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VOL. XXIII. NO. 45.
BIG 1010 PLANTS
BEDIM MILLS
GET LARK ORDERS
Outlook Good for Future
Business in Textiles —Toc-
coa Mills Run Full Time.
Auto Plants Resume
GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 11.—It
Was learned today that W. L. Gass
away, president of a large cotton
mill, has just received an order from
a large underwear manufacturing
house for 410,000 yards of pajama
checks. Another encouraging fea
ture of the order is that the mill
Was offered one-half cent per yard
more for the goods than the pre
vailing New York quotation. This
and other substantial orders which
mills in this section are receiving
ndicate that business is beginnng
to look up in the cotton mill in
dustry.
Reports were also heard today
that the Graham mill interests had
received a big order for ginghams
and other print cloths at a contract
price that was a cent and a half
above the New York quotatons Sat
urday.
Mills in this section which cur
tailed operations to three and four
flays a week, have resumed opera
tions on a basis of 48 hours a week,
but with a readjustment of the wage
scale, reductions In wages range
from 25 to 40 per cent.
AUTOMOBILE PLANTS
IN DETROIT RESUME
DETROIT. Mich.. Jan. 11.—Two of
the larger automobile factories and
several of the smaller plants re
sumed production on a part time ba
sis here' Monday.
Continental Motors corporation re
sumed with several hundred men.
The Studebaker corporation resumed
with 2,000 men.
It was unofficially reported that
Dodge Brothers’ plant will open
shortly.
The Ford Motor company, which
employs close to 50,000 men, is ex
pected to open shortly after Feb
ruary 1.
TOCCOA COTTON MILLS
RUNNING FULL TIME
TOCCOA. Ga., Jan. 11.—A careful
survey reveals a satisfactory busi
ness condition in Toccoa and vicin
ity. The two cotton mills are run
ning on full'time, but with reduced
wages. For some time before Christ
mas they ran only thirty hours a
week. Since the first of the year
they have been running on full time
with full crews.
Two of the furniture factories are
operating. The Piedmont on half
time, but the Georgia is running full
time, and with a full crew. The
sales force went out Monday morn
ing for the first time in several
weeks. They have four salesmen on
the road all the time. The Toccoa
furniture factory has never been
completed, new. from the fire of last
summer, which destroyed it. The
management hopes to have it in full
operation within thirty days. The'
Toccoa Ice and Coal company is
making extensive repairs and some
enlargement on its plant. The man
agement anticipates a good business
this spring.
The banks are in good condition.
They have been able to collect
enough to tide them over any strin
gent conditoin.
There are not a great number of
people out of employment. Many of
those out could secure a job at some
price to keep them until conditions
improve. v They refuse to work for
low wages. Altogether, conditions
are not as bad as they have been.
There has been a revival of busi
ness in the last two weeks—that is
encouraging to the business men.
The worst is over in this “neck of
the woods."
STEEL MEN OPTIMISTIC
IN BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Jan. 11.—
Things are looking up in the steel
industry, according to local officials.
Reduction in unfilled tonnage of the
corporation, since the reaction set in
Jn August has not affected this dis
trict, officials say.
Steady work of the local mills,
while others in different sections
have suffered curtailment, is but
proof of the advantage in export fa
cilities of the Birmingham district,
it is claimed.
Unfilled tonnage December 31,
amounted to 8,148,122 tons, compared
with 9,021,481 tons in the month pre
vious.
This Rooster Equipped
With High-Low Gear
Pedal Extremities
MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 11. —“Two-
Way John” is the name that Henry
Ainsworth, a Colquitt county farmer
has given to a freak chicken that
makes his home among the domesti
cated feathered bipeds that scratch
for a living out on his place about
ten miles from Moultrie, according
to a story he was telling friends here
yesterday. The chicken, or rather,
rooster, has two sets of legs and as
strange as it may seem, he can put
both sets in service at once, or get
along all right with just one set,
Mr. Ainsworth says.
