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VOL. /XXIII. NO. 5.
STATEMENT ISSUED
FROM WHITE HOUSE
■ IN SPENCER fflID
Stenographic Record of
President's Remarks Con
cerning Rumania at Peace
Parley Is Published
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The White House
made public today what was describ
ed as an “official version’’ of Presi
dent Wilson's address at the eighth
session of the Paris peace
conference. The exact wording of
this address, directed to the repre
sentatives of Rumania, Serbia and
Czecho-Slovakia, has been the sub
ject of a controversy between the
president and Senator Spencer. Re
publican. of Missouri.
The senator has declared in a po
litical sneech that the president had
promised Rumania and Serbia that
“if any nation ever invaded their ter
ritory he would send the American
army across the seas to defend their
boundary lines.”
Mr. Wilson, in a telegram to the
senator cn October 5, sa’d that this
statement was “false.” In reply.
Senator Spencer called for the ofli
cial record, saying that the state
ment to which he had referred was
In the “stenographic notes” of the
eighth plenary session, in which the
president “was reported to have
said:”
“You must not forget that it is
(force that is the final guaranty of
the peace of the world. If the world
is again troubled, the United States
will send to this side of the ocean
their army and their fleet.”
The president’s words as given in
the official version follow:
Official Version
“How can a power like the United
States, for example—and I can
speak for no other —after signing
this treaty, if it contains elements
which they do not believe will be
permanent, go three thousand miles
away across the sea and report to
people that it has made a settle
ment of the peace of the world? It
cannot do so. And yet there under
lies all of these transactions the ex
pectation on the part, for example,
of Rumania, and of Czecno-Slovakia.
■ and of Serbia, that if uiv covenants
ts this settlement are not observed,
the United States will send her
armies and her navies to see that
Xhey-siT" Observed.”
The official version of the full
text of the president’s address was
furnished to the White House last
jveck by Fred A. Carlsun, of Chica
go who was an official stenographer
with the American peace delegation,
and who wrote that he would be
glad to swear to the “accuracy” of
the transcript.
Mr. Carlson's letter was dated Oc
tober 6 and was addressed to
Charles L. Swefti, stenographer to
the president. He expla no 1 that he
had read Senator Spencer’s reply to
the president in tne Chicago news
papers. that he had just gone, over
his notes and that he could find “no
such statement” as that attributed to
Mr. Wilson by the senaor. He add
ed that it was barely possible • that
the quotation “was from a transla
tion into English of M. Mantox's
translation into French of the pres
ident’s remarks, and. as you know,
the translations sometimes mixed
things up a bit.”
“I wish I were in a position to
make public what the president
said.” wrote Mr. Carlson, “for I feel
that the president is sadly misquot
ed, but, of course, as the meeting
was a secret one, I can say noth
ing."
Mr. Carlson’s letter was made pub
lic by Secretary Tumulty with this
comment:
“This letter speaks for itself.”
7,000 Bales of Cotton
Are Destroyed by Fire
. In Texas Warehouse
CAMERON, Tex., Oct. 11.—Loss
estimated at $1,000,000 was caused
>y Are here Sunday which destroyed
7,000 bales of cotton and the com
press and warehouses of the Camer
on Compress company’.
Officers and the watchman employ
ed at the compress expressed the
opinion that the fire was of incen
diary origin.
The ’compress was protected by
insurance, but farmers who had cot
ton in storage are expected to lose
heavily. The compress was owned
by A. J. Dossett, of Waco, who lost
another oress by fire at Quanah less
than a month ago.
The Rackdale fire department came
to the assistance of local firemen and
aided in saving 1.500 bales of cot
ton.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass railway lost 327 flat and 437
compressed bales and the Santa Fe
twenty-seven flat bales and 14 <
pressed. Twenty-seven cars were de
stroyed.
Authorities are investigating a
•corv tnat an automobile was seen
near the press and driven away al
Mgh speed just before the flames
broke out.
MacSwmey’s Mind Is
Alert on 60th Day
Os His Hunger Strike
LONDON. Oct. 11—Terence Mac-
Swiney began his sixtieth day of
fasting in Brixton prison today with
a mind as alert as ever. His de
termination to continue his hunger
strike until death or unconditional
release was still firm relatives said.
TA<e Southeastern Fair, Atlanta,
Oct. 16-26, Will Be the Greatest
Exposition Ever Held.in Dixie
Silvan terrac? 8C^ S i
4JATH HOUSE ’ \
This is ho wthe wonderful Southeastern Fair grounds at Lakewood, Atlanta,. would look from ai
rplane.
