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VOL. XXII. NO. 136.
Chicago Ball Player,
Mentioned in Probe,
Wounded by Attacker
“Buck” Herzog, Member
of Chicago Nationals, At
tacked by Irate “Fan” and
Cut Three Times
$lO Bet on World Series
In 1919 Is Refunded
BELOIT. Wis., Sept. 30.—8e- '
cause of confessions of White Sox |
players that they “threw” the I
1319 world series, W. W. Ches- !
brough refunded John Keenan $lO
which he had won from him.
Chesbrough had bet on the Reds.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30. —While mem- !
bers ..of the Chicago National league I
team were leaving the baseball park
Rt Joliet, 111., after an exhibition
game this afternoon, one man of a
crowd which surged about their au
tomobile slashed Charles “Buck.”
Herzog three times with a knife,
Shouting:
•‘Here are some of those crooked
Chicago ball players.”
Herzog was cut across the palm
of the right hand, on the left arm
and the left leg, but his wounds
were not considered serious. The
cuts were dressed by the Cubs’ train
er and he returned to Chicago with
the team. • i
One man leaned to the running j
board of the automobile, shouting at
the Cub players and Herzog knocked
him off the step, leaning out the
door to push him. away. A second
man rushed through the crowd and
attacked Herzog with a knife, but
Others in the crowd quickly inter
vened and cleared a path for the
Cubs’ machine.
Herzog was one of two players
mentioned by J. C. “Rube” Benton,
of the New York Giants, at the start
of the grand jury baseball inquiry
here, as having attempted to bribe
him to "throw a baseball game.”
Herzog was exonerated of all blame
by President Heydler, of the Na
tional league, in his statement be
fore the grand jury, Heydler' pro
ducing affidavits concerning the case
when he testified.
CHICAGO. Sept. 30.—Further in
vestigation of the Chicago White Sox
world’s series’ scandal was tempor
arily delayed today, as word was re
ceived from Maclay Hoyne, state's
attorney, now in New York, to hold
up proceedings until his return. The
grand jury also has completed exam
ination of witnesses on hand, and are
awaiting the arrival of dther base
ball players and sportig celebrities
tvho have been summoned.
An official statement to the grand
Jury from "Happy” Felsch was ex
pected soon. He is understood to
have "confessed” his share in the
• throwing of the 1919 world’s series
yesterday to newspaper men. Eddie
Cicotte, in his statement to the
grand jury, said Felsch got $5,000 for
his share In the alleged conspiracy,
but the statement credited to Felsch
yesterday said that only one misplay
could have been charged to him in
the series, and that, a mufS of a fly
ball, was unintentional.
Doubts Seriousness of Offense
Statements published here today
credited to State’s Attorney Hoyne,
quoted him as expressing doubt
whether any serious legal offense
was committed by the White Sox
players, named in the confessions of
Cicotte, Claude Williams and Joe
Jackson before the grand jury and
the statement madeb y Oscar Felsch
to newspapers.
"I am uncertain,” Mr. Hoyne is
quoted as saying, “whether any
crime has been conjmitted.”
The statement said Mr. Hoyne held
that the only charge under which
they might be prosecuted was that
of gambling or conspiracy to gamble,
a misdemeanor in Illinois.
Differ With Hoyne
Sources close’ to Judge McDonald,
in charge of the grand jury, said
the court had decided to reappoint
the jury as a special body and in
struct it to continue its work. A
special prosecutor may be appointed
if Mr. Hoyne maintains his stand.
The grand jury’s regular term was
to expire today.
Several attorneys interested in the
investigation issued statements in
which they differed widely from Mr
Hoyne’s statement that the White
Sox players alleged to have used
Crooked baseball in the 1919 world
series could not be prosecuted.