The legs which are set in front are
the shortest and as a general prac
tice the rooster uses then most fre
quently. When the chicken is in a
hurry, however, he uses his long hind
legs—converting them in a sense
into a' high gear. On a worm hunt,
however, the rooster cashes in on
everything that nature gave him, us
ing all four feet with enthusiasm,
energy and effectivness that make
him the envy of the whole barn
yard.
Misses Electric Chair
. And Gets 5-Year Term
GREENVILLE. S. C„ Jan. 12.
Henry Leaks, charged with killing
another negro, was convicted last
summer of murder and sentenced to
•»e electrocuted. He was granted a
new trial upon his appeal to the su
preme court. Monday he received a
sentence of five years’ imprisonment
following the acceptance by the
state of a plea of guilty to man
slaughter.
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GENERAL 18. BLISS
ASKSFORSHOWDOWN
OK DISARMAMENT
U. S. Could Prepare Accord
ingly, Officer Says, Urging
World Conference Na
vies of Powers Compared
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—Should
the United States call upon the na
tions of the world for “a full, free
and fair discussion of reduction of
armaments, the favorable response
would be prompt and inevitable,”
the house naval committee was told
today by General Tasker H. Bliss,
former American representative on
the supreme war council at Paris.
“The nation that would come to
such a conference and refuse to
agree to any proposition looking to
disarmament or at least a reduction
of its military establishment,” said
General Bliss, "could be written
down as the next Germany and the
United States could make its plans
accordingly.”
General Bliss preceded the
committee Secretary Daniels, who
appeared again to give the committee
detailed information regarding the
relative strength of the great pow
ers. The former chief of staff of
the army said his association with
the high military representatives of
the other powers at Paris had con
firmed his belief that all of the great
nations of the world were ready to
talk disarmament seriously.
Strain Is Severe
“Our present form of civilization
cannot stand the great strain of mil
itary preparation much longer,” Gen
eral Bliss declared. "The world war
was a terrific strain on civilization.
The next war will be very much
worse. Fear is the basis of war
preparation. There is a business
proposition and we should determine
whether there is any real basis for
the fear that causes these great mil
itary and naval programs.”
It would not be necessary to have
all the nations of the world repre
sented at the suggested conference,
the general said, if the United States,
Great Britain, France, Japan and
Italy reached an agreement. The
smaller nations woulif willingly ac
cede to any proposal put forward in
good faith by these five great pow
ers, he declared.
General Bliss said he had discus
sed disarmament, "in a general way
and incident to other matters,” with
Marshal Foch and high British mili
tary leaders.
"Did you ever talk it over with
any of Japan’s or Italy’s officials?”
asked Chairman Butler.
"I believe I did with Italian repre
sentatives,” w*s the reply. "Os
course, the subject only came up at
that time incidentally.”
People Pay Taxes
"If it were left to me,M would not
disarm an American soldier nor lay
up an American ship until all the
great powers had reached an agree
ment,” declared the general. “If such
a conference were to be held, and if
the secretary were to make public
very day an abstract of the proposi
tions put forward and the arguments
for and against, with the names of
the national representatives who
made them,- the common people of
the world would not allow the con
ference to dissolve until at least the
first step forward had been taken. I
do not care what cabinets of the
world think, the masses of the peo
ple, who pay the taxes, have the vi
tal interest in this subject.”
In major ships and in, gun powder
the United States navy will be supe
rior to the British when this coun
try’s building program is completed
in 1925. Secretary Daniels said in dis
closing the relative sea strength of
England, Japan and the United
States.
This country’s construction plans
also will put America ahead of Japan
in total tonnage of fighting ships at
a ratio of two and one-half to one,
Secretary Daniels said. He added,
however, that should Japan build the
i program which she has projected but
■ not authorized, the ratio Jn Ameri
| ca’s favor would decrease to that of
■ one and a quarter to one.
