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VOL. XXII. NO. 139.
CENSUS OF UNITED STA TES IS NOW 105,683,108
MSCDffIOL
OF W SUPREME
COURUPPOINTEES
Candidate Sees This as
“Real Danger of Reaction
ary Victory, Next to
e Scrapping the League”
PADUCAH, Ky„ Oct. B—Effect of
the presidential contest upon pros
pective United States supreme court
vacancies was declared by Governor
Cox, of Ohio, in an address here to
day, to be “the real danger of a re
actionary victory, next to the scrap
ping of the League of Nations.”
The Democratic presidential can
didate stated that at least four va
cancies on the high court were in
prospect and referring to the sen
ate’s control over confirmations to
Senator Harding as the “reaction
• ary” candidate, he added:
“Besides it would naturally follow
that a reactionary president would
appoint four reactionary members of
the supreme court.”
The governor’s declaration was one
of the reasons he gave, he declared,
why “the senatorial oligarchy”
should be defeated. /
“There are several reasons why
the senate oligarchy should not be
permitted to win this election,” he
said. “Throughout the years, the
senate has trespassed on the author
ity of the house of representatives.
The constitution provides that all
legislation providing for the rais
ing of revenues shall be initiated in
the house. Yet there has probably
not been a tariff measure in the last
fifty years which was not changed
in Its every line after the enacting
clause once it reached the senate. By
the nomination of one of its own
members as the reactionary candi
date for the presidency, it now has
the opportunity of annexing the ex
ecutive department. If the sena
torial ring should win the election it
would in addition to controlling the
president also possess the constitu
tional right of confirmation of mem
bers of the sup.reme court appoint
ed by the president. Four members
of the court being now eligible for
retirement, there will beyond doubt
be at least four vacancies on this
court within the next four years.
COX JOINS LEAGUE
OF NATIONS ISSUE
. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. B.—Gov
ernor Cox, of Ohio, Democratic pres
idential candidate,' squarely joined
the League of Nations issue in an
addiess here Thursday night with
Senator Harding, his Republican op
ponent. Referring to the senator’s
Dee Moines speech denouncing the
present league, Governor Cox de
clared :
“Now he’s against the league; I’m
for the league.”
“Not until today,” said Governor
Cox, “was it definitely known what
the position of the senatorial candi
date was to the league.”
Declaring that he had asked au
diences all through the west if they
could give Senator Harding’s posi
tion and declaring that from none
was a reply attempted, the gover
nor continued:
“Today' in response to my ques
. tlons he came out unreservedly
against the league.
"Evidently he had heard from
Brother Borah.”
Mysterious Blast
Rocks New Jersey;
Location Unknown
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. B.—Newark.
Jersey City and surrounding towns
were startled shortly after 10 o’clock
today by a mysterious explosion.
Police and county authorities imme
diately began an investigation but
an hour later had blfcn unable to
learn the location of the blast.
Several loud reports caused con
siderable excitement. Many persons
believed that one of the numerous
i powder plants in the eastern section
of the state had blown up.
Canvass of all big powder manu
t facturing companies and of the gov
ernment arsenal at Raritan, how
ever, brought no informaton.
Belief that the reports had come
from big guns at the Fort Hancock
proving grounds was dispelled wnen
the military authorities announced
that there had been no firing this
morning.
After several hours of investiga
tion, police and county officials' ex
pressed the opinion that the loud re
port came from a quarry blast some
where in this vicinity.
MacSwmey Said to
Look Better on 57th
Day of Hunger Strike
LONDON, det. 8. —Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney, Irish hunger
striker in Brixton prison, slept well
last night. Prison physicians said
he looked better today, the fifty-sev
enth day of his voluntary fast. Rel
atives said he was weaker and ap
parently exhausted. He was unable
to whisper, they said.
, The league bulletin issued at 12:30
v P- m. said the' mayor was suffering
'from trouble with hisjieart, and was
unable to hold conversation with his
relatives.
Low Mark Set When
Sugar Sells at 11 Cents
NEW YORK. Oct. 17.—A new low
record was made in the local sugar
market when the Federal Sugar Re
fining company reduced the price of
refined sugar 1 cent a pound, to 11
cents.
This is within 2 cents of the price
prevailing when the industry was un
der control of the government.
Raw sugar sold at 8 cents, duty
paid.
