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:$30,000,000 !S
TAKEN FROM SEA
DIVERS RECOVER GOLD SUNK
WITH LINER TORPEDOED
BY THE GERMANS.
LONDON.—AII but about thirty
bars of the gold lost when the White
Star liner Laurentic was torpedoed by
the Germans off the coast of Ireland
has now been recovered and nearly
$30,000,000 worth of bullion has been
brought to the surface.
The British admiralty ship Racer
has been constantly employed during
the summer months since 1918 on the
salvage work and it is hoped that in
two weeks it will have got up all that
remains.
The work has been as dangerous as
it has been difficult, but has been
greatly expedited by a device for dis
covering the exact position of the bars
of gold after the boxes in which: they
were originally packed had rotted
away and the wreck itself had been
disturbed by the explosions necessary
to break up its plates.
Modern Divining Rod.
The divers as they trod the bottom
of the sea have been armed with al
peculiar kind of spear. With this they
prodded the mud and silt ahead of
them and as the spear approached the
precious metal it acted on the same
principle as the old fashioned diviningl
rod.
Wires from the spear were connect
ed with a galvanometer on the deck
of the Racer. If the spear touched
iron or other base metal the needle
of the galvanometer swung left, if it
touched gold it spun around to the
right. It was then simple for those
supervising the diving operations to
telephone the directions to the divers
at work below the surface. l
The divers have had to operate at a!
depth of ninety feet amid strong cur-|
rents and exposed to attacks from
hige dog fish. : J
i Takes 30 Minutes to Rise.
Tt takes them only one minute to,
descend, but so tremendous -is the
pressure to which they are then sub
jected that they are forced to take
from twenty to thirty minutes to as
cend, resting ten minutes when they
rise to get accustomed to the lessen
ed pressure.
The bars of gold as they are un-l
covered are brought to the surface
twelve to a bucket and are repacked in |
boxes on the Racer. As a sufficient
quantity is recovered it is transferred
to a destroyer and shipped to Chat
ham, from whence it is carried to the
Bank of England. A quantity of sil
ver coins worth $5,000,000 were spilled
all over the bottom. These were scrap
ed up, mixed with sand and mud. I
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Capital in Turmoil; Ready for New Deal
| WASHINGTON, D. C.—The na
tional capital has become, overnight,
a bubbling, boiling, seething cauldron
of politics.
This political scramhble began even
the very night of Harding’s death.
There were conferences and caucuses
‘and consultations. Which way to
jump, and how, were the chief sub-
Jjects of discussion. The death of the
president was deplorable, regrettable,
too bad. But draw up, everybody. The
game must go on—and now there'll
be a new deal.
Politics is a cold and practical bus
ines. Except as it can capitalize the
loyalty and sympathy of the masses
for a dead leader, transferring or ce
menting that sympathetic allegiance
to the party he represented, or to the
individual who succeeds him, it gives
little thought to the dead. It must
keep its eyes ahead.
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In this situation the effect of Hard
ing’s death on the 1924 political sit
uation has been given much more se
rious consideration than its effect on
governmental activities and policies.
The speculation as to the course to
be followed by President Coolidge has
hinged much more closely around
how his acts would shape the posi
tion of his party politically next year
than on how it would affect national
well-being. |
This applies equally to those who,{
within the republican party, see in the‘
death of President Harding a chance
to pry the G. O. P. nomination next
vear away from the present ()ccupant}
of the white house, and those who are
working to entrench Coolidge so se-‘
curely in party leadership that he will
be the republicans’ one best bet. On‘
the surface, to date, the latter appear
COTTON FIGURES
10,788,000 BALES
THIS YEAR'S PRODUCTION ES
TIMATED 54.1 PER CENT
OF NORMAL CROP.
This vear's cotton production was
forecast Friday at 10,788,000 baies of
500 pounds each by the department}
of agriculture. ‘
The forecast was based on the con
dition of the crop on Aug. 25, which
was 54.1 per cent of normal, indicat
ing a vield of about 134.8 pounds per
acre. last month’s production fore
cast was 11,516,600 bales based on the
July 25 condition of 67.2, which indi
cated a yield of about 143.9 pounds
per acre, Last year's crop was 9,761,
817 bales.,
The condition on Aug. 25, in per
centage of a normal, and the forecast
of production in thousands of bales
by prinicipal states are:
Virginia, 92 and 50; North Carolina,
71 and 885; South Carolina, 57 and
708; Georgia, 42 and 827; Florida, 30
and 17; Alabama, 52 and 828; Missis
sippi, 48 and 858; Lousiiana, 53 and
361; Texas, 55 and 3,722; Arkansas,
57 and 948; Tennessee, 64 and 415;
Missouri, 67 and 193; Oklahoma, 46
and 791: California, 88 and 42; Arizo
na, 90 and 83; New Mexico, 88 and 59.
