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PLANS COMPLETED
FOR OPENING OF
SOUTHEASTERN ffl
Everything Will Be Ready
When Gates Are Thrown
Open to Public on Octo
ber 16 .
Practically all arrangements have
been completed for the Southeastern
Fair which opens on October 16.
Discussing the prospects for the
fair. Secretary R. M. Striplin said.
Saturday:
“Everything will be in place at
the Southeastern Saturday, Oc
tober 16, which is opening instead of
preparation day as it has been in
the past.
“Monday, Octobev 18, which is
Atlanta day. will find the fair in
full swing and it is expected by
the management that it will be one
©f the biggest dayj of the fair, for
there are thousands of people who
are not going to take any chances
on weather and are coming Monday
because they have positive assur
ance that every' exhibit will be in
J>lace and every attraction ready.
"A complete fair on Saturday is
possible for the first time this year
because there is a full week between
■the close of the Alabama State
Fair at Birmingham, which releases
some of the agricultural and live
stock exhibits entered at the South
eastern Fair. It even makes it pos
sible for Johnny Jones’ Carnival to
play a pre-fair engagement.
« “This great amusement organiza
tion will open at Lakewood on Mon
day night, October 10, and continue
five nights without any admission to
the fair grounds. This will give
Atlanta a chance to compete with
Toronto; where the two weeks’ en
gagement resulted in admissions
amounting to $194,219.50.
' “It must be admitted that there
1* some merit to a carnival com
pany that can show' such results—
the answer is that there is nothing
connected with any show on the
midway that offends any one. The
Jones organization requires almost
half as many cars to carry the peo
ple and shows as do Ringling
Brothers and with the new rail con
nection completed into the park, this
great show can be handled in one
fourth the time that it required for
merly.
Pageant at Opening
“Since we are to have a pageant
on opening night and the 25-26,
three nights in all, 1 have been giv
ing much consideration to the big
entertainment feature. I saw the
great pageant at Toronto, “The Em
pire Triumphant.” and I feel sure
that the stage settings in our scenes
■will be fully as interesting to the
' people of Georgia, as the historical
incidents at Toronto were for the
Canadians. We have a setting and
background at Lakew’ood which if
possessed by Toronto would have
added much to their episodes.
“The active management of the
Southeastern Fair association was
very much encouraged by' the re
sponses of the civic organizations
of Atlanta to the call of President
Hastings and Chairman Kreigsha
ber of the civics committee, at the
luncheon Thursday.
“The Southeastern Fair has never
called on the business men of At-,
lanta for anything needful without
receiving it. We are going to need
more revenue this year and we feel
sure of the success of the move
» ment that has been started by the
civic clubs of Atlanta to sell fair
tickets in advance, for certainly now
there is no orje who prides himself
on being public spirited and pos
sessed of the means who can refuse
to buy these tickets. It offers an
opportunity for the public, press and
pulpit to boost the fair to the limit,
for we have the most expensive
show that has ever been staged in
Atlanta.
“It is within the realm of reason
to say that the National Hog and
Cattle Show will represent pure bred
live stock worth a million and a
half dollars. This feature of the
fair alone ■will be big enough that
if it were staged as a separate en
terprise the admission price would
• be 75 cents just the same. Then
there is the agricultural building,
woman’s building, auto show, poul
try show, rabbit show, tractor ex
hibit and big government exhibit.
“When it comes to the amusement
feature we present a bill that lasts
all afternoon and if our * admission
were based on the cost, exclusive
ness or novelty and was staged
outside the fair it would be neces
sary to charge four dollars admis
sion The* grand circuit races alone
would be $1; the auto polo $1; our
hippodrome acts $2. Then at night
we hme the fireworks thrown in
for good measure.
“We are spending three times as
much money on this fair as we did
the first fair, and the budget at that
time almost gave our executive com
mittee, collectively, heart failure.