Alfred Austrian, attorney for
Charles Comiskey, owner of the
White Sox, quoted the Illinois con
spiracy statute, which provides:
“If two or more persons conspire
together with the fradulent and ma
licious intent wrongfully and wicked
ly to injure the person, character
of business, or employment, or prop
erty of another—-shall be deemed
guilty of a conspiracy.”
Mr. Austrian declared the men
could be prosecuted under this stat
ute. Mr. Austrian also vigorously
denied the implication contained in
Mr. Hoyne’s statement as published
here, that the investigation was
started by enemies of Mr. Comiskey
to ruin the White Sox chances for
winning the pennant this year.
Urges National Law
Mr. Austrial announced he was
asked by representatives • of the
state’s attorney’s office and Judge
McDonald if Mr. Comiskey desired
to postpone the investigation until
after the close of the present base
ball season.
“I told them that Mr. Comiskey
would rather lose the pennant than
to play a single game with a bunch
of players he knew • to be crooked.
He also informed them he could
produce evidence warranting indict
ments and the next day the confes
sion of Cicotte was made. It was
quickly followed by that ot JacK
son and Williams.
All hope of any further confessions
has been lost through Mr. Hoyne s
statement, Mr. Austrial said. Ne
gotiations already , had been opened
for others named in the indictments
voted to tell all they knew, he as-
Se Assistant State’s Attorney Hartley
Replogle issued a statement urging
that congress pass a
illegal for any one to offer a bribe
to a baseball player who plays in
different states. -
Giant Players to Be Called
John J. McGraw, manager of the
New York Giants, who was examined
bv the grand jury yesterday, left for
New York, but is expected to re
turn Tuesday with Benny Banff and
(Continued on Page 7, Column 3)
$2,000,000 LOSS
FROM GALVESTON
WHARF BLAZE
Chief Is Warned
Os “Destruction’’
GALVESTON. Tex., Sept. 30.
It was made known today that
Chief Ryan of the Galveston Are
department, yesterday received a
3 letter. ' postmarked from some
city in Canada, warning him that
“you are going to be destroyed.”
The letter, which Ryan consider
ed to be the work of a crank, was
merely signed “John.”
GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 30.
Fire which originated .in sulphur
bins on pier 35 on the Galveston wa
terfront early today destroyed that
pier with its contents, damaged the
plant of the Cotton Concentration
company just south of the pier, de
stroyed 3.500 bales of cotton and
other commodities stored at the
plant and set fire to the wheat laden
Italian steamship Etna.
While the fire ashore apparently
was under control at 7 o’clock this
morning, it was feared that the car
go of the Etna would be a total
loss.
Several steamships in the vicinity
of the fire were removed to places
of safety before the flames could
reach them. Thousands of bales of
cotton were destroyed.
All the fire fighting aparatus of
the city responded to alarms but
wind blowing thirty miles an hour
made the firemen’s work difficult.
Forty freight cars on tracks at
the sulphur plant were destroyed as
wa s also the plant of' the Anchor
Milling company, a cotton seed
grinding concern. Some estimates
were tht the fire loss would ex
ceed two million dollars.
The lire was discovered abcA.it the
center of the sulphur bins shortly
oefore 2 o’clock, according to Ed Mc-
Carty, a fireman aboard a barge
moored to a nearby pier, who gave
the alarm. An explosion, believed to
have been due to the fire reaching
several oil containers inside the sul
phur plant, occurred shortly after 3
o’clock. Fire Chief Ryan reported.
Timbers were hurled several hun
dred'feet by the explosion. One fire
man was struck by flying debris and
injured. Forty others were over
come by sulphur fumes shortly after
the fire started, and temporarily in
capacitated.
SPEECH OR TWO
MAY BE MADE
BY PRESIDENT
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Ripgs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Assur
ances that President Wilson will
actively assist in the Democratic
campaign during its closing weeks
have brought several party chiefs to
Washington to discuss the extent to
which his physical condition will per
mit participation. There is a possi
bility, even a probability, that the
president, in addition to issuing
statements, may make two or three
speeches for the League of Nations
before November.