HOMESTEADERS RECLAIM
. 23 MILLION ACRES OF LAND
Public lands totaling 23,022,630 acres
have been transferred to homesteaders
during the past two years. A depart
ment of interior summary shows that
the number of patents issued for this
area was 110,330. Were all these tracts
gathered into one district it would
have an area as great as Massachu
setts, New Hampshire, Maryland and
Connecticut combined.
St. Louis leads all large cities of
the United States in American-born
population.
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to be making best headway. That may
be because Coolidge and his boosters
have the spotlight for the present.
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Politically, it is generally agreed that
the death of President Harding lessen
ed the likelihood of a third party
movement.
With Harding as candidate for re
election other G. O. P. contenders
would have had little look-in. The
tonly real opportunity for the anti-
Harding elements would have been
lthe launching of a new ticket, design
ed to draw the liberal and farmer
labor vote and which could consoli
date the various factions of discon
tent in all parties.
The democrats saw in this the big
chance of their return to power. Now
they're not so sure.
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One month ago not one politician
in 100 suggested Cal Coolidge as even
a remote possibility in the 1924 cam
paign. Had Harding lived the same
odds would have run against the like
lihood of Coolidge’s renomination even
for vice president.
But today, through the interposi
tion of Fate, as the actual occupant of
the white house one could find even
money that he will fead the party’s
ticket in the next campaign. |
But if you listen closely, perhaps
vou can hear a gritting, grating sound
coming from the direction of the Dis
trict of Columbia. |
That’s the political grindstone, turn
ing 24 hours a day. |
The loud buzzing that comes as an |
occasional over-tone is the swarming
of the politicai bees.
When they settle somebody’s go
ing get stung. But who? 1‘
Ah-h! That’s the question. |
|AN EX-COWPUNCHER
" BORROWS 30 MILLION
SAYS IT'S EASY WITH CHAR
ACTER, CONFIDENCE AND
CAPACITY AS COLLATERAL.
NEW YORK.—Would you like to
borrow $30,000,000?
Could you?
Colonel Sloan Simpsan, ex-cow
puncher agd one-time rough rider,
thinks it’s easy. He came here from
Dallas, Tex., to do it.
“Banks aren’t heartless.” he says.
“All they want to make sure of is
that you are going to do something
productive with the money once you
get it."
Of course Colonel Simpson didn't
want the $30,000,000 for himself. What
he wanted it for was to tide 30,000
cotton growers over nine months of
waiting down in Texas. They are the
men who make up the Texas Farm
Bureau Cotton Association, of which
Colonel Simpson is treasurer. While
they're waiting for the cotton to be
marketed they need a little something
to put cake in the bread box.and buy
shoes for the youngsters.
This is his recipe for borrowing
money:
“Produce the four C’s—character,
capacity, confidence and collateral. It’s
a ‘fact, collateral isn’t nearly so im
portant as the other three.”
But first of all, he says, you’ve got
to have an idea worth money.
“Three years ago,” explained Colo
nel Simpson, “‘the Texas Farm Bu
reau Association was merely an idea
that the cotton growers ought to or
ganize for a better marketing of their
crops. It was a good idea. Therefore,
although the association is organized
without capital, it can borrow so vast
a sum as $30,000,000 with no more
trouble than I had some few years
ago when 1 went about raising $lOO
for my personak needs.”
Colonel Simpson knows all about
borrowing money, for he’s a- banker
himself,
NEWS AND PERSONALS FROM
PIERCE CHAPEL COMMUNITY
Items of Interest From That Section
Of the County.
Little Fannie Lou Hayes entertain
ed a mumber of little tots at a birth
day party. Fce cream and wafers
were served. |
. Mr. .and Mrs. F. E. Powell were
pleasant spend-the-day guests of Mr.
and Mrs., C. H. Herrington, ]
Mr. Otis Powell, of Dawson, hasl
been here shaking hands with his
many relatives and friends. |
We are glad to welcome Mrs. C.|
H. Herrington back in the communi
tv after a long illness.
Misses Nannie and Velta Fletcher
were pleasant guests of Mrs. D. R.
Fletcher the past week.
Miss Velta Fletcher, of Dawson, is
visiting her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. U. Fletcher.