They have grown more confident
each year because they have faith
in the “Atlanta Spirit 1 ’ that aspires
to set an example for Georgia and
the Southeastern states, and is al
ways ready to bac»< anything to t
limit that has real merit.
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Man Leaps Nine Stories
From Sky scrap er Window
To Tragic Death Below
P, T. Heath, Atlanta Busi
ness Man ( Writes Six
Farewell Notes Before
Taking Suicide Plunge
Leaving several farewell notes on
his desk, P. T. Heath, fifty-five
years old. a manufacturer’s agent
of 690 Ponce de Leon avenue,
leaped from his office on the
ninth floor of the Healey building at
7:40 o’clock Saturday morning, to in
stant death on the pavement of For
syth street.
Only a few persons were on the
street at the time, but an immense
throng of business people, on their
way to work, quickly gathered.
Mr. Heath leaves a wife and one
son. His office was in room 919, of
the Healey building.
To all appearances Mr. Hejith de
liberately planned his death. There
were six separate notes on his desk.
His derby hat. * watch, stickpin and
a few notebooks were carefully as
sembled and laid aside.
None of the notes was sealed or
addressed. Lying open on the desk,
several of them had no salutation.
The others simply began “My Dear
Baby,” and presumably were intended
for for his wife.
Mrs. Heath Prostrated
Mrs. Heath was completely pros
trated when she learned or the
tragedy, as was also the son, Tyre..
■Heath.
According t 0 several relgtives who
reside at the home of Mr. Heath,
he has been in ill health for some
time, in fact in too weakened a condi
tion to undergo an operation which
his physician said was necessary.
Members qf the family attribute his
self-destruction to nervous derange
ment. ,
“He was of a hyper-sensitive na
ture,” said Mr. Heath’s niece, who
lives at the home, “and took many
things to heart and brooded over
them which other men would not
have noticed.”
Friend Had Presentment '
L. P. Whitfield, a close friend of
the dead man, whose office adjoins
that of Mr. Heath, said Saturday
morning that he had a presentment
of the coming tragedy.
‘ For Several weeks.” said Mr.
Whitfield, "I have noticed that he
has been in low spirits. This morn
ing I came in from a trip, and as
I was going into my office, met Mr.
Heath going into his office. I asked
him how he was feeling. He said, ;i
will not lie about it. I’m feeling
mighty bad.’ That was at 7:30
o’clock. Ten minutes later I heard
his window go up. I went to the
window and saw his body lying on
the street, and hundreds of people
running toward him.”
According to O. H. Doster, a bar
ber in the Healy building, who has
known Mr. Heath for .a number, of
years, the dead man has t been on
the point of suicide at least on two
occasions prior to Saturday morn
ing.
Planned Suicide Year Ago
"About a year ago,” said Mr. Dos
ter, "he tcdd me he couldn’t stand
it any but I prevailed upon
him to give up his purpose of kill
ing himself. Then again, six months
ago, I happened to walk into his
office and he showed me a letter
which he had just written to his
wife, telling her good-by, and of his
Intention to destroy himself. I drag
ged him away from the open window
and tried to cheer him up.”
Members of Mr. Heath’s family
said that he has talked of suicide
before, but they never paf3 any at
tention to it—simply taking his re
marks *as a result of his extremely
nervous condition.
Mr. Whitfield called Mrs. Heath.
When he told her the news she
Two Men Killed and Nine
Are Injured in Wreck on
A., B. & A. Railroad
WI W. C. MUNDAY, JB.
WOODLAND, Ga., Sept. 25. —One
of the worst wrecks in the history
of the Atlanta. Birmingham and At
lantic railroad occurred two miles
south of this city shortly after 9
o’clock Saturday morning, when
northbound passenger train No. 15,
crashed head-on with southbound
freight train No. 214. Two men—a
White section foreman and a negro
firemen were killed, and two
white men, one Chinese and six
negroes were seriously injured,
while a large number of passengers
were badly shaken up.
The dead were: Woodland Section
Foreman, R. L. Foster; Colored
Fireman, Mack Gunn.
