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SCORES AWARD
OF COAL BOARD
AS REACTIONARY
WASHINGTON, Aug. -31.— The
award of the anthracite coal commis
sion, approved by President Wilson
yesterday, is characterized as "the
most reactionary decision that has
been made by an industrial tribunal
during the reconstruction period" by
W. Jett ‘Lauck, consulting economist
for the United Mine Workers, in a
statement made public today, pre
dicting “trouble in the anthracite
field" as a result of the findings,
“The anthracite workers," he said,
“are asked to accept a minimum day
wage of $4.20 as contrasted with $6
per day for the bituminous miners
granted by the bituminous commis
sion, which, by agreement, is now
being increased to $7.50 in Illinois
and $6.75 or $7 in Ohio and Pennsyl
vania. How can the public expect
the United Mine Workers to enforce
acceptance of such a comparatively
discriminating award by the anthra
cite miners, a large majority of whom
do not belong to the union?"
MINERS NOT SO KEEN
TO CALL A STRIKE
WILKESBARRE, Pa„ Aug. 31.
Although expressing dissatisfaction
with the award of the anthracite coal
commission made public yesterday
by President Wilson, strike talk was
not so general today among mem
bers of the United Mine Workers of
America. The award gives the men
wage increases of 17 and 20 per cent.
They asked for at least 27 per cent.
President Wilson’s forceful lan
guage in his telegram to a group of
miners that if their communication
to him not to approve the award
was a threat to strike, that the chal
lenge would be accepted, is expect
ed to cause dissatisfied workers to
act slowly, according to leaders of
the miners* union.
For the third time within a week
leged effort to wreck the homes of
leged efort to wreck the homes of
miners who are remaining loyal to
the Pennsylvania coal company dur
ing the outlaw strike in the Pittston
district. An explosion did heavy
damage to the dwelling occupied by
George Memory and John Booth.
Families of the two men were
thrown from their beds. Two other
aynamltings have occurred. The
first did slight damage to the home
of Michael Condosco. The second oc
curred yesterday and partly wreck
ed the home of Samuel Lafore.
To Try Texan for
Killing Committed
Twenty Years Ago
FORT PAYNE, A»a., Aug. 31.
Kane Cook, prosperous Texas ranch
er. was to go on trial today for an
offense said to have been committed
twenty years ago. He’ arrived here
last night.
• Residents of the Flat Rock neigh
borhood twenty years ago were to
relate how Cook and his brother shot
their way out of the Flat Rock
churchyard one Sunday evening to
gain possession of Cook’s brother's
child. James Powell was killed and
his son, Isaac, so severely wounded
he died later.
The child, who sat upon Kane
Cook’s shoulder during the battle,
was so badly shocked and burned
during the fight, that it died. Kane’s
brother was convicted and served a
five-year term for complicity in the
affair, but he himself had not been
heard from until recently.
Sheriff Chitwood, of Fort Payne,
said Cook’s story had been revealed
by a Re. Roberts, of Alvarado,
Tex., In whom he had confided, and
that the preacher expected a $25 re
ward.
The little church at Sand Mountain
where the tragedy occurred has dis
appeared and many of the witnesses
are dead, but Kane Cook and Wyatt
Powell met face to face today In the
last phase of bitterest family feuds
ever known in northern Alabama.
Three Candidates Are
Opposing U..S. Senator
Smith in S. Carolina
. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 31.—Three
candidates opposed United States Sen
ator E. D. Smith for renomlnatlon in
the state-wide Democratic primaries
in South Carolina today. They are
George Warren, of Hampton; W. C.
Kirby, of Laurens, and former Sen
ator W. P. Pollock, of Cheraw. A
second primary will be necessary un
less one of the four ‘receives a ma
jority vote.
Aside from the senatorial contest,
Interest centered In the race for ad
jutant general between Adjutant Gen
eral W. W. Moore, for re-election,
and Captain A. H. Marchant, of
Orangeburg, a veteran of the world
war, and the contest between Frank
Shealy, chairman of the railroad com
mission, R. L. Moss, D. L. Smith
and D. M. McCaskill.
