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Tri-Weekly Market Reports
COTTON
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—'The cotton market
showed continued nervousness during today’s
early trading. The opening was steady at
.a decline of 25 to 44 points in response
to weak Liverpool cables with January sell
ing at 15.50 and March at 15.60, on the
call, or about 90 to 95 points below the
' high prices of yesterday. Liverpool and the
south were sellers but Wall street was a
good buyer and the market showed rallies
of 20 points or so from the lowest. Liver
pool trade advices said that fifty per cent
short time in Lancashier would affect 75
per cent of the total spindles and unfa
vorable domestic trade reports were also
a factor on the opening decline.
Early rallies were followed by renewed
weakness during the morning owing to the
continuation of the decline in Liverpool,
further Liverpool, southern and local sell
ing. January deliveries broke to 15.35 and
March to 15.48. or 59 to 62 points net lower,
making a reaction of about a cent a pound
from the high levels touched on the rally
of yesterday morning. Offerings were less
active after the close of Liverpool, but
trading became quiet and bulges of some 10
or 15 points were not fully maintained at
midday.
The market broke early in the afternoon
under renewed liquidation following reports
that Secretary Houston had informed con
gressional committees on agriculture that
he knew of no solution to the problem in
volved in the decline of foreign prices. Ac
tive months sold 60 to 73 points net lower,
but the market rallied later on covering.
4 with January selling up from 15.24 c to
|5.65c shortly after 2 o'clock.
HEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Tone, eteady; middling, 16.15 c, quiet.
Last Prev.
> Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. ...15.50 15.80 15.24 25.70 15.65 15.94
Meh. ..15.60 15.92 15.37 15.88 15.82 16.10
May ...15.90 16.0? 15.52 16.02 15.97 16.25
July ...15.85 16.14 15.60 16.02 16.02 16.25
Oct. ...15.80 15.90 15.35 15.70
Dec. ...15.85 15.85 15.40 15.45 15.60 16.10
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3.—Confirmation
>f the rumors that British spinners had
voted to go on half time, pessimistic reports
from the Manchester market and a drop of
550 points in the Egyptian market put the
price of cotton lower in the market here
today. In the first half hour of trading
prices fell 44 to 51 points, January drop
ping off to 14.95 and July to 15.16.
Telegrams from Georgia, stating that some
nills in that state were about to close until
:he 16th of January, increased the pressure
igainst the market, and in the trading up
;o 11 o’clock the decline was widened to 60
»69 points. January was reduced to 4.80 c
ind July to 15c.
Rumors of a private bureau crop esti
nate of 13.500.000 bales were against vol
tes and the trading months were sent to
leelfnes Os 62 to 84 points, where January
Mid at 14.62 c. Prifit-taking by shorts set
ti and 1:30 o’clock prices were 30 to 35
Klints up from the lowest.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
She exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 15.50 c, quiet.
Last Prev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
tan. ...15.10 15.18 14.62 15.07 15.04 15.46
Uch. ..15.27 15.30 14.75 15.23 15.16 15.52
lay ...15.25 15.38.14.90 15.30 15.25 15.60
taly ...15.35 15.43 15.00 15.25 15.25 15.62
)ec. ...15.45 15.45 14.92 15.35 15.35 15.69
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3.—Spot cotton
[ulet, 25 lower; sales on the spot none; to
:rrive 1,400: low' middling, 10.50: middling,
.5.50; good middling, 17.50; receipts, 9,790;
itock, 411,427.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 15c.
New York, quiet, 16.15 c.
New Orleans, steady, 15.50 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 16.40e.
• Norfolk, steady, 15c.
• Savannah, steady, 15.75 c.
St. Louis, steady, 15.50 c.
Houston, steady, 15c.
Memphis, steady, 15c.
Augusta, steady, 15.35 c.
I.ittie Rock, steady. 15.50 r.
Dallas, steady, 14.30 c.
. Mobile, steady, 15c.
Charleston, steady, 15.75 c.
Wilmington, steady, 15c.
Boston, steady, 16.50 c.
Galveston, steady, 13.50 c.
Montgomery, steady, 15c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
itlanta spot cotton 15c
teeelpts 839
hiptnents 798
itocks ■ ■ 38,027
.MEBICAN COTTON
AND GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest,
awest, close and previous close quotations
n the American Cotton and Grain Exchange
f New York:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close,
an. ... 15.53 15.80 15.24 15.65 14.94
Ich. ... 15.65 15.92 15.37 15.82 16.10
iay ... 15.88 16.07 15.53 15.97 16.24
uly ... 15.84 16.14 15.60 16.02 16.25
ec. ... 15.78 15.85 15.40 15.60 16.25
LIVERPOOL COTTON
steady; sales 4,000; good middling,
?71d.
Prev.
Open. Close. Close,
an 10.80 10.59 11.18
’eb 10.66 11.23
larch 10.97 10.74 11.28’
prll 10.79 11.32
lay 11.08 10.84 11.37
un* 10.85 11.36
uly 11.06 10.86 11.30
, opt. 10.78 11.24
let. 10.95 10.75 11.20
lov 10.72 11.17
iec .... 10.85 10.56 11.17
LIVERPOOL COTTON STATISTICS
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 3.—Weekly cotton sta
sitics:
Total forwarded to mills, 53,000 bales,
f which American 45,000.
Stock. 888,000 .bales.
American, 516,000 bales.
Jtnports, 81,000 bales.
American, 57,000 bales.
■ Exports, 4,614 bales,
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today,
lalveston 6,779 10,040
lew Orleans 6,570 9,796
tobile 2,110 1,468
ivannah ... 1,779 1,740
’arleston .... 1,778 300
< Wilmington 1,750 389
iorfolk 1,381 2,576
laltimcre .• 3,335 390
'idladelphia 75 50
iewport News 2,428 ......
