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Spend Dawson
Dollars in Dawson
By E. L. RAINEY
RATE MAY BE LOWERED, BUT
' EADERS SEE POINT AS
FOCUS OF A FIGHT.
FLORIDA BOOM IS A FACTOR
gome of Greatest Fortunes of Coun
.+v Are Involved in Issue. Meeting
0i Governors Will Be Held This
Month to Urge Repeal.
VASHINGTON, D. C.—Despite
enormous pressure being brought to
+.or irom the white house, from the
treasuiry, the governors of many states
and by the commercial interests of
more than a score of states, it seemed
i . today that the congressional
ramers of the new revenue act will
emove the present federal tax on in
[ rate of such tax may be low
ered, but both Representative Green
(republican), of ITowa, and Represent
at Garner, of Texas, the majority
and minority leaders of the powerful
wavs and means committee, were pos
it [hursday the tax will be retain-
U‘.A
Great Sums Involved.
I whole taxation fight appeared
Ve o more and more Thursday to
ward making the inheritance tax the
] int of the conflict. Practical
acreement has been reached on a max
imum surtaxe of 20 per cent, and a
qwhstantial cut in the lower brackets.
Some of the greatest fortunes in
America are involved in the inherit
ance tax lissue.
(Oddlv ‘enough, the Florida real es
tate boom indirectly has become ' a
considerable factor in the controversy.
The state of Florida adopted an
amendment to its constitution provid
ing that the state will never impose a
tax on inheritances. The amendment
was shrewdly drawn to attract wealth
to the state as a place of permanent
residence, and assure it of non-inter
ference after death.
Rightly or wrongly, this invitation
to wealth to come to Florida and be
secure irom disintegration is credited
small way with the remarkable
development that has taken place
there. At least, it has been an import
ant contributing factor to drawing
(apital cut oi the north and into the
N it is the belief of congression
al leaders that if the federal tax on in
heritances is removed, a number of
states will be attracted by the Florida
example and pass similar amendments
their constitutions as a bid for cap
it vestment. Chambers of com
merce and business organizations in
many states have recently been com
plaining of the “Florida immigration”
i le with money.
Once remove the federal inherit
ance tax and you'lt find states, partic
ularly the new ones, falling all over
themselves to enact similar constitu
tonal amendments,” said one member
the committee.
While it is probable that some of
the agitation for repealing the inher
tance tax comes from sources inter
ested for the Florida reason, on the
other hand there is an insistent de
mand from a majority of state repre
sentatives that the government go out
of the inheritance taxing business so
that the states can obtain more reve
nue for their treasuries, A meeting of
governors and state representatives
will be held 'in New Orleans this
month to organize an interstate move
ment to this end.
Ford as Example.
Agitation for the repeal of the tax
womes also from the possessors of
great industrial fortunes. ;
e example of Henry Ford will
provide much argument when the new
tax bill reaches the fleor ot congress
lor open debate, g
Ford's is a ‘“going concern,” the as
sets of wheih are roughly estimated
@ a billion dollars. Assuming that
Ford himself owned most of this at
the time of death the government
would step in and take almost half of
. The repealers claim that this
virtually wreck a great indus
try, throw thousands out of employ
ment. or else lead the government in
o pesition as that of a receivership
I the protection of its interests.
[hat the levying of inheritance tax
ts should be left entirely to the states
18 based, fundamentally, of course, on
the helief “that federation in this field
dgeravates a situation qf vexation,
sion and chaos resulting from
Lie iltiple and overlapping inherit
ance tax claims of various states.”
Taxed by Three Jurisdictions.
I thirty-eight state “if a resident
dic: wving stock in a domestic cor
-oration the shares are taxed by three
t jurisdictions; namely, (l)t.ht
Btate of domicile, (2) the state of in
"' oration, and (3) the federal gov-
LA e Tet
C GANG FOR DRIVING
AUTO WHILE INTOXICATED
itthell County Men Are Convicted
In Superior Court.
Entering pleas in Mitchell county
eror court to charges of driving
"omibles while under the influence
! liquor, A, T. Bullard and Walter
Wigler, both white, drew straight
€l'cices on the chaingang. Bullard
'Ust serve six months at hard labor
"0 i« year and a half on probation.
