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1 ©be Atlanta Lin ■ WccWj) Journal VOL XXII. NO. 126. MBS. GRANT LEAVES ESTATE MEO IT NEARLYAJVIILLIDN .Son and Daughter Are Chief Beneficiaries, While Many Bequests Are Made to Charity The will of the late Mrs. W. D. Grant, disposing of,an estate valued at nearly one million dollars and in cluding a number of charitable be quests and interesting persona! be quests as well as large sums in | property and bonds, was filed for ' probate in the ordinary’s office of , Fulton county kt 10 o'clock Wednes t day morning. ■Ji The will was offered for probate by former Governor John M. Slaton, : of the law firm of Rosser, Slaton Phillips & Hopkins, attorneys for the •state. Mrs. Grant’s son, John W. Grant, qualified as executor. PThe will revealed the fact, al ready generally known, that Mrs Grant was one of the wealthiest women in Georgia. The real estate and bonds disposed of by the will totalled approximately $500,010; and Other bequests, mostly in cash money, brought the value of the •state well between $700,010 and sl,- •00,000. Mrs. Grant left the major part of her estate in approximately equal •hares to her son, John W. Grant, •nd her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Fran ces Grant Slaton, wife of Governor Slaton. To Mr. Grant she bequeathed 2,500 shares of the capital itock of the Grant Construction company, the corporation that owns the Citizens & Southern Bank Building, formerly the Third National Bank building at the corner of Marietta and North -Broad streets. Mr. Grant already '■ owned the other 2,500 shares of this corporation. The bequest of his mother now makes him the sole •wner of the Citizens & Southern Bank building. Held. Many Liberty Bonds To Mrs. Slaton Mrs. Grant be queathed $250,000 in bonds of the ■tate of Georgia, municipal bonds •nd Liberty bonds. These were the Only bonds left by Mrs. Grant. She Was one of the heaviest purchasers In the state of Liberty bonds during the war, and also of state bonds be fore the war. She also bequeathed to Mrs. Slaton the old family plantation near West Point, where she, as Sarih Frances Reid, was born, and where she spent her girlhood, when ‘ She was one of the most celebrated ‘ in the’state. This property -.consists of 1,600 acres in Troup and Harris counties. It is known as the Reid plantation and at pres- i •nt is leased to J. C. McKemie. Other .property in West Point left to Mrs Slaton is two stores and the land • n I which they are located at Num be I * 71 Gilmer street, West Point. Mrs : -Grant inherited this property as the sole heir, except for her mother, of her father, the late Mr. William I Reid. E Other Bequests | To her other* relatives, both by H blood and marriage, Mrs. Grant ■ made a number of substantial be ■ quests. They included: R To son-in-law. Governor Sla ■ ton, the sum of $50,000. To her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Annie ■ Inman Grant, John Grant’s wife, the ' I Bum of $50,000. I gjfeS' To her granddaughter, Mrs. Mar fl garet Van Dyke Wilmer, wife of Dr. ■ ■ Richard Hooker Wilmer, a noted eye ■ Specialist of Washington, D. C., the ■ sum of $25,000. E To her grandson, William D. ■ Grant, the sum of $25,000. fll To her grandson, John W. Grant, ■ Jr., the sum of $25,000. fl To her granddaughter, Annie In -9 man Grant, Jr., daughter of Mr. and ■ Mrs. John W. Grant, the sum of ■ $25,000. H To Dr. Richard Hooker Wilmer, ■ husband of her granddaughter, Mar fl- garet Van Dyke Grant, the sum of ■ $5,000. H To Mrs. Nina Hopkins Grant, wife fl of her grandson, William D. Grant, B the sum of $5,000. J To close friends and other more fl distant relatives Mrs. Grant made ■ loilowing bequests; H To Dr. C. B. Wilmer, rtetor of her H church, St. Luke’s Episcopal, $1,000; K* to her cousin. Captain John S. Reid, 9 of Eatonton, Ga., $1,000; to her H, cousin, Mrs. B. W. Hunt, of Eaton- Hi ton, $1,000; ' to her cousin, Mrs. ■ Frances Davis, wife of Rogers Davis, H of Charlotte, N. C., $500; to her H cousin, Mrs. Lula Lyon§ Winston (Mrs. O. D. Winston, of West Point, fl Ga.,), st>uo; to her cousin, Mrs. Rosa ■ .Talbot Barnhill, of Gainesville, Ga., fl §500; to her cousin, Mrs. Rosa Eatonton, now the wife of Dr. Lu |B Cian Lamar Knignt, state historian, M $500; to her cousin, Neel Reid, At ■ lanta architect, $5oO. fl Mrs. Grant's bequests to church and charity were as follows: St. fl Luke’s Episcopal church, §1,000; he fl Associated Charities of Atlanta. sl.