This program is understood to be
opposed by Mrs. Wilson and the pres-r
ident’s physician, Dr. Cary Grayson,
but it has not been definitely deter
mined that the president shall forego
at least a speech or so.
Democrats now here to discuss the
campaign at the White House include
Representative Frank Doremus, in
charge of. the Chicago headquarters
of the Democratic party; former Sen
ator James Hamilton Lewis, Demo
cratic nominee for governor of Illi
nois, and Edmund H. Moore, of Ohio,
one of the Cox managers.
Many cities have invited President
Wilson to deliver addresses on the
league in -.the belief that his influence
would be greater than any other In
its behalf, but members of the Demo
cratic committee will not press such
requests unless the president feels
he is entirely capable physically to
stand the test.
Whether the president will con
tent himself with the issuance of
statements or make one or more
speeches will be decided shortly.
Former Senator Lewis, who expects
to see the president before the end
of the week, explained his mission
here.
“1 should not have thought of
bothering him.” explained the former
senator, “had he not announced that
he intends to take part in the cam
paign. In view of that decision, I
have two requests to make of him.
“First, I want to ask him to re
quest Great Britain to placate the
Irishmen in Ireland in order that the
Irishmen in America may be placat
ed. The Irish question is a domes
tic question in the United States and
the Irishmen here can never be pla
cated so long as they are not pla
cated ir. Ireland. Enough Irishmen
in America went to war and helped
win ihe victory that has resulted in
benefit to Great Britain to warrant
us in making for settlement of the
Irish question. I shall tell the pres
ident very frankly that I think Great
Britain should consent to the ’ ap
pointment. of delegates representing
America, Great Britain and Ireland
to work out a solution of the Irish
piobkin. Great Britain should be
willing to sacrifice a few distinc
tions of government considering the
sacrifices that have been made for
her.
“Secondly, I intend to ask the
president for a modification of the
German peace treaty to such an ex
tent that Germany may get coal for
her ships and her industries, so that
she may pay her obligations to the
allies. I favor re-opening the Spa
settlement. Unless we allow Ger
many to work out her solution and
pay off her obligations, we will be
called upon to lend more money to
the allies, and perhaps to feed Ger
many.
Four Hurt When Navy
Dirigible C-6 Hits
Hidden Mountain
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30.—The
navy dirigible balloon C-6 became
lost i na dense fog today while pro
ceeding from San Diefgo io San Ped
ro to take part in fleet maneuvers
and crashed into a mountain peak in
the outskirts of Hollywood, spilling
the car and its crew of five jpen
about 200 feet down Laurel Canyon.
Four men wer hurt.
south ii grip of
MME MW
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Low Temperature Records
Smashed in Many Places;
Weather Bureau Forecasts
Return to Normal
WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—General
ly fair weather Saturday with high
er temperatures Saturday was fore
cast tonight-by the weather bureau
for Tennessee, the South Atlantic
and East Gulf states, affording re
lief from heavy rains and a touch
of cool weather, which in some lo
calities in the gulf states this morn
ing exceeded all low records for the
month of September.
The southern storm, to which was
attributed in part the unusual con
ditions. moved rapidliy northeast
ward today, increasing in intensity,
and tonight Its center was off the
New Jersey coast. The storm had
been attended by gales along the
entire Atlantic coast from Now
England to Cuba and over the Gulf
of Mexico.
Storm warnings still are display
ed on the Atlantic coast and at
north of Hatteras.
The first really cold weather of
the year hit Atlanta in the midriff
Wednesday night. In twelve hours
the mercury tell thirty degrees to
a temperature of 4 2.9, which equals
the coldest weather Atlanta has ever
had in the month of September.
The previous low record for Sep
tember was exactly the same, 42.9
degrees, which, by a novel coinci
dence, was registered on the same
day of the month just twenty-one
years ago, September 30, 1599.
