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Atlanta ital VOL. XXII. NO. 71. CHARLES W. MORSE INDICTED AGAIN U.S.DESWEME OfIDEREOTOPROCEED TO 2MEXICSN PORTS Two AmeiTcans Are Killed by Bandits Near Pala yadas Carranza Still Losing Forces, Report WASHINGTON, May 3.—American destroyers have been ordered to Vera ■ * Crux and Tampico to protect Ameri cans there. The navy department acted on the request of the state department, where it was explained today that the warships would take aboard Americans in those ports in event that 'should become necessary. It was said that the vessels would not. intervene in Mexican affairs and that their dispatch was a precau ■t -ta y measure. Only the cruiser Sacramaento now is on the east coast of Mexico. She was last re ported at Tampico. Outbreaks Reported No reports of any disturbances in I either Vera Cruz or Tampico have i been received, by the state depart ment, but revolutionary outbreaks I have occurred near both ports. Advices to the government today said the line between Mexico City I and Vera Cruz had been cut, but they did not indicate the afttent of damage. This line runs through the northern part of the state of Tex aeala the governor and military com mander of which were reported last week to have joined the Sonora rev olution. Bequest Granted President Wilson has granted the request of Mexican federal army of ficers that they be allowed to pass over States territory en route to Mexico City from the rebellious stafte of Sonora, it was learned today, j The president in taking this step, ■ through the state department, how- | ever, recognized the vigorous protest . of Governor Hobby, of Texas, against | the passage of the Mexican officers i across the territory of that state. The officers may cross Arizona and New Mexico, whose governors agreed to allow their passage, but may not enter Texas in their return to Mex- j ico City. Mr. Wilson’s action in permitting transit of the Carranza officers was interpetcd here as showing that the president does not want to be put in the light in any way of being in sympathy with the /Obregon rebels and does not want to embarrass the Carranza government in dealing with the revolutin. Second Action Taken This was the second action taken by the president in connection with Mexican revolt. Secretary Colby re cently ruled that firms and citizens of United States could pay cus toms duty to the defacto Sonora au thorities and be free from further obligations, although the Carranza government contended that it event ually would have to receive the duty. Officials here explained that the United States could not recognize the closure by the Mexican government of the Sonora ports of entry unless they were closed in fact, and that this policy was customary. The Carranza officers requesting transit over American territory were General Jose Rios and General Man uel Gamboa and officers of their staffs and their families. They were at Hermosillo, capital of Sonora, when that state broke with the fed eral government, and remaining loyal to Carranza, they wanted to return to Mexico City. The officers stated they would travel over United States territory without arms or uniform. There has been no disposition at the state department here to frown on the request. Storm of Protest It Is understood that the officers will go on the Southern Pacific and Ei Paso and Southwestern railroads from Nogales, Arlz., along the bor der across Arizona and New Mexico, to a point close to El Paso., Tex., which is at the junctilon of New Mexico and Texas and at that, point cross into Mexico. The request of the few Mexican of ficers over United States territory was given out in official quarters er roneously as being a request from the Carranza government to dis patch a body of combatant troops across American soil to launch an attack on the rebels In Sonora. This impression caused a storm of pro test in the senate. Mr. Ashurst, Ari zona, declared that his state would independently bar the Carranza troops if need be. Two American citizens, Eben Fran cis Greenlaw and his minor son, were killed by Mexican bandits yes terday, the state department was in formed today by the American em bassy in Mexico City. AMERICANS ARE ORDERED OUT OF JUAREZ, REPORT JUAREZ, May 3.—Authorities rep resenting the United States govern ment here announced last night that Americans had been ordered out of Juarez in view of an impending bat tle. Saloons and gambling houses were closed, It also was reported. Officials representing Carranza state, however, that negotiations for the peaceful surrender of the city still are under way. Efforts to pre vent a battle so close to the border are being made to preclude the pos sibility of United States forces cross ing to protect American interests. Free to Goitre Sufferers. Any reader of this paper suffering from GOITRE (big neck) can get free information telling how to cure it at. home without operation, danger of discomfort, by writing Dr. Rock, the eminent GOITRE Specialist, Box 737, Dept. 6, Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Rock makes absolutely no charge for his services and you are cured sound and well, so If you, a friend or relative, suffer from GOITRE, you should write him at once.