Ningler was given a year on the
"atigang, Driving -an automobile
r: under the influence is a serious
i Judge Custer declared while
o ncing the two men. Bullard is a
Ominent farmer of the county. 1
THE DAWSON NEWS
On:l B,
EAT FISHORRINARY 500,
RRS i{j‘gfi
URGES STATE Utrreet
ALBANY, N. Y.—Dr.Emmeline
Moore, fish culture expert of the
state conservation commission, to
day urged the people of the state
to eat fish to combat corpulency.
Hot haddock would be healthier
than hot dogs, Dr. Moore said, add
ing, “If fish were given hali the
publicity awarded the hot dog we
would all be a lot healthier.
“Fish makes for leanness,” she
continued. “Byron said he ate fish
three or four times a week to coun
teract his tendency toward corpu
lency.”
Dr. Moore pointed out that ma
rine fish contain iodine salts, a min
eral important to health, and that
oysters and clams are particularly
valuable for their iodine.
Dr. Moore’s job is to keep the
fish of the state healthy. .
$20,000,000 A YEAR
IMMENSE WEALTH PUT AWAY
WITH CORPSES, SAYS PRESI
IDENT OF MORTICIANS.
ATILLANTA, Ga—Twenty million
dollars worth of jewelry i 5 buried
each year with the 2,000,000 Ameri
cans who die annually, according to
Fred W. Patterson of Atlanta, who is
the retiring president of the National
Selected Morticians.
. He estimates that $2,000.000,000 is
now buried under the turf in Ameri
can cemeteries, exceeding the annual
output of the world’s gold and silver
mines.
Average $lO.
_ The jewelry that is buried, however,
is usually more of a sentimental rath
er than a valuable kind, and he es
timates that the average corpse is in
terred with about $lO worth of val
uables.
Wedding rings, cuff links and the
like, and very few expensive rings or
brooches, are leit on the corpse, Mr.
Patterson declared. In his twenty-five
yvears’ work as a mortician he has
known only one woman to be buried
with a valuable diamond brooch on
her person, and one man was buried
wearing an expensive scarf pin.
Watches are rarely buried with a
person, he stated. :
* Superstition concerning the burial
of the dead is disappearing rapidly,
Mr. Patterson said, and in its place is
respect and affection.
EXACT GREATER LOSS THAN
IN 1924. THE RED CROSS
GIVES FIGURES.
~ American disasters this vear, while
fewer than the record number of last
year, exacted a greater life and prop
erty toll, the American Red Cross says
in its report for the year ending June
30th.
The tornado that cut a swath
through the middle west last spring
caused 796 deaths and maimed 2,239,
the report said, while disaster casual
ties of the entire year preceding num
bered only 735 dead and not quite 2,-
000 injured.
Roll Call Next Month.
In preparation for whatever emerg
ency may bée in store for the nation
during the next year, it was announc
ed, the ninth annual roll call of the
Red Cross will take place Nov. 11-26.
The report showed that the Red
Cross gave its service in 90 disasters
during the year, including fires, which
accounted for 29 of the calamities;
floods, which were second with 16;
tornadoes, which caused 11; 7 ty
phoons; 5 hurricanes and storms, and
1 railroad accident.
Aid Chinese, Too.
There were three each of earth
quake, famines and mine disasters;
one typhoid epidemic, two volcanic
eruptions, two “emomhmen_:s." anfl a
series of mine explosions, forest fires
and similar visitatibns.
Turning to disasters abroad, the re
port said that the Chinese flood, which
cost 13,115 lives and necessitated aird
from the Red Cross to 100,000 people,
headed the list. Reliei was given in
many other foreign disasters, how
ever.
MISSIONARY SEES WIFE BEHEADED BY CANNIBALS
Tied to a tree directly in front of
the place where his wife was mutilat
ed, her heart torn out, her head cut
off and her blood scattered over the
ground, Dr. Alex Christiansen, a
Swedish missionary,”has become mafl
since returning to civilization from
India.
Dr. Christiansen and his wife,
against the advice of those-who knew
+he great danger in the undertaking,
ventured into the Hukong valley for
the purpose of converting the head
hunting natives to Christianity.
M- Comes Out Alive.
Nothing was heard of the pair for
many months; then Dr. Christiansen
appeared, a haggard, broken man. He
told how Mrs. Christiansen and him
self had been seized at the first vil
lage in the valley.
The missionary was promptly put
to work in the amber mines on the
outskirts of the settlement. Mrs. Chris
tiansen was kept in captivity by the
chief of the tribe. ,
Christiansen was not a robust man at
the best, and after only a month of
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{ONLY THE CO-OPERATION OF
iLAW-ABIDING CITIZENS CAN
i SAVE SUPPLY, HE SAYS.
