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W ATkuila evi - WccW unval VOL. XXIII. NO. 10. $12,000,000 Co. For Financing Crop Decided byßankers Headed by R. F, Maddox, of Atlanta, National Con vention Approves Plan to Relieve Cotton Growers WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—(8y the Associated Press.)—Plans for the or ganization of a $12,000,000 cotton ex port and crop financing corporation were adopted at a meeting here late today of bankers and representatives of cotton interests attending the con vention of the American Bankers' association. The meeting approved suggestions contained in a report of a committee headed by Robert F. Maddox, Atlanta banker, to move at once in the direction of preliminary steps towards organizing the cor poration. Tentative arrangements provide for the payment of half of the capital stock, or an initial work ing fund of $5,000,000 capital and sl,- 000,000 surplus. Capital subscriptions, the plans suggest, will be based on an assess ment of $1 a bale on cotton raised in the respective states, thereby making the organization one of influence throughout all territory .which has had difficulty in financing the move ment of the cotton crops. The decis ion to call for the Initial payment of only half of the total capital means, therefore, that the subscriptions will be prorated among the purchasers of stock on the basis of 50 cents per bale. Purposes of Corporation It was made clear by speakers at ■the meeting that the purposes of the corporation, which will be organized under the Edge act amending the federal reserve act, is not to hold the . jtton crop, but to insure that the ‘ ommodity be moved “at a time when .he market is stagnant.” Under provisions of the Edge act, tiie corporation is enabled to han dle trade acceptances—agreement of ihe purchasers—to the amount of ten ..lines its capital and surplus, or in die case of the proposed corporation, the ability to handle acceptances of cotton purchasers to the amount of 60,000,000. Although there was no specific mention made, there were in dications that formulation of the c -rporation would immediately open t e way for the sale of cotton in Eu . >pe, where the demand is estimated t 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 bales. The committee informed those in •tendance at the meeting that it >uld make “no extravagant prom •s.” but that it hoped that the es blishment of such a corporation uld be “of tremendous benefit to ? south.” The meeting was told o that the corporation would rot ove a “remedy for all ills,” al >ugh_ j,t—would make possible the .vision for markets in time of 1 ergencv such as the cotton pro s ce -s are now passing through, fi Although the corporation may in | r ? future extend its operations to i i her commodities, those in attend- | ce urged that it devote its re tirees at first to the handling of his crop alone. The way was left • on, however, so that enlargement .d suggested extension can be made as needed, speakers declared Bandits Land $50,000 But Lose Loot and Pals in Big Battle CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 22. orge ("Jiggs”) Losteiner, said to i e under indictment in many states t>n charges of murder and rob bery, is under arrest at a local hospital shot through the neck, as a result of a street battle at Bedford, ten miles from here, late today, which resulted in the death of one bandit, the serious wound ing and capture of two others, and the probable fatal shooting of a bank clerk. More than 200 shots were fired. The battle was the culmination of one of the most spectacular bank robberies ever staged in this state, during which eight bandits held up the Bedford branch of the Cleveland Trust company. The dead man was identified by Bertillion experts as Albert Joyce, alias Johnson. William Pe trie, a bank clerk, was the victim of a shotgun in the hands of a citizen, who had answered the bur (Ar alarm and mistook him for one of the bandits as he emerged from the bank. Physicians say he is dying. The robbery occurred just as the bank was closing. Six of the gang entered with drawn revolvers and commanded the five employes and three customers to the rear of the building. The employes were forced to lie on their faces, and the cus tomers were placed under guard in [ a.’ room. . .Seizing all the money in sight, safid to amount to $50,000, the ban dits rushed to the street. Almost instantly, George C. Flickinger, manager of the branch, touched the burglar alarm which sounded in downtown business house of Bedford. * IS. W. Porter, a tire dealer, one of those attracted, fatally shot Joyce, who was at the wheel of the waiting automobile. Unable to start the engine the other bandits fled, leaving money infract in the machine. During the enduing battle Losteiner, Harry Stone and an unidentified man were wounded, R. W. Osborne, proprietor of ‘a grocery store, bringing down tw<F» of them. Rosses tonight are searching for the four other members of the gartg. The men appeared t o be armed witp more than one revolver, as when they emptied one, during their flight, they quickly prod ced an