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MERIT SYSTEM FOR
COIWICTSAPPRDVED
The merit system for convicts now
•working in Fulton county was ap
proved by a majority of the mem
bers of the board of county commis
sioners Wednesday afternoon, and a
definite decision on the matter will
be reached within the next month.
The system contemplates a reward
of ?1 a month to convicts who re
ceive five demerits or less during
that period.
The proposal came in the form of a
recommendation by the public works
committee, of which Paul S. fiitner
idge is chairman. It could have
been adopted Wednesday, since a
majority of the members expressed
favor; 'however, the committeemen
stated that they would like to have
a unanimous vote of approval and
would defer a vote until the,next
meeting.
The recommendation of the com
mittee, which explains the proposed
system, reads as follows:
"The committee on public works
recommended to the board that each
prisoner be allowed the sum of 51
a month, beginning with June 1,
Z 1921, upon the following conditions
and stipulations:
"1. The above is be awarded
upon what is known as the merit
system. ...
*‘2. Five demerits in any one month
shall deprive the individual or indi
viduals receiving the same from par
ticipating in the award. .
“3. Where guilty of violating one
of the rules to the extent that cor
poral punishment must be inflicted
to maintain discipline, such individ
ual or individuals shall be deprived
from participating in the award for
two months.
“4. Failure to obey orders from
the proper authorities in charge, or
violating any of the rules as em
bodied in the rule book furnished by
the state prison board, or one of the
specific rules issued by the warden
of Fulton county, shall constitute a
demerit.
“5. All sums accruing to a prisoner
under the above system shall be paid
upon completion of sentence of such
Srisoner, and oftener should the war
en so recommend.”
The plan was given the hearty en
dorsement of Charles Collier, county
warden. He stated that there are
twenty-seven negro life-termers and
six white life-termers, and that some
of these men never receive a visit
or a letter. Several have gone for
fifteen years without communication
from the outside world, he said.
’Frequently,” said Warden Collier,
“these fellows beg a little tobacco
from their fellow prisoners, who
have relatives supplying them. If
the county offers this dollar a month
it will give the men something to
work for and make them less dis
satisfied with their surroundings and
conditions.”
Commissioner Charles Turner de
clared he was opposed to the recom
mendation and thought the money
could be spent to much better ad
vantage elsewhere. He said he was
opposed to corporal punishment, but
did not believe in paying county
money to convicts. He said in his
opinion this plan would be illegal.
Commissioners Etheridge and Gil
bert stated.that the amount involved
waS small and would greatly benefit
conditions. Commissioner Hope asked
for time to investigate the matter,
and it was agreed to defer action for
a montn.
Peach Growers Are
Warned to Spray
Georgia Belles
FORT VALLEY, Ga.. Jtme 2.—The
laSt arsenical application should be
made immediately to Georgia belles,
according to government curculio
lere. A hew crop of adult curculia
beetles is now emerging from the
soil, and it is extremely important to
spray such variety with arsenate of
lead as the fruit enters'the ripening
period. Self-boiled lime-sulphur
should also be used in this spray
with the arsenate of lead. If dust
Is being used the 80-5-15 formula is
recommended.
This should be the last spraying
for Georgia Belles this season unless
a great deal of rainy, and cloudy
weather occurs during the next sev
eral weeks which would necessitate
an additional application of self
boiled lime-sulphur (32-32-200) alone
about ten days before the fruit is
harvested. Hileys will. need no fur
ther arsenical applications this sea
son if they were sprayed during the
week of May 16-21 as recommended.
Apply the last application to El
bertas during the week of June 6-11.
The Elbertas will pitobably suffer
more from the second generation qf
curculios than other late varieties
unless the arsenical application is
applied to them next week. As this
is the last arsenical application for
the season growers are warned to
make it thorough in order to insure
protection during harvest. Use both
the Insecticide and fungicide on El
bertas next week as recommenced for
Georgia Belles.
Liquor Taster’s Job
Is Too Exhausting
And Londoner Quits
LONDON. —Four hundred varieties
of liquor will be on tap free when
the West End wine merchants hold
their competition for the purpose of
■electing an expert taster.
The present holder of the post says
he hates his job, as it is exhaust
ing.
There is a large waiting list of
applicants.