There are three candidates for
lieutenant governor, Wilson C. Har
vey and Octavius Cohen, of Charles
ton, and O. K. Mauldin, of Greenville.
The registration for the primary
broke records with a total of 152,000.
In the senatorial race, Solicitor
Warren is running on an anti-Vol
stead act platform. _
Brooklyn Car Strike
May Spread to Lanes
Os New York City
NEW YORK, Aug. 81. —The strike
of Brooklyn Rapid Transit employes,
which resulted In almost complete
tie-up of Brooklyn transportation,
today threatened to spread through
out New York City. „ ,
James Serldan, strike leader, de
clared union officials were confer
ring with Interborough railway union
officials regarding a proposed sym
pathetic strike on the subway and
elevated lines in Manhattan and the
B *UnTon chiefs declare the strike 90
ner cent effective In Brooklyn. Com
pany officials today promised to send
out additional subway and elevated
trains, and 500 surface cars equipped
with heavy wire screens. Only six
ty-one subway and « I . eva ' te fi3js*“ B
were operated In Efrooklyn yesterday.
W Meanwhlle the public oom
mission began hearings and Mayor
Hylan continued his endeavors to end
the strike.
Autopsy on Body
Found in Trunk
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 31.
An autoposy was being to”
the body of George M Nott here to
day bv coroner Samuel M. Garlic.
The examination was expected to
disclose just how the man came to
hi Not e Vs h body was found Jammed
intfi a nartlv buried trunk in Sport
HIH swamp late last night. Elwood
B Wade, 23, and John C. Johnson,
20 both held as implicated, ma-'
nacled to policemen, pointed out. the
approximate location of the trunk
to firemen and police, who waded
deen In water In search of it.
Bmh pol?ce state that Wade had
practically confessed to the kill
ing.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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NEW YORK.—Here are the prettiest feet and ankles in New York City. Hundreds of girls
entered the “Cinderella” contest held in Grand Central Palace. And it was only after hours of thought
ful and stern consideration that the judges were able to pick the winners. Miss Consuelo Furman
(left) won the first prize of SSOO, which is in th® bag she is holding. Second prize, Miss Virginia
Wynn (center). Third prize, Miss Irene Jones (right.)
State Merchants Declare
Governor Wasted $60,000
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In Collection of Taxes
Treasury Received Only
$5.5,000 From Occupation
Taxes, Not $150,000 as
Dorsey Claims, Is Charge
Leading merchants of Cartersville,
Ga., have sent to The Journal a copy
of a communication addressed to the
Atlanta Constitution in which they
resent being called "tax dodgers" by
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey In his /,e
--fense of tiie collection of Illegal to
bacco taxes by his special agents.
They assert that it has cost the
state $60,000 to collect $55,000 net
and score this extravagant waste of
the people’s money.
The Cartersville merchants de
clare that Governor Dorsey has, re
flected upon the character of every
merchant In the state by character
izing so large a number of them as
“tax dodgers” because they were
forced to pay a tax for which they
were not Hable and which they paid
only under protest.
Their communication follows:
better from Merchants
"Cartersville, Ga., August 28, 1920. 1
"Editor of the Atlanta Constitution:
"We, the undersigned merchants,
ask that you publish this article,
giving It the same publicity you have
given the slanderous attacks of Gov
ernor Dorsey upon us.
"There has appeared In your pa
per repeated assertions by Governor
Dorsey in various cities and towns
in Geofgla that the merchants of
Georgia from whom his special tax
collectorE collected the occupational
taxes and the Illegal tobacco tax,
were ‘defaulters’ and ‘tax dodgers.’
‘|We resent this unjust, untrue and
uncalled-for insult to us. We deny
the charge against us and we believe
we can deny it for all other mer
chants In Georgia. But they can
speak for themcelves.
“Governor Dorsey not only called
all the merchants who paid the il
legal tobacco tax ‘defaulters’ and ‘tax
dodgers,’ but he so called every mer
chant from whom any occupational
taxes were collected.