Detailed Comparison
In addition SecrgfAry Daniels’ fig-
i ures for the future show:
I I.—ln total tonnage and effective
fighting ships, America will approxi
mately equal Great Britain but will
jbe considerably weaker in light
I cruisers and other ships used to pro
l tect the main body of the fleet and
to conduct blockades; slightly in
ferior to Britain in submariens and
will have no modern aircraft carriers
suitable for fleet operation.
2.—The United States will be su
perior to Japan in total ships, de
stroyers and submarines, but inferior
in battle cruisers and light cruisers.
Presenting three tables, Mr. Dan
iels declared first that in total ton
nage and the number of effective
fighting ships, the relative strength
of today was: ,
Relative Strength.
Britain, 1,588,442 tone. 538 ships.
United States, 779,193 tons, 330
ships.
Japan. 340,596 tons. 43 ships.
Mr. Daniels indicated the size of
present authorized building program
as follows:
Britain, 76,890 tons. 36 ships.
United States, 842,109 tons, 100
ships.
Japan, 323.450 tons, .41 ships.
If the nations complete theiri pres
ent program without making any ad
ditions in the meantime, Mr. Daniels
said the standing would be:
Completed Program
Britain. 1,655,332 tons; United
States, 1,617,282 tons; Japan, 689,656
tons.
To Japan’s program, the secretary
said, he should add 368,270 tons pro
jected for completion by 1927, but
not yet authorized, which would give
Japan a total of 1,057,926 tons.
Mr. Daniels stressed the fact that
the United States had no aircraft
carriers for the fleet and none had
been authorized. England had four,
he said. He indorsed a "rounding
out” program prepared by the gen
eral board, which provides for an
aircraft carrier, some light cruisers
and other light craft. To build this
program, he said, would cost $107,-
000,000.
ALLEGED SWINDLERS
HELD IN MEMPHIS
coMiram
Other Big Losses to Syndi
cate of Confidence Men
Are Reported to Solicitor
Boykin
Although the grand jury assembled
Wednesday morning to consider
matters laid before it by Solicitor
General John A. Boykin,, nothing
connected with the investigation of
the alleged ’gambling syndicate”
will be brought up until next week,
when a number of witnesses sum
moned from outside the state will
be called upon to testify.
It is expected that at least three
of the six men arrested in Memphis,
Tenn., on charge of being implicated
in a series of swindling episodes,
will be brought before the investi
gating body. The Memphis authori
ties raided a hotel a few days ago,
capturing half a dozen alleged
swindlers and gamblers. Upon in
vestigation it developed that their
testimony might be of value in the
Fulton county probe of alleged
swindling operations in Atlanta,
with the result that a requisition
was forwarded to the Tennessee au
thorities.
Three of the men are on their way
to Atlanta. They are J. W. Mooney,
J. A. Alexander and R. J. Wilson,
the latter said to be implicated in
the so-called "gambling ring” which
is said to have operated promiscu
ously in Atlanta for the past three
years. Officers from the solicitor
general’s department are bringlrig
the trio to Atlanta, while the other
three men taken in the raid are in
Memphis awaiting the outcome of
habeas corpus proceedings.
The solicitor general has brought
to light another instance where
swindlers said to have been mem
bers of the gang operating in Atlanta
fleeced victims out of several thou
sand dollars. Two men, residents of
a city not far from Atlanta, declare
that they met an affable stranger
on a train bound for Atlanta, fell
into conversation with him and final
ly agreed to sell him orange grove
property in Florida. They made the
trm to Florida and met them new
friend at Lakeland, where they were
inveigled into playing the stock mar
ket in a "broker’s office. The result
of their operations was to lose about
86,000, and their new-found friend
disappeared.
Cork’s Lord Mayor
Will Fight Attempt
At Deportation
NEW YORK. Jan. 12.—Donal
O’Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, will
fight any attempt of the state depart
ment to deport him, according to a
statement here today by his attor
neys.
The attorneys declared O’Callaghan
was not deportable under the war
time act which prevented enemy
agents from entering the country.
