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VOL. XXIII. NO. 48.
Mffl POSTOFFICE
jobs to be an
FDfIHMipiNGREGIMF
Young Army Officers Who
Stood Special Examina
tions Will Get Permanent
Commissions, However
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau.)
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON. Jan, 19. The
>ominations of approximately fifty
'Georgia postmasters, together with
no re than 2,000 postoffice appoint
ments throughout the country, go
Into the discard because of the ac
tion of th senate plainly indicating
it does not intend to consider any
further nominations of the Wilson
administration.
The redeeming feature of the sen
ate’s action is the decision to con
firm appointments from the reserve
corps to the regular army.
Notwithstanding, nominations of
approximately 2,000 postmasters
were sent today to the senate by
President Wilson. This swells the
already enormous list of nomina
tions made at this session, and, on
which Republican leaders have de
termined not to act except where an
emergency exists.
Several score Georgia officers re
cently named from civil life after
standing examinations will hold on
to their commissions. Nominations
of these new army officers altogeth
er number more than 5,000. These
officers named from the reserve
?orps probably will be confirmed,
vlth fe-w or no exceptions, but the
: enate will consider only these new
appointments and declined to re
'er to a committee promotions of
old-timers In the regular army.
At ti»e same time, the Republicans
•efused to go into executive session
•o consider, or to refer to committee,
several thousand nominations of
oastmasters, marshals, judges, mem
bers o’, the shipping board, interstate
•ommerce commission, the tariff
'ommission and men promoted in the
ravy. The embargo on Wilson ap
oointments is hard set, except as to
he reserve corps officers. A num
>er cf Georgia officers are favorably
.ffected by the senate’s action, as
here were appointments to the reg
ular army from all states, the ex
>.minations and appointments having
extended over a period of several
nonths last fall and during the win
er. '
Commander Towers
J Stricken at Sea With
Appendicitis, Will Live
ON ,BOARD U. S. S. NEW MEXI
CO—(By Radio to the Associated
’ress, Jan. 18.) —Commander John
I. Towers, of Rome, Ga., division
•ommander of the NC naval sea
llanes on the flight from San Diego,
lai., to Panama, was stricken with
'.ppendicitis while at sea and was
ransferred, in a serious condition,
o the hospital ship Mercy, of the
Pacific fleet. He was operated on
mmediately and will live, fleet sur
geons said today.
Head of Bolsheviki
Has Lost His Mind,
According to Report
PARIS, Jan. 19.—Weakened by
♦verwork, Premier Lenine, of Russia,
baa become insane, according to the
Stockholm correspondent of the Echo
<e Paris.
The report said Lenine was con
tned to one of his rooms, where he
twittered of his role as the great
Russian hero who had saved the
>ountry from invasion the enemy.
Poet D’Annunzio,
Shorn of His Glory,
Tells Fiume Goodby
FIUME, Jan. 19. —Bearing pass
ports for Spain, France, Greece and
Switzerland. Gabriele d'Annunzio has
left Fiume with a body guard of
sou» arditi. The poet promised a
refrain from political activity. Be
fore leaving he attended to a little
press agency for his “history of
Fiume” —the “Vendetta d’ltalia”—
?n which the presses of a publishing
souse here were said to be grinding
-.vert! me.
Navy Seaplane NC-5
Was Sunk by Gunfire,
Radio Report Says
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.—The
aval seaplane NC-5 which was
orced down and wrecked during a
poup naval seaplane flight from
(an Diego to Balbao, Canal Zone,
tas been “sunk by gunfire” accord
ng to a report received by the naval
adio here today. No explanation
<f the message was received.
Bomb Wrecks Taxi,
Two Killed, Many Hurt
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.—With a
•core of suspects already in jail, ad-
Jitional arrests were predicted by
police today in a round-up of strik
pg cab drivers, believed responsible
;or planting a death machine in a
.axicab here last night. Two were
jilled and two others seriously in
ured.
Union chauffeurs have been on
R?lke here since last September, de- :
panding higher wages, an eight-hour I
iay and recognition of their union.
Gotham’s New Record
. NEW YORK.—The deceased year
aroke two New York records: Few
er workhouse commitments for in
toxication than ever before in his
tory, and more marriages. In Man
nattan there were 43,307 marriage
licenses in 1920.
