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AND HELP
PAWSON PROSPER
L RAINEY
lßy E. L. RATVEE
eoMITTEE ON TAX
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D]OU“’-NED WITHOUT ANY:
ACTION AFTER A SESSION
OorF TWO DAYS.
S
LI, PROPOSALS BEATEN
Sl
ot Much Chance for Adoption of the
Governor's Income Tax lfl§n. Parks,
of Terrell, Takes Po.smon That
This Is Inopportune Time. ,
The special committee appointed by
e legislature to rcpor.t to that body
ecommen lations looking to a re-
L ison of Georgia's tax system, with
special T€ ference to substituting an in
fome tax for the present ad valorem
k. adjourned Thursday night after a
bwo days’ <cssion in which no agree
ment Was reached. The result will be
that the entire tax problem must pe
hrashed out on the floor of the legis
-7 [C.
m’}php commission voted, however, to
meet on June 27, the day before the
eneral assembly convenes, again and
Eee if an agreement can be reached.
Income Tax Beaten.
Governor Hardwick’s proposition
that the commission recommend that
pe assembly ™ pass 2 'CO_llStltutlot:lal
mendment providing a limited net in
ome tax not exceeding 6 per cent
bnd then, if this revenue is not suffi
ent to meet, current expenses and
onded indehtedness requirements, to
hdd an ad valorem tax not to exceed
bl, mills, was defeated by a vote of
b to 5. Representative J. W. Culpep
ber, of Favetteville, offered the resolu
-11011,
Lankford, of Toombs, ofi'ere(? an
amendment providing that a net in
ome tax of not more than 6 per cent
should be levied, but that revenue from
this source <hould not be greater than
$3.000,000. This was voted down.
A resolution recommending that the
gencral assembly pass a constitutional
amendment striking out the provision
in the tax section “all taxes must be
ad valorem and uniform,” and leaving
the limit of 5 mlls, was offered by
Hunter, of Chatham. This change, he
contended, would leave the assembly
free to pass either an income tax, an
ad valorem or a classification tax, or
any two of them, The resolution was
lost by a vote of 8 to 2.
Parks Hits Plan.
Representative W. B. Parks, of Ter
rell county, made the chief attack on
the proposed income tax. Mr. Parks
stated that he had made an investiga
tion of the workings of the income tax
in other states, and read a letter from
a Wisconsin lawyer denouncing the
iicome tax in that state. The objection
offered in the letter was that the in
come tax had been productive of large
revenues for the state of Wisconsin,
and had encouraged extravagance in
the management of public affairs. =
“States are like families,” the letter
said. “If one’s income is *small his
family will get along some Wway, but
ii it is large the family will grow ex
]ll‘(i\':i.g:mt and expensive, sooner OT
ater.
\lr. Parks offered a solution for the
present deficit in state finances by an
enforcement of the ad valorem system
now in vogue and an occupational tax.
Representative Parks and Senator
Snow hoth took the position that ow
ing to unsettled conditions the pres
;cm time is not the proper occasion
\:O make any changes n the tax sys-
LM,
| They offered a resolution to this ef
fect, which also urged the assembly
o practice cconomy, and then, if the
state had not sufficient funds, to levy
‘o\"\"\l}\;'.ll\'ll;'.’. and license taxes on total
sales of enterprises and professions in
liew of “the present inadequate and
unfair system.”
t l’_h!* resolution was defeated seven
0 nve,
Mundy, of Polk, then offered a pro-‘
posal providing an income tax of five
per cent, retaining the present ad va-‘
lorem system and levying the incomei
tax only on incomes derived from
property or occupations on which no‘
:i:ll valorem tax is paid. This was vot
aown, :
Some Other Suggestions. }
~lhere 1s a strong sentiment in the
committee for a plan to force paymentl
of taxes on invisible property. The
f o Jhow that not over 5 per cent’
I“ the state’s entire ad valorem reve
11‘ is paid by invisible property.
