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Bhe Atlanta Sri ■ Wctfclji Journal
WOL. XXIII. NO. 19.
Banks of Atlanta
Pledge $228,000
For Export Plan
Rapid Headway Made Jn
Forming Huge Corpora
tion Which Will Relieve
Farmers of South
Within less than forty-eight hours
following the formal launching of
the project, four Atlanta banking
mstitutions had subscribed for $225,-
|oo of the capital stock of the Fed
eral Foreign Finance Corporation,
which was organized at New Or
eans last Saturday with a capital
[tock of $12,000,000, of which $6,-
100,000 will be paid in. It is confi
dently believed that other Atlanta
banks will fall in line and that with
|n the next few days Atlanta's quota
mF the capital stock of the big ex
tort bank Will have been fully sub
scribed. k
The Atlanta banks thA already
lave approved the project and sub
scribed their quota to the capital
[tock of the corporation follow:
Fourth National $90,000
Ltlanta National .. .. •> •• 75,000
Fulton National .. ... .. .••• 30,000
Ltlanta Trust Co 33,750
| Under the plan of organization the
banks in the cotton states are ex
pected to subscribe 3 per cent of
heir capital and surplus to the stock
If the export bank, and the subscrip
kons of the above-named Atlanta
Lanks were voted by their boards of
[irectors at special meetings in ac
cordance with the aforesaid plan
| The board of the Fultoh National
[nd the trustees of the Atlanta Trust
iompany met in special session Wed
nesday afternoon, and the boards of
[he Atlanta National and Fourth Na
donal held their meetings Thursday
Lt noon. The Central Pank and
trust Corporation will hold its meet-
Lig Friday, and the directors of the
Lowry National will meet Monday to
Consider subscriptions to the Fed
ral Foreign Finance Corporation,
rhe matter will be presented to the
Lfficers and directors of the Trust
Company of Georgia, on Tuesday,
[nd the directorate of the Citizens
[nd Southern bank will meet at Sa
vannah. next Thursday.
Georgia Bankers’ Meeting
The matter will be presented to
pie members of the Georgia Bankers
[ssociation, in a special meeting at
bacon next Tuesday. The call for
[his meeting was issued Wednesday
[fternoon by H. Warner Martin,
telWi-nt of the association and vice
[resident of the Lowry National
lank. He gave out the following ex
planatory statement in connection
frith the,call:
Purpose of Meeting
“The purpose of the meeting are:
“first. To inform the members of
he Georgia Bankers’ association
ully upon the plans for organizing
he Federal Foreign Banking com
pany, which was undertaken in New
Orleans on November 6.
I “Second. To give the indirsement
f the Georgia Bankers’ association
b the said corporation, after due
onsideration.
“Third. To enlist the active co-op
|ration and support of the bankers
(f Georgia in raising Georgia’s quo-
II of the capital stock of the cor
loration.
“The purpose of the corporation is
Io create a foreign market for Geor
gia products, particularly cotton, in
Lhich the state is so vitally inter
ested.
| "The plan of organization is more
hilly set forth in the accompanying
Ilan, as adopted at New Orleans. /
“Every bank in the state of Georgia
p urged to send one of its principal
lfficers to this meeting, clothed with
lower to act. It is also urged that
[hey bring with them ds many di
lectors as may be interested in hear
lig a full discussion of the proposed
Ixport corporation.
I “This is the greatest financial
Movement that has been undertaken
lince the establishment of the fed
eral reserve system, and no . bank
ban afford to ignore the benefits
phich it will bring to our state.”
I The eagerness and enthusiasm with
rhich the banks of Atlanta are lin
ing up in support of the'Federal For
lign Finance Corporation is typical
If the interest and approval witn
which the projected enterprise is re
tarded by financiers throughout the
louth.
I The quota of the banks of Georgia
p the capital stock of the corpora
tion, as announced, is $1,500,000. It
Is confidently beliveed that banks
Ihroughout the state, appreciating
|he importance of the foreign finance
Iroporation as an agency for stimu
lating the growth and development
If the south, through providing
iredlt facilities for the exportation
If cotton and other products, will
lubscribe readily to the capital stock
If the export bank, and that Geor
gia’s full quota will be raised within
[he time limit, which expires Decem
ber 10.
FORT WORTH BANKS
: SUBSCRIBE TO STOCK
IfQRT WORTH. Texas. Nov. 11. —
Fort Worth bank?, St a meeting Igst
bight subscribed three per cent of
[heir capital stock to . the Southern
Export corporation, recently organ
ped in New Orleans.
