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VOL. XXIV. NO. 95
MORE MONEY TO BE LENT
BY FARM LOAN BOARD
Senator Harris Announces
Resumption of Acceptance
of Applications for Loans
Under Federal Act
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
•623 Biggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, May B.—Senator
Harris announced Saturday after
noon that there would be a resump
tion of the acceptance of applica
tions for farm loans under the farm
x loan act and that there also will be
a new issue of government farm
loan securities. This announcement
was made after consultation with
members of the federal farm loan
board.
The federal land bank, at Colum
bia, S. C., which handles Georgia
applications, today advised Senator
Harris they expect to be able within
the next week or ten days to defi
nitely advise the various secretary
treasurers of the local farm loan as
sociations in regard to filing new
applications upon an allotment plan.
The bank stopped receiving applica
tions last November.
The new' plan is expected to allot
applications to the various associa
tions'to avoids future congestion as
has been experienced in the past.
Senator Harris today complained to
the board here that Georgia had been
discriminated against in the past in
the amount of money allotted to the
state from the sale of farm loan
bonds. As Georgia had the largest
amount of applications on hand last
January of any state in the union.
The Georgia senator was assured
that in the next allotment it was
planned to give Georgia two or
three million dollars more than has
been provided in the past proportion
ate distribution of the funds from
the bond issues. .
ooubletblgedy
unjiHiiv
COLUMBIA, S. C., May B.—Pro
fessor M. GooSe Homes, head of the
department of engineering of the
University of South Carolina, was
shot and killed in the treasurer’s of
fice of the administration building
Saturday by Benjamin Haile, super
intendent of grounds of the universi
ty, who then killed himself.
Before turning the revolver upon
himself, Haile sent a shot over the
head of Dean Leonard T. Baker,
and pointed the weapon at Dr. Wil
liam S. Currell, president of the uni
versity, who were in an adjoining
office, and hearing the first shots,
started to investigate. t
The double tragedy, according to
a statement issued by Dr. Currell,
was believed to be the result of “bit
ter feeling between the two men ;
growing out of their conflicting du
ties at the university.”
When Haile entered the treasur
er's office he sent a woman book
keeper out on an errand and there
consequently were no eye-witnesses
to the shooting. As Dr. Currell start
ed to enter thd room after the first
shots had been fired, Haile, in warn- I
ing him out, shouted: “You are re
sponsible for this.” The president
left the room.
Police were summoned and inves
tigation revealed the body of Homes
in one room and that of Haile in
the other.
Homes was shot five times, one
bullet penetrating the heart. Haile
Used only one bullet in taking his
own life.
Professor Homes was born in
Boydton, Va., in 1883 and was edu
cated at the University of Virginia
and the United States Military acad
emy. He has held many important
engineering assignments and stood
high in his profession. He is sur
vived by a wife and four small chil
dren. Professor Homes had been a
member of the University of South
Carolina faculty since 1909.
Superintendent Haile came to the
University in 1912 from Camden,
where he was chief of police. He
was first marshal and then superin
tendent of grounds. He was about
46 years of age and is survived by
his wife, a son and daughter.
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MNG'MRENDER
SHANGHAI, May 8. —General Wu
Pei -Ku today ordered the shattered
remnants of Chang Tso-Lin’s Man- ;
churian army to surrender uncondi- |
tionally, or withdraw outside the ■
great wall of China.
The central commander, whose
forces administered a crushing de
feat to the Manchurian invaders, is
hourly growing in popularity. He
is hailed by the Chinese press here
as “the man on horseback” who will
“lead China to the highest place
among nations.”
AMERICAN INFANTRY
ORDERED TO CHINA
LONDON, May 8. —A company of
American infantry has been ordered
to Tongku, China, to protect a
Standard Oil installation there
against Chang Tsi-Lin stragglers,
according to a dispatch from Tien-
Tsin published by the London Times
today.
According to the same dispatch,
Chang’s losses in battle with Wu
Pci-Fu forces were 4,000 killed and
wounded and twenty thousand cap
tured. Chang’s favorite son is re
ported to have been killed in action.
Mr. T. A. McClure Noted
Publisher Is Dead
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 8. —
Thompson A. McClure; a publisher
of magazines and fraternal news
papers, died Saturday in a local hos
pital. He was 74 years of age.
I Driver of Knoxville’s
Last Horse-Drawn Cab
Is Shot From Ambush
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May B.