Thos. WL Hardwick
Wins Over Walker
By Huge Majority
Former U. S. Senator
Sweeps State in Defeating
Clifford Walker in Runover
Primary Thursday
Incomplete returns from every
county in Georgia, received by The
Tri-Weekly Journal show that
Thomas W. Hardwick carried 101
counties, with a total of 240
county unit votes, and that Clif
ford Walker carried 53 counties, with
a total of 144 county unit votes.
Towns county, with two unit votes,
held no primary, and therefore, is not
counted in either candidate’s column.
Although the returns were not
complete, they were sufficient to
indicate clearly and beyond any
doubt the nomination of Mr. Hard
wick for governor in the Demo
cratic run-over primary held Wed
nesday. Complete returns probably
will switch some counties from one
column to the other, but the result
not be changed.
It is too early to make a con
solidation of the popular vote for
the reason that less than half the
counties have sent their complete
returns.
Vote Light
Throughout the state the vote was
light. Indications were that the total
vote would not exceed 140,000, as
compared with a total vote of about
225,000 in the first primary on Sep
tember 4, when a very full ticket
served to stimulate interest and
bring our. a large vote.
Os the big six counties having six
unit votes, and for that reason known
as the big six,” Mr. Hardwick car
ried Fulton and Richmond, "while
Mr. Walker carried Bibb, Chatham,
Floyd and Muscogee.
An analysis of the respective col
umns of counties in the first pri
mary and , the run-over primary
shows that twenty-seven counties
switched from Walker to Hardwick,
that seven counties switched from
Hardwick to Walker, that Hardwick
carried three of the former Holder
counties, and that Walker carried
five of the former Holder counties.
The counties that swetched from
Walker to Hardwick are Bacon,
Baker, Berrien, ~Ben Hill, Bleckley,
Butts, Candler, Clay, Chattahoochee,
Clinch, Crawford, Decatur, Early,
Fannin, Gilmer, Grady, Jones, Ma
con, Morgan, Pierce, Quitman, Ran
dolph, Stephens, Stewart, Terrell,
Thomas and Webster.
The counties that switched from
Hardwick to Walker are Forsyth,
Hancock, Monroe, Murray, Pike, Ware
and White.
The former Holder counties carried
by Hardwick are Dawson, Jackson
and Lumpkin. The former Holder
counties carried by » Walker are
Clarke, Dade, Pickens, Rabun and
Wilkes.
State Convention Meets Oct. 25
Within the week, a meeting of the
subcommi.iee on rules of the Demo
cratic state executive committee will
be held in Atlanta for the purpose of
consolidating the returns and declar
ing the result. The Democratic
state convention is scheduled to be
held in Macon October 25. There
lias been some talk of a change in
the date, but such a change is not
likely. The convention Will be com
posed of delegates in the counties
which he carried By reason of car
rying more counties than Mr. Walk
er, the delegates of Mr. Hardwick
will control the convention and will
cledt the new Democratic state execu
tive committee. The repeated state
ment has been mad by Mr. Hardwick
that he would reorganize the commit
tee from start to finish.
The run-over primary was held in
accordance with the Neill primary
law. which reuuires a majority of
county unit votes to nominate for
governor and senator. In the first
primary Mr. Hardwick received R>o
county unit votes and Mr. Walker
received 174. John N. Holder re
ceived twenty-two. The vote of Mr.
Hardwick was "our less than a ma
jority, which is 194, and hence a run
over primary was necessary.
Brooklyn Is Ahead
Os Cleveland Team
In World Series
BROOKLYN, N. Y„ Oct. B.—Aft
er losing the first baseball game of
the world’s series to Tris Speaker's
Cleveland team, Brooklyn rallied on
Wednesday and Thursday and won
the second and tnlrd battles. The
fourth contest will be fought out in
Cleveland Saturday.
The scores in the second and third
games were 3 to 1 an<k2 to 1 in favor
of the champions of the National
league. Two Southern league stars—
Bagby for Cleveland, and Grimes for
Brooklyn. pitcher: ofc Wednesday.
Ray Caldw’ell and Sherrod Smith
were the pitchers in the third game.
Caldwell was knocked out of the box
by Brooklyn in the first inning, how
ever, and was relieved by Mails.
The team that wins the first four
consecutive four games of the series
will be crowned baseball champions
of the world. Enormous crowds
have witnessed the contests
STOPPED HER FITS
Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of
Wurtsboro, writes that she stopped
her fits with a medicine that: she read
about in tne paper. She says sne
has not had a fit since she tftok the
first dose, and that she wants every
sufferer to know’ about this wonder
ful medicine and what it did for her.