The seriously injured were: Pas
senger Engineer Ed Carney, of
Fitzgerald; Mail Clerk McElroy,
Manchester; Loo Wong Fong, China
man from Macon; Lucy Worthen,
colored; John and Haze Backley, col
ored; John L. Miller, colored; Eva
Duncan, colored; J. W. Witchard,
colored.
Engineer Bill Swain, of Fitzgerald,
who was in charge of the freight
train engine, claims responsibility
for the whole accident. He was run
ning on the passenger train's time
past Woodlawn 'and the passenger
train had the right of way.
He said if he had been on time he
would have made the next station,
but he had trouble with a hot box,
which delayed him, and he should
have stopped at Woodlanw( but he
never thought about being behind
time. , . , ,
Both engines were completely de
molished. The first two of the three
ears which made up the passenger
train were telescoped, and it was
necessary for section hands to re
move a considerable amount of debris
before the injured colored .passen
gers and mail clerk could be taken
from the wrecked train under which
they were pinned. The third coach
stayed on the track, and, with the
exception of the Chinese, none of its
occupants were seriously injured, al
though several were badly shaken up.
The Chinese was looking out of the
back door of the train when the ac-
Price Reduction
Is For Yarn Only
UTICA, N. Y„ Sept. 25.—Cotton
manufacturers stated today that the
price reduction of 30 to 40 per cent
made public yesterday was for yarn
only. The average reduction
sheeting was 19 per cent.
MR.' PETERSON T. HEATH,
well-known Atlanta business
man, who committed suicide
Saturday by leaping from a
ninth-story window of the Hea
ley building to the street be
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was so shocked she dropped the
phone.
Probably a score of people saw the
man fall from the window, high up
on the face of the building fronting
Forsyth street —just in front of the
postoffice.
Hundreds on Scene
Those who saw him fall said that
he appeared to be floating slowly
down, twisting and moving in the air.
As he struck the. pavement, hundreds
of people seemingly sprung from no
where, and in a moment the thor
oughfare was competely blocked with
a curious throng. ,Scores of girls, on
their way to their offices, stood star
ing at the body, sprawled on the
pavement.
The office in the Healey building
was locked with a special lock, and
it was necessary to enter through the
transom. An armchair sat facing an
open window —the morning mail was
unopened.
Tlie body was removed to the un
dertaking establishment of Awtry &
Lowndes. , ,
The notes left on the desk, writ
ten in a clear hand, read as follows:
“I am leaping at 7:30. Good-by,
dear, sweet baby—but don’t blame
trip, for I cannot stanU strain
any longer. Yours, “PETE.”
Tried To Use ’Phone
The second note read:
“Saturday morning about < :30.
“Glad I • talked with you yester
day This is final. I know I will be
at rest for I have never done any
body any harm. Now, once more, I
love you more than I ca, n tell you.
Goodby.—Pete.”
The third note said:
“I tried three times to speak to
you over the phone, but said line
was busy, so goodby.—Pete.”
The last note read as follows:
“My dear, sweet baby.
"Wish I could have seen you once
more before writing this. I want
the world tq know it is no fault ot
vours. but • I want
Mr. Young to have first chance to
sell my lines. I am leaving him
my watch as a little token of my
appreciation. I am leaving my stick
pin. which I value more than any
thing in the world, for your disposal.
I know it’s awful to do this.
love you —I love you more than I can
tell —more than I could ever express
to you.
‘JGoodby—Pete.”
cident took place, and his body was
thrown halfway through the coach.
He struck the floor with such force
that his skull was fractured.
Mr., Foster, the section foreman, is
said to have boarded the train at
Berry, a station two miles south of
the point where the accident hap
pened. Mr. Foster* whom it is said,
was a good friend of Engineer Car
ney was riding in the cab, when he
noticed the freight train coming. He
leaped for his life, but, in doing so,
broke his neck.