'BE CURIOSITIES IN 10 YEARS
!Heavy Penalties Are Provided for
Seiners and Dynamiters Under the
' New Law. State Offers Reward for
{ Capture of Guilty.
l Unless the law-abiding citizens of
| Georgia co-operate in the enforcement
|of the new fish protection laws passed
fhy the ‘last session of the legislature
Ithe time is near at hand when fish will
{be a curiosity in this state where they
abounded a few years ago, according
to Peter S. Twitty, state game and
| fish commissioner,
i “A careful estimate of the fish be
{ing caught today indicates that there
|are only a fourth as many as there
Iwcrc a decade ago in Georgia streams.
| At that rate of disappearance there
| . .
‘t\\'xll be none at all in the next ten years.
t It is not difficult to figure out where
‘tthc fish have gone. In the years when
{they were plentiful fishermen formed
Ilhc habit of seining the streams, or
|trapping them, then selecting the mar
| ketdble ones and leaving the smaller
lones to die on the banks of the
e : ‘
i There were others who followed the
| more despicable habit of dynamiting
| streams. ‘
| The situation became so serious that\
Ithe last legisiature passed a law pro
{ hibiting the catching ot fish in any|
{manner except with a hook and line|
{for a period of five years.
1 Will Pay Citizens $5O.
[ oomg encourage private citizens in‘
!thcir efforts to aid in the enforcement
{of the fishing laws, this department
{has arranged to pay one-hali of 1110{
|fine imposed upon a law violator to
{any citizen causing his arrest and con
|viction. The minimum fine for the
| very unsportsmanlike custom of dy
‘namiting fish is $lOO and all court‘
|costs, to which there can be added a
jthree months’ ‘term in jail or on the
lchain gang. The minmum penalty for‘
lany other violation of the fishing law
lis §25, to which a 30-day jail or 4:hain‘
{gang sentence can be added.
| “In addition to participation in the
| fine the state game and fish depart
| ment hereby offers a reward of $3O
i?ir»r the arrest ‘and conviction of any
[ person dynamiting fish, and of $25
{for any person violating any other
[provision of the new law.
{ “The game and fish department
{does not desire to discourage clean
jand sportsmanlike fishing, by the va
| cationist or the law-abiding commer
lcial fisherman, but it doés intend to
{stop the wanton and wasteful de
{struction that has been going on for
§_\'cars in Georgia, and that will con
{vert a fish into a curiosity in this state
{if it is not stpped right away.” |
STATE AGRICULTURAL STA
TIONS ARE CO-OPERATING
IN AN INVESTIGATION.
Twenty-nine state agricultural ex
periment stations are co-operating to
learn what makes quality and palata
bility in meat.
Their discoveries are expected to
play an important part in the future
breeding of live stock.
The experimental program is being
undertaken under the auspices of the
National Live Stock and Meat Board,
of which Dean F. B. Mumford of the
University of Missouri is chairman. It
has the approval of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, agricultural col
leges, the American Society of Animal
Production and the directors of va
rious experiment stations.
No one experiment station is ex
pected to attempt a solution of the
problem, says Mumford, but each will
take up some phase in which it is es
pecially interested. Subjects for inves
tigation include feeding, breeding
methods of slaughtering and curing
methods of cooking and others.
The fundamental problem in this
study, it is pointed out, is the search
for a standard of measurement for
quality and palatability.
the torture of the amber mines—holes
about two feet in diameter leading
many feet into the ground—his health
was undermined.
To punish him for not working
more efficiently he was forced to see
his wife die in agony. He himselt
would have’ been the victim of similar
POLL SHOWS GREAT MAJORITY OF
LEGISLATORS OPPOSE EXTRA SESSION
ATLANTA, Ga—Of 135 members
of the Georgia house of representa
tives who have replied to queries con
cerning their stand on’ an extra ses
sion of the Georgia legislature more
than two-thirds are opposed to a call
for an extra session, according to Rep
resentative J. H. Milner, of Dodge
county, who has been taking a poll of
the members of the house. 3
“The great majority of the house
members who have written me de
clare that they took the people of the
state seriously when biennial sessions
were voted,” Representative Milner
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 3, 1925
FROM BOTTOM OF THE SEA
COME SURPRISING THINGS
Some surprising things come out
of the sea, for it is rich not only in
fishes but in work of art. Remark
able treasures have been dredged
from the Bay of Naples, and only
a few months ago a diver sighted a
drowned city off the north African
coast. Now some poor Greek fish
ermen at Marathon have raised a
beautiful bronze statue which was
lying 20 fathoms under the sea. Ex
perfs say it is a charming figure of
a boy, and belongs to the hest pe
riod of Greek art, 2,300 years ago.