Son Confesses
But Father Is
Sent to Jail
MACON, Ga., Oct. 9.—Taking the
blame on himself in a moonshine
case here Thursday) Jule J Carden
failed to save his father, B. M. Car
den, justice of the peace in Twiggs
county, who was convicted and sen
tenced to pay a fine of SIOO and to
serve six months in jail. The young
er man took the witness stand and
testified he made the whisky while
his father was away from home.
In sentencing the justice o£ the
peace. Judge Evans, said to him:
"I admire the grit of i-oitr sorr ifi
trying to shield you. He perjured
himself_Jike a gentleman, but I am
sure you are guilty. He is a son
you should be proud of.”
R. Criswell, a white man, aged 68,
came to the rescue of Elbert Rawls,
an aged darky, when the latter was
arraigned on a charge of illicit dis
tilling. Though there was no charge
against he voluntarily ap
peared in court and said h‘e and not
the negro was to blame. Criswell
was sentenced to serve two months
and pay a fine of SIOO.
Clerk’s Error Caused
Wheat to Tumble on
Chicago Exchange
CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—A slij) of a pen
in the hands of a clerk in the board
of trade here sent wheat priced
tumbling, caused the Canadian gov
ernment. to consider taking over the
wheat market there and caused a
proeuamation to be issued by the
United States Wheat Growers’ asso
ciation urging suspension of all sales
of wheat by ffarmers until the price
reached $3, it was said today.
The clerk, it was said, mistook an
order from Rosenbaum Brothers,
brokers, to sell 1,000 bushels for 1,-
000,000 bushels and when dealers
heard that such a large amount was
being thrown on the,market prices
immediately began to slump. The
market opened at $1.99 1-4, advanced
a quarter of a cent and then began
to slip point by point. Word soon
reached the floor that the brokerage
house had dumped a million bushels
on the market and smaller dealers
began to sell.
E. L. Glaser, president of Rosen
baum Brothers, said the order was
Only oversold about 75.,000 bushels
when the error was discovered. He
said his house covered at a loss of
about 2 cents a bushel.
Noted French Aviator
Establishes New Speed
Record for Airplanes
BI'C, France, Oct. 9. —Captain de
Romanette. the noted French aviator,
established a new world’s airplane
speed record at the aviation meet
here today. He flew a kilometer in
12.3 seconds, which is at the rate
of 292.82 kilometers or aboyt 181.1)5
miles an hour. -
Sadi Le winner of the re
cent James Gordon Bennett cup race,
was; second to de llomanet in the
competition, flying a kilometer in
12.5 seconds. \
Cut Off Man’s Leg to
Pull Him From Debris
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Physicians,
working with the aid of one flicker
ing lantern, early Friday amputated
the right leg of Henry Helms, a mo
torman, in order to rescue him from
the tangled wreckage of two street
ears telescoped in a collision that
caused injuries to twenty other per
sons.
Helms, who was pinioned under the
'■--ir when nhvsicians arrived, per
suaded them to perform the opera
tion without an anaesthetic in order
to save time. Later, his other leg.
badly mangled, was also removed
at a hospital. Helms and the con
ductor, William Wherax, who re
ceived a fractured skull, are said
to have slight chance of recovery.
The accident happened when the
nrakes failed to function on the de
scent of a steep hill on Amsterdam
avenue. Many of the passengers
who became hysterical when the car
sped uncontrolled down the hill, es
caped injury by huddling together
on the rear platform.
“A Journey With Aunt Julia" Begins Today on Page Five!
The Southeastern fair will open in
Atlanta at Lakewood on Saturday,
October 16, and will continue'
through October 26.
It will be the most splendid ex
position of its sort ever held in the
south.
Visitors will gather in Atlanta
from all southern states to see the
endless variety of products that will
be exhibited and to attend the horse
races' and to enjoy the fun of the
midway.
In the agricultural building 3 1-2
acres of floor space will be devoted
to a display of all food products of
the temperate zone and to an illus
tration of what the national govern
ment is doing to foster agriculture.
Visitors to the fair will see the
largest number of county and in
dividual farm exhibits ever dis
played.
Os equal interest will be the Na
tional Hog and Cattle Show, which
will be held in connection with the
fair. It was organized by the
breeders of pure live stock in the
importance. - Among the fine stock
exhibited will be the Hereford bull,
owned by E. E. Mack & Son. of
Thomasville. Ga.. which won the in
ternational grand championship last
year.