- H 000; the Sheltering Arms of Atlanta, B $1,000; the Home for the Friendless fl Os Atlanta, SI,OOO. fl She remembered in her will all of BM the old colored servants who had been with her tor years, many com fl in a to Atlanta from the old Reid fl plantation at West Point, where they K were with her during her girlhood. al These bequeste v.'Cit as follows: fl fcob Smith. §200; Bob Clarke, $100; ■ Mary Shehee, $100; Susan Glass, ■r$100; Charlotte Hill, $100: Lake Erie fl Ferccnal Effects All her personal effects .such as jewelry, silverware, lieir- HB looms and works of art, Mrs. Grant |M|Eg (Ccntlnved on Page 6. Co'nma 4) HER" FITS ST OPPED Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of ®|i Wurstboro, N. Y„ writes that she stopped hea fits with a free bottle of medicine which she read about in the gIH paper. She says she has not had it fit since she took the first dose, and Isl that she wants every sufferer to know ||l about this wonderful medicine and fl What it did for her. If you, a friend jfl «r relative suffer from these dread fl ful attacks you are advised to send name and address at once to R. P. N. PM Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., who is generously offering to gfl send a bottle of the same kind of he gave Mrs. Martin, free’ to any sufferer who writes him. M (Advt.) Daring British It 7 omen Barely Fail to Swim ' Rough English Channel LONDON —(Associated Press). — The English channel, twenty-one miles wide, which so long has flaunt ed the challenge of its strong cur rents and roWgh seas before the world’s best swimmers, with only two defeats recorded against It, is ..gain the object of a determined at tack. Not only swimmers, but oarsmen, and even one girl water cyclist, have been bending their endeavors towards overcoming the tremendous obstacles of the turbulent waters. •, Mrs. Arthur Hamilton’ failure to swim across last week and thereby be the first woman to achieve suc cess has not deterred Mrs. Hilda Wilding, another intrepid English woman, from making the attempt to morrow evening. The American swimmer, Henry Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., who made JOHNSON AND • HOOVER DIFFER ON PACT VIEW BY DAVID I.AWSENCE (Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) , CHICAGO, Sept. B.—Two gentle men between whom, politically speaking, there is no love lost, are having a most uncomfortable time in this campaign and friends of both are wondering which shall have proved accurate in analyzing the mind of Senator‘Harding, or President-elect Harding, as the case may be after next November. * Hiram Johnson is the one and Her bert Hoover is the other. Mr. John son is opposed to the League of Na tions and is convinced by a reading of the Harding speeches that the Ohio senator, if elected, will reject the whole league business, whilst Mr. Hoover is satisfied that Mr. Harding will approximate the posi tion which Republicans like Taft, Hughes and Wickersham have ex pressed as their understanding of Senator Harding’s innermost thoughts. Somebody, to borrow a phrase from William Jennings Bryan, is going to find his heart “in the grave” when Mr. Harding choosfes between the wishes of the so-called irreconcila bles and the mild reservationists or friends of the treaty and league. Some people predict that Mr. Harding will make the choice before election day, other say he will wait until after the polls have closed. Feeling Changes Meanwhile, the friend» of Johnson were elated by Senator- HftftHttg's speech of August <2B, and now they are correspondingly dismayed by,the statement issued at Marion by George W. Wickersham, former at torney general in President Taft’s cabinet. That statement was ready and approved by Senator Harding be fore being issued through the steno graphic corps of Harding headquar ters, or it is the first important statement issued from the front porch that has not gone through that process. But the tendency at Marion . has been to win the friends of the treaty and league, and the writer pointed out. at the time Charles Evans Hughes went to see Senator Harding, that the Republican nominee was leaning toward the . Taft-Hughes- Wickersham wing of the party and more and more away from Johnson, whose cause he had espoused