othffli- and returned the fire. $7,478 Expended by Thomas W. Hardwick in the Second Primary Thomas W. Hardwick, successful vancidate for governor in the Demo cratic primary, expended $7,478.64 in the ’run-over, according to his sworn statlement of receipts and disburse men|ts filed Wednesday with the comptroller general as required by law.) Thie principal items of expense were printing and advertising, $4,846; tel ephone and telegraph tolls, $370; heaqlquarters rental. $59; postage, $295,; assessments of counties for em ploying managers and clerks, $439; clerical help, $775; traveling ex penses, $l5O. The contributions made to Mr. Handwick for the run-over campaign weije $5,969, leaving a personal ex penditure of $1,509. In the first pri of which $5,825 was contributed, j PRISON PHYSICIANS FEED M'SWINEY JS HE LOSES SENSES LONDON, Oct. 22.—Official con firmation came from two sources this iporning of the reports that Lord Mayor MacSwiney, of Cork, had been fed during a period of uncon sciousness. The bulletin of the Irish Self-De termination league, dealing with the condition of the lord mayor on the seventy-first day of his hunger strike in Brixton prison, announced that the prison doctors had forced- meat juice into MacSwiney’s mouth during a fit of delirium which the prisoner suf fered last night. From the government side, it was stated at the home office that the lord mayor had been fed last night. It was explained there that the pris on doctors were under instructions to use any possible means tp keep him alive, but that during conscious ness he resisted attempts to admin ister nourishment. Their attitude is, it was stated, that when the lord mayor is unconscious and unable to resist, they are carrying out their orders if they then give him food. The Self-Determination league’s account of the feeding said that the lord mayor, upon regaining conscious ness, detected the taste of the meat juice and said to a sister near him: “They tricked me, and I didn’t know it.” Before lapsing into unconscious ness again, continued, the account, the lord mayor waved his arms vio lently and shouted: “Take it away.” Lord Mayor MacSwiney was de lirious during virtually all last night, the league bulletins declared, the deliriums for the greater part of the time taking a violent form. The bullein concluded: “It should be made clear that the meat extract given the lord mayor during his delirium on the sixty-rfinth day of his fast was the first nourishment which had passed his lips since his arrest on August 12.” JAIL DELIVERY AT U. S. PEN IS NIPPED BY GUARD Reports emanated Thursday from the United States prison of a daring attempt at something like a genral jail delivery in the prison, frustrated about 2:30 o’clock W’ednesday morn ing when a patrol guard, hearing a commotion, hurried to the isolation floor and saw prisoners running to and fro in the corridor, and the guard, David Davis, prostrate on the floor. As the patrol guard appeared, the three prisoners who were at liberty ran quickly back ttTto the two cages from which they had gained their way, locking one of the doors be hind them. The„ patrol was unable to get into the corridor, but kept guard until the warden was summoned', and their presence assured the prisoners that their effort had failed. Warden Zerbst said Thursday that the plot was being investigated in the effort to find out how many men, beside the three who had at tacked and slugged the guard, were concerned in the effort at liberty. "Somebody had smuggled fine saws to these prisoners,” said the warden. “They had sawed a bar out of their cage, gained the cor ridor, and slugged the guard with a piece of pipe taken from the toilet in their cell. He was knocked help less, but not unconscious. “It is my understanding that two men made this preliminary attack. They then took the guard’s keys and unlocked another cage, liberating a third convict. I do not know at present how many others they plan ned to release to join them in their attempt to escape. The keys they took from the guard would-have got them out of prison, but not out of the walled yard. The arrival of the patrol spoiled their plan, and they ran back into their cells as the patrol guard appeared outside the corrl- According to the warden, there was no struggle after the patrol guard reached the scene. The con victs saw that the game was up, he said, and returned as quickly as pos sible to their cells. "We have not yet found the saws with which they cut the bar, said Mr Zerbst. “I think they may have been flushed out through the sink There are sixteen cells and a dor mitory on this corridor, occupied by f °Davls. el the guard, has two cu . ts his head, which is badly bruised, but he is not dangerously injured. He lives in Atlanta. Gin Warnings Not Heeded in Carolina GREENWOOD, S. C., Oct. 22 — Threats have been made to burn gins in several counties in this state un less they ceased operating until cot ton had reached forty cento per pound. The gins usually have cards placed on the building with matches, and in one or more instances fire coals are said to have been, left. Gins have not ceased to