The international grand champion
boar of Duroc breed, owned by Pea
cock and Hodge, of Cochran. Ga., will
be exhibited, together with the fin
est herd of Duroc Jersey swine in
the south. *
From Micanopy, Fla., will come
the international grand champion
Poland China sow. owned by F. C.
Herlong.
To compete with these high pedi
greed animals) herds from all the
live stock producing States of the
country will be exhibited. In the
live stock barns at the fair, the fin
est cattle and hogs in the world will
be seen.
The poul ry exhibit will attract
fanciers from every section. A
neighbor to it will be the rabbit
show, which . will astonish the vis
itor who has not studied the rabbit
as a food producer and as a fur
bearing animal. Rabbits, weighing
as much as as fifteen pounds, will be
shown, and "Others of the Angora
breed which produce coats worth five
dollars in the rough.
Labor-saving machinery of every
character which, when in general
use will do much to revolutionize
farm life, will be on exhibit. Among
them will be tractors on which the
operator can ride in comparative
comfort and which, when the opera
tors work in shifts, can be used for
the fulll 24 hours, for they may be
employed at night as well as in the
day ti
.Devices for adding -to the com
fort of the farm home and for les
sening the work of the farmer’s
wife will be exhibited in great va
riety.
One of the most interesting parts
of the fair will be the automobile
show in the Automotive Industries
building. There. 3 1-2 acres of floor
space will be devoted to automobiles.
The Liberal Arts and Woman’s
building is a duplicate in size of
the Automotive building. In it will
b“ found exhibits showing the work
of the Girls’ Canning Club; products
of the domestic arts of the home: ex
hibits of art work, a flower show,
a Sunday school work exhibit
illustrations of child welfare work,
and many other features, all of par
ticular interest to women.
An international Judging Contest
will be held in which boys from all
parts of the United States and one
province of Canada will take part.
The winners will be given a trip to
the next Royal Live Stock show
held in London, under the patronage
of the King of England.
The Boys’ Fair school, which was
begun at the time the Fair was
started, will be of particular interest
and importance. It is possible for
two boys from every county in Geor
git to attend this school by winning
in local contests in Boys’ Club Work.
The Roys’ Corn Club Show at the
fair will be an illustration of the
great work being done by tlm.se
clubs. Millions of bushels have beer,
►added to the corn cron of the south
through the efforts of the boys who
are members of the clubs.
The Grand Circuit Horse races
which will be held during the fair
will bring here the finest trotting
pacing and running horses in the
world. Until this season the Lake
wood oval held the lowest track
'Acnrd of any fair ground in the
United States. The effort wil' be
made this vear to better the recent
records made nt Syracuse, which are
a little lower than Atlanta’s. Famous
flirt t-nck drivers will participate, in
the races.
Auto Folo will he among the sports
held in front of the grandstand.
Onn n f the most notable parts of
the F°ir will he an historical nageant
held for three nights, with 500 char
acters tet’-odneed to po-trav figures
in American history. No fair ground
In the nation has the natural aflwin
tngos; o f hills, trees anfl water offer
ed by Lakewood. Tn this snlendid
setting the Atlanta Drama League
wi” give the pageant.
The Midway will he better than
ever—a little brother to Coney
Island.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12,'1920.
Bandits Stage
s2oo,oooDeal
In Diamonds
BUFFALO. N. Y., Oct. 9. —Two
hundred thousand dollars worth of
set diamonds were stolen from Max
Loventhal* 35, of Buffalo, agent for
the Philip Present and company,
wholesale jewelers of Rochester. N.
Y., by two men early today. Loven
thal had just aligted from a street
car on his way home with the dia
monds in two suitcases when he was
attacked.
After knocking Lowenthal down
with the butts of their revolvers, the
robbers jumped into the taxicab from
which they had alighted and drove
away. Clarence Miller, driver of the
taxi, was commanded, at. the point of
the bandits’ revolvers, to drivq them
to the corner of Delaware and Chip
pewa streets. Believing them to be
strangers in the city. Miller said, he
turned off at another street inter
section and stopped the taxicab in
front of the Pearl street station. He
jumped out and ran into the station
to notify the police but the robbers
escaped. ■ >
Shortly afterward it was reported
to police that two men were said to
have thrown a suitcase into a vacant
lot on the east side of the city. Po
lice went to the lot and found the
suitcase, which bore Lowenthal’s
initials. It contained two or three
diamond rings which evidently had
been overlooked. After Lowenthal’s
injuries had been dressed, he told the
police he believed the robbers had
followed him from Chicago where he
had obtained the diamonds. He said
most of the diamonds' were set in
000 tinUm and were value d at S2OO,-
Nelther Lowenthal nor Miller, the
taxi driver, could give a good de
scription of the bandits to the police.