Inmswick 541 200
'onsacola ....12,563
•acific Ports 1,000
arious 413
Total at all ports ....41,084 28.206
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today,
.ngvsta 13,571 2,292
lemphls 44,078 7,000
t. Louis 11,503 1,220
lonston 85,440 13,868
,itt!e Rock 90082 1,348
HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3.—Hester’s weekly
rop movement:
Overland for week 23,114, against 75,189
tst year and 60,387 year before.
Since August 1 225,625, against 589,944
Ist vear and 586,169 year before.
'lnto sight for week 440,434. against
74.906 last year and 403.281 year before.
Since August 1 4,506,063. against 5.559,-
60 last year and 4,986,713 year before.
Southern consumption 111,000, against
92,000 last year and 163,000 year before.
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF COTTON
merlcau. increase. 168,161 vs. increase, 88,
46. vs. Increase. 6,895.
Other kinds, decrease. 25,000, vs. increase,
9,000, vs. increase. 12.000.
Total increase. 143.161. vs. increase,
07.046. vs. increase. 18,895.
Spinnners, 272.000 vs. 478.000 vs. 359.000.
Season. 3,123.000 vs. 4,528,000 vs. 3,911,-
00.
World's visible supply:
American, 4,137.341 vs. 4,208,796 vs. 3,-
07,867.
Other kinds, 1.621.000 vs. 1.162.000 vs.
,137.000.
TBotal. 5,758,341 vs. 5,370,796 vs. 4.-
14,807.
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS
_Mbyse & Holmes: Ou the bulges we be-
Ave cotton should be sold.
J Hubbard Bros. & Co.: We think this
dvance will not be permanent but ad
lae that one takes on small quantity of
otton on any sharp decline and sell for
uick profits on any sharp advance.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., President
White Provision Co.)
Good to choice steers, 850 to 1,000 pounds.
$8.00@8.50.
Good steers, 750 to SSO pounds, $7.00©
7.50.
Medium to good steers, 750 to 850 pounds,
$6.50@7.00.
Good *0 ch<~<— beef cows, 750 *e 850
pounds, $5.50fad.50.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds,
$5.00@5.50.
Good to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds,
$5.00@5.50.
The above represents ruling prices on good
quality fed cattle. Inferior grades and
dairy types quoted below.
Medium to good steers, 700 to 800 pounds,
$6.00© 6.50.
Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds,
$4.00@4.75.
Mixed common cattle, $2.75@3.50.
Good butcher bulls, $3.50©5.00.
Choice veal calves, $.">.00@6.00.
Yearlings, $3.00@3.50.
Prime bogs, 165 to 350 pounds, $9.00@
.25.
Light hogs. 130 to 165 pounds, $8.00@8.25.
Heavy pigs, 100 to 130 pounds, $7.50@
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, $7.00@7.25.
The above applies to good quality mixed
fed hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, Dee. 3. —Cattle, receipts, 6,-
600; no choice long-fed steers here; early
top, $12.85; bulk native steers, $8.50©
$11.50; westerns, mostly $6.75@8.00; lit
tle demand for fat cows; bulk, $5.00@7.00;
canners. mostly $3.75@3.90; bulls, slow;
bulk bolognas, $4.50©5.25; best veal calves.
$12.00; bulk, $11.50; stocker and feeder
steers, mostly $5.00@8.75.
Hogs .receipts, 29,000; fairly active, 15
to 25c lower than yesterday's average, top
early $10.85; bulk, slo.oo@ 10.25; pigs, 15
to 25c lower; bulk desirable, 80 to 130-
pound pigs, around SIO.OO.
Sheep, receipts, 12,000; fat lambs, slow,
fully 25c lower; top native lambs, $12.80;
bulk. $11.50@12.50; fat sheep, steady;
choice fed western ewes, $5.25; bulk na
tive, $4.50@5.00; feeders, steady.
EAS TST. LOUIS, Dec. 3.—Cattle, re
ceipts. 1.000; only one load of steers sold;
very dull; cows, steady to 25c lower; bulk,
$5.00@6.00; heifers, slow; bulls and can
ners, steady; bulk canners, $8.25@3.35;
veal calves, top, $12.25; bulk, $11.50©
12.00; stockers, slow.
Hogs, receipts, 10,500; opened slow and
steady; now weakening to 10 to 20c lower
than yesterday’s average; best butchers
selling now at $9.35@9.40; early top, $10.65
paid for 170-pound average; top on me
diums, $10.60; packer sow, 20c lower; pigs,
active and 10 to 15c higher.
Sheep, receipts, 1,800; active and steady;
quality good; native fed lambs brought top,
$12.00; choice yearlings averaging 98 pounds
brought $10.50; lights, $10.60; bulk Os
lamb sales. $10.75@11.75; ewes, top, $4.55:
bulk, $4.25@4.75.
LOU-SVILLE, Ky., Dec. 3.—Cattle: Re
ceipts, 100; steady; heavy steers, so.oo@
1.O.0O; beef steers, $6.00©8,75; heifers, $5.00
@8.50; cows, $3.00fti)7.50; feeders, sboo@
900; stockers. $350@7.00.
Hogs—Receipts, 1,500; active; 120 pounds
ip. $10.25; pigs, $8.25@9.75; throwouts,
$8.25, down.
Sheep—Receipts, 100; steady; lambs, $9.00;
sheep. $3.00, down.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Liberty bonds
closed;
3i4s $90,26
First 4s 85.82
Second 4s 85.10
First 4%s 80.00
Second 414 s 85.32
Third 4 Via 88.10
Fourth 4%s 85.74
Victory 3%s 95.56
Victory 4%s ... .. ■ ... ... 95.50
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Open. Close.