The colored fireman was burnt to
a crisp.
Immediately after tne accident, the
passengers who were fortunate
enough to escape injury aided in ad
ministering first-aid to the injured
persons’, whose bodies were extract
ed from the wreck.
Within twenty mirtutes after the
trains collided practically every doc
tor within a radius of ten miles of
this city was on his way to the
scene of the catastrophe. After the
doctors had arrived and bound up
the unfortunates’ wounds, they were
placed on improvised stretchers,
which were constructed out of pas
senger seats and carried aboard a
relief train, which transported them
to a Manchester hospital. The relief
train, which was made up in Man
chester, six miles from Woodland,
arrived in hour and a half
the accident.
The engineer and fireman of the
freight train, which was traveling at
a rather slow rate of speed, jumped,
both of them escaping serious in
juries. Engineer Carney, of the pas
senger train, refused to jump, stay
ing with his engine until the last.
After his wounds had been dressed
and he had regained consciousness,
Mr. Carney was asked: “Why didn’t
you jump?” He replied: “Because I
had so many lives behind me.”
Many residents of Manchester
made the trip to the wreck in auto
mobiles,- and the road which leads
from Manchester to Woodland was
crowded with'autos throughout the
day.
Captain Harry Riddick, well-known
in Talbotton, was in charge of the
passenger train and received a few
bruises about the face.
A Live Aligator Can
Be Sent Through Mail
NASHVILLE.x Tenn., Sept. 25.—Un
der a ruling of the postoffice depart
ment received here today an alligator
is mailable. The shipment by parcel
post of an alligator from Florida to
a girl in a local school called for the
ruling.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920.
EXPLOSION OF BOMB
WRECKS CORK STORE
IND STARTS PANIC
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Bloody Rioting Breaks Out
Also in Belfast When Sinn
Feiners and Police Wage
Duels
CORK, Sept. 27. —A violent explo
sion shook this city about 2 o’clock'
this morning. It was followed by
the rattle of rifle fire in various
parts of the business district.
When the townspeople ventured
forth later in the morning, after the
the curfew had expired, they found
the main thoroughfare, Patrick
street, littered with glass, and the
front of a large department store,
which is said to employ a large
number of young Seinn Feiners,
completely wrecked as if by bombs.
Windows were smashed in the up
per stories of almost every store in
the vicinity.
At military headquarters if was
said a preliminary report showed
there were no military patrols near
the wrecked store at the time of the
explosion, but that troops were has
ened to the scene. They were fired
>n by snipers from the roof of the
store, according to the report, and
he soldiers returned the fire with
eyeral volleys. A military guard
nas been stationed at the store.
it is understood the theory of h°th
the military and police is that a
bomb was placed in a show window
from the inside, but this is contro
verted by the owner. A half dozen
employes sleeping upstairs in the
rear of the premises were badly
shaken, but so far as it known no
one was hurt, either by the explosion
or the subsequent fusillades. In
tense excitement prevails through
out the city.
SHOOTING BY SNIPERS
CAUSES BELFAST PANIC
BELFAST, Sept. 27.—The shoot
ing by snipers and others in the
center of Belfast last night caused a
panic among the crowds promenad
ing on Royal avenue, the city’s main
artery, after church hours. dis
turbance followed the shootings of
Saturday night and early Sunday, in
which one policeman was killed and
two others were wounded, followed
by the assassination of three civil
ians in reprisal by parties of masked
men.
The opening incident of Sunday
night's disorders occurred when
snipers in side streets of the Sinn
Fein quarter fired into North street,
which crosses Royal ’’avenue. A
tram car on North street came into
the line of fire and the passengers,
with the driver, rouched on the
floor until the car had turned into
Royal avenue. The tram car traffic’
later had to be diverted to another
route.