Although Lowenthal placed tlie
value of the stolen diamonds at S2OO -
000, police said they did aot believe
they were worth more than $50,000.
Word from Ph'llip Present Co., of
Rochester, for whom Lowenthal is a
the diamonds were
worth $20,000.
ATLANTA GIRL
RETAINS TITLE
AS GOLF QUEEN
CLEVELAND. 0., Oct. 9.—Miss
Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, today re
tained her title as national woman
golf champion by defeating Mrs. Dor
othy Campbell Hurd, of Pittsburg, in
the finals of the national tourna
ment. The score was 4 and 3. Miss
Stirling also is Canadian champion.
It is her third successive victory in
the national tournament, it being
the first time any woman has ever
won the national title three times.
Carolina Congressman,
Old Gordon Captain, to
Stump Ohio for Cox
GREENVILLE. S. C„ Oct. B.—Cap
tain John J. McSwain, world war
veteran, congressman-elect from the
Fourth district, has accepted a call
of the Democratic national commit
tee to speak for the party in Cleve
land, . Akroon, Columbus, Mt. Ver
non and other cities in Ohio. He
leaves here October'l7 and is sched
uled to make twenty speeches in ten
days. He commanded a company of
Ohio soldiers at Camp Gordon.
King of Greece Suffers
From Bite of Monkey
ATHENS, Oct. B.—King Alexander,
who has been suffering for several
days from a money bite, sustained
when he went to the rescue of his
pet dog, which was being worsted in
a battle with the monkey, passed a
bad night last night. He had two
attacks of fever, it is stated, and in
testinal complications and jaundice
are deciwed to hf.ve net 4 .n.
Governor Cox Gives
$5,000 to Campaign
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—The Demo
cratic campagn fund was enriched
today by a check for $5,000 from
Governor Cox. The contribution
came in a plain envelope addressed
to Wilbur W. Marsh, treasurer of
the national committe. without ac
companying letter, the candidate’s
signature on the check being the
only means of identification.
SAYS 0.5. DB( IISS
Hl M.SDMOO m
FARM R MISCOUNTS
This Figure Compares With
Total of $170,000,000 for:
Various Other Lines, Di-,
rector Jackson Reports
That the Federal Reserve Bank of
the Sixth (Atlanta) district is car
rying at the present time only sl,-
000,000 of agricultural re-discounts,
as compared with various other re
discounts aggregating $170,000,000,
was asserted yesterday by L. B.
Jackson, director of the state bureau
of markets, in a statement issued
upon his return from Birmingham,
where he appeared Friday before the
directors of the bank of this district
at a meeting held in that city and at
tended by W P. G. Harding, gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board
in Washington.
The object of Mr. Jackson’s trip
to Birmingham was to ask the di
rectors for an interpretation of a
circular issued by the bank last
June, in which the statement was
made that “notes, the proceeds of
which have been or are to t>e used
for strictly farm production, shall be
exempted from the normal or basic
line of the discounting member bank
to an amount not exceeding the paid
in and unimpaired capital and sur
plus of such member bank.”
Mr. Jackson’s request for an inter
pretation of this exemption of agri
cultural paper was taken under con
sideration by the board, and their
decision was reserved.
What Mr. Jackson wishes to know
was whether* or not a farmer’s note
secured by a warehouse receipt for
cotton produced this year, and the
proceeds of which were to be used
by the farmer tjo pay obligations in
curred in the making of a crop, would
be exempt from the normal or basic
line of the discounting member bank.
Point Xs Important
This point is considered highly im
portant by the market bureau, and ;
by the other cotton leaders, for the
reason, as they are informed, that
numerous member banks are carry
ing such heavy rediscounts that
they have passed about the 6 per cent
rate of interest allowed them up
to their basic line, and are there
fore paying the higher rate of in
terest on the sliding scale. The ef
fect of this, naturally, is either to
cut down the amount of rediscounts
whicha bank can handle, or to run up
its interest rate so high that a farm
er cannot afford to pay it.