HM" nemng suggestcd‘t.hat the l.c.gis
s laws requiring invisible
Lf'v : to be returned for stamp
\j_j}:' <omewhat similar to the fed
fal stamp tax on promissory notes.
e m top of these views, there
. nother radically opposed to
i e Fhis is to repeal the tax
e and go back to the
i tem of -voluntary returns of
investio ~which were accepted without
2 ttion.
N +
L O. A. Nix is the leader of
s which seeks repeal -of the
[lahzation law.
o the meeting Chairman George
e ‘llim‘d that he saw very little
e the committee effer getting
S v Of dily proposition.
B jiflfl that the fifteen members
i ¢ committee have at least seven
: tax plans. f
R T e e e —————— v
ANDOLPH MAN SENTENCED
[0 FEDERAL PENITENTIARY
Forme
o.nALr‘PO'stmaster at Carnegie Con
‘ victed of Embezzlement.
e United States court at Colum
. “‘}'k Richmond Ferguson, for
thi. .. Years postmaster at Carnegie,
2 inty, was convicted of embez-
G Postoffice funds and sentenced to
tiary ;z"'””"" in the federal peniten
crs. The amount of money he is ac
rep '_w'sn hfi\'mg misappropriated is
Mr. Ferog s SUOHE SOW-
Munity _if‘* 1‘“011 stood welil in his com-
O the news of his trouble
pri the government was qui
15¢ to m; fnte a sur
any.—Cuthbert Leader.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Terrell County Hen
Accomplishes a Feat
Produces Egg With Handle More
.Than Two Inches Long.
A curiosity in the shape of an
egg was brought to The News of
fice Saturday by Mr. J. W. Haut
‘man. The egg, which was three
inches in circumference, had a per
fectly formed handle two inches
long extending from one end. This
freak product of Terrell county had
no inscription, so it cannot be
classed with numerous others ex
hi in different sections which
it as inscriptions which
forete of Christ. The
hens of Ter e so well
satisfied with p itions
they do not appear to e
sire to meddle with the futu
~ FROWN ON CARNIVAL
REFUSE TO PERMIT SHOW TO
COME HERE. AUDIT OF CITY
DEPARTMENTS FINISHED.
For the first time in several years a
carnival will not erect its tents in
Dawson the coming fall.
At the meeting of thé mayor and
council Tuesday night Mrs. W. H.
Gurr. and Mrs. D. €. Picket, *repre
senting the women’s organizations of
the city, appeared before the council
and requested that T. P. Littlejohn be
granted permission to bring a carnival
to Dawson next fall in conection with
a county fair to be managed by Lit
tlejohn, who had agreed to offer and
pay premiums and divide whatever
profits there might be with the wo
men’s clubs. It was also proposed
that no taxes be charged the carnival
and that free water and lights be fur
nished by the city. Rev. G. A. Grille
and Mr. R. L. Saville appeared in op
position to the carnival and entered a
strong protest against the show. There
was also before the council a protest
signed by 80 or more merchants and
other business men of the city,’ and
when this became known the request
by the promoters of the proposed ex
hibition was withdrawn. Littlejohn is
proprietor of the flying jenny and fer
ris wheel which have been operated
for several days on west Lee street.
Ernest Whitchard, who was employ
ed to make an audit of the books of
the various departments of the city,
made his report. He found the ac
counts of all the officials in good shape,
only a few minor discrepancies being
discovered. None of the amounts in
volved exceeded $5O, and some of the
errors were in favor of the city and
some against it. All accounts where
there were discrepancies have been bal
anced, the city paying where the errors
were in favor of the officials, and
vice versa. Mr. Whitchard recom
mended a new and improved system
of bookkeeping for some of the de
partments. The audit covered a pe
riod of three years, and made a splen
did showing for all of the officials of
the city.
Mayor Baldwin informed the council
that many people are seen in Cedar
Hill cemetery at night, and requested
that an ordinance be adopted forbid
ding visiting or loitering there at un
usual hours. No action was taken by
the council.
Alderman T. S. Martin was elected
mayor pro tem for the next quarter.
CASE,IN TERRELL
ON CHANGE OF VENUE BALK
MAN WILL BE TRIED FOR
LIFE AT DAWSON.