Alleged Member of
Bunco Syndicate Is
Given Limit of Law
R. B. Kelly, known as “Boone”
Kelly, was Tuesday convicted by a
jury in the criminal division of the
superior court, on a charge of keep
ing and maintaining a gaming bouse,
and was sentenced to pay a fine ot
81,000 and to serve six months in
jail, and twelve months on the chain
gang.
Kelly was one of about thirty men
who have been indicted, as a result
of a series of raids conducted by
Solicitor John A. Boykin and his as
sistants, and a sweeping probe by the
grand jury of .the gambling situation
in Atlanta. He is the first man to
be tried on a charge of keeping a
gaming house. It was contended by
the state that Kelly conducted the
gaming house at 49 1-2 Central ave
nue. A large number of witnesses
were called, and testified that they
had patronized this so-called gam
ing house and engaged in shooting
craps there.
No defense was made by the de
fendant and no statement was made
to the jury by him. Attorney W.
Carroll Latimer, one of counsel for
the defendant, in his argument to
the jury, declared that the state had
not made out a bona fide case and
asked for an acquittal. The case went
to the jury shortly after 11 o clock
and a verdict was reached within a
period of five minutes. Judge John
D. Humphries pronounced sentence.
Attorneys for tne defendant say that
they win"carry the case to the su
preme court.
MORE INDICTMENTS FOUND .
AGAINS ALLTEGED CON MEN
At a session of the grand jury, held
at 6 o'clock Monday afternoon, . in
dictments, charging larceny after
trust, were returned against Floyd
Woodward, alleged “brains” of the
former gambling and swindling syn
dicate Ift Atlanta, Abe Powers, now
at the Fulton county jail under sen
tence of five years on a similar
charge; Charlie Moore, alias “Red”
Wilson; George Kent, alias “Mike”
Kennedy: William Fletcher, now un
der arrest at Memphis, Tenn., and
L. V. O’Brien.
The indictments were returned aft
er the introduction of testimony by
new witnesses, one of whom claims
to have lost $27,500 in an alleged
bunco game in this city. All of the
above men are under indictment on 1
other charges as a result of the
sweeping investigation of gambling,
horse racing, wire-tapping and swin
dling, conducted by the grand jury,
and large rewards have been offer
ed for the capture of the leaders of
the syndicates '
It was made known Monday night
that Mrs. Woodward, wife of Floyd
Woodward, of 5-B avenue, has
been indicted on a charge of main
taining a gaming house at 59 1-2
Cone street, formerly known as the
Sans Souci hotel.
Investigation by the solicitor gen
eral has revealed the fact that Neil]
MeDougal, who was released from ,
the federal penitentiary December
30, 1919 after having completed a
term for forging a postoffice money
order, was registered to vote in
Fulton county at the office of the
tax collector in 1920. At the time!
of registration he gave his address!
as 59 1-2 Cone street.
WOODWARD TO RETURN
FOR TRIAL, SAYS WIFE
Speaking in defense of her husband,
Floyd Woodward, alleged “brains”
of a gambling and swindling syndi
cate which is alleged to have operat
ed in Atlanta for the past four years,
Mrs. Helen Weaver Woodward, of 5-B
Angier avenue, claims that when the
minds of the people have become
free from prejudice' and a fair and
impartial trial can be assured, her
husband will return to Atlanta to an
swer to the indictments against him.
“I do not know where Mr. Wood
ward is at present, but I do know he
is not afraid to face his accusers and
will return when he is confident he
can secure a fair trial,” Mrs. Wood
ward said. “The public has been
worked up to believe him guilty of
anything. Perjured witnesses have
been secured with hopes of immuni
ty for their own crimes to testify
against Mr. Woodward, and he knows
he will not be able to clear himself
now."
Woodward left the city of Atlanta
shortly after the expose of the alleg
ed gambling and swindling syndicate
and is being sought by the Fulton
county authorities. Rewards aggre
gating $1,500 have been offered for
his arrest. He is wanted here on an
indictment charging him with murder,
it being claimed that he ‘shot and
killed Ed Mills, well-known gambler,
in a local hotel two years ago in a
dispute over the division of money
said to have been secured from vic
tims of the gambing syndicate.
Mrs. Woodward, his wife, lives in
an inexpensive little apartment on
Angier avenue. She also is under
indictment on the charge of conduct
ing a gaming house at 59 1-2 Cone
street.