—(Advt.) Fine Crop of Boy Babies i SBRS€ANTWrH R4/WAM This is the boys’ year! So says Sergeant Ruth Farnam, the only American woman- soldier, who has received word from Serbia that the stork is leaving all boys in that country—no girls this season. This is the way Providence has of evening things up, thinks Ser geant Farnam, who, having wit nessed the slaying of Serbia’s manhood in battle, declares this is an effort on the part of nature to restore that little kingdom's men. A fighter in the’ field of battle and an officer in the cavalry de partment of the Royal Serbian army, Sergeant Ruth Farnam is today doing her utmost to help rehabilitate Serbia through her lectures, under the management of the Serbian Child Welfare as sociation. $2,500 REWARD OFFERED IN WALL STREET THEFTS NEW YORK, May 3. —A reward of $2,500 was offered today through newspaper advertisements for infor mation leading to arrest and extra dition of Jules W. (Nicky) Arn stein and Nicholas Cohen, alleged “master minds” behind the theft of $5,000,000 in securities from Wall street concerns. The reward was offered by Henry A. Gildesleeve, trustee in bankruptcy of Arnstein, and Saul S. Myers, coun sel for the trustee and the National Surety company. Renewed activity/ in the hunt for Arnstein, -which began several weeks ago, followed an alleged confession by Joseph Gluck, a messenger boy. that he turned over to Arnstein more than $1,000,000 worth of stolen se curities. Detectives were working on two new tips today—one that Arnstein and Cohen were hiding in Cleveland and another that they were on a large estate near New York City. Automobile Is Halted by Hostile Parade in Panama PANAMA, May 2.—Several thou sand Panamanians tonight marched through the streets in a torchlight parade as a protest against the ac quisition>by the United States of the major portion of Taboga island for the purpose of fortification as a part of the pacific defense scheme of the Panama canal. An automo bile in which Pershing was driving to a ball in his honor at the Union club was halted by the procession and forced to return to the hotel. Mobs later formed in the streets, and irresponsible persons threw stones at prominent Panama of ficials, a number of whom where in jured. Mounted policemen, acting on orders of Mayor Boyd, charged and dispersed the demonstrators. Major General Chase E. Kennedy, commander of the American troops in the canal zone, following receipt of reports of the stone-throwing, or dered all American officers attending the ball to leave immediately. Earlier In the evening General Per shing attended- a reception at the Balboa administration building, where thousands of American em ployes shook hands with him. To morrow he will inspect the Atlantic canal defenses. Wets Will Make Final Effort to Repeal Law WASHINGTON, May 3.—The final effort at this session of congress to repeal the Volstead nrohibition en forcement law probably will be made in the house today or tomorrow. All the wets admit the effort will fail, but are desirous of putting all members on record the vote to be used during the next campaign. The prohibition question and particularly the Volstead law is expected to be as issue in-many districts. Another vote also is desired to see if reaction against the drastic dry law is increasing or decreasing. Sam Olive Enters Race for Congress AUGUSTA, Ga., May 3.—Sam L. Olive, president of the Georgia sen ate, has formally announced - his candidacy for congress in the Tenth district. It Is expected that Repre sentative Carl Vinson will announce for re-election some time soon. Mr. Olive’s announcement caused nc surprise here, although it had been thought that he would not make the race until two years hence. World War Veterans On Boston “Gun Crew” BOSTON.—One hundred and twen ty policemen will receive three prac tice sessions in machine gun and riot gun fire in preparation for any disturbances. All members of this force are veterans of the World war. KNOX RESOLUTION ONPEIMTEISI TOMHE Two Courses of Action De bated by Democrats> One to Filibuster Other to Let Vote Take Place BY DAVID J7 AW HENCE (Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) WASHINGTON, May 3.—-Neither President Wilson nor the Democrats in the senate who follow his leader ship are particularly pleased with the changes made by Senator Knox in the resolution declaring a state of peace, which was passed by the Republican majority in the house of representa tives, but it is a fact that the Knox proposal Is less objectionable than its predecessor and makes more difficult a veto message from the White House Two courses of action are being de bated by the Democrats —whether to center their opposition on the Knox resolution and by continuous talk de lay action until after the two politi cal conventions next month have nominated candidates for the presi dency or to let the resolution pass— for the Republicans probably have the votes —and thus be able, when the | conventions arrive, to point out that I the joint resolution doesn’t make peace. .Senator Knox, who