Absorbing New Serial
Begins Next Thursday
In the Tri-Weekly
| Thursday, November 18, is the
I day.
I On the Monday before the
fr.last chapter of “Wilful Ouija,”
["The Tri-Weekly Journal’s contin-
I ired story reaches its last chap-
I ter.
j In the next issue of the paper.
| the first interesting chapter of
“The Only Thing That Counts”
| will be published.
I Look out for the beginning!
I “The Only Thing That Counts”
| was written by Carolyn Beecher.
I one of America’s most fascinat-
I ing writers.
It’s an entirely new type of se-
I rial story. Its sceijes are laid in
I picturesque Greenwich Village,
I New York. Its heroine is a
I charming western girl with a
I mysterious past.
I It's a great novel —overflowing
I with romance and mystery and
I surprises.
I' Remember the date —Thursday,
I November 18.
JOHN 1. MANG ET
AND W. G. MARTIN
ONADVOCATEBDARD
John A. Manget, well-known cot
ton man of Atlanta, and W. C. Mar
tin, prominent attorney of Dalton.
Ga., were elected to places on the
board of trustees of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate by the North
Georgia conference of the MethoSist
Episcopal church, south, after three
ballots had been taken Friday morn
ing.
There ware two vacancies on the
board, caused by the resignations of
Joseph A. McCord, of the federal re
serve bank ,and Judge H. E. W. Pal
mer, counsel for the Southern Bell
Telephone company. Mr. Manget was
elected on the second ballot, receiv
ing 160 out of the 193 votes cast.
Mr. Martin was elected on the third
ballot.
Holder Speaks
During the devotional exercises
Bishop Candler condemned inconven
tional * methods employed by some
ministers in efforts to “get a crowd”
and declared that there is np trou
ble getting a the
man who preaches the gospel. He
Urged the importance of repentance
and told the preachers it was their
business to “induce men to turn to
God.”
Immediately following the morn
ing devotional. Bishop Candler rec
ognized speaker John N. Holder of
the house of representatives and a
lay delegate to the conference. On
behalf of the churches of the Gaines
ville district Speaker Holdre, in a
gracious talk, presented the district
presiding elder. Dr. J. W. Qiuliian.
with a handsome watch.
Dr. L. J. Ballard, who succeeds Dr.
R. F. Eakes as business manager and
assistant editor of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, official publica
tion of the North and South Geor
gia conference. He urged whole
hearted support of the church publi
cation.
Mrs. L. G. Johnson followed Dr
Ballard with an earnest plea for “the
Advocate in every home.”
■Rev. W. P. King, who succeeds Dr.
W. C. Lovett as editor of the Ad
vocate, was introduced and told of
nis hopes for the paper.
Advocate’s Plane
V k. Mr ' Kins? declared that the
Adxocate proposes .to secure 15,000
new subscribers during the coming
year. °
Dr T. N. Ivey, editor of the Chris
tian Advocate, of Nashville, Tenn.,
tatk I ntr °d uce d a nd made a brief
On behalf of the churches of the
Marietta district, Bishop Candler pre
sented the presiding elder. Rev. John
v l n '~w ith a chest of silver.
lhe following applicants were ad
mitted on trial to the traveling con
nections of the conference:
From the Atlanta district. Oscar
Moore Blackwell. Doo Wall Lim, John
R. Gaines, James Edward Statham,
George W. Davis.
„ r .? alton ' district. Thomas Homer
Williams, Reynolds Willjam Greene.
Gainesville district: William Bas
com Hughes.
Griffin district: Clemient Evans
Hubbard.
Marietta district: Frederick Her
man Ray.
Oxford district: Alton Lee Hale.
Rome district, W. B. Taylor.
Dr. W. A Shelton, of Emory uni
versity who reecntly returned from
scientific explorations in Egypt, ad
dressed the conference and advocat
od for Emory a million dollar mu
seum with a two million dollar en
dowment sufficient to reveal traces
of lost races
, Dr. James -E. Dickey chairman of
1 7% of e ducation, submitted
the following report on Empry uni
i versity, which had upwards' of a
thousand students last year:
| <( Report on Emory
I “Emory college for generations has
been a faithful servitor of the church,
tor many years from its foundation,
it was the property of the Georgia
annual conferences—then the joint
property of the Georgia and Florida
annual conferences; and, recently,
with the foundation of Emory uni
versity, it has become the property
of the entire Methodist Episcopal
churcn, south. We wish to reaffirm
that neither our affection for it, nor
our sense of obligation to support it,
has abated one jot or tittle since it
became the heart and center of
Emory university. We rejoice rather
that the university has made possible
a larger and highef grade service
to „o ur b °y s through the college.