in ear lier speeches. Moreover, Mr. Wickersham con firms clearly a view of Senator Harding’s position on the treaty which this correspondent found on his own visit to Marion in July, namely, x as Mr. Wickersham ex pressed it, that Mr. Harding would not “wholly and finally reject the league,” but would take the lead in revising the covenant and putting It into practical operation. Wickersham’s Views There is one portion of Mr. Wick ersham’s statement which, however, if the Republican nominee read, he could not have approved, but the significance of it as an utterance on the very threshold of the Ohio sena tor’s home and its resemblance to statements made by Governor Cox, the Democratic nominee, is simply that after the election is over the position taken by either of the can didates who is successful will tend toward the same goal for the simple reason that each would be confront ed by the same set of facts and cir cumstances. “I earnestly favor the League or Nations,” says Mr. Wickeraham. without referring indefinitely to ”a league of nations. "I recognize the imperfections- of the Paris covenant. Yet I should haVe been satisfied to see it ratified as written, believing that the power of amendment was ample to enable it to be molded as national interests might make neces sary. Senator Harding does not wholly and finally reject the league. He recognizes that it may have be come so entwined and interwoven in peace of Europe that its good work and its unobjectionable pro visions must be preserved in order to stabilize the peace of that conti nent.” ' Mr. Wickersham represents Sena tor Harding as unquestionably in clined to adopt “the” League of Na tions when he is elected even though it may have to be “modified to re move all just doubts as to its undue effect upon the American rights ano I interests,” which, in a nutshell, is the I Taft position, the Hoover poosition, I and now the position, too, of Gover ! nor Cox. Somebody will have analyzed Mr. I Harding’s views incorrectly by the ! time election time has come, and this I correspondent predicts that Senator 1 Johnson will find his interpretation lof the treaty and league different ! f ro ~! t’-st held bv Senator Harding. Hohn D.” Gives Tip On Gas Situation | SARANAC LAKE. N. Y.—“ That is the most fun I have had for $lO in tw<-«ty yt-nrs,” said John D. Rocke feller as he stepped jauntily from a motor boat at the Paul Smith hotel landing this afternoon. The aged but comparatively active oil mag nate made the remark to Leo Kelly, who had piloted Mr. Rockefeller and his party on a two-hour trip through the upper and lower St. Regis Lakes. Mr Rockefeller has been visiting his brother, William Rockefeller, at the latter’s camp near Paul Smith’s. Stops were made at the camp of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and Dr. James, a motor boat owner who has been grumbling at paying 37 cents a gal lon for gasoline in the Adirondack*, inquired of Mr. Rockefeller if gas was ever going to be any lower. “Never so long as the public con tines to consume more than the wells in the country can produce or are producing,” replied Mr. Rockefeller, with a grin. an unsuccessful effort last week, plans to try again. Mrs. Hamilton started from St. Margaret’s bay at 6.10 o’clock at night. She was forced to abandon her efforts in the morning. She was in the water for twelve hours and says she got to within nine miles of the French coast. She attributed her failure to reach France to the heavy seas and strong currents. Last week two young oarsmen started out to scull across from Eng land, but were compelled to give up the attempt. Recently, too, Miss Zetta Hulls got almost across- on a watercycle, but the machine broke down when she was nearing the goal. The only two of the many swim mers who have faced the channel waters and succeeded were Captain Webb, who crossed in 1875 in twen ty-one hours and forty-five minutes, Ts W. Burgess in 1911, who crossed in twenty-two huos and thirty-six minutes. * GEORGIA CATTLE RECLAIMED FROM PLAGUE OF TICK. The Atlanta Journal News Bureau, 623 Biggs Building. BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—-The de partment of agriculture makes an nouncement that the cattle industry in Georgia Is- being reclaimed from the dominion of the cattle tick. Florida, a sister state, the de partment says, is still heaVily