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STATE era CROP
IS 720,000 BALES,
ISAYS 0. S. EXPERT
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Depredations of the boll weevil,
unfavorable weather and scanty use
of fertilizer, have resulted in a Geor
gia cotton crop only 33 per cent of
normal, while the total yield of the
state is estimated at 720.000 bales*
according to John S. Dennee, agricul
tural statistician of the Georgia di
vision, United States bureau of mar
kets and estimates. ,
This will ibe the smallest cotton
crop Georgia has produced in over
forty years, and many farmers re
port that they do not expect to get
as much as 100 pounds of seed cotton
per acre—-hardly justifying the ex
pense of picking.
The statement by Mr. Dennee as
to the Georgia cotton crop followed
close on the ‘publication of the gov
ernment estimate for the entire
crop—42.2 per cent of normal.
“There are many cotton fields in
which the plants show a splendid de
velopment,” says JJJr. Dennee, “with
stalk well grown and rich foliage,
but with not a speck of white to de
note an open boll. Late fruitage has
been destroyed by the weevil, and
there is practically nothing to be
damaged by the frost. The per
centage of grown bolls rotted and de
stroyed ty weevils was unusually
large this year.
“Intensely hot weather during Au
gust and September caused bolls to
open prematurely. To all intents
and purposes the crop is picked, par
ticularly in the southern half of the
state. ’ '
“The crop is at its best in the
northern part of the Drought
prevailed over a 'large part of the
state during September, and the tor
rid temperatures took a heavy toll
of weevils, bu’ the hot, dry weather
came too late to hinder the weevil’s
Work of destruction.
. Mr. Dennee asserts that a yield of
about 96 pounds of lint per acre may
be predicted.
“Non-Com” to Select
America’s Unknown”
-PARIS, Oct. 5. —(By the Associ
ated Press). —America’s “unknown
soldier,” who will find honored sep
ulchre in the national cemetery at
Arlington, Va., will be selected by a
non-commissioned , officer from the
American forces on the Rhine at
|Chalons-Sur-Marne on the morning
of' October 24. The body will leave
Havre late on the evening of October
25 on board the United States cruiser
Olympia. )
Dallas Youth Killed
By Train in Austell
AUSTELL, Ga. Oct. 5.-,Lum
Rawlings, Dallas, Ga., said to have
’ been riding with two companions on
a freight train unknown to the crew,
fell under the wheels when he at
tempted to alight fro mthe train
here Monday and was killed. He
was about 17 years old and was tjie
son of Bob Rawlings, a farmer *of
Dallas.
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STATE SNIPS 15,791
CARLDAOSOFMELONS
Shipments of watermelons from
Georgia for the 1921 season, which
lk offlcially closed on September 15,
reached the surprising total of 15,791
cars, according to reports of the bu
. reau of markets and crop estimates
of the United States department of
agriculture.
It is thought that this marks a
record for the shipment of melons
from Georgia, while it Is beyond
question that the actual money re
turn received by Georgia growers
during the 1921 season has surpass
ed that of any previous year.
Due to favorable weather condi
tions, practically the whole of the
southwest Georgia crop matured un
usually early and was on (the market
when there was practically no compe
tition froifi other fields. This, togeth
er with improved methods of market
ing, ample car supply and excellent
transportation service furnished by
the railroads, enabled the southwest
Georgia growers to get very satisfac
tory prices.
The bureau’s reports show that the
Georgia season opened in earnest
during the week ending June 18,
when 417 cars were marketed. Dur
ing the week of June 25,. 1,952 cars
rolled and the peak was reached dur
ing the week of July 2, when 2,948
oars were shipped. Shipments for
following weeks were: July 9,
785 cars; July 16, 2,390; July 23, 1,-
814; July 10, 1,990; August 6, 1,704;
August 13, 377 r August 20, 206; Au
gust 27, 129; September 3, 13; Sep
tember 10, 5.
The decline in shipments after the
first week in August was in
great measure to the drop in prices
which followed the rush of ship
ments from other fields, over-crowd
ing many of the principal markets.
As will be seen from the figures, the ;
great bulk of the Georgia melons
had been shipped by that time,
though it is possible that shipments’
from Georgia would have run several
hundred-cars higher had prices held
up’ to the levels reached during the
early part of the season.
The repoyts of tne bureau show the
following final figures on other per
ishables from Georgia:
Peaches, 10,472 cars; last ship
ments during week of August 25,
when two cars rolled.
Cantaloupes, 526; last car shipped
during week of August 13.
Pears, twenty: last car shipped'
during week of September 3.