“The chancellor reports an enroll
ment of pupils from twenty-four
states and six foreign countries. As
indicated in the chancellor’s report,
there are six schools in the univer
sity, namely:
“The school of liberal arts.
“The school of theology.
“The school of law.
‘‘The school of medicine.
“The school pf economics and busi
ness administration.
‘‘The graduate school.
“It will be observed that the
school of economics and business ad
ministration has been added since*
our last report to the , conference.
The university has madd wonderful
progress since its foundation; and,
while it is doing thorough work, yet.
like other institutions of learning, it
is facing manifold needs. Its very
success has become its embarrass
ment. For want of dormitory space,
great numbers of students were
turned away. Until this want has
ijeen supplied, many children of the
Church must be denied the advan
tages afforded by this great institu
tion. In addition to -ncreased en
dowment and'a teachers’ college, the
chancellor sums up the needs of the
university as follows: A library, two
dormitories, a gymnasium, a build
ing for departments of history, eco
nomics and philosophy, the central
buildin- to contain an auditorium
large enougji to act modate a stu-
dent body of 2,000 and provide
for the administrative offi ■ -s of the
instit tion.
“In connection with the report of
the ’ university, • Dr. Sharp makes an
urgent appeal for more dormt • y
space for the academy at Oxfn’d/
This academy is rendering a n i
needed service In our educational
system, and, like the universi y, is
embarrassed by its success.
“Surely the hour has struck when
our church shall awake to its •o* sn
tialities in the matter of Christian
education. Our university and
schools must mark time, until, by
our offerings, we shall command
them to go forward.
“JAMES E. DICKEY, Pres.
“L. M. TWIGGS, Sec.”
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POLICE ALLEGE
“PEEPING TOM”
USED A GIMLET
MACON, Ga., Nov. v 12.—E. L.
Wardlow, public accountant, of At
lanta, in the employ of Woßlf &
Co., who was arrested Thurs
day night on the charge of defacing
hotel property following complaints
of the Dempsey, Lanier and Macon
hotels that Wardlow had bored holes
in the doors to many rooms of each
place, was released Friday morning.
He was bound over to the superior
court on bond of SIOO, charged with
eavesdropping. Prominent citizens
of Macon testified Wardlow, suffered
shell shock while in the British army
during the w’ar and after Wardlow
said he was going away for treat
ment, the solicitor general of the su
perior court agreed to nolle pross the
case.
The arrest followed a complaint
made Thursday afternoon by a wom
an guest of Hotel Dempsey that
Wardlow had entered her room with
out permission and had immediately
left. Detectives were called by the
management of the hotel. Upon in
vestigating, the detectives found
holes bored in the doors of Ward
low’s room leading into other guests’
rooms. Some of the holes, which
were bored by a gimlet, were cover
ed with a thin coating of chewing
gum, which was transparent, the de
tectives stated. Upon examining the
doors across the hall from the room
occupied by Wardlow holes were
also found in the doors of two rooms.
The accountant returned to the
room shortly after the detectives had
completed their investigation. They
asked him if he was the party bor
ing holes. He readily admitted to
the detectives that it was he, they
said, but offered no explanation for
this peculiar action.
In the police court H. W. Evans,
of the Lanier hotel, testified that on
Wednesday night Wardlow register
ed at his hotel. Investigation of
the room occupied by the accountant
revealed that holes had been bored
in the doors of his room.
T. B. Burke, of the Dinkier hotel,
said in the police court that Wardlow
bad entered a room of a woman and
left a note there which reads as fol
lows: “Be sure to see me beforg
you go to—” A blank space was let.
after the word “to” which should
have designated the place. It was
said that Wardow bored holes in two
rooms at this hotel. The one he oc
cupied at first and the one he chang
ed to later. Wardlow in police court,
said that he did not know why he
acted so peculiarly at the hotel. He
said that he had no motive in doing
it, and could not account for his ac
tions.
