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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1921.
GEORGIA LEADS
IN STOLEN CARS
Great Need For Strin
gent Law To Stop
1 raffic
ATLANTA, June 7,—Automobile
stealing in Georgia is increasing in
frequency and in boldness, until traf
fic in stolen cars has become a busi
ness of big volume and far-spreading
influence, it is revealed by records of
automobile thefts gathered by an or
ganization (of dealers and owners.
Georgia has the unenviable distinc
tion oi leading the Southern states
tn cars stolen, according to best avail
able statistics—possibly because she
• has more cars within her bound des,
but also perhaps her laws do not make
it more difficult for thieves to dis
pose of their booty.
• Records for the seventeen months
ending last January show that in
Georgia 1,043 automobile thefts were
reported to one detective agency
alone, and there midst have been
thousands of others wnose loss was
reported only to local officials. These
reports do not include the many thou
sands of “joy ride” thefts in which
cars were driven away by irresponsi
ble men or boys and abandoned in
a ditch, damaged but recovered next
day. Tennessee reported only 218
cars stolen in that period, and this
was the state second to Georgia in
the list of thefts.
There is great need of a stringent
law which will make it hard for a
thief or his go-between to dispose of
a stolen car. it is agreed by legal
officials, police chiefs, dealers and
owners alike. It is'pointed out that
not only is the owner of a stolen
car the sufferer, but in thousands of
cases the innocent purchaser usually
in the country or some small Geor
gia town, is the victim who is hard
est “stung.”
This is because a man who buys a
stolen car, knowingly or unknowing
ly, loses the car whet it is traced
to his possession. No matter how in
nocent he may be, the car belongs
to the original owner. One case in
point is that of a South Georgia man
who bought a car in bad condition
from a stranger, paying a bargain
price. He spent $450 in having it ov
erhauled and painted, and the day he
took it out of the shop an officer
identified it. seized it, and the vic
tim was out not only the cost of the
car but $450 in improvements.
Automobile dealers and owners in
Georgia are therefore not the only
persons interested in the passage of
a bill at the approaching session of
the legislature which will curb the
activities of the automobile thieves.
This bill was introducer! at the last
session, was passed overwhelmingly
by the senate, and failed to be taken
up in the house of representatives
when that body became involved in
debate over appropriation measures,
which resulted in the failure to nass
of several excellent measures. Vir
tually no opposition was shown to the
auto theft bill.
Briefly, this bill provides that ev
ery car sold in Georgia must be ae
companied by a written bill of sale.
• giving the car number, engine num
her and other details, and that such
bills of sale be recorded with the
sheriff in the counties where the sale
is made. Provisions for transferring
such bills of sale and the issuance
of license numbers are made. This
provides an official recor d of all au-
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Koi Advbhture-s IE~ 1
OF THt TWINS
■EkJsS OiixM Rotxjfcj Bartcrt
MRS MUSKRAT’S SONG
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Mr. Muskrat was always hu trying in with news.
Mrs. Muskrat was crooning to her
self softly. She was very happy. Not
only had her husband finished a nice
ne.. home fp.r her and t bnb'.es but
the babies themselves were growing
finely, fat and fuzzy ;<nd frisky as
any mother could wish. It would
scon be time for their father to give
them their first lesson in swimming
and diving, and holding their breath
under water', and catching frogs and
tadpoles and little fish for their din
ner. Indeed, if Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, the
weatherman, sent many more trice
warm days she could trust the babies
in the water a day or two. But, of
course, ice water isn’t good for bab
ies, not even muskrat babies, and
' she creek still had a thin crust of ice
over the deep still places, to say noth
ing of the melted snow trickling
down from the hills. Mr. Muskrat
had hurried in at noon to say that if
Mr. Sun wasn't just a bit more care
ful there might be a flood. But then
Mr 1 . Muskrat was always hurrying in
tomobile sales, of both rrew and used
, ears, in the state, and perirots a
I check upon all transactions. The hili
] provides penalties for altering or re
| moving numbers from moters, bodies
lor other parts of the car, or any ef
fort to disguise a car Or forge a
I bill of sale.
