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VOL. XXV. NO. 134
WALKER REPORTED
FRAMING DILL FOR
’ m SESSION
With Adjournment of Regu
lar Legislature Near, Fail
ure to Adopt New Revenue
System Seems Certain
With six working’ days left before
the 1923 session of the general as
sembly must adjourn sine die, house
and senate leaders were agreed
Thursday that there is scarcely a
chance to get through any of the
pending tax reform measures to
which the administration of Gover
nor Walker is committed.
It is understood at the capitol
that the governor is laying his
plans to call an extra session for
the exclusive consideration of “tax
reform,’’ and advocates of these
measures believe that Friday, Au
gust 17, will be the date set.
While Governor Walker on Thurs
day refused to be quoted with refer
ence to his plans, it was understood
on the authority of those in his
closest confidence that he will make
no further appeals to the legislature
to enact tax r»’f<-rin measures. H 6
takes the posit’an it is understood,
that he already b is made several «tp
peals, in his written messages, in
personal appeae.ina-’S before the sen
eral assembly, and to individual
t members of the legislature.
Depends on Legislators
If the general assembly does not
see fit to go ahead and enact tax
reform measures to which the ad
ministration is pledged, then all that
remains for the chief executive is to
take such steps as will bring the
Situation to a head, • according, to
Governor Walker’s intimates.
The governor believes an emer
gency exists, within the comprehen
sion of the law, it is understood.
Whether the legality of an extra
session called for tax reform enact
ment wmuld be questioned, is of lit
tle concern to him, it is said. There
have been intimations that the
courts might be called on to decide
whether a statutory emergency ex
ists for.an extra session, s.nce an
other regular session of t‘ie iegisla
ture would occur before any con
> stitutional amendment could be sub
mitted to the people in 1921.
Administration leaders predict it
will take the extraordinary session
about eight or ten days to carry out
their program, namely, to repeal
the tax equalization law and submit
to th* voters of the state a constitu
tional amendment providing for a
tunTlfd tax"*on incomes.
Would Be Sufficient
If these two measures are dis
yesed of the governor will not in
- :Jst on further tax legislation at
• .Is time, according to his close
p lends-
The prediction is being made
ficely in the capitol and in the Kim
; I’ll house lobby that August 17 will
» . e the date for opening the special
• ossion, and it is said many of the
legislators already are making their
plans to stay over.
After a meeting of the senate fi
nance committee Wednesday after
noon, at which the house and senate
bills repealing the tax equalization
law were considered at length, com
mittee members expressed serious
doubt that a favorable report can be
1 obtained.
Representative Stovall, of Elbert,
author of the house repeal bill, asked
the commitete to defer action on his
bill "for the present.” His request
was granted. Senator Pace, author
of another repeal bill, urged imme
diate action, but finally consented to
a postponement until 3 o’clock on
Thursday afternoon. He amended
his measure so as to prevent thea-e
--peal from becoming eective until De
cember 31, 1924.
Committee in Uproar
"I believe a favorable senate re
port on the repeal bill will spur the
house to pass our income tax bill.”
Senator Pace said.
Senator Redwine disagreed, say
ing he felt there is absolutely no
chance to get the income tax meas
. ure through the house, “regardless
of the senate’s action.”
The commitete was thrown into a
heated discussion when Senator
John Camp Davis introduced a sub
stitute for the repeal bills, which,
he said, had been drafted by Tax
Commissioner H. J. Fulbright. This
bill provides for the repeal of the
equalization act, but sets up a new
tax plan perfecting the old law and
retaining most of its provisions and
adding others.
Commissioner Fulbright, a strong
defender of the equalization law, told
the committee the substitute of Sen
ator Davis would not cripple the
state and would be satisfactory to
his department.
“What have you gained when- you
repeal the equalization law?’’ he ask
ed. “Ycu will have crippled the
schools, cut the revenue of tne state,
doubled y«ur taxes o- hanest peo
ple and rc-vw-afin.'’ tax dodgers by
allowing jiem to fix their own tax
returns.
Favors Davis Bill
“The Pace bill gives the tax re
ceivers the right to reject returns,
but how many receivers do you know
who would be willing to turn down
returns presented by voters in their
. counties? I know of very few. The
’ Davis substitute re-enacts most of
the present tax machinery and will
be just as good a law, and probably
a more popular one, than the one
tinder which we now raise our reve
nue.”
Senator Davis said it would be
folly to repeal the present law with
out providing tax machinery to sup
plant it. Senator Lankford said to
pass the repeal bill would mean that
the appropriations bill just passed
would be left unpaid.