Luther Williams, -banker, testified
in his behalf. He said that Ward
low was an expert accountant and
had been here on numerous occasions
to do auditing work for local con
cerns. He gave as his opinion that
Wardlow was suffering from a nerv
ous strain. He said that the ac
countant was shell shocked during
the war and that this, no doubt, had
great effect on his mental condition
at times.
Louis Rossignol, proprietor of the
Macon hotel, said that the account
ant had registered at his hotel on
numerous occasions, perhaps a month
altogether during the last summer.
He further stated that Wardlow had
always paid his bills promptly, and
that he had many times cashed the
latter’s personal checks. He said
that the accountant did a consider
able amount of night work and this
fact, combined with the shell shock
received during the war, probably was
the cause of his having acted so pe
culiarly. Mr. Rossignol stated.
| Wardlow served fodr years in the
(English army and was placed in a
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1920.
BELOW FREEZING
TEMPERATURE IS
LOCAL FORECAST
A fine little frost Friday morn
ing, with a nipping atmosphere of
36 degrees, vindicated about twenty
four hours late the forecast of C. F.
Von Herrmann, weather prognosti
cator, that a cold wave, or at least
a cool wave, was advancing on At
lanta.
“It will go below freezing Satur
day morning for the first time this
season,” added Mr. Von Herrmann.
“Fine, clear, cool weather, with a
temperature of about 30 degrees, is
in prospect for the early morning
hours Saturday. There will not be
much wind, and the little wind there
is will moderate in the afternoon. It
should be gorgeous football weather
for the Tech-Georgetown game here
and the Georgia-Florida game in
Athens, and not so awfully cool for
motoring parties going to that city
for the contest.” v
Mr. Von Herrmann said the cool
weather would continue with not
much change until about Monday,
when it might be expected to mod
erate.
Anyway, there is no rain in pros
pect. On the third of this month
about one-quarter of an inch de
scended in Atlanta, and that is all
thus far, and all that is likely to
fall for a week or more, at any rate.
Still, with the running start made
last spring and summer, Atlanta
could remain perfectly dry climati
cally all through November and De
cember, and still be somewhat long
on skyjuice for the year 1920.
The weather is fair and cool over
most of the United States, and even
cold in some parts, outside of Dixie.
STORM WARNINGS
FOR TEXAS COAST
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 12.—North
west storm warnings were ordered
along the Texas coast from Port Ar
thur to Velasco in advices issued by
the local weather bureau early today.
A high pressure area over the plains
states will cause fresh to strong
northwest winds today and tonight,
it was stated.
Three Bodies Found
In Hold of Steamer
After Big Explosion
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Three
bodies were discovered this morning
in the hold of th& Morgan Line
Steamship El Mundo on which nine
men were seriously injured yester
day when one of the . bessel's fuel
tanks exploded while she was tied
up to her Hudson river pier. Latest
reports from the rescuers last night
indicated that there had been no
loss of life.
hospital for three months following
his shell shock. He said to a reporter
that he was leaving immediately for
a hospital to take a medical exam
ination.
A number of women witnesses were
due to testify against Wardlow, but
they did not appear in the court Fri
day morning. Louis Rossignol stat
ed that he was a personal friend of
the husband of one of the. women
and that he knew that in -that par
ticular case this woman did not ap
pear to testify against Wardlow be
cause she and her husband believed
that the accountant was suffering
from some mental condition. Sever
al of the witnesses stated that when
the accountant entered a room oc
cupied by women, upon discovering
them in there, he apologized pro
fusely and went out.
SCHOOL GIRL AND
DOCTOR ELOPE IN
LATTER’S AUTO
At twilight Thursday, Miss Mar
garet Tillman, daughter of Charlie D.
Tillman, the famous evangelist and
hymn writer, climbed out of a second
story window at Washington sem
inary and, meeting her young Loch
invar at the north gate of the
grounds, where his automobile had
been chugging for forty-five minutes,
sped away to the minister’s and be
came Mrs. Dr. Lewis Douglas.
Today the elopement is the sensa
tion of the fashionable girls’ school
where young Mrs. Douglas was a
member of the senior class and where
she had expected to graduate next
June, until Dbve not only laughed at
Locksmiths, but at window screene,
teachers’ eyes, parental opposition
and everything else that had con
spired to keep her and Dr. Douglas
apart.