run on account ot these warnings, but they are being guarded, and while Governor Cooper gives out information that he is not able to furnish patrols, he pledges all the forces at his command to ap prehend the guilty parties and bring them to trial. The fields are white with the fleecy staple, and it is being ginned, but farmers are holding cotton -r<*r- ’he market, with the hope that s-nne’ way will be provided to save them from sacrificing the crop. Instead of plac ing it on the market, they are filling up the warehouses. STOPPED HER FITS Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of Wurtsboro, N. Y., writes that she stopped her fits with a medicine that she read about in the paper. She says she has not had a fit since she took the first dose and that she wants every sufferer to know about this wonderful medicine and what it- did for her. If you. a friend, or relative, suffer from these dread 7 ful attacks, you are advised t> send name and address at once to R- P. N. Lepso. 895 Island avenue. Mil waukee, Wis., who is generously of fering to send a bottle of the same kind of medicine he gave Mrs. Mar tin. free, to any sufferer who writes in.—(Advt.) TEXAS TEAM WINS CLUB STOCKPRIZE; 14STATESCPMPETE Newspaper Men See the Sights at Lakewood. Boys’ Fair School Is Still in Progress The fourth estate held sway at the Southeastern fair on Friday. It was “Georgia Press day” and from all over the state came editors of news papers to inspect the exhibits at the big educational exposition and ' to take in the sights along the midway. Since the newspapermen of Georgia have had such an important part in developing the Southeastern fair, the management of the fair association felt that it was eminently fitting that the editors should be entertained as the guests of the exposition on one of the biggest days of the schedule. The gentlemen of the press began arriving in Atlanta on- Thursday night and by Friday morning a big delegation was on hand for the occa sion. Met at the main entrance to the fair grounds by a reception com mittee of. fair association officials, the newspapermen registered at the big assembly tent in the plaza be tween the liberal arts and automo bile buildings. After a short get together session, they started out at 11 o’clock to inspect the exhibits in the several departments and then in dulged in gastronomical exercises. Lunch having been disposed of, the press deelgation launched out on their expedition into Larkland, where the Johnny J. Jones shows are holding forth with undimmed splendor. The editors took in everything from the wild west show down to the tent where the “Missing Link” is exhib ited to the accompaniment of a learn ed discourse from a scholarly look ing gentleman with a voice like a phonograph. There was nothing in the way of a formal meeting of the Georgia Press association —on the contrary, the session at the South eastern fair was notable for its in formality and complete absence of anything that smacked of conven tion. The Texas team won the Interna tional Club Stock Judging Contest, which has been In progress since Monday. Announcement to this es ■ feet was made Thursday afternoon. Fourteen states were represent ed in the contest by teams of three boys each, Georgia tieing with South Carolina for eighth place |n •he competition. Th© International Club Stock Judging Contest is under the super vision of the United States depart ment of agriculture and is a per manent feature of the Southeastern fail. This is the first year of its es tablishment and the boys entered here represent half a million club members from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. The contestants have been showing their ability to detect the fine points of thorough bred cattle, hogs and sheep, their se lection and placing of animals in the judging ring determining their posi tion in the content. The winners are to be given free trips to the Royal Livestock Show in London, England, this winter. The Boys’ Fair School is still in progress and will continue through Saturday. In this institution are 200 Georgia boys from every county in the state, selected after competitive examination by the respective coun ty agricultural agents. The boys are given instruction in all depart ments of agriculture, their teachers being members of the faculty of the State College of Agriculture, while the exhibits of cattle, hogs, sheep and farm products are used as prac tical demonstrations for the lessons. A dinner given by the Southern Ruralist to the visiting stock breed ers and another function given by the fair association to the visiting horsemen were features of Thursday night’s program. , King Alexander of Greece Resting Easily, Say Last Reports ATHENS, Oct. 22. —King Alexan der, of Greece, was resting easily last night, according to a bulletin issued by his physicians at 11 P. M. The king at that hour was in a calm, sleep. His temperature was 39.2 Centigrade (102.56 Fahrenheit). The reports regarding the king’s condition, however, were not consid ered at all satisfactory. His temper ature, it was stated, had shown dis quieting fluctuations. The bulletin issued at 7 o'clock last evening said the king had spent a restless day and that his tempera ture was then 104, with pulse of 136 to 150 and respiration 40 to 48. The day had brought about no improve ment in his condition, it was added. PLOT TO ASSASSINATE GREEK KING IS CHARGED ROME. Oct. 22.