Other members spoke for the sub
stitute and it began to appear that
it might carry, when the advocates of
outright repeal began moving to de
lay action Senator Phillips described
the whole situation as “very delicate”
and urged a delay.
Senator Pace said he would call
-for a vote at the Thursday session.
( He scored the Davis substitute and
I said it was merely a rehash of the
present law.
Published E
903 Sets of Twins,
Nine of Triplets Born
In Georgia Last Year
Nine counties in Georgie reported
the birth of triplets during 1922, and
all but seven counties reported the
birth of twins, according to figures
given out by the state bureau of
vital statistics. There were nine sets
of triplets and 903 sets of twins born
during the year.
Os the twins, 533 sets were white,
and 369 negro babies; three sets of
triplets were white and six negroes.
The counties reporting the birth
I of triplets were Baldwin, Campbell,
Coweta, Fannin, Fulton, Houston,
Laurens, Lowndes and Mitchell. All
but Bacon, Chattahoochee, Lee,
| Long, Lumpkin. Quitman and White
j counties repotted the birth of twins.
mW piiii
H SUGGESTIONS
FOB GERMAN PEACE
PARIS, Aug. 9. —(By the Associat
ed Press.) —The Belgian government
has decided to take the initiative and
directly approach Great Britain and
France if the reparations negotia
tions among tlife allies show no signs
of being resumed at an early date,
says a Brussels dispatch to Excel
sior.
Premier Theunis and Foreign Min
ister Jaspar will come to Paris, the
newspaper says, to propose that the
reparations claims from Germany, so
far as France and Belgium are con
cerned, be confined to the material
damage suffered by those countries,
and, furthermore, that England can
cel the inter-allied debts, receiving
from Germany for her part the
amount of money she owes the Unit
ed States.
On this basis it is said, the Bel
gians will suggest that inter-allied
pourparlers be started to settle the
guarantees to be required from Ger
many.
BRITISH NOTE SCORED
IN CL NO SPEECH
BERLIN, Aug. 9.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) Chancellor Cuno’s
address to the reichstag, in which
he declared that passive resistance
in the Ruhr and Rhineland would
continue to be supported by the na
■Tton; ‘has -been received as the ’most
depressing statement yet made to
the national legislature by the pres
ent government. The coalition par
ties regard it as a disappointing ut
terance.
The chancellor was visibly discon
certed by the boisterous heckling of
the Communist members, who when
he arose to speak hailed him as a
“traitor,” “swindler” and “president
of the Stinnes Co.” He was con
tinually' interrupted as the address
was begun, but when it was finish
ed there was prolonged applause.
Asserting that the British draft
reply to the last German repara
tion note contained much that was
impossible for fulfillment, Herr
Cuno said it appeared England had
gone extraordinarily far in her con
cessions to the French viewpoint.
“It is necessary to continue with
all our strength passive resistance
free from mad acts of violence and
terror,” he said, and to support ac
tively from the unoccupied territory
the population which is preserving
in a -passive resistance of its own
will. _
Atlanta Woman Will
Fight for Bishop Key’s
Million-Dollar Estate
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 9.
Mrs. W. M. Mahone, of Atlanta, was
here today completing plans for a
claim she announced she would pre
sent for the $1,000,000 estate of the
late Bishop Caleb Key, of New York.
Mrs. Mahone said her claim would
be based on the grounds that she
is the only living heir to the for
tune since the death of the bishop’s
son, Joe Key, in San Antonio. Tex.,
three years ago.
The estate, which originally be
longed to John C. Key, includes
much valuable real estate in the
heart of New York City.
Mrs. Mahone, accompanied by her
son and daughter, will go to New
York Monday, she said..
Tobacco Money Makes
Business Hum in Tifton
TIFTON, Ga., Aug. 9. —The best
tobacco sold here this season was
offered on the Tifton market Tues
day, one pile bringing 60 cents. W.
J. Etheridge, of Ty Ty, cc*d seven
baskets, receiving from 35 to <SO
cents a pound for his offerings. To
tal sales for the day were 36,618
pounds, brought $9,882.92. Average
price for the day, 27 cents. Sales
for the season here average 22.37.
The first day's average on the Tif
ton market was just a little over
20 cents, but each day the average
has been a little higher and still
better prices are expected.
With the big stemmery and re
drying plant of the Imperial Tobac
co Co., Ltd., in full operation, em
ploying several hundred hands, and
farmers from all over this section
selling tobacco on the Tifton mar
ket, Tifton is beginning to realize
the benefit from the tobacco sales.