Knoxville’s last horse drawn cab
made its final trip Saturday
morning when Homer Branch,
aged and the last relic of
the days, was fatally
shot by an unknown assailant.
After receiving a wound in the
leg and the abdomen, Branch
drove himself some 15 blocks to
the city hospital. Unable to dis
mount from his cab he shouted
summoning hospital attendants.
As he was assisted inside, | the
aged cabby expressed regret that
he must leave his horse standing
on the street unguarded. K
Branch died today. He was
able to furnish a brief description
of his assailant but could not as
sign a motive for the attack.
COTTON MJVHNCES
TOOTM
BY ESTES DOEREMUS
New York cotton futures advanced
to new high levels for 1922 Monday,
active options showing net gains
over the previous close of from $2.90
to $3.80 a bale. In New Orleans
the gain was from $3.70 to $3.90 a
bale over Saturday.
Atlanta spots, following the up
ward movement, advanced $3.24 a
bale to 18.75.
May was the only month on the
board which failed to pass its pre
vious record and at 19.88 was only
one point from its high, made last
Thursday at the crest of the first
bull drive. The high was equalled,
however, during the day.
Strong Liverpool cables and con
tinued rains in Texas and Oklahoma,
coupled with a better demand for
spots and an improved dry goods
trade, gave constructives something
concrete on which to resume their
operations and buying was general
from the outset. As values were bid
up, bears were forced to cover and
at the close the market was well in
the hands of longs. Closing quota
tions were within a few points of the
top for the day and movement and
the tone was firm.
New Orleans futures also closed
at the crest.
The pew advance carried values
more than sl3 above those of April
1 and nearly $9 a bale over the fig
ures of Saturday a week ago, which
marked the end of the recent long
period of inactivity experienced in
the market.
Values were up from $1.25 to 2.20
a bale over the previous close in the
first holr of trading.
May was up 25 points at 19.55 and
July, October and December also
again crossed the 19-cent level after
having sold off sharply after the
long drive early last week. July
opened at 18.80 and was high at
19.03, October opened at 19 cents
and went to 19.24, while December,
opening at 19.07, shot up to 19.28,
44 points above the close of Satur
day.
Sales in Liverpool were 14,000
bales.
■ DIESMER KNIFE
NEW Y’ORK, May B.—Henry P.
Davisdn, member of the banking
firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and di
recting head of the American Red
Cross during the World war, died
about o'clock Saturday on
the operating table while surgeons
were attempting to remove
from his brain at his country estate
in Locust Valley, L. I.
The internationally-known finan
cier faced death as imperturbably
as he had met the problems of life.
Known on the street as one who
never showed undue alarm, he took
no formal farewell of his family,
and joked with his loved ones while
he was preparing to leave with his
close associates two requests, in
case he should die under the ether.
His first request was that he
should be laid to rest in the Locus':
Valley, with its rolling stretches of
green and flowering apple blossoms
that he had gloved.
The second request was that his
funeral should be as simple and un
ostentatious as possible. Those close
to him, who tonight faced the sad
duty of planning the final ceremony,
said both requests would be re
spected.
British Hero Claims
Attempted Kidnaping
Interrupted Romance
WASHINGTON, May B.—A veil
of complete mystery and secrecy to
day was thrown around the alleged
attempt to kidnap Alexander E
Robertson, said to be a British war
hero, because of his reciprocated
love for a United States senator’s
daughter—Miss Mary Culberson, of
Texas.
Outstanding from the maze of the
unusual love affair is the apparent
; fact that Senator and Mrs. Culber
son were strongly opposed to their
daughter’s marriage to the hand
some Britisher at this time. \
So far no reply has been made by
the Culbersons or the senator’s sec
retary, XI. E. Jurney, to the charges
of Robertson that private detectives
endeavored to kidnap him and get
him out of the country because of
his love for Miss Culberson. The
Britisher swore out a warrant for
one of the detectives. J F. Ellis. .
Bloomfield. N J., last week. rhe
Culbersons and their representatives
are maintaining an attitude of strict
silence on the matter.