—Injuries inflicted upon King Alexander by a monkey were the result of a plot to assassi nate the young monarch, according to Dr. Georges Fernand Vidal, of Paris, who has been attending the king and was interviewed by the Messagero, while passing through Rome on his way home from Athens. “While the story of the monkey biting King Alexander was true.” Dr. Vidal is quoted as saying, "the mon key was suffering from rabies with which it had been artificially inocu lated. Hence a veritable attempt against the king’s life was commit ted." Death-Car Driver Is Found Guilty and Gets 3-Year Term After two hours and a half of deliberation, a jury in the trial of Frank McDonald, driver of an automobile which struck and kill ed Mrs. Carabel Holly Smith, on the evening of September 25, in Atlan ta, returned a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter. McDon ald was sentenced to three years on the chaingang, the maximum sentence. Te was tried in the crim inal division of the superior court on an indictment charging him with murder in six counts. Bumper Apple Crop For Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 23.—The crop of apples in Pennsylvania this year as a result of the mild weather in the last several weeks is esti mated by the federal reserve bank for this district at more than 21.- 900,000 bushels. Last year more than 7,000,000 bushels wer» pro duced. ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1920. MINERS’ WIVES PROTEST STRIKE! Bm Miv - n LUm S| H miners ■I H, AGAINST LU Hr-ijg- A STRIKE k jgma LONDON. —Wives of British miners are not in sympathy with the coal strike called Saturday, ntly, as part of a demonstration, they paraded through the streets of London. These wives, many hem mothers, say they fear a strike would mean the starvation of their children. * Final Appeal Is Made to Georgia Democrats to Give To Party Campaign Fund JOE SPARKS, assistant treasurer of the Democratic national campaign committee, has sent to Georgia Democrats the following final in the drive for funds; ‘‘The tide of victory has turned. There will be a triumphant Democracy in November, no matter how loudly the calamity howlers may howl. The south has never been so prosperous as during the seven years of Democratic administration, yet the Dem ocrats of the south have contributed only one-fourth of the amount expected of them by the national committee. ‘‘Let me put these questions to the Democrats of the south: “Will you stand idly by and witness the destruction of the Federal Reserve system, which has meant the financial salvation of the southern states? “Will you stand idly by and see important federal offices filled by negroes? If Senator Harding intends to give a square deal to southern people, as he assured them he would in his Chat tanooga speech, why does he not remove the negro who holds the office-of Republican national committeeman from Georgia? “Will you stand idly by and see your representation in con gress cut down by a Republican administration? “Your Democratic comrades in the doubtful states are mak ing a splendid fight. They need your contributions to pay the actual and legitimate expenses of presenting the issues of this great campaign. Do not fail them now, in the crucial hour.” Cox Attacks Critics Os League Covenant In Baltimore Speech BALTIMORE, Oct. 21.—Governor Cox, of Ohio, in addressing a large audience at the armory here tonight pounced upon and lashed vigorously the League of Nations speeches yes terday by Senator Harding, former President Taft and Senator John son, of California, declaring that they evidenced further "wobbling” by Senator Harding upon the league issue. At the same time the Democratic presidential candidate further em phasized his league policies, declar ing that "helpful” reservations should be a prerequisite to ratifica tion. “Every one who is against the league is against me,” Governor Cox declared, insisting that Senator Har ding, his Republican adversary, stands for "scrapping” the league. The governor also asserted that be cause of league differences between powerful Republican groups the elec tion of Senator Harding could not bring ratification. "It is this League of Nations or no League of Nations,” was another doctrine laid down by the Democrat ic nominee, speaking from the plat form where President Wilson was nominated eight years ago. The governor asserted, quoting Judge Taft, that a new peace association of nations was impossible. Our “Newsy-Farm” Offer X Tri-Weekly Journal l f Weekly Commercial Appeal 1 dJ ft O }cX]° nI y 1 The price of The Tri-Weekly Journal, as you know, is $1.50; however for a very limited time we are going to give you the opportunity to take advantage of the above offer. In other words you get for the regular price of the JOURNAL, a weekly paper, a farm paper and a home