James G. Woodward’s
Condition Unchanged
The condition of James G. Wood
ward, former mayor of Atlanta, who
is seriously ill at the Piedmont sani
tarium, was reported as unchanged
Thursday.
Physicians at the hospital say his
chances for recovery ane slight.
Frequent lapses into Unconscious
ness indicate the gravity of his con
dition. Mr. Woodward was taken
to the hospital last Friday, suffer
ing from a complication of ailments
which have troubled him for years.
very Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
GEORGIA COUNCIL
OF CO-OPERATIVE
BODIES IS FORMED
Assistance Will Immediately
Be Given to Movement to
Organize Producers of Na
val Stores in Georgia
At a meeting here Wednesday of
jthe managing heads representing the
I five principal co-operative markeing
associations in the state, the Geor-
I gia Council of Co-operative Market
ing associations was organized with
the election of J. E. Conwell, of
the Georgia Cotton Growers’ asso
ciation, as chairman and William P.
Bullard, -of the National Pecan
Growers’ exchange, as secretary.
Other officials attending the meet
ing in addition to Mr. Conwell and
! Mr. Bullard were T. M. Chastain,
j president of the Cane Growers’ Co
: operative association, Cairo, Ga.;
' John D. Paulk, president of the
Southwest Georgia Watermelon
Growers’ association, Adel, Ga., and
Colonel R. E. L. Spence, president
of the Georgia Peanut Growers’ Co
operative association, Albany. Ga.
The conference followed a call by
Mr. Conwell, of the cotton associa
tion, a few days ago, in which time
he suggested the advisability for rep
resentatives of the co-operatives to
meet from time to time to advise
with each other, not only for mutual
benefit, but for carrying forward the
movement of organizing marketing
associations for all farm products.
Ask Aid in Naval Stores
J. Leonard Rountree, of Summit
Ga., and T. L. Pickfen, of Folkston
Ga., large naval stores producers,
appeared before the council Wednes
day to ask assistance ih a movement
under way to organize the turpen
tine and naval stores operators into
a co-operative. The council will in
vestigate the feasibility of co-opera
tive marketing for naval stores prod
ucts and will aid in every way pos
sible those interested in placing the
turpentine products of the- state on
a profitable basis through co-opera
tive marketing.
As described in the rules of or
ganization, the council will be pure
ly a voluntary association of the
managing heads of the various co
operative marketing associations in
the state.
Membership in the council will be
limited to the managing head of
each of the co-operatives chartered
under the co-operative marketing
acts of Georgia of 1920 and 1921.
In speaking of the first meeting
Co-nwell stated: ‘Il can see very clear
ly that the managers of the different
associations for marketing farm
products can, by meeting together
and exchanging be able to ren
der a better service, not only for
the co-operative marketing move
ment, but for the members of the as
sociations already organized. This
will be a great benefit in itself, but
in addition to that, the council ex
pects to help tl>? growers of the
farm products ii; i ir state that are
not organized ai I » time on the co
operative plan, to form associations
for marketing their products co oper
atively. AH members cf the council
were unanimous, in their expression
that to solve this problem would
mean tnat our farmers in the state
would then be able to solve cur
problems of diversification inasmuch
as our growers will then be assured
of fair prices for their products once
they are roganized on the co-opera
tive plan.”
The council will meet from time to
time and the next meeting will be
called by the chairman.
Alpine Guides See
Four Mer Falling
Fror .GU iit’s Needle
CHAMONht*.’ .e, Aug. 9. —(By
the Associated Pres’&|y—Four persons,
two of them Alpine guides, who were
ascending the Giants Needle, wCre
seen falling into space by other
guides today.
Two Drowned When
Auto Leaves Road
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 9.—Peter Pe
tersen, driver of a for-hire automo
bile, and Mrs. E. E. Bushong, both
of this city, were drowned early
this morning when a car in which
they were riding ran off the Ta
miami Trail into the Tamiami canal
and turned over. C. A. Fowler and
Mrs. Ray Wiley, also of Miami,
other members of the party, saved
themselves by wading ashore. The
bodies were recovered at 7 o’clock
this morning. The ride on the trail
followed a theater party last night.
Alabama Farmers’ Body
Found in Tennessee River
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 9.
The body of the man found in the
Tennessee river yesterday was iden
tified last night as that of Martin
Planzer, a prominent farmer of Val
leyhead, Ala., who came here to
visit his son.
Ic is known that the man had
been despondent for some time over
the recent death of his wife, and it
is believed that he committed sui
cide by jumping from one of the
bridges that span the Tennessee. It
is said he stated Monday that- he
intended to kill himself.