“How could we be ’defaulters’ and
“tax dodgers’ when we did not know
we owed these taxes—not only the
illegal tobacco tax, but also the oc
cupational taxes? We did not know
we owed these occupational taxes.
“In fact, Governor Dorsey did not
know it. He found out afterwards
that the merchants did not owe a
Sort of the occupational taxes —the
legal tobacco tax.
“if we did not know we owed them
and the governor did not know we
owed them, how could the merchants
be »tax dodgers’ and ‘defaulters’?
Does Governor Dorsey state the truth
when he slanders us in hie speeches
and holds us up to the public scorn
and derlelon all over Georgia, and
you spread the slander over the
south?
“AU Degal Taxes Should Be Col
lected”
“All legal taxes should be collect
ed, but Governor Dorffey has reflect
ed on the character of every mer
chant in the state by thus pubUcly
charaoterizlng so large a number of
them. We believe as a class we
compare favorably with any other
class of citizens, oven Governor Dor
sey’s own class, be it as lawyers or
officeholders or poUtlclans.
“If we have any friends in Bar
tow county and Georgia we respect
fuUy ask them to rebuke Governor
Dorsey for his unjust and untrue
attacks upon the merchants of the
state; and we ask them to support
Senator Smith and not let you and
the ‘bitter-end’ haters of Hoke Smith
spUt the Democratic vote in the
state in this critical period in our
history. , .
“While we are on the subject we
think there are some features about
the matter which ought to be
brought to the public attention un
der the circumstances.
CoUected $150,000
“Governor Dorsey’s special tax col
lectors collected in round numbers,
and to • use Governor Dorsey’s own
figures he uses in his speeches,
about $150,000. But the merchants
did not know they owed these taxes
until the governor’s collector called
on them; and in fact, there was
about SSO 000 which the merchants
did not owe.
“The governor paid to his friends,
the special collectors, 20 per cent
and to the county tax collectors 10
per cent of the amount collected,
about $45,000 in all.
“We respectfully submit that this
was a grossly exorbitant amount to
pay; and in truth, the governor must
have thought so, too, for we under
stand that he has reduced the
amount paid the special collectors
and quit paying the county tax col
lectors anything.
“No merchant in the state of Geor
gia—no, not even the country mer
chants in the small towns —would
pay such fees of commissions to
have their perfectly good, solvent
accounts collected. These merchants
are good and solvent and pay their
just debts promptly; and pay even
UNJUST debts when tho governor’s
agents say they owe them.
"Wouldn’t you say, Mr. Editor,
that any merchant or business man
who paid 30 per cent to collect this
perfectly good debts on his books
was headed straight for bankruptcy?
“Mr. Editor, If man whom you
employ to collect your subscriptions
and for the advertising in your pa
per, paid 30 per cent fees or com
missions to collect the amounts due
you from good, solvent men, who
pay their debts promptly as soon as
they know they ow® the debt, would
you keep that man in your employ,
when you found out what he had
done, or would you promote him to a
more responsible position which re
quired greater ability to attend
properly to the duties of the new
position?
“We know what your answer
Would be, Mr. Editor, and the peo
ple of Georgia are going to answer
that question with reference to Gov
ernor Dorsey just as you would an
swer it with reference to your busi
ness.
Cost State $60,000
“But we insist that Governor
Dorsey has cost the state of Geor
gia $60,000 to collect $55,000 net
due the state.
“Think it over and we believe you
will agree with us that we are cor
rect.
“The special collectors collected in
round numbers and again to use
Governor Dorsey’s figures, $150,000.
He paid 30 per cent, $45,000 to the
collectors, special and county, for
collecting it. That leaves the state
only $105,000. It developed that
there was $50,000 (in round num
«®rs) which was collected illegally
and which was not due the state.