Goddess of Chance
Gives Couple Fortune
On Honeymoon Trip
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Betty
bctiw-artz, twenty and pretty, a bride
of six weeks, “played her age” on
the roulette wheel at Monte Carlo
time after time, starting with a
small bet, and finally quit the table
with a nest egg of SIOO,OOO. Her hus
band, Harry Schwartz, feeling that
it was up to him to win a little
something, elbowed into the crap
game aboard the Imperator when the
great ship was being tossed on
tremendous seas Sunday afternoon
and wheeled $12,000 out of the os
seous clickers before the profession
al gamblers could gracefully find
something to do on deck.
So the Schwartzes, who are New
Yorkers, are ahead just $112,000 on
their honeymoon. Mrs. Schwartz de- j
cided that number twenty on the :
wheel was the one for her money and
she never lifted a chip until hubby,
estimating the pile, urged her to cash
in and hurry away from there.
Refugees Rescued
From Mexican Flood
Fed by Americans
PACHUCA,'Mex., Jan. 19. 4mevi-I
can miners distributed supplies to-’
flay among refugees they had res
cued from the flood which over
whelmed the surrounding country
when a large dam, two miles north
of here, gave way.
Latest reports from the rescue
squads said eighteen were known to
have been drowned and fiffv-seven
injured. Water to the depth of sev
eral feet flowed through the streets
here.
INNOCENT OWNER
LOSES RIGHTS IN
SEIZED BOOZE CAR
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau.)
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.—Includ
ing in its decision a quotation from
the ancient laws of Moses, "if an
ox gore a man that he die, the ox
shall be stoned and His flesh shall
not be eaten,’* the supreme court of
the United States Monday afterhoon
decided a case appealed from the
northern district of Georgia, and
held that a person who sells an au
tomobile on credit loses all property
rights in the car if the buyer uses
it for “bootlegging” or “moonshining”
purposes, and the car is seized by the
government.
Only Associate Justice Mcßeynolds
dissented in the broad decision, one
of a series of “dry” decisions by the
highest tribunal. Justice McKenna
read the opinion of the court. The
case came on appeal by J. W. Gold
smith, Jr.-Grant company, of Atlan
ta. An automobile sold on deferred
payments by the company was seized
while in the hands of the purchaser
because it had 58 gallons of “moon
shine” aboard. The supreme court
holds that the company has lost all
property rights in the car, sustain
ing the verdict of the jury in the
court of the late Judge William T.
Newman, rendered in January, 1919.
"The automobile company was rep
resented by C. T. & L. C. Hopkins,
Ellis & Bell and Dorsey, Shelton &
Dorsey. Assistant District Attorney
J. W. Henley represented the Unit
ed States government. The automo
bile in question was confiscated by R.
E. Tuttle, deputy collector of reve
nue at Atlanta. Under the decision,
a person selling a car on credit to a
man who uses it for transportation
of “moonshine,” loses his property if
the car is seized, although the seller
may be entirely innocent of such vi
olation of law. That the seller had
nothing to do with the use to which
the car was put did not move the su
preme court. The bill filed declared
that when seized the car was being
used by Jim Thmopson, Mangum Wil
son and E. J. McGill, and that 58 gal
lons of distilled Bquors on which no
tax had been paid were captured to
gether with the car.
The decision has particular interest
.and effect in the “moonshining” re
gions, though between the lines it
applies to all “bootlegging.”
Under Law of 1886
The case was not brought under
ithe Volstead law. A law of 1866, en
acted years before there was an au
tomobile, provided for the confisca
tion of any conveyance, including
horses and carriages, used in remov
ing and concealing anything upon
which a tax is due the government.
The J. W. Goldsmith, Jr.-Grant com
pany, of Georgia, sold a car on de
ferred payments and it was lat<y
seized by revenue agents because^it
had aboard "moonshine” . distilled
without the payment of tax, and the
court holds there is no redress for
the company. That the Athenians
cast out of their, dominions anything
that fell upon a man and killed him
and that this case furnishes “some
analogy t oa Deodand by which a per
sonal chattel that was the immedi
ate cause of the death of any rea
sonable creature was forfeited,” is
set out in this remarkable decision.
Uncle Sam Moves
To Halt Landing of
Western Union Cable
NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Injunction
proceedings to prevent the Western
Union Telegraph company from
landing its cable from the Barbados,
at Miami, Fla., were instituted in
the federal court here today. The
object of the suit is to prevent the
landing on American soil by a Brit
ish company, in co-operation with
the defendant telegraph company, of
a cable which now extends from the
Barbados to Brazil.