Punctured 603 Times,
Tire Leaks No Air
Mr. B. D. Harrison, of Hammond,
Ind., announces a new puncture
proof inner tube. Actual tests dis
close that on puncturing the tube
with 603 nails there is absolutely no
loss "of air. This puncture-proof
tube costs no more than the or
dinary tube —increases your mileage
from 8,000 to 12,000 miles without
removing tube from the tire. Mr.
B. D. Harrison, 144 Indiana St.,
Hammond, Ind., wants every auto
owner to benefit by his wonderful
invention and makes an unusual
offer to anyone who wishes to act
ns his agent in this territory. Write
him at once.— (Advertisement.)
House Committee
Votes to Seat Solon
From Teach County’
By a vote of 13 to 3 the House
comitte o nprivileges and elections
Thursday afternoon voted to seat
Joseph E. Davidson as representa
tive from Peach county.
Great interest attaches to the plan
to seat Mr. Davison, by reason of the
probable effect of the action on
the present litigation over the ratifi
cation of the creation of Peach coun
ty. The hew county was created by
act of the last legislature and voted
upon by the people of the state in
the last general election, but the
result of that election is being fought
through the courts.
Friends of Mr. Davison deciare the
house is the sole judge -.-f the quali
fications of its members, and if it
decides to v eat Mr. Davison, it will
by that act legally create the new
county.
Some members of the bouse are ex
pected to oppose the seating on the
theory that the house should not in
terfere with due processes of the
law. A quiet poll of the membership
has been taken, ar.d it is said Mr.
Davison has been assured the sup
port of practically enough members
to guarantee that he will be sworn
in as a member of the house.
CONGRESSMAN <1
TROOPS Isl CLASH
ST CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. 10.—
(By the Associated Press.) —Con-
gressman W. Turner Dogan, chair
man of the city executive committee,
clashed with state troops guarding
the Hibernian hall here today when
he attempted to enter the hall to
preside over the committee meeting
called to formally declare the re
sult of Tuesday’s municipal primary.
The chairman, who represents the
First South Carolina district in con
gress, resisted efforts of the soldiers
to search him for arms.
Sheriff Poulnot, of Charleston
county, was directed to arrest Mr.
Logan by Lieutenant Colonel Harry
Withington, commanding the two
national guard companies on duty,
but the t, prevailed
upon the congressman to -gqi. with
him to an ante-room and a few mo
ments later the sheriff announced
he was satisfied the chairman was
unarmed.
Members of the committee and
others were searched by the troops
as they entered the hall. Result of
the Grace-Stoney race for fiiayor is
to be decided this afternoon.
Extra militiamen were called into
the hall from the yard where two
companies of the One Hundred and
Eighteenth infantry were mobilized
when Archie P. Owens, a member of
the committee, objected strenuous
ly to the military searching him.
Upon the persuasion of friends, how
ever, he yielded. No arms were
found in his possession, or in Mr.
Logan’s, it was announced.
The committee decided to proceed
immediately with the counting of
the ballots in the two boxes of Ward
11 and one of Ward 8, which were
not tallied Tuesday night because
the poll lists were found missing,
and upon which depends the outcome
of the election. Without counting
these boxes, the vote stood: Grace,
5,950; Stoney, 6,542. A subcommit
tee was appointed to make the count,
and the executive committee recess
ed until 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Congressman Logan, who is a law
partner of Mayor Grace, protested
when he was ordered
militiamen) to halt and be
as he entered the building. He
brushed by the guards at the outer
gate, but was stopped by an officer.
“My person is sacred and I will
not be searched,” he declared. “I
have no arms except a pen knife.
Can’t you take my word?”
“We are taking no man’s word,”
Colonel Withington replied, as he
called the sheriff, adding: “The
search is being done as a matter of
precaution for you and for every
body else.”
Florida Youth Defeats
1 wo State Champions
In Baltimore Golf Play
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 10.—
Henry Camp, youthful golfing star
of Ocala, Fla., defeated Fred M. Lax
ton, of Charlotte, champion of the
two Carolinas for the past three
years, in the semi-finals of the an
nual invitation golf tournament of
Biltmore Forest Country club. The
score was three and one. This is
the second state champion that
young Camp has eliminated. He de
feated T. W. Palmer, Florida cham
pion.
The Weather
Virginia: Partly cloudy Saturday.
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia, Florida, extreme northwest
Florida, Alabama, Mississippir*|flosi
ly partly cloudy Saturday —with
scattered thunder showers.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Partly
cloudy Saturday, probably widely
scattreed thunder showers; little
change in temperature.