once was an at torney general and a secretary of state of the United States, re-wrote •the house resolution with an eye to future criticism. He recognized at once that the congress could not bind the executive branch of the govern ment as to the kind of treaty of peace it should negotiate and that it would be the simplest thing in the world fo: x President Wilson to veto the resolu tion and cite weighty precedents to support his action. So, after repeal ing all the war-time legislation of a domestic character and forbidding, moreover, the disposition of the Ger man property in the United States taken by authority of the trading with the enemy act, another congres sional privilege, the Knox resolution merely would “request” the president to open peace negotiations with Ger many. In so far as the resolution de clares that the United States doesn’t waive any rights in the meantime which it might get under the treaty of Versailles, this, too, merely would be the expression of an opinion by congress and would of course not a tually bind a.foreign government un less so notified by the executive branch of the United States govern ment with whom it deals exclusively in matters of the kind. The Veto Power Congress cannot under our consti tution enter into communication or negotations with foreign govern ments. Thus broadly speaking President Wilson cannot veto the Knox resolu tion merely because it expresses an opinion or requests him to adopt a certain course. And before the reso lution is ’finally passed by the sen- | ate, the fact that congress “re quests” rather than "orders” the executive branch of the government to safeguard all claims or rights which would otherwise come to us under the treaty of Versailles Itself will be emphasized, and all consti tutional or technical objections to the Knox resolution will have been removed. The president would have to choose some general ground for va toeing the Knox resolution. And his action would be unprecedented. He could say that the treaty of Versail les alread- is in operat x d that he believes it to be the best compro mise agreement that can be obtained and a more advSHtageous pact to the United States than a separate peace with Germany. He could moreover refuse to negotiate with Germany separately, arguing that it would be a violation of the terms of the armistice agreement signed by all the associated powers as the basis of peace and a withdrawal of our moral obligation to stand with the allies with whom we fought the war. Not So Easy But the task of vetoing a message whose main action merely is a repeal of domestic legislation and a re quest for a new treaty is not going to be an easy one for the president and the Democratic party. Indeed, house Democrats themselves propos ed a substitute resolution repealing wartime laws. From the president’s viewpoint, it might be more com fortable not to sign the joint reso lution at all but allow it to become law after the lapse of ten days and then to send back to the senate the treaty of Versailles as his defiant answer to the request for a separate peace with Germany. This would throw the whole matter into the campaign as the president on the one hand and Senator Lodge, on the other, are eager to do. But the re quest for a “separate peace with Germany” was denounced by Presi dent Wilson on his western trip and from the statement issued by Homei Cummings, the Deocratic national chairman, it is apparent that the Democrats will try to revive the wartime hate of Germany by refus ing to “beg the Huns to make a sep arate peace.” On the other hand the demand in the allied countries for a revision of the treaty of Versailles has been taken up to some extent in the Unit ed States and there are political groups who would be quick to con tend that hope of forcing a revision of the Versailles treaty lies tn the negotiation of a separate peace with Germany. Senator Knox speaks on Wednes day in defense of his resolution. Ad ministration Democrats led b-- Sen ators Hitchcock and Underwood will make reply. There will be plenty of talk for the next month, possibly a I repeal of some'of the war-time laws, but no commercial agreements of treaties with Germany or Austria until the American people at the polls next November have decided whether they want the treaty of Versailles with reservations or in terpretations or a new treaty with Germany altogether. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920. POLISH FORCES SAID TO HAVE OCCUPIED KIEV WARSAW, May 3.—Polish forces occupied Kiev yesterday, according to extra editions of the newspapers here today. General Pilsudski, president of the Polish state, led the troops into the city, the newspapers say. Winnica and Zhmerinka, approx imately 52 miles southwest of Kiev have been retaken by the Poles and Ukranians after three days of fight ing. The reds have been pushed across the Bug river. Stubborn fighting is going on Sn the open country along the Telrow river in the vicinity of Melin. Chinese mercenaries are being used by the Bolshevik to stem the eastern sweep of Polish and Ukrain ian forces, said Saturday’s official commonique. A number of Chinese have been captured, it was announc ed. Material taken by the Poles in clude 100 locomotives, three armored trains, several tanks and one entire air squadron. Ukrainian troops assisted the Poles, the advices said, adding that the’ soviets were seriously menaced by uprisings throughout the Ukraine. Poles were maintaining their pripet line without serious opposition. GEORGIANS TO FIGHT AGAINST ENTRANCE OF BOLSHEVIKI CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.