In the weekly reports of the bu
reau, covering the carload movements
of perishables. Georgia is now repre
sented only by sweet potatoes and
barreled apples.
During the week ending September
24, there were shipped from Georgia,
six cars of apples, the total move
ment up to that date being fifty-two
cars as compared to thirty-three cars
up to the same date last year, when
the total movement from Georgia
was 160 cars. , •
During this same week Georgia
shipped five cars of sweet potatoes
and the tottal movement for this sea
son to September 24 nas been forty
seven cars as compared with seven
ty-one cars to the ’same date last
year, when 886 cars were shipped
from Georgia during the season.
KUN THREATENED
WITH MACHINE GUN
BY TEXteSHERIFF
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Oct. 5.
Sheriff Tobin, of San Antonio, an
nounced would use a ma
chine gun if necessary to halt a
proposed Ku Klux Klan parade here.
Police Chief Mussey and Tobin
both declared the parade cannot take
place. - J
“I’ll yse a machine gun if neces
sary'to stop a parade in which
marchers wear masks,” said Tobin.
Simultaneously a second grand
jury Investigation of the Klan ini
this county was ordered by Judge S.
G. Taylor. This followed Judge Ham
ilton’s action in ordering the Austin
grand jury to probe the Klan and
the riot of Loiena in%which seven
men, including Sheriff Buchanan,
were wounded.
MAY CALL TEXAS
KLEAGLE TO TESTIFY
BEAUMONT. Tex., Oct. s.—Declar
ing that he knew the name of the
kleagle of the Knights of the Ku
Klux' Klan for this Texas district.
Judge A. McDowell today announced
that he might, call »him to testify
before the special grand jury inves
tigating activities of the Klan in
Jefferson county.
KLAN denounced
V BY U. S. ATTORNEY
CHICAGO. Oct. s.—The Klu Klux
Klan engenders “deep hatred” in the
hearts of creeds or ■{•aces discrimi
nated against, particularly when the
Klan lays cliinv to a 100 per cent
Americanism, John V. Clinnin, as
sistant United States district attor
ney, said in a statement last night
after an investigation of the organi
zation. ’ _ .
The Investigation came after re
ports had reached federal authorities
that a demonstration wjts planned by
the organization that might possibly
result in race trouble and property
damage, Mr. Clinnin said.
“There is nothing in the charter
of a sinister or mystic nature,” hg
declared, “but it is apparent th#
membership is automatically barrJd
to negroes, Catholics and Jews."
“It is unfortunate that an organi
zation of this kind should be insti
tuted at this particular time, when
the whole world is seeking to recover
from the shell shock sustained in the
world war.” He assailed the Klan’s
100 per cent Americanism claim, as
serting that all creeds and classes
helped within the war.
“Organizations which have for
their object the usurping of powers
of government, either executive, leg
islative or judicial, are against pub
lic policy,” he continued. “Class
prejudice, hatred, persecution, dis
crimination, whether against color or
creed, by corporate bodies or Individ
uals, can bring but one result —riot,
disorder, anarchy. The courts are
our tribunals.”
Colonel Clinnin refused to state
whether a 'grand jury inquiry would
be conducted into the affairs of the
Klan here, but said he had secured
a list of officers arid members.
SIX TEXAS JUDGES
DENOUNCE KLAN
DALLAS. Tex.. Oct. s.—Six dis
trict judges in Texas today were on
record as having denounced the Ku
Klux Klan. Most of the judges in
cluded all other kindred orders in
Texas in their denunciation.
ATLANTA, GA,
HUSBAND AND WIFE
BURNED BY AGIO
Mrs. J. H. Blackstock, thirty-one
years old, of 210 South Forsyth
street, was brought to the Grady hos
pital Monday noon suffering from
terrible nitric acid burns about
the face, neck and chest.' Physicians
at the hospital say she may lose her
right eye, and in any event, will be
badly scarred for life.
Her husband, who came to the
hospital with her,, was also more or
less seriously burned, although it«Js
thought that his injuries will -not
prove permanent. - |
Mrs. Blackstock told the hospital
authorities that she and her hus
band have been employed by Dr. A. C.
Farber, whose office is at the corner
of Peters and Walker streets, to clean
up the office and do odd jobs about
the place. Tuesday noon, she said,
they were cleaning up the room where
Dr. Farber keeps supplies of medi
cines.
“I reached up to get a big bottle
off the shelf,”, said Mrs. Blackstock.