Louisiana: Saturday, partly
cloudy.
Arkansas: Saturday, partly cloudy,
warmer in east portion.
Oklahoma: Saturday generally
fair.
East Texas: Saturday partly
cloudy.
West Texas: Saturday, partly
cloudy.
TAX ACT FILIBUSTER
ENDED: HOUSE ML
RECDNSIDERACTION
The filibuster on consideration of
the general tax act as a whole was
broken in the house of representa
tives Friday morning when the house
voted 68 to 59 to reconsider its pre
vious action in ordering that the
bill be taken up section by section.
The motion to reconsider was made
by Representative Harris of Jeffer
son county, and was opposed by Rep
resentatives Stewart of Atkinson,
Wood of Fulton, Terrell of Stewart,
and others. Motions to adjourn,
parliamentary inquiries and calls
upon the speaker to interpret vari
ous rules, delayed a vote for some
time, but Speaker Neill finally ignor
ed several members who were clam
oring for recognition and put the
question.
The cldrk began to read the bill
in full, but as each section was com
pleted, amendments were sent to the
desk. Speaker Neill ruled that all
these amendments should be held
until the reading of the bill ■was com
pleted and announced that at that
time he would allow each author
five minutes to explain his amend
ment. The indications were that
the general tax bill would be com
pleted by the house either Friday
afternoon or Saturday morning.
At 1 o’clock the senate and house
held a joint memorial service for
President Harding. The two bodies
united in siging “Lead Kindly
Light,” “Nearer My God to Thee,”
and heard a memorial address by
Representative W. A. Covington, of
Colquitt county. ' .
Considerable time was spent r»T
day morning in arguing a bill by
Representatve Harrell, of Stewart,
to reduce the fees charged by clerks
of superor courts. Mr. Harrell
claimed that these fees were in
creased in 1919 as a war emergency
and should be put back at the orig
inal figures. A roll call was demanded
and the bill was defeated.
Before taking, up the bill as a
whole, the house reduced the tax
previously voted on dealers in cigars,
fixing a new tax at $5 for cigar deal
ers in towns of less than 2,000 popu
lation and $lO in larger cities.
To Honor Harding
A resolution was adopted by the
house giving the Georgia public serv
ice commission the right to use $2,-
500 of the fund set apart for the
commission to reimburse the five
members who put up SSOO each out
of their own pockets to have an
audit made of the Atlanta Gas Light
company in the rate case affecting
the city of Atlanta and its suburbs.
This money does not come out of
tile .§ti,Ue treasury, but from the
fund raised by assessment of the
public service corporation for the
maintenance of the commission.
It was expected that the house
would adjourn from 1 o’clock un
til 3:30 o’clock out of respect to the
date President Harding.
” At the Thursdays afternoon session
the house passed, by a vote of 128
to 60, the Milner bill placing a stamp
tax of 10 per cent upon all cigars
and cigarettes sold in Georgia. The
general tax act is the next measure
on the calendar after the Ennis bill
The Ennis' bill provides for the
appointm’ent by the governor of a
commissioner of revenue, for a pe
riod of six years, at an annual sal
ary of $4,000, who shall have the
power to appoint six deputies at sal
aries of S2OO per month. These of
ficials shall be charged with the
duty of investigating and collecting
delinquent special license taxes, oc
cupation taxes, automobile tag taxes
and inheritance taxes, and assess a
penalty of 25 per cent against all
delinquents.
Cites Great Waste
Mr. Ennis stated to the house that
there are $1,500,000 in taxes now
past due, which can be collected by
the new department.
It is estimated that the tax will
raise more than $2,000,000. Os this
amount $250,000 will go to the state
sanitarium for tubercular patients at
Alto, Ga., during the years 1924 and
1925, and the remainder will be used
to pay Confederate pensions.
An effort was made to divert $75,-
000 to the payment of free school
books in the .rst grades of the com
mon schools, but this amendment
defeated.
Seab Johnson to Pay
Death Penalty Friday
For Triple Murder
SWAINSfeORO, Ga , Aug. 10.—
For the triple murder of h’s wife,
her sister and her niece here in
1920, Seab Johnson, negro, will die
on the gallows at 1:30 o’clock this
afternoon. The hour was announced
this morning by Sheriff Coleman,
who will have charge of the exe
cution.
Arising early this morning, the
negro informed the sheriff he>
wanted no He added he
was ready to gfeuat any minute the.
sheriff named,
No last-minute efforts were being
mp.de to save the negro from the
gallows. The negro, as well as his
attorney, I. W. Rountree, had given
up hope when Governor Walker, a
few days ago, gave notice he would
not interfere with the execution.