—The seizure of Baku, on the western coast of the Caspian sea, by the Rus sian Bolsheviki on April 28, has aroused the Georgians, who have called four additional classes to arms and announced they will not permit the Reds to enter Gergia t ugh Azerbaijan. Thus fare they have been able to prevent the Bolsheviki from enter ing through the mountain passes in the vicinity of Vladikavkaz. ?he capture of Baku gives the Bolsheviki virtual control of Azer baijan. Its seizure makes the Ar menian situation more precarious as the Bolsheviki doubtless will help the Moslem Azerbaijan opposition to Armenia. In this way Mustapha Kemal Pasha’s Turkish nationalist Mohammedan forces would be able to connect with the Axerbaijans, forming a connection with the Mos lems in Turkestan byway of the Caspian sea and Persia. NEW HEARING ON STEEL DECISION DENIED BY COURT WASHINGTON, May 3.—The su preme court' refused to grant the government’s request for a rehearing of the anti-trust suit against the United States Steel corporation. The government’s motion for a re hearing was based principally on the contention that the couurt’s decision in the steel case conflicted with that of April 26 ordering the dissolution of the Reading company and certain of its rail and coal subsidiaries. Both cases were decided by a four to three decision. Here Are Candidates For Prohibitionists MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 3.—Dr. P. A. Baker, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, today gave out a statement In which he ad vised that prohibitionists of the coun try may safely support, if nominated, Hoover, Wood, Lowden, McAdoo, Hughes, Poindexter or William J. Bryan. Took Two Wills to Make This Bequest BOSTON.—WIien James A. Wool son died he bequeathed a sum for the building of a left wing to the Cambridge hospital. The amount was not sufficient. His widow died March 27, and her will, filed recently, pro vided for making up the deficit. Mrs. Woolson left $70,000 to public insti tutions. 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O State , 50 REPORTED DEAD. 150 INJURED 111 OKLAHOMA STORM Little Town of Peggs Swept Away by Tornado Sun day Not a House Left Standing MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3.—Fifty persons are reported killed and more than 150 injured in a storm that swept the little .town of Peggs, Okla., in Cherokee county last night. Dispatches to the Muskogee Times- Democrat, from Locust Grover and Tahlequah, where the dead and in jured are being taken, stated that not a house was left standing in Peggs. Relief trains with doctors and nurses left Muskogee and Tahlequah early today for Peggs. Wire communication with the town was cut off, by the storm. All doctors and nurses in Tahle quah also have gone. Practically every store in Tahlequah, which is the county seat of Cherokee county, has closed and several hundred peo ple have gone to Peggs to do rescue work. Thirty-seven bodies have been re covered by rescuers from wrecked houses in the town of Peggs, swept by a storm last night, according to a telephone report from TaJjlequah. This information was bropught by a messenger who arrived at Tahle quah today. Twenty of these bodies are reported to have been taken from one building. The little village of. Peggs is on the northern border of Cherokee county about sixty miles east of Tulsa. The place is off the railroad and is situated in the foothills. Those familiar with the roads in the vicinity say it is practically im possible to reach Peggs by motor car. The Tulsa Tribune started a news paper man by airplane to the strick en district this morning. John Littlefield, his wife and six of their seven children were among those killed in the storm, a report to Tahlequah said. The only physician in the town. Dr. W. R. Hill, also was killed. At noon today forty-four bodies had been extricated from the debris resulting from last night’s storm at Peggs, Okla. SEARCHING PARTY SEEKS TO ASCERTAIN DAMAGE CHELSEA, Okla., May 3. —Search- ing parties today spread out over the country north of here to ascertain the' full extent of a tornado that struck just before dusk last night, bringing death to at least five per sons and serious Injury to a dozen more. No estimate of property damage has been made, although it was in dicated it would be heavy. / The district affected is rural and 'as wire communication was para lyzed rk was believed here the exact loss of life and property damage might not be kr wn for some tinie. The storm passed near Chelsea and many persons here watched it twist its way out of sight. . Reports were current here that the storm had struck other nearby towns but owing to wire conditions they