“I didn’t know what was in it and
it had no stopper, In some way It
tipped to one side> and the liquid*—
it was nitric acid —spilled out on
my head. Some of it splashed on my
husband.” < *
Doctors at the Gfrady said that
evidently quite a quantity of the
acid had poured out on Mrs. Black
stock. They were working frant
ically to save her life, but were of
the opinion that her injuries might
prove fatal.
Mrs. Watson Returns
To National Capital
THOMSON, Ga., Oct. 4.—Mrs.
Thomas L. Watson, accompanied by
Misses Georgia Lee and Georgia Wat
son, Senator Watson’s granddaugh
ters, who are students at the Na
tional Cathedral school for girls, has
gone to Washington to join the sena
tor. Senator and Mrs. Watson are
not*expected in Thomson again before
the Christmas holidays. w
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, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1921.
■MENT PARLEY
JIMSBFPOWEBS
WASHINGTON, Oct. i.—That big
difficulties lie in the path of President
Harding’s conference on armament
limitation reaching a definite agree
ment was indicated clearly today.
Officials realize that upon this gov
ernment primarily rests the obliga
tion of steering the conference suc
cessfully through a maze of conflict
ing aims,'and prejudices.
From official sources a summary of
the programs the powers expect to
stand by in the conference have been
obtained. It, follows:
Open Door Wanted by V. S.
United States: This government
sincerely desires an agreement among
the nations for limitation of naval
armament, so as’ to reduce the
ing expense of competition in naval*
construction and to lessen the danger
of war -existing in maintenance of
large navies. It would also limit
land armainent, if this is found to be
practicable, and wants the newsagen
cies of warfare controlled as far as
possible.
The United States wants to reach
a frank agreement with the powers
on principles and policies to govern
its actions in the Far East, and is
anxious to settle amica'bly all im
portant problems now existing in the
Far East, so as to remove all present
and future sources of international
friction. The gist of this agreement
would be a guarantee of the “open
door” in China.
Reduce Taxes
Great Britain: This nation wants
a satisfactory solution of the ques
tion of renewal of the Anglo-Japan
ese alliance, one that will satisfy
the opposition of the United States
'to this pact.
Great Britain also ■will support
any action by the conference which
she thinks will have the effect of
reducing taxes at home, and she
would like to have the question of
the allied debt of $11,000,000,000 to
the United States settled in
favorable way. \
This/is a question which France
and Italy also probably would like
to see taken up by the conference,
but it may be stated that the United
States has no intention of letting this
become a problem to be settled by
the conference.
Great Britain, it is believed, how
ever, is determined' not to allow her
present naval supremacy wiped out
by the conference, regardless of ar
guments for disarmament and prob
ably does not intend to agreed to any
action which threatens her existing
interests in the Far East.
President Offers
Federal/ Judgeship
To Senator Kenyon
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. —Senator
Kenyon, Republican, lowa, is consid
ering an offer of appointment as fed
eral judge for the northern owardts
trict. President Harding nas let the
lowa senator know he may have the
place if he wishes it ana Mr. Ken
yon has not yet determined whether
he will take it or remain in the sen
ate. z
PRESIDENT HARDING
TO ADDRESS PUBLIC
BN VISITTO CIH
President Harding may speak in
the Atlanta auditorium on his visit
to this city on October 28, it has
developed in conection with plans
being made for his visit.
Governor Hardwick. who ( is an old
friend of President Harding from
their years of association in the sen
ate, some days ago wrote the presi
dent a letter requesting him to make
a public address while here, and call
ing his attention to the facilities for
accommodating a large audience at
the auditorium.
A favorable reply was received by
the governor Tuesday morning. Pres
ident Harding wrote the governor
that it was his wish for the Atlanta
visit to be as tree as possible of
formalities, and expressed his will
ingness to deliver a public speech aS
requested by the governor.
This information was communicat
ed at once to Secretary Robertson,
ot the chamber of commerce. He
found on inquiry that the auditorium
is engaged for the night of October
28 by Yaarab temple of the Shrine.
A rearrangement of the Shrine data,
it was believed, might be made to
give the general public an opportu
nity of seeing and hearing President
Harding, or, if the auditorium could
not be secured some other large as
sembly hbll would be used.
The president is going to Birming
ham to attend the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of that city. On
returning to Washington he will stop
over in Atlanta. The chamber of
commerce will gyve him a luncheon
and the public appearance will be
arranged to suit his convenience by
a committee going to Washington to
see him next Thursday.
On the committee will be President
Lee Ashcraft, of the chamber; Mell
R. Wilkinson, R. B. Pegram. J. P.
Billups, George L. Pratt, Henry
Heinz and William Schley Howard.