Miss Tamzy Hasty attended the]
singing school and protracted meet
ing at New Bethel. |
Messrs. Thomas Kendrick and Joe
Powell have visited relatives in Cuth
bert. |
Miss Irene Wills, of Eldorendo, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
i Cr Wills, -
Miss Ollie May Powell was a re
cent visitor of Mrs. R. O. Oxford. ‘
Little Frances Fletcher is a week
end visitor of Miss Bessie Fletcher.
We regret very much that Mrs. J.
M. Powell has been on the sick list.
Mrs. L. C. Wills is spending a while
with her relatives in Bluffton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fletcher have
visited relatives in Dawson.
. Mrs. L. M. Jumper’s sister from
Alabama is visiting her.
| Mr. and Mrs. Joe Creamer have
visited relatives in Cherry.
L Mrs. O. P. Christie has visited
homeiolks recently.
. Little Winifred Hasty has been on
'the sick list.
I A PRONOUNCED SUCCESS.
! The uniform success that has at
' tended the use of Chamberlain’s Colic
land Diarrhoea Remedy in the relief
]:md cure of bowel complaints, both
. for children and adults, has brought
|it into almost universal use, so that
lit is practically without a rival and as
lcveryone who has used it knows it is
iwithout an equal.—adv.
. Sea gulls have followed the same
!ship from the Irish coast to New
' York, a distance of 2,560 miles, ac
lcording to records. :
THE DAWSON NEWS
iINCfiMfiAXEs NOT
STRONG IN HOUSE
| MANY FOLLOWERS OF THE
| LATE SENATOR WATSON
} IN THE LEGISLATURE.
ATLANTA, Ga—A great deal of
favorable comment is heard here since
the adjournment of the legislature on
}thc firm stand which the house took
against increasing cxpenses. All dur
ing the fight over appropriations a
!grcat majority in the house stood like
a stone wall behind the appropriation
committee.
. Thé members had been elected to
hold down expenscs, apparently, and
they did. it.
The general assembly was elected
on a platform to repeal the tax equal
ization law and to oppose a state in
come tax. The house passed the re
peal bill and tabled the income tax
measure. It was consistent.
The senate would have passed the
repeal bill, too, had it not been made
to believe that repeal would cut off
pensions, close the public schools, in
crease local taxes., wreck the state
and ruin Governor \Walker's adminis
tration, as one lawmaker expressed it.
Biennial Sessions Favored.
Opinion is growing stronger that
the legislature ought not to meet oft
ener than once in two years. Only
four states have annual sessions. It
looks as if the people will force the
assembly to pass the hiennial sessions
bill next summer. [t will undoubted
ly save the taxpayers a huge sum, as
many business men of the state point’
out, |
There is much speculation in politi
cal circles over the promised’ extra
session of the general assembly. In
1922 an income tax bill received 142
votes in the house. This year on the
only test vote taken the income tax--
ers had only 89 votes while the oppo
sition had 92. It will take 138 votes
to pass a constitutional amendment,
and the old-timers cannot figure out
where the friends of the income tax
will get the 49 extra votes needed to
pass an amendment.
When the members left here it was
common talk among them that if they
were called back they would table thcl
income tax measures again. Govern
or Walkér announced in his platform
last August that he was against an
income tax measures again. The fol
lowers of the late Senator Tom Wat
son, and there are many of them in
this legislature, are true to their old‘
leader’s teaching, which was everlast
ingly against.a state income tax. |
ESTIMATE OCEAN’S AGE
AT MILLIONS OF YEARS
Based Upon Ratio of Sodium Sea Con
tains to Annual Washings.
The ocear is not, of course, as old
as the earth, since it could not be
formed until the surface of the globe
had cooled sufficiently to retain water
upon it. It may therefore seem chi
merical to try to measure the age of
the sea, but the task has been under
taken,
The estimate has been based upon
the ratio of sodium the sea contains
to that annually contributed by the
washings from the continents. The
conclusion has thus been reached that
the ocean has been in existence be
tween 80,000,000 and 170,000,000 of
years.
HALF MILLION ALIENS AR
RIVE; LESS THAN &1,000 LEFT
During the last fiscal year 522,919
aliens were admitted into the United
States, according to records of the de
partment of labor. During the same
vear, statistics show, 81,450 aliens left
the United States.
] Apply Sulphur as Told When
! Your Skin Breaks Out
Any breaking out of the skin on face,
neck, arms or body is overcome quick=-
est by applying Mentho-Sulphur. The
pimples seem to dry right up and go
away, declares a noted skin specialist.
Nothing has ever been found to take
the place of sulphur as a pimple re
mover. It is harmless and inexpensive.
Just ask any druggist for a small jar
of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur and use it
like cold cream. ;
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. P. KENYON
Office: Over Dawson Pharmacy.