could not be verified. Passengers on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train said they had ob served large areas of devastated country districts south of Vinita, but as the train had made no stops they could add nothing definite to the re ports of destruction. Many narrow escapes were report ed. Among those who weathered the storm were Walter Sutherland and eight friends who were riding in a wagon when they saw the storm ap proaching. Sutherland hitched his team to a telephone pole an the party took refuge in a nearby ditch. The storm passed overhead without injuring any of them, but the horses and wagon were carried away. New Chairman of the I U. S. Farm Loan Board % Ip CHARLES E. LOBDELL The appointment by President Wilson of Char Les E. Lobdell as chairman of the farm loan board has been the cause of surprise in political circles in Washington. Mr. Lobdell is a Republican. He has been a member of the board since its organization, and had .been acting as secretary. WITNESS IN BOMB PLOTS JUMPS TO INSTANT DEATH NEW YORK, May 3. —The fact that the government had made sev eral arrests in connection with the nation-wide bomb plots of last June became known today when Andrae Salsedo, who confessed to having printed \ the anarchistic circulars found near,the scene of the outrages, committed suicide by leaping to Park Row from the fourteenth story of an office housing headquarters of the department of justice in this city. William J. Flynn, chief of the de partment’s bureau of investigation, admitted that several other men had been arrested in connection with the plots, that they had confessed to par ticipation and that they had agreed to turn government witnesses. He declined, however, to give their names or to explain what part they had played. Salsedo, also known as “Tony Lazio,” was sleeing with another government witness. Awakening, he stole into the wash room in his un derclothes and hurled himself from a window without awakening his companion. It is believed he took his life rather than appear in court against the other plotters. From Chief Flynn and N. C. Do nato, Salsedo’s lawyer, it was learn ed that the circulars found at the time of the explosions, when attempts were made on the lives of many pub lic men, had been printed in an Italian printing establishment in Brooklyn, where Salsedo was em ployed! According to Donato, his client’s employer asserts he knew nothing of the job, and that Salsedo must have done it in his spare time with out his knowledge. He admitted, however that the circulars headed "Plain Words” and signed “Anar chist Fighters,” had been turned out on his presses. According to Flynn, the suicide of Salsedo, an Italian anarchist who lived in this city with his wife and two children will not affect the government’s case, and through in formation supplied by him and other witnesses, important arrests may be expected. According to Donato, Salsedo, who came to this country about five years ago. did not know English and was not "a man of action.” His attor neys said that when anarchists ask ed him to print the pink circulars he did not appreciate the gravity of his act. Immigration officials at Ellis Is land said a warrant for Salsedo’s deportation had been granted on March 10 on representation by the department of justice that he was an anarchist. The prisoner was not surrendered, however, to the Ellis Island authorities, nor was his war rant returned. Salsedo was held by the depart ment of justice in the hope that a dozen Italians who had fled to Italy or Switzerland would return to the United States. Federal agents did not give reasons for expecting this return. At police headquarters it was ad mitted today that two other arrests had been made here before Salsedo was taken into custody. . The man arrested was Roberto Ei lia, of Brooklyn. The police assert ed he had a loaded revolver, that he had admitted he was an anarchist and that he was editor of a publica tion known as Domani. Arraigned on a charge of violating the Sulli van law by carrying a loaded weapon, he was placed under suspended sen tence and turned over to the depart ment of justice. On information said to have been supplied by Ellia, Vito Marriani, an Italian laborer, was taken into cus tody. The police say he admitted he was an anarchist and supplied infor mation on whicii Salsedo was ar rested. Chief Flynn said Salsedo and oth er government witnesses had ex pressed fear of being murdered by the anarchist plotters if it became known they had confessed. At their own suggestion quarters were arranged for tnem in the Park Row building. There they slept and had their meals, and did not leave the building except for exercise. Salsedo s wife was allowed to visit him frequently. Salsedo’s wife was allowed to vis it him frequently. She is said to have spent much of yesterday with him. News of Salsedo’s death will, give the first information to some of his former confederates, Chief Flynn said, that some of the conspirators had been for a l/>ng time in custody, and might cause them to go into hiding or take especial pains to elude the government who have been watching them. Enough is known, however, according to Flynn, so that none of the principals can long escape. 