If you, a friend, or relative suffer
from these dreadful attacks you are
advised to send name and address
at once to R. P. N. Lepso. 13 Island
Ave., Milwaukee, Wis., w’ho is gener
ously offering to send a bottle of the
same kind of medicine he gave Mrs.
Martin, free, to any sufferer who
writes him.— (Advt.)
Dont Forget! “A Journey With Aunt Julia 9 Begins Next Monday
DORSEY MOVES
TO STOP NIGHT
RIDING IN STATE
I
Official cognizance has been taken
of the activities of night riders in
certain sections of Georgia, who
have sought by threats to close down
gins and country stores until the
price of cotton goes up again. Gov
ernor Dorsey has written a letter
to Sheriff»W. A. Garrett, of Carroll
county, urging him to use the ut
most diligence in apprehending par
ties guilty of making such threats.
Commissioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown has Issued a statement con
demning the pracitce and declaring
that it will Injure the cotton pro
ducer.
During the past few days the
newspapers have carried accounts of
gins posted with threats of de
struction unless the establishments
were closed until the cotton market
went up. Business ’;»< uses in the ru
ral districts have al** been threaten
ed in some instances. The most re
cent case occurred in Carroll coun
ty a day or two ago, according to
information reaching Governor Dor
sey, and he immediately took steps
to cope with the situation, also ap
prising Commissioner Brown and
asking his aid.
The governor characterizes these
night-riding tactics as dangerous and
vastly injurious to legitimate busi
ness. He promises to offer the high
est reward allowed by law if any
buildings are burned as the result of
such threats.
Governor Dorsey’s letter follows:
"Hon. W. A. Garrett, sheriff of Car
roll county, Carrollton, Ga.
"Dear Sir: I am reliably informed
that notices are being posted in cer
tain places in your county that the
operation of cotton gins must be dis
continued, otherwise the gins will be
destroyed.
"Section 782, Park’s annotated
code of Georgia, volume 6, says: 'Any
person who shall threaten, by post
ing any writing or printed matter,
to injure, damage, or destroy, by
burning or other means, any gin,
ginhouse, barn, dwelling, stable,
storehouse or any other house con
taining valuable property, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.’
"The posting of a notice in Itself,
therefore, is a violation of the law
of the state. ,
■“lt is your duty, and I am sure
it will be your pleasure, to appre
hend, if possible, parties guilty of
violating this law.
"The governor is not authorized
under the law to issue rewards for
the apprehension of those guilty of
misdemeanors. Burning or other
wise destroying a ginhouse, how
ever, is a felony, and if the threats
are carried out, upon information
from you, I shall be very glad to
offer the highest reward permissible
under th« law.
“If we permit the legitimate busi
ness of ginning cotton to be inter
fered with, or ihe owners of ginner
ies to be intimidated by these no
tices, and the perpetrators to go
without punishment, the next step
will be to notify merchants to close
their stores and then bankers to
close their banks, etc.
"If legitimate business can be in
terfered with in this way, then Bol
shevism has already arrived.
"I suggest that you take it upon
yourself to call a conference of the
law-abiding people in the communi
ties in the county where such no
tices have been posted, and take
such steps as may be necessary to
apprehend the guilty parties and
portect gins.
"The people who resort to this
means of controlling economic laws
will not only fail to accomplish
their purpose, but will intensify the
very condition which they seek to
remedy.
"If I can assist you in any way,
do not hesitate to command me.
“Very truly yours,
"HUGH M. DORSEY,
"Governor.”
Mr. Brown’s statement follows:
“What we want to do is to let
Secretary Houston know that the
south has always been loyal, that
we have always been patriotic, that
the signs which have been posted in
some sections of the state do not
express the sentiment of the people.
I hope farmers will impress upon
the people of their communities
where such signs have been posted
that it would be a fatal mistake to
resort to violence and lawlessness.
"I am informed that posting of.
these signs has been general
throughout the south. Whoever may
be backing this propaganda, I do
not know, but if it is followed up
by acts of lawlessness, it will in
jure the cotton growers.”
Extensive Selling
Os Futures Blamed
For Low Cotton Price
MACON, Ga., Oct. B.—Selling of
futures by almost everyone connect
ed with cotton in anticipation of a
general decline of prices in all lines
is responsible for the present low
price of cotton, according to M. E.
Goode, one of the most prominent
cotton factors in the south, who ad
dressed a meeting of the Macon
chapter of the American Institute of
Banking here last night. A sharp
reaction in the price of cotton tn
the near future was forecast by Mr.