in fested by the ticks and is expected to be the last stronghold of the para site in the south. Georgia is using 3,700 dipping vats to combat the tick which for years has retarded the cattle indus try. Federal renorts show that dur ing July in the state there were 888,219 'dippings of cattle supervis ed by federal, state and county em ployes. This figure is one of the largest recorded state east of the Mississippi river since syste matic tick eradication began in 1906. Already 366.674 square miles In the state of Georgia have been re leased from federal quarantine, and cattle from the released districts may now be moved Interstate with out the former restrictions. With a continuation of the extensive dip ping nrogram. federal officials ex pect that large additional areas in Georgia will be ready to be releas ed from quarantine in December r '->en the work for 1920 is complet ed. As evidence of interest In- improv ed live stock an international live stock exhibition will be held in At lanta this fall, and it is expected thta many pure bred animal? brought from other states for exhi bition will remain in Georgia as foundation stock tor an extensive and profitable cattle industry. Re ports from federal tick eradication indicate that the intro duction of fine live stock in Georgia is following very closely on the trail of the departing tick. Competition at the live stock exhibition, it is stated, will be as keen as shows of similar character in northern states and in regions of the south now free from ticks. From present indications Georgia will be one of the next states to ne entirely freed from ticks. The prog ress is due largely to the energy of cattle owners in supporting tick eradication work, and also to their foresight in realizing that live stock can not be grown profitably until the tick menace is removed; Florida, the sister state of Geor gia lying to the south, continues to be heavily infested with cattle ticks an dis expected to be the last strong of that parasite in the south. The department of agriculture points out, however, that bv dipping 2 million cattle per month, cattle men in Florida could make rapid progress toward removing that state from 1 federal quarantine. In fact, with the’ larger tick-infested area of Florida the dinning of two million cattle per month would be no great er undertaking than the extent of systematic dinning now in progress in Georgia. The fact that a larger per cent of cattle are owned In Flor ida by persons having little or no tend makes the problem somewhat more difficult, but not seriously so. Notwithstanding these problems the detailed federal records prepared each month for all regions in which ticks occur show systematic “mop ping tip” of this nest, and the final extinction of ticks in the United States is a matter merely of a few vpnrs. Woman, Unable to Get Job, Jumps Into River WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Roomers' at government dormitories here today identified as Mis Flossie May Rosel the woman who late yesterday jump ed from a high cliff into the Great Falls of the Potomac. The girls said Miss Rosel had been a yeoman (F) and after that had been employed at other government work until recently when she was unable to get a position. This is be believed to have x made her de spondent. A broth nr of the 4->ad woman liv ing at Gerlane, Kans., has been noti fied by police. Rock Springs Farmer Killed in Accident CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. B. George Walker, a farmer of Rock Springs. Ga.. was Instantly killed in an automobile accident while en route to Chattemooga to attend Labor day* celebrations, according to re ports received here. Gives Husband to Sister LONDON. Eng.—Alfred John Wil liams. twenty-one, was arraigned on a charge of bigamy in marrytng Ethe’. Westbrook. -ity-r.ne, his ’wiT’ers sister. Miss T’estbrook told the police that her sister told her “Williams wants you and if he can’t have you he will go away. Rather i than let him go you can have him.” i She said she married him in order i that her sister would not lose her husband Cigarette Forest Fire PARIS. France.