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©bt jAUiuHa ©tiTlkridi) Sournal VOL. XXII. NO. 130. 36 DEAD, 200 ARE HURT, IN N. Y. BLAST JWO MEN CONFESS ROBBING MAIL OF 5300.000 IN BONDS Desire for "High Life" Leads Rtifu{ Kight and C. E. Monroe to Stage Theft on Southern Railroad The old, old story of a. desire for life,” which prompted a care fully-planned conspiracy to get rich quick by robbing the United States mails, was revealed Thursday in the confessions of Rufus Kight. a youth a little over twenty-one, and C. C- Monroe, a railway mail clerk, to the robbery of Southern railway passenger train No) 36, Atlanta to . New York, last Monday. Liberty bopds and securities, many of them non-nego'tiable, val ued at upwards of $300,000 were stolen from the registered mails. Monroe and Kight made a complete confession Thursday, implicating W. D. Franklin, until Wednesday a con ductor for the Georgia Railway and Power company, as the instigator, of the entire scheme. Early Thursday afternoon Kight and Monroe were held to the fed eral grand jury under a bond of $5,000 each, in default of which they were remanded to jail. The charge is in three counts —conspiracy to rob the government, mutilat’ of mail sacks and embezzlement from the mails. Postoffice inspectors have taken out a warrant for the arrest -ot Franklin, now being sought. Planned Bobbery Soon after the robbery Kight was arrested in a hotel a.t Homerville by Sheriff P. R. L4e, of Clinch coun /ty. who brought him to Atlanta Thursday. He implicated Monroe, who promptly confessed when ar rested. Search for Franklin revealed his flight. Postoffice inspectors stated Thursday that every effort is being made to locate Franklin on a charge of conspiracy to rob the mails. The story of Kight and Monroe of the plans 'for acquiring wealth by robbing the mails reads like a page from a novel. Months ago the t hoarded at the same Place. to r marry a girl he had been engaged to for a long V me ’ t _ their story, -emarked. ‘Just thin . t the rest ’ f ThX passed the remark off as a they said, the question ame up again. Liquor Mixed in Later on, under the persuasion of Plenty of “high life,” the two stated hat they began seriously to plan the robbery of the mads , f> “T was over persuaded, saia Monroe “I felt like I was going to get caught. There was some liquor and a lot of talk and you know how things like that go.” Franklin, according to the in spectors, apparently had very H£- tle to do with the actual robbery, further than to join in the alleged conspiracy. . . According to the confessions of Kight and Monroe, Kight boarded the train in Atlanta as a passenger. At Gainesville he left the passenger coach. Monroe, whA» duty it was to see that the maifstorage car was locked, left the doof ajar and Kight climbed in. Uncle “Turns Him Up” Kight, alone in the mail storage car, made his way to the door lead ing into the mall car in which Mon roe was working. Monroe handed him a bag of registered mail. Kight "slit the bag open, pocketed the se curities aqd left the train at Toccoa. Kight made his way to Homer ville, where he went to a hotel. At that city he saw his uncle, H. S. Burkhalter, representative from Clinch county in. the state legisla ture. Mr. Burkhalter, surmising that something was wrong, called on Sheriff Lee who, connecting Kight with the reported robbery, made the arrest. Postoffice inspectors early Thurs day afternoon had not completed their inventory of the aecurities. It was stated that while there were some Liberty bonds in the rifled pouch, many of the securities were non negotlable. Accompanying Sheriff Lee to Atlanta with his prisoner were Postoffice Inspectors Clyde Fleming and Robert Barry. Georgia Cotton Men Are Assured of Co-operation By Federal Reserve Bank The Georgia division of the Amer ean Cotton association, through W. H. Lathrop, Jr., secretary and treasurer, issued the following statement Fri day morning: More than fifty representatives of he American Cotton association, headed by President J. S. Wanna* maker, conferred >with the federal reserve board relative to the cotton •situation. ' "Ex-Governor Manning, of South Carolina, presented the case for the •otton association, pointing o'ut that the association, while speaking pri marily- of cotton really included in its wishes all staple agricultural products. He emphasized that the cotton association was not asking anything, but had come rhther for the purpose of getting a better un . derstanding of the board’s/ policy with respect to credits for the order ly marketing of agricultural prod ucts. "Governor Harding, responding for the board, emphasized the thorough agreement of the board with the American Cotton association in the desire for the gradual, orderly mar keting of staple agricultural prod