The rush from the side streets
caused the crowd in Royal avenue to
swell to large proportions, and a
stampede was created in this throng
when volleys suddenly rang out,
apparently from the Sinn Fein side
streets at the top of North street,
the firing rapidly increasing in vol
ume. As the crowd raced along
Royal avenue in wild disorder a
number of shots were discharged in
Rosemary street, which is on the
southern side of the avenue, creat
ing a panic about the Castle street
junction, the most crowded spot ’in
the city, from which all tram cars
start.
Women rushed hitherto and thith
er in a frenzy, and there was a rush
to seek shelter in the cars. A force
of military was hurried to Rosemary
street, and the police took up a po
sition at Royal avenue and North
street. After these protective meas
ures conditions quieted down.
FORTY BUILDING BURNED
IN POLICE REPRISALS
DUBLIN, Sept. 27.—Forty build
ings were burned in police reprisals
today at the town of Trim, twenty
fiye miles from Dublin. The hotel
and the market hall were set afire.
Residents of the town fled from it
in panic.
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Money Borrowed for Stars
and Stripes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—W. D.
Jamieson, finance director of -the
Democratic national committee, ad
vanced $4,000 to Mrs. E. M. Parks,
his secretary, which she put into the
Stars and Stripes, a paper for war
veterans, Mrs. Parks testified today
before the senate campaign fund
investigating committee.
Mrs. Parks flatly refused to tell
the names of other Democrats who
loaned money to put into the paper.
She declared the committee was
“persecuting” her by asking her to
tell from whom she borrowed.
“I borrowed all but SIO,OOO of the
$48,000 I have put into the paper,”
said Mrs. Park. No member of the
Democratic national committee as
such has ever the paper any
money or invested any in it.”
Mrs. Parks said she insisted that
she be given 51 per cent of the pa
per’s stock in return for her agree
ment to finance the publication be
cause she wanted to be sure that
the Stars and Stripes be kept out of
politics.
Mrs. Parks declared she had been
threatened by Republicans in an ef
fort to force her to sell the paper.
Under questioning by' Senator
Reed, Mrs. Parks said not a dollad
of the money came from the Demo
cratic national committee, any mem
ber of it, or from any other Demo
crat committee or organization.
Senator Reed suggested Mrs.
Parks give the committee, in confi
dence, the names of those from
whom she borrowed. She rejected
this suggestion also.
“I don’t want them in confidence,”
said Senator Kenyon. “The public
can judge why this witness doesn't
want to answer.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. With
the exception of a sub-committee in
quiry into charges involving the
financing of Governor Cox in Ohio in
1918 and completion of its investiga
tion into conditions in Missouri, the
senate committee looking into presi
dential campaign funds and politi
cal influences had cleared its slate
today when it adjourned its sessions
here to reconvene in St. Louis Octo
ber 18. The Ohio inquiry will be con
ducted by Senators Edge and Pom
erne in Dayton beginning October 7.
Lacking the testimony of E. H.
Talbot, of Dayton, Ohio, who had
been summoned in connection
with the implied charge made before
the committee yesterday, that the
Dayton Metal Products company had
taken up a $5,000 note for Governor
Cox in 1918. the committee conducted
a hard drive toward clearing up
loose ends of previous hearings.
The hearings today were devoted
into further inquiry into the activi
ties of the league to enforce peace;
the connection between “Stars and
Stripes,” a weekly newspaper for
former soldiers, and the Democratic
campaign, the inter-racial council
and the Association of foreign lan
guage newspaper with T. Coleman
DuPont, Republican National com
mitteman from Delaware on the
stand, and into trips of navy depart
ment officials and employes, includ
ing Secretary Daniels, to the Pacific
coast during the time of the Demo
cratic convention in San Francisco.
Incidentally the committee heard
details of what was declared a
“quadrennial row” between Republi
can factions in North Carolina and
apologized for having summoned
Clarence R. Pugh from Elizabeth
City, that state, for examination. It
found no evidence of any $50,000
fund provided by Chairman Hays of
the Republican national committee to
organize textile workers and negroes
of that state as Mr. Pugh's opponent
had charged.
