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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1923.
TYPOS GATHER IN
: GOTH CONVENTION
international typographical
. UNION HOLDS ITS ANNUAL
MEETING IN ATLANTA
state news of interest
[Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
!• The State
: Atlanta.—After months of prepara
tion everything was in readiness for
the opening of the sixty-eighth annual
session of the International Typo
graphical Union, which began its ses-
ions in the city auditorium on the
13th with an attendance of 2,500 dele
gates, a great, number of whom came
la three or four days prior to the'
opening.
A number of the international offi
cers have been here for several days
preparing final details for formal
opening of the meeting. These in
clude President .Charles P. Howard,
[Vice President William R. Trotter,
.Charles N. Smith, Hugo Miller and
Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Hays.
The convention proper was not
opened until the 13th, but a social
session was held in the Hotel A ns "
ley, on the 11th, at which hundreds
of delegates and their wives were
•present. Sunday’s program for the
guests included a visit to Grant park
and i viewing the cyclorama of the
Battle of Atlanta.
When the convention settled down
to its business session ,at the city
nuditoruim. President P. L. Rikard, of
Atlanta, was in the chair. The invoca
tion was pronounced by Rev. William
S. Weir, pastor of Fortified Hills Bap
tist church and chaplain of Atlanta
union No. 48.
Addresses of welcome were made
by Mr. Rikard, Governor Clifford
Walker, Mayor Walter A. Sims, C.
B. Grambllng, president of the Geor
gia Federation of Labor; A. C. New
ell, president of the Atlanta chamber
of commerce; Maj. John S^. Cohen, of
the i v Atlanta N ewspaper Publishers'
association, and C. W. Cunningham,
president of the Atlanta Federation
of Trades.
During the afternoon a trips was
made /to Stone Mountain.
Muoh of the preparation made for
the guests has been in the form of en
tertainments. Tuesday’s feature event
was an old-fashioned /barbecue held
at Lakewood park. The barbecue was
lield at four o'clock and special cars
were provided at the auditorium at
three ^o’clock to transport delegates
to the park.
Woman’s Auxiliary No. 1 entertain
ed auxiliary and visiting women at a
luncheon at the Atlanta Woman’s club
during the meeting here, in addition
to various other features which were
programmed.
Headquarters of the International
Union have been moved from Indian
apolis to the Hotel Ansley and the
entire clerical force is engaged in the
task of carrying on the work of the
organization there. For, several days
previous to the convention the laws
committee had been engaged in com
pleting plans for carrying on the con
vention and in considering various
technical questions that have arisen.
In addition to the convention of the
union, the woman’s auxiliary was in
session here at the same time. Con
siderable important business came be
fore this gathering, and speakers
from many parts of the country ad
dressed the delegates.
A banquet marked the high point
of the International Mailers’ union
cention. The union is a part of
the Typographical union. Charles N.
Smith of Brooklyn was presiding offi
cer at the convention, which was ad
dressed by a number of noted speak
ers, including Charles B. Gramling,
president of the Georgia Federation
of Labor; R. E. Gann, Luther H. Still
and John W. Hays.
American And Canadian flags were
used in decorating thee ity auditorium,
where sessions of the convention were
held. The decorations are emblematic
of the spirit of fraternity which domi
nates the gathering.
During the session of the union, J.
B. O’Hara, delegate from West Palm
peach,, states.that'.the ‘committee on
STANDARD MAKES
BIG PRICE CUTS
EFFECT IVE IN ElEV
STATES
INDEPENDENTS CUT PRICES
Sixteen Cents Is Now Ruling Price
Throughout Mlddlewest—Other
Cuts Are Predicted
Chicago.—The Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, serving eleven mid
dle-western states with gasoline, act
ed to fight the rapidly spreading gaso
line price war when it announced a
reduction of 6.6 cents a gallon, bring
ing the retail price down to 15.4 cents,
effective immediately.
This heavj' cut results directly from
the war on high gas prices begun by
Governor W. H. McM^ster, of North
Dakota, which spread like wildfire
through the middle-weBt during the
weekend. It Is effective in South
Dakota, North Dakota,^—Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
Illinois, Indiana,- Mien! inn and north
ern Oklahoma.
During the past three days more
than half a dozen state capitals and
a large number of towns and cities
had announced official attacks on
gasoline prices. At the time the board
of directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana met here to take
blanket action, their branches in va
rious affected districts were meeting
the new prices as fast as officials and
independent companies brought them
down. The reduction in the states
affected averaged three cents a gal
lon.
Now 1C cents a gallon becomes the
ruling price throughout the middle
west, as all independent companies
will be forced down to it. The big
gest private cut previously had been
one of five cents a gallon by inde
pendents in Milwaukee. Independents
fa Iso had gone down to 19 1-2 cents.