—An immense fire .ravaged the forests of St. Loup and St. Marcel, around Marseilles. Hun dreds of . acres of fir trees burned. The fire is said to have been caused by a Spaniard carelessly throwing i away a lighted cigarette on the dry grass. , $12.50 GOODYEAR RAIN- COAT FREE Goodyear Manufacturing Company, 4206 Goodyear Bldg., Kansas City. Mo., is making an offer to send a handsome raincoat free to one per son in each locality who will show and recommend it to their friends. If you want one, write today. (Advt.) ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920. DIMET OTO BT DEMOMS FOR SLUSH FUND DM E. H. Moore Resumes Stand at Senate Committee Healing on the Source of Campaign Contributions CHICAGO, Sept. 8. Governor Cox’s “quota” figures on the amount the Republicans sought to raise in Cleveland, Ohio, were substantiated and an admission made that the na tional committee had sought to raise more than Georgia’s $25,000 quota when the senate committee in vestigating campaign expenditures resumed its hearing today. Dudley S. Blossom, one of the leaders in the Cleveland fund raislhg drive, testified the Cuyahoga county quota was fixed -at $400,000 al though the testimony of Fred W. Upham, Republican national treas urer, fixed the goal for the entire state of Ohio at $400,)00 for the national .corfimlttee and $250,0)0 for state purposes. C. W, McClure, o f Atlanta, Ga., said Mr. Upham sent C. F. Taylor, a paid field worker, to him last month with a letter stating that Mr. Tay lor was delegated to raise more money in that state. Mr. McClure quoted Dr. J. C. Stockbridge, of At lanta, who assisted him, as saying Mr. Taylor had told Dr. Stockbridge that he wanted to raise $25,000 in Atlanta alone. Mr. Blossom said they actually raised $74,000 in Cuyahoga county and Mr. McClure said his committee obtained pledges of about SII,OOO in the state of Georgia, on which $6,- 015.75 had been paid. United States District Attorney Charles F. Clyne today announced, that data about presidential cam paign expenses has been submitted to him by E. H. Moore, Governor Cox’s representative at the sena torial investigation of the campaign expenditures. Mr. Clyne said he was not ready to announce what action may be taimen on this information. First evidence supporting Gover nor Cox’s charge that large quotas were assigned to th3 principal 'cities by the Republican campaign fund committee was introduced in the senate committee investigation to day when Dudley S. Blossom, who helped raise Cleveland’s quota, testi fied Governor Cox’s figure of $400,- 000 for that city was correct. - Senator Reed called the witness’ attention to the queta sheet submit ted last week by Fred W. Upham, Re publican national treasurer, which fixed the amount for the entire state of Ohio at $400,000. Mr. Blossom testified that A. A. Protzman, a paid agent of the na tional committee, was present when the Cleveland quota was announced as $400,000, and that Mr. Protzman helped direct the raising of the money. Forty teams of six men each were organized for the drive. Mr. Blos som said, twenty under his direc tion and twenty under C. T. Brooks. A list of 3,000 names of prospects was provided by W. R Woodford, chairman df the ways and means committee of Cuyahoga county, and from this list each team captain se lected. the names of fifty to seventy five men to be canvassed by his team. Some of the cards in the list as furnished by Mr. Woodford were marked with the amount the pros pect should give, Mr.- Blossom said. Mr. Blossom, who is director of public welfare of the city of Cleve land, testified that Mr. Woodford (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) A Sure Winner! » * Here’s The Tri-Weekly’s newest, biggest and best sub scription offer! For a trifling amount of money, old friends and new read ers can be certain to get all the BIG NEWS of the fall months —the Georgia elections, the presidential elections, the war that threatens all Europe, full market reports when prices show quicker changes than ever before. This is the offer. 6et up a club of five subscribers who pay 25 cents each. 