Spot 9.00@11.50
January 9.48© 9.52 9.30© 9.32
February 1).00©9.65 9.32©9.41
March 9.6?©11.74•9.52@5>,54
April 9.65©:9.80 9.55©9.65
May 9.80@9.95 9.71@9.75
June 9.70@9.99 9.75@t1.V0
July 10.00@10.15 9.93©9.95
December : 9.23@9.38 9.15©9.25
Tone, steady; sales, 14,100 barrels.
ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS
MARKETS
Corrected by Atlanta Commercial Exchange)
"rude oil basis prime, tank
$ 6.00 $ 6.25
Cotton seed cake, 7 per cent
car lots .. ... .. nominal
C. S. meal, 7 per cent am-
monia, car lots * 34.00 36.00
C. S. meal, Gn. common
rate point, car lots .... 34.00 36.00
Cottonseed hulls, sacked,
car lots 15.00 17.06
Cottonseed hulls, loose, car
lots 11-00 13-00
Linters, first cut, high-grade lots. 4©6c.
Linters, clean, mill run, l@l%c.
Linters, No. 3, %@l%c.
METAL MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Copper steady;
electrolytic, spot a.id nearby, 13%@14; first
quarter, 13%@14%. Tin film; spot and
nearby, 35.00@35.50; futures, 36.00@36.75,
Iron nominally unchanged. Antimony, 5.75
@5.87. Lead dull; spot, 5.00@5.50; zinc,
steady; East St. Louis, spot, -5.75@5.90.
London: Standard copper, 79 pounds 15s
6d; futures. 80 pounds 2s 6d; electrolytic,
spot, 88 pounds 10s; futures, 89 pounds 10s.
Tin, spot, 221 pounds ss; futures, 224 pounds
15s. Lead, spot, 27 pounds ss; futures 28
pounds. Zinc, spot, 31 pounds Is; futures,
33 pounds ss.
SHEPARD & GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3. —Persistent sell
ing pressure was felt by cotton today,
mainly as the result of the balloting by
British spinners on the question of short
time. According to the latest cablegrams
93 per cent of the spinners voted in favor
of a 24-hour week, or half time. This de
pressed the Liverpool before the American
markets opened. The opening here was
lower and the decline was gradually widened
until it amounted to 62 to 84 points, Jan
uary dropping to 14.62 and July to 15.00.
There were none Os the strong reactions
that have featured the market of late.
Late in the session prices were 30 to 35
points up from the lowest on realizing by
shorts. The fall in the Bank of England's
reserve to 7.88 was unquestionably a sell
ing influence today, in spite of the fact
that students of finance pointed out that
the rate of discount still remained un
changed at 7 per eent. A low rate compared
with what omney is lending at in the
south. Another selling feature was the ru
mor that the National Ginners’ association
was coming out with a crop estimate of
13.500.000 bales.
Sentiment is more bearish and it may
force further declines but we believe in
paying a little more attention to the tech
nical position the market is in than most
people seem willing to do.
Around the close the market advanced
sharply on persistent reports that the Na
tional Ginners’ figures for the period would
be bullish, the market closing steady within
a few points of best prices for the day.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. 3. —Flour, quiet and
firm.
Pork—Steady; mess, $3.00@81.00.
Lard—Steady; middle west spot, $17.21
@17.50.
Sugar—Raw. quiet; centrifugal. 96-tcst,
5.76; refined, quiet; granulated, 8.75@9.00.
Coffee—Rio No. 7, on spot, 7c; No. 4
Santos, 10@10%c.
Tallow—Steady; specials, 7a: city 6%c.
Hay—Steady; No. 1, $1.85@1.90; No. 3,
$1.45@1.50: clover. $1.25@1.85.
Dressed Poultry—Unsettled; turkeys, 25@
60c: chickens, 25@40c; fowls, 23@8t)c;
ducks, 30@40c.
Live Poultry—Firmer; geese. 30@35c;
ducks, 38@40c; fowls, 20@80c; turkeys,
45c; roosters, 20c; chickens, 25© 26c; broil
ers, 32@38c.
Cheese—Easy; state milk, common to spe
cials', 20@28%e; skims, common to specials,
10@20c.
Butter —Quiet; receipts, 4,445; creamery,
extra, 57c; creamery, special market, 57%@
58c; imitation creamery, firsts, 33@54c,
nominal; Argentine, 34@39c.
Eggs—Steady; receipts, 4,607; -lear-by
white fancy, $1.08; near-by mixed fancy, 67
@93c: fresh firsts, 76@88c; Pacific coast,
90c@51.05.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Butter: Creamery ex
tras, 50c; creamery standards, 45c; firsts,
45@47c; seconds, 36@38c.
Eggs—Ordinaries, 64@68c; firsts, 75@76c.
Cheese—Twins, 25c; Young Americas,
2414 c.
Live Poultry—Fowls, 20@24%c; ducks,
27c; geese, 25c; springs, 24%c; turkeys, 35c.
Potatoes—Forty-seven cars; Wisconsin and
Minnesota (per 100 lbs.), $1.60@2.10.
NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH. Ga., Dec. 3. —Turpentien
quiet, 92%c; sales none; last sale Novem
ber 29; receipts 218; shipments 92; stock
16,239.
Rosin quiet: sales none; receipts 797;
shipments 837: stock 70,117. Quote: B, D.
E, F, G. H, I, K, M. N, window glass and
water white, $ll.OO (last sale November 12).
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec, 3.—Spot coffee, 7c.
Open. Close.