'The story of the elopement was
told to The Journal Friday morning
by Mrs. Dr. S. F. Foster, at whose
residence, 711 Peachtree street, the
wedding ceremony was performed in
the presence of a number of guests
who had-gathered for the celebration
o»the Fosters’ thirtieth wedding an
niversary.
According to Mrs. Foster, the two
young people had been deeply in love
for some time, but Mr. and Mrs. Till
man had opposed the marriage of
their daughter until she had finished
her education, and had refused tor a,l
low Dr. Douglas, who is a prominent
young dentist with offices in the Can
dler building, to call on Miss Mar
garet.
Therefore, the elopement was
planned. Dr. Douglas, she said, had
his car waiting, and his sweetheart,
unable to escape by the front door
of the seminary without being seen,
pried the screen off the window of
her room, jumped out into the dafrk
ness, had her roommate throw her
suitcase after her, and made her way
to the north gate, where Dr. Douglas
lost no time in speeding the machine
away. i
At the bow* of the Fosters, th<»
thirtieth wedding aniversary was be
ing celebrated with the following
guests present: Dr. and Mrs. Lucian
Lamar Knight, Dr. and Mrs. R. S.
Burns, Mr, and Mrs. John M. Coop
er, Dr. and Mrs. DeLos Hill, Mr. and
Mrs. Judson P. Douglas, Mrs. W. M.
Zirgle and Dr. R. A. Edmondson, pas
tor of St. Paul’s Methodist church.
The Fosters were in the secret, But
only Dr. Edmondson, of the others,
knew what was going to happen.
Seven-thirty arrived. One of the
guests, inspired by the occasion, went
to the piano and struck into the wed
ding march. Dr. Edmondson arose,
smiling. And then the dootbell rang
and there entered the bride and
groom, wind-blown but exultant.
And there, scarcely before the
guests could recover from theiir as
tonishment. Mlsk Tillman became
Mrs. Douglas.
The bridal pair left Friday morn
ing’for an automobile tour of south
Georgia, before making their future
home in Atlanta.
Irish Prisoners Stop
Hunger Strike on
i Ninety-Fourth Day
(JORK, Nov. 12. — (By the Associat
ed Press.) —The hunger strike of the
nine Irish prisoners in the Cork jail
was called off today, the ninety
fourth day of the strike.
EXHUMATION OF
BODY OF ELMER’S
WIFE SUGGESTED
A new development in the Shepard
poison investigation in Fort Valley,
Ga., was contained Friday in a tele
gram received by Dr.,T. F. Abercrom
bie, secretary of the Georgia state
board of health, from a physician in
Erie, Pa., suggesting that the body
*>f Dr. Elmer’s first wife be exhumed
in Jacksonville and examined in the
same way that the intestines of Mr.
Shepard nre now being examined in
a laboratory in the state capitol in
Atlanta.
The name of the sender of the
telegram was not given out by Dr.
Abercrombie. He did not know the
doctor who sent it. Having no juris
diction in the state of Florida or
the city of Jacksonville, there was
nothing he could do but repeat the
suggestion to the state health officer
of Florida, whose office is located
in Jacksonville. The telegram was
as follows:
“Have just read of Mr. Shepard’s
case. Would advise that the body
of Dr. Elmer’s former wife, buried
in Evergreen cemetery, Jacksonville,
be exhumed and examined the same
as Mr. Shepard’s.”
This telegram was wired in full
by Dr. Abercrombie to the Florida
state health officer.
Dr. Edgar Everhart, the chemist
who is making the analysis of Mr.
Fred D. Shepard’s intestines, had not
completed his work on Friday. He
said he would finish Saturday and
would report the result of the anal
ysis at once to Dr. M. S. Brown and
Mayor Harris Neal, of Fort Valley,
at whose instance he is making the
analysis.
Mr. Shepard was a millionaire
peach grower in Houston county, the
heart of the famous peach belt of
Georgia. Last December he mar
ried Mrs. L. Hobson, of the town
of Perry, county seat of Houston
county, a few miles distant from the
town of Fort Valley. They made
their home in Fort Valley. Last May
Mr. Shepard was take suddenly
with a violent illness and died in a
few days in a hospital in Macon,
which Is near Fort Valley. During
his illness Dr. E. F. Elmer, a Jack
sonville physician, who is said to
have been a friend of his and Mrs.
Shepard, is said to have been in the
home attending Mrs. Shepard’s moth
er. Six weeks after his death, Mrs.
Shepard married Dr. Elmer and they
moved to Florida to live.