Orf the fourth Monday in May, dur
ing the spring term of Terrell superior
court, Litt Balkman will be tried for
the murder of Dutch Cork in Miller
county in 1921.
At the October term, 1921, of Miller
superior court, when Balkman was
arraigned for trial, a’ motion for a
change of venue was made, which was
overruled by Judge Worrill. The case
was carried to the ‘court of appeals,
which reversed the lower court and
ordered a change of venue. On April
20th last, at the last term of Miller
court, upon agreement of counsel
Judge Worrill passed an order sending
the case to Terrell county and assign
ed it for trial on the date stated above.
Balkman is represened by W. L.
Geer, of Colquitt, and John R. and
W. O. Cooper, of Macon. The prose
cution will be conducted by Solicitor
General B. T. Castellow.
SHATTERED ROMANCE OF BIG WAR
IS TOLD TO COURT BY FRENCH WIDOW
She Attacks Savannah Girl to Whom
American Transferred Affections.
Gave Him Her Heart and ‘' Fortune
And Was Mother of His Baby.
SAVANNAH, Ga—A shattered ro
mance of the wlprld war—shattered by
an American soldier to whom she gave
her heart and fortune of a million
francs—caused Mrs. . Marie Pickard,
pretty young French widow, to attack
vesterday Miss Georgia Lee, who was
receiving attentions of the war veter
an. .
Mrs. Pickard, widow, fell in love
with W. D. Adams, of Savannah, a
member of the expeditionary forces,
she told the court, and gave him - all
the money left her by her husband,
who died a year before she met the
American.
Named Baby for Him.
Before Adams came home a baby
was born. She named him for Adams,
who promised to return and legally
marry her, she gsserted.
But Adams did not return. After
tFrance and had half a dozen servants.
ONLY HUNDRED TERRELL
WOMEN ARE REGISTERED
PRACTICALLY ALL OF THESE
ARE IN THE DAWSON AND
BRONWOOD DISTRICTS.
ONENEGRESS ON THELIST
Registration for This Year’s Elections
Closed Saturday. Little Interest in
Politics Shown by Wowen of the
County and City.
Registration for the state primary
this year, at which governor, state
house officials, members of the legis
lature, supreme and circuit court
judges and members of congress will
be chosen, closed Saturday.
Georgia’s registration law requires a
voter in the general election and the
primary elections to be registered six
months in advance of the date of the
general election. The date of the gen
eral election being the first Monday
in November, which is the sixth of
the month, the closing date for reg
istering was therefore the 6th of May.
One of the surprising things is
the little interest shown in politics by
the women. Tax Collector Fussell in
forms The News that only 100 Terrell
county women registered, and conse
quently only that number will be eli
gible to participate in the elections this
year. The number of men who have
registered is approximately 1,350.
The number who can participate in
the city primary will be much smaller,
as only 50 women who are residents of
Dawson are among those who regis--
tered. Under the law no one can
participate in the city primary who
is not a qualified state elector, and
women who did not register with Tax
Collector Fussell cannot now register
for the city primary.
With the exception of those in Daw
son nearly all of the women regis
tered live in the Bronwood district.
One negro woman has registered.
tered.
The number of women who have
registered throughout the state is cor
respondingly small.
RURAL CREDITS ARE
PROPOSED BY HARDING
WOULD GIVE FARMERS FI
NANCIAL HELP THROUGH
NEW CHAIN OF BANKS.
President Harding’s recommenda
tion to congress of legislation provid
ing farmers with credit facilities as
favorable as those enjoyed by com
merce and industry may lead to the
establishment of a rural credits system
entirely independent of either the fed
eral reserve system or the federal land
banks.
A new chain of banks, which would
be linked up with a central corpora
tion at Washington, to take the place
of the war finance corporation, is pro
posed. The system would be designed
to furnish credits on agricultural prod
ucts and live stock over periods rang
ing from six months to three years,
which are not provided through the
agencies already established by feder
al legislation. ' ;
That additional rural credit facilities
are needed was urged in the report of
the joint commission of agricultural
inquiry, headed by Representative An
derson, of Minnesota. The bill intro
duced by him in the house and by
Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, in the
senate, however, providing for credits
of this nature through the federal land
banks is meeting criticism.
