yet been devised by
the ways and means committee.
The following new bills were intro
duced in the senate:
—By Senator Bellah—To create the
office of State inspector of Masonry,
public building and works; to fix the
term of said office, to prescribe the
qualification and the compensation of
said inspector and for other purposes.
(Commerce and Labor.)
—By Senator Childs—To amend the
charter of the town of Omaha and
Lor other purposes. (Corporations.)
—Bq Senator Wall of the 5th—To
provide for rotation of judges ol
superior courts of the state and to
prescribe the manner of their assign
ments. (General judiciary.)
—Bby Mr. Kitrell of Laurens—To
promote and encourage intelligent and
orderly marketing of products through
co-operation. General agriculture, No.
1.
—By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill—Tc
amend fertilizer law so that there will
be no limit to use of fertilizer tags.
General agriculture, No. 1.
—By Mr. Riketson of Warien—Tc
repeal act creating department of
game and fish. Game and fish.
—By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin—To in
clude in the state tax levy special
provision for maintaining and con
structing a state system of public
roads connecting county seats. Con
stitutional amendments.
—By Senator Hutchins of the 38th—
To amend the act reorganizing the
military forces of the state so as to
provide for 34 instead of 29 lieutenant-
colonels on the governors staff. Mili
tary affairs.)
—By Mr. McClure of Walker ana
Mr. Hamilton of Floyd—To prohibit
all aliens or non-resident persons or
concerns keeping dynamite or gun
powder in Georgia. General judiciurv
No. 2.
—By Mr. Brantley of Pierce—To
create the Georgia children’s aourl
commission. Reformatories.
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