January 7.10.©7.12
February 7.37 7.27@7.29
March 7.30 7.43©?.45
April 7.79 7.62©.7.64
May 7.50 bid 7.81 @ '<. 83
June 7.08© 8.00
Inly 8.00 8.15@8.16
August 8.35 8.25@8.‘ '
September 8.30 8.85©’8.37
October 8.45@8.47
November .... 8.55@8.57
December .......... 6.93@6.95
GRAIN
CHICAGO. Dec. 3. —Evidence of a pause
in export demand tended today to bring
about setbacks in the price of wheat. Open
ing prices, which varied from the same as
yesterday's finish to l%c tower, were fol
lowed by a decided rally, but then by ma
terial declines all around.
Wheat closed unsettled, %c net lower
to I%C higher.
Corn sagged with wheat.
Oats were governed by the action of
other cereals.
Lower quotations on hogs, together with
weakness of grain, carried provisions down
grade.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT—
Dec 1.68% 1.7214 1.66 1.70% 1.69
Meh. ...1.64 1.66% 1.61 1.64% 1.64%
CORN—
Dec 71% 72% 70% 72% 71%
May .... 76 76% 74% 76% 76%
July .... 76% 77% 75% 77 77%
OATS—
Dec 47% 47% 46% 47% 47%
May .... 51% 51% 50% 51% 51
July .... 50% 51 50 50% 50%
PORK—
Jan 23.85 23.85 23.23 23.42 24.00
LARD—
Jan 15.35 15.35 14.90 14.00 15.45
May 14.85 14.85 14.35 14.40 14.92
RIBS—
Jan 12.60 12.95 12.55 12.60 13.10
May 12.70
RECEIPTS XN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 69 cars
Corn .... 85 cars
Oats 49 cars
Hogs 29,000 head
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Wheat, No. 1 hard,
$1.82; No. 2 mixed, $1.75.
Corn, No. 2 mixed, 76%; No. 2 yellow,
84@85.
Oats, No. 2 white, 49% @51%: No. 3
white, 48%@49%,
Rye, No. 2, $1.52%.
Barley, 65@94.
Timothy seed, $5.50@6.75.
Clover seed, $15.00@22.00.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $16.00.
Ribs, $12.50@14.50.
ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 3.—Cash: Wheat—No. 2
red winter, $1.94@1,95; No. 3, $1.90; De
cember, $1.78%; March, $1.68.
Corn—No. 2 white, 80c; No. 8,77 c; De
cember, 77c; May, 78c.
Oats—No. 2 white, 52%c; No. 3, 51%c;
December, 51c;fMny, 52%c.
grain market cpinions
Lamson Bros.: Should a buying move
be started it might easily result in a sharp
ly higher price for both wheat and corn.
J. S. Bache & Co.: Everything points to
further temporary advices. We advise ship
pers ,to take advantage of the same, to
consign wheat and corn and oats.
Simons. Day & Co.: The producers are
not liquidating and this will ultimately
determine the prices of corn.
E. F. Leland & Co.: Would be careful
about following these advances in corn,
but the market is evidently in a more de
batable position than it has been for sev
eral weeks.
Barlett, Frazier & Co.: The wheat mar
ket will require new buying to maintain
itself at these levels.
Clement Curtis & Co.: Would rather sell
than buy wheat on the advance.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
NEW I’ORK, Dec. B.—Raw sugar active.
Refined quiet. Fine granulated unchanged
at $8.75@9.00.
Open. Close.
Jan. .... 5.10 5.10@5.15
Feb 5.15@5.20
Meh 5.15 5.15@5.20
April 5.22@5.25
May 5.25@ 5.80 5.27@5.30
June 5.32@5.85
Puly 5.35@5.53 5.37@5.40
Dec. ... ...5,05 !L05@5.15
$300,000,000 Cut in
Gross Debt of U. S. Is
Expected by Year’s End
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Despite
the increase of $112,646,571 in the
public debt during 1 November, an
nounced by the treasury, officials of
the department declared that at the
end of the year a reduction of $300,-
000,000 could be expected from the
gross debt of $24,087,000,000 as it
stood on September* 30.
On November 30 the nation’s debt
was $24,175,156,244, compared with
$24,862,509,672 on October 30. Offl
• cials explained, however, that the
November 15 issue of treasury cer
tificates, amounting to $232,000,000,
with only $94,000,000 in certificates
maturing in the month, was mainly
responsible for the Increase.
Reduction in the public debt is
possible only as tax installments
come due quarterly, offlcails declar
ed. With judicious financing, it was
confidently asserted that the last
quarter of this year would show a
reduction of from $100,000,000 to
$300,000,000 from the debt totals.
Nearly $700,000,000 of treasury
certificates mature December 15, of
ficials said, with approximately $650,-
000,000 due the treasury from income
and excess profits taxes to meet this
debt. But the semi-annual interest
aggregating about $140,000,000, on
the first Liberty loan and the Vic
tory Liberty loan also is payable on
December 15 and in addition, brdi
nary requirements not covered by
current receipts are to be met
through issuance of treasury certifi
cates of indebtedness .
Despite these liabilities, it was
asserted, if there is no unexpected
drain on the government, such as
the $400,000,(WO sought by the rail
roads under the transportation act
or legislation calling for financing
for farmers, steady reduction in the
public debt will continue as it has.
quarterly, from the war peak of $26,-
596,701,648 to the September 30 total
of $24,087,356.128.
All-Night Search Fails
To Find Missing Men
In Wrecked Building
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—An all-night
search through the massive piles of
masonry that deluged Eifty-second
street at Broadway when a nine-story
apartment house collapsed Wednes
day afternoon failed to establish defi
nitely early Thursday whether any
lives were lost. Six workmen, how
ever, who were members of a wreck
ing crew demolishing the structure,
were still unaccounted for, and four
unclaimed overcoats still hanging in
basemint lockers bore mute testi
mony that at least that many per
sons may have been killed.