O’Callaghan would have had a pass
port, they said, except that he would
have been arrested had he gone to
the British police for the paper. Final
judgment as to deportation rests with
the labor department. It was claimed.
California Assembly
Adopts Resolution
Against Japanese Pact
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Jan. 12—The
assembly of the California legisla
ture adopted Monday, by unanimous
vote without reference to commit
tee, a senate resolution asking that
no treaty be rhade with Japan
granting citizenship to Japanese, or
nullifying the provision of the new
anti-alien land law.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1921.
PASSAGE PREDICTED
FOR BILL CREATING
11. S. KITBITE PUNT
Charges Are Brought in
Senate That Lobbyists Are
Working For and Against
Measure
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —Final
passage by the senate of the bill
proposing the creation of a govern
ment corporation to operate the ni
trate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala.,
was predicted by its propo
nents after a motion had been de
feated to recommit the bill to the
agriculture committee. Although it
was by the narrow majority of one
vote that the advocates won, the lat
ter regarded It as a test of senti
ment "and claimed that additions
would even be made to their ranks.
Charges that "lobbyists” were at
work for and against the bill were
made by both sides during the de
bate. Senator Kenyon, Republican,
lowa, declared there was a "Muscle
Shoals lobby” and that "Washington
is crowded with lobbyists.” Senator
Underwood, Democrat, Alabama, as
serted that a “fertilizer lobby” was
fighting the bill, and Senator Stan
ley, Democrat, Kentucky, said "the
fertilizer trust, the Chilean trust and
the coke oven people” were opposing
the legislation.
Supporting a suggestion by Sena
tor Kenyon that the "lobbyists”
should be required to register, Sen
ator Walsh, Democrat, Massachu
setts, said “recently there has been
a great increase in lobbyists.”
"Maybe it is because the next ad
ministration will have a better op
portunity to pass legislation for spe
cial interests,” he added.
Following the vote on recommit
tal, the senate adopted an amend
ment by Senator Smith, Democrat,
South Carolina, to give farmers
first consideration in the sale of the
product manufactured at Muscle
Shoals, and providing that any of it
sold to manufacturers of fertilizers
should be with the agreement that
it must be resold to farmers at rea
sonable preies. Senator Wadwsorth,
Republican, New York, then launch
ed another attack on the bill, from
which a debate developed that pre
vented further action until tomor
row.
The vote on the motion to recom
mit was 32 to 33.
Three Democrats: Gore, Oklaho
ma; Pomerene, Ohio, and King, Ufhh,
joined the Republicans in voting to
recommit the bill, while four Repub
licans; Gronna, North Dakota; John
son, California; Kellogg, Minnesota,
and McNary, Oregon, joined the
Democrats to defeat the motion.
Cotton Bank Charter
Is Issued on Tuesday
By Secretary of State
A charter was issued Tuesday by
S. G. McLendon, secretary of state,
to the Cotton Bank and Trust com
pany, sponsored and organized by
Governor Dorsey.
The governor gave out a statement
that the charter would be accepted
and organization of the bank per
fected at a meeting to be held in his
office on January 14. next Friday.
The issuance of the charter is the
first step in the launching of the
bank. Subscriptions of approximate
ly of the stock of the bank
have been obtained, and the charter
provides for a capitalization of that
amount with the privilege of increas
ing to 82,000.000. The headquar
ters and home office of the bank will
be in Atlanta.
Governor Dorsey launched the
movement for a cotton bank about a
year ago. The purpose of the bank
is to specialize in aiding cotton grow
ers to market their crop. The general
expectation is that Governor Dorsey,
will be president of it.
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RUMANIA AND
POLAND IS SEEN
LONDON, Jan. 12.—Skeleton sovi
et governments for Rumania and Po
land have been prepared and are
ready to follow Bolshevik troops into
Poland and Rumania, according to
Moscow newspapers received here
today.