The sudden change from the un
usually mild Indian summer Atlanta
has been enjoying, made the cold
snap severely felt.
Knoxville Expects Trost
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 1. —It is
probable that the first frost of the
fall season of 1920 will form to
night In the Knoxville district, ac
cording to weather bureau officials.
The highest temperature recorded
here Wednesday was 78 and a. drop
to 47 degrees was recorded thio
morning. The temperature ranged
between 44 and 47 today.
Chattanooga Hunts Coal
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 1. —Fifteen
dollars a ton was the price asked of
consumers for coal by retail deal
ers here today, following heavy de
mand as the result of sudden de
scent of cool weather. A great many
homes were entirely out of fuel,
having delayed laying in the winter
supply with the hope that the price
would fall and in consequence the
dealers were swamped with orders.
NashvilH Short of Coal
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 1. —With
only a small amount of coal on hand
local coal dealers have either ceased
taking orders or are doing so for
restricted amounts at prices rang
ing from $9.75 to sl3 a ton, accord
ing to statements from -the dealers
tonight.
NEW ORLEANS HAS A
DROP OF 24 DEGREES
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30.—A
drop of 24 degrees in temperature in
twelve hours put the thermometer
here at 54 at 7 a. m. today, the low
est for September 30 in the weath
er bureau’s records.
STORM NOW CENTRAL
OFF GEORGIA COAST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. —The
southern storm is central this morn
ing off the Georgia coast and an
other has formed over Virginia.
These disturbances, the weather bu
reau said, will advance north-north
eastward and increase in intensity.
Storm warnings are now displayed
on the entire Atlantic coast, on the
East Gulf coast and on Lake Huron,
Lake Erie, and Ontario. There have
been general rains within the last
24 hours in the Atlantic states and
along the Gulf coast. The weather
has oecome much cooler in the
states east of the Rocky Mountains
except on the immediate Atlantic
coast, particularly so over the Gulf
states; Hie lowest temperatures of
record for the month of September
occurred this morning at Mobile,
Alabama, New Orleans, and Dallas,
Texas.
There were frosts over the plains
states as far south as Oklahoma and
in the upper Mississippi Vallejo and
upper lake region. There will be
rains this afternoon and tonight and
fair weather Friday in the Middle
Atlantic states, the upper Ohio val
ley and the lower lake region and
fair weather tonight and Friday
elsewhere east of the Mississippi
river.
The weather will be much cooler
tonight and Friday in the Atlantic
states. There will be frosts in Ten
nessee and in exposed places in
Mississippi, Alabama and northwest
Georgia.
OVERCOATS AND FIRES
POPULAR IN WEST POINT
WEST POINT, Ga., Sept. 30.
West Pointers awoke this worning
in the grasp of a Texas norther. A
fall of 40 degrees in less than half
that number of hours. Overcoats
and fires are in evidence.
LIGHT FROSTS OCCUR IN
TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 30.—Light
frosts occurred last night at Browns
ville, Tenn., and Hernando, Miss., ac
cording to reports today to the dis
trict office of the weather bureau
here. The temperature dropped last
night at 42 degrees, 18 degrees under
the lowest temperature of the preced
ing night.
SEPTEMBER RECORDS ARE
BROKEN AT BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 30.
Today was the coldest on record here
for the month of September, the
thermometer registering 41 degrees.
The weather was clear with high
winds. Numerous small fires were
reported during the morning.
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
which 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.)
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1920.
HOW EXPLOSIVES ARE HANDLED IN NEW YORK
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NEW YORK.—lnvestigations of the Wall street blast have turned the spot light on Metro
politan methods of transporting explosives. Pict ures show the safety-first methods used. \\ hen
small boats, flying a J'ed flag of danger, arrive at the wharf with a load of explosives, a powder wagon
is already waiting. On the wagon body is printed the word “EXPLOSIVES in huge letters. In
spectors are always on the job. Every stick of dynamite entering New York City must be stamped
with the contractor's number, and records are kept of the quantity received and by whom used. In
spectors superintend the packing, shipping and use.