The avalanche, which rumbled into
the street just as throngs of people
leaving work or returning home from
theaters filled Broadway, crumpled
the wood structure erected over the
sidewalk for the protection of pedes
trians as If It had been made of
paper. «
The first task Thursday was to dis
lodge other parts of the building that
threatened to fall, for workmen and
officers of the fire department refused
to dig for the bodies of possible vic
tims where danger menaced them.
City officials began an investigation
to determine whether the collapse
was due to negligence.
Coyotte Loses Race
With Sneed Flivver
FORT COLLINS. Col.—Lowell
Allen, student at Colorado State
Agricultural college, on his way to
college in his flivver, saw a coyote
in the road. The next instant the
animal was a gray streak ahead.
Allen stepped on the gas. The coyote
kept to the road, its tongue hanging
out as it broke all coyote records;
but nearer and nearer crawled the
Henry, with a grin on its radiator,
until, with a final grunt and rattle,
it leaped upon the vanquished speed
king of the prairie and ran over him.
ABBEVILLE BUZZES
WITH RUMORS ABOUT
SHEPARD MYSTERY
(Continud from Page 1)
Shepard murder case will be given
by residents of this city and of Wil
cox county has become known here,
particularly since the arrest of Mrs.
F. E. Elmer, former wife of Mr. Fred
D. Shepard, her sister, Mrs. lone
Henry, of Perry; Mrs. Annie Cutts,
formerly of this city, but now of
Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hopson, son
of Mrs. Elmer by her first marriage.
Statements made by several well
known citizens or Abbeville, prior
to and since Mr. Shepards myste
rious death June 1, 1920, have been
made the basis of exhaustive investi
gations by the authorities working
under the direction of Solicitor Gen
eral Charles H. Garrett, of the Bibb
superior court. The result of these
investigations has been to material
ly strengthen the case of the state,
according to the officials.
Particular importance is attached
to the statements made by Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Turner, who were tenants
on the farm where Mrs. Cutts spent
most of her time up to three weeks
ago. It has also been indicated that
John Turner, their son, will give
vital testimony when the case comes
up for preliminary hearing Decem
ber 7 before Judge H. A. Matthews,
in Macon. That J. J. Peterson, who
was also employed at the Cutts farm
for some time, will be an important
witness at he hearing and at the
trial of the case in the superior
court, is also generally believed here.
Mrs. Cutts was born and reared in
this county. The Cutts farm on the
western outskirts of Abbeville is
kell known throughout this section,
and there Mrs. Cutts has resided al
most continually, although her hus
band, Floridge Cutts. well-known at
torney of Fitzgerald, made his resi
dence in Ben Hill county spending
the week-ends with his wife on the
farm here.
Turners Evicted
The Turners were tenants on the
Cutts farm until a few months ago
when they were evicted by Mrs. Cutts
following a shooting affair in which
Turner wounded John S. Hopson,
caused, it is said, by a difficulty be
tween Hopson and Mrs. Turner.
John Turner, son of the overseer,
declared today—and he has previous
ly made the same statements —that
Mrs. Cutts about three months be
fore Mr. Shepard’s death had a mis
understanding with the elder Tur
ner. He says that Mrs. Cutts talked
about tbe affair to him. that he went
and told his father what she said,
and that they agreed—he and his
father —-that it would be best for
the youth to get out of the commu
nity for fear he might be made the
scapegoat in case any unseemly in
cidents occurred on the farm, and the
young man was sent immediately to
the home of his uncle in Wayne
county.
' There he stayed for about three
months, returning to Abbeville to
find both his father and his mother
locked up in the Wilcox county jail
as the result of the shooting of
John Hopson. He says that he
knows nothing of the developments
occurring in the Shepard case after
his departure for Wayne county, his
knowledge of events being based up
on statements made to him by Mrs.
Cutts before his departure. He in
timated that his testimony concern
ing these statements will be of a
sensational nature.
Sensations Hinted
, The Turners talk freely of the
Shepard case, especially about Mrs.
Cutts’ connection with the mystery
that has kept the people of this sec
tion in a high state of excitement for
weeks past. They seem to have en
joyed the fullest confidence of Mrs.
Cutts prior to the shooting affair
May 17. Turner was overseer on
the Cutts farm then and Mrs. Turnei
says that she was on intimate terms
with Mrs. Cutts. often going into the
home. Both strongly intimate that,
they will give testimony of a sensa
tional nature when put on the stand.
It is generally believed that the Tur
ners will* be the star witnesses for
the prosecution in the case.
Street corner talk in Abbeville has
been of little but the Shepard case
for weeks, and a veritable buzz of
rumors fly hither and yon almost
with the speed of the wind.
"Young Turner Feared Trouble
When closely questioned today
about his knowledge of the circum
stances surrounding the death of Mr.
Shepard or the details of the alleged'
conspiracy to poison the wealthy
Fort Valley peach grower, Young
Turner declined to make a full dis
closure, saying that he had promised
the authorities not to divulge cer
tain facts In his possession. He did
not hesitate to say, however, that
his departure from Abbeville three
months before Mr. Shepard’s death
was taken advisely and in the full
belief that a conspiracy against Mr.
Shepard was being concocted, and
that he. Turner, feared he would be
made the scapegoat.
Some comment was caused about
town by alleged happenings at the
Cutts’ farm for several months prior
to the development of the Shepard
case, according to citizens here. In
fact. It is stated, that city • officials
made protest to relatives of Mrs.
Cutts, asking that they do their ut
most to put a stop to tn© "parties”
at the farm. It is said that Ernest
Hopson was a frequent visitor at
the Cutts farm and that John Hop
son. his elder brother, spent much
of his time there.
WAR ON WHISKY
PEDDLERS DECLARED
BY BOYS’ MOTHERS
(Oontlnud from Page 1)
lanta,” said one of the officers, "and
we believe Voiles and Thompson were
merely acting for somebody else.”