FRINGE. SUPPORTING
BELGIUM.THRHTENS
TO DISRUPT PHRLEY
Lloyd George and Barthou
Confer at Length but Fu
tilely Over New Crisis in
Genoa Conference
♦
GENOA, May 8—(By the Asso
ciated Press-) —France will stand
with Belgiu min opposing that part
of the allies’ memorandum to Rus
sia dealing with the property in
Russia of foreign owners. Ip conse
quence of this decision, which was
communicated to Premier Lloyd
George by M. Barthou, head of the
French delegation Saturday an
ther crisis has arisen which endan
gers the conferences and may or
may not be settled before the British
prime minister returns to London
If the views of Belgium with re
spect to this article can be met —
and it is considered possible that
the Belgians may modify their de
mands to some degree—France will
place no obstacle in the way of a
settlement. The Russians, however
are still to be heard from. Their
reply will probably be delivered
within two or three days, and it is
known definitely that they will pre
sent numerous objections to the
conditions set forth by the allied
powers.
Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Vice Premier Barthou held a confer
ence at 5 o’clock this afternoon, aft
er which it was stated that their
offered no relief of the
strained situation <•£ the economic
conference. Nothing will be decided
definitely however, it was stated,
pending Russia s reply to the allied
memorandum. w
M. Barthou stated that France
was firm in her decision to stand by
Belgium and that he had been in
structed in Paris to withhold French
approval of the Russian memoran
dum until Belgium had agreed to
article 7 (formerly article 6) relat
ing to the restitution of private
property to former foreign owners.
Parley Jeopardized
While the head of the French dele
gation gave assurances that France
wanted the conference at Genoa to
succeed, belief was expressed in con
ference circles this evening that his
firm position concerning the prop
erty question was likely to place the
conference in jeopardy.
Mr. Lloyd George said after the
meeting that the Russian reply must
be received before it was possible to
take any further steps to meet the
Belgian requirements. There will
be no conference meetings of any
sort tomorrow
It was still uncertain this even
ing whether the Russian reply would
be given Monday or not, although it
is expected.
Mr. Lloyd George and M. Bai
thou also discussed the proposed
meeting of the powers signatory to
the treaty of Versailles to discuss
German reparations that are due
May 31. The French chief delegate
stated that France was not prepar
ed to discuss reparations until after
May 31, when it will be known
whether the Germans will default in
payments due on that date.
This attitude, it is generally be
lieved, is indicative of France’s in
tention to handle reparation matters
alone, as was indicated by Premier
Poncaire in his recent address at
Bar-le-Duc.
The official French narrative of
today’s happenings not only shows
that the conference is endangered,
but indicates a distant diverg
ence of views between France and
England, tending to emphasize the
differences that have frequently aris
en between them during the confer
ence.
The British premier, in his meet
ing with M. Barthou, refused to
agree to any further modification or
the memorandum, which already is
in the hands of the Russian delega
tion.
Watson Smiles but
Refuses to Comment
On Felder Challenge
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8
Senator Thomas E. Watson merely
laughed outright Saturday when
asked if he intended to make any
reply to the challenge of Colonel
Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta and
New York, that the two meet in a
room together and settle their dif
ferences. The Georgia senator
would make not a word of comment,
but each time the subject was
brought up he laughed heartily and
apparently was greatly amused at
the Felder challenge.
During the discussion of the Morse
pardon case in the senate during
the past week, Senator Caraway, of
Arkansas, said he had received a
ca’l from Felder, who said that he
and not Harry M. Daugherty, now
attorney general, had been chiefly
instrumental in getting Morse par
doned from the Atlanta penitentiary
and that Senator Caraway should
not have assailed Mr. Daugherty.
Senator Caraway then turned to
Senator Watson and asked him if
be knew Mr. Felder, and Senator
Watson replied calling Mr. Felder
a “crook” and a professional “lob
byist.” Mr. Felder was not a law
yer, said Senator Watson, but a
lobbyist.
On his return to New York last
night. Colonel Felder, evidently
smarting under the Watson attack,
made a statement that he would
like to meet Mr. Watson “all alone
in a room” there to settle their dif
ferences over the Morse case and
other matters.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1922
■IS INF® .
OF DELAYING LEASE
OF MUSCLE SHOALS
WASHINGTON, May B.—Conclus
ions reached after more than a
month’s investigation of private
proposals for development of the
nitrate and power projects initiated
by the government at Muscle Shoals,
Alabama,,, were announced Saturday
by Chairman Norris of the senate
agriculture committee, in a state
ment to Associated Press.