SUPREME COURT
DENIES NEW TRIAL
FOR 2 CRAWLEYS
The state supreme court of Georgia
in a decision rendered Thursday
morning refused a new trial for
George and Decatur, Crawley, Rosa
Crawley and Blaine Stewart, of
Union county, whose' case attracted
state-wide attention more than a
year ago, when the (federal govern
ment sent a posse of soldiers into
the mountains and pursued the
from their home across
the state lines into Tennessee,
where they finally surrendered.
The two Crawley boys and their
sister and Blaine Stewart, their
cousin, were jointly indicted and
jointly tried on a charge of murder
for killing Ben S. Dixon, a United
States deputy marshal, who went to
the Crawley home with the sheriff
of Union county to arrest the three
boys on a charge of evading the
draft.
The killing took place on April 1,
1918. George and Decatur Crawley
,were convicted of murder and sen
tenced to be hanged. Rosa Crawley
and Blaine Stewart were convicted
as accessories before and after the
fact and sentenced to life imprison
ment. Through their attorneys the
four defendants jointly moved for a
new trial on numerous technical
grounds. Judge J. B. Jones, of the
superior court of Union county, over
ruled the motion, and an appeal was
taken to the supreme court.
The court was unanimous in its de
cision that the conviction of the three
boys was supported by the evidence,
but the six judges were evenly divid
ed on the question as to whether the
conviction of Rosa Crawley was sup
ported by the evidence. The law is
that an even division of the judges
has the effect of sustaining the
court below. Therefore, while the
judges voted three and three Rose
Crawley will not receive a new trial-
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■ $50,000 PAID BY
PONZI TO SETTLE
' S2OO LAW SUIT
BOSTON, Oct. I.—Charles Ponzi
testified today that he settled for
$50,000 a suit of Joseph Daniels,
based on a loan of S2OO, because the
■action brought by Daniels for a divi
sion of profits had tied up $512,000
of the money invested in Ponzi’s get
rich-quick scheme, and with a run
on Ponzi needed the money to meet
demands.
The story of the suit was develop
ed by the referee in bankruptcy in
questions regarding the beginning of
Ponzi’s discredited international pos
tal coupon scheme, on ■which he prom
ised profits of 50 per cent in ninety
days.
When he opened offices, Ponzi said,
he bought his furniture from Dan
iels, paying SSO in cash and, hav
ing no further funds, borrowed S2OO
more from the furniture dealer. It
was this S2OO that Daniels claimed
as the basis of a partnership with
Ponzi, and on which he sought to
recover $1,000,000.
M’SWINEY BEGINS
FIFTIETH DAY OF
HUNGER STRIKE
LONDON. Oct. I.—Terence Mac-
Swiney began his fiftieth day
hfffiger-striking today, suffering more
pain than at any time since his im
prisonment. The lord mayor had no
sleep after midnight and complained
of severe pains in his arms and
back.
COLORADO SEEMS
FOR HARDING IN
NATIONAL RACE
BY DAVID I-AWSEKOE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.) '
DENVER, Col., Sept. 30.—Dissen
sion in the Democratic party and
the intrusion of the Non-Partisan
League in state affairs by captur
ing the Democratic primaries hat
just about ruined the chances of
Governor Cox in Colorado.
Although the Democratic nomine
for governor has Indorsed Govern ■
Cox, the rank and file of the. Noi
Partisan League voters are free t
vote the farmer-labor ticket an
many of them will. This will co:
Governor Cox more votes than th
Republicans. Similarly the reguic
Democrats have been so antagonize
tfr the Non-Partisan League force
that many of them were not at a'
pleased when Governor Cox receive
the league’s nominee for governc
in his private car and hobnobbci
with him while in Colorado.