Objection is made to confusing this
new type of agricultural credit with
the long term loans on land which.are
provided by the federal land banks. A
strong movement appears to be de
veloping for the establishment of an
entirely independent system.
Bills Have Been Introduced.
Schemes for the creation of a new
system are contained in a new bill re
cently introduced in the senate by
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
and also in another bill just perfected
which was presented in the senate by
Senator Norbeck, of South Dakota,
and in the house by Representative
King, of Illinois.
~ The Simmons bill creates what is
called the National Agricultural Cred
its Corporation, with a life of 50 years.
This corporation would succeed the
)war finance corporation, and its capi
[tal stock, $500,000,000, would be pro
vided by the retirement of the latter’s
capital stock. The new corporation
would take over the assets of the war
finance corporation.
much trouble she secured enough
money. to, come to this country in
search of him, acording to her story.
After many difficulties she finally lo
catedehim here only to find that he
was paying attentions to Miss Lee.
Penniless and desperate she said
she met the voung Savannah woman,
who had taken her place.in the heart
of the man to whom she had given
all, and she attacked Miss Lee on the
street. She was arrested on a warrant
sworn out by Adams and placed un
der heavy bond. ;
Testifies Through Interpreter.
She told her story through an in
terpreter to the court, who compared
the signature of the warrant with let
ters the French woman showed as
having been written her by Adams,
promising to join her.
‘ The recorder ordered Adams out of
‘his sight when the latter attempted to
speak, and decJared' he wished his ju
risdiction _extended “to France.
Mrs. Pickard is working for less
than $5 a week in a local canning fac
tory. She once owned ag estate in
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1922
Undertaker Holds
Body Thirteen Years
CHARLESTON, S. C.—That
the body of Sarmicca Conceppo, an
Italian, has been held by an under
taker at Laurinburg, N. C, has
been charged here, with the result
that County Sheriff Joseph M.
Poulnot and the local [talian con
sul, Charles Mauro, have taken the
matter up, Mr. Mauro believing
that the Italian agents in Washing
ton will bring the matter before
the state department.
C. S. Thompson, now of Charles
ton, has verified the statements in
substance. Conceppo, while employ
ed by a circus, was killed at Mc-
Coll,’ S. C., and the Laurinburg un
dertaker was given the body to pre
pare for burial. It appears that
Conceppo’s father made at least one
payment to the undertaker, who is
reported to have claimed that until
he is fully paid he will not deliver
the body for burial.
Mr. Thompson says that the
body, in an upright position, is vis
ible from.the train at Laurinburg,
and that there is a belief that Con
ceppo’s body is petrified. For thir
teen years, Mr. Thompson said, the
Conceppo body has furnished much
comment in Laurinburg and its vi
cinity. o
STARTLING DISCLOSURES PRE
DICTED BY REPRESENTA
TIVE JOHNSON, DAKOTA.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—“ Startling
disclosures” in connection with his
charges of wholesale duplication of
government bonds were forecast on
Friday by Representative Royal e
Johnston, South Dakota, republican.
Johnston spoke with reference to in
sistent rumors of the duplication and
circlilation of between $250,000,000
and $400,000,000 worth of goyvernment
bonds during the war. '
On the floor of the house he had
charged that “hundreds of millions of
dollars worth” of such bonds had been
duplicated at time of their issue.
“Within a few weeks this matter
will be the overshadowing piece of
news in Washington,” Johnston said.
This statement was made in the face
of repeated denials of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon of reports of dupli
cations of gigantic proportions.
Case Up to Daugherty.
Attorney General : Daugherty, who
accompanied President Harding on the
trip to Point Pleassnt, O:, was due
back here Friday dand may issue a
statement in reply ¥o Johnston, either
denying or affirming that he had evi
dence of the alleged duplications. It
was recalled that representatives: of
the juctice department took part in
the inventory recently made at the
bureau of printing and engraving fol
lowing the dismissal of twenty-seven
bureau chiefs.