After asserting his firm convic
tion that the government should re
tain title to the properties within
itself for all time, the senator said
congress, in bis judgment, would
not act at this sessiqp upon any
of the private proposals for Muscle
Shoals and all that could be ex
pected before adjournment would
be the authorization to continue
work on the Wilson dam under an
appropriation of $7,500,000.
It was his intention, Senator Nor
ris said, to offer an amendment to
the army appropriation bill when it
was up for passage by the senate
which would provide funds for con
tinuing construction work on the
Wilson dam by army engineers dur
ing the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Belief was expressed that the
senate would accept the amend
ment but would decline, because of
its congested legislative calendar and
the anxiety of members to return
home for the fall campaign, to take
up for acceptance any of the offers
pending in the agriculture commit
tee.
“I am firmly convinced,” the sena
tor said in the statement, “that the
government ought to retain title to
all the property at Muscle Shoals
in itself in order to permit the peo
ple to get the full benefit of im
provements science may develop in
the fixation of nitrates from the air.
It ought not to bind unborn genera
tions by accepting a contract made
under existing conditions of rapid
changes in the art, particularly one
which would extend a lease over the
properties for a hundred years.”
Justice to Future
Future generations should have
“something to say about the con
trol of the natural resources of the
country,” the statement continued,
adding that “it seems, therefore,
that the bill proposing a. government
corporation for operation and de
velopment of the Muscle Shoals
plants, or some similar legislation
ought to be enacted; something along
that line is the solution.”
“I am impressed with the fact
that we are asked to make a con
tract binding upon future genera
tions' when we do not know the con
ditions that will surround the people
during its life,” said Senator Nor
ris, “and that applied particularly
to Henry Ford’s proposal because it
continues for 100 years.
"Improvements undoubtedly will
be made in the art of extracting ni
trates from the air s ” continued the
senator, “and it is not unreasonable
to assume that, within a few years,
when these new processes are de
veloped that the methods used’ at
Muscle Shoals now will be entirely
obsolete.
“It may easily be that ‘power will
not be so important then in the ex
traction of nitrates and become only
an incident to the ‘production of that
commodity. Great power would be
freed, in that event, and the lessee
would be at liberty, according to the
proposals we have received, to de
with it as he pleases.
“Thus, a situation would be
brought about whereby the people
would lose title to a valuable re
source which was theirs by right of
heredity and a corporation would be
the benefactor.
“None of the bidders binds him
self to extract nitrogen by the meth
ods used . at present, if more
economical methods can be used.
None of the bidders will live much
beyond fifteen years and each pro
poses that the contract be carried to
its completion by a corporation.
“Whatever confidence we now
have in the bidders, and that applies
again to Mr. Ford, should not in
fluence us entering into a prolonged
lease with them.”
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FORMER PRESIDENT
ASKS PARTY CHIEFS
TODEFEMOR
ST. LOUIS, May B.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —Referring to United
States Senator James A. Reed as
“a marplot,” former President Wil
son, in a letter to former Governor
Lon V. Stephens, made public to
day, asked the defeat of Missouri’s
senior senator to “redeem the repu
tation” of the Democratic party.
It was Mr. Wilson’s third letter
on the subject of the Democratic
nomination for United States sena
tor, sought by Mr. Reed and Breck
enridge Long, former third assistant
secretary of state, in the Wilson ad
ministration. The letter was in re
ply to one by Mr. Stephens, in
which the former governor, referring
to a letter the former president re
cently wrote the St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat, attacking Reed. Mr. Reed
made reply to this letter, in which
he questioned Mr. Wilson’s memory.
The letter, under date of April 27,
to Mr. Stephens, follows:
“My dear Governor Stephens:
“Your letter of April 22 has grati
fied me. lam glad to be sustained
in my own judgment of Reed by
your own closer knowledge of him,
and I shall hope and confidently ex
pect to see him repudiated by the
Democrats at the primaries. Cer
tainly Missouri cannot afford to be
represented by such a marplot, and
it might check the enthusiasm of
Democrats throughout the country
if their comrades in Missouri should
not redeem the reputation of the
party by substituting for Reed a
man of the true breed of Democratic
principle. lam sure your own great
influence will contribute to the de
sired and expected redemption.
“Please accept assurances of my
entire confidence in the Missouri
Democrats and believe me, with best
wishes.
“Sincerely yours,
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON.”
In a letter last week to John C.
