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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. SELLS ALL WOOL SUIT FOR $25.00 A handsomely Illustrated fall and winter style book showing all the latest New York and Chicago styles in men’s suits and containing 66 beautiful cloth samples of the very finest, high-grade fabrics Is being distributed free by the Bell Tailors, Dept. 855, Chicago, 111., the largest concern in the world selling made-to measure tailored suits direct to wearer. The values offered for the season are simply amazing. For instance, they offer a very fine all-wool high-grade suit, made to in dividual measure, at only $25. The measurement system used is so sim ple any member of your family can take your measure and the Bell Tai lors guarantee to fit you perfectly or there is no charge. Send for their style book and price list today and save big money on your clothes. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. FAIR WINNERS OF “CINDERELLA” CONTEST OS® ■plff ' z gaREWr jflE JOI emsS jf Jb/ J|r u ' eu QW* ~ _2~ 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 / ♦ ■ 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 -I ♦ 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. “ASPIRIN” WARNING I Unless you see the name on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for 20 years and proved safe by millions. SAFETY FIRST! Accept only an “unbroken package” of genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” which contains proper direc tions for Headache, Earache, Toothache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheuma tism, Neuritis, Lumbago, and for pain generally. Strictly American! Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents —Larger packages. Aeplrln Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of Salicylleacld ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT naw I Mir | KJu IHr 111 R I II II iirMr * 'W ■w! I I Klip B ii I 111 .IF Ji I In 8 & I I i o la, Oi y I h ®in I id ■■■■■■■■■■■l WALTER R. BROWN Candidate for Governor of Georgia, says: “The Constitution of the state and its laws are paramount. That Gompers’ Fed eration of Trades and their affiliated negro unions should not dictate to white people of Georgia.” Walter Brown advocates an open shop, a square deal, and an equal chance for every person. Other candidates for Governor are afraid to declare themselves on this subject , 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. 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