This $50,000 will be paid bock to the
merchants from whom it was wrong
fully collected. But from this $50,-
COO there has already been paid the
collectors 30 per cent or $15,000,
llas n °t received,
but which it will pay back. The col
lectors are entitled to their fees and
commission as the governor agreed
wo^ y i<! tO aad th ®y <Ud the
“The state can pay baqk now only
70 per cent, because the collectors
got 30 per cent.
“So, what will happen is that next
summer there will be bills Introduced
in the leg , isla>tui T e to repay these mer
chants this illegally collected money
—this balance that will be due them
This will take $15,000 from the state,
which deducted from the amount the
state received, net, leaves $55,000
only which the state really received
net from this great and glorious work
of Governor Dorsey.
“The governor has already paid
$45,000 to the collectors and will
have to pay back the $15,000 com
m-’ssion on the illegal part, ,so the
governor has cost the state $60,000 to
collect $55,000, the state actually re
ceives net.
Figured Another Way
“In other words, in order for the
state to receive $55,000 net, it cost
the state $60,000 to get it. Some
business administration!
"But figure it another way. Gov
ernor Dorsey collected $150,000 gross
occupational taxes. He paid his col
lectors $15,000, which leaves $105,000.
But $50,000 in round numbers, was
illegally collected and must be paid
back. Deduct this $50,000 and their
Is left only $55,000 the state re
ceives net.
“If this Is not correct, point out
the error, but please don’t let Solo
mon—we beg .pardon, we mean Holo
mOn —do it. Solomon’s—pardon us
again please, we mean Holomon’s—
imagination is too great and runs
away with the facts. And then, Mr.
Editor, Solomon—we can’t help it—
might have to come out in a day or
two and admit he was one-Yourth
wrong as he did about .those 100
unanimous friends of the governor
advising him to run.
“But you may say the state won’t
pay back but 70 per cent of these
illegal taxes because the state only
actually received that much as the
collectors had to have ‘theirs.’ Why,
of course, the state will pay them
back.
"If Governor Dorsey, personally,
had employed a lawyer or collector
to collect debts due him and his col
lectors had collected an amount
which was not in fact due the gov
ernor personally, would he not pay
back to that man the full amount
thus Illegally collected? Os course
the governor would as an honest
man. And would the governor be
less honest as governor than he
would be personally? We think not.
Nor can the state afford to be dis
honest.
"The governor has ' talked at
length In his ‘tax dodger-defaulter’
speeches about collecting these
taxes on ’invisible’ property. One
would think that the merchants of
the state Concealed and hid their
goods presumably so that the tax
collectors would not know that the
merchants were selling goods upon
which they owed an ocupatipnal tax.
“Why, Mr. Editor, whoever saw
a merchant who failed to display his
merchandise as publicly as possible?
We want our goods displayed. We
do display them and always have,
you know that, and yet you spread
broadcast in your paper the govern
or’s insinuations and slurs upon the
merchants of Georgia. Do you think
the friends of the merchants of
Georgia are going to stand for such
attacks on them? Don’t you know
our customers and friends know we
are not dishonest, and that the mer
chants do not hide their goods, no.
not even the tobacco, to keep them
from the eye of the collector? ‘ln
visible’ property, indeed!
“Impartial” Action
“We recall that In some of the
speeches of the governor he stated
that In collecting these occupational
taxes, and even the illegal tobacco
tax, he was trying to act "impar
tially.” Did he really?
“Why did not the collectors col
lect any of the tobacco tax in Gov
ernor Dorsey’s own home city—At
lanta? or in any of the other cities
of 'the state? Was the governor im
‘partlal’ when he did not have his
collectors collect the tobacco tax
from his own home merchants in
Atlanta?
“Why did the governor send his
collectors ont to the country towns
only?
“Didn’t he know that where «
Prize Pig Flies
To State Fair
LINCOLN, Neb.—An airplane,
piloted by E. W. Gardner, carry
ing the prize pig, corn husker of
the University of Nebraska Agri
cultural college, left here this
morning for Milwaukee. The pig
is the gift of the college and
Governor McKelvle, Nebraska, to
Governor Phillip, Wisconsin.
merchant In a small town owed a
hundred dollars’ taxes there were
hundreds of merchants in the cities
who owed thousands?