A Polish "soviet government is
ready to move from Moscow to Kieff
with the general staff of the white
Russian communist army,” accord
ing to one newspaper.
The white Russian army was re
ported to be in course of organiza
tion now. It was believed to consti
tute the troops reported concentrat>-
ing at Kieff and preparing fortifi
cations to withstand a possible
Ukrainian revolt.
The proposed Rumanian and Polish
governments were said to have been
completed in detail. Some Polish
sympathizers with the soviet aims
were said to have been selected for
minor posts.
Kieff, a railway center, apparently
was being made headquarters for the
expected spring campaign. Through
it attacks on the Rumanian and Pol
ish fronts could be co-ordinated.
House Adopts Motion
Providing $50,000 for
Inaugural Expenses
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. —The sen
ate resolution appropriating 850,000
for expenses at the capitol in con
nection with the inauguration of
President-elect Harding was adopted
Monday by the house by an over
whelming majority. An amendment
by Representatixe Blanton, Demo
crae, Texas, to cut the fund to 810,-
000, was defeated, 285 to 5.
While the house was acting, fur
ther attempts were made in the sen
ate to reduct* expenses incident to
the inauguration. Senator Borah,
Republican, Idaho, introduced a reso
lution, which went over, prohibiting
further appropriations for congress
in connection with the inauguration,
which he said it had been proposed
to make “the most costly and osten
tatious evei occurring in the his
tory of this or any other country.”
During the debate in the house,
Representative Huddleston, Demo
crat, Alabama, said he objected to
■\“the butchery of a president-elect to
make a Washington holiday.” “The
.inaugural,” he said, "is so tainted
with a low order of commercialism
that it is unworthy of the nation.
The main idea is to get the crowds
here and get their money—to draw
a mob which will be forced to give
up to the highwaymen of Washing
ton. The ceremony is conducted with
such coarse vulgarity that it is an
affront to the president-elect and. in
open disregard of his own wishes.”
In the senate. Senator Sherman,
Republican. Illinois, said "fuss and
feathers,” in connection with the in
auguration were distasteful to Mr.
Harding, and a similar view was ex
pressed in the house by Representa
tive Reavis, Republican, Nebraska.
WOMAN SHOPPER
WILL BE TRIED
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Caroline M. Cohen, of Fort
McPherson, who was Tuesday indict
ed on shoplifting charges by the
Fulton county grand jury, will be
tried before Judge John D. Hum
phries in superior court on next
Wednesday, it was announced by
Solicitor John A. Boykin.
Efforts were made Wednesday by
Hooper Alexander and W. Paul Car
penter, attorneys for Mrs. Coheh, to
have the case brought to trial on
Friday, but court officials indicated
this would be impossible.
Counsel for Mrs. Cohen expressed
a confidence in the ultimate acquittal
of their client. They said a suit for
810.000 damages would be filed im
mediately following the trial of the
case in superior court.
Attorney Carpenter declared "it
looks very much like somebody in
Atlanta is hounding Mrs. Cohen un
necessarily.” Charges against her in
police court were dismissed, he said,
and then action was begun in anoth
er criminal court. "It appears to me
to be nothing more than a move to
intimidate us from bringing our
damage suit,” he said.
Another development Wednesday
was the announcement bv Police
Commissioner Andy King that the
charges of brutal treatment to Mrs.
Cohen after she was placed in the
hands of the police will be thor
oughly investigated by the police
board at a special meeting on ues
day night. This action was decided
upon at the regular meeting of the
commissioners Tuesday night, when
a resolution calling for an exhaus
tive probe into the case was passed.
The grand jury Indictment charges
Mrs. Cohen with the larceny of mer
chandise from two Whitehall street
stores. She was arrested last Wed
nesday by Private Detective vic
Young, of the Retail Merchants as
sociation. Detective Young and ten
other witnesses testified before the
jury.
“It is easy enough to see why Mrs.