magazine. Can you afford to let this opportunity slip by? You will note that we are not allowing any agents’ commission on this offer, which means that since our regular commission is 35c, this amount has been deducted from what we would ordinarily charge, therefore you get the advantage of a very low price, provided you will act right now. Telephone Company Argu es for Increases Before Commission The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company filed with the state railroad commission Thursday a detailed schedule of the new rates it is seeking, revealing the fact that it wishes increases ranging from 20 to 33 1-3 per cent. The comiJajry some time ago filed a petition for higher rates, without announcing at the time the amounts of the various proposed increases. Hearing on the petition has been set for October 27. Following are the proposed", in creases : Atlanta: . Business phones from the present rate of $7.50 to $10.50. a month. Residence phones from the present rate of $4 to $5. Macon and Augusta: Business phones, from $5.50 to $6. Residence Phones, from $3.25 to $3.90. Savannah—Business phones, from $6 to $7.50: residence phones, from $3.50 to $4.75. Athens, Rome, Waycross, Valdosta and Brunswick—Business phones, from $4.50 to $5.40; residence phones, from $2.75 to $3.30. Americus—Business phones, from $4 to $5; residence phones, from $2.50 to $3.10. New schedules for all other cities in Georgia served by the company were filed, the proposed new rates be ing proportionately the same as those listed above. We are right frank to admit that we do not expect to be in a position to continue this offer for any great length of time, so in -order that you may be sure U • get it—SEND YOUR ORDER WITHOUT A MOMENT’S DELAY. No Agents’ Commission Allowed COUPON Nam e P. O R.F.D State.... RAILROAD STRIKE CALLED IN BRITAIN TO BEGIN SUNDAY LONDON. Oct. 21. —Orders have been issued for British railwaymen to strike Sunday at midnight in sym pathy with coal miners. Under the orders sent out today railroad men throughout United Kingdom will walk out Sunday mid night, unless specific instructions to the contrary are issued in the mean time. Announcement of the strike order followed the statement of J. H. Thomas, secretary of the railway workers an da member of parliament, that an ultimatum will te served on Premier Lloyd George today. The ultimatum will demand imme diate granting of the miners’ wage demands or re-opening of negotia tions with the alternative of the sym pathetic strike. ; If Lloyd George capitulates the railway strike will be called off. The decision of the railway dele gates added to the seriousness of the situation Since it was believed these workers would not call a strike unti leverything possible had been done to settle the miners’ con troversy. Transport workers, the other di vision of the ‘triple alliance” an nounced through their secretary, Robert Williams, that if negotiations were not opened within 24 hours the issue would be clearly drawn be tween the government and the work ers. The British government, having passed safely one attempt at censure in parliament,, faced another vote to day on the labor situation. After long debate yesterday on the Irish situation in which the gov ernment was attacked for its "pol icy of rpression,” a motion for an investigation of Irish affairs was voted down in the house of commons last night by a big majority. Today the labor situation was to be brought to the fore and it was ex pected that an attempt would be made by William Adamson, labor member, to bring up a resolution touching on the strike and general u n e m ployment. Governor Coolidge Denies He Indorsed League of Nations ON BOARD GOVERNOR COOL IDGE’S SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct. 21. Governor Coolidge denied in a state ment today that he had indorsed the League of Nations in his address of welcome to President Wilson at Bos ton in February, 1919, upon the re turn of the latter from his first trip to Europe and the peace conference. The governor, as presiding officer of the meeting where President Wil son spoke, lauded the president for his efforts in behalf of peace. Germans of Nation SuggestGreatßank For Cotton Exports DECIDED DRIFT ID COXINUSTW WEEKSJLAIMED EN ROUTE WITH GOVERNOR COX, WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 21. Governor James M. Cox, as he be gan his stump campaign in Dela ware and Maryland today, declared political events have taken ■ uch a decided turn within the last two weeks that “there ’are incipient manifestations of a landslide” for his candidacy. "If I am any judge cf crowd psychology,” he said, "the under current of independent thought is growing so rapidly since Senator Harding declared at Des Moines for rejection of the League of Nations covenant that it is engulfing the party wall.” Governor Cox’s optimism was due in some measure to the receptions he received during the last two day s in New England, generally consid ered a Republican ffronghold. Large crowds, including many women, heard him in Connecticut. YOUTH DECLARES DOCTOR PAID FOR BURNING OF CAR Three