“Why did the governor's collectors
go to some of the towns, in a coun
ty and not to all «ne towns in that
cohnty?
“Did they collect from all the
merchants in each town they vis
ited?
“Did they collect the same amounts
from all merchants in the same po
sition or did they offer, as charged
by the merchants of Covington, to
collect different amounts from dif
ferent merchants in exactly the
same position?
“Would any one call this being
‘lmpartial?’
"If the governor will pay us back
our 70 per cent of the Illegal tobacco
tax, we will let the rest go, and
consider It as a part of the cost of
education. We are perfectly wil
ling to pay that to learn the facts
about the governor and his adminis
tration before September 8.
“But there is something we want
to know.
"We are reliably Informed that
when the governor’s collector came
here, he collected some two thou
sand dollars first; that he took this
money to the county tax collector
and first deducting his commission
of 20 per cent turned it over to the
county tax collector; that the coun
ty collector then deducted his 10 per
cent and remitted the balance to the
state.
"But we are informed, also, that
the collector paid us another visit
and made another large collection;
that he did not turn this amount
over to our county collector, but took
It off with him and presumably
turned It over to the state, after de
ducting his 20 per cent; that he
wrote the county collector a letter
■ dated July 17, 1920, which was post
marked in Atlanta on Aug 21, 1920,
stating that our county collector
was not entitled to his 10 per cent
on the last collection.
“Now, we do not understand if our
county collector was entitled to 10
per cent on the first collection, why
was he not entitled to it on the last?
And if he was not entitled to it on
the last collection, why was he paid
It on th® first. It’s a funny busi
ness and we would like to nave it
explained further. <
Collectors Not Blamed
"Is It possible that the governor
not only collected illegal taxes from
the merchants, but actually paid Il
legal commissions? We do not know.
“We do not blame the county col
lectors at all. They are honest,
good efficient men who do their
duty. Don’t yon think so? And if
they are, and were doing their duty,
why did the governor appoint his
friends as special collectors—one
half from Atlanta? Did he mean
the county collectors were not doing
their duty?
“Why did ho not appoint each
county tax collector a special col
lector and pay them the so per cent.
“What has he against the county
tax collectors?
“It does seem funny to us that the
governor would employ his special
friends and pay them 20 per cent to
collect the occupational taxes when
the county collectors could do it even
better and more Impartially for 10
per cent than did the governor’s
friends for 20 per cent.
"We would like to hear from the
merchants over the state whom the
governor has insulted, and from those
merchants from whom these occu
pational and Illegal taxes were col
lected, as to how It was done in
their’ counties.
"In conclusion, we advise the gov
ernor not to go into any. business next
year'when he retires from office, for
if he does, and runs his own busi
ness as he has the state’s, by pay
ing 30 per cent to collect the good
solvent accounts on his books, he
will go ‘broke.’
"Yours truly,
L. F. Shaw & Sons company: L F
Shaw, E. G. Shaw, F. H. Shaw
J. H. Shaw, G. C. Shaw. N.
D Shaw, G. H. Carratt, R. G.
Gilreath, Foster & Son: J B
Foster and H. M. Foster; Planters’
Supply company: J. J. Hill and
J. B. Lewis; Walter White, J. D
McEver, J. A. Monfort & Co.: J.
A. Monfort; G. C. Smith, G. L.
Gaines, Keith Grocery company:
Amos Keith; J. R. Shaw, C. H.
Martin & Co.: C. H. Martin and
G. C. Martin; C. G. Howren.”
Prohibition Favored
By Swedish Committee
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31.—Prohlbi
tl0J1 drinks having an al-
coholic content exceeding 2.8 per
cent Is recommended in a report of
a government committee appointed
in 1911 to consider the liquor ques
tion. in addition the committee pro
that absolute prohibition be
submitted to a vote of the people and
made effective if three-fifths of the
electorate favors it.
