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Atlanta Ga- i-Wcddi) So urnal
VOL. XXIII. INO. 51.
ATHENS IS DAMAGED $2,000 000 IN SIX-HOUR FIRE
PRELIMINARIES ARE
BEING !■ FOR
TARIFF CONFERENCE
Speech of Vice President-
Elect Coolidge Will Feature
Thursday Evening Session,
Delegates Beingßegistered
Registration of delegates arriving
Wednesday from various sections of
the south to attend the Southern
Tariff Congress, which convenes on
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock in
Taft hall at the auditorium; contin
uation of committee meetings, and
preparations for the reception of
Governor Calvin Coolidge, who is to
to arrive at 5.'45 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon, occupied the attention of
the officials of the tariff congress on
the eve of the opening of the con
gress.
Registration books were opened at
the headquarters of the congress in
the Piedmont hotel and almost ev
ery train coming into Atlanta
brought its quota of industrial lead
ers of the south. Indications were
that practically every line of indus
try in the south would have one or
Tnore representatives in attendance
at the congress.
Several committee meetings were
held during the day. The program
committee, which* did not wholly
complete the schedule for the tnree
days’ meeting, was in session Wed
nesday. A tentative program for the
opening day Thursday was agreed
upon, but the complete program
awaited the arrival of several mem
bers of the board of governors who
Were delayed in reaching the city.
Vice President-elect Coolidge will
be met by a double reception com
mittee. One appointed by the city
and one representing the tariff con
gress. A guard of honor, composed
of four picaed scouts from each boy
scout troop in Atlanta, will be drawn
up at the Terminal station to meet
the governor’s train. Accompany
ing Governor Coolidge will be Mrs.
Coolidge and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Stearns, of Boston. The entire par
ty will go directly to the Georgian
Terrace, where Governor Coolidge
will reside while in Atlanta, and at
7:30 the visitors will be the guests
of honor at a dinner at the Geor
gian Terrace, tendered by John H.
Kirby, president of the Southern Tar
iff association.
Coolidge to Speak
Governor Coolidge’s address at 8
o’clock Thursday night in the audi
torium of the Baptist Tabernacle is
io be the principal address of the
congress. Quite a number of social
events have been arranged for Gov
ernor Coolidge and his party during
their stay in Atlanta.
Niagara Falls Will
Be Considered National
Asset, Baker Declares
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. —The pow
er possibilities of Niagara Falls are
regarded by the federal water power
commission as a national asset and
will be so treated, Secretary Baker,
chairman of the commission, declared
today at hearings <?n proposed power
projects in the Niagara river.
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IBACHELLOR SAYS
! HE WON FORTUNE
BUT LATER LOST
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 25.—That he
has won and lost several small for
tunes in stock speculations since his
sudden disappearance from Palmetto,
Ga., was asserted today by R. C.
Bachellor, former Palmetto, Ga.,
banker, who is under arrest here for
alleged defalcations from the bank
at Palmetto.
Unwilling to make definite an
swers Bachellor became talkative
over his playing the stock gjime. “I
have won and lost enough to make
a man independent for life since
I left Georgia. I don’t want to say
too much. It might sound conceited,”
he said.
Bachellor said he obtained backing
in Wall street after his first reverse.
Previously, he had told of making a
“clean up” on the cotton market in
New York, only to see it dwindle
to nothing.
Bachellor’s conversation and de
meanor seerrys to be imbued with a
positive conviction that he knows
the market and can beat it.
“After consulting with my attor
ney I expect to make a signed state
ment in Atlanta,” he declared, in con
nection with questions asked about
others. If arraigned. Bachellor says
he will plead “nol guilty.” He re
peatedly points out that he was not
arrested, but voluntarily surrendered.
“On several scores I was posi
tively informed I was not wanted in
Georgia and I stayed away,” he ex
plained. “I recently heard something
conflicting with that previous infor
mation. I though I would test it
out and see if they would some after
me. So I gave myself up Sunday. I
don’t intend to be exiled from Geor
gia.”