So far as is known “Pussyfoot”
Johnson, who is now in London, will
not b< present.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
RESULT OF A TRAIN-WRECKER’S PLOT
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Detectives have failed, to date, to find the train-wrecker who deliberately and carefully caused this
smashup of the “Hummer” Chicago & Alton flier, at Shirley, Ind. Tools had been used to throw a
switch and still leave tw’o signal lights at mile intervals showing “clear.” The train dashed into a
string of freight cars on a siding at sixty miles an hour. Fifteen persons were hurt.
TULSA, UNDER MARTIAL LA W,
TAKES STOCK OF RACE CLASH
TULSA, Okla., June 1. —With day
break today this city, under the con
trol of strict martial law, began a
systematic stock-taking of the death
and ruin which a few hours of race
rioting spread in its path Tuesday
night and yesterday morning.
The military (forces, headed by
Adjutant General Barrett, started a
check up of .the list of dead which
unofficial estimates placed at some
where near 100, most of them negroes.
Belief was expressed by z all officials
that the disturbance'would not recur.
Eight white men were killed so
far as a check of the morgues dis
closed.
Some of the thirty-five injured in
hospitals are expected to die. When
the military forces search the burned
negro quarter number of negro
bodies were expected to be found.
This morning the bodies of fifteen
negroes lay in the morgues.
Belief was expressed by officials
that the bodies of all negroes killed
would not be found, as it was thought
that a. number were burned in their
homes.' Then, too, reports were re
ceived at military headquarters that
a number of negro bodies had been
thrown into the river and others
buried outside the city.
Physicians treating negroes at hos
pitals said a score could not recover.
Military in Charge
Military patrols and guards at
every principal street corner kept a
firm grip on the situation today.
Business was virtually suspended
last night under a general order is
sued by Adjutant General Barrett,
but stores were permitted to open
at 6 o’clock this morning.
Citizens were not permitted on
the streets last night under the or
der and it was strictly enforced by
the guardsmen. Any one who ven
tured on the streets without a mili
tary pass was taken to the guard
house.
A sweeping investigation of the
causes leading up to the rioting was
expected to get under way during
today.
Governor Robertson, whb came
here late yesterday, planned to take
an active hand. A military commis
sion had the task of fixing respon
sibility for the outbreak.
Outside the horor of killing and
wounding in! the series of race bat
tles, the situation of thousands of
homeless negroes presented the most
serious Condition and one which will
give authorities the biggest problem
for solution. All that was left this
morning of the hundreds of negro
homes bunched in the section fired by
white rioters was a blackened waste,
a curling column of smoke here and
there, and a few shattered walls.
An idea of the extent of the de
struction in the burned area is
gdined from the statement that it
is more than a mile. f square. Virtu
ally no buildings escaped. Many were
cheap frame dwellings, but more
than a score of them were substan-
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At last Uncle Sam seems to have the drop on the mail bandit.
Belted with cartridges and 4 long wicked looking revolver at his
hip, this Boston mail handler is ready for road agents. In addition,
when the mails are being transferred, they are guarded by men car
rying big “pump guns” equipped with Maxim silencer. Postmaster
General Hays ordered the distribution of thousands of revolvers and
guns to postal employes*
687,500 Words Are
Recorded in ‘Bunco’
Investigation Report
How many woirls wete spoken ana
reeoifled in Atlanta’s famous seven
week bunco probe; The stenographer
who reported the testimony and
transcribed it into neat littie vol
umes says that the grand total of
spoken and recorded words is 687,509.
This amounts to about ten average
book-length novels, and if a man
set out to read it all, it would take
him approximately forty-six consecu
tive hours. Imagine reading Vic
tor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” three
times! And yet that isn’t as many
words as weire recorded from the
bunco probe.
The record includes the dnect tes
timony of witnesses, the questions ol
the attorneys and committeemen, and
the controversial set-tos between
counsel and commiteemen. It does
not include the arguments of the at
torneys which would add another 30.-
000 words.
V- F. Manning, the Texas bunco
victim, has more words in the rec
ord than any other witness.
Higher Appropriations
Are Recommended
WASHINGTON. June 2—The sen
ate appropriation committee in re
porting today the deficiency appro
priation bill recommended increases
aggregating $53,850,000 over the
$100,000,000 total carried in the meas
ure as passed by the house. The
principal increase was one of $50,-
000,000 for the shipping board.
tial brick business houses. A negro
church recently completed at a cost
of $85,000 was cansumed by the
flames.
Heavy Fire Loss
The property loss, according to
real estate men, will total well over
$1,500,000.