The bill is designed to call for as
little red tape as is possible to make
the law effective. The fye fixed for
registration, to be paid to the sheriff,
is only one dollar, to be paid by the
j seller of the car. It is expected to
I protect the present owner, as thieves
I will not be anxious to steal a car they
I cannot sell,‘and the prospective pur
lchaser, as he may purchase a used
car with certainty that it is the prop
erty of the seller.
The bill has the endorsement of
every organization which is in any
way interested in the sale or use of
automobiles and of the secretary of
state, who bandies motor licenses. It
is hoped to firing it up for early pas
I sage at the next .'■ cssion of the legis
I lature. to guard against its once more
I being ‘‘lost in the shuffle.”
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TRY THIS SOME TIME
HURLEY, Wis.. June 7.—“1’1l bet
I you SIOOO you can’t carry 1000 silver
I dollars from here to' Bessemer.
■ Mich.t” a saloonkeeper said to Wil-
I liam Jalo.
Bessemer was seven miles away.
; Jalo had to carry the silver treasure
i in a sack in his outstretched hands
j But he won.
with news and it couldn't always be
good news, when he brought so much
of it ’n’ all.
Mrs. Muskrat went on with her
crooning, rocking back and forth with
one of the babies on her lap, and
stroking it gently downward so that
the new fur coat which was coming
in fast, should be fine and soft like
her own. She sang a little verse like
this:
“Oh, l-.tt- h darlin’ bye, baby, bye,
Mr. Sprinkle-Blow* in up in the sky,
He can turn off the sun,
He can turn off the moon,
He can. shoo away clouds if it sprin
kies too soon,
He rides here and there on his magic
umbrella ’
And bosses the breezes, this wonder
ful fellow.
Oh, we’ll never fear when kind Sprin
kle-Blow’s nigh,
For he keeps all bad weather up in
the sky.”
(To Be Continued.)
Prospectors To Seek
Lost River Os Gold
EDMONTON, Alta., June 7.
Search for a lost river—a river oi
gold—will be undertaken this year
by several prospectors, " including
old-timers from the Yukon and Alas
ka, who are now nere outfitting for
the long journey into the north coun
try. This lost river bed, where the
Peace river once flowed, is some
where in the big bend of Peace, bi
sected by a line drawn from Fort St.
John to the mouth of the Battle riv
er.
Some years ago an Indian brought
into Ft. St. John a fair sized nugget
of gold, which, according to the tale
told by old-timers of the north, he
discovered in a stream in the coun
try to th<| northeast of the post.
Soon after this an old trapper, a
white man, who made Fort St. John
his beadquatres, came into the fort
with a quantity of coarse gold which
he. had wash'd from some stream in
a similar direction to that from which
the Indian hailed. »
He never visited his trap lines af
ter this, living on the fat of the land
in carefree idleness at the post. He
often disappeared, when ever his sup
plies of ran low, and
would be away for a few days, al
ways returning with a fresh supply
of gold.
This aged trapper lived lin this
manner for a number of .tars. He
died, as many trappers and north
country men have, on the trail. His
body was feund frozen. With him
went hig secret, he never having told
to anyone the location of his find.
The books of the Hudson's Bay com
pany still contain a large credit ac
count in the name of the old trap
per.
Northmerf, who tell the story of the
mystic El Dorado north of the Peace,
declare that the gold was only avail
able after a ■'heavy fall of snow*,
with which the old fellow’ apparently
washed his mineral. From an analy
sis of the circumstances generally, it
is thought that the place from which
the gold was taken was some old
river bed where 1 the Peace 1 once
flowed, but whether the 1 story is cor
rect or not remains to be proved.
Prospectors, however, are putting
up good money to test the* truth of
the theory that the precious metal
does exist somewhere to the north
of Clear Hills in large quantities.
Engraved Cards. Bell, the Jew-
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MOULTRIE, June 7.—A number:
of days ago C. B. Caldwell, secre
tary of the Moultrie Chamber of'
Commerce wrote a letter to several
of the leading merchants of Selma,
Ala., asking them what they thought
of the dairy industry and replies to
these communications have been re
ceived. Without exception the let
ters declare that the industry has
meant more to Selma and to ballas
county than anything else ever start
ed there.