William J. Burns, head of the bu
reau of investigation of the _depart
ment of justice, on Friday deßied re
ports that his men. were watching or
had taken into custody a number of
men who formerly held positions of
trust with the government.
Bond Holders Anxious.
Government officials are making ev
ery .effort to still the stories of dupli
cations. These stories already have
had a bad effect on government bonds,
one treasury department official stat
ed. Holders of government bonds are
becoming anxious for fear they are
in possession of duplicates.
It will be extremely difficult to trace
down duplicated bonds, because many
of the issues involved in the reports
do not mature for many years.
Representative Johnston said that he
personally took the department of jus
tice early in 1921 seven typewritten
pages of numbers of government
bonds that had been duplicated, most
of the numbers of the alleged spurious
bonds running 100,000 higher than the
bonds legitimately issued.
NINE YEARS IN PEN
FOR BOOTLEG KING
NEW YORKER TO SERVE TERM
IN FEDERAL PRISON
NEAR ATLANTA.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Failing to
make good the promise which, accord
ing to the federal prosecutor, he made
to him to name the men “higher up”
in the bootlegging ring of which he
was the alleged dupe, James “Greek”
Williams, convicted of obtaining $40,-
000 worth of liquor on forged permits,
was sentenced in Brooklyn to nine
years and six months in the Atlanta
penitentiary and to pay a fine of $5OO.
The maximum penalty is 10 years’ im
prisonment and s£l,ooo fine.
The. judge, who had deferred sen
tence for more than a week, said if
Williams had shown any disposition
to aid the government the court would
have taken into consideration the
clemency plea of the jury.
Althogigh the name of Alderman
Hilkermejer, of Brooklyn, was brought
into, the case no other indictments
were filed by the grand jury, which
ended its investigations into the so
called political bootleg ring today.
Colquitt County Ships
4,000,000 Potato Plants
MOULTRIE, Ga.—The sweet po
tato plant “industry around Moultrie
this season has attained large propor
tions. It is estimated that more than
4.000,000 potato plants have been
shipped from Colquitt within the past
few weeks. Some of these sold for as
high as $1.50 per 1,000. The average
price was more than ;t per 1,000.
PLAN T 0 BOOST aUGAR
32 MILLION 15 ALLEGED
'NEW YORK WORLD CHARGES
PLOT OF REFINERS TO
MULCT THE PEOPLE.
WOULD FORM A POOL
Action Follows Defeat of Crop Fixa
tion and Halt in Tariff. Scheme of
Powerful Sugar Interests Is Re
vealed in Far-Reaching Plots.
The New York World prints the
following:
A gigantic price-fixing proposal, in
volving an increase in the cost of su
gar thatswould take $32,000,000 from
the pockets of American consumers
this year, has been made to 12 refiners
of Cuban came sugar on the basis of
pending legislation before congress.
Information collected reveals the de
tails of this amazing scheme, designed
solely for the benefit of the beet and
cane sugar interests of the United
iStates.\
Each Asked for $1,000,000.
Each of the 12 large refiners of Cu
ban sugar has been asked to sign a
bill of exchange or promissory note
for $1,000,000, payable in monthly in
stallments, in consideration of con
gressional action to be taken on the
sugar tariff. These payments are to be
made in 12 successive installments of
$83,300 each, plus the final sum of
$4OO, ‘“for value received,” as the note
reads.
Having failed to coerce the Cuban
government through official govern
mental channels, and not yet having
succeeded in imposing an almest pro
hibitive rate of 2 cents a pound on
the raw sugar imports, the beet sugar
interests now propose to force up the
price of sugar at retail by this price
raising scheme.
The increase in price of refined Cu
ban sugar is to be rebated to the re
finers of American beet sugar so that
they will receive as much as they
would have profited had the Cuban
crop been restricted and the price of
sugar gone up as a consequence of the
resultant shortage.
Syndicate Organized.