Governor Harding’s Statement
As the result of Mr. Jackson’s
’appearance before the board, and
of inquiries put to him by others
interested in the cotton situation
who were in Birmingham for the
purpose of getting light on farm
credits, Governor Harding gave out
a statement in Birmingham Friday
night in which he declared:
* “The idea that has gone broad
cast through the country that the
federal reserve banks can help the
farmer of the south to hold his cot
ton for forty cents by financing the
cotton crop, cr aid the farmers of
the west to get a high price for
wheat by rushing reserves to that
section to bolster up the wheat
crop, is entirely erroneous.”
Governor Harding then went on
to say that the most effective means
of help for the southern cotton
grower was self-help through the
formation of anexport corporation to
open the closed markets of central
Europe, thereby making possible a
big increase in cotton exports and
relieving the cotton market as a
whole of an accumulated supply
which is or may be greater than it
can absorb.
In this connection Governor Hard
ing made the statement that there
was. money in the north to finance
such a corporation, but he thought
the south should help herself, with
her abundant financial resources, and
let the north keep its money for
needs of its own,
Mr. Jackson's Statement
It was byway of reply to this
statement issued by Governor Hard
ing that the statement of Director
Jackson, of the market bureau, was
given out Saturday. The significant
portion of his statement, in which he
asserts that agriculturaj rediscounts
now carried by'.the Atlanta Federal
Reserve bank/ are only a drop in the
bucket compared to its total redis
counts. is as follows:
“Perhaps Governor Harding will
tell us why it is that if the north
has so much money, two nothern
mercantile corporations are now bor
rowers from the Sixth Federal Re
serve bank (in a cotton district) in
a sum in excess of the entire amount
the Sixth Federal Reserve bank has
loaned on cotton. The cotton grow
er will also be interested in learning
that at the present time the Sixth
Fed al Reserve bank (in a cotton
district) has loans aggregating
$170,000,000 on miscellaneous paper,
as against only $4,000,000 on cotton.”
The names of the two mercantile
firms referred to by Mr. Jackson were
not given out by him. but he indicat
ed that his information came from a
source which he believed to be re
liable.
An effort was made Saturday to
obtain a statement from officials of
the Federal Reserve bank as to
whether Mr. Jackson’s information
was correct, concerning the amount
of cotton rediscounts now carried by
the bank. Governor Wellborn and
Chairman McCord had not yet re
turned from the meeting of the
board in Birmingham. No other of
ficial of the bank cared to be quoted
on the subject.
There was obtained by The Journal,
however, the rediscount figures con
tained in the last statement show
ing the condition of the bank, issued
October 1. The different clashes of
i rediscounts carried by the bank en
that date as shown by the statement
were as follows:
Agricultural $ 18,190,14$
Commercial and Industrial 37,873,862
All others ..120,000,000
Totals $176,064,010
The term “agricultural” as given
aboxe, it is understood, includes all
kinds of agricultural products, such
as cotton, live stock and other prod
ucts which are capable of being
warehoused and used to secure notes.
Exactly what part of the $18,x90,148
covers cotton paper could not be
learned.
6 Mixed Baby 9 in Style;
ears Short Skirts,
\
Shows Dimpled Knees
‘Major Posed
As Fake Hero,
Officials Say
Federal officials predicted Satur- ,
day that the trial of Ray Vincent,
indicted for impersonating an army
officer and using the uniform to de
fraud. Vvhic hbegan Monday in Unit
ed States court, will be one of the
most sensational cases heard before
an Atlanta jury in a long term of
years.
The defendant is charged, among
other things, with having worn the
uniform of a major in the national
army and with having represented
to residents’ of Atlanta and other
Georgia cities that he had command
ed troops in France and had been
teent home because of wounds re
ceived on the western front; when
government agents say that his ac
tual military service was limited to
six months at Fort McPherson as a
private soldier and that he was dis
charged before his organization re
ceived embarkation orders.
Many thrilling stories said to have
been told by Vincent about how he
“captured fifty-nine Germans single
handed,” and how he became an
“ace” of the aviation branch of the
service by downing five Boche planes
after they had punctured his own
airplane two hundred times, will be
repeated to the jury by several wit
nesses, which include leading Atlan
ta business men and well-known
women.
The prosecution also expects to
show that Vincent, masquerading as
a major, became very active in con
nection with the various Liberty
loan drives in Georgia, making
speeches- in several cities of the
state.