Dentists Disagree on
Whether Child Has
A Genuine Gold Tooth
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HERE’S EVA CATHERINE LEE, the Atlanta baby, who, at *
seven months, has sprouted a tooth which appears to be gold and
which has set dentists and the public to wondering. Various ex
planations are advanced, from pre-natal influence to miracles.
BY WARD GREENE
Atlanta dentists who have seen the
“gold tooth” of seven-months-old
Eva Catherine Lee disagree as to
whether it is really gold or simply
a diseased tooth.
"There is evidently some discolora
tion of the enamel of the tooth which
gives it the appearance of gold,”
says Dr. R. L. Hood, of 59 Stonewall
street, one of the physicians who
examined Eva Catherine.
"The enamel has simply worn off
and the ‘gold’ is nothing more than
dentine, its brilliant color probably
due to an acid stomach,’ says Dr.
Thomas W. *Brock, who has not seen
the tooth, but who talked with a
surgeon who did see the tooth and
who, while agreeing with Dr. Brock,
wishes his name withheld,
"It is gold," declares Dr. J. Q.
Brantley, who felt of the tooth with
his fingers and examined it under
a magnifying glass. “The most
plausible explanation I can advance
is pre-natal influence.”
"That is correct, the tooth is cer
tainly gold,” agrees Dr. S. F. West,
who also saw and felt of the tooth.
So there you are! When science
falls out. what are the simple laymen
to believe? , /
Dayman Sees Tooth
One of the s. 1.. being the writer
of these words, saw the “gold tooth”
Friday afternoon at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lee, Eva Cath
erine’s parents, at 117 Ocmulgee
street.
No. 117 Ocmulgee street is a tiny
cottage in a row of other cottages
in the rear of the Atlanta Woolen
mills, just off Stewart avenue, where
it intersects with Whitehall street.
Mrs. Lee came to the door with
Eva Catherine in her arms, crying a
bit fretfully.
"We would like to see—” began
the simple lajrman.
“All right.’ said Mrs. Lee wearily,
“just have seats please, and I’ll take
her over here by the window.”
Mrs. Lee sat down on the bed, Eva
Catherine in her lap.
The simple layman crowded him
self on the windowsill, on the front
row of the orchestra, as it were.
Eva Catherine, her blue eyes very
solemn, her pink toes sticking out
from under her dress* like posies,
gazed hard at the simple layman.
“Coochy, coochy!” said the simple
layman, wiggling his fingers at Eva
Catherine.
"Br-a-a-a-a-a!” wailed Eva Cath
erine.
Her blue eyes crinkled shut, her
pink toes curled up, her fists doubled,
and her mouth opened wide.
“There,” said Eva Catherine’s
mother. "Lookit!”
The simple layman bent and peered.
Something Glittered
Something glittered. something
shone, in Eva Catherine’s mouth.
It w-as there, all light, the “gold
tooth.”
Now, do not get it into your head
that Eva Catherine’s "gold tooth” is
the size of a pick or anything like
that.
Babies’ teeth, of course, are small,
like so many little pearls. Eva Cath
erine has five such, none of them
golden. The sixth, however, is dif
ferent.
It is the same size as the others,
but where it resposes in her upper,
left-hand jaw, second molar from
the back, it shines beautifully.
The simple layman examined it
closely. It wasn’t all golden, but
there was a brilliant gold crescent
across the point of the tooth and
around the edges, close to the gum,
was a golden lining. The rest was
white enamel. But, in the sunshine
drifting in the window, the goiaen
part sparkled like a wedding ring
on a bride’s finger.
"Take a Seat, Please”
•There was a gentle rap at the
door. A woman’s face appeared.
"Is this where the baby with —?”
she began.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Lee, sighing,
“have seats, please.”
With the woman were two chil
dren.
"Look, children, there it is’.” chor
tled the woman.
She rose, beaming with satisfac
tion.
“I’ve been meaning to come for
three days, ever since I heard about
it,” she announced to Mrs. Lee.