Now 16 cents a gallon becomes the
ruling price throughout the middle-
west, as all independent companies
will be forced down to it. The biggest
private cut previously had been one
of five cents a gallon by independents
in Milwaukee. Independents also had
gone down to 19 1-2 cents. i'
The 16-cent price was the one es
tablished by Governor McMasters, in
South Dakota, when he announced
that ihe state supply depot at Mit
chell would sell gas to the public at
that price, bringing the Standard
down from its current price of 23
cents.
The quick spread of the gas price
was spontaneous and unprecedented.
Chicago entered the movement
when city councilmen demanded that
Governor Len Small investigate the
situation with a view to lower prices,
and Small subsequently promised ac
tion.
A dispatch from Aberdeen said the.
South Dakota price had gone down
below 16 cents to 15.5 cents, the low
est in ten years. In Texas, however,
gasoline was reported ranging from,
1.1 cents in Dallas to 19 cents in Hous
ton.
Governor Bryan, of Nebraska, had
telegraphed heads of the leading oil
companies in the state demanding a
come-down to the, 16-cent figure as
established in South Dakota, and state
competition was unofficially threat
ened. In Kentucky, however, Gover
nor Morrow announced that he had no
public fund by which the plan of
Governor McMaster could be followed.
Nevertheless, Standard officials in
Kentucky intimated that a cut was in
prospect.
Has Been Prominent In Republican
Politics For Number Of Years.
Harding’s Intimate Friend
Washington.—Former Representa
tive C. Bascom Slemp of Virginia has
been tendered and has accepted the
position of secretary to President
Coolidge.
Announcement of Mr. Slemp’s ap
pointment was made at the white
house shortly after he had concluded
an hour and *a half conference with
Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Slemp will not be
a Me to close up his personal affairs
and take permanent charge of his of
fice until after Labor Day and, Jn
the meantime, George B. Christian,
Jr., secretary to the late President
Harding, will remain as presidential
secretary.
The appointment of Mr. Slemp came
as a surprise, inasmuch as his name
had not been mentioned in connectipn
with the secretaryship. Among those
who had been talked of as successors
to Mr. Christian, who submitted his
resignation recently, were Edward T.
Clark, who was Mr. Coolidge’s sopre-
tery as vice president, and Benjamin
F. Felt of Boston. Mr. Slemp was
born at Turkey Cove, Lee county,
Virginia, in 1870. He was graduated
from the Virgiuia Military Institute in
1891. He studied law at the Univer
sity of Virgiuia, taught mathematics
at the Virginia Military Institute, and
later practiced law at Big Stone Gap,
Va., his present home.
Mr. Slemp has been prominent in
Republican politics for a number of
years. He formerly was Republican
national committeeman from Virginia
and since 1905 has been chairman of
the Virginian Republican state com
mittee. He was an intimate friend of
the late President Harding, who of
fered him a place on the civil service
commission, later the position of as
sistant secretary of commerce and
more recently the post of ambassador
to Peru. All of the offers were de
clined. i
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37 MINERS TRAPPED
BY BLAST RESCUED;
100 BELIEVED DEAD
Pitiful Scenes Enacted At Mine As
Women And Children Walt In
Vain For Loved Ones
Kemmerer, Wyo.—Fighting their
way through the partially dismantled
portions of frontier number one of
the Kremmerer Coal company, one
mile from here, scene of an explo
sion shortly after eight o’clock in the
morning, rescue workers worker all
night and brought out alive thirty-
seveh of the 138 miners entombed by
the blast. It is feared that approx
imately one hundred men still unac
counted for have perished. y
The explosion occurred in the vi
cinity of the 1,700-foot level of the
mine. Rescue workers, at ,last re
ports, had penetrated tp nearly every
quarter of the- underground workings,
and it was indicated they had brought
out all the /men remaining alive.
Smoke - blackened members of mine
cars, buried in a cave-in on the 1,700-
foot level in the workings in entry
15, gave rise to the belief that fire had
followed the blast which tore down
sections of the roof, ripped up tracks
on which “trip” cars are operated and
dismantled the electric wiring of the
mine, plunging the smoke-filled depths
into darkness. The cause of the ex
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Retail Merchants Open Annual Meet
Richmond, Va.—Fully 500 retail '
merchants of the southern states are
expected to be present when the 1
seventh annual meeting of the South- |
arn Retail Merchants’ conference gets !
under. Delegates are arriving and are ,
bringing scores of retailers from prac
tically every Southern state. Initial
session of the conference will be
featured by th annual address of the
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Washington/ — Members of the
American commission now in \Mex-
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next month, bringing with them the
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