Bachelor will not reveal whether
he has any money nor why he came
to Texas. He discredits any belief
that he came to Texas to get into
the oil game.
“I made a mistake In leaving Pal
metto and in staying away,” he said.
“I was nearing a nervous collapse
last March. In fact I was about
crazy when I left. Friends at my
first stop (Cnicinnati probably), re
marked on my appearance and bad
nervous state when they met me<No,
I can’t say who those friends are.
After I had stayed away for a while
I began to make money and did not
return.”
He admitted that he and his wife
had corresponded regularly. He ad
mitted spending several months in
Ne wYork city, and being in Albany
and Cincinnati. Before coming to
Dallas he spent several weeks in
Fort Worth, Texas, 35 miles distant.
Bachellor is dressed in a tailor
made suit. He shows signs of re
cent, if not present prosperity. Bach
ellor says that his expenses have
Court of Inquiry
Ends Investigation
Os Langston Death
VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 25.—The
American naval court of inquiry and
the Japanese military court conclud
ed an inquiry here into the shooting
of Naval Lieutenant Warren H.
Langdon by a Japanese sentry here
early this month. A decision, is ex
pected soon, it was said.
The U. S. S. New Orleans which
brought Admiral Gleaves, command
-er-chief of the American Asiatic
fleet, and the board of naval officers
here, left Monday for Shanghai, tak
ing the body of Lieutenant Langdon.
MANILA, Jam 25?—The cruiser
New Orleans, while en route to Vladi
vostok with Admiral Gleaves and a
court of inquiry to investigate the
death of Lieutenant Warren H.
Langdon, picked up five starving Ko
reans in a fishing boat in the Japan
sea and turned them over to the
Jananese consul at Vladivostok, ac
cording to a wireless message from
the cruiser. ’
Woman Candidate
Is Likely Defeated
In S. C. Election
COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 26.—0 n the
face of unofficial and incomplete re
turns received last night by the Co
lumbia State, Miss Corinne Barfield,
the first woman to offer for the legis
lature of South Carolina, was de
feated Tuesday in a special election
in Clarendon county. Five men can
didates also were in the field.
J. H. Scarborough was leading on
the face of available returns, with
Miss Barfield pressing one of the men
for second place.
The election was called to fill the
unexpired term of Representative
W. T. P. Sprott, who died during the
Christmas holidays.
Toledo Jewelry Store
Robbed of $30,000;
Proprietor Is Bound
TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 25. —Four
bandits entered the Daniels jewelry
store here today, bound the proprie
tor and customers hand and foot,
and escaped in an automobile with
jewelry valued at more than $30,-
000.
3.50 Per Cent Beer Law
Repealed in New Jersey
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 25. —The
assembly last night unanimously
passed a bill introduced by Mrs.
Margaret B. Laird, a member from
Essex county, repealing Governor
Edwards' 3.50 per cent beer law en
acted last year to aid New Jersey
in its fight before the United States
supreme court against prohibition.
Immediately afterwards the house
adopted. 51 to 4, a concurrent reso
lution for New Jersey’s ratification
of the federal prohibition amend
ment.
$100,000,000 Road Bill
Favored by Committee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—An ap
propriation of $100,000,000 for fed
eral aid in road building during the
next fiscal year was approved by the
house roads committee today in re
porting a bill •of Representative
Sells, Tennessee.
The money is to be allotted to
those states which authorize the ex
penditure of amounts equal to the
allotments, as has been the practice
for the last few years. A proposal
to authorize the expenditure of SIOO,-
000,000 annually for five years
defeated.
P. 0. RECEIPTS FOR
1920 SHOW GWF
SIMMER 1318
Figures for Past Year Are
$2,760,184.58, Breaking
All Records in Atlanta’s
History
Atlanta’s postoffice receipts for
1920 were 52,760,184.58, an increase of
$127,830.02 over 1919, according to
an announcement Wednesday by Act
ing Postmaster George C. Rogers.