Goode.
That for the United States to man
ufacture her own cotton products
and export them instead of export
ing raw cotton will not only elimi
nate at least eight middlemen be
tween the producer and the consum
er. but will materially increase the
returns on cotton to the farmer, wan
another statement which featured
Mr. Goode's address.
5 Dead, 3 Missing
And 40 Injured in
New York Ship Blast
NEW YORK. Oct. B.—The death
list rn the explosion on the steamship
G. R. Crowe at a Brooklyn dock yes
terday stood at five today. Three
were unaccounted for and several of
the forty injured were expected to
die. The explosion occurred when
an acetylene torch ignited oil fumes.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920.
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Reject League Entirely,
Harding Says, Declaring
Direct Issue Is Made
DES MOINES, lowa, Oct. 7.—A di
rect issue of ratifying or rejecting
the League of Nations was accepted
by Senator Harding in a speech here
today, brushing aside the problem
of clarifying reservations and declar
ing he would “favor staying out” of
the covenant written at Versailles.
The candidate said he wanted no
acceptance of the league with reser
vations to clarify American obliga
tions, but that the proper course
would be to reject those commit
ments altogether.
“I do not want to clarify those
obligations," he said. "I want to
turn my back on them. It is not
interpretation, but rejection that I
am seeking.”
Governor Cox’s definition of the is
sue was accepted in direct terms by
the Republican nominee, who said
Democratic stubbornness had pre
vented the senate from perfecting
the covenant and had made the ques
tion placed before the voter a sim
ple one. He called on all of those
favoring a super-government to “vote
the Democratic ticket and pray God
to protect you against the conse
quences of your folly.”
The senator also restated his pro
gram of a world association based
on principles in harmory with the
constitution and renewed his pledge
to initiate the formation of such a
concert immediately after his elec
tion.
„ Wilson Scrapped It
f “Our opponents," he said, "are per
sistently curious to know whether if
—or, perhaps, I might better say,
when 1 am elected, I intend to “scrap
the league. It might be sufficient in
reply to suggest the futility of
‘scrapping’ something which is al
ready ‘scrapped.’ Whether President
Wilsin is to be blamed or thanked
for the result, the fact remains that
the Paris league has been ‘scrapped’
by the hand of its chief architect.
The stubborn insistence that it must
be ratified without dotting an ‘i’ or
crossing a ‘t,’ the refusal to advise —
that it, to counsel —with the senate,
in accordance with the mandate of
the constitution, IS wholly respon
sible for that condition.
“The issue, which our opponents
Cotton Leaders Meet
In Atlanta on Friday
To Consider Situation
As this edition of The Tri-Weekly
Journal went to press a mass meet
ing of prominent Atlanta bankers,
business men, farmers and state of
ficials were in session at, a mass
meeting called to consider the prob
lem facing the south in the present
slump in the price of cotton.
The conference followed a call is
sued by K. F. McLeod, well-finown
citizen of Charleston, S ,C., who is
chairman of the finance committee of
the American Cotton association.
Governor Manning, of South Caro
lina, was among the prominent
speakers to deliver addresses. Invi
tations had been sent to leaders in
every phase of the city's mercantile,
industrial and civic life.
It was expected that a course of
action which will enlist the active
support of this part of the state
in the cause of insuring a fair price
are endeavoring to befog, is singu
larly simple and direct. That issue,
as made by the Democratic presi
dent and the Democratic platform
and the Democratic candidate, does
not present to the American people
the question whether they shall fa
vor some form of association among
the nations for the purpose of pre
serving international peace, but
whether they favor the particular
league proposed by President Wil
son.
“My position is that the proposed
league strikes a deadly blow at our
constitutional Integrity and surren
ders to a dangerous extent our inde
pendence of action. The Democratic
platform rejects this position, to
quote the exact wbrds, “as utterly
vain, if not vicious.’
“Issue Is Clear”
“The Democratic candidate in his
speech of acceptance has said ‘a
definite plan has been agreed upon.
The League of' Nations is in opera
tion. . . . Senator Harding as the
Republican candidate for the presi
dency proposes in plain words that
we remain out of it. As the Demo
cratic candidate. I favor going in.’
The issue, therefore, is clear.
“I understand the position of the
Democratic candidate and he under
stands mine, as his own words just
now quoted plainly show, notwith
standing the recent pretense that my
position has not been made clear. In
simple words, it is, that he favors
going into the Paris league and I
favor staying out.