Officials realizing that some hasty
measures must be taken for the re
lief of- the thousands of homeless
negroes,' set to work today to de
vise a scheme for providing them
with shelter.
Five thousand negroes were
camped in the fair grounds under
protection of the militia and thou
sands of others who fled out of the
city came trickling back.
Citizens were called upon to con
tribute bedding and clothing for re
lief of the refugees. A civilian com
mittee and the Red Cross provided
food and other comforts.
One suggestion was to clear away
the debris in the old negro quarter
and erect tents there.
Since martial law was declared late
yesterday there has been no indica
tion of further conflicts and observ
ers expressed the belief that the flare
of race feeling had died out. There
were unsubstantiated rumors at va
rious times of sporadic trouble, but
investigation proved them untrue.
Trains coming into Tulsa last night
brought no negroes and the number
of white passengers was reduced
sharply. On the train arriving here
frem Muskogee at 1:30 a. m. it was
said that three coaches generally arg
crowded and that the entire negro
section usually is filled to capacity.
This morning no negro passengers
alighted and there were fewer than
a score of white passengers. The
negro porter was not permitted to
make his usual run. and a white
brakeman substituted for him.
To Frobe Causes
At the downtown hotels where ne
gro ’bellboys and porters heretofore
have 'been employed, guests were re
quested to tell the substitute eleva
tor operators their floors and then
find the* own rooms.
Officials hope to clear up by the
investigation just what led to t»e
first shooting Tuesday night. A
newspaper mam who was at the court
house at the time said that about
twenty-fiv® white men gathered on
the south side of the building. Three
of the leaders entered the court
house, he said. On the top floor of
which Dick Rowland, a negro, was
being held for an alleged attack upon
a white girl in an elevator of a down
town building. Most of the white
men were not armed, according to
the newspaper man.
Sheriff McCullough met the three
men who entered the building and
warned them away, with the declara
tion that the negro would be protect
ed at any cost. The prisoner was in
a cell at the top of a winding stair-c
way, which could have easily been
held bv a few men against a mob.
Meantime, about thirty negroes,
Mexican Offers Bribe
To U. S. Army Officer
For Support, Is Charge
MEXICO CITY, June 2.—Alleged
letters offering a huge bribe to an
American army officar to obtain
support from the United States gov
ernment for the candidacy of Al
fredo Robles Dominguez for presi
dent, were made public by President
Obregon today.
The letters, from Dominguez to
Colonel Robert M. Campbell, former
military attache here, offered Colo
nel Campbell to obtain
support for the former's candidacy
to succeed General Carranza.
Dominguez, said to be • in Wash
ington now opposing the Obregon
administration, was Obregon’s op
ponent at the elections.
N. C. Revenue Act
Declared Invalid
WASHINGTON. June 3.—The su
preme court today, in effect, declared
invalid section 71 of North Carolina
revenue act of 1917 levying a spe
cial tax upon manufacturers of au
tomobile engaged in selling their
products in the state.
Quaker Bans Dropped
PHILADELPHIA.—Hicksite Qua
kers, both men and women, have
eliminated from the “book of rules
of moral conduct” specific references
to “dancing, card playing and music”
against which the sect has fought
from time immemorial.
I some armed, gathered in little groups
west of the courthouse. Barney Clea
ver, negro, a veteran peace officer,
I went among the gathering and'coun
seled the negroes to disperse. At this
time there apparently was no con
certed action among the negroes.
Most of them started to leave, but
were called back by a few leaders.
Twice again the majority of the ne
gro mob moved away, but each time
they returned at the appeal of the
few who were determined to stay.
By this time the white crowd had
been reinforced by curious persons.
Then some broke away, running
eastward shouting: "Let’s get guns.
Adjutant General Barrett, com
manding the state militia force in
Tulsa county, under the martial law
proclamation, announced this morn
ing that 250 of the 450 guardsmen
here will be sent home this afternoon.
Florida House Asks
State Convention of
Democratic Party
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., June 2.
The house has passed a concurrent
resolution put in’by Mr. of
Columbia, calling on the state Dem
ocratic Central committee to' call a
state convention for the purpose of
formulating a Democratic platform
for the state. There was some objec
tion to the resolution when it went
to a vote, but it was adopted by a
very large majority of the members
present.