Stumped for Liberty Loan
Evidence, it is said, will be pre
sented that he accompanied United
States Attorney Hooper Alexander
on stumping tours in behalf of the
loan drives; that he was the guest
of honor at a banquet given by one
of Atlanta’s largest civic organi
zations, and that his photographs ap
peared, in a major’s uniform, in the
Atlanta newspapers, with glowing
accounts of the patriotic service
“this disabled hero is performing
following his return from France
due to physical disabilities received
In the face of the enemy.”
Winning his intp Atlanta’s
select social circles by his daring
impersonations, federal agents say
they will be able to prive that Vin
cent, by frequent'yisits to the home
of a well known Atlantian who was
overseas with the Y. M. C. A., ob
tained from his wife Liberty Bonds
valued at SI,OOO and sums of money
aggregating approximately $2,000
He even secured the possession of
the absent husband’s key to his
safety deposit vault in an Atlanta
bank, according to federal agents
and wore the husband’s watch, with
his wife s picture on its face
Other sensational testimony ex
pected to be adduced is to the ef
fect that Vincent was placed in full
Possession and control of the auto
mobile belonging to the family in
question, and that he used it for a
considerable time.
The defendant was taken into cus
lL dy .u eVe - ral lnont hs ago following a
th» St i ly h’vestigation by agents of
the department of justice, and was
later -released upon heavy bond.
Employed as Barber
While incarcerated in the Fulton
tower, Vincent is alleged by federal
agents to have discussed at length
with other prisoners his “military
service overseas.”
According to the report of Vin
cent’s case made to the district at
torney’s office, the defendant wore
wound stripes on his left sleeve
which indicated that he had been
wounded fifteen times. „„
Photographs of the man in the
government’s possession, and which
were to be shown to the jury on Mon
day. show medals and decorations'
for gallantry in action all the way
across his breast. At the time of
his arrest, it is said, Vincent was
wearing the croix de guerre, service
bars, wound stripes galore, overseas
ribbons and various other profuse
decorations.
Since his release under bond, Vin
cent has, it is said, been employed
as a barber in an Atlanta barber
shop. , This is said to have been
his occupation before he was drafted
into the service as a private.
Cleveland Is Ahead
Os Brooklyn When
Sixth Game Starts
With Monday’s game of the world’s
baseball championship getting under
way as this edition of The Tri
weekly Journal goes to press, Cleve
land leads Brooklyn with three games
won out of five played.
In Saturday’s game Tris Speaker’s
“Indians,” won out over the Brooklyn
“Trolley Dodgers” by a score of 5 to
1. Coveleskie pitched for Cleveland,
while Brooklyn used Cadore, Mam
maux, Marquardt and Pfeffer in a
vain effort to stem the tide of defeat.
Sundayis struggle was a sensation
al walkover for Cleveland, the final
count being 8 to 1. In the first in
ning, Elmer Smith crashed out a
home run with the bases full, and
later in the game Second Baseman
Wambsganss staged an unassisted
triple play—the second play of its
kind ever recorded in professional
baseball.
The last three games were played
in Cleveland before enormous throngs.
38 Killed, 50 Injured
In Train Collision on
Paris-Nantes Railway
PARIS, Oct. 9.» — Thirty-eight
persons were killed and fifty nijured
today when the Paris-Nantes express
ran into a freight train. The acci
dent occurred about four miles from
Mai sons-Lafitte.
Little Louise Madeline, Sur
name in Doubt, Is Center
of Attraction at Court
Trial
Jury Finally May
Decide Baby’s Custody
There is a possibility that the
ustody of Louise Madeline,' At
anta’s “mixed baby,” will be de
teciaed by a jury of twelve men
nstead of by one man.
Attorneys for the Garners on
donday filed an amendment to
heir writ of habeaus corpus,
vhich, if allowed by the court,
will permit the court to award
he temporary, custody of the
ihild and to leave the question
jf permanent custody to a jury
rial.
The defense objected to the
imendment, but, at the request
of the defense, the court will re
serve its opinion on the admis
sibility of the amendment until
Tuesday morning.
BT WABD GBEENE
The feature of Monday's testi
mony in Atlanta’s mixed-babies case
was the story of the birth of her
child.
Other witnesses Monday were
Steve- R. Johnston, superintendent of
the Grady hospital; a hospital nurse;
Dr. O. B. Lusk, and several relatives
of both families.
Another interesting occurrence was
the introduction as evidence of the
ears of Mr. Pittman.