The government alleged in its
pleadings that the contemplated ca
ble is monopolistic, as it holds an
exclusive franchise from the govern
ment of Brazil, which provides that
no other company may connect by
submarine cable any two of the
points within Brazzil touched by the
lines of the British company.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921.
youthful bandits
HOLD IIP lUK
JTuHIMSTiM
Guards Are Covered and
' Twelve Sacks of Federal
Reserve Bank Securities
and Money Stolen
CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Five youth
ful bandits held up a United States
mail truck at the Union station here
early today, escaping in an automo
bile with twelve sacks of mail, ten
of which contained registered mail.
> Police say that the best information
■ obtainable this morning indicates
the pouches contained part oi a fed
eral reserve bank money shipment
which was to have been placed on a
train leaving for St. Paul, Minn., at
2:30 a. m.
The bandits surprised three postal
employes guarding the pouches,
forcing them at the point of guns
ba_k into the truck, while the ban
dit car drew alongside and the
twelve bags were transferred to it.
The robbery was accomplished in a
few minte..
The regular mail was composed
solely of city collections, the police
say. The registered mall bags were
supposed to contain currency and
bonds whose value be esti
mated yet.
One of the postal employes said
that only a few minutes after they
had arrived at the station with
truck, the bandit car dashed up.
The police beiieve the robbery was
an inside j>b as the bandits seemed
to have knowledge of the bank ship
ment as well as the time the truck
would arrive and the number of men
guarding it.
Thomas Carter, Richard J. Sliney
and Philip Cahill, postal employes,
said the five men, none of whom ap
peared to be more than twenty years
old, all wore black masks and car*
ried out the robbery in such a short
time that the attention of a watch
man and a railroad mail foreman
-.g nearoy was not attreted un
til the robbers were speeding away
in their motor car with th-=> twelve
pouches.
Postal authorities, while unable to
estimate the amount of the loot, said
the shipments to the Northwest
which usually go out on the 2:30 a.
m. mail train average about SIOO,OOO
in value.
They expressed the belief, how
ever, that the had obtained
little of value, because of the fact
that Tuesday’s shipments are small
er than those on other days of the
week.
A week may elapse before an ac
curate figure covering the loss can
be known, according to the postal
inspectors.
Baltimore Concern
Goes to Market to
Spend Five Million
NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—The Amer
ican Wholesale corporation, of Bal
timore, has rented the entire second
floor of a large building here at 45
West Eighteenth street to spend $5,-
000,000 in cash.
For the $5,000,000 the company
tvants a line of general merchandise
with the exception of groceries, to
replenish the stock of its Baltimore
store, which was depleted by a boom
in business during the last month.
Buyers of twenty departments will
be at the emergency buying rooms
here for four days to look over lines
offered by all concerns. At the end
of four days the buying is to be con
tinued in Baltimore. The officials
of the company invite all manufac
turers who need big orders to keep
their plants going or who have
stocks they wish to turn into cash to
come prepared to talk business on a
cash basis.
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FRENCH FIRE ON
RUSSIAN COSSACKS
AS THEY MUTINY
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 17.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —French black
troops turned their machine guns on
mutinous Cossacks of General Wran
gel’s forme? army encamped at Tcha
talja, 25 miles northwest of Constan
tinople, Saturday night, after the
Cossacks had disarmed their officers.
The Russians returned the fire, kill
ing ten Senegalese and wounding
twenty others and two French offi
cers.
Passengers Carouse
Despite Presence of
“Pussyfoot” Johnson
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—W. E.
(“Pussyfoot”) Johnson, the man try
ing to knock the "L” out of England’s
ale, still believes in his own oratory
despite what happened in the second
class quarters aboard the Imperator
on her voyage to New York.
Despite his nightly prohibition
'ectures to his fellow-passengers,
“Pussyfoot” reported, there was an
increase of alcoholic hilarity as the
ship neared New York.
“But prohibition is coming,
"Pussyfoot” insisted.
CARTOONETTES
Because She’s Girl
, Lucky Georgian Tot
Wins $25,000 Prize
NEWNAN, Ga., Jan. 18.—Little
Miss Henrietta Hughes Colley, born
at the Davis-Fischer sanitarium in At
lanta the night of January 10, did
not come into the world with a sil
ver spoon in her mouth, but she drew
a $25,000 prize, thus qualifying as
probably the youngest prize-winning
baby on record. The proud parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Stewart
Colley, of Grantville, and the even
prouder great aunt, who had depos
ited the $25,000 in a bank with the
promise that it would be presented
with her name to the first girl child
born into the Colley family is Miss
Henrietta Hughes, of Danville, Ga.