Young Meadows told Commissionei
Carter he "didn’t know why” they
drank the whisky, that he "guessea
it was just lack of sense.”
Mrs. Allen reiterated her assertion
that the mothers of Western Heights
are determined to stop whisky ped
dling in the neighborhood.
“It is a well known fact,” she de
clared, “that bootlegging is going on
freely in that part of town —and 1
believe in every other part of town
Why the police are blind to it, I don't
know. Why, everybody around oui
neighborhood knows about an old ne
gro woman who lives near there ana
has ma<3e $3,000 this year selling
whisky.
"You can believe me, though, that
this experience has taught many ot
us mothers a lesson. I don’t care
if D. V. is eighteen years old, he's
not going out with the ‘gang’ any
more. He can have his friends at
the house, or he can go to their
houses. Or he can go to shows or out
with a nice girl. It’s mighty pleasant
to sit at home and read your paper
when it’s nice and quiet, but I’d
rather have the noise and the racket
and know where my son is. I’m going
to keep him in the house till he’s
twenty-one. and I’m going to keep
him straight after that if I’m liv
ing.”
Wilson Powerless to •
Help Western Farmers,
He Informs Senator
SIOUX FALLS, S. D, Dec. 2.
President Wilson, replying to a mes
sage from Senator E. S. Johnson,
of South Dakota, in which f".e sen
ator urged immediate financial re
lief for farmers and live stock pro
ducers of the northwest, has sent the
following telegram:
"Your message refers to unsatis
factory conditions unfortunately re
sulting from the fall of prices. 1
regret to find legislation has not
provided me with powers which will
be serviceable in the matter.
(Signed ) "WOODROW WILSON.”
Train Delayed, Mail
Pouches Are Looted
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Dec. 2.
Reports received by postoffice inspec
tors here this afternoon state that
two mail pouches left at the station
at Oneida, Tenn., last night to be
picked up by Southern passenger
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Tests were made recently at Mineola, Long Island, ot “The
Owl,” a giant bomber, which is the latest addition to Uncle Sam’s
air fleet. “The Owl,” built to carry four tons of bombs, has a wing
spread of 155 feet and three 400-horse power Liberty motors can
drive her 105 miles an hour. The big bomber Is shown here with
Lieutenant Harmon (at left) and Captain Patterson, army aviators,
who made the tests.
Two Urchins, 8 and 10,
Adm it They Are Burglars,
New York Police Claim
MOVE TO ELIMINATE
ARTICLE X BEGUN
BY LEAGUE MEMBERS
(Continud from Page 1)
States would in no way commit the
American government to whatever
opinions may be finally put forward
in the report of the cortimission.
Nor, inded, can that report itself be
more than a basis for the considera
tion by the members of the league
of the measures of reductions in
armaments which united action may
enable them to achieve. Neverthe
less, just as in the case of the fi
nancial conference at Brussels, the
presence of an American representa
tive was an important factor in
the success of the work of the con
ference, so it cannot be doubted that
the general consideration of the
subject of the reduction of arma
ments will be greatly facilitated if
the government of the United States
can see its way to be represented in
a similar manner, at the meeting ot
the permanent advisory commission.
"The problem is one to which pub
lic opinion in all countries attaches
the highest importance.
“It is unnecessary to point out
that the reduction of armaments is
essential for the well-being of the
world and* that unless some meas
ures of relief can be found by in
ternational co-operation for the ex
cessive taxation due to armaments
the general economic situation must
become increasingly worse.
“The council in extending this in
vitation cannot but hope that the
government of the United States,
particularly in view of the attitude
of America toward the question of
the competition in armaments, will
not refuse to associate itself with
the governments of the members of
the league in beginning the prelim
inary work necessary for ultimata
success and to lend to the present
effort an assistance which can in
no way encroach upon its own per
fect liberty of action.”
ARGENTINA MAY QUIT
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
BUENOS Aires, Dec. 3. (By the
Associated Press.) —Rejection by the
assembly of the League of Nations
of Argentina proposals in favor of
the admission of all countries to the
league may result in the withdrawal
of this country from the organization,
it was learned here last night. It
was said that a cablegram was ex
pected from Honorio Pueyrredon,
Argentina foreign minister and chief
of the Argentine delegation at Ge
neva, notifying the government ot
his decision in the matter.
Foreign Minister Pueyrredon is un
lerstr'-'- 1 to have received instruc
tions from his government before
leaving for Europe to withdraw from
‘he league if it appeared the assem
bly would refuse admission to all
sovereign states, and if Argentina’s
proposal for the constitution of the
council on a basis of equality of
representation of all nations, was
not adopted. He was empowered to
make a decision in accordance with
his instructions, and it is known
that in view of yesterday’s action by
the assembly and the opposition to
Argentina’s proposals there, that
this government might receive a ca
blegram at any moment saying the
delegation had withdrawn from the
assembly.
Reports that France has question
ed the legal status of the Argentine
delegates at Geneva are denied at
the foreign office, where emphasis is
placed on the statement that such
reports could not be connected with
the possible withdrawal of the Ar
gentine representatives.
Anti-Gambling Drive
Results in Arrest
Os 8 Poker Players
That all gambling has not been
halted by the sweeping crusade
against "Wire Tappers,” bootleggers,
vagrants and other undesirables in
Atlanta was shown Thursday night
when Lieutenant of Detectives R
L Waggoner, Detective Doyal and
Police Commissioner Andy King vis
ited a room at a local hotel and
broke up a game of poker which was
in progress thert? at the time.
As a result of the visit J. A.
Hampton, who gave his occupation as
a barber and his residence as the
Princeton hotel, was arrested and
placed tinder $2,000 bond, and seven
men were taken into custody and
each held in SSOO bond.