The resolution follpws in full:
"Whereas, the trend of events, both
in our state and country, demon
strates that , there is great need for
the reorganization, rejuvenation and
revivifying of the Democratic party
within the state of Florida and,
"Whereas, it is more than a score
of years since the Democratic party
of the state of Florida has announced
the principles which should guide
the people and,
“Whereas, during that long pe
riod of Mme there has been great
development within the state, im
mense additions to the population,
and larlge accretions to. the wealth
of the state, without corresponding
political development and,
“Whereas, only through the united
action of the dominant ®atiticnJ
party of Florida can the prosperity
of the state be conserved and her
institutions perpetuated, now, there
fore,
"Be it resolved by the house of
representatives of the legislature of
Florida, the senate concurring,
it is the sense of this legislature
that the state executive committee
of the Democratic party of Florida
should call, at ascearly a date as
possible, a convention of the Demo
crats of Florida to consider the po
litical and economic problems of the
state and to that end invites the
said executive committee to call sudh
a convention, and requests that the
convention thus called may be repre
sentative of the great body of the
Democrats of Florida, and to the
further end that’the convention
may consult as to the policy to be
pursued by the party in the state
in the further development of Flor
ida.” , l
Cotton Mill Owners
To Make No Effort
To “Break” Strike
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. June 2.
There will be no attempt at strike
breaking on the part of cottdn man
ufacturers whose plan’.s are idle as
a result of the strike or 111,000 op
eratives at Charlotte, Concord and
Kannapolis Wednesday, according to
statements issued Thursday.
The plan of the managements of
the mills, it was said, is to allo v
their plants to remain idle indefinite
ly or until such a time as the opeo
atives desire to return to work on
the same basis on which they were
being paid when thev left.
Americus Offices
Cleverly Robbed
AMERICUS, Ga.. June 2.—Eight
offices in Americus were entered and
robbed by some mysterious burglar
who opened safes and desks without
damaging them, the robbery being
discovered Tuesday. Offices robbed
were those of .Shipp & Sheppard, R.
L. Maynard. Herbert Hawkins, Ellis
Webb & Ellis, W. W. Dykes. E. M.
Viquesney and Joseph Parkins.
Gordon Howell and Robert Lane,
on their way to the office of W. T.
Lane & Son, met a stranger on the
stairway, who is believed to have
been the burglar. Investigation dis
closed that Mr. Lane’s office had
been entered, but his safe was not
robbed. The amount of booty secur
ed by the burglar is unknown, as
several whose offices were robbed are
out of the city. Forty dollars was
taken from the desk of E. M. Viques
ney, in the Rylander building, and a
considerable amount of securities in
the other offices visited.
Cabbage Weighs 161-2 Lbs.
GRAY. Ga.. June 2, —Haddock. In
Jones county,- is the place to raise
large cabbage. Mr. J. T. Finney, of
that place, recently raised one weigh
ing 16 1-2 pounds after some of the
leaves had been removed. Walter
Williams, his neighbor, raised one
weighing 14 pounds.
JAWBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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WIFE TDD MANY
LAID TOWENTER
The plain, unvarnished news of the
matter is that the federal grand jury
has taken the position that James
D. Strickland has one wife too many
and that he violated the Mann act in
luring Miss Cassie Holdoway to At
lanta from her home in Major, Va.,
and wedding her here, and later trav
eling with her, all the time with a
previous wife and two children in
Mobile, Ala.
This indictment w r as returned Wed
nesday afternoon and Strickland, a
55-year-old carpenter and lawyer (per
correspondence school), now is in
jail here, unable to make bond, and
by his own statement not caring to
do so, anyhow.
And Miss Holdoway, still in At
lanta, says the “Moonlight league,”
of Oxford, Fla., is the cause of it
all.
According to both Strickland and
Miss Holdoway, the Moonlight league
is a matrimonial agencj with which
they corresponded, and by which they
were placed in communication one
with the other. Strickland, while
plying his trade as a carpenter,
studied law by mail and deciding to
hang out his shingle in a larger city
than Mobile, and also that it might
prove inconvenient to be married in
the Alabama city, where he already
had one wife, he came to Atlanta.
Miss Holdoway, 20 years old and
credulous to a degree, came on to
Atlanta for the nuptials, on money
sent her by Strickland, which con
stituted the first grip the federal
grand jury got on him. They were
married here about a month ago by
the ordinary; lived here for a time;
went to Phoenix ‘Mty, Ala., and lived
there a few days, Miss Holdoway
then ascertaining in some manner
that Strickland already had a wife.