Notwithstanding the practical
abandonment of Camp Gordon, and
the loss of the large business of the
sub-stations there, the figures for
1920 broke all records in Atlanta’s
history, Mr. Rogerss report showed.
While receipts in many other
southern cities slumped materially
during 1920, the increase in Atlanta
was steady, each month in the year,
showing increases over corresponding
months of the previous year.
No Gordon Business
Receipts for the last calendar year
did not show an increase as large as
than shown in 1919 over 1918. The
receipts of the office in 1919 re
vealed an increase over the year 1918
of approximately $300,000.
Mr. Rogers stated that the show
ing made is still more creditable
by reason of the fact that all busi
ness at Camp Gordon and the pre
vious heavy business of the Candlei
warehouse was not enjoyed during
1920. During the previous year re
ceipts from the Candler warehouse;
alone had aggregated more than SIOO/-
000.
In order to meet the constantly in
creasing patronage here, Mr. Rogers
shows in his report that the Edge
wood sub-station was re-established,
that a central postoffice branch in
the Peachtree Arcade was opened, and
that ten contract stations in various
parts of the city were established. In
addition to this, the “Nixie” division
was moved from the main postoffice
into quarters adjoining the office on
Poplar street.
Plans for Future
Mr. Rogers believes that the show
ing made in Atlanta during 1920
comparess favorably with showings
made throughout the country, and
eclipses showings by the vast ma
jority of offices. He now has under
way definite plans for the installa
tion of additional contract offices to
meet the needs of the people of At
lanta and is also advising with offi
cials of the postoffice department
relative to additional improvements
and enlargements of the Atlanta of
fice.
One of the most important im
provements and enlargements of the
Atlanta office.
One of the most important im
provements planned for the imme
diate future, Mr. Rogers said, is the
installation of a classified branch
office to be located in the neighbor
hood of Highland and St. Charles
avenues, which will be a carrier sta
tion and the headquarters of at least
'eight mail carriers. This improve
ment will greatly expedite the de
livery of mail in the sections of At
lanta to be covered by the Highland
avenue branch.
1921 Out for Record
It was further announced by Mr.
Powers that the postoffice depart
ment has approved plans for the
opening of a contract station in the
Candler annex, on South Pryor
street. Fixtures will be installed and
the office opened within the next few
days.
Additional substations in various
parts of the residential sections may
be forthcoming early in the year.
Among these will be a station in the
Sselmari pharmacy, at Ponce de Leon
avenue and North Boulevard.
Postmaster Rogers announced that
receipts of the office for the first
twenty-five days of the new year ex
ceeded receipts for 1920 by large
amounts. If the business continues
at the present rate, 1921 will set a
new high water mark, he said.
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CATTLE RAISING
RECOMMENDED TO
FARMER STUDENTS
ATHENS, Ga., Jan. 25. —Farmers
from all section sos the state ar
rived in Athens Monday for the
free course of instruction to be giv
en at the State College of Agricul
ture during “Farmers’ Week,” end
ing January 29.
The school opened at 2:30 o’clock
Monday afternoon with a lecture on
the dairy industry and its place in
Georgia, delivered by Dr. M. P. Jar
nagin. Dr. Jarnagin discussed the
value of raising beef cattle, both as
a source of income for the farmers
and of utilizing waste lands.
The cattle judging contest began
at 3 o’clock, under the direction of
Dr. Jarnigan, and prizes will be
awarded the students attendi. g the
short course making the highest,
score in each class.
The question of eradicating the
boll weevil will be taken up by the
farmers Tuesday morning, and the
results of boll weevil control. Dur
ing the past season will be sum
marized and all the latest data will
be presented. There will be a big
demonstration in applying calcium
arsenate to cotton. Officials at the
college stated that according to the
widespread response it is expected
that several hundred farmers will
register before the week closes.