The men were surprised in the
game by the police and an attempt
was made by the players to hide the
cards and money, the police say.
Several decks of cards, • dice and
sandpaper were found in the room
under the bed and dresser.
The police say they have informa
tion to the effect that Hampton is a
well known gambler. The sandpaper
found in the room has led the police
to believe that crooked gambling
through the roughing of cards and
shaving of edges was used when cer
tain victims were lured into the
game.
train No. 6, en route from Chatta
ooga to Cincinnati, were looted before
the arrival of the train, which was
delayed by an open switch. The lat
ter fact led to an early report that
the train was held up, but this is de
nied. The amount taken from the
mail pouches is unknown.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1020.
NEW YORK. —Two small burg
lars, self-confessed, police say, were
taken before Justice Levy in the
children’s court this week, to an
swer for a series of burglaries in
Brooklyn during the last few days.
Neither parent nor guardian appear
ed for either of the youthful offend
ers and the justice refused to per
mit them to plead. They were re
manded to Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children for ap
pearance this morning, after their
parents had been notified.
The boys, who are said to have
admitted a total of eight burglaries,
are George Smith, ten years old,
and Harry Prendergrast, two years
his senior. The former lives at 75A
Fifth avenue, Brooklyn, and the lat
ter at 627 DeKalb avenue.
Quarrel Beads to Arrest
It was a dispute over the spoils of
their last exploit that led to the
downfall of the juvenile pair. Po
liceman McCarren, of the 79th Pre
cinct, who overheard the argument
and made the arrest, says the Smith
boy was e pounding the principle
unpopular in some labor circles that
the emoluments should be distribut
ed with regard for the work done
by the individual. His small fist
clutched the major portion of $7.07,
the cash proceeds of their night’s
work.
“I ain’t either holding out,” the
patrolman heard him expostulate;
‘‘didn’t I do most of the work?"
“Supposin’ you did," was the re
joinder, "ain’t we supposed to split
50-SJ. I want my full share.” Here
the patrolman decided to intervene.
He took the boys to the Bergen
street police station.
When the two prisoners stood be
fore the desk Lieutenant Shelby
looked up with the query. "Whose
lost kids are these?’’ When McCar
ren told of his suspicions the lieu
tenant was at first Inclined to scoff.
However, he decided to examine the
youngsters.
Confesses After Folio* Bus*
After an hour of grilling, during
which Lieutenant Shelby says the
boys remained steadfast in their de
nial of crime, the poli'ce resorted to
the ruse of telling the younger his
companion had confessed.
“What do you think of that for
luck?’’ young Smith is quoted as
saying; "after being out all night
and getting almost nothing my pa)
has to squeal.”
After that, the police assert he ad
mitted having robbed a place at 75
Fifth avenue, over which he lives;
a fruit store at 67 Fifth avenue, a
fruit store at Fourth avenue and
Bergen street, two butcher shops
near Fifth avenue and Bergen street,
a paint store at Bergen street and
Flatbush avenue and St. Marks
Place. His loot from the various
places, the police say, varied from
20 cents to sl7.
When arrested the Smith boy was
carrying a blackjack, while his com
panion was armed with a revolver.
Five Lives Are Lost
In Apartment Fire;
Singer and Actress Die
NEW YORK. Dec. 2.—Five lives
were lost today in a fire which
swept through a Fifty-seventh
street apartment house. Flames
leaped from cellar to roof through
an air shaft, trapping the victims.
Police said the dead were Mrs. Bos
well Reed, opera singer; Miss Mar
jorie Lescomb. actress; Dr. F. M.
Potter, Mrs. Jennie Jenkins and one
unidentified.
Miss Annette Bracy, who discov
ered the fire, said she heard a crack
ling sound and, opening the door to
her suite, found the hall a mass of
flame. She hurled a book through
a window to let out the smoke, and
screamed the alarm. Many of those
who escaped had to dash through a
sheet of flame. The death list would
have been higher had it not been for
a door cut through the wall into an
adjoining house. A number of per
sons, all other exits blocked by fire,
escaped by this means.
GRAND JURY PROBE~
OF GAMBLING HERE
WILL BE CONTINUED
(Continnd from Fag* 1)
straight out and out swindle in the
form of a fake horse racing system.
The action of the police and Solici
tor General Boykin has had an ap
parent effect on the city. The popu
lar lounging places for idlers, loiter
ers, whisky peddlers and card sharks
were well vacated during the past
few days.
Foker Game Balded
Thursday night Lieutenant of De
tectives R. L. Waggoner, Detective
Doyal and Police Commissioner Andy
King visited a room at a local hotel
and broke up an alleged game of
poker, which was In progress.
As a result ©* the visit J. A.
Hampton, who gave his occupation as
a barber and his residence as the
Princeton hotel, was arrested and
placed tinder $2,000 bond. while
seven other men were taken into cus
tody and each held in SSOO bond.
They gave their names at the police
station as W. H. Mills, 73 Larkin
street: A. J. Simpson. 7 Tumlin
street; V. A. Eadon, 80 Culberson
street: A. C. Thompson. 47 Lang
horn street: H. A. Dodson. 424-D
Central avenue: R. D. Moss, Prince
ton hotel, and F. A. Martin, of Col
lege Park.
Hungary Paid Dearly for
Her Dip Into Bolshevism;
Country IN t asNearly Ruined
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER
(Special Cable to the Chicago Daily Sews
Foreign Service, by Leased Wire to
The Atlanta Journal.)
(Copyright, 1920.)