5 CENTS A COPY. ?1.50 A YEAB. VIOLATION OF SHIP ACT IS CHARGED TO FORMER BANKER • Bill Returned by New York, Federal Grand Jury-Two Other Indictments Are Also Returned NEW YORK,M ay 3.—An Indict ment charging Charles W. Morse with, violating the shipping board act, which prohibits sale of American registered vessels to foreigners, was returned by the federal grand jury here today. With Morse were Indicted Captain W. S. Mitchell, the- United States Steamship company and the J. G. McCollough company. Judge A. N. Hand issued bench warrants upon request of Assistant Federal Dis trict Attorney Simmons, who has been conducting an Investigation lasting four months. The indictments charge that in August, 1917, the steamship John G. McCollough was sold for $500,001 to the government of Tunis, a French protectorate. MORSE SERVED PART » OF SENTENCE HERE Charles W. Morse more than ten years ago was convicted in New ( York of a violation of Vhe national banking act and sentenced to a term of fifteen years in the Atlanta fed eral prison. , He was received in that institu tion on January 3, 1910, and shortly thereafter he commenced a fight for his release. His wife came here aqd conferred with him as often as sne was allowed to see him . The then law firm of Anderson, Felder, Roun tree & Wilson was engaged to rep resent him. On a showing of evi dence regarding his physical condi tion, President Taft commuted his sentence to present service in Jan uary, 1912, two years after he enter ed the prison, and he was released. The examining doctors testified that Morse had brighVs disease in an incurable form. Immediately on being released from the prison he went to Carlsbad, the famous Euro pean health resort, and took the wa ters there for several months. DELEGATES FROM INDIANA MAY GO UNINSTRUCTED 1 INDIANAPOLIS, May B.—lndiana will send an uninstructed delegation to the Republican and Democratic national conventions, it appeared to day. Politicians conceded that none of the four Republican presidential aspirants entered in the primary elections tomorrow will obtain the majority necessary to swing the solid support of Indiana’s thirty-six delegates. The fight for a plurality was gen erally thought to lie between Senator Hiram Johnson and Major General Wood, with Governor Frank Lowden running strong for third place. Sen ator Warren Harding wound up his sneaking tour today. Wood made a whirlwind wind-up today. Senator’ Johnson also closed his campaign. He has spent several days In Indiana making a personal appeal. The Democrats have asked an un instructed delegation from this state and as a result, the names of Gover nor Edwards of New Jersey, and Vice-President Marshall were with drawn early in the campaign. No name is listed for the presidency on the Democratic ballot, but it is ex pected that Herbert Hoover will re ceive quite a number of written-in votes on both tickets. His name was not entered on the Republican ballo I '. Excessive Rainfall | Jeopardizing Crops, Says Commissioner Unprecedented rains have placed the farmers of Georgia in a despe rate' situation, according to J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture, who has been in fifty counties in the past two weeks. “Recently I noticed a statement in the public prints to the effect that 1,500,000 more acres would be planted in cotton this year than were planted last year,” said Commissioner Brown Monday. ‘‘That statement was ab surd on its face. Even if the farm ers wanted to plant more cotton, which is not their desire, they could not do it. The farm labor shortage is acute and desperate throughout the belt. The unprecedented rains have thrown the farmers at least forty days behind their schedule. How are they going to plant more cotton when they are forty days late and haven’t the labor to Cultivate as much as they cultivated last year? The cotton acreage will be substan tially reduced. “I do not wish to seem pessimistic, but I look for a severe food short age next winter. I believe it will be the worst in the history of the country. The south not only will be short in cotton production, but short in food production. The western wheat farmers have the same labor problem that exists in the south. They look for a heavy curtailment of production, x "Thousands of Georgia farmers have not planted cotton and have not planted corn. The rains today and yesterday will throw them back another ten days or two weeks. Cot ton planted late might make a crop if it weren’t for the boll weevil, but late cotton planted under boll weevil conditions is almost doomed in ad vance. Corn planted late might make a crop if it had a good season, but I look for a long drought to follow the rains, and that will ruin the late corn crop.” HE A LS STO MAC 1T TROU BLE AND TAPE WORM AT HOME A sample home treatment which gives quick and. lasting relief in all forms of stomach trouble, Including tape worms or other worms, is being supplied to sufferers by Walter A. Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, Wis. 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