Feet shuffled on the threshold.
Another rap sounded. A man’s hat
poked around the jam.
"Is this where —?”
“Yes.” said Mrs. Lee, “take a seat,
please.”
"That’s about the last time I can
show it today,” she added. “Have to
wait till tomorrow’, children,” she
said to three little bare-foot girls
who now added themselves to the
crowded room. “Baby’s getting fret
ty.”
Indeed, Eva Catherine was dis
playing signs of hearty disgust to
ward all sightseers. One could imag-
(Continued on Page 7, Column 3)
COAL PRICE DROP
NOW PREDICTED
BY WHOLESALERS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—C0al
will be the next important commod
ity added to the list of 248 necessi
ties on which prices have been cut,
Director George H. Cushing, of the
American Wholesale Coal Dealers’
association, predicted here Saturday.
Coal prices experienced a slump
of more than $2 a ton in eastern
states a month ago. Another slump
is due soon throughout the country,
according to Mr. Cushing.
Cheaper coal means lower costs
in manufacturing electric lights and
power to run street car lines and
factories. It may have the effect
of preventing « further increased
rates to street car companies in
many big cities.
"Coal, at least the bituminous va
riety, now is getting into the class
of commodities in which surplus
stocks are piling up,” said Mr.
Cushing.
The biggest slump in months is
being felt in prices of vegetables,
according to an announcement today
by the agriculture department.
The department showed tiiat many
farmers are being forced to sell prod
uce at less than the cost of produc
tion. "
This is due to record crops. The
potato crop was 15 per cent larger
than an ordinary, while similarly
large increases were shown in the
onion and cabbage crops.
Approximately 248 articles of food,
clothing and manufactured commo-'
dities have been reduced either in re
tail or wholesale price and some in
both, according to reports to several
government departments.
Twenty-four articles of food figure
in the retail price slashes, according
to the labor department.
The same department has a. list
of nearly 150 commodities that have
joined the list of reduced wholesale
quotations, while the commerce de
partment reports show that a ma
jority of the commodities now being
exported are being sold at reductions
ranging up to 20 per cent. Many of
these commodities have not yet been
reduced in the domestic markets.
This is bound to follow, however,
officials say.
Most government officials are con
vinced that the present price-cutting
wave is permanent and not seasonal.
A 20 per cent* reduction in cloth,
announced today in Boston, is ex
pected to be effective next spring in
reducing retail prices of clothing.
Clothing prices, however., already
have been put in the price cutting
list.
M’SWINEY STILL
HOLDING OUT ON
FORTY-SIXTH DAY
LONDON, Sept. 27. —Lord Mayor
MacSwiney. although weaker than
at any time since he began his hun
ger strike, was still conscious last
night, according to a Sinn Fein bul
letin issued today. The mayor has
entered upon the forty-sixth day of
his fast.
CORK HUNGER STRIKERS
MAY' LIVE FOR MONTHS
CORK, Sept. 27.—The condition of
the hunger strikers in Cork jail is
unchanged, with the exception of
Hennessy and Burke, who have taken
a turn for the worse. Hennessy suf
fered a serious collapse during the
night. Dr. Pearson, one of the jail
physicians, discussing the condition
of the prisoners, said that he would
not be surprised if some of them
were still alive a month hence.
Offers All-Wool Suit for $25
CHICAGO. Sept. 27—Mr. James D.
Bell, head of the Bell Tailors,
Adams at Green st., Chicago, 111.,
said to be the largest made-to-meas
ure clothing establishment in the
world, recently stated that his firm
is now able to quote prices on spring
and summer suits 35 per cent below
what others ask. To prove his point
he showed the writer a very attrac
tive piece of all-wool cassimere for
W’hich they ask only $25 a suit, made
to individual measure, whereas the
same fabric is now being offered by
others at $35 to S4O per suit. Even
larger savings are offered on their
higher priced suits. Every reader
of The Journal should write Mr. Bell
for his price list and a free copy
of his style book N 0.1062, which con
tains large cloth samples of many
beautiful patterns.—(Advt.) I
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A TEAK.