They will be joined in Washington by
former Senator Hoke Smith.
FACTIONS SETTLE
. CDMU CASE
The controversy between the Coca-
Cola Company of Delaware, and the
bottlers of coca-cola throughout the
country, involving more than $25,-
000,000 worth of property and annual
sales of approximately 18,000,000
gallons of coca-cola syrup, has been
frmrily and definitely settled. The
contract of settlement has been
made the decree of the federal
courts, thus ending litigation which
has been, in progress for more thaji
a year and which has developed
many complicated phases.
WDBLD'S,SERIES.
BEGIMSWHffIESDAY
The New York Giants, champions
of the National league, and the New
York Yankees, champions of the
American league, on Wednesday
Were scheduled to enter upon the
first battle of the nine-game series
which will determine the prmier base
ball team of the world for 1921.
The clash will be tsaged at the
famous Polo grounds and will bring
together many of the foremost stars
of the national pastime. It is the
first time in history that the two
Gotham outfits have earned the hon
or of fighting it out for the world
title. Babe Ruth, home run king,
will be a notable figure for the Yan
kees. The pitcher for the opening
game will likely be Mays, the under
hand marvel, for the Yankees, and
Nehf, twirler extraordinary. The
largest crowds cn record are expect
ed to see the series.
WILSON ID STAY
; OUT OFPACT FIGHT
WASHINGTON. Oct. s.—While
treaty discussion in the senate con
tinued to lag, tjiere was a renewed
effort today tdaraw Woodrow Wilson
into the arena, and center opposition
to the peace pacts with the centra)
powers upon him.
Announcement that Senator Hitch
cock, Nebraska, soon is to discuss the
German treaty with Mr. Wilson was
made the basis for reports that Mr.
Wilson is attempting to influence
Democratic senators to stand united
ly against the Harding treaties.
Mr. Hitchcock, however, made it
clear that if Mr. Wilson has any In
tention of trying to mold senatorial
..opinion, he will not succeed. Mr.
Hitchcock is for ratification of the
treaty, he said, and expects to be for
it after he has seen Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson’s alleged attitude and
his reported efforts to dominate sen
ate Democrats probably will figure in
the treaty debate later on, it was in
dicated today. Arrangements are be
ing discussed for bringing the sub
ject in .to give a Democratic senatoi
an opportunity to issue an authori
tative statement ot the effect Mr.
Wilson is taking no part in the treaty
fight.
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HUDSON CONVICTED
OF CHILD MURDER;
TO HANG NOV. IB
ALBANY, Ga., Qot. s.—Glenn M.
Hudson today was found guilt? at
the murder of his two stepchildren
and sentence dto be hanged Novem
ber 18. The jury was out all night
and returned its verdict at 11 o’clock.
Mrs. Hudson, mother of the mur
dered boys, who was jointly indicted
with her husband, will be placed on
trial Monday, it was announced. The
two boys, Robert and Xsaiah Temple,
aged ten and four, were shot to death
July 12 on tub porch of their home.
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.say, Hudson answered in the nega
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COUNSEL HAS QUIT
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SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. s.—Frank
E. Dominguez, prominent lOs An-,
geles attorney, has withdrawn as
chief counsel for Roscoe C. ArbucklK
charged with manslaughter in con
nection -with the death of Virginia
Rappe, Milton T. Cohen, of Los An
geles, an associate counsel for Ax
bubkle, announced here today.
The manslaughter charge against
Arbuckle was on the calendar ff?
the superior court topay,
the defendant was several huudtftU
miles away at his home in Los An
geles.
It was learned laHt night from
Charles Brenran, one of the defense
attorneys, that Arbuckle’s presence
in court today was not deemed necesr
sary as the case will come ur only
for Instruction and arraignments.
District Attorney Matthew Brady in
timated, however, that he opposed
Arbuckle’s absence, and probably
would ask continuance until next
Friday to enable the notion picture
comedian to come to San Francisco
and appear.
Federal action against Arbuckle in
connection with alleged Volstead act
violations is to be held up for some
time, it was announced by Robert H.
McCormack, special assistant to the
attorney general of the United States.
McCormack said he had cancelled
plans which called for the immedl-
I ate arrest of the comedian on a
I charge of unlawful possession of
i until after fully investigating
I the alleged disappearance of $40,000
worth assorted liquors from a
restaurant, declared by McCormack
to have been the source ot the intox
icating liquors consumed by guests
at Arbuckle’s party. When federal
officials raided the establishment- ltd
purported $40,000 stock was not
found. McCormack charged that ad
vance information of the raid had
been conveyed.