“We have been told that we must
ratify the proposed covenant in or
der to become a member of the
league, and that, if we do not, we
shall be obliged to stand with hat
in hand and sue for admission here
after. He who presents such a humil
iating picture is singularly blind to
the facts. Because we are not vitally
concerned in the conflicting interests
of Europe, because we are independ
ent, because we are able to approach
the solution of the question which
continually threaten the peace of
Europe as an unprejudiced umpire
rather than as an interested party,
the world will be glad to have us for
mulate the plan and point the way.”
C. J. Haden Appeals
To Georgia Democrats
To Raise Party Fund
Declaring that white supremacy
in the south is threatened by the
Republican narty and its vast slush
fund, C. J. Haden, Democratic fi
nance chairman for Georgia, has ap
pealed to all Democrats to contribute
to a fund to combat the opposition.
The Georgia headquarters of the
national Democratic committee has
issued a statement outlining the
progressive, constructive work of
the Democratic administration and
appealing to Democrats to help car
ry on Democratic policies.
Subscriptions to the Cox-Roose
velt campaign fund may be sent
either tp the various county chair
men, to» the national headquarters
in New York or to the state chair
man at 516-517 Grant building, At
lanta.
for the present costly cotton crop
would be mapped out and adopted at
the meeting.
f Mixed Baby 9 Case
Opened in Court
By Rival Parents
SOUTH CAROLINA
AND ALABAMA
GAIN IN CENSUS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Alabama,
South Carolina and Wyoming made
substantial gains in population dur
ing the last ten years, while Nevada,
the smallest state in the union in
point of population, became the third
state to show a decrease.
The census bureau announced to
day that Alabama has a population
of 2,347,295, an increase of 209,202,
or 9.8 per cent over 1910. The state
thus passed Tennessee in the stand
ing of the states.
South Carolina has a population
of 1,683,662, which is 168,262, or 11.1
per cent greater than that of 1910.
The state, however, fell short of its
relative growth in 1910 by 2 per cent.
Wyoming, next to the last popu
lous state, has a population of 184,-
402, which is an increase of 48,437,
or 32.2 per cent compared with the
thirteenth census. The state show
ed its second largest numerical
growth, but its percentage increase
was the lowest.
Nevada’s population was announc
ed as 77,407, a decrease of 4,468, or
5.5 per e'ent. It was tlie state's third
population decline, the decade ended
witli 1890 showing it to have de
creased 23.9 per cent and during the
fallowing ten years its loss was 10.6
The state, however, more than made
up Its first two losses during the
decade 1900-10, when it increased
93.4 per cent.
Alabama places: Five Points, 1,-
565; Lafayette, 1,911; Lanet, 4,976.
Alabama’s Growth
Alabama had a population of 2,-
138,093 4n 1910, ranking it as eight
eenth most populous state in the
union. It showed an increase of
309,396, or 16.9 per cent, for the ten
years ending with 1910. Alabama’s
largest numerical increase prior to
the present census was 315,296 in the
decade 1890-190(1. Its largest rela
tive -growth was in the de
cade 1820-1830, when the increase
was 142.0 per cen.t When its first
fderal census was taken in 1820, Ala
bama had a population of 127,901.
In area Alabama ranked as twenty
eighth state in 1910, with a land
area of 51,279 square miles, making
its population average 41.7 per
square mile, which ranked as thir
teenth state in that respect.
Alabama was organized as a terri
tory in 1817 and appears in the fed
eral census reports for the first time
in 1820. During the decade 1820-
1830 the growth was very rapid, the
increase having been 142.0 per cent.
In the following deSade the rate of
increase was 90.9 per cent. In 1840
the population of the state was some
what over four and one-half times
as large as it was in 1820. During
the next seventy years, to 1910, the
population increased at a much slow
er rate, the percentagse of increase
ranking from 30.6 in 1850 to 16.9 in
1910, except for the decade 1860-1870,
when the ratje of growth was only 3.4
per cent. In 1910 the population of
the state was slightly more than
three and one-half times as large as
it was in 1840.
Comparison of the rates. of in
crease for the state with those for
the United States shows that from
1820 to 1840 the increase during each
decade was much larger for the
state than for the country jis a
whole. From 1840 to 1910 during
every decade except one the increase
for the state was lower than those
for the United States and In that
one decade, 1890-1900, the rate lor
the state exceeded that of the coun
try as a whole by only one-tenth of
1 per cent.
The record of growth of Alabama’s
population follows:
Census year. Population. Increase. Per ct.