Among the thirteen members of
were elght avowed
prohibitionists. The remaining five,
including Dr. Bratt, dissent from
the majority report, which refers to
the splendid results of prohibition
In America.”
Man Electrocuted
GADSDEN, Ala., Aug. 31.—Lawton
Moris, 18, and Marvin DeArman, 20,
employes at the steam plant of the
Alabama Power company, were elec
trocuted early this morning while
charging a lightning arrestor at the
power plant.
WAR RECORDS OF
HARDWICK AND
WATSON FLAYED
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The attitude of Thomas E. Watson
and Thomas W. Hardwick towards
the government during the world war
were assailed by Legionaires Mon
day night at their weekly meeting
in Taft hall In the Interest of the
American Legion s campaign against
the candidacies of Messrs. Watson
and Hardwick.
The meeting was presided over by
A. L Henson, of Calhoun, former
enlisted man and new commander of
the Georgia department of the Le
gion. It was Mr. Henson’s first pub
lic appearance in Atlanta since he
was unanimously elected state com
mander and he was given an ovation,
both when he began his short talk
regarding the Campaign of the Legion
and when he concluded.
The principal speaker of the eve
ning was R. G. Stephens, of William
B. Coleman post, who declared that
Mr. Watson virtually was indicted by
the federal government when the
Jeffersonian was suppressed and that
Mr. Hardwick was indicted by the
people of Georgia for his conduct
during the war by his defeat at the
polls in 1918.
Mr. Stephens vigorously attacked,
Mr. Hardwick’s record. The speaker
told of the offer of a wealthy man in
Moultrie to build the Legion post
there a SIO,OOO clubhouse if the post
would not enter the fight against
Mr. Hardwick, but which was de
clined in toto. “I regard the act
of that post as one of the finest
things it ever did,” concluded the
speaker.
Others who spoke were Tom Pitt,
Basil Stockbridge, past state com
mander, and J. Prince Webster. Mr.
Stockbridge made a brief canvass of
the audience for funds with which
to carry on the fight against Messrs.
Watson and Hardwick.
Subscription cards were distributed
in the audience and many pledges,
rangiftg from $1 to SSO, were made.
Two were for $25 and there were
several for $lO and $5. All told a
substantial sum was raised and con
siderable more was promised. After
the meeting a number of persons
present requested additional subscrip
tion cards and promised to distribute
them among friends who were just
as anxious to see the defeat of
Messrs. Watson and Hardwick as
members of the American Legion.
Attention of the audience was call
ed to the big mass meeting planned
for the auditorium Friday night at
which ten-minute speeches will be
made by Legionaires from every sec
tion of the state. State Commander
Henson will preside.
SENTIMENT FOR
HOLDER GROWING,
MANAGER SAYS
Expressing greatest confidence in
the outcome of the governorship race
and declaring that the sentiment for
John N. Holder has grown tremend
ously during the past few days, Gar
land M. Jones, manager of Mr. Hold
er’s campaign, issued the following
statement on Tuesday:
“John N. Holder has made more
progress in his race for governor the
past week than any other candidate
in the field. In fact, he has moved
ahead faster than both of the other
candidates put together.
“We are confident of this fact not
only as a result of the splendid re
ceptions Mr. Holder is receiving ev
erywhere he goes, but from the in
creased mail that is coming into
headquarters, urging him to ’stick to
his guns,’ which he is certainly do
ing, and promising him a stronger
support than ever. The . effort to
‘kick him out’ has certainly proved
to be a boomerang; it has made him
thousands of votes all over Georgia.”
■Mr. Jones cited just a few of the
letters and telegrams received in the
day’s mail. Among them a telegram
from Washington, Wilkes county,
signed by John T. Lindsey, which
reads as follows: “County polled on
governorship race today. Mass meet
ing held and vote consolidated. Agreed
to throw Walker and Holder forces
to you in Wilkes. You are leading
overwhelmingly. Congratulations.'*
Packers Sell Interests
To Comply With
U. S. Court Decree
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Plans
of the “big five” meat packers for
disposition of their stockyards in
terests, required under the decree
recent! entered in agreement with
the department of justice, contem
plate sale of such interests in fifteen
cities to F. H. Prince and company
of Boston.