“We offer Mr. Pittman’s ears in
evidence your honor,” said William
E. Arnaud, attorney for Mr. and
Mrs. Johp C. Garner. “He has very
peculiar ears, what I a layman,
would term convex ears. The ear
in the picture of this little dead
girl, Mary Elizabeth, you will note
also are convex.”
When the hearing began Louise
Madeline was In the witness too n.
but later Judge Bell ordered her
brought into court, and by his .rt
structions her cap was removed. The
judge also had brought into the court
Edna Pittman, the little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Pittman. The three it
tie Garner girls also were In court
Mrs. Pittman took the stand, and
like Mrs. Garner last week, told a
timple, but dramatic storv of the
birth of her child. She said 'hat
while she took an anaesthetic she
was semi-conscious all the time and
came from under it’s influence while
still in the delivery room. She told
how the nurse, Miss Stewart, said.
“Oh, what a fine baby,” how the
nurse caught it in her arms, how
she asked the nurse was it a girl or
a boy. how the nurse answered that
it was a girl, how she exclaimed. “I
wanted it to be a boy,” how the
nurse answered, “That’s the way
with all these mothers, they want
boy.”
Mrs. Pittman said her baby had
black hair, which was inclined to be
curly. She described, in detail the
arrangement of the bed tn the ma
ternity ward. . She said the babies
were brought in in the day time in
the arms of the nurses. That at
night either the nurse or Lily, the
maid, would bring them in. some
times in their arms, and sometimes
on a truck.
Scratch on race
Her child was born at 9:50 Thurs
day night, she said. It was nrought
to her at 9 o'clock Friday morning
to nurse. She noticed its features,
its hair, the scratch on its face. She
had it again from 2 to 3 p. m. Mr.
Pittman came in at this time. “She
has pretty black hair, she gets it
from me,” Mrs. Pittman said she
told him. “She has sweet little
hands,” said Mr. Pittman.
Continuing this statement Mrs.
Pittmand said: "I saw the scratch
on its face. I also saw on the back
of the neck, near the edge of the
hair, running half way into the hair,
a birthmark, three red splotches.
For two months after birth the
marks showed plainly, it is on the
child now. but very dim.”
"At 2 o’clock Saturday morning,”
said Mrs. Pittman, “Lily brought in
the babies on the roller truck. She
carried the babies to their mothers
Mine was the last taken off. Some
how I didn’t think I had the right
child. I laid there in the dark try
ing to decide while Lily left the
room for a minute. When she came
back I asked her to turn up the light.
I looked for the familiar marks
They were not there. I asked Mrs.
Garner if she had a baby in a grey
wrap with a blue stripe and a
scratch on its face. She said she.
did. The Lily looked at the tag
on my baby. She said to Mrs.
Garner ’What’s your name?’ When
Mrs. Garner, answered 'Garner’ she
changed the babies, giving me my
right baby.”
Louise Madeline, the baby two
mothers want, is one year, four
months and eighteen days old.
In politics she is a bit of a Social
ist, betraying a marked tendency to
kick against t-estraints and to de
mand freedom speech.
Her chief ino or sport is thumb
sucking. One aiJo feels she would
make a good golfer; her stance is
excellent, though a bit wobbly, and
she invariably keeps eye on the
ball, which is big an>j
She is a devotee of style. Skirts
to her ankles she insists on wearing
to her neck, thereby revealing socks
and pink knees in the mode.
She also believes in sleep and
plenty of it, regardless of time and
circumstance. Her conscience must
be clear, for she snoozes under a
judge’s nose with bailiffs and law
yers all around her.
Her poise is perfect. She is as
much at home in a strange court
room as a debutante at a party, and
can outstare a witness with the calm
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SCHh'TS A (jbfY.
$1.50 A
RELIEF FOR FARMER
BYCDTTDNEXPDRTS
URGED AT MEETING
Atlanta Business Men Pledge
Aid in Opening Foreign
Outlet for 3,000,000 Bales
This Year
The aid of Atlanta bankers and
business men in forming a great ex
port corporation to finance the sale
of cotton to central European coun
trieSt in the manner advocated for
the past two years by Governor
Harding, of the federal reserve board
in Washington, and reiterated by
him in his statement issued in Bir
mingham Friday night, was enlisted
Friday afternoon at the cotton meet
ing held in the chamber of commerce
assembly hall at the call of the
finance committee of the American
Cotton association.