Subsequent developments involving
the questioff of Mr. Shepard’s will
caused a coroner’s investigation and
the exhumation of his body for a
poison investigation.
While this investigation is in prog
ress, there comes the telegram from
the physician in Erie, Pa., suggesting
the exhumation and examination of
the body of the first wife of Dr.
Eime How long she has been dead
was ,iot known in Atlanta. That
there was a former Mrs. Elmer was
not mentioned heretofore in the in
vestigation. Dr. Abercrombie has no
official connection with the examina
tion of the intestines of Mr. Shepard,
since Dr. Everhart <s acting as a pri
vate chemist, privately employed.
725-Pound Bride Weds
Groom Weighing 155
SANTA ANNA. Cal., Nov. 11.—A
bride weighing 725 pounds was
brought home today by John H. Ham
ilton, who weighs 155.
The bride, formerly Mias Alma
Emily Seim, of Venice, Cal., was at
tended at the wedding by her sister,
Mrs. L. C. Kring, who weighs 420.
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FOB MUM
SOUND DISCUSSIIIN
Resolutions adopted by a meeting
of representative citizens called by
Mayor Key Friday to discuss the
advisability of promoting a world
exposition in Atlanta in 1925, en
thusiastically indorse the project,
and lay out a course of action. It
was decided thoroughly to sound out
the citizenry of Atlanta as to the
general opi®ion, before pushing the
matter ahead.
The resolution favoring the world
exposition was introduced by Lee
Ashcraft, after it had been moved
that a committee of five be appointed
to call on civic organizations and
prominent citizens, to develop what
approval the plan will meet. Both
motions were carried unanimously.
The text of the resolutions of Mr.
Ashcraft follows:
“Resolved, That it be the sense
of this general meeting that the
holding of a world exposition in At
lanta is desirable, and that thp news
papers, and the members here as
sembled exert their efforts towards
advising the people of Atlanta as to
the great benefits to be derived from
such an institution;
“And that a committee of five be
appointed by the chair, to visit the
Chamber of Commerce, similar or
ganizations, and prominent citizens,
to convince them of the good which
might come from such a world ex
position, and to develop their atti
tude toward such an undertaking.”
Chairman Gordon advised that he
would announce the committee later.
Atlantians representing leading
business, financial and civic interj
ests of the city assembled in the
council chamber at city hall at 11
o’clock Friday morning to discuss
the proposal to.hold a 1925 world's
exposition in Atlanta.
The meeting was called by Mayor
Key at the instance of a resolution
adopted by council, authorizing him
to ask for the appointment of a
number of committees to consider the
question. These wtere represented at
the meeting—committees from coun
cil, the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, the Atlanta Retail Merchants’
association, the Merchants and Manu
facturers’ association, the Atlanta
Clearing House and the daily news
papers.
Robert A. Gordon, chairman of the
committee from council, presided,
and Frank Weldon was elected tem
porary secretary. Mayor Key opened
the meeting with a statement of why
it was called.
“A world’s fair cannot be a suc
cess,” said the mayor, “unless the
heads of every organization in the
city, as well as the general public
approve it and show their approval
in a concrete, unmistakable form. An
enormous amount of money will be
needed to finance it. This must be
freely given; the city government
must appropriate a large sum. We
must have, and we can expect, fi
nancial assistance from the United
States government, but we must raise
our own money before we can call
for it.”
On Large Scale
Mayor Key declared Atlanta must
not attempt to have a fair on a
small scale, that, if it is decided to
go into the proposition, it must be
done thoroughly, in away to com
pare favorably with all the other
great fairs held in the country. He
did not urge the fair, nor did he
discourage it, but merely em
phasized what must be taken into
consideration before the plan is
accepted.
EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS TO BE
CALLED MARCH 14
BY THEODORE TILLER
The Atlanta Journal .News Bureau.
623 Riggs Building.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.—From
sources close to President-elect Har
ding, it is learned that he intends
to call the extra session of congress
to convene Monday, March 14. It
is said the president-elect has prac
tically decided to lose no time in
assembling the Overwhelmingly Re
publican congress, and will issue the
call for its session only ten days
from the date of the Harding inau
guration.
The new congress in accordance
with the prediction of Republican
leaders here will be in almost con
tinum:« session for the next two
years. It will first take up revision
of taxation legislation and readjust
ment of the tariff.