Higdon, a local attorney, Mr. Wil
son asked Mr. Higdon “not to com
plicate the contest in Missouri,” by
becoming a candidate for the nomi
nation.
Mr. Long recently opened his cam
paign at Cape Girardeau and Mr.
Reed opened his Saturday at Mo
berly.
The primary will be August 1.
In his opening campaign address
Senator Reed defended his course
and asserted Mr. Wilson “was the
boy who is conducting the campaign
in Missouri for the other side.”
Senator Reed when shown a copy
of the Wilson letter read it several
times and said:
“I have no comment to make on
this at present.” \
He declined to say whether a state
ment would be forthcoming later.
Georgia Resolutions
Submitted to Senate
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May B.
Resolutions recently adopted by the
Transportation of the
Macon Chamber of Commerce urg
ing restoration to the states of their
control over railroads and their
rates were presented to the senate
Saturday afternoon by Senator Har
ris. The Macon chamber is petition
ing against the gradual assumption
by the federal government of intra
state as well as interstate rates.
Senator Harris also presented res
olutions of the Savannah cotton ex
change opposing any regrouping of
southeastern railroads, under the
consolidation clause of the Esch-
Cummins law, that w’ould consoli
date the Seaboard Air Line road with
the Illinois Central and Central of
Georgia systems.
PRESIDENT WES
SENATEBONUSBILL
UNDERWISENIENT
Both McCumber and Smoot
Plans Are Submitted to
Harding No Financing
Methods Suggested
WASHINGTON, May B.—Presi
dent Harding took under advise
diers’ bonus plan presented to him
by a committee of senate Republic
an leaders. He told the senators
that he would study the proposal
and the one to be presented early
next week by Senator Smoot, of
Utah, ranking Republican on the
senale finance committee and would
renew the discussion with them
later.
Those calling at the White House
were Senator Lodge, of Massachu
setts, the Republican leader; Chair
man McCumber and Senators Cur
tis, of Kansas, and Watson, of In
diana, members of the finance com
mittee. The senators said the presi
dent had given no intimation as to
his opinion of the amended house
bill, but asked many questions con
cerning its provisions.
The president was told, Senators
said, that it was the desire of con
gressional leaders that no additional
taxes be enacted in connection with
the bonus and that it would be im
possible to put a sales tax through
congress. While no specific plan of
financing the bonus was presented
to the executive,, it is the belief of
bonus advocates that the legislation
can be financed out of the refunded
British bonds.
The president was asked by h’.s
callers whether there was likelihood
of the treasury receiving the re
funded British bonds sooner than
heretofore anticipated. He was quot
ed as replying merely that the re
funding negotiations are in progress.
Neither the commonly known Mc-
Cumber plan nor the Smoot plan
calls for any considerable outlay of
money within the next few years and
some senators said that whatever
cost would be entailed could be tak
en care of out of the $200,000,000
annual interest on the debt owed
by Great Britain, which that coun
try is expected to begin paying this
year.
The McCumber plan, like the
house bill, would call for no loans
to veterans by the government for a
period of three years, but banks
would be authorized to advance to
the soldiers sums equivalent to one
half of the adjusted service credit of
the veterans. At the expiration of
the three years the treasury would
make loans direct to the men.
The Smoot plan contemplates the
issuing of 20-year life insurance en
dowment policies to the veterans in
lieu of all other options heretofore
proposed, including the vocational
training, home and farm aid and
land settlement and it would make
no specific provision for loans on
the policies. The policies would
have a face value equal to slightly
more than three times the amount
of the adjusted service credit es the
veterans and the face value would
b e paid at the end of the twenty
years or sooner upon. the death of
the veteran.
After the senators returned to the
capitol from the White House there
was a discussion among leaders gen
erally as to whether the bonus
should displace the tariff bill. There
was some talk about calling a par
ty conference to decide this ques
tion, but no formal decision was
reached. This may await the pres
ident’s decision as to the kind of
bonus bill he will approve.
‘BUD’ BALLEW TO BE BURIED
AT LONE GROVE CEMETERY
Seven Men Arrested
In Detroit Charged
With Raising Bills
DETROIT, Mich., May B.—Sev
en men, declared by federal offi
cers to have obtained hundreds
of thousands of dollars for bol
shevik propaganda, through a
conspiracy to raise $5 federal
notes to higher denominations
were arrestc * here Saturday after
an investigation by the secret
service that began nearly a year
ago.