Richard I. Manning, former gover
nor of South Carolina, and chairman
of the organization committee of the
cotton export corporation launched in
South Carolina a few weeks ago, pre
sented the details of the plan and re
quested the aid of Atlanta business
men and bankers in obtaining sub
scriptions to the capital stock.
Governor Manning showed that the
stoppage of cotton exports to central
Europe has cut off entirely a market
5 that regularly consumed an average
of 2,000,000 bales a year, before the
war, and that this lost market is
s the fundamental drag on the cotton
' market today.
. He showed that Governor Harding
’ began two years ago the movement
to form in the south a great expo: t
corporation for the purpose of pro
viding central European countries
with the financial accommodations
* they need, and that Governor Hard
i ing particularly emphasized the
j point that such a corporation mu: t
be formed in the south with south
ern capital.
Governor Manning then related
j briefly the history of the movemeiit
B as launched a few months ago i.i
South Carolina with the appointmen:
B of an organization committee of
bankers, business men, planters an
r lawyers, to work out the details o
_ a plan for organizing such a cot
B poration. He was made chairman o
t the committee. Their plan was sub
f mitted to .the American Cotton ass
_ elation at its annual meeting i
Montgomery a few months ago. l
i was submitted' Har
i ing and approved by him. It w
e submitted to William G. McA«h
t former secretary of the treasu;,
e and approved by him.
1 $10,030,000 Capital
0 The plan provides for a capit-’
1 stock of $10,000,000 to be distribut.
* throughout the cotton belt. Sui
s scriptions are payable in cash, LU
v erty bonds or cotton at governmen
r grades and prevailing prices.
f Governor Manning described In <le
l Jail the great need for raw cotton
0 to revive the cotton manufacturing
r industry in Germany, Austria, Bel
gium, Czecho-Slovakia and ©titer
countries of central Europe. He sai l
* the organization committee of the
5 ‘export corporation had thoroughly
- investigated the situation with prom
ise of the most favorable market for
’ cotton. Those countries, he said,
ii have thousands of idle spindles, thou
. sands of Idle laborers, an adequate
supply of coal and only need the
J raw cotton and the financial accom-
- modations to enable them to buy cot
, ton. They stand ready to give iron
clad security for every purchase,
these securities to be guaranteed by
the- governments of the respective
. countries, and such securities, ho
t said, could be handled in the banke
of this country. Besides these se-
> curlties, they stand ready to mako
, part payment for cotton with raw
, materials of their own which can
be readily sold for cash in this coun-
■ try.
i The export corporation, Governor
t Manning declared, gives promise
, first, of substantial profits to the
' stockholders, so that it is not launch
» ed as a philanthropic enterprise; and
promise, second, of beginning ship
ments in the immediate future of
‘ cotton to Europe.
1 He said the central European coun
: tries are especially equipped for
> handling low grade cotton, which at
present is a drug on the market be-
’ cause of a large accumulated supply,
. more than the American and British
i spinners can handle. At the same
, time, however, as he pointed out, this
accumulated supply of low grade
cotton drags down the level of all
’ grades.
"Only Permanent Belief"
k “The only -substantial and perma
nent relief for the cotton market,"
declared Governor Manning, "lies in
. the opening of the central European
markets. The time has come, as Gov
ernor Harding has repeatedly pointed
out, for the south to help itself. We
! have here the money, the brains and
the initiative to launch this corpora
tion. We have been repeatedly en
couraged by the best business men
in the country to go ahead and do
it. The very first shipment of cot
ton that leaves for central Lur<»,—
1 will have an immediate effect upon
the cotton market.”
The last quoted sentence of Gover
nor Manning was almost verbatim
the same as a sentence used by Gov
ernor Harding in his statement is
sued in Birmingham Friday night
urging the ' formation of an export
corporation. Governor Harding, of
course, did not know that Governor
Manning was speaking here on the
same subject while he was speaking
in Birmingham. ■
Following the address by Gover
nor Manning, there was a very force
ful talk by J. A. Brown, a prominent
planter and banker of North Car'
lina, on the necessity for close
eration and team work between
business men, the bankers and the
cotton growers of the south to put
this section in a better economic po
sition.
"Farmers are paying the rete
of $2 per 100 pounds to get cotton
picked,” said he, “and are having a
hard time to get pickers at that. Do
you realize how much that figures?
It figures S3O a bale or 6 cents a
pound—merely to get cotton picked.
Thousands of bales of cotton are
rotting in the fields because the farm
ers cannof get pickers even at $2 per
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