1920 2,347,295 209.202 9.8
1910 1,515,400 175,054 13.1
1900 1,340,310 189,107 16.4
1900 1,828,097 315,290 20.8
1890 1,513,401 250,890 19.9
1880 1,262,505 205,513 26.6
1870 996,992 32,791 3.4
1860 964,201 192,578 25.0
1850 771,623 180,567 .30.6
1840 590,756 281,229 90.9
1830 309,527 181,626 142.0
1820 127.901
South Carolina Figures
South Carolina had a population
of 1,515,400 in 1910, ranking it as
twenty-sixth most populous state in
the Union. It showed an increase
of 175,084, or 13.1 per cent for the
ten years ending with 1910, its nu
merical growth having been the
third largest in its history to that
time. South Carolina’s largest nu
merical growth prior to the present
census was in the decade ending
with 1880 when the increase was
289,987 and her relative Increase
also was the largest she ever had
it having been 41.1 per cent.
. In 1790 when the first federal
census was taken South Carolina
ranked as seventh most populous
state of the seventeen then exist
ing, having had a population of 249.-
073. Tn 1800 and 1810 it ranked
as sixth state.
In area South Carolina ranked as
thirty-ninth state in 1910 with a
land area of 30,495 square miles,
making its population average 49.7
per square mile which ranged it
sixteenth among the states in that
respect.
During the first forty years from
1790 South Carolina’s population in
creased 332,112 or 133.3 per cent:
during the second forty years,
1830-70, it increased 124,421, or 21.4
per cent; and in the forty years,
1870-1910, the increase was 809,794
or 114.8 per cent. The total in
crease for these 120 years was
1,266.327, almost two-thirds of
which reported in the forty
years ending with 1910 but the rela
tive increase for that period /was
less than. that shown for the first
forty-year period.
The record of growth of South
Carolina’s population fallows:
Census year. Population. Increase. Per et.
1920 1,683,662 168,262 11.1
1910 1.340,310 189,167 10.4
1890 1,151,149 155,572 15.6
18S0 995,577 289,971 41.1
1870 705,606 1,898 0.3
1860 703,708 35,201 5.3
1850 668,507 74,109 12.5
1840 594,398 13,213 2.3
1830 581,185 78,444 1 5.6
1820 602,741 87,026 21.1
1810 415,115 69,524 20.1
1800 345.591 96,518 38.8
1790 249,073
| Louise Madeline, Tiny Sub
ject of Dispute, Sleeps
Peacefully While Her Fate
Is Decided
By blood tests, ringer prints and
photographs Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Garner will try to establish their
claim t 0 little Louise Madeline—now
in the possession of Mr. and Mrs
Daniel L. Pittman—the central fig
ure in the famous “mixed babies’
case.”
A hearing on the dispute over
Louise Madeline began before judge
George L. Bell in the superior court
Thursday and probably will last
through Friday. The Garners' first
witness was an expert who testified
in regard to blood heredity. Their
attorney also has finger prints of
the whole Garner family and has
photographs of Garner for genera
tions back. All of these will be in
troduced in an effort to show Louise
Madeline is the Garner child.
Louise Madeline, in a white coat
and white cap, threaded with cherry
ribbon, slept peacefully in Judge
Bell’s court room Thursday morning
while the two sets of parents battled
for her possession.
On one side of the mahogany
table sat Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Garner, who claim that Louise
Madeline was born to Mrs. Garner at
the Grady hospital, May 22, 1919.
With them was their lawyer, Wil
liam Arnaud.
On the other side of the table sat
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Pittman, who
claim that Louise Madeline was born
to Mrs. Pittman at the same hospital
on the same day. With them was
their lawyer, James W. Austin.
The other baby in Atlanta’s fam
ous “mixed babies” case, Mary
Elizabeth, rests in the Palmetto,
Ga., cemetery. She died last spring,
while the controversy between the
Garners and the Pittmans was at its
height.
The Garners are seeking to re
cover Louise Madeline through a
writ of habeas corpus which claims
that the two babies were swapped
accidentally at the Grady hospital
so that Mrs. Garner was forced to
take the wrong child.
Court Boom Crowded
The court room was crowded when
the hearing began Thursday.
Among the spectators were many
mothers, their own babies clasped
tightly in their arms. Every
now and then the youngsters
would squall, but Louise Made
line never uttered a peep. For
a while she sat straight up in Mr.