The project was filed today with
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, as required by the di
vorcement decree. It places the
book value of the stock to be dispos
ed of at between $30,000,000 and
$40,000,000.
In an accompanying affidavit Fred
erick H. Prince, head of the Boston
company, outlines his purpose, if the
plan is approved by the court, of
organizing a holding company to
take over the interests in the stock
yards and their supplemental rail
way connections.
Cotton Fraud Case
Defendants Removed
To Penitentiary Here
ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 30.—A. M.
Savage and W. A. Savage, two prin
cipal defendants in the Savage cot
ton fraud case tried here two week
ago, were removed from the count
jail here to the federal penitentiar.
in Atlanta today. They were cot
vlcted on a charge of using the mail
to djefraud North and South Carolin
cotton manufacturers of a sum est
mated at $500,000. Their bonds wer
set at $5,000 and SIO,OOO respective
ly, which they were unable to make
Five of the seven defendants, a;
of whom were convicted, have madi
bond. W. O. Wooten, of Winder
Ga., was released Saturday, four otb
ers having made bond previously
The case was appealed to the Unite
States district court at New Orlean;
A. M. Savage was president an,
W. A. Savage, general manager oi
the Savage Cotton company, of Tai
ladega, Ala.
Cotton Crop. Prospects
Poor in Chattooga
LYERLY, Ga., Aug. 31.—Chattooga
county farmers have given up all
hope of gathering more than 50 per
cent of a normal crop of cotton this
year, and they consider it very doubt
ful if even that much of the crop
will be picked.
The entire cotton crop in this
'county was planted under adverse
conditions and unusually late, owing
to continuous wet weather through
out the planting season and the time
the crop should have been cultivated.
The boll weevil, which accomplished
much damage last fall, attacked the
cotton this year as soon as it began
to put on squares, and the cool, wet
weather has afforded favorable con
ditions for the weevil to get in Its
most destructive work. Many farm
ers undertook to pick up the punc
tured squares and young bolls and
burn them in an effort to check the
progress of the insect, but the wet
weather hindered this work and al
lowed the pests to get a good start,
and now the hope of saving any of
the top, or late, crop has been aban
doned. It is thought, however, with
favorable weather conditions the ma
tured bolls will open, but with the
late crop destroyed and a small crop'
as matured bolls on the stalks, the
yield per acre is bound to be cut to
the minimum.
Many of the landowners throughout
this section are beginning to plan
for other crops for next year and
will plant but little, if any cotton.
Some say they will plant a small
acreage to cotton and depend upon
destroying the weevil by keeping the
punctured squares picked
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1920.
First Woman Jury
Sets Fast Record
INDIANAPOLIS.—It took a
jury of twelve women In the court
of Justice of the Peace T. Ernest
Maholm here today just five min
utes to reach a verdict in a suit
growing out of a dispute over a
talking machine. They decided
in favor of the plaintiff. It was
the first jury of women ever sum
moned in Indiana, and was com
posed of leading women in all
walks of life in the city.
GUARANTEES FOR
RAILROADS CEASE
TUESDAY NIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.—(Esti
mated to have cost the government
$100,000,000 monthly for the past six
months, the clause of the transporta
tion act which guarantees earnings to
railroads of the country will cease to
be effective at midnight tonight, and
the roads again will be on their own
resources. , Further loans from the
government will be available from
the revolving fund created by the act.
Definite information as to the cost
to the government of the earnings
guarantee provision probably will
not be known for several months, as
the various railroads face a consid
erable task in balancing their books
in order to give detailed operation
figures. The bureau of railway eco
nomics, however, has estimated that
since the carriers were returned to
their owners on March 1 their earn
ings have been $600,000,000 below
their return.