SCHOOL DAYS!
FILIBUSTER ON
NEW TARIFF BILL
IN TENTH DAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. —This is
the tenth day of the Harrison fill"
buster in the senate against the
Fordney tariff bill.
Harrison’s filibuster may take its
place ,jn the hall of fame with others
which mark senate history.
Pat Harrison, junior senator from
Mississippi, a former member of the
house, is the leader of the filibus
ter, and in fact, its mainspring. He
has done most of the filibustering
himself thus far, but a number of
others are ready to come to his help
If he is forced to any extended ef
forts. \ ,
Harrison began his active filibus
ter’on January 17. He has not been
forced to do any long distance speak
ing thus far, but with the aid of other
Democrats and some Republicans, has
succeeded in keeping the tariff bill
in the background by getting other
bills considered. The longest speech
he has made to date on it was late
yesterday, when he indulged in a
monologue for more than an hour
after Senator McCumber, North Da
kota, had spoken for two hours in
behalf of the bill.
Friends of the bill, at a caucus,
decided to try to break the filibus
ter if it appears likely to prevent
action this session. They are overly
confident, however, that they can up
set Harrison’s plans to talk the meas
ure to death.
MOTHER VISITS
JAILED DAUGHTER,
THEN DROPS DEAD
In less than thirty minutes after
she had visited her wayward daugh
ter who was held in the Fulton coun
ty tower on the federal charge of
conspiracy, Mrs. Emma Drennan, six
ty-five years of age, dropped dead
in front of St. Joseph’s infirmary
last Thursday afternoon.
Before taking her departure from
the jail Mrs. Drennan had told Dep
uty Sheriff Lee Whatley that her
daughter’s actions were breaking her
heart, saying that she could not live
much longer.
The daughter, Wilma Leinekebber
is eighteen years old, and very pret
ty. She was arrested by depart
ment of justice agents while living
with Lindsey Amaker. He is charg
ed with violating the Mann act and
a charge of bigamy is being plan
ned against the woman. She also
is charged with having conspired
with Amaker to violate the Mann
act.
According to ,a story told to Unit
ed States Commissioner Colquitt Car
ter at a preliminary hearing Wed-,
nesday, the young girl deserted hey'
mother and her husband more than
a year ago, and left Atlanta with
Amaker. The pair toured the south
eastern states for eight months, reg
istering at hotels as man and wife.
The white slave charge against Ama
ker was declared by federal agents to
be one of the most aggravated cases
they have yet handled. Amaker and
the girl are held under bonds of
$2,000 each.
DHH BUSINESS
BLOCK RUED BEFORE
BLftZE IS CONTROLLED
BY WARD GREENE,
Staff Correspondent of The Journal
ATHENS, Ga., Jan. 25. —One of the main busirux blocks of
Athens lay in ashes this morning after the most disastrous fire in the
city’s history, which destroyed a dozen principal stores and resulted
in property damage estimated at more than $2,000,000.
Estimates of the loss furnished The Journal correspondent this
morning by Selig Bernstein, president of the People’s Bank, were at
follows:
Michael Brothers, wholesale and retail department store,
$1,000,000.\
Lee Morris, gentlemen’s furnishings, $25,000.
Andrew Childres, candy kitchen $25,000.
Citizens’ Pharmacy, $25,000.
Denny Motor company, $50,000.
Epting & Everhart, dry goods, $15,000.
Sol J. Boley, dry goods, $75,000.
Fred Davis, gentlemen’s furnishings, SIO,OOO.
D. Lund, dry goods, $30,000.
Joseph Jewelry company, small water damage.
For a time the fire threatened the entire business section of
Athens, and Mayor Erwin sent an S. O. S. call for the assistance of
Atlanta. A relief train with two engines and 3,000 feet of hose, un
der the command of Fire Chief Cody, left Atlanta at 4 o’clock this
morning, but -when the train reached here at 8 o’clock the Athens
department had the fire under control. Although they had been al
most exhausted in the six-hour fight.