ucts, especially cotton. Public Is Mislead « "Governor Harding with more than ordinary emphasis drew atten tion to the fact that there seemed to be an organized effort to mislead SECOND CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR OF GEODGIALAUNCHED Walker Expected to Answer Hardwick’s Challenge for Debate Friday—Volunteer Clerks Likely, Active campaign work was launch- Friday morning by Thomas W. * Hardwick and Clifford Walker, whose contest for governor will be decided by the Democratic w’hite voters of Georgia in a second primary to be held on Wednesday, October -6. Judge G. H. Howard, of Columbus, who managed the campaign of Mr. Hardwick in the first primary, will again be in charge of Hardwick head quarters in the Kimball house. James H, Dozier, of Athens, who managed the campaign of Clifford Walker in the first primary, will again be In charge of Walker headquarters in the Kimball house. Late Thursday afternoon, when the subcommittee on rules of the Demo cratic state executive committee had ordered a second primary to. be held on the above date, Mr. Hardwick is sued a challenge ttr Mr. Walker to meet him in joint debate, and issued also a statement summoning the De mocracy of Georgia to join him in preventing the ‘Howell dynasty” from naming another governor. The challenge for a series of joint debates is under consideration by Mr. Walker. His answer is not ex pected until Saturday. His speaking dates and the Hardwick speaking dates will depend upon whether he accepts the challenge. Subcommittee's Action By a vote of five to one the sub committee on Thursday afternoon af firmed the action of the Decatur, county executive committee iii refus ing the request of Mr. Hardwick for a recounj of the ballots in that coun ty. The request was based upon the allegation that forty-one men whose names were not on the registration list were allowed to vote in Decatur county. The Decatur county commit tee refused the request on the ground that it was not made by Mr. Hard wick personally or by any person au thorized to act for hint, and on the further ground that Mr. Walker was not notified. Claiming that these | grounds were a technical pretext for denying him a recount of the ballots, Mr. Hardwick appealed to the sub committee of the state committee. After prolonged sub committee affirmed the action o? the Decatur county committee. J. H. Milner, of Dodge county, who made the motion to affirm, declared this action would make many votes for Mr. Hardwick, but nevertheless he did not see how the subcommittee could justifiably reverse the Decatur county committee. Those who voted for the motion were Mr. Milner; Colonel H. H. Dean, Gainesville; Fermor Barrett, Toccoa; Miller S. Bell, Milledgeville; Hiram L. Gardner, Eatonton. The single vote against it was cast by Judge James J. Flynt, chairman, who spoke at length in criticism of allowing men to »vote when their names were not on the registration list. Having thus disposed of the Deca tur county contest, which was the only one before it, the subcommittee then proceeded to consolidate the re turns in the gubernatorial contest. These results officially transmitted by the county chairmen to Secretary Gardner showed the same relative standing of candidates as previously published in the newspapers. Call for Volunteers That is to say, Mr. Hardwick car ried seventy-eight counties with 190 couYity. unit votes, Mr. Walker car ried sixty-nine counties with 174 county unit votes, and Mr. Holder carried eight counties with twenty two unit votes. A majority of county unit votes being required by the Neill primary law to dominate for governor, and a second primary being required in the event no candidate* receives a ma- (Continued on Page 7, Column 5) the public as to the policy of the federal reserve board touching the matter of the contraction of credits to essential industries, including es pecially all agricultural products. While stating that the board had undertaken to reduce credits for non essential and for speculative pur poses, he pointed out that it was not now the policy of the board, nor had it been, nor would it be to re strict credits for the assistance of essential industries and especially agriculture. He produced figures to show thai from September 1, 1919, to Septenrber 1, 1920, there had been a larger extension of credits for es sential purposes than at any period in the history of the country,' ex cept the period of 1917-1918, and that since the end of August this year on account of crop-moving demand federal reserve note issues have been increased at a rate of from thirty to forty millions of dollars a week, and that bills discounted in vault of the Federal Reserve banks had increased at a rate of about fifty millions of dollars a week. “Governor Harding stated that whatever liquidatloiT" had gone on through the Federal Reserve sys tem recently was for the very pur pose of putting the member banks in a position to take care of this very situation which he foresaw more than a year ago. The im pression was distinctly given that the board’s policy was sympathetic to an orderly movement of the crops, and that such a movement was a necessity dependent to a large exent upon the credit situa tion. t KELLOY ON STAND. FAILS TO MENTION KILLINGDFTREXLER Makes Rambling Statement, State Puts Up Nineteen Witnesses —Case Goes to * Jury This Afternoon GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 17.