Res. Phone 131.
Office Phone 56.
DR. C. R. McKEMIE
DENTIST
OFFICE: BRANNON BLDG.
(Over Battle Hardware Co.)
Res. Phone 395 2-r. Office 395
DR. W. H. GARDNER
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PEACH SEASON WAS SECOND
LARGEST IN STATE'S HISTORY
A report on August 18th by the
United States department of-agricul
ture showed that 8,559 cars of peach
es had been shipped from Georgia
during the season. This is the second
largest crop ever :produced by the
Georgia orchards, having been ex
ceeded only by the 1921 crop of 10,-
468 cars, the report showed.
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| Public Sale. .
L SPATE OF GEORGIA, Terrell
County.—Whereas, on the first day of
January, 1921, Wadie Weston made
and executed to the Volunteer State
Life Insurance Company a deed to se
cure a debt of two thousand ($2,000)
dollars, together with interest from
date, said indebtedness, with the in
terest, being represented by ten nrom
issory mnotes. the first of which fell
due on the first day of January, 1922
and the remaining notes annually on
the first day of each succeeding Jan
uary, in which security deed and notes
it was expressly provided and agreed
that if default should be made in the
prompt payment of either one of said
notes, time being the essence of the
contract, then the principal debt, to
gether with all accrued interest, as
represented by said series of notes,
should become due and payable at
once at the option of the holder, and
which security deed conveyed the fol
lowing described land: -
“One hundred two and one-half
(102%) acres, more or less. extending
entirely across the north side of land
lot number one hundred and forty
two (142), bounded east, north and
west hy the original land lot lines, in
the Twelfth land district of Terrell
county, Georgia. being all of said lot
except one hundred (100) acres, more
or less, across the south side of said
lot, bounded east, south and west by
the original land lot lines, the north
and south boundary lines of which
are twenty-nine hundred and seventy
(2970) feet ecach in “length, and the
east and west boundary lines of which
arc fourteen hundred and sixty-eight
(1468) feet each in length, said one
hundred (1¢0) acre tract being con
veyed by Wadie Weston to Mrs. Lela
Ann Turner by deed dated Decem
ber 20, 1920 %
Which said deed is of record in the
office of the clerk of the superior court
for Terrell county, Georgia, in vol
ume X, page 249, to which reference
is here made for the full terms and
conditions thereof; and
Whereas, default has been made in
the payment of the note due January
1, 1923, and the holder of said note.
in accordance ‘with the provisions of
said security deed and of said notes
has declared the entire principal sum
of said debt due and payable.
Now, the said Volunteer State Life
Insurance Company, by virtue of the
power of sale contained in said deed,
and pursuant thereto, in order to en
force the payment of the amount due
on said principal and interest, the to
tal amount of which at the date of
sale amounts to one thousand, nine
hundred sixty-two and thirty-nine
hundredths (1,962.39) dollars, will, for
the “satisfaction of said indebtedness,
the cost of advertising and the ex
penses of said sale, sell before the
court house door in Dawson, Georgia,
between the legal hours of sale on the
first Tuesday in October, 1923, the
above described tract of land to the
highest and best bidder for cash, and
will execute to the purchaser a deed
to said land in accordance with the
terms of said security deed. This the
30th day ot August, 1923.
The Volunteer State Life Insurance
Company, by Oscar Mather, Treasur
ar. / 9-4-4 t.
666 quickly relieves Constipation,
Biliousness, Headaches, Colds and
LaGrippe.
' - “WHERE SATISFACTION IS A CERTAINTY” l
SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY ONLY
*f# No.sTins . . 69cC
SHOWdr lil No. 10 Tins $1.29
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SALT RoNnißc sair . . . . €2C
Rogers’ Coffee
Ib.GoldenGlow:- . . . . . . 36¢C
31bs.GoldenGlow . . . . . $l.OB
10 Pounds Ice Cream Salt . lic
100 Pound Bag Dairy Salt . $1.29
VEGETABLES
LETTUCE CELERY EGG PLANTS
SNAP BEANS BUTTER BEANS be i 'SQUASHE»”SW e
FRUITS, We Have ’em
WE
ENJOY
SERVING
YOU
Highest Market Prices
Paid for
CoTTON SEED
See me before selling
B. H. HOLLAND
In all sizes. 1 Horse, 2 Horse
and Heavy Lumber Wagons
Extremely Low Prices
We have on hand a
Number of
Second-Hand Mules
In good condition; perfectly sound
and excellent workers
LOW PRICES
D.A ith
-A. Slnt
Rogers
Where Satisfaction is a Certainty——
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1923
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Special
- Attention
to Children