ND FEDERAL FUNDS
WILL BE ADVANCED
FOB HOLDING CROPa
While Favoring Orderly Mar
keting, Secretary Houston
Declares Against "Artifi
cially Maintaining Prices"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The
government cannot be a party to any
undertaking for artificially main
taining “war prices” by enabling
owners to withhold their commodi
ties from the markets, Secretary
Houston says in a formal state
ment on the commercial credit sit
uation. /
On the other hand the secretary
declares in favor of the orderly
marketing of all commodities and
estimates that the commercial loans
of all banks during the past year In
creased by about $3,000,000,000 to
meet the demands of industry and
agriculture.
"I am in favor of every legitimate
effort to promote the orderly mar
keting of all commodities,” said
Secretary Houston, “but tH% govern
ment cannot be a party to an under
taking to hold commodities off the
market to enable the owners arti
ficially for speculative purposes t<
maintain war prices or higher thar
war prices.
“As a matter of fact, the bank?
of the country during the las
twelve months have been extendini
large credits to meet the demand
from industry and agriculture. Sine
August, 1919, the loans and invest
ments of about 800 reporting mem
ber banks increased over two an<
one-half billion dollars. As these re
porting banks represent about fortj
per cent of the resources of all the
banks, it is estimated that the total
increase in loans and investment?
since August, 1919. has been ovei
five and one-half billion dollars.
“Even from January 23, 1920
when the increase in discount rate?
went into offect, to August 27, 1920
the loans of about 800 reportine
member banks, exclusive of loan?
secured by government obligation?
and other stocks and* bonds, Increas
ed about-one and a quarter billion?
of dollars. This would reflect a to
tal increase of commercial loans in
all banks, it is estimated, of per
haps three billions of dollars. Sinct
then the crop-moving demands or
the bills discounted and purchase*!
by the federal reserve banks hav»
increased at the rate of from thlrtj
to forty millions a week. The In
creases in the volume of federal re
serve notes from January 2S, l>2o.
to August 27, 1920, was $380,000,-
000.”
ALABAMA TROOPS
BAR' MEETINGS OF
MINE STRIKERS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. J 7.
State military forces under command
of General R. E. Steiner, prevented
the holding of numerous mass meet
ings scheduled for today through
out the coal mining districts of the
state by leaders of the striking min
ers. At some places the- soldiers
were armed with machine guns.
Attempts were made to hold the
meetings as scheduled, but the
troops were on the scene and the
union officials were advised that the
meetings would not be allowed.
Thereupon the speakers gave way
and the crowds left the scenes.
There was no disorder.
Meetings announced included points
in Walker county, Bradford, Repub
lic, Wylam, Mulga, Blocton and Do
cena. Some of the meetings had
been advertised in the newspapers
an<l some were called locally by dis
tribution of handbills.
With Machine Guns
At the smaller meetings ten to a
dozen soldiers appeared, while at
others detachments of as many as
seventy-five men with machine guns
were on hand. At each place the
officer in command approached the
union leaders and informed them that
the meetings would not be permit
ted.
Commenting on the events of the
day, General Steiner said tonight:
“We issued orders on our arrival in
the strike zone that there would be
no mass meetings. This was thor
oughly understood by the strike
leaders, because we told them so.
We were, therefore, more or less sur
prised when we got wind of the
Sunday schedule. We took steps ac
cordingly. No mass meetings were
held today and none will be held in
the territory under our jurisdiction.
This includes the entire mining fields
and towns immediately adjacent to
them.
“The reason why we will not per
mit the mass meetings is because
they are addressed by men whose
speeches tend to inflame the minds
of their hearers, and that in turn
tends to lead to a breach of the
peace. We are here primarily to
prevent any breach of the peace and
we shall stop that which aims in
that direction.”
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