No lives were lost in the fire, but Chief George M . McDorman,
of the Athens fire department, was badly cut and bruised in a fall
from a ladder.
PROBING MEMPHIS
EXPLOSION WHICH
KILLED 10 PERSONS
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 25.—Inves
tigations by agents of the United
States bureau of explosives, repre
sentatives of the oil company and lo
cal officials were under way today
to definitely determine the cause of
the explosion of a tank car of casing
head gasoline at the plant of the
Colyar Reese company here yesterday
which wrecked a block of frame
dwellings and caused the death of ten
negroes.
In addition to those killed, approx
imately a score of persons were in
jured. Hospital reports today indi
cated that several still were in a crit
ical condition. Two white persons,
L. C. Scott and J. W. Wilder, white
employes of the Colyar Reese com
pany, are among the injured. Both
were badly burned.
The property loss is estimated at
$200,000.
Colyar Reese, president of the oil
company, attributed the explosion to
spontaneous combustion, which oc
curred when vapor from the gasoline,
released when the dome of the tank
car was removed, came in contact
with the atmosphere. Another theo
ry was that the explosion might have
been due to a spark from the chisel
of a workman opening the dome.
D. L. Andrews, local representative
of the federal bureau of explosives,
likened the explosion here to a blast
which occurred at Ardmore, Okla.,
several years ago when forty-two
persons were killed and extensive
property damage done. Fumes aris
ing from casing head gasoline, made
from the leakage of gas from the
casing head of an oil well—in real
ity a liquified form of gas—are
highly explosive, he explained, easi
ly ignited and spread rapidly.
Mr. Andrews was of the opinion
that use of a chisel in opening the
dome lid of the tank car might have
caused a spark, which, coming in
contact with escaping vapor from
the tank, possibly ignited the fumes
and set off the explosion.
Andrew McKinley, negro workman
who opened the car lid, was fatally
b u r n e d.
Harding Plays Golf
On Florida Links
During His Cruise
VERO, Fla., Jan. 25.—President
elect Harding’s houseboat Victoria
anchored off Vero last night at the end
of another day of uneventful sail
ing down the Indian river. She will
continue her journey tomorow and
may reach Palm Beach by tomorrow
night.
Today’s run was completed in time
to permit the president-elect and his
companions on the houseboat cruise
to play eighteen holes of golf at the
Vero links and take a surf bath be
fore nightfall. Mr. Harding was
welcomed at the golf club by many
members of the Ohio winter colony
located here, but in deference to his
wishes, plans for a formal reception
in his honor were abandoned.
At the present rate of travel the
Victoria should reach Miami, the
southern pcint on her trip, by Fri
day. She has no fixed schedule, how
ever, and it may be decided not to
go into Miami until Saturday or
S u n d ay.
Lives of Americans
May Be in Danger
From Mexican Bandits
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 26.—Fears
were felt here today for a large
number of Americans in a mining
camp at Tepehuanes state of Durango,
which is reported to have been at
tacked by a strong force of bandits,
led by the Arieta brothers.
The Arie.ta brothers revolted sev
eral days ago, according to advices
reaching here, and went on the war
path in Durango with a big follow
ing.
Wires Are Crippled
By Snow and Sleet
Out in Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 26. —Tele-
phone and telegraph facilities were
crippled in Nebraska today by snow
and sleet. Telephone company offi
cials said that 2,000 telephone poles
had been leveled by the weight of
sleet on the wires, resulting in $75,-
000 damage.
The storm apparently -was working
its way eastward, it was stated at
the weather bureau.
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FIRE JUMPS INTO
ADJOINING BLOCKS
Chief McDorman, who is one of
the best known fire chiefs in the
United States, is in the hospital in
a serious condition.