Most railroads have certified to the
interstate commerce commission and
treasury that they have incurred
deficits during the six months’ period
and have asked for advances under
the guarantee clause, pending final
report as to their losses. Roads must
make applications for advances be
fore midnight tonight,, otherwise they
must wait for final compilation of the
sums owed them by the government.
Columbus Industries
Fear Coal Famine
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 31.—Colum
bus Industries requiring motive
power for operation, may be forced
to close down this coming fall Or
winter because of failure of the Co
lumbus Power company to get coal,
according to announcement made by
General Manager Harding today.
Much concern 4s felt among busi
ness Interests of the city and dis
trict and the situation is said to t>e
quite serlouse. “We are nearly out
of coal,” said Mr. Harding, “and we
can’t get a new supply. We are
operating from hand to mouth, so to
speak, and every indication points to
a coal famine. We are going to do
the very best we can to keep Co
lumbus Industries running, but we
can’t operate our plants and generate
power without fuel.”
The power company is asking the
public to conserve as far as is pos
sible in efforts to hold bridge over
at this time.
Not only is the supply of steam
and other coals limited—almost out
—but the local supply of domestic
coal is short. Dealers report less
than one half the normal supply in
the Columbus yards today, and, they
say it is difficult to get in addi
tional coal, due to the various
strikes In the Birmingham districts
and in other coal fields due to labor
troubles.
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WEALTHY REALTY
MAN HELD AFTER
FATAL SHOOTING
CHICAGO. Aug. 31.—Gerald Stack,
wealthy real estate man of Lander,
Wyoming, was held by police here
today in connection with the death
of Paul Brown, twenty-two, Chicago
clerk. Brown was shot in Kelly’s
bungalow inn, Niles, 111., at 3 a. m.
today. Detectives who took Stack
and members of his party into cus
tody, said Brown was shot after a
quarrel with a young woman in the
Stack party. )
Stack, who detectives said, admit
ted shooting Brown, said he acted
in self-defense when Brown’s friends
interfered during their quarrel over
an alleged insult to one of Stack’s
companions.
Mrs. Stack, at a hotel here with
her two children, was prostrated.
Held with Stack as witnesses to
the shooting were George Harsh,
Webster Grove, Mo., member of the
St. Louis Board of Trade; Henry
Garneau, member of the Chicago
Board of Trade, and Mary Kane, al
leged cause of the fatal quarrel.
Police sought three more feminine
members of the Stack party and
Charles Gharrity, wealthy Chicagoan,
also of the party.
According to the detectives who
made the capture, Brown with three
men and three girls, was leaving the
rodd house at about 3 a. m., but
returned for cigarettes. In passing
Miss Kane, he is said to have made
a remark for which she slapped him.
He is said to have made a hot re
tort and Stack hit him over the
head with a revolver, then fired four
times, the detectives said. Stack
sand Brown’s party had re-entered
the inn and was rushing him.
Mrs. Stack and the family was re
turning from a visit in Michigan.
Last night Stack left the group, say
ing an old friend, Harsh, was in the
city and he wanted to visit him. The
next she heard from him was the
notification by police that he was
held at a police station.
Report Attempt to
Kill Turk Leader
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 80.—An
attempt has been made to assassi
nate Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader
of the Turkish nationalists near
Tokat, a town 58 miles northwest of
Slvae, according to an unconfirmed
report received here. Some details
of the attack were included in the
rumors which have reached this city
and tend to lead to the belief that
such an attempt was really made.
A Constantinople dispatch August
29 reported that Mustapha Kemal
Pasha was ill of chronic malaria.
His condition was made worse by
worry and overwork, the dispatch
said.
Railroads Set Record
For Loading Freight
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Rail
roads of the country loaded more
cars with commercial freight during
the week ended August 14 than dur
ing any week this year, according to
reports compiled today by the com
mission on car service. During the
week ended August 14, 962,352 care
were loaded, compared with 832,439
cars during the corresponding week
in 1919 and 948,796 cars in 1918.
Slight decrease In car congestion
was reported, the accumulation of
cars for the week ended August 20
amounting to 74,945 cars as against
79,213 the previous week.
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