So much more attention, however,
has been given to the bitter figh'
on state affairs that the effort t<
drive out the Non-Partisan League
overshadows all else. Thus, the
Denver Post, hitherto a Democratic
paper and one of the big influences
in the 1916 campaign for Wilson,
being largely responsible for his
success not only in Colorado, bu!
also in Wyoming, Arizona, New
Mexico, Idaho and surrounding
states, is lukewarm on the presi
dential business. It has developed
a more or less neutral attitude on
the Cox-Harding controversy and is
devoting all its efforts to a fight
on the Democratic-Non-Partisan
league ticket.
Similarly the Denver-’Times, al
though a strong advocate of the
League of Nations, is supporting
Harding on the theory, evidently,
that he will abandon Johnson after
the election. Anyway, there is not
a newspaper of large influence in
Colorado that is helping Cox. The
Ohio governor is up against a diffi
cult proposition, the Democratic or
ganization is disrupted and disor
ganized.
The audience that greeted the gov
ernor on his arrival in Denver was
enthusiastic and cordial. Some of
those who heard him said the gov
ernor showed the effects of his fa
tiguing journey.
I find considerable sympathy for
Governor Cox for his gallant fight
against big odds. The feeling here
seems to be that Cox is struggling
alone and unaided. For instance, to
day the Denver Post has a cartoon
displayed prominently In its first
page with Governor Cox standing in
an imploring attitude before a row
of sphinx’s, including Bryan. Mc-
Adoo, Clark and other Democratic
leaders, and asking them, “Aren’t
you ever going to say anything?”
Even Democratic chieftains who
know Colorado’s politics very well,
talk discouragingly about the out
look for Cox. They say nice things
about the Ohio governor and think
he is making a good campaign but
they don’t think he will carry Colo
rado.
How different things are from the
1916 campaign, when the writer
reached Colorado in his swing around
the circuit four years ago tht>
friendliness to Wilson was unmistak
able. Every straw vote in this vi
cinity favors Harding. Republican
leaders in 1913 told me privatelv
they couldn’t carry Colorado and
would lose the state by 10,000 ma
jority. President Wilson carried it
by 70,000 and this time the Demo
crats who ought to know predict a
b Harding victory by at least 20,000.
The League of Nations is not a
controlling factor in the selection.
There is only one factor—the impa
tience for a change of administra
tion. !■ urthermore, the Democratic
label has gotten a black eve bv its
association witli the Non-Partisan
league. In the desire to vote against
the Democratic state ticket, many
old line Democrats will v<Mc for
Harding and the whole Republican
ticket. Some farmer votes that are
ordinarily Republican would go to
Cox if it were not for the farmer
labor ticket to attract the radicals.
The outlook for Cox is gloomy
Many of my friends here who nri
going to vote for Cox don’t think
he has a chance to carry
and_they know the state like a bool:.
Birmingham Stores
Make Reductions
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Sept. 30.
Seven department and dry goods
stores have announced that reduc
tions of from 20 to 33 1-3 per cent
in all lines. Some price marks on
hosiery, silks and cotton goods were
below pre-war levels, according to
the manager of the largest depart
ment store here.
Friends of Cotton
Launch Movement
To Protect Groweri
DROP IN SUGAR
LOST $250,000,000
TO SPECULATORS
BOSTON. Oct. I.—The drop in the
price of sugar has caused a shrink
age in value of at least $250,000,000,
according to an estimate made to At
torney General Allen today by Ed
win Q. Atkins, head of a local sugar
firm and an official of several of the
largest companies in this country and
Cuba. Stocks of sugar in this coun
try now are enormous, he said, and
he estimated them at '2,000,000 tons.
The attorney general, who is mak
ing an inquiry into the sugar situa
tion, with special reference to re
cent high prices, expressed the
opinion that when the drop in price
came the American Sugar Refining
company should have absorbed some
of the loss as a means of helping
small dealers who had stocked up
at the higher prices. The attorney
general said he had knowledge that
the company immediately before the
decline from high prices made it com
pulsory for customers to do business
of written contracts stipulating
price's. Mr. Atkins said absorption
of part of dealers’ losses by the
American company might have forc
ed it into bankruptcy.