As unbelievable as it may seem,
there has actually been organized a
syndicate to work out the price-fixing
arrangement, apportion the assess
ments upon the refiners of Cuban su
gar, collect the money ,discount bills of
exchange, if necessary, and divide the
money among the American beet
sugar men. It is asserted that this
syndicate already has $3,321,212 avail-|
able for its “general purposes.” ‘
The syndicate claims to be operating
under what it calls a “congressional
arrangement” which is represented to
be able to control tariff legislation. It
is not specified how this is to be done
nor who is to do it. From a financial|
viewpoint, however, the syndicate will
have the prestige which almost unlim
ited funds can command.
Some of the largest refiners in the|
country have received proposals in
writing from the syndicate, which de-'
scribes itself as “the United Statesl
and Cuban Sugar Producers’ Agree
ment Syndicate, Inc.,” of No. 17 State
street, New York city, “office of Hen
ry W. Peabody & Co.” The name of
Alfred Grover is signed to the corre-‘
spondence as “director” of the syndi
cate with the imposing name. '
Tn letters addressed to a number of
refiners of Cuban sugar Grover ex-l
}plains what he characterizes as “our!
beet-cane and Cuban sugar duty com
promise” this way.
“Under the terms of this congres-!
sional agreement the beet and cane
sugar producers of the United States,|
in lieu of the benefit of the additional
duty on Cuban sugar, are to receivei
‘an amount Qut of the sale proceeds of
Cuban sugar equal to one-fourth of‘
the total sum received for the entire
crop of beet and cane sugar last year.”
Grover’s Estimate Moderate.
| Grover, in his communication to the
refiners, explained that $14,339,394
‘wi]l represent the “one-fourth of the
total sum received for the entire crop
of beet and cane sugar last year.” He
outlines that this amount is to be rais
ed through the addition to the sales
!I)riccs of four-tenths of a cent per
pound, until the sum of $14,339,394
has been gathered and the distribution
lmadc to the beet sugar and American
cane sugar DI'O(IUCCI'S.
’ According to men acquainted with
the sugar situation the addition of
four-tenths of a cent a pound would
produce $32,000,000, or more than
| twice as much as Grover .Sstimates.
' The reason for this is that thé increas
ed cost would be imposed on 8,000,-
l()O0,0()O pounds, the approximate an
'nual consumption.
FEEDING BRUTES PLAN A FAILURE;®
WOMAN MAYOR Q UITS “DARNED JOB”
Doughnuts and Coffee Did Not Ap
peal to Councilmen When Political
Battles Held the Stage.
Coffee and doughnuts will not keep
up the morale of city councilmen, Mrs.
Mary McFadden, 80-year-old mayor of
Magnetic Springs, 0., has decided. So
she has given up her job and is “for
ever and dver through with politics
and stailing.”
Mrs. McFadden’s only qualifications i
for the mayor’s job, she said just be-!|
fore taking the position, were “good
common sense and her experience as
4 mother.” Her ¥common sense” theo
ry led to a battle with bootleggers,
vampires and motor car speeders,
wl\ile her experience as a mother made
it imperative that she strictly enforce
the curfew law, which she did.
The result was the making ‘of plenty
oi.e_nemies on one hand and the ac
quiring of new friendships on the oth
er. Then it was she needed the un
qualified support of the council. But at
Broadcast Nuptial Kiss
To Waiting Radio Fans
A nuptial kiss, planted 5,000 feet
in the clouds above New York city,
was broadcast from the cockpit of
a speeding airplane to the ears of
thousands of radio fans when Miss
Sarah Cokefair, nurse, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and Albert P. Schaske were
married, Lieut. B. W, xaynard, the
“flying parson,” perforthed the cer
emony. Lieut. Bert Acosta piloted
the party in a Fokker biplane. Each
detail of the ceremony, except the
blush, was transmitted to radio fans
by apparatus on the plané,
REPORT ON STATE
CROP CONDITIONS
iWEEVIL RAVAGES BEGIN, AND
DAMAGE TO COTTON SEEN.
OTHER CROPS.
The alarming feature of the agri
cultural situation reported by the gov
ernment crop correspondents is the
presence of the weevil in practically
every important cotton county on
May lst, according to a report Friday.