PARIS, France, Dec. 2. —In order
to escape from the fatal dismember
ment looming before the country,
and thinking, perhaps, that in con
servative Hungary a spell of Bol
shevism would be harmless enough,
the interim government of Count
Michael Karolyi naively turned over
the state, in the spring of 1919, to
a group of Hungarian Jewish com
munists, the chief of whom, Bela
Kun, had been trained in Russia, un
der Lenin. They armed the proleta
riat, disarmed all other people, na
tionalized the banks, factories and
even the retail stores, imprisoned or
executed their political opponents and
organized a "terror” on the Russian
model.
Hungary, of the belligerent states,
suffered least during the war. The
people still had plenty of food. But
under Bolshevism everything went
swiftly to pieces. Famine pinched
the city populations and the peas
ants lapsed into sullen resistance.
The war had cost Hungary 8,000,000
crowns a day; the Bolshevists soon
ran up expenses to 68,000,000 crowns
a day. (The Austro-Hungarian crown
is nominally equivalent to 20.3 cents
in American money.) The Rumanians,
seeking to venge the invasion of their
territory by the Germans, Austrians
and Hungarians during the war, at
tacked the Hungarian communists,
defeated the undisciplined “red”
army, entered Budapest, overthrew
the regime and sacked the whole
country. One hundred and thirty
two days of communism cost Hun
gary 10,000,000,000 crowns, of which
the "red guards” received 514,000,-
000, and the “red army’’ 3,307,000,000.
Where the present government spends
48,000,000 a month, the soviets spent
144,000,000.
Austria Unlike Hungary
From a condition of relative afflu
ence, Hungary plunged with dizzy
ing speed into a condition of utter
misery. Without communism, the
Rumanian invasion would have been
Impossible. What the one began the
other finished. Count Karolyi’s inge
nuous expedient not only failed to
stave off the dismemberment; it com
pletely ruined the country. There is
not one Hungarian today who does
not realize this fact. In consequence
Hungary is now, without doubt, the
most reactionary country in Europe.
Nine-tenths of the people are royal
ists. Even the small group of Hun
garian socialists have hastily switch
ed back out of the third, or Moscow
Internationale, into the moderate sec
ond, or Amsterdam, Internationale. So
strong are the feelings of the Hun
garians in the matter that they would
ask nothing better than an opportu
nity to fight any communists they
might happen to find, Russian or oth
erwise. Karolyi is hated in Hunga
ry almost as much as Bela Kun. Both
are now refugees, living in exile.
In sharp contrast with Hungary Is
Austria, which immediately after the
armistice set up a half communistic
government which is still nominally
In power. But this government has
jot now, and has never had, any real
authority. Its edicts are simply ig
nored. There is a "minister of so
cialization,” but nothing much has
been “socialized.” In the Vienna re
gion, it is true, every industrial
plant with more than twenty work
men has a shop council, which elects
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a delegate to the central workmen)
council, which in turn is very in
fluential -with the government. Bui
the provinces refuse to peremit thi
establishment of shop councils or tc
obev Vienna in any respect.
All the peasants and the majoritj
>f the townspeople are opposed t<
the quasi-communist regime. Thej
tolerate it from apathy induced
famine and despair. When they gel
ready they will change it. Mean
while it is to all intents helpless, foi
jither good or evil.
Czechs and Jugo Slavs
Czecho-Slovakia, liberal, socialists
and democratic, sympathizes warmlj
with Russia, but for reasons of rac<
affinity and foreign policy, rathei
than for social reasons. There is it
the country a small and noisy groui
of communists, but as there is n<
aristocracy, and almost no reaction
and as the government and the ma
jority of the people are alreadj
strongly committed to revolutionary
socialism, these communists have. s<
to speak, no fulcrum for their lever
The Czechs are not a revolutionary
people. Their minds are steady, slow
and cautious. Their resources ar<
rich, they are visibly prospering ant
I do not expect to see them temptet
into hazardous experiments of any
kind.
Jugo-Slavia is a peasant denioc
racy. Strictly speaking, there ii
here no “proletariat.” The peasants
who form 8 per cent of the popula
tion, are nearly all land owners. I
is true that in the recent elections
the “communists” are simply govern
ment employes—railwaymen, post
men, clerks—who seek thus to ex
press their resentment against an ad
ministration which doe's not pay i
living wage. The movement is pro
testatory, not revolutionary. Increasi
their stipend to a reasonable figuri
and their "communism” will vanish
The new "peasants’ party,” organ
ized by Mika Avramovitch, after th
Bulgarian model, is perhaps mor
significant, but as the peasants her
are not as yet class conscious it ha
made little headway.
Bulgarian Peasants Bule
In Bulgaria, which is also a de
mocracy of small land owners, th
peasants, exasperated at their d«
feat in two wars under the leader
ship of a czar and of professions
statesmen, have taken things int
their own hands, and have forme*
a government of their own. withoul
however, expelling their flgurehea*
of a young new czar.
The Russian Soviet leader ha
been confident that Bulgaria, in th
bitterness of its defeat and ampu
tation, would go Communist. A Com
munist party© consisting of , poo
peasants, poor or discharged govern
ment employes, and other malcon
tents, was encouraged and subsidized
The party felt itself t> be strong
but instead of attempting a Cou]
d'etat in the prescribed Bolshevis
manner it presented itself at th
elections last spring, and seated ft>r
ty-two deputies in the sobranje, th*
national parliament, out of a total o
about 210. Such communists, whi
consent to sit •as a powerless minor
ity in a regular parliament, are Ob
viously not very dangerous.
It is, as I have said, the peasants
party which has the absolute ma
jority. This party is initiating i
number of rather socialistic experi
ments, but the peasants’ pride ii
land ownership is so deep that th<
principle of .private property in Bui
garia may be considered relatively
safe.
Greece, the remaining Balkan state
is socially as sound as a bell. Il
there is to be any internal troubh
there it will be of a strictly politics'
character.
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