—With both the state and the defense closed —the later after only one witness, “Jack” Kelloy himself, had been put o ntbe stand, and had delivered a rambling statemyit, in which he did not mention Leroy Trexler, the At lanta taxi driver, for whose murder he is on trial —court adjourned for the noon recess at 12:15 o’clock, to reconvene at 1:30 o’clock this after noon. when it was expected the argu ments would begin. * i The state put up in all nineteen witnesses. The defense put up only Kelloy himself. He was told to tell Tds story, and began with a long, rambling narrative of his life from his birth to the day of the murder, last Friday. He spoke with a strong accent, attributable to his long stay ir France, where he had lived most of the time. Coming to his account of what happened on the death ride of Le roy Trexler, Kelloy surprised the crowd by not referring in any to Trexler or to a killing. Previously he had made three dif ferent statements to newspaper men concerning the killing, with a some what different version each time, bjit always admi: *.^ er had been shot to death. Story of Trip Kelloy,,’s story of the automobile journey last Friday, as related to the jury follows: “I had a car sent to Luckie street. I went to Griffin. I got pinched there. They fined me $22. I was on my way to Savannah. I had never driven a car in my life. In going over some rough roads I step ped on the throttle once and broke the rear axle. “I. told a man named Green, who rode me to Milner, that I was a hand artist and asked him to have a drink with me. I got bn the train and went to Macon. “They arrested me there. I .did not know what for, and it was a long time before they would tell me. “Just let me say this: “I didn’t kill nobody, never stole nothing, have been honest all my Jife. I was making money, and would make money, but they wouldn’t give me no chance.” After the statement by Kelloy. court was adjourned until 1:30 o’clock this afternoon. Contention of State The noise of something like a soht, “that sounded smothered.” described by one witness, who then saw a man standing by an automobile, “in a stooping position.” and the testi mony of .4+l e undertaker, that there were powder burns about the fatal wound ’n the back of Leroy Trex ler’s head, “indicating that the shot was fired at close range,” made up the more sensational points of the testimony sup to noon Friday in the trial of Kelloy. The trial was pro ceeding swiftly in the Friday session, and more than a dozen witnesses had been examined by the noon recess. Just before court reconvened this morning. Solicitor General Owen, for the state, made the following state ment to The Journal’s correspondent: "We expect to place the defendant at the scene of the crime, and with the deceased, at the time the murder was committed, with absolutely no one else in the vicinity.” Toward the end of the Friday morning session, the most pertinent testimony ip this direction was given by Mrs. D. A. Shepherd, who lives a mile from the store of Grantland Doe, and a Short distance from the scene of the murder. ' Mrs. Shepherd Testifies Mrs. Shepherd said: “I saw a car with two men in it pass my house last Friday. I was in my yard at the time. About three minutes later I heard a noise like a pistol shot, or maybe a tire blowing out—it sounded as if smothered— and looking down the road I saw the cai"standing at the road-side not far from me. I could see only one man. He was the man who had been sitting on the righthand front seat as the car pass ed my yard. He was out of the car, standing beside it, in a stooping po sition. “In a few minutes, the car came back past my house, going toward Griffin. The man who was formerly sitting in the righthand front seat now was driving. He was alone.” This testimony created the prin cipal sensation of the morning ses sion. ( Mrs. Frances Roche, who appeared as the only friend of the defendant at the opening session of court Thursday, and who had retained his Atlanta counsel for him, was not in her place atfhis side when court be gan Friday. Her absence seemed to disturb Kelloy, who also was in a more serious mood than yesterday, when he had at times smiled and even laughed at incidents that came up while the motions for a contin uance and a change of venue, all overruled, were being argued and the jury chosen. Attorney W. O. Coop er, of Macon, also was absent and in his place was the senior member of the firm, John R.' Cooper, who,- with H. A. Allen, as Atlanta, was conducting the defense. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920. | THE HORN OF PLENTY i■ O ' Look again at the picture above. You notice how well filled is this "Horn of Plenty.” Farmers all over this land have poured grains, potatoes, fruit, meat, sugar vegetables of all sorts into the larger end of the Horn of Plenty. Surely this is enough food for everybody, and to spare for nations less abundantly blessed with rich acres. But there is not enough food for many persons in this Horn of Plenty. Look again at the picture above. Notice the other fend of that horn? Notice how small the distribution end is? Because it is so small persons do not get enough food of the quality good for them. This emfell end of the horn is merely the artist’s picture of our inefficient transportation and marketing systems wasteful methods pursued from the moment food leaves the farm until it arrives at your back door. It is a picture of unnecessary middlemen—all toll-takers; of food speculation, so needless and so expensive to food con sumers; of manipulated shortages which furnish new excustes for increased prices, and of car short ages and terminal congestion. Now you see why it is that a dollar’s worth of food poured into the Horn of Plenty comes out at the other end looking like 30 cents! Thousands Gasp When Aviator Slips While Changing'Plane LOUISVILLE, Ky. Furnishing thrill after thrill to the watching thousands beneath him, Al Wilson, 1,509 feet from the earth’s surface, yesterday transferred himself from one airplane'-to another at the Ken tucky state fair. Standing erect on the upper wing of one machine, he waited until the other was pass.ng immediately over hir». then jumped. He fell back. He had misjudged che distance. A sigh of relief from the myriad of spectators, who expected to see his body hurling through space. 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MELON GROWERS OF 12 COUNTIES HAVE ORGANIZED MOULTRIE, Ga., Sept. 15—The watermelon growers of the twelve southwest Georgia counties making up the Southwest Georgia Develop ment association, have formed an association for the purpose of work ing for a better marketing and dis tributing facilities. It is proposed also to in a measure contrbl the acre age. An effort will be made to im prove the quality of the melons shipped from this section and to stop the marketing of melons before they are ripe. It is said that -during the early part of the season a large num ber of watermelons webe shipped to certain markets in the east and their failure to cut red caused a big drop in the price. The melon crop during the past season, was in many re spects, one of the most disappoint ing from the standpoint of the grow er ever produced in this section of the state. Farmers complained bit terly at what they called raw deal that was given to ttyem by commis sion men. It is their such an association as has been formed can handle sales and distribution at a saving of thousands of dbllars for the growers—money which has here tofore been going to the buyers. It is pointed out that men can be sta tioned in the melon-buying centers and the sales made direct. MacSwiney Had Better Night; in Less Pain But Is Much Weaker LONDON, Sept. 17. —Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney, of Cork, who to day began the chirty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Brixton prison, pass ed a somewhat better night and had a little sleep, said a bulletin issued at 10 o’clock this morning by the Irish Self-Determination league. The bulletin said the pains he has suf fered in his limbs and back con tinue. but that he Was not suffering from the pain in his head from which he has frequently complained. It was declared a doctor had found him appreciably weaker, but that he was still conscious. In his report to the home office, the physician at Brixton prison de clared there was no change in the , lord mayor’s condition, except that a gradual deterioration was notice able daily. Mexico Orders Oil Ships From Canada OTTAWR, Ontario, Sept. 16.—The ! Mexican government has placed or ders with Canadian shipbuilders for thirty-seven ships, mostly oil tank ers, it was announced today. Under the shipping aid laws the govern ment must apprpove the contract which was submitted today by the Prince Rupert Dry Dock company. Living Cost up 197 Rer Cent STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Official statistics issued show that from July, 1914. until July of this year, the cost of living increased 197 per ctnt. SUSPECT HELD IN WALLSTREETPROBE INSANE Edwin P. Fischer, Arrested in Hamilton, Ontario, Will Be Sent to an Asylum HAMILTON, Ont., Sept.' 17.