Cohen was indicted," said Mr. Car
penter. "Indeed, it could have done
nothing else. "Witnesses told the
jury that they saw Mrs. Cohen place
this cloth in her shopping bag. That
i« true. We admit it, but we gwill
prove at the trial by a numbef of
reputable witnesses that she took the
remnants to Silvers’ with her in an
effort to match them.”
The reports to be aired by the
nolice commissioners include charges
that Mrs.- Cohen was falsely ar
rested sent to nolice station in the
same patrol with a drunken negro
woman, denied the use of a telephone
after arrival/ there, and was later
placed in the complete charge of a
professional bondsman who extorted
a bondsman’s fee from her and took
her wrist watch, bank book and a
check signed in blank, as security. .
Probe Resolution
Commissioner King’s resolution
which called for a probe of the case,
and was passed, follows:
Whereas, a certain Mrs. Cohen was »
few days ago arrested on Whiteha! 1 street
bv a private detective and sent to the po
Hce“station of the city of Atlanta in he
city’s police patrol and detained in t lie
matron’s ward until released- and,
Whereas, it has been stated through the
newspapers and in the recorder s court of
the citv that she was subjected to certain
indignities and mistreatment while being
detained by the city authorities: and.
Whereas, an effort has been made in
mal/'tig these statements as to her mis
treatmJPt to reflect upon the police de
partment s-f the city, and it appears that
such charges should not go unnoticed, but
an effort should be made to arrive at the
truth of such charges;
Therefore, be it Resolved by the board of
police commissioners of the ciC "f Atlanta,
that investigation be had of these charges
b ythe board, and if the charges be found
true, to take such steps as may be neces
sary to prevent a recurrence of such treat
ment of those arrested, and if the same
are not true, to exonerate those upon whom
such charges would tend to reflect.
The grand jury indictments against
Mrs. Cohen charge that she has used
several aliases. The indictment read:
“Mrs. Bettie Deaultman, alias Mrs. A.
M. Bryan, alias Mrs. Bettie Boatman,
alias Mrs. Cohen.”
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DUBLIN. —The young women who
in several Irish districts hav’e had
their hair cut off by Sinn Feiners
for associating with the police and
soldiers have lodged claims for com
pensation for malicious injury. The
price they place on their lost hair
varies from $1,500 to 82,500.
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BALLOONISTS" TBIP
ENDS IN BOIBBti
OVER LETTER HOME
Two of Rescued Fliers En- '
gage in Fist Fight as
Party Comes Out of
Forests
BY JAMES R. KELLY.
MATTICE, Ont. Jan. 12.—With two
members of the party not on speak
ing terms, and with an official in
vestigation of their quarrel in pros
pect, the three United States navy
balloonists were to start for New
York today. Their train was sched
uled to leave here at 4:38 p. m.
Lieutenants Hinton and Farrell
greeted each other only with scowls,
following Farrell’s attack on Hinton
late yesterday. When informed that
Hinton had written to his wife in
New York that Farrell had weakened,
had asked the others to kill him and
offered his l?ody for food, Farrell
knocked Hinton down with a right
and left to the jaw. The episode oc
curred in a trapper’s cabin after Far
rell had demanded an explanation
from Hinton and none had been forth
coming. It was expected that Farrell
would demand a court of inquiry to
look into his conduct and clear his
reputation.
Farrell’s own story, as told to re
porters here, drew a radically dif
ferent picture of the men’s wander
ings than that painted In Hinton’s
letter to his wife, which was printed
in New York newspapers last Sun
day.
Farrell indicated that he persuaded
the party to veer to the eastward,
instead of going westward as Hin
ton, who had the compass, wanted
them to, and that as a result they
found the creek that eventually led
them to a settlement.
Not Hungry.
"We were not particularly hungry,”
he said. “I had several drinks from
the. creek and the water seemed to
sustain me. When not walking or
close to a fire we felt very cold. Up
to this time we had no idea where we
were. My flying shoes were badly
battered, so I discarded them and
put on my English shoes. Hinton
and Kloor also threw away their fly
ing shoes, as they had been badly
burned while toasting' their feet at
our camp fires. I also threw away
my grip, which I had taken from the
basket on alighting.