men, one a well-known At lanta physician, were arrested and now are out on bond for their ap pearance in the recorder’s court Sat urday morning, on a charge of dis orderly conduct, growing out of the burning of a Peerless coupe automo bile belonging to Dr. David B. Haw kins, the night of August 25 after an apparent wreck in a plunge down an embankment on the road to Marietta, where it crosses over the railroad tracks near Collins’ switch. Dr. Hawkins, owner of the car, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his office in the Candler building, follow ing the arrest of "Jimmy” Neal, twenty years old, and O. N. Cribbs, proprietor of the Cribbs garage on Capitol avenue. The detectives say they alwo are looking for another young man whom they believe to have been connected with the af fair. Dr. Hawkins talked freely of the matter Friday and issued a statement in which he characterized the charges against him as a "ridiculous frame-up,” and said that Cribbs was trying to "pass the buck” to him after the car had been dstroyed, while Cribbs was re sponsible for it. W. T. Gloer, general manager of the Adams National Detective agency, brought about the arrests Thursday, following an investigation made by his agency at the instance ol a local fire insurance agenev which had insured the Hawkins car for $4,200. Neal was arrested at Cribbs’ garage, and, Mr. Gloer* says made a confession that implicated Cribbs, Hawkins and the third young man. Cribbs was arrested at his home, 199 Crew street, and Dr. Haw kins at his office. The third young man is being sought. City Detectives Malcolm and Meeks made the ar rests. According to the officers Neal made a written confession in Which hq. stated that he and the other young man had been hired to burn the Hawkins car, Cribbs acting as a go between for the owner and the boys. They each were to receive S2O, Neal said. Neal’s confession said that the oth er boy had driven the Hawkins car out on the Marietta road the night of its destruction, while he had gone out in another car and had brought Neal back to the city after the coupe had been wrecked and set on fire. Cribbs stated, the officers said, that Dr. Hawkins had for some time been making remarks to him about burn ing his car up, he having wished to dispose of it, and not having been able to do so. Cribbs said he thought at first that Dr. Hawkins was joking; but finally concluded that he ( actual ly wanted the car destroyed,’ wnere upon he referred the business to Neal and the other boy. Dr. Hawkins’ Version Dr. Hawkins made the , following statement Friday morning:’ “I know absolutely nothing except what I have heard as to the way my car came to be destroyed, so of course these absurd charges by Cribbs, and the statements of this boy Neal are part of a frame-up—an effort by Cribbs, I take it, to pass along the responsibility to me as the owner of the car, after it had been destroyed either with his knowledge end direction, or after being damaged I by one or more of his employes while joy-riding in it while it was in his hands for repairs. "Cribbs was recommended to me by a real estate man as a good automobile mechanic. This was Au gust 23. The car needed some gener al readjustments; carbon ground out; brakes relined and so on. Cribbs took the car on Monday and AV ednesday he called me up and informed me that the car had been stolen from in front of his home, 199 Crew street, where he had left it the previous evening. He said he had been trying it out and had punctured a tire, so he left it in front of his home instead of running it to the garage. "I asked him if he had notified the police and he said he had not. I said I would do it, and attended to it at once. I also notified the three news papers. Soon afterward I was noti fied by The Journal that a car with my license number was lying wrecked and burned near Bolton. ■ Car Was Stripped “I went out there with a Blun- Dimmitt salesman and we looked over the wreckage. It appeared that the car had been stripped of abso lutely everything that was of any value and that could be removed. Upwards of SIOO worth of tools were among the things missing which we might have expected to find in the debris. . "Os course I have no way or ( knowing whether Cribbs stripped the car and paid the boy or boys to destroy it; or whether the boys dam- ' aged the car while out joy-riding and decided to destroy it as the 1 simnlest way out of a scrape. I un derstand that Cribbs was charged I by Neal with paying him and the 1 i (Continued on Page 7, Column 5) SCENTS A COPT, X3$J st> A YEAii, Letter to Senator Hoke Smith Proposes New Means for Opening For- ■ eign Outlet to South I An entirely new prospect of finan cial assistance in opening up the ex port of cotton to centraf European I countries, which have bought little • cotton for the past two years, and which would greatly relievb the sag in the present market if they could 1 be financed, was announced Thursday 1 by Senator Hoke Smith. ' He has received a letter from Hein rich Charles, an American of Ger man extraction and a member of a. large banking concern of New York, informing him