The diminutive prize-winner is the
first girl in the Colley family since
1786, and perhaps longer than that,
as the family has no records dating
further back. Mrs. Colley, formerly
Miss Mary Dudley Fort, of Ameri
cus, was reared by Senator Hughes,
an uncle. It wfis after her marriage
about four that Miss
Hughes, her aunt. Is said to havd
made the offer of $25,000.
The lucky little girl’s father is a
prominent business man of the Grant
ville section, being president of the
Bank of Grantville, member of the
firm of the Colley Loan company and
a prosperous farmer. Among those
eagerly anticipating the home-com
ing of little Henrietta are her grand
mother, Mrs. I. R. Leigh, formerly
Mrs. J. W. Colley, and Stewart, Jr.,
the baby’s little brother.
APPORTIONMENT
BILL DEFEATED
BY HOUSE VOTE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The
house of representatives voted today
' against increasing its membership,
now 435.
The action was taken by adoption
! of an amendment to the reapportion
ment bill which sought to increase
1 the total to 483. Under the amend
' msnt twelve seats would be shifted
1 from eleven to eight states.
The vote to keep the membership
i at 435 was 198 for, to 77 against.
, Harvard mathmathical experts in
1 a letter to the house census com
mittee today said that the repre
. sentation in the house allotted to
states under tables of figures sub
mitted by the census bureau is in
correct.
A letter from Professor Edward
Huntington claimed that the experts
1 of the university have discovered a
new for fixing the repre
sentation whic hwould change the
numbers allotted to at least six
states.
Because of the statement the cen
ss committe decided to ask the house
to be allowed to withdraw the bill
increasing the membership from 435
to 483 on which a spirited fight has
been made.
Some members of the house be
believed the move resulted from a
realization that the proposed in
crease would not b<> agreed to and
that the census committee hoped to
reach a compromise figure. For this
reason a vote may be forced today.
Army Limitation Bill
Assured of Passage;
New Figure 175,000
WASHINGTON. Jan. 18.—Only
minor differences of language be
tween the senate and house meas
ures remained to be straightened out
today to send on its way to execu
tive action a joint resolution of con
gress limiting the size of the army
to 175,000 enlisted men.
Adoption by both houses of joint
resolutions cutting the army to that
figure came almost simultaneously
yesterday. Ten minutes after the
senate voted to set aside its deci
sion of 1 k to reduce the army
to 150,000 and approved the higher
figure, the house adopted the joint
resolution sponsored by Chairman
Kahn, of its military affairs commit
tee, directing the secretary of war
to stop enlistments until the army
is reduced to 175,000.
Farmer Is Killed
And Two Wounded
In Family Quarrel
L. L. Barton, a farmer, of the
Hapeville district, was shot and kill
ed Tuesday night by Guy Wallace, a
sheet, metal worker, after a gun bat
tie in which Wallace and his brother,
George, were all wounded. A family
feud, arising through alleged mis
treatment of Mrs. Barton, who is a
sister of the Wallaces, is said to
have caused the feud.
The Wallaces were arrested Tues
day night, but George was released
when Guy admitted firing the fatal
shot. He claimed that Barton start
ed the shooting, using a shotgun.
Four More Deaths
Mark Bloody Fight •
In Troubled Ireland
LONDON, Jan. 19.—Four civil- 1
ians were killed and seven black and 1
tan auxiliary policemen were wound
ed in a fight in County Galway, Ire- 1
lan', according to reports received
here today. The fight ensued when 1
a black and tan patrol was ambush- '
ed near the city of Galway. i
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Governor of Federal Reserve
Board Says United States
Must Sell and Buy in
Europe ;
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.) /
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.—W. P. G.
Harding, governor of the federal re
serve board, doesn’t talk about busi
ness conditions very often. But
when he does he tells some signifi
cant things about the entire financial
and ( business situation. That’s why
the address which he prepared for
the New York state bankers’ njeet
ing, complete copies of which were
made available Tuesday, is worthy of
study.