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Kopfman, of Titusville, has made the subject of sermons and intends to describe to the township board, attacked the clergyman with rotten tomatoes and other missiles today when he passed through the community in an auto mobile after a stern sermon, on im modesty and immorality, In the Tt tuSviJle Methodist church. The clergyman was on his way to the railroad station here to take a trajn to New York, intending, accord ing to his habit, ti visit his sister in Brooklyn. As his car in sight Jeers and yells arose from a knot of men and women and others came run ning to"join them, some.of therp in, the bathing: suits which, inspired thT pastor’s sermons. . For a moment‘the air was red witli tomatoes; Which '-burst all ovet the automobile 4 nd its’occupant. ’ More dangerous missiles were used as we'.j A stone shattered the windshield of the car and another gashed the clergyman’s face. , So dense was the crowd that the car was brought to a halt. . * Voice Drowned by Yells The Rev. Mr. .Kopfman, blood and tomato juice streaming down his face, took advantage of the enforced stofi to rise in his seat and declare his principles again in the face ot those whom he denounced. His voice, shrill as it was with excite ment, was drowned by the yells of those who pressed about the car. “Duck him!” some cried. “Throw him in the canal.” Seeing that he was facing an Im possible audience, the plucky preacn er started to drive slowly through the crqwd, which gave way reluc tantly before his car and closed in behind. A train of his foes, shout ing threats and hurling whatever missiles came to hand, followed him through the village. At the further side of the com munity, the car’s engine died. The pursuers, who had begun to fall away, closed in again, apparently in a still more*pugnacious mood. Mr. Kopfman decided to abandon the vehicle and ran to another car which was approaching from -behind. Its occupants agreed to give him a lift, although warning him that thfcy were not going as far as Trenton. The preached said he would take his chances on the last leg of the trip and got into the car, which was driven away. . ’ ’ ! Rromfses to FtSsant Charges He. tUMflea in his Wat. tb shovt. tb ihe foremost of,, his tormentors that .’he would be 'back Tuesday- to pres ent his charges ■ concerning the do ings at ( Washington’s Crossing to the .township board; In his sermon this morning at Titusville he was as outspoken'as ever. “There is a whole lot I could call the girls,” he said, “but* 1 will leave that to Billy Sunday to' do. Wash ington’s Crossing is too sacred a place to be made to blush for the conduct of the summer colonists and something must be done. The Cross ing is one of the worst places I ever have, been in,” • -G ; 7 His congregation was aroused to laughter today when the preacher darted out of the to one of the front pews in order to show them how girls sat In the subway. ( Mess Plate Lost on French Battlefield , Finds Owner in U. S. ; NEW YORK—-The Rev. Dr. Joseph Ryerson, ■ rector of Grace’Episcopal church, Riverhead, L. 1., 'has just re turned from a motor trip to Wor cester, Mass., taken for the purpose of returning to a young ex-service man of \that city a tin plate which the clergyman picked up in of St. Mihiel. Dr. Ryerson then was a V. M- C. A. secretary 'in . France. He had lost his own mess plate and hunted about until he found another. On it was inscribed a soldier’s first name, his number, and the word “Grace.” Dr. Ryerson . kept the plate, and after returning to this corqMry* learned the name and address of its owner by giving the number on the plate to t* war department. The owner, he learned, was Corporal George Allen, of Worcester, who nad been a member of the One Hundred and Fourth battalion, Twenty-Sixth division. Dr. Ryerson found Allen, restored the plate and learned that Allen now is engaged to marry “Grace.” MAKES THIES ‘ PUNTOELESS Remarkable Invention Pre vents Punctures and Blow- Outs and Doubles Mileage Powel Crosley, Jr., 805 Blue Rock St., Cincinnati, Ohio, has perfected a remarkable invention that makes pneumatic tires proof against punc tures and blow-outs, without in any way affecting their natural resiliency or easy riding qualities. He uses no tire filler, chemical or other make shift, but an amazingly simple and inexpensive method that not only ends tire trouble forever, but dou bles tire mileage. In fact, he will take an old discarded tire that has been thrown away as worthless and run from two to three thousand miles on it. Write Mr. Crosley to day and learn how you can enjoy the increased comforts of motoring with no punctures, blow-outs or troublesome tire changes and at the same time cut your bills in two. He is making a special offer to one car owner in each locality to whom he can refer new customers. Take ad vantage of this offer. Write him to day, Agents wanted.