"We made about four miles the
r first day and seven the second. We
ate some moss and bark. We were
still in pretty good condition, but
not very cheerful. Then we began
hearing dog barks every once in n
while, and I began to think they we- -
- phoney. We came across spmc woj!’_,
■ tracks. Kloor said he nrayed durin,■:
> the night, but not aloud.
"I had great faith that
• would turn up for the better on the
■ third day and it was on the third day
; that we ate the last pigeon.
, "We were, continually falling Into I
holes. I began to feel nauseated.
, possibly from drinking the waiter
from the moose tracks. Hinton Vas
’ sick also. Both were clear mentally,
, however.
[ “We felt that we were walking
miles and miles, but knew we were
I not going in circles, as we could avoid
that with the aid of the compass.
• Kloor was sleeping well and had lots
■ of pep almost every day.
> "I tested the ice in the creek and
we decided to walk on it. We came
to Moose river in an hour. Then
i we ran into the Indian, Tom Marks.
• Kloor had seen tracks and we fol
lowed them until we saw the In-
’ dian.”
The clash between Farrell and
Hinton came at this point Jn Far
! rell’s story. Hinton entered the
room and informed Farrell he should
not say anything for publication,
, "It looks to me as'though you had
. done enough talking yourself, but you
got money for it,” retorted Farrell.
When Hinton demanded an explana
tion Farrell told him of his letter
> written to Mrs. Hinton and sold to
New York newspapers.
The Bight
Hinton followed Farrell into the
kitchen, where Farrell turned and
demanded that Hinton deny the sto
ry he had circulated. Hinton refused
1 and Farrell swung right and left to
the jaw, knocking Hinton backwards
across a table, where he sprawled
with his arms wrapped around his
head. He departed immediately.
Farrell later told newspaper men
he was sorry the incident had oc
curred. He said he had written a
letter and showed it to Hinton and
Kloor, but that they did not show
him their letters.
The aeronauts today were occupy
ing a special car on a siding here,
which will be attached to a train
this afternoon.
BALLOONIST’S OWN STORY
OF CREW’S HARDSHIPS
CROWLEY, La., Jan. 10. —A mes
sage from the frozen north —a mes
sage of good cheer to relieve the
worries of a father and mother —
was received in the sunny south to
<l With its coming joy emanated
from the home of Lewis P. Kloor,
father of Lieutenant Kloor, one of
the three American navy balloonists
now returning from the frozen wilds
of northern Canada.
Mr. Kloor closed his grocery store
shortly after he received the news *
and killed a fatted young pig, which
will be prepared as a part of the
feast which will Welcome the young
officer to his home, e
•‘Moose Factory, Ont., Canada, De
cember 21, 1920.
“Dear Dad and Mother:
“By the time this letter reaches
you your worries will probably be
over, for the captain will have in
formed you of my safety. I can
only tell you the trend of the story
now and explain all in a long letter
next time 1 write. I took a balloon
out on Monday. December 13, and
carried two passengers. Lieutenant
Farrell, and Lieutenant Hinton, who
was the pilot that flew the NC-4
across the Atlantic with Reed. A
fierce storm hit us that night and
finally when we were forced to land
next day on account of low ballast
we found we had flown miles out of
civilized country and north over
fields, lakes and forests covered with
snow and ice.
"We had to land Tuesday at 1:80
p. m. We did not know where we
were. We had no charts, only a
compass, three carrier pigeons and
no food, our food had all been eaten
in the air, for we flew twenty-five
hours before landing. We were wet
and cold and hungry. Our flying
suits were so heavy we had to cast
them off and walk in our thin uni
forms. I had on my light summer
underwear as always. It was hell
and
Found Indian
“We could only walk for about two
hours at a time and build a fire to
keen our feet from freezing, then
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