It is probably a relic of some ship
wreck, or was thrown overboard
during a storm.
NEW JERSEY COMPANY BUYS
2,000 ACRES. WILL GROW
ON LARGE SCALE.
DOUGLAS.—A new agricultural
project of much interest to Coffee
county and surrounding territory is the
coming into Coffee county at or near
Ambrose of the Georgia Farms Inc,
owned by a number of New Jersey
business men familiar with the farming
conditions of the South, and have pur
chased approximately 2,000 -acres of
land in a body, and known as the Fer
guson farm, and the Atlanta Trust,
Company farm. This company is;
planning. to grow' from 1,000 to 8,000
acres in tomatoes under the New Jer
sey spotting system—that is, the plants
will be grown under glass and trans
planted as soon as the cold weather is
sufficiently passed to avoid late frosts.
The company will begin construc
tion at once of the hotbeds, which will|
require thousands of glass sashes, as
well as the construction of large pack-!
ing houses. The company proposes
to operate about eighty plows, and in|
shipping season will need hundreds of
laborers to gather and pack the toma-!
toes for the market. 3
“REDS” WOULD BRING
‘ S IN FOLD
AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR
~ CONGRESS MEETS IN CHICA
| GO. COMMUNIST ACTIVE.
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! WASHINGTON, D C.—Commu
nist agitators are sceking to bring the
f;\meric;m negro into the revolution
ary fold.
. The Anterican negro labor congress
‘which met in Chicago the past week
iis shown in the descriptive literature,
of which official note has been taken
in Washington, to have been organ
ized chiefly by Communists, with
backing from Russia for the purpose
of “awakening to revolutionary sig
nificance” the negroes of America.
| Propaganda.
The quotation is taken from descrip
tive manifesto prepared for the con
gress which has been circulated
through the Communist organizations
on both sides of the Atlantic by the
press bureau of the third internation
ale. It is put out under the signature
of Lovett Ford-Whiman, who is iden
tified as a negro delegate the third in
ternationale.
Negro trade unionists whose partic
ipation in the congress was solicited
were warned by American Federation
of Labor through its president, Wil
liam Green, to refrain from any con
nection with it,
Race Hatred.
.~ In a statement denouncing the
whole purpose of the congress, in
which the manifesto proclaims the
purpose also of redressing what it re
gards as the social grievances of the
American negroes, Mr. Green declares
“it will not be heid to benefit the ne
gro but to instill into the lives of
that race the most pernicious doctrine
——race hatred.”
A number of trades organizations
have been ‘“‘deceived into sending del
cgates” Mr. Green states in warning
“all negro members of trade unions
that hey are being led into a trap that
will eventually be their undoing.”
As uppermost among the social de
mands of the negro “workers- and
peasants of the southern provinces of
North America,” to which the con
gress addressed itself, the' manifesto
includes the “abolition of *Jim Crow
-Ism’ or racial segregation.”
fate, but the tribe which held him
icaptive was attacked by savage neigh
'bors and in the melee Dr. Christian
'sen made his escape.
| The natives in the great Hukong
|\'alley, between Burma and Assam,
'with its unexplored jungles and sav
'age tribes of Nagas, still worship the
declared. “They believe the pecple of
the state want the legislature to meet
less often, rather than oftener.
“Of tourse they do not desire to
work any hardship upon the old sol
diers, but they do not ?elieve that
any more would be done for the vet
erans at an extra session than was
done at the last regular session.”
Although Governor Walker has not
committed hinmself as to his extra ses
sion plans it has been persistently re
ported that he has about decided to
issue a call for an extra session dur
ing the early part of December.
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;MAN WHO CAME TO U. §. WITH
| FLOURISH OF TRUMPETS
i SINGS HIS SWAN SONG.
'HE PLAYED HORSE WITH ALL
!“I Await Fresh Crown of Thorns on
| My Still Bleeding Forehead,” He
| Says. “Financial Wizard” Finds All
; Of His Work Discredited.
| PARIS, France.—Joseph Caillaux
lcamc out from behind his smoke
| screen today and sang his swan song
las finance minister.