This letter from N. B. Kagedon,
manager of the biggest stole in Sei-1
ma, is typical of a ll the others re-j
ceiyed.
“Our business operations arc!
largely with farmers, many of them |
having been customers for many I
years. Since the advent of the crOam
,ery in Selma we have observed'
among many a very much morel
healthful financial state and our;
creameries are responsible for it,
they disbursing probably three quar
ters of a million dollars per year to
the farmers for dairy products.
“To concretely illustrate I am go-.’
ing to give you a conversation with
Mrs. West, one of our good custom
ers: Within a year’s time she pur
chased SI3OO worth of dairy cattle,
which were paid for by dairy prod
ucts sold to the Selma Creamery and {
in addition to SI3OO earned, the same I
cattle paid the entile expense of the
home, the upkeep and maintenance.
“We believe that this illustration
shows just what possibilities there
would be even on a larger scale. We
believe also that the creameries in
Selma have been responsible to a
large extent, for the development
of Dallas, Wilcox and adjoining
counties as a cattle raising section.’
Chinese To Issue
Air Postage Stamps
PEKIN. June 7.—The Chinese
postoffice has prepared an issue of
special aeroplane service stamps of
denominations 15, 30 and 45 cents
-in anticipation of the air transmis
sion planned for the near future be
tween Pekin.
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NEWS OF
WASHINGTON
BY H. B. HUNT.
WASHINGTON, June 7. The
problem ot getting a ehairnian for
the Shipping Buaru becomes more
difficult each day.
In his desire to get a man as chair
man who would bring to the job the
maximum of experience and ability
President Harding passed over a
number of men who lacked the top
notch qualifications he desired.
Efforts were made to persuade
Jame A. Farrell, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, to
accept the place. Farrell turned it
down. Then Walter C. Teagle, presi
dent of the Standard Oi! Co., of N.
J., who asked time to think it over
and then declined.
What makes the situation particu
larity difficult is the fact that any
man who now accepts the post will
be known to have been not better
than tne president’s third choice.
Expectation is that the third prof
fer will be made to Charles Piez,
formerly vice-president and general
manager of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation.
Persons with claims against Ger
many for the loss of vessels or mer
chandise sunk by submarines or for
damages of other kinds may fls well
write the items off their books and
forget it, in the opinion of a high
legal authority in the state depart
ment.
‘As a lawyer, wouldn't want to
undertake collection of these claims
on a contingent fee basis,” this man
declared. “The likelihood of any col
lection is most remote.”
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“Progressive improvement” in Eu
ropean economic conditions is seep
by administration experts watching
the situation. This improvement is
such as to promise greatly stimulat
ed commerce if only adequate credit
arrangements can be made. Among
the factors contributing to this con
dition are:
1. Removal of the last of the ra
tioning regulations.
2. Restoration of adequate fuel
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supplies.
;>. The beginning of improvement
in clothing conditions.
! Up to now it has been impossible
for persons even with money to pur-
I chase food to their heart’s content
■ in Europe. With the regulations
' off. consumption in many staples will
increase, requiring increased imports.
With industries assured of ade
quate fuel supplies, there will be in
< reased demand for raw materials
which the United States must sup
ply.
Europe’s clothing scarecely will
provide a vast market for textiles
and raw textile materials.
Next to President Harding, Gene
; ral Persing is the best paid of Uncle
Sam’s employes. While the cabinet
members have to struggle along on
$12,000 a year, and senators on $7,-
500. Pershing now pulls down, with
■ pay and allowances, about $21,000
annually.
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, Brighter days are ahead for the
! wheat and cotton growers, govern
j ment experts predict. In the south,
cotton planters have succeeded in re-
| during acreage to a point where the
I slack of last year’s overproduction
j seems certain to be taken up and
I better prices secured.
As a result the banks are easing up
I their pressure for liquidation on cot
' ton on which loans have been made.
1 Despite statements in congress to
I the contrary, commerce experts state I
; the flow of wheat from the farms
i has been normal and that there will
I be a minimum carry-over into the j
new crop.
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Holding high office isn’t all fun..
■ As one cabinet member, who confess- '
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to enjoying a friendly game of poker,'
' puts it:
“It’s h ell to have a job where
: you can’t be human without being
( criticized.”
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