that Germans in this ’ country, of German birth or extrac ’ tion, are willing and anxious to form a large bank for the particular pur pose of financing the sale of cotton ' to that country, and asking him for an expression of his views concern , Ing such a project. . Their object, primarily, would be s to assist financially in the rehabili . tation of the German textile industry, , which is practicallyin a state of coma for want of cotton. In serving that object, they believe, they would like wise render a service of great value to the growers of cotton In the south ern states. The German cotton man ufacturers have idle machinery, idle labor and idle coal. The only thing they need is cotton. Prior to the war they consumed 2,000,000 bales a year. The heavy depreciation of the Ger man mark as compared to the high • value of the American dollar, coupled I with the lack of credit facilities in this country, holds them at a stand- • still. Their machinery is rusting and ■ their labor is restless. ! Senator Smith has replied to Mr. Charles that he approves wholeheart edly the suggestion of a bank In this 1 country, to be financed by. German- Americans and to be engaged in the business of financing exports of cot- 1 ton to Germany. He sees in the plan a prospect of Immense financial 1 benefit to the south. ' * Other Aid Also In View In connection with his announce ’ ment of the correspondence with ■ Heinrich Charles, Senator Smith took 1 occasion to refer also to the move ment launched in Washington by Robert F. Maddox, president of the ’ Atlanta National Bank, one of the ■ foremost bankers of the south, a for mer president of the American Bank- . ers’ association, and a recognized au thority on southern economic condi i tions. [ As announced on Wednesday in The Journal. in a dispatch from. • Theodore Tiller, its Washington cor respondent, Mr. Maddox has called together the southern bankers at tending the convention of the Amer ican Bankers’ association, now in session in Washington, and laid be fore them a project to form with , southern banking capital a very larg® corporation to engage in financing ex ports of cotton to central European countries. Mr. Maddox' pointed out to southern bankers the fact that the Esch bill passed by congress allow ' national banks to subscribe ten per cent of their capital stock to cor porations engaging in the promotion of the export trade of the United States. His project is to form a corporation composed of all south ern banks, the capital stock to be pro-rated among the states of th® belt according to cotton production, and the total capital to be around $25,000,000. The bankers received his suggestions with the utmost in terest. it was further stated in Mr. Tiller’s dispatch. . “The movement started by Mr. Maddox is exactly what we need and is launched exactly at the right time,” said Senator Smith. “I am extremely anxious to see him get the support he deserves from the banks throughout the south. H® could render no greater service to his section of the country. It he can get his eimort corporation started right away, and if the German- Americans will organize their bank as suggested by Heinrich Charles, I believe we can put 4,000,000 bales of cotton into central Europe this win ter. The resulting benefits to the south would be enormous.” Harding Confident Os G. 0. P. Victory As Campaign Ends WITH SENATOR HARDING, EN ROUTE TO MARION, 0., Oct. 22. His speaking campaign closed ex cept* for four days of stumping in Ohio, Senator Harding was on his way back to Marlon today, confident that his five excursions from the front porch hhve clinched thousands of doubtful votes. Twenty states, several on tn® derland of the Democratic south, have been visited by the Republican nominee As the campaign draws toward th® eleventh hour, Harding is taking a more aggressive attitude on the league issue. In all speeches re cently he has emphasized the treaty deadlock which he says would re sult from ’''ction of Governor Cox. Not enough votes could be obtained to put through the Cox ratification program in the senate, Harding in sists. “His attempt to carry out his promises would only result in a four year stalemate,” Hardin™ said in his speeches at Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y. "I have been unwilling to accept the Democratic program Re cause it is not only unAmerican and unwise but because it is wholly im possible of fulfillment and simply tends to keep the American people in a ferment of useless controversy.” Harding appeared somewhat, tired today ns a result oi ms steaay trav eling recently. A cold left him with a slight cough and hoarseness. Prohibition Defeated By 15,000 Majority In British Columbia VANCOUVER. B. C., Oct. 21.—Re pudiation of the. British Columbian prohibition law, indicated by the 15,- 000 majority already recorded from Wednesday’s plebiscite, brought gov ernment officials to consideration of how the liquor traffic shall be ad ministered. The vote was on the preference between prohibition and “an act to provide for government control and sale in sealed packages of spirituous and malted liquors.”