! His head is now ready for the guil
ilotinc of the political party which he
created.
What he said under a monster tent
iinto the ears of 1200 local constituents
‘at Chateau-du-Loir, a small town in
the Department of Sarthe, 136 miles
southwest of Paris, he might just
mig
f\\'cll have handed out in a stateme
at the financé ministry on the banks
%of the Seine in the Frenchh capital.
| Ready to Return. to Ranks.
After bemoaning for an hour the
financial miseries of his country and
the ingratitude of everybody to him
self, he wound up: |
“As for myself I shall only be too
glad to return to the ranks and make
my voice heard in the senate, where
you sent me. I have experienced and
ro doubt shall again experience severe
trials. |
“I- await fresh crowns of thorns on
my still bleeding forehead. What does
that matter? In our forests of the
Sarthe there are some old oak trees
which lightning has struck, but still
they stand. Like them I shall stand
firm for our repubiic against reaction
aries of the state and feudal lords of
capitalism.” : l
His discourse was such a speech as
could be expected from a tricky poli
tician who improvises daily and talks
of his plans, but has none except that!
of expediency.
Associates Lose Patience.
For six months he has played horse
with everybody. Confronted at Wash
ington with statements he made in
London, he sidestepped. Urged by his
party associates to make good his|
claims as a finance expert, he has fed
them on platitudes until they no long
er have patience with him. '
. First and last with him has been|
Caillaux and Caillaux’s political fu-|
ture.
Meantime nothing has been accom
plished, the franc has kept on sinking,
and disgust with his I)rocr_a.~tinating|
methods has accumulated in c\'cryi
camp that has tried to follow his
shifting mentality. Instead of I)ring-’
ing the rabbit out of the magician’s|
hat he has brought his country to the|
verge of financail chaos. ‘
2000 TONS OF INSECTS DE
STROYED TO PREVENT IN
. VASION OF NEW AREAS.
MEXICO CITY.—A report from
the president of the national junta for
the campaign against the locust indi
cates that the fight to prevent the in
vasion of hitherto free areas is prov
ing successful. The areas now infested
with the pest should be free by the
end of the year.
It is estimated that 80 per cent of
the pest has been destroyed, totaling
slightly in excess of 2000 tons of lo
custs, grasshoppers and eggs.
Efforts have been concentrated
largely in destroying the new genera
tion in the states where most damage
has been done, with a view to pre
venting invasion of the rich agricul
tural states on the Pacific coast and
in the northwest, where for a time it
was feared the locusts would spread.
The swarms of locust have be
come so dense in some sections as to
ing so dense in some sections as to
repder it necessary for trains to pro
ceed with all caution where they had
clogged up the tracks.
If the campaign continues unabated
it is believed the stamp tax, levied for
the ‘extermination of the pest, will
shortly be abolished. The damage un
doubtedly will run into millions of
pesos.
| “Nats'—spirits which are supposed to
inhabit trees.
Human beings periodically are of
fered up as sacrifices to appease these
gods. Usually the victims of the sac
rifice are enemy tribesmen who have
been captured in warfare or when
lost in the jungle.
| Invariably the prisoner is beheaded
'2nd his blood scattered about to soak
!xhe ground. HowevVer, one tribe bur
jes its sacrifice in the earth with only
‘his head above the ground and drive
cattle over the spot until his life is
;tramped out. ;
PET DOG WALKS 630 MILES
" BACK HOME IN THREE DAYS
; A homesick dog walked 630 miles
in three days from Kankakee, 111, to
Avoca, Minn., to return to his former
+ome, The dog was owned by Arthur
Berry, who took the animal to the
farm of his brother, Edward, 630 miles
away. A few days later the dog dis
appeared from his new home, arriving
three days later at his old home. The
dog was footsore and thin,
PLAN NEW DOLLAR COIN;
PART GOLD, PART SILVER
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Ad
mitting failure to popularize the
silver dollar and the $2 bill treas
ury officials virtually have decided
to mint a new coin, a combination
gold and silver dollar, because of
rapid deterioration of paper money.
The proposed new coin will be
of distinctive appearance, possibly
a gold center and a rim of silver,
and will be slightly larger than a
quarter. Banking and merchandis
ing interests which handle large
sums of money have indicated that
such a substitute for the dollar bill
would be desirable.