—Ed win P. Fischer, detained here in con nection with warnings \ alleged to have been sent predicting the Wall street explosion, was adjudged a “fit subject for the asylum,” 'by a lunacy commission here today and will be taken there this afternoon. Officers who took the prisoner in charge say he talked queerly. He claimed that h 6 had once acted as sparring partner to Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight boxing champion. ' Robert Pope, of New York. Fisch er’s brother-in-law, speaking to newspaper men this afternoon, said that Fischer told him three weeks ago that he had a premonition that Wall street would be blown up but be paid no attention to him. He declared that Fischer moved in no circle in which he could come in contact with persons who could give him any information of the im pending explosion. George F. Ketchledge, a broker and old friend of Fischer, said he re ceived a postal card from Fischer two days ago, "mailed in Toronto, which warned him to “get out of, Wall street as soon as the goifg’ strikes at 3 o’clock Wednesday.” Inspector Lahey. of the New York police, said that he was searching for Fischer. He said he had been informed that Fischer had had men tal trouble, and that he had been under observation sci Toronto. A man who as E. P. Fischer at Queens hotel in Toronto, left there suddenly September 14. A tennis racquet was found in his room. The man attracted attention by his violent talk. On one occasion he told a member of the hotel staif: “There are four millionaires out there and I am worth mpre than all of them?’ Hotel servants, it was said, reported he predicted to them that there would be an unheaval in New York on Thursday. This man was described as being well built, weight about 170 pounds, ruddy complexion, clean shaven and attired in a light suit NAMES OF DEAD IN BIG EXPLOSION IN WALL STREET NEW YORK, Sept. 17. —Thirty-six persons, two of them unidentified, lost their lives in the explosion yes terday in Wall street, according to a revised casualty list issued at noon today. The number of injured is said to approximate 200, with exact fig ures unobtainable because scores re ceived emergency treatment outside of hospitals. The revised list of dead follows: Joseph Arambarry, twenty-eight years, a West Indian, of the Bronx. Reginald Ellsworthy, West Orange, New Jersey. Barthomew ‘F'lapnery, nineteen years, messenger, New York. , Franklin G. Miller, twenty-one years. New York. Harold L. Gillies, Pelham, N. Y. Charles Hanrahan, Brooklyn. / Raymond Miller, no address. Thomas W. Ostrey, no address. Benjamin Soloway, sixteen years, Brooklyn. Joseph Schmitt, thirty years, Long Island City. John W. Weir, New York. Margaret Fisher. Brooklyn. John Donohue, thirty-eight, Brook lyn. William Joyce, twenty-four, Brook lyn, clerk in Morgan’s office. Carolyn DickindSn, Elmhurst, Long Island. I . . * ’ Mrs. Margaret Durey, thirty-eight, Brooklyn. . . Worth Bagley Ellsworth, firty-two, Washington, D. C. William F. Hutchinson, forty-one, Garden City, Long Island. John Johnson, 'New York. Bernard J. Kennedy, thirty, Brook lyn. Alexander Leigh, New York. Charles Lindrothe, Broooklyn. Colin B. McClure, twenty-five, Yon keAl’fred Mayer, New York Colonel Charles A. Nevlll, U. S. A., Savannah, Ga. Rudolph Portiny, Jamaica, Long Island. Edward A. Sweet, Brooklyn. Robert West day, sixteen, New York. / Mildred Xylander, New York. Lewis K. Smith, New York. Jerome H. McKeon, broker, the Bronx. Mr. McArthurs, address unknown. Two bodies still unidentified at the morgue. i Joseph Aresberg, Brooklyn. L. L. Roberts, New York. Crop Forecast By Federal Department Gives Interesting Facts Washington, Sept. 16 —North Car olina’s tobacco crop this year is fore cast by the department of agricul ture at 424,525,000 pounds, or about 18,000,000 pounds less than Ken tucky’s crop, each state producing more than one-quarter of the country’s record breaking crop of 1,553,812,000 pounds. Virginia’s crop is forecast at pounds, while South Car olina has 94,392,000 pounds; Tennes see. 77,067,000 pounds; Georgia. 20,- 185,000 pounds; Florida, 4,250,000 pounds, and Alabama, 1,498,000 pounds. Alabama’s peanut crop this year is more than one-quarter of the coun try’s total production, placing it at 38,880,000 bushels. Alabama has 10,138,000 bushels; Georgia, 7,405,000; Virginia, 5,263,000; Texas, 4,710,000; Florida. 4,317,000; North Carolina, 4,316,000; South Carolina, 968,000; Tennessee, 440,000; Mississippi, 102,- 000, and Louisiana, 89,000. Alabama leads the country in pro duction of sorghum for syrup, her crop this year being forecast at 10,- 5 CENTS A COPY. $1.50 A YEAR. FINANCIAL CENTERS OF NATION GOARDEO AGAIHSTEXPLB6IDNS Authorities Are Sure That Blast Was and No Accident, as Claimed ' by Lamont NEW YORK, SeptAl6.