AGEDMANUFACTURER
CONVICTTDBIGANIIST
NEW YORK, May B. Virginius
St. Julian Mayo, former New Haven
manufacturer, Saturday was found
guilty of bigamy by a jury in the
criminal branch of the supreme
court.
Mayo, who is 62 years old, was
sent to the Tombs prison to await
sentence at 4 o’clock next Tuesday
afternoon. His attorneys indicated
they would file an appeal.
Mayo was tried on a bigamy in
dictment returned in 1919. The prin
cipal witness for the prosecution
was Miss Wilhelmina Meyer, of
Newark, with whom he contracted a
marriage in Brooklyn in 1904. She
testified that after Miss Lillian Cook,
with whom Mayo was alleged to
.have had relations, killed herself,
she learned of his first wife. Mrs.
Florence Weeks Mayo.
Mrs. Florence Weeks Mayo ob
tained a divorce in 1915.
‘When we went house hunting in
New Jersey, after Florence Weeks
had obtained a divorce,” Miss Meyer
had testified, “he said he was going
to give me an elegant home fur
nished and also give me S2OO a
month for spending money and $50,-
000 at his death.
“I told him I w'ould not consent
to any such arrangement and that
if he would not marry me again and
make the marriage legal, I would
return to my parnets, which I did.”
Counsel for Mayo had declared
that when his client married Wil
helmina Mayer in 1904, she knew of
his first wife and of the fact that
he had never been divorced and that
the marriage ceremony in Brooklyn
was agreetj to by him merely to
please her grandmother.
Later, Miss Meyer obtained judg
ment for SIOO,OOO against Mayo in
civil suit, charging that he inveigled
her into a bigamzous marriage. He
never paid it.
Mayo then married Louise Water
bury, of Brooklyn, his present wife.
Attorneys for Mayo had argued that
the bigamy charge was outlawed
because the indictment was returned
in 1919 and the so-called bigamous
marriage to Miss Meyer took place
in 1904.
In charging the jury on this point,
Justice Finch declared they should
consider the evidence submitted by
the defense regarding Mayo’s resi
dence in this state between the time
of his alleged marriage to Miss
Meyer in 1904 and the returning ol
the indictment in 1919.
If the jury was satisfied, he added
that Mayo, for a period of five years,
not necessarily consecutive or con
tinuous, was usually in personal at
tendance or employment on business
in New York, the statute of limita
tions outlawing the charges was ef
fective, and the defendant was en
titled to acquittal irrespective of his
innocence or guilt in contracting a
bigamous marriage.
Appalachian Operators
Believe Coal Strike
Is Near Collapse
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May B.
Declaring that the miners’ strike in
the southern Appalachian field “is
on the verge of collapse” officials of
the Southern Appalachian Coal Op
ment Saturday ; dified house sol
an opportunity to all the men to re
turn to work.
The operators are ready to recog
nize the principle of collective bar
gaining and are ready to deal with
the miners in groups but are not
willing to have any dealings with the
union, E. C. Mahan, president of
the association, said.
A reversion to the wage award of
1917, a reduction of approximately
20 per cent under the contract
which expired April 1, will be sought
by the operators, it was stated.
Debs Ready to Serve
Out Term if Others
Are Not Released
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May B.
Eugene V. D£bs, treed by President
Harding from the Atlanta federal
prison in December, 1921, after serv
ing part of his term for violation of
the espionage act, is ready to return
to serve out his term if other so
called political prisoners are not re
released, he said here today.
“I feel that I should be sent back,’
Debs, older, grayer and more bent
since his said.
Several Convicts
Are Reported Shot
In Carolina Mutiny
COLUMBIA, S. C., May B.—The
Columbia fire department was rush
ed to the state penitentiary Monday
afternoon to assist in quelling a re
ported mutiny among the convicts.
Chief May, of the Columbia fire
department, is quoted as saying ten
or twelve convicts in the prison
were shot in the mutiny, which oc
curred shortly after lunch today.
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Body of Famous Old-Time
Gunman Is Viewed by Hun
dreds —Some Enemies and
Many His Warm Friends
ARDMORE, Okla., May B.—(Bv
the Associated Press.) —The body of
“Bud” Ballew, old-time gunman and
peace officer of the southwest, the
victim Friday, at Wichita Falls..
