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Sljc ZVHairt a SfrMßteMs So ur nal VOL. XXII. NO. 134. 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. SELLS TAILOR-MADE SUITS FOR $lB The Lincoln Woolen Mills, Division 517, Chicago. 111., will send any, i terested reader of this paper (with out charge) a book cloth samples in many different co - ots patterns Their prices are extremely low «and you will find it t your advantage to send for this free book and compare their prices witn others before you order new clothes. An example of their values is a dura ble and attractive, smooth finished •Worsted at $lB for a three ; piece suit, worth at least S3O at retail. Another big bargain is their heavyweight pure Australian virgin wool blue serge on which they guarantee to save you not less than S3O. The company is large and reliable. All garments are sent on approval. Money will be returned any time customer is- not well pleased. If interested, write them today for their latest I price list, self-measuring charts and free book —(Advt.) 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 low. * \ i Bl I 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 r 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. Special Dixie Leader Hire’s a wonderful Combination. Subscription Offer that will guarantee GOOD READING for ALL THE FAMILY the WHOLE YEAR at EXTREMELY LOW COST. SIX GREAT PUBLICATIONS One Year Each—24o Issues THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Southern Ruralist Inland Farmer ' Better Farming Parks’ Floral Magazine | The Gentlewoman ALL SIX FOR ONLY $1.65 SPECIAL NOTICE! No,: agent’s commission is allowed on this combination offer. 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WOMAN CHARGES ■SLUSH' PROBERS WITHPERSECUTIDN Tells Committee There Are No "Political Strings" to 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 ' -—A MlS®' r 11 SmbubMh :; . OsW <*iOBI • n Jg-lp' ? Illb * ■ ' x ; ' W|||| •4 L,'. * s ay w* ■. ■■ •••• . ■ : \ J;:?’. ‘ ’ 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.” Handy Little Book Ready for Readers Who Send Renewals The Tri-Weekly Journal has a valuable little souvenir which w’ill be sent to readers who renew their subscriptions at the present time. The souvenir is a neat, forty eight-page booklet called “The Presidency of the United States of America.” Right now, when the country is about to choose a new pilot for the Ship of State, the hundreds of facts, figures, historical notes, queer incidents, tables and other pertinent information, will come in mighty handy. For instance, you will want to know how the states voted in 1916, a list of all the presidents, the nicknames of famous presi dents, historic contests, how' your state voted for a generation, the age, business, religion and par- , entage of all the presidents, and a multitude of other interesting items. 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