Infestation so early in the season us
ually means very great damage during
the growing season. Even when emer
gence takes place at the normal time
the progeny of a pairs of weevils
through the season run into hundreds
of thousands. The report further says:
“The gloom of the situation becomes
deeper when it is considered that the
planting averages over two weeks late
in upper Georgia, that the present
rains make farm work almost impos
sible for several days, and that cotton
must be planted within the next two
weeks if it is to have a fair chance of
making a crop. Many farmers are go
ing ahead in the face of these facts and
hazarding their all in a desperate at
tempt to make cotton.
Food Crops Neglected.
“Early indications are that food
crops are being neglected in the up
per sections in favor of cotton. The
situation is so serious that the crop
reporting service finds it necessary to
issue a report that borders on the sen
sational.
“In the sections where cotton is up
to a stand it has suffered considerably
from cold. This would not greatly af
fect the final outturn were it not for
the fact that it delays maturity and
gives the weevil greater opportunity.
“Cotton in Randolph and neighbor
g counties was in good shape on
report date. The major portion of the
south-central belt was in similar con
dition, but needing rain.
“The progress of the small grains
has been watched with utmost con
;cern. Rust in wheat in prevalent in
'most of the state reducing prospects.
In the east it has caused abandon
ment and plowing up of about one
sixth- of the acreage. Oats have also
suffered somewhat. In the south the
oat harvest is already under way and
much of the grain is safe.”
JUDGE STRANGE IS
AGAINST BOND ISSUE
FROM BENCH HE SUGGESTS
GRAND JURY’S RECOMMEN
DATION. NOT WISE KIOW.
STATESBORO, Ga.—At the con
clusion of Judge Strange’s charge to
the grand jury this morning R. Sim
mons, one of the biggest merchants,
cotton buyers and -landowners in this
county, asked the judge if he could
say a few words. He declared that he
indorsed all of the court’s charge to
the jury, and then launched into a
discussion of economics.
He urged the jury to use its influ
ence in reducing the expenses of the
county, that the taxes were becoming
unbearable, and dwelt at length on the
proposed bond issue for the state. He
declared he was against it.
M#r. Simmons stated- his property
did not bring in sufficient income to
pay the taxes and he did not want any
more expense added. At his conclu
sion Judge Strange turned to the jury
and indorsed Mr. Sitamons’ remarks
about the bond issue. “Personally I
am against it and I suggest that you
gentlemen have in your recommenda
tions that the people vote against it,
and also for your representatives to
be against any such constitutional
amendment. [ am not only against it
personally, but because I think it is to
the interest of my people. I cannot
live alone. I can pay' the additional
tax. for I am already being fed out of
the trough, but I do not think it a
wise thing to put it on the people.”
this point the drawing power of the |
doughnuts and coffee she had been
serving the councilmen began to wane.
Meetings were not well attended, she
was not getting the backing she
thought she was entitled to, hence
came the decision to ‘iquit the darn
job.” .
Mrs. McFadden succeeded Mayor
N. O. Brown when he left to make his
home in Florida. When Mrs. McFad
den made it known she was through
with politics, the former mayor decid
ed to come back. He has been re
elected to the job.
More Than 100 Killed;
.. Bodies Blewn to Bits
BUCHAREST, Rou—Upward of
100 persons were killed today in a
mine explosion in the Lupeni district
of Transylvania. The bodies of 50 of
the victims were completely carbon
ized, while those of the others were
blown to pieces.
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RIVERS SPREAD OVER LOW
LANDS, AND LOSS RUNS IN
| TO THE MILLIOHNS.
FOOD THE CRYING NEED
Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Are
Being Inundated. Heavy Rains Add
To the Gravity of the Situation in
Devastated Area. :
NEW ORLEANS, La.—Approxi
mately 3,500 square miles, equal to
the combined area of the state of Dela
ware and Rhode Island, are inundated,
and probably 75,000 persons _either
are homeless or residing in flooded
homes, according to official estimates
based on reports from the flooded
areas in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mis
sissippi.