Then they came back to Atlanta
and there was a row about sending
Miss Holdoway back home, and fi
nally she went and told the federal
authorities about the case.
“He said he was a lawyer with
money,” Miss Holdoway stated, refer
ring to Strickland’s courtship, “and
I was sort of put out to find he was
a carpenter with whiskers. But I
didn’t know he had a wife, too.”
Strickland said Thursday he did
ndt intend to try to make bond or
to fight the case.
Big Cabbage, Weighing
153-4 Pounds, Brought
To City Curb Market
A i cabbage weighing fifteen and
three-quarter pounds was brought to
the Atlanta curb market Thursday
morning by J. R. Allen, a truck
grower of Riverdale, Ga. In addition
to the patrician cabbage, thorough
bred chickens made their first appear
ance. Large frying sized Buff Orp
ingtons and Plymouth Rock pullets
were sold at the regular prices.
Thursday was the most success
ful day’ of this season’s market. Be
fore 9 o’clock 150 farmers had sold
out and were replaced by late comers.
Peaches in large quantities appear
ed and were the most popular prod
uct on sale. Cut flowers and potted
plants for summer porch boxes were
also sold in large numbers.
Several farmers announced that
on Saturday they would sell young
calves at the municipal market.
Small pigs, rabbits, and other live
stock have been at the curb before,
but Saturday and next week will
mark the first advent of the live
veal.
Begin Probe of Fire on
“George Washington”
HOBOKEN. N. J.. June 2.—An in
vestigation of a $25,000 fire aboard
the "Presidential Ship” George Wash
ington was begun today.
The fire started in the captain’s
cabin last night as the vessel lay
at her dock. Officers suspected that
it was not accidental. ,
REVOLVING RUBBER HEELS
! PREVENT “RUNOVER” SHOES
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D’your shoes “run over” at the heels? The rubber heel pic
tured here revolves automatically as you walk, wearing down evenly.
INSIMEE FIRMS
OBJECTTDCHARGES
NEW YORK, June 2.—Charges
that many large fire insurance com
panies speculated extensively in the
stock market, using funds paid in
by the policy holders, and accusa
tions that the New York Fire Insur
ance exchange used despotic methods
in dealing with sprinkler firms not
associated with the alleged sprinkler
combine, featured the testimony at
Wednesday’s hearings of the legisla
tive committee investigating the
building trust.
Samuel Deutchberger, chief exami
ner of the fire insurance companies
for the state insurance department,
testified that some companies had
indulged in more than 1,000 individ
ual transactions on the stock market
in one year. The witness testified
that* such companies were permitted
to invest reserve surpluses in any
solvent corporations.
"Virtually making the sky the lim
it.” commented Samuel Untermyer.
chief counsel for the investigating
committee, who directed the exami
nations of the witnesses.
Mr. Deutchberger said fire insur
ance companies, prohibited from in
vesting in real estate itself, were
evading this law by investing in
stocks and bonds of real estate com
panies. The witness described al
leged efforts of the New York Fire
Insurance exchange to prevent the
introduction here of the Conj Tan sys
tem of sprinklers, because, he stated,
the Conran company was not a mem
ber of the alleged sprinkler combine.
Buildings equipped with the Conran
system, he said, received no reduc
tion in fire insurance rates, whereas
buildings using sprinklers approved
by the exchange were sometimes re
duced as much as 90 per cent.
He said tjje Conran company pro
tested-to Jessie Phillips, state super
intendent of insurance, who declared
the exchange guilty of unfair dis
crimination and ordered it to cease
that discrimination.
The exchange applied for a stay
of the order, on the ground that the
superintendent had no jurisdiction,
and although the case was referred
to the attorney general in March.
1920. there had been no decision.
William F. Conran corroborated Mr.
Deutchberger’s testimony regarding
the freezing out of Conran’s sprinkler
system. Asked by Mr. Untermyer
why the exchange had refused to ap
prove and allow credit on the instal
lation oi lus system, Mr. Conran said
“LION MAN” TO CAPTURE
LIVE BEAST FOR ZOO
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The “Lion Man,” Jay Bruce, official mountain lion hunter for
the state of California, who has set himself to the. task of catching
a live lion for the national zoo at Washington, D. C. The phfto
shows Bruce and his big catches.
Experiment Station
To Be Established in
Florida Everglades
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., June 2.