Pittman’s arms, sucked her thumb
and gazzed with round, brown eyes
at the judge, the green lights and
the three little Garner girls, who in
their starched dresses and with
bright bows on their hair, twisted
in three big chairs just across the
table from her. Louise Madeline
did not seem to care whether they
are her sisters or not, and when the
hearing reache its tensest mo
ments, dropped quietly to sleep, still
sucking her thumb.
The first witness was Dr. A. H.
Bunce, an expert in pathology, who
was called by the plaintiff in an ef
fort to show that blood tests might
help to establish the parentage of
Louise Madeline. He testified that
human blood is classed in four dif
ferent groups, most people belong
ing to group two or group four. He
said he had examined the blood of
the three little Garner girls and Mr.
and Mrs. Garner and that all were
in group two.
In answer to questions by attor
neys for both sides, Dr. Bunce said
that while these blood groups are
hereditary, a test would not show
absolutely of what parentage the
child was. He said blood tests could
distinguish between a man and a
rat: between a man and a bird; even
between a man and a monkey. But
that in the case of children, the tests
were not infallible.
Tests Not Final
In this case, he said, the blood
test might o r might not show. If
Louise Madeline is the child of the
Garners, it is probable that she has
the same blood group. It is possi
ble, however, he said, that she
might have another blood group and
still be their child.
Dr. Bunce said he had not made
a blood test either of Louise Made
line or of the Pittmans. It is un
derstood that, the plaintiff will seek
to have such a test ordered by the
court.
Mrs. Garner, in a brown dress and
black furs, told her story of the
birth of Louise Madeline in sim
ple but dramatic language. When
the babv was born between 9 and
10 o’clock, on the morning of May
22, 1919, she said she was not un
der the influence of chloroform or
any ° ther anesthetic and knew ev
erything' that was going- on in the
room. She named the doctor and
the nurses present and detailed lit
tle incidents to show she never lost
consciousness.
"I conversed with the doctor ’’
said Mrs. Garner. "I asked him if
it was a girl and when he said ‘Yes,
I said I knew it would be because
all my children were girls. He held
the child up to me and I noticed that
looked like all my other babies.
The baby cried and the doctor told
it to ‘shut up. ”
"The baby didn’t say anything to
that, did it?” asked Judge Bell, smil
ing.
Given Wrong Baby
“No, sir,” laughed Mrs. Garner.
When the baby was brought to her
at intervals of three hours to nurse,
Mrs. Garner said she noticed it fa
vored all the rest of her children,
particular!}* in its hair, which was
thick and dark. She said there was
a scratch under one of its eyes as
though made by a fingernail.
Saturday morning, at 2 o’clock,
Mrs. Garner said, ehe was given a
baby not her own by the negro girl,
Lilly. There were about eleven or
twelve mothers in the ward, she said.
The bu''ins w®re kept in a separate
room. Thev w<*re dressed in little
hospital garments of white. Mrs.
Garner said they were brought in fre
quently two at a time, sometimes
three or four on a truck.
When she found she had the wrong
baby, he said she complained to the
nurse and demanded her child, but
they denied there had been a mixup
and although they promised to
straighten the matter out. she never
got any satisfaction. Sunday morn
ing, she declared, they brought her
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$1.50 A YEAR
HHINTBYimSED
13.710.842. MW
FIFTEEN PER CENT
| Figures Don't Include Pos
sessions Number of
Farms Show Increase.
Florida Total Given
WASHINGTON. Oct. B.—-The total
population of the continental Unit
ed States is 105,683,108, an increase
of 13,710,842, or 14.9 per cent.
This figure does not include ap
proximately 12,250,000 people living
in the country’s outlying posses
sions. The population of Alaska and
the total classed under the military
and naval service abroad are yet to
be announced.
The following state figures were
given:
Minnesota, 2,386,371, increase, 203,-
663, or 15.0 per cent.
Nebraska, 1,295,502, Increase 103,-
288, or 8.7 per cent.
Ramsey county, Minnesota, con
taining St. Paul, (revised) 244,536;
increase 20,861, or 9.3 per cent.
St. Paul, Minn, (revised) 234,680;
increase 19,936, or 9.3 per certt.
There are in the United States
6,450,998 farms, an increase of 98,496.
or 1.5 per cent over the total nun
ber recorded in 1910, the census Bu
reau announced today. •
I opulations of the last two stales
in the 1920 census, made pub::,
by the census bureau, show Mln
nesota to have moved into seven
teenth place, passing Tennessee and
Alabama with a population of 2,386,-
371, an increase of 310,663, or 15.0
per cent over 1910.