Approximately 50,000 persons are
affected above Ferriday from flood
waters from the Mississippi river, Red,
Black, Little Tensas and Quchita riv
ers, it was estimated today.
About 750,000 acres, half of which
are cultivatable, will be overrun, it
was estimated, and the damage to
crops, highways and fertile lands will
run into millions of dollars.
All of Condordia parish -—423,525
acres, 100,000 planted in cotton—is fin
undated.
An area of about 250,000 acres in
Catahoula parish is affected.
The flood has rushed intec Tensas
county where there are 80,000 acres
of cotton.
Harrisonburg, La., far west of the
river, but yet in the flood zone, con
tinues to present the most serious
problem. Food is the crying need of
the thousands of residents and several
thousand refugees who fled to that
town or were brought there by their
rescuers. Stocks of local merchants
have become exhausted.
Old men and women and children
upon their arrival at Harrisonburg al
ready showed the effects of under
nourishment as the back waters of the
rivers had been creeping into their
homes for many days before they de
cided to flee.
Water 60 Miles Frem River.
With crevasse and backwaters from
the Mississippi and its tributaries con
tinuing to sperad its destruction in
eleven parishes of Louisiana relief
problems have been augmented as the
floods invade territory far removed
from the spillways in the embank
ments of the great river.
Points in Rapides and Avoyelles
parishes, sixty miles distant from the °
Mississippi river, reports that water
coming through the crevasse at Fer
riday has joined with backwaters of
‘the Red river basin and are encroach
ing upon rich farm lands in that terri
tory. :
In southern Louisiana, where the
river has spread through a crevasse
in St. Bernard parish, refugees were
brought to the outskirts of New Or
leans where better shelter, medical at
tention and food can be given them.
Relief camps established in the flood.
zone have in many instances been
abandoned as the result of the spread
ing of the waters.
In central western Mississippi re
newed efforts are going forward to
rescue the marooned in the Yazoo ba
sin, where a stretch of land covering
1,700 square miles is a mighty lake.
Relief bodies are being taxed to capac
ity to provide for the refugees, who
continue to pour in at the isolated
high spots and larger towns. Food,
shelter, clothing and medical supplies
must be supplied for 17,500 of these
in that devastated area, it is estimated,
Scores of towns and villages in Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana are
covered with water to a depth in some
instances of 20 feet, while many other
large communities have encircled
themselves in hastily constructed em
bankments which they hope will hold
the water out, in the meantime being
isolated from the world with the ex
ception of communication by boats.
Among those from whom the flood
is taking a heavy toll in addition to
planters are operators of saw mill
plants and railroads. Much valuable
lumber has been washed away and the
roadbeds of the rail lines are seriously
affected.
The fight to hold the levee lines is
costing thousands of dollars a day. In
the Third Mississippi levee district
alone no less than ten thousand men
were engaged in the fight to hold the
swollen river in its channel, the 4,000
emploved by the government in this
district being reinforced by more than
six thousand civilians \yho volunteer
ed.
Rescued in Exhausted Condition
From a Tree Top.
Beardstown, Ill—Mourned for sev
eral hours as the first to lose their
lives in the flood which has held this
city in its grip for two weeks Grover
Dodds and J. L. Lower, jr., were res
cued from a tree top in which they
clung four hours after their boat cap
sized. They were nearly exhausted
from exposure.
The men were on their way to the
Lower farm to rescue some chickens
when their boat tipped over and dis
appeared in the water which covers
the Coal creek drainage district as a
result of a break in’the district levee.
When the boat capsized Doods and
Lower were able to swim to a tree
which was sticking out of the water.
'As the hours passed and they did not
return relatives gave them up for lost
and their supposed death was reported
throughout the little city.
The evacuation of Beardstown con
tinues. Trains which still crept out of
the city over submerged tracks car
ried many inhabitants who are quitting
the town until after the flood.
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MAIL CLERK TRAVELED
: 2,325,000 MILES IN 31 YEARS
During his 31 years of service as a
railway mail clerk Avery Pelton, of
Middieton, N. ¥. traveled 2,325,000
miles. He has now retired.