—(Advt.) »»I5 ■ POLLED WEDNESDAY IN GEORGIA PRIMARY Contests for U. S. Senator, Governor and Congress men Are Settled After Strenuous Campagns . One of the hardest fought political campaigns irl the history of Georgia came to an end Wednesday when ,yot ers of the state turned out In uh.-; usually large pMnibsrs to choose nominees tor YVMte„.Jhe weqtlier wya<-iHifavorable -dr*' threatening th- many' it appeared ’ that the final'cinitit would show that an extremely heAyy V6te, had been polled, nj '. - . ‘ ■ > Paramountfn interest the various', races' were those idr United States senator, and governor. Each was a .four-cornered affair —Senator ripke Smith, 'Governor Hugh Dorsey, Thomas JE- Watson and John R. Cooper/cpiitendihg for the nomina tion in the first instance, while Johfi N. Holder,' speaker of the house of representatives; former Attorney General Clifford Walker, former Unit ed States Senator Thomas W. Hard wick and Walter N.-Brown were the contestants for < the latter office. Several spirited races-for ebngress in various districts of the state were voted upon also in Wednesday’s pri mary. • 10,0WOUTIN - ALABAMA COAL STRIKE, REPORT BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. B.—While thousands of men were Idle in the Alabama coal mining district today, a-commission of three conciliators appointed by Governor Kilby was trying to reconcile differences be tween operators and union leaders in an effort to halt the general strike called last week by John L. Lewis, national president of the United Mine Workers. Reports at union headquarters early this morning indicated that more than 10.000 men, half the num ber employed in this section, had ■obeyed* the'strike call and "union" or ganizers predicted this figure would be increased with the receipt of-news from outlying districts. Both sides admitted the situation was graye and predicted a shutdown of factories and mills. The strike call went into effect at midnight but many miners had nuit their lobs two or three days ago. Dr. George H. Denny, chairman of the governor’s coal commission, was expected here from Tuscaloosa dur ing the day. Preliminary con ferences 'with union leaders and operators have been held by former Governor Charles- Henderson and Judge J. J. Mayfield, the other mem bers of the commission, to determine a method of procedure. It was an nounced the hearings of the com mission would be public. Before the conciliators started Aheir hearing today, operators re iterated their determination not to deal directly or indirectly with mem bers of the United Mine Workers In settling disptues at their mines. J. R. Kennamer. president of the union district organization, repeated his statement of yesterday thafc recog nition of the union was one thing upon which he would insist Governor Kilby’s coal commission investigating the strike in the bi tuminous fields of this state, today wired John L. Lewis, president of the Union Mine Workers, asking for a copy of the report by union investi gators upon the basis of which a general strike call was issued last Wednesday. In its telegram the commission stated it was endeavoring to collect all available data bearing upon the strike with a view to composing the differences existing between opera tors and miners. Informal conferences with leaders on both sides marked the work of the commission today. J. R. Kennamep, president of Ala bama district No. 2, United Mine Workers, said 12,000 men had obeyed the strike call. He said fifty-seven had signed the "blue book’’ contract, und that 5,000 men working in these mines would not be affected. He estimated the total number of men employed in the Alabama field at 27,000. The -strike has not had any appar ent effect upon local industries, guards have been posted at most of the mines. There has not been any disorder. . m CENTS A COPY. $1.50 A YEAH. EXTENT DF DAMAGE EDOM ITJLUN QK STILL JSJROWIIBG Scores of Lives Are Be lieved to Have Been Lost in the District North of Florence. ROME, Sept. B.