Those who prefer the dollar bill,
the common laborer of American
currency, still will be able to ob
tain it, but officials point out that
the paper dollar has a life of only
six to ten months. .
'NECKS
iNECK ARE HIDDEN,
l BUT THE KNEES? AH
A SENSATIONAL EFFECT IS
| STAGED AT AN ELABORATE
FASHION SHOW.
BERLIN.—Eve, clad in a hat, a
jmuff and| a smile—
i This was the sensational closing ef
fect of an elaborate fashion show
staged in the marble hall of the Zoo
—Berlin’s biggest assembly place—re
cently, indicating that Berlin is back
Ito normalcy.
The fashions themselves were far
!less revealing. The princess reigned,
but it had high and ‘“half high” col:
lars of all known varieties, some con
cealing the neck entirely. The reve
lations were confined entirely around
the knees,
The ensemble—meaning the three
piece suit—has triumphed. Even the
pajamas in three pieces, including an
overcoat,
} Metal effects predominate, especial
1y around the collars, which are cov
ered with gold or other metals or
‘with pearls.
~ Green and wine-red are the fash-|
jonable colors, together with black
and white for evening gowns. ‘
$2,000,000 PRICE OF ‘
200,000-ACRE TRACT
i e
'NORTHERNERS BUY LAND IN
~ ECHOLS AND CLINCH FOR
BIG PAPER PLANT.
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VALDOSTA, Ga-—~The sale of
200,000 acres of pine-timbered lan(l!
situated in Clinch and Echols coun
ties to W. J. Lawrence, of Kalamazoo,
Mich.,, C. K. Williams and C. -H.
Knight, of Easton, Pa., has been an
nounced here by George W. Varn, of‘
Valdosta, the purchase price being
given at approximately $2,000,000. |
It.is learned indirectly that the pur-{
chase of this land ‘means the estab
lishment of one of the largest paper{
manufacturing plants in the south for
the purpose of consuming the pulp
which is to be ground from the pine
trecs on the property.
Mr. Lawrence is prominently con
nected with large paper manufactur
ing concerns in the north and Canada.
Mr. Williams is the head of a large
paint manufacturing concern at Eas
ton, Penn., and Mr. Knight with the
Vero Chemical Company, of Milwau
kee and Freemont, Canada. All of
these interests are connected in a way
with each other. 5
Messrs, Lawrence, Williams and
Knight have visited Valdosta and
spent some time here perfecting the
details of the purchase. They were
accompanied by their attorneys.
nected in an unbroken tract, with 18
miles of frontage on the Suwanee riyv
er, and extends along the Florida state
line through both counties.
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- BUYS ROLLING STOCK
| o ;
FIVE BIG PASSENGER ENGINES
i AND 1,000 BOX CARS, WITH
;t $645,000 IN RAIL ORDERS.
, —_—
. President L. A. Downs, of the Cen
‘tral of Georgia Railway, announced
iSaturday that the Central of Georgia
‘will purchase for immediate delivery
five mountain type locomotives, 1,000
ventilated box cars, and $645,000 worth
of steel rails,
. The locomotives are to be put in
‘through passenger service, their pur
‘chase being mecessitated by the opera
tion of the new trains put on by the
Cengral this year, The Seminole Ex
press and the Flamingo. The Fla
mingo runs from Detroit, Cleveland
‘and Cincinnati to Florida via Atlanta.
The Seminole Express runs between
' Chicago St. Louis and _]acksmwillc‘
via Birmingham. Commencing No
‘vember 1, the railroad will run eight
‘through passenger trains in each di
rection between the west and south
‘and is preparing for an unprecedented
passenger ‘traffic.
| Wil Borrow $5,120,000.00.
| Application has been made to the
Interstate Commerce Commission .to
borrow $5,120,000 under an equipment
trust to pay for tHe new equipment.
President Downs is optimistic about
the record-breaking business handled
by the Central of Georgia in 1925,
which reflects favorable conditions in
the south, and said the Central of,
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VOL. 43.—N0. 10
MANY NEVER RETURN AFTER
SETTING OUT TO NORTH.
LIE IN HIDDEN GRAVES.
Vast Fields of Ice and Snow Devour
Many Sturdy Craft and Bodies of
Herces Who Have Dared Their
Deadly Oceans.
| The great drama of the North is
full of tales of lost ships and men.