Johnson has been in the jail here
for two years, two months and ten
days. Sheriff Coleman says he has
been a model prisoner during that
time.
The crime for which the negro is
to die resulted from family troubles.
According to the defense made by
Johnson during his trial, he had
been separated from his wife by her
people. On the day the killing oc
curred, the two negro women killed
along with his wife had come to
Johnson's bouse in an effort to get
his wife to return with them, John
son a few days before having ac
complished a reconciliation.
Bank Cashier Slain
Resisting Robbers
MIAMI, Okla., Aug. 9.—The
cashier of the Ketcnum State bank,
of Ketchum, near here, was shot
and killed today when he attempted
to resist three men who held up and
robbed the bank, according to ad
vices received here. The bandits es
caped in an automobile'.'
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, August 11,1923
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON.—Intense heat and
humidity cause 170 prostrations in
Washington, but none of the victims
are reported seriously ill.
INDIANAPOLIS. lndiana au
thorities forbid Firpo-Downey bout
out of respect to President Harding
after state-wide protests are made.
WASHINGTON. President and
Mrs. Coolidge are dinner guests of
Edward B. McLean, at publisher’s
home in outskirts of Washington.
WASHINGTON.—Woodrow Wil
son apparently stands Harding fu
neral test very well. Observers de
clare he seems to have gained in
health.
LONDON. Communists greet
Cuno with invectives as he declares
Germany must continue passive re
sistance with no outside help, Ber
lin dispatch asserts.
WASHINGTON.—Edwin M. Hood,
dean of Washington newspaper
men, and member of the Washing
ton staff of the Associated Press,
died suddenly at his home.
VICTORIA, British Columbia. —
Earthquake of moderate intensity is
recorded on seismograph at Gonzalez
observatory, indicated to be about
4,600 miles away, lasting two hours
and believed to be in vicinity of
Japan.
CLINTON, HL—Four unidentified
persons are instanly killed when
automobile truck on which they are
riding is struck by Illinois Central
train in downtown district. Three
of train’s cars are derailed when
flying debris strikes switch.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal—Fire
raging in Santa Barba forest for
nearly week is reported beyond con
trol, and raging along fifteen-mile
front, with more than thirty sections
having been burned over, and no
hope seen of checking fire, although
nearly 200 men are fighting it.
SAN FRANCISCO.—New agree
ment between Chinese government
and Federal Telegraph company, in
conjunction with Radio Corporation
of America, has been signed for con
struction of five wireless stations
in China, it is reported by Richard
P. Schwerin, president of Federal
company.
CANTON. —Students of military
situation in south China express be
lief that regime of Sun Yat-Sen,
southern constitutionalist leader, is
destined, to be short lived, and it is
reported that Sun’s Yunnanese
troops have evacuated positions on’
north river and are proceeding to
ward east river section.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.—
The chair of psychic phenomena at
Stanford university receives a be
quest of $400,000 from estate of
Thomas Welton Stanford, Melbourne.
Australia, brother of late Leland
Stanford, founder of institution, and
fund will be used for scientific ex
perimentation in field of spiritualism.
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TORONTO. —David Lloyd George,
former premier of Great Britain,
will sail from Liverpool on October
3, to attend conventiton of
hood Federatiton of World in To
ronto, according tc word received
by Baptist officials and it is under
stood he will visit Winnipeg, Chi
cago, Detroit and New York.
MAUSOLEUM ATOP
INDIAN MOUND FOR
HARDINGROPOSED
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Eventually the
body of Warren G. Harding may
find a final resting place on the top
of an old Indian mound just east
of this city and overlooking the
home where he lived for so many
years and where he made his famous
front porch campaign for the pres
idency.
Close personal friends of the late
president have started a movement
to that end, which may include the
erection of a suitable mausoleum
with funds to be derived from the
sale of gold dollars —the same plan
followed in obtaining funds for the
memorial to President William Mc-
Kinley, at Niles, Ohio.
As soon as possible, the plan
will be submitted to Mrs. Harding
for her approval or rejection.
The Indian mound Hes just east
of the cemetery where the presi
dent’s body will be entombed Fri
day and is a beautiful grassy h\ll
some 75 feet higher than the sur
rounding country. It is studded with
many forest trees and is one of the
most beautiful spots near Marion.