What form consideration of the
peace treaty will take has not been
fully established, but this, too, will
be among the first propoistions
tackled by the senate of the sixty
seven th congress.
Republicans Spent
$3,416,000 to Elect
Harding President
FRENCH LICK, Ind., Nov. 12.
The Republican national campaign
cost $3,416,000, according to figures
given out here by Fred M r . Upham,
treasurer of the Republican national
committee, who is here for a brief
rest. He stated that the deficit
, amounted to $1,350,000.
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New York World Says Re
venge Plot Caused Explo
sion That Has Baffled Na
tion’a>Sleuths
NEW YORK. Nov. 11.—The Eve
ning World today under the head
line “Wall Street Explosion Solved,’
declared that through an Independ
ent investigation it had discovered
that the bomb which killed more
than 31 persons in Wall street
September 16, last, was intended tc
blow up a house-wrecking job neai
the Morgan office. ’
It was sent by independent mem
bers or sympathizers with House
Wreckers’ union, local No. 95, which
had a grievance against the Brindell
Building Trades Council. Dock Build
ers and House Shorers’ union, No
1456, members of which were work
ing on the housewrecking job, the
Evening World said.
The bomb wagon was driven bj
"a big stolid Pole,” who did nol
know what was in it. the newspapei
asserted. The bomb was a clock
work machine set fo r 12:02 p. m„ it
said, and was consigned to the con
tractor' at work on the hous,
wrecking job, Albert A. Volk <S
There was some delay in cross: . ;
the street intersection, and when t
driver left his wagon to ask wh< ■
to deliver his load, the Evening Wo
said, the hour arrived and the bo
exploded.
Bavenge Behind Plot
“And now,” said the Evenin'*
World, “it is for the police and t'.-
federal detectives and their privately
organized competitors, to find out
just who planned the ticking clock
in its barrel of broken sash weights
and dynamite which was hauled al
most to the entrance of the Wall ami
Broad streets, Albert A. Volk & Co
job. by the broken-down bay horse
and the ramshackled wagon—driven
oy a man who did not know what"
was in his load and who went away
when he found out and never cam,
back or- even sent word.”
The motive of the Independi-r.
members of or sympathizers wit'
House .Wreckers’ local No. 95, ,
seeking to blow up the job, w.e
largely desire for revenge on Robe.
P- Brindell and his allies, the new
paper said, ’ new
trfri rin<ien ’ ?J ead of the buildi
trades council, is now under InVe^t<
gauon by the Lockwood legislative
committee here. He is said to h-> •
organized new unions, forcing to
old ones out of business and mn -
ing their members pay him tribi
before, they could get work from c<
tractors dominated by him and hi
new unions.
department of justice
TO INVESTIGATE REPORT
WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.—The de
partment of justice will at once b<-
an investigation of the stoiG
that a feud among New York union
house wreckers was back of the Wall
Street bomb explosion, it was an
nounced today.
T he . announcement was made b-v
Robert Scott, secretary to Attorney
General Palmer after he was in-
? 1 L at New Yor k Evening
World had published the results of
independent investigation of the ex
plosion.
Mr. Scott confessed that the de
partment had no - information such
as that published by the World, but
declared that the paper would be
asked for the information in its pos
session. Department operatives will
hen go to work on the basis of this
information.
The department has been working
on the bomb explosion since it oc
curred but it has proceeded for the
most part on the theory taht the ex
plosion was the work of radicals.
Conscience Stricken,
Thief Returns Bonds
To Americus Home
AMERICUS, Ga., Nov. 12.—Throe
thousand dollars in Liberty bonds
and S2OO in War Saving stamps,
stolen several months ago from the
residence of A. C. Crockett, of this
city, were today returned in an
anonymous leter mailed from Kansas
City. Mo.
The letter, which was addressed to
Mrs. Crockett, sets out that the con
science of the thief has troubled him
so much since the theft that he
is constrained to make restitution.
Position With League
For Wilson Reported
But Is Not Confirmed
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—White
House and state department officials
today said they had no information
concerning reports that President
Wilson is to' be offered a titular po
sition with the League of Nations
after his retirement from office in
March.
Tunnel Caves in;
Two Men Killed
GAFFNEY, S. C., Nov. 11.—Michael
■Weiss, of Nanticoke, Pa., and Clif
ford Kirby, of Gaffney, were killed in
the American Mineral company’s
mine near here Wednesday, when
a tunnel in which they were work
ing, caved in. ,
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