Enormous is the toll in life and prop
erty, that the Arctic, swith its bleak,
unrelenting ice packs and its blinding
snows and deadly cold, takes® from
those who brave its seas.
Here and there, ou this bleak shore
or that, the gaunt skeletons of lost
ships’ stand stark in the ice. These
silent markers tell meager, surring
stories of disaster. Sometimes there
is only silence, with not even a brg
'kvn mast to mark the grave of a ship
‘and brave men,
Three expeditions of explorers, how
ever, within recent months have es
caped the grip of the Arctic.
‘ Capt. Roald Amundsen and his
'men returned safely from a dash to
the North Pole in awplanes—but they
leit one of their machines behind in
t!h(‘ grip of Arctic ice.
. Capt. Donald B. MacMillan and his
’mcn. fighting through terrific storms,
have returned from a similar expedi
iti(m.
- Capt. Amundsen’s ship, the Maud,
has returned safely to port after drift
ing for several years in Arctic ice
floes.
Now these three rank among the
few who have gone to the Arctic in
ships without some loss of life.
' Others Less Fortunate.
Others have been less fortunate.
In 1914 the Stefanson expedition
went into the Arctic in a sturdy ship.
The ship, the Karluk, sank in the ice
dotted Arctic seas, and the men of
the party set out afoot to find aid and
to save themselves.
Not long ago, however, another ex
ploring parfy came upon a grim row
of graves about 65 miles from the
spot where the Karluk sank. In the
graves were the bodies of the men of
the Stefanson expedition. Near them
were sleds and bones of the dogs
they had tried in vain to use to escape
‘the grim hand of the North, All had
perished.
William "Nutting and three com
panions set out from Norway in the
ship Lief Erickson in 1924 to fpllow
the Viking trail to America. In due
time they reached and departed from
!thc coast of Greenland. Then they dis
appeared. That is all.
The Erebus and the Terror, com
panion ships, with crews of 129 men,
sailed for the Arctic in May, 1845,
But neither of the ships nor any of
the men returned. Thirty relief expedi
tions in as many years went in search
'of them, but all in vain. In 1859 a
scrap of paper—a farewell note to the
'world written by one of the men—-
‘established the fact that all had per
ished. % g
: Drifted in Ice Two Years.
It is an oft-told tale how the
Jeanette entered an ice pack near Her
ald Island, never to emerge from it.
For two years the ship drifted in the
grip of the ice. For two years Com
mander George De Long and his men
hoped that the ice would break away
from them. Then, June 12, 1881, the
ice crushed the ship as if it had been
a toy. The men were shelterless on
an ice floe in mid-ocean.
In a superb effort to make their
way back to food and hearthfires the
commander and nine of his men per
ished. George W. Melville, the chief
engineer, and nine men, after unspeak
abje hardships, reached a little Rus
sian village on the Lena delta.
In 1892 Bjorling and Kallstenius,
two Swedish boys, in a 32-ton vessel
with a crew of three, set out to see
what the North might have in store
for them. A year later a whaler found
i their ship crushed in the ice and the
I'body of one of the boys buried under
a pile of rock on the coast nearby.
That was all that ever was heard of
the gallant crew.
The Victory was the first steam ves
isel to enter the Arctic.c Her men
'ab;mdoned her in the ice and, after a
500-mile journey, saved themselves by
'finding the cache of another lost ship.
Today maps guide the explorers in
to all but the most remote sections.
of the Arctic. But no map, no familiar
guide-posts, cheered Sir Hugh Wil
loughby when he took the Bona Spe
ranza into the North in 1503. The
ship reached Nova Zembia. Some
’Rnssi;xn fisherfolk later found it in the
ice crushed, its men dead.
l May Hear Strange Echoes. :
| Perhaps in the dead of the northern
night here can be heard strange echoes
lof the long line of ships that have
surrendered their commands in the
lice. Perhaps, too, there are whisper
ings of lost commanders and lost
Crews. ~
But seekers of the North who re
turn to civilization to tell their stir
ring tales will explain that there are
no €choes, no whisperings in the wild
‘wastes of ice and snow. '
~ There is only the li‘aring white si
lence of the short sufhmer, the gray
silence of the long twilight, and the
star-spangled darkness of the long
winter night.
| 2,000,000 YEARS OLD.
. Fossils of two crocodiles, estimated
to be 2,000,000 years old, and thougit
to be the most complete and best pre
served specimens of this kind yet dis
covered, have been unearthed in South
Dakota’s White river bad lands.