Cemetery authorities let it be
come knwon today that more than
a year ago, E. K. Upler, a very in
timate friend of Mr. Harding, had
reserved an acre of ground in one
of the most beautiful spots in the
Marion cemetery as a possible
burial place for Mr. Harding. In re
serving the space, Mr. Upler told
cemetery officials that “some day
we may have to bury a president
or former president of the United
States here.” The site of this acre
plot is near where President Har
ding's mother is buried.
BERLIN. German communists
continue to demand resignation of
Cuno government as financial crisis
persists.
LOS ANGELES.—MobeI Normand,
movie actress, breaks collar bone
and suffers other injuries when
thrown from horse.
PARlS.—European powers plan a
naval demonstration in Chinese
waters because of disturbed condi
tions in the Chinese navy.
WASHINGTON. Ambassador
Harvey confers'With President Cool
idge and says he plans to return
to'his London post early in Sep
tember.
WASHlNGTON.—lndications are
that Major F. Coupal, of the army
medical corps, may be appointed
personal physician to President
Coolidge.
NEW YORK.—Net estate of Wil
liam Rockefeller, brother of John
D. Rockefeller, is reduced to $67,-
649,660, report of state tax commis
sion shows.
CHICAGO. Establishment of
birth control clinic in Chicago is ex
pected in near future following opin
ion declared by First Assistant Cor
poration Counsel F. M. Fadden, that
such clinic is legal.
WASHINGTON,—RaiIroad earn
ings during June amounted to 87,-
742,000 as estimated by American
Railway association, and represents
annual return of 5.47 per cent on
theoretical value of property invest-,
ment.
MONTREAL.—Knights of Colum
bus, in convention a,t Montreal, de
cide to launch movement to enroll
nearly two million boys under name
of Columbus esquires, who are not
to compete with boy scouts, offi
cials assert.
CHICAGO.—PIan advanced by
American Farm Bureau to stpre
200,000,000 bushels of ‘wheat on
farms in hope of raising price is de
clared unsound, impractical and of
no permanent benefit to farraer by
John J- Stream, president of Chicago
Board of Trade.
MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y.—Eight
big army airplanes, especially built
for postmaster general's department,
are being- shipped /rom eastern, fac
tories to Chicago and Cheyenne for
overnight lap In series of tests of
transcontinental, all-weather, 28-
hour air mail service to start Au
gust 21.
WASHINGTON.—CaIIers on presi
dent get impression that Mr. Cool
idge is determined to carry out pro
hibition enforcement policies of Har
ding administration. Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes has talk with
president, and it is authoritatively
stated that no mention of Mr.
Haynes’ retirement was made at the
conference.
TAMPICO, Mex.—Fear is felt that
Mallory line steamer, Sw.ift Star,
’which left Los Angeles July 2 with
100,000 barrels of crude oil for Fall
River, Mass!, has been lost with
crew of 32 officers and men. Ice
box with body of man inside and
with "Swift Star” stenciled on it is
washed ashore at St. Andrews Is
land in the Caribbean sea.
BRITISH MEMORIAL
TD HARDING DRAWS
SEVERAL THOUSAND
LONDON, Aug. 10.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —Several thousand
Americans and British crowded in
and around Westminster Abbey, the
spiritual center of the empire, today
to mourn the death of President
Harding. Hundreds who could not
be accommodated in the ancient
cathedral lined the streets and
squares in the vicinity of the par
liament buildings as prominent per
sonages arrived for the service.
The overflow crowd gathered in
the abbey yard, -where it heard
the funerhl music piayed on the
great organ.
The American embassy distrib
uted the 1,200 available seats yes
terday and was obliged later to de
cline the requests of hundreds of
tourists who sought tickets.
The unreserved sections were
filled several hours before noon. As
the congregation was being seated
the organist? played Chopin’s fu
peral march and at the first stroke
of twelve the choir and clergy of
the abbey entered, chanting the
opening sentences of the burial
services. The congregation then
joined in singing Mr. Hardings
favorite hymns and after the bene
diction remained with bared heads
while the organ played the “Dead
March from Saul.’’
The Duke and Duchess of York
represented King George and Queen
Mary at the service. Prime Min
ister Baldwin and many members
of the cabinet attended in person.
Post Wheeler, of the American
embassy, headed the official Amen
can representatives. Various Anglo
American organizations also were
represented.
GERMANY’S OFFICIALDOM
AT MEMORIAL SERVICES
BERLIN, Aug. 10. —President
Ebert, Ambassador Houghton, tne
diplomatic corps and notables at
tended the memorial services here
today for President Harding.