Texas, of bullets from Police Chief
J. W. McCormick’s modern pistol,.--
a weapon upon which BalleW' 'Had
scorned, rested at a local undertak
ing establishment.
Late Saturday, or the arrival of
Mrs. Ballew, it was announced burial
would be at the Lone Grove ceme
tery, and that the Masons of Car
ter county would have charge of the
services. When Mrs. Ballew return
ed here she was met by a number
of friends.
Mrs. Ballew, when notified ot
“Bud’s” death, was at Nash, Okla.
The use of the airplane which bore
the fallen gunman from the scene
of his last stand to his burial ground,
was offered to Mrs. Ballew, but sh-2
declined.
Without the guns, which had car
ried their owner safely through
countless bloody battles during his
last years as a deputy sheriff,
stripped for the last time of his. fa
mous cowboy boots, in which, in ac
cordance with his oft-expressed wish,
he died, clothed in sombre
black, his shock of curly red hair,
combed to a smoothness which it
has never before known, Ballew's
body lay on its bier today, and hwT
dreds who had known him in life*,
gathered to view it. Many were his
warm friends, some his enemies, and
there were others who had never
known him, but who were curious
to see him of whom they had heard
and read so much during his event
ful career.
Scarcely able to believe that Bud
Ballew had actually been “melted
down” and skeptical of the fact that
there lives a man faster on the draw
than he, many insisted upon view
ing his body in its last repose be
fore they could be convinced Bal
lew was no more.
During the recent ouster proceed
ings here, when his chief, Bue»
Garrett, was removed as sheriff <>!'.
Carter county, Ballew came in fin;
much of the blame charged to Gar
rett in the allegations of lax law en
forcement in the county. His bois
terous proclivities and his frequci
habit of “tearing loose” with his “six
gun” as the spirit moved him, had
struck fear to the hearts of man.’.
Ardmore citizens and his actions
had often been made the mark of
bitter condemnation from local pul
pits.
0.5. JUDGE EVANS
DIESJNSAVANNAL
SAVANNAH, Ga., May. B.—Judg'
Beverly D. Evans, United States dis
trict judge for the southern distrii;
of Georgia, died suddenly Sunday
night at his home here.
Death resulted from a paralyt.’c
stroke.
All of the courts adjourned Mon
day out of respect. The predecessor
of Judge Evans in the federal judge
ship here, Judge W. W. Lampdin,
also died from an attack of angina
pectoris, while in his chambers in
the federal building.
Judge Evans had been twice mar
ried. His first wife was Miss Bes
sie Wharten, of Warthen, Ga., whu
died in 1892. His second wife, who
suivives him, whom he married in
1894. was Miss Jennie Irwin, at
Shcrterville, Ala. Besides his w fl
ow, Judge Evans is survived by fqtir
sons Thomas Warthen Evans,' a
lawyer, of Dublin, Ga.; Julian Rich
ard Evans, a merchant of Sanders
ville; George Reese Evans, now a
student at the University of Geor
gia, and Irwin Lumpkin Evans,
twelve years old, and one brother,
George Evans, of Sandersville.
Judge Evans was fifty-seven years
old. A graduate of Yale, practically
his entire life from the time he left
that institution was spent in prac
tice of law either on the bench or
bar of his native state. He served
as a member of the Georgia legisla
ture in 1886, and was a delegate
from Georgia to the Democratic na
tional convention in 1888.
Appointed a judge of the middle
judicial circuit of Georgia in 1899
he filled that office five years, be
coming a justice of the supreme
court in 1904 and presiding justice in
1907. After thirteen years as head
of the highest state tribunal, Judge
Evans resigned to accept the fed
eral judgeship which he held until
his death.
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IN ATLANTA CLASH
•
Dan Walton, 18, is dead, two
white men and a negro are dying and
sewiral others are seriously wound
ad following a free-t'or-all fight be
tween negroes and white boys here
Sunday afternoon.
Charlie Hunt, negro porter, em
ploye of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad, is said to have
been accosted by several white boys
.while on the way to his work. The
hoys are alleged to have denounced
him for working for the railroad
during a strike. The fignt started
police de r are, when he resented
what was said to hin>.
The negro recruited several oth
ers of his iace and a stone battle
between them and the white boys
began the mix-up which latter de
veloped into a gun batt e, when sev
eral others joined in.
A white man and three tegrees
are held at police headquarters pend
ing further investigation of the af
fair.