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®lje Atlanta Sri-WttWa So it rival 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 emSTOBM 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 \ 'wtt JI \W- 7 \ y N. / V / V xy ~ <g>Keyj;r<itiE vr£w co —J 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- ' Special Dixie Leader ” Here’s a wonderful Combination Subscription Offer that will guarantee GOOD READING for ALL THE FAMILY the WHOLE YEAR at EXTREMELY LOW COST. 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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. sellsTailor-madT SUITS FOR $lB The Lincoln Woolen Mills, Division 517, Chicago. 111., will send any In terested reader of this paper (with out charge) a book of high grade cloth samples in many different col ors and patterns. Their prices are extremely low and you will find It to your advantage to send for this free book and compare their prices with others before you order new clothes, j An example of their values is a dura- ' ble and attractive, smooth finished I worsted at $lB for a three-piece suit, ■ worth at least S3O at retail. 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If interested, writes them today for their latest price list, self-measuring charts an<7 free book —(Advt.) 5 CENTS A COPf. $1.60 A TEAR | 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. 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