Causes of High Prices
The unusually high prices of sugar,
the witness stated, were due to com
petition, speculation and increased
operating costs. With speculation
eliminated and normal prices al
lowed, he thought it might be pos
sible to sell sugar to the consumer
at 15% cents a pound.
Between the time when sugar sold
for 6% cents a pound, and the date
it reached 22% cents, Mr. Atkins
said, “fortunes were won or lost
overnight” by the crowds of specu
lators who went into the market to
“clean up.’ He said one estate lost
$3,000,000 by a drop in the market.
The witness said, the American
producers in Cuba attempted to keep
down the price of sugar when it
started to soar, but they were unable
to do so because of the bidding by
English and Canadian buyers. Short
ly afterward the impression became
general that a shortage would de
velop and continue for a long time.
Immediately, according to Mr. At
kins, speculation started on an
enormous scale and sugar was bought
and sold a number of times over
until thja price to the consumer went
to unprecedented levels.
Chandler and Cleveland
Reductions on Car
Prices Announced
Confirmation of the price reduc
tions on Chandler and Cleveland au
tomobiles has been received by the
E. R. Parker Motor company, 316
Peachtree street, distributors of
these car s in this territory.
The Cleveland car dropped $l5O, or
from $1,585, the old list price, to
$1,435, new list price. The Cleveland
sedan, formerly listing at $2,595,
now lists at $2,445, the coupe model
corresponding.
The Chandler, formerly listing at
$2,095, now lists at $1,975, and closed
models, formerly listing at $3,095,
will list at $2,895 for the coupe, and
the old price of $3,195 is changed to
$2,995 on the sedan.
Extracts of the telegrams from the
Chandler and Cleveland factories are
as follows:
“Regardless of the fact that
Chandler and Cleveland cars are
priced hundreds of dollars less than
cars of competitive quality, we have
decided to place our dealers in a po
sition to dominate their field and, get
the major portion of the business.
$7,000 Worth of
Radium Thrown Into
Sewer by Patient
THOMASVILLE. Ga., Sept. 30.
The throwing into a sewer by a negro
woman of a tube of radium, little
larger than a needle in volume, but
valued at $7,000, caused great ex
citement among the doctors of the
radium institute here Wednesday.
The radium so heedlessly disposed
of was being used on the negro wom
an at the hospital for the treatment
jot a cancer, and had been left at
tached for some time. When left
alone the woman decided that the
odor of the radium was unpletsant
for her, and that she could see no
good in it anyway. She accordingly
cut the string, and going into the
bath room, threw it into the sewer.
Plumbers were summoned, and
sewer pipes were torn up in a rig
orous search for the precious arti
cle, which was found lodged against
a sewer trap in the yard of the hos
pital. The one hundred dollars re
ward which had been offered for
the recoverj of the radium was given
to a young plumber named Sullivan.
Belfast Rioting May
Cause Adoption of
Armed Civic Guard
BELFAST, Sept. 30. —Continuance j
of rioting and bloodshed in this city j
is viewed officially as creating an I
intolerable situation, and Ulster's i
proposal for an armed civic guard •
is likely to be adopted by the gov
ernment if disorders continue.
Threats by the Sinn Fein that or
ganization of such a guard would be
taken as a “declaration of war,”
with a resultant uprising of Irish
nationalists, are not taken seriously,
it beiqg asserted that “the existing
situation cannot possibly be worse.”
It is claimed the government can
not afford to maintain sufficient
military forces in this city to cope
with disturbed conditions, and must I
rely on the co-operation of loyal sub
jects to maintain order.