—(By the As sociated Press.) — A mysterious ex plosion, disastrous in its effect, oc curred at noon today in Wall street, killing more than a score of per sons and injuring hundreds. Office workers were just hurrying into the street for their noonday meal when a jet of black smoke and flame rose from the center of the world’s great strfeet of finance. Then came a blast. A moment la ter scores of men, women and chil dren were lying, blood-covered, on the pavements. Two minutes later, nearly all the exchanges had closed. Men had turned from barter to an errand oi mercy—and there was need of'lt. While the ‘police toiled for hours seeking the dead: and injured, train- f od investigators were trying in vaif. to determine definitely whether the explosion had occurred from a bbmb dropped in front of the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., or whether an au tomobile dashing into a wagon load bed with explosives, had taken Its. Soli. Frank Francisco, one of the most able investigators of the department of justice, declared after arriving on the scene that it was his opinion that not a bomb plot but a collision had been responsible for the blast which rocked skyscrapers, tore the fronts from office 'buildings for blocks around and scattered deadly missiles in all directions. Although the front and sides of the Morgan banking house were 'de molished. no member of the firm was seriously injured. J. P. Morgan himself is' in Eu rope, but at the time of the blast, Thomas W. Lambnt. Eliot C. Ba con, Dwight C. Morrow and George Whitney, all directors of the com- v pany, were in consultation. Police Commissioner Enright caid that after conferring with members of the firm he had learned that Mr. Bacon was slightly injured and also Junius Spencer Morgan, another of ficial of the company. Several em ployes were injured and one killed. Mr. Enright quoted firm members as stating that the blast assuredly came from the street and not from x within the building. The specular explosion ripped \ windows from the subtreasury across the street from the Morgan office and within a short time sol diers from Governor’s Island and all the police reserves that could be as sembled were placed around the government building in which was stored more than a billion dollars in metal and notes. Banking houses also were placed under heavy guard and United States regulars with fixed bayonets were patrolling the streets. The explosion came at a time when the canyons of lower New York were thronged with hustling office workers intent only in crowd- x ing their way into lunch rooms nearby. Flames Leap High A reporter cY_the Associated Prese, making his way down Wall street from Broadway, suddenly saw go up in front of him a cone of flame and smoke. It came from the very cen ter of Wall and Broad streets, be tween the Morgan building and <he sub-treasury. It mounted so high that awnings on the fifth floor of many skyscrapers were to a cinder. Then there was a roar that was heard far up Manhattan Island, and hundreds of persons were hurled to the pavement. Cries arose and on z Wall street, paved with broken glass there gushed forth streams of blood, more fit for a battlefield than Amer-/ ica’s financial cemer. One man was seen to sit up, brush his hand over his eyes and then topple over dead Into the gutter. Near him were found the bodies of three women and further on moro 1 bodies lying side by side with tho carcasses of horses. Hardly had the roar of the explo sion ended when a rush for the fi nancial district was made from all (Continued on Page 7, Column 3) 164,000 gallons, and the country's total of 38,525,000 gallons. Missis sippi stands second with ' 6,158,000 gallons. North Carolina has 3,650,- 000 gallons; Tennessee, 1,888,000, and Georgia, 1,370,000. Louisiana is producing almost one half of the country’s 52,152,000 bush el crop of rice this year. Louisi ana’s total is 25,200,000 bushels- Texas has 9.094,444 bushels; Arkan sas, 7.780,000; South Carolina, 101,- 000; Mississippi, 82,000; Florida. 52,- 000; Georgia, 29,000, Alabama, 13,000; and North Carolina 10,000. Sweet potato production this year promises to be only 2,000,000 bushels smaller than the record crop of last year, with a total of 101,779.000 busn els. Alabama leads the states with a production of about one-seventh of the crop. Alabama’s output is fore cast at 14,137,000 bushels; Georgia’s, 13,737,000; North Carolina’s, 10.130,- 000; Mississippi’s, 9,330,000; South Carolina’s, 8,066,000; Louisiana’s, 6,- 527,000; Florida’s, 4,272,000; Virgin ia’s, 4,193,000; and Tennessee’s, 3,- 865,000.