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iMIRION BIDS LAST
ODMTOFBIEND
FIBST CITIZEN
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Thousands File Past Harding
Casket as Hour of Services
Nears—Home City Crowd
ed as Never Before ’
MARION, 0., Aug. 10.—The dust
’of Marion’s “first citizen was laid
■ today in a place of rest.
Warren Harding passed through
; the quiet streets of his home town,
| and with a ceremony as simple and
t brief as though he never had been
ought save an honored citizen of the
town, was given to God for eternity,
The nation’s greatest were at the
tomb, but they stood there no high
er than the lowliest man in Marion
Warren G. Har’ding was the na
tion’s; today he was Marion’s, and
with love's privilege, his widow and
aged father and his friends and
neighbors claimed the right to lay
his body away with their own hands.
At 1 p. m. the house doors were
closed. All the world, even Marion,
was shut out for an hour, while
Mrs. Harding and the aged father
looked their last upon the still face.
When they left the silent room,
the other relatives, George T. Har
ding, Jr., the brother; Mrs. E- E
Rcmsberg, Miss Abigail Harding and
Mrs. Heber Votaw, the sisters, with
their families, were admitted for
their farewells.
Softly then the casket was shut—
foreevr. /
The Last Journey
The members of the cabinet, Pres!
dent Coolidge, and the party that
went from Washington to Alaska
with Mr. Harding, gathered and the
coffin was carried for the last time
from the father’s house, by the same
honor guard of young men of tkp
army, navy anti marine corps, who
have borne it since it was carried
from the Palace hotel in San Fran
cisco a week ago to be placed on the ’
funeral train for Washington.
The cortege moved through the
still tree-shaded streets, between the
lines of friends and neighbors. On
to the opened gates of the Marion
cemetery, it took its stately way.
There was no poinii, no brilliant
trappings or display of grief. For
he who passes by was just Warren
G. Harding, citizen of Marion.
Behind the gray hearse in which
the casket was borne, camb the
honorary pallbearers, ’ who were
President Coolidge and Chief jus
tice Taft, the members of the cabi
net, Senator Cummins, president of
the senate, Speaker Gillett, of the
house. Other members of the su
preme court, the wives of cabinet
officers, and a great host of men and
women occupying humbler positions
under the government, or having no
official position at all, followed.
The vast majority of the thou
sands who accompanied that grey
hearse were just the plain folks
Warren Harding loved and who’, be
cause he loved them and so plain
ly showed it, loved him in return.
Changes in Program
Rope barriers in the cemetery
held back the crowd, which was not
allowed nearer than about fifty yards
back from the ivy-covered receiving
vault. Within the barriers, a space
lias been roped off for the chief
mourners. Then there was a place
for the hundreds of floral tributes,
rendering homage in the name of
foreign governments and millions of
Americans.
Slight changes in the funeral pro
gram were made.
A prayer at the house, before the
start for the cemetery, was uttered
by the Rev. Walter A. King, of Co
lumbus, former pastor of Mr. Har
ding’s Baptist church here.
The Rev. W. F. Anderson, bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal diocese
of Cincinnati, delivered the benedic
tion at the vault.
The choir of Trinity Baptist church
sang “Lead Kindly Light," one of
the hymns Mr. Harding learned to
know and to love when he lived in
Marion. Rev. George M. Landis,
pastor of Trinity church, then read
from the scriptures, find Dr. Jesse
Swank, pastor of Epworth Method
ist Episcopal church, offered prayer.
The choir sang “Nearer, My God,
to Thee.”
Warren Harding was at rest.
Doorn Are Closed
At 1 p. m. with a line of pecol*
, extending more tnan four miles
the Harding house, the order was
issued that no more would be ad
mitted. A cordon of troops was
thrown across the column cutting it
off short.
The last of the mourners passed
the casket and the doors were closed.
At this time a dense crowd was
massed on all sides of the residence.
Boy Scouts aided the troops in hold
ing back the people. Troops began
clearing persons without passes, out
of the drives and yards around the
house in preparation for the coming
of President Coolidge.
A Red Cross detachment was busy
administering first aid to those who
collapsed from the heat which was
growing more intense.
THRONGS CROWD MARION
FOR PRESIDENTIAL FUNERAL
MARION. O„ Aug. 10.—(By the
Associated Press.) Slow-moving
throngs crowded the streets of
Marion again today in the last pub
lic honors Warren Harding was ta
know before the doors of the ivy
grown vault close upon him.
It seemed that not alone Ohio, but
every surrounding state from which
Marion could he reached before the
end had sent legions here to pabs.
beside the bier or to stand
as the dead president was carried
to his rest. Congested sidewalks
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