The fire centered between Clay
ton and Broad streets, two of the
main business streets of Athens. It
wiped out the block bounded by
these streets. Wall and Jackson
streets, jumping both Wall and
Jackson streets for short distances
in adjoining blocks.
Fronting on Clayton street, be
tween Wall and Jackson, is the de
partment store of Max and Simon
Michael, whose beautiful twin homes
on Prince avenue are among the
finest mansions in Athens. They own
the entire property bounded by
Clayton, Wail, Broad and Jackson
streets, except for the corner at
Broad and Jackson. Their depart
ment store, including both wholesale
and retail stores, is one of the big
gest in the south.
Directly across Wall street from
them, on Clayton street, is the Max
Joseph building, a three-story struc
ture with a basement. It was In
this building the fire broke out.
This building is occupied by the
Denny Motor company, a small res
taurant fronting on Wall street, and
several secret orders which used a
hall in the upper story, these includ
ing the Masons, the Odd Fellows and
the Woodmen of the World.
Started In Restaurant
The origin of the fire has not been
accurately determined, but it is be
lieved to have started in the restau
rant. In the Denny Motor company
was about $60,000 worth of new and
used cars, and a large quantity of
gasoline.
The flames breaking out about
midnight turned quickly to the plant
of the motor company, and, igniting
the gasoline, had the whole building
afire. The Athens fire department,
which numbers about eighteen men,
was soon on the job, but the fire
raged too fast for them to control,
spreading to the Michaels’ store, it
ate its way along Clayton street and
back down the hill to Broad street.
Fire Wall Stops Flames
When the Citizens’ Pharmacy, on
Clayton street, just across Jackson
street from the Michaels store be
came ignited, it looked as if the
fire would sweep another block, but
directly in the rear of the Citizens
Pharmacy, fronting on Wall street,
is the National Bank of Athens, pro
tected by a brick fire wall, which
extends the width of the block from.
Broad to Clayton streets. This
stopped the fire from spreading
further in thfit direction.
The stores on Broad street, a group
of clothing establishments, had
their top stories damaged the worst.
Most of the-, lower floors did not
suffer except from water damage.
These stores included Boley’s, Ept
ing & Everhart, Fred Davis, D. Lund,
and Lee Morris. Lee Morris is on
the corner of Jackson and Broad.
The fire went no farther in this di
rection, as the National bank is on
the corresponding corner.
In the other direction, the fire
stopped short at the Johnson Shoe
company.
Directly across Broad street from
these stores, only about one hun
dred yards away, Is the_ main ad
ministration building of" the Uni
versity of Georgia., one of the his
toric structures of the state, sur
rounded by dormitories and other
university buildings. Sparks fell
among these in a perilous manner,
but none of the buildin'gs ignited.
On the opposite side of Clayton
street from Michaels’ store the big
shop windows of glass were melted
out by the heat. Luckily the wind
was in the other direction, so
neither they nor the Southern Mu
tual Life Insurance company build
ing were in any great danger.
When Chief Cody, of Atlanta, ar
rived here this morning he found the
fire practically out. The street was
reped off to keep back the crowd,
and the Atlanta firemen helped the
Athens department in pouring water
on the debris to quench the live
sparks, and investigating the ruin*
to keep several big walls that were
still standing, from falling.
CHIEF CODY RUSHES
2 PUMPERS TO ATHENS
Fire Chief William B. Cody, his
driver, Tom Wiliams, with two
pieces of Atlanta fire apparatus arid
their crews, left Atlanta for Athens
Tuesday morning at 4 o’clock, in an
sweto an appeal for help from the
Athens fire department. Wagon
No. 4, a 1,000-gallon pumper, and
Wagon No. 3, a 750-gallon pumper
were taken, with their crew’s of four
men each.
The tw> big gasoline fire engines
were loaded on a special Seaboard
tr in at Spring street at 4 o’clock
Tuesday morning, and were at work
(Continued on Fage 6, Column 4)