“I have always been impressed,’’
says Mr. Harding, “by the philosophy
of an old saying which, I believe, is
one of the many bits of wisdom at
tributed to Confucius—‘things ars
never as good or as bad as they
seem.’ While this philosophy is too
often overlooked in boom times, it
should always be taken to heart in
the periods of reaction which follow.
I am sure that we have all heard
more pessimistic talk during the last
six months than we usually hear In
ten years, and if I may be permitted
to use an overworked term, the
‘psychological effect’ of public senti
ment has much to do with molding
actual conditions.
Readjustments Inevitable
“It is evident now that the re
adjustments which have taken place
were inevitable and unavoidable, and
in view of worldwide conditions,
could not have been long deferred
in this country, no matter what ex
pedients might have been resorted
to. Great wars have invariably
caused great expansion, and the re
cent war was no exception. Periodo
of great expansion always have been
followed by periods of reaction,-and
the reaction is usually most severe
where expansion has been greatest.
The readjustments which have taken
place in this country since last
spring have been painful, paper
profits have been wiped out and in
many cases those who have produced
goods and commodities at a high
cost found themselves unable to ob
tain cost of production for them, and
are thus faced with loss of accumu
lated profits.
1 ‘These conditions have bgen wide- ,
spread. TTffiy ’ hhVe ‘TffMctefP' 6Vcry (
section of the country and it is nq£
unnatural that during recent months
the spirit of pessimism should have
run amuck just as in months pre
ceding the spirit of optimism Exceed
ed all reasonable bounds.
Banking Position Sound
“But present conditions justify
some conclusions which ought to en
courage and hearten us all.
“Our banking position is sound
and stronger than it has been for
many months and the business .com
wu.it fist tm-
exhilarated and men > unduly de
pressed has recovered its normal
state of mind.
1 “Public sentiment today undoubt
edly approves of working back tfl
• normal.
, “Whatever dan/rer of crisis there
may have been, has been passed.
“The gloomy forebodings which
many felt a year ago because of th*
knowledge that readjustments were
pending have given way, in the as
surance that the most trying and
critical stage of the readjustment
period is safely over, to a feeling of
conservative optimism, renewed
courage and restored confidence.
FUNDS FOR SOUTH
ARE PROVIDED IN
FARM MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The ag
ricultural appropriation bill for the
next fiscal year, as reported to the
house todav by the appropriation*
committee, carried a total of $38,-
.517,559, an increase of $1,804,675
over the amount appropriated for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. Th*
increase consists of the $1,000,000
appropriation for the purchase of
lands !n the iXppalachian and White
mountains under the Weeks bill for
the conservation of the natural re
.-ounces and the headwaters of navi
gable streams, and $804,000 in th*
ordinary activities of the depart
i i of agriculture.
An appropriation of $150,000 _ for
the southern field corps is provided
for, mainly for eradicating the boll
weevil in the cotton belt, and SIOO,OOO
is provided for exterminating tha
bean beetle in Alabama. Both ap
propriations are made immediately
available.
For developing the experiment of
making syrup from sweet potatoes,
$20,000 is provided. Southern mem
bers said this industry has been de
veloped to the point where it is only
necessary to get factories to agree to
nlace it on the market.' The syrup,
they said, is as palatable as the ma
ple or cane variety.
An increase of $34,000 which
brings the total to $175,000, was
made in the item, permitting the de
partment to certify to shippers the
condition of fruits and vegetables
when they arrive at their destination.
For the United States warehouse
act an appropriation of $65,000 was
provided for the coming year. The
1921 appropriation was $35,000 and
there was available in addition $25,-
000 from the original appropriation.
Members said this act was being ex
tended and more than a hundred cot
ton warehouses in Georgia alone had.
come in under it in the last year.
For fighting the pink boll worm in
Louisiana $550,000 was provided. At
the hearings before the committee it
was stated that already Louisiana
had provided $250,000 and Texas
SIOO,OOO for this purpose through
appropriations by the.tr leEtsiat-jr-*-”
An appropriation of $660,000 was
made for extermination of the cat
tTc. and $510,000 for the war on
hog cLolera in -‘with.
The bill carries a provision, di
recting trie agricultural ,
to get 10,000 pounds of picric aclA
and T. N. T. from the war depart
ment for sale to the state highway
departments for road work and to
farmers for uprooting stumps and
drainage at a price which would
cover the safe packing.
Merging of the bureau of erbp s
timates in the bureau of markets is
provided for in the measure. Mem
bers said this, in their opinion,
would make for a more efficient ad
ministration.