The senate Wednesday afternoon
passed the house bill calling for the
establishment of an agricultural ex
periment station in the Everglades.
Appropriating $15,000 for the pur
pose with a continuing appropriation
of $5,000 yearly.
With only a little more than a
day and a half of the session before
them, the house of' representatives
Wednesday morning occupied the
whole session wrangling over the
committee substitute for house bill
861, the occupational tax bill. Tues
day afternoon, it had made the gen
eral appropriation bill from the sen
ate. a special order for 9 o’clock
We’dnesday morning. The occupa
tional tax bill had previously been
set for the same hour.
The committee on finance and tax
ation had an organization in the
house that could not be shaken, and
all efforts to get to the appropria
tions bill ahead of the occupational
tax bill failed. Later on in the
session, a motion was made to strike
out the enacting clause of the bill,
but there was no chance. The friends
of the measure would let any mat
ter be discussed but vpry little be
fore moving the previous question
or to tgble, either of which shuts
off debate.
At the noon hour, eighty-four of
the 108 pages of the bill had been
read a second time, and a great many
amendments proposed, but few ac
cepted. A
Shade Tobacco Crop
In Georgia Is Not
Ruined by Blue Mold
v WASHINGTON, June 2.—Reports
circulated in the tobacco trade that
the Georgia-Florida shade tobacco
industry had been destroyed by the
blue mold disease are declared /to be
without ’ foundation by the depart
ment of agriculture.
The disease, the department says,
which was first discovered in this
country in the Gadsden-Decatur dis
trict early this season, has been un
der close observation by specialists
from the department, and it was de
clared that the damage had been
largely confined to sand leaves •of
the tobocca and is estimated not to
exceed 5 per cent of the crop in the
infected district’s. Advices to May
27, the statement continued, indi
cated the crop is making rapid, lux
uriant growth with little insect in
jury.
The department also declared as
untrue statements that the mold dis
ease would spread to tobacco in
storage or that leaves which mav
mature without visible infection
would be unsuitable for use. Denial
also was made that the .disease had
apneared in North 'Carolina. Con
necticut and in other districts, so far
as the department has information,
nor has the disease appeared in the
Madison or Dade Citv districts of
Fiori da or in southern Alabama.
Father )f 33 Children
LON*DON.—A notable figure has
disappeared in the death of Sergeant
James Best, who was born at Not
tingham in 1833 and fought in the
Crimean and Indian mutiny cam
paigns. He was the father of 33
children.
Stained glass windows in English
cathedrals are being attacked by a
mysterious disease that causes the
glass to flake.
Admiral Perry’s flagship, the Ni
agara, is docked at Erie. iPa.
The’breath of the Mongolian camel
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The method of stitching the hem of
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BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON. June 2.—Senator
Harris has received a letter from
the interstate commerce commission
saying that it was investigating the
complaint of the Consolidated Apple
Growers’ Exchange, of Cornelia, Ga..
regarding the circuitous routing of
express shipments to and from east
ern points.
It is alleged that the American
Railway Express is making delayed
deliveries and is apparently endeav
oring to use its competitor, s the
Southeastern Express company as
little as ossible.
In connection with thecomplEfint.
Chairman Clark, of the commerce
commission, advises as follows:
“I suggest that since May 1, 1921,
when the Southeastern Express com
pany began ’operations, the routing
of express shipments from the terri
tory ‘referred tq by your correspond
ent was somewhat modified by the
express companies, each company ap
parently endeavoring to reserve rout
ings in connection with lines over
which its contracts were operative.
It has been alleged, however, that in
so doing, the principles announced
by us, in re Express Rates,, etc., 24
I. C. C. 380, have been consistently
observed. In that proceeding we said,
amonk other things:
“ 'The traffic which they move
should flow with the greatest possi
ble celerity between all portions of
our country and whatever artificial
barriers have been raised by the ex
istence of separate express compa
nies should be broken down and the
rates made or practices followed
should neither rest upon the founda
tion of a raidroad’s, preference nor
of an express company’s opportu
nity.’
“Complaints on account of alleged
circuitous routing of express ship
ments have been brought to the com
mission from time to time and have
been promptly handled informally.
The general subject is still being
handled through informal channels,
and it is hoped that by such proced
ure any circuitous routing that may
be found to result Tn less efficient
service to shippers or consignees will
be avoided. In the cases that havfl
been thus far investigated, it has
been found .that the present routes
are in the main more expeditious
than those formerly observed.”
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