Virginia state total 2,306.361
Pennsylvania, 8,720,15?; Ohio stat.* .
5,759,368; Michigan state, 3,667,22.'
lowa state, 2,403,630; Florida stat
966,296; Arkansas state, total, 1.75
995,
Increase since 1910: Virginia, 241
749_ or 11.9 per cent; Pennsylvania
l, or 13.8 per cent; Ohio.
m, or 20.8 per cent; Michigan.
857,049, or 30.5 per cent; lowa, 178,-
859 or 8.0 per cent; Florida, 213,677
or 28.4 per cent; Arkansas, 176,546
or 11.2 per cent.
Detroit, Mich., revised, 993,678 in •
crease 527,912. or 113.3 per cent. Pre
viously announced 993,739.
Tampa, Fla., revised, 51,608, in
crease 13,826, or 36.6 per cent. Pre
viously announced 51,252.
Key West, Fla., revised, 18,749, de
crease 1,196, or 6.0 per cent. Pre
viously announced as 19,039.
Philadelphia, Pa., revised, 1,823,-
779, increase 274,771, or 17.7 per cent.
Previously announced 1,823,158. .
The 1920 population of states al
ready announced together with the
1910 population of all states and the
District of Columbia follow:
State— loio.
Alabama 2,347,295 2,13iJ.(/.i;!
Arizona 333,273 204,251
L a JE°‘! lia 3,426,530 2,377,540
Colorado 930,376 709,0-4
Connecticut 1,380,585 1,114 756
Delaware 223,003 202,322
District of Columbia. 437,571 331,m>j
Honda 966,296 752,610
t .', eo . rgla 2,893,601 2,6091121
l' l .® llo . 431,826 325,594
fhiuois 6,485,098 5,(138,501
Indiana 2,930.544 2,700,8.6
}? wa 2,403,630 2,224,7.1
Kansas 1,709,185 1,690,949
Kentucky 2,416,013 2,289,90.".
Louisiana 1,797,798 1,656,38 s
Maine ' 767,996 742,371
■Maryland 1,449,610 1,295,340
Massachusetts 3,851,615 3,3<i«,416 >
.Michigan 3,067,222 2,810,173
Minnesota Unannounced 2,070,708
Mississippi 1,789,183 1,797,114
Missouri 3,403,547 3,293,335
Montana 547,593 376,053
Nebraska Unannounced 1,192 214
Nevada 77,407 81,875
New Hampshire 44.1,083 430,572
New Jersey 3,155,374 2,537,167
New Mexico 360,247 327,301
New York 10,384,144 0,113,614
North Carolina 2,556,486 2,206,287
North Dakota 645,730 577,056
Ohio 5,759,308 4,767,121
Oklahoma 2,027,564 1,657,105
Oregon 783,285 612,<05
Pennsylvania 8,720,159 7,005,111
Rhode Island 004,397 542,010
South Carolina 1,683,002 1,515,400
South Dakota 635,839 583,888
Tennessee 2,337,459 2,184,789
Texas 4,061,027 3,890,542
Utah 449,446 373,351
Vermont 352,421 355,956
Virginia 2,306,361 2,061,612
Washington 1,356,31(1 1,141,990
West Virginia 1,463,610 1,221,119
Wisconsin 2,631,839 2,333,860
Wyoming 194,402 . 145,905
Georgia Ranks Twelfth
In Census by States
With 2,894,683
BY THEODORE TILLER
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
WASHINGTON. Oct. B.—ln con
nection with the announcement of the
total population of the United States
Thursday afternoon, the census bu
reau gave the corrected total for the
state of Georgia, which is slightly
in excess of the preliminary figures
announced previously. The corrected
total is 2,894,683, and Georgia stands
twelfth in rank among the forty
eight states. Tent years ago she
stood tenth in rank.
Highwaymen Rob
Woman and Her Son
DARIEN. Ga., Oct. B.—Mrs. Carr
and son, of Crescent. Ga., while re
turning by automobile from Town
send this morning about daylight,
were held up by highwaymen and
robbed of S2O. The robbers shot the
young man in the leg and escaped.
Bandits Get Jewelry
DETROIT, Mich.—Two bandits en
tered the jewelry store of Nathan
Rose on Hastings street today, beat
the proprietor’s two • sons, Emil’,
twenty, and Fred, ten, and escaped
with money and 'jewelry valued at
$12,000. The two Rose youths were
seriously injured and removed to a
hospital.