—Scores of lives are believed to have been lost in the district north of Florence, which was ’ severely shaken by an earthquake yesterday morning. As reports from the stricken region come in over fal tering telegraph and telephone lines, the extent of the disaster seems to be growing and, there is a possibil= ity that the damage done may be much more serious than was at first believed. The territory violently disturbed seems to be lozenge-shaped, with Florence at the southern apex ana Modena at the northern end. It ex tends along the Etrurian coast and runs over the Appenines eastwarrt for upwards of 100 miles. In this district there are many populous towns, and no tidings nave as yet been received from many of them. There is every indication that the shock was a severe one, and reports from- cities in the earthquake «one show that buildings crumbled be neath the strain of the convulsion of the earthquake. At Fivizzano, a town of 17,000 inhabitants, near Car rara, almost every building was damaged and many were completely destroyed. Among the collapsed structures is the postoffice, in the ruins of which Is the entire staff, goliera, in the province of Massa Marittima. and Monti, nearby, were partially destroyed. Rlversano, For ni and Montignore are reported in ruins, while in Marina and Carrara, many structures have collapsed. At Viareggio, the Church of St.: Paul was destroyed, and at Castel Francd di Sotto the celling of a church was shattered. Panic prevails at Lucca as a re sult of the cataclysm and from Ga vinana and Limestre come reports of lives being lost. At Vallla Fran ca, in Lunlgiana, an entire family was buried in the ruins of their home, and the village of Vigetta was entirely destroyed. Serious damage was done in the Frlgnano district, where houses collapsed, and at Fras sinero, where a number of <»houses fell. Pievepela and Sant-Andrea were badly damaged, but the num ber of victims has not been ascer tained. Following are the big earthquakes In world’s history; 15.7 —Macedonia, 150 towns de stroyed. 742—Syria, 500 towns destroyed. 1137—Catania Sicily, 20,000 killed. 1456—Naples, 40,000 killed. 1531—Lisbon, 30,000 killed. 1626—Naples, 70.000 killed. 1693—Sicily, 100,000 killed. 1703—Tokio, 200,000 killed. 1731—Pekin, 100,000 killed. 1754—CfalTO, 40,000 killed. • 17»7—Cwitral America, 40,000 kill ed. f *' 1868-—Ecuador and Peru, 25,009 killed. 1885—Cashmere, 70,000 homes de stroyed. ■ 1902—Martnique, 32,500 killed. ■, 1908—Sicily and Italy, 200,000 killed. MACSWINEY IS MUCH WEAKER ON 27TH . DAY LONDON, Sept. B.—Terence Mac- Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, entered today on the twenty-seventh day of his hunger strike, which began on •August 12, following his arrest by | British authorities at Cork. Reports from Brixton prison, where he is in carcerated, stated he was a little brighter this morning, but much weaker and more exhausted. It was added he had passed a fairly good night. A bulletin issued at noon by the Irish Self-Determination league with regard to the mayor’s condition, said: “The lord mayor suddenly got much weaker. The doctors are very anxious and have forbidden his rel atives to converse with him.” The British government today an hounced .its willingness to release ■ Lord Mayor MacSwiney, now on the twenty-eighth day of his hunger strike in Brixton prison, if a guaran tee is received from some responsi ble Irish source that murder of policemen in Ireland wiy cease. This announcement followed an offical denial that Premier Lloyd George, who returned last night from Switzerland, had previously made a similar conditional offer, as unofficially reported in press dis patches. Sinn Fein headquarter,} J -sued a bulletin today saying ’i Mac- Swiney passed “a fairly good night.” but was “weaker and exhausted.” Sinn Fein officials >vere confident that Lloyd George’s return was con with the Irish situation, vvhile no direct negotiations had been mada, they said, several feel ers had been put out by the govern ment along the lines indicated in th# •latest official announcement. They also said they had positive informai tion that the government ha 1 brought strong pressure to bear upon Pope Benedict to condemn the murders in Ireland, promising that if he did so MacSwiaey woura ne released immediately. Skull Crushed, Man Is Remade by Surgery CHICAGO, Sept. B.—Believed near death when he was taken to a hos pital here with the left side of hii head crushed and a part of his brain protruding, C. L. Koepp, sixty-three. Huron, S. D., merchant, today had been partially remade by modern surgery. 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