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Big Meeting at State Capitol
Condemns Houston's Pol
icy and Plans National*
Gathering of Farmers
Resolutions condemning the policy
announced by Secretary Houston, Os
the treasury department, that loans
should not be granted by. the Fed
eral Reserve banks for the holding
of crops, declaring that the present
price of spot cotton is below th*
cost of production, and uring farm
ers to hold their cotton off the
market, were adopted Thursday aft
ernoon by the general mass meet
ing held in the senate chamber in
the state capitol.
he resolutions were prepared by
a committee appointed at the morn
ing session. During the noon lunch- ,
eon the commit(e reduced the reso
lutions to writing, and submitted
them to the meeting at the after
noon session. In addition to theM
resolutions, the meeting appointed •
committee of nine to confer with the
heads of all farm organizations in
the United States concerning the
advisability of an Immediate c. ifer
ence in Washington to express dis
approval of any effort to curtail
farm credit.
On this committee were appointed
J. J. Bro-wn, commissioner of agri
culture, Senator Hoke Smith, Chariest
S. Barrett, Harvie Jordan, Congress
man Charles H. Brand, M. J. John
son, A. F. Hodges, C. C. Fitzpatrick
and E. G. Daniel. The committee
will get in communication at once
with the heads of farm organiza
tions.
Telegram Jroni Houston
There was read to the resolutions
committee by Congressman W. D.
Upshaw, a member of the commit
tee, a telegram received by him from
Secretary Houston, In reply to a
telegram he sent Wednesday night
protesting against the secretary’s
announced policy that loans to farm
ers secured by their crops should be
curtailed.
In thi s telegram Secretary Hous
ton asserted that his recent' state
ment had been misunderstood; that
ho was not talking about loans to
farmers by the Federal Reserve
banks through members banks, but
was talking about the proposal for
the United States treasury to make
large deposits in the national banke
t ofinance exports, and for other
purposes; that he does not desire
and has not suggested a curtailment
of farm loans by the Federal life
serve banks, but on the contrary
wishes to see the banks continue
their established policy of making
loans to enable the farmers to mair»
ket their crops in an “orderly man
ner.”
The resolutions committee wae
composed of J. J. Brown, Senator
Hoke Smith, Congressman E. K.
Overstreet, W. C. Wright, D. U>-
shaw, Charles H. Brand and Carl
Vinson; Charles S. Barrett, na
tional president of the Farmera'
Union; T. S. Johnson, Jefferson?
John M. Graham, Rome; A.
Hodges, Americus; Joseph Gay, Gay;
J. A. Moss, ignall; L. B. Jackson,
market bureau director; M. L. John
son, Cartersville; S. W. Dudley, Co
lumbus.
Purpose of Meeting
The meeting was called jointly by
J. J. Brown, commissioner of agricul
ture, and R. W. Mattox, president of
the Georgia division of the American
Cotton association. The object of
the meeting was two-fold.
First, to register a protest against
the assertion by Secretary Houston
that all farm products, including cot
ton, should move freely into the
market regardless of price; and tnat
the federal reserve banks should not
be expected to extend loans to farm
ers for the purpose of holding cot
ton to force up the price.
Second, to inaugurate a holding
movement against the present prico
of about twenty-five cents a pound,
which represents a decline of ten to
fifteen cents in the past ninety days.
Cost 38 Cents
Commissioner- Brown opened the
meeting with a spirited address in
which he asserted that Georgia’s
cotton crop this year cost 38 cents
a pound to, produce; that there is
absolutely no justification for a
heavy decline in the cotton market;
that Secretary Houston’s statement
given out in Washington, coupled
with the usual bear movement,
which takes place on the cotton ex
changes about this season of the
year, has forced down the price; that
bankruptcy W’ould be universal in z
the south if the farmers should un
load their crop on the market at
prevailing prices; that the Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta recently
assured him of its intention to con
tinue the handling of paper secured
by cotton warehouse receipts, but
apparently a different policy has
i been laid down in Washington by
I Secretary Houston.
Senator Hoke Smith was called on
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