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COOLIDGE TO KEEP
■ CABINET TOGETHER;
TALKS WITH SEVEN
New President to Move into
White House Offices Mon
day—Many Visitors Sat
urday .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. —Presl-j
‘ dent Coolidge, returning to the capi- j
tai today from Marion, where he at- |
tended the funeral of President Har- I
ding, summoned cabinet officers to ;
his temporary executive office, and j
expressed to them his desire that
the administration forces close ranks
and march ahead. He reiterated his
wish that all present cabinet mem
bers continue in office, and some
of his callers are of the opinion that
there will be no changes in the ex
ecutive’s official family for some J
months, at least.
Singly or in groups, the heads of ;
seven of the government depart- j
ments conferred with Mr. Coolidge. |
They were: Secretaries Hughes, I
Weeks, Hoover, Work-and Wallace;
Postmaster General New and Attor
ney General Daugherty.
Secretaries Mellon and Davis are
out of the country, and Secretary
Denby had resumed his vacation on
hie Michigan farm. Mr. Coolidge
will confer 'with them when they
come to Washington.
Regular Cabinet Meetings
Announcement was made that reg
ular meetings of the cabinet will be
held on Tuesdays and Fridays, as
has been the custom, with the new
president presiding at his first meet
ing next Tuesday. This meeting
will be held in the White House ex
ecutive offices, which will be taken
over by the president on Monday.
He and Mrs. Coolidge will continue
to live at the New Willard hotel,
however, until Mrs. Harding has left
the White House.
President Coolidge made it known
that although he no need for
S' an extra session of congress at this
time, he is keeping his mind open
•and listening to views on the sub
ject from both sides. While pres
sure for such a session to consider
the coal and agricultural situations
continues, u majority cf those with
whom the executive has discussea
the question have been in opposition.
- While no -formal announcement
was made, some of those close to
the president said they did not think
he would go to Swampscott, Mass.,
as has been suggested,- to establish
a summer White House. It is their
belief that he will remain in Wash
ington throughout the summer.
Besides members of the cabinet
and other officials, the executive re
ceived today the newspaper corre
spondents who accompanied Presi
dent Harding on his fateful journey
to Alaska. He told them he had had
a meeting with the other correspond
ents here before their return to
Washington, and that he desired to
meet them and to request their co
operation. He said he would follow
the practice inaugurated by Presi
dent Harding of meeting the news
. paper mep each Tuesday and Fri
day.
Christian Resigns
Others who called on the president
during the day included Speaker Gil
lette, Senator Curtis, Republican,
Kansas; Representative Reece, Re
publican, Tennessee; Felix Cordova
Davilla, delegate from Porto Rico;
Joseph B. Eastman, a member o' the
interstate commerce commission, and
George B. Christian, Jr., who' was
secretary to Mr. Harding. Mr. Chris
tian said his resignation was in the
hands of President Coolidge, but
that he would remain here for the
present to assist the new executive.
President Coolidge will retain the
present White House executive staff,
■which is under the direction of Ru
dolph Forster, executive secretary
, since the time of Roosevelt, and who
probably has a better grasp of White
House routine than any man living.
The only changes in personnel ex
pected at the executive mansion are
in the places like that of secretary to
the president, to which every presi
dent makes “personal appointments.’’
There has been no intimation as
to who will become President Cool
idge’s secretary. Edward T. Clark,
served as secretary to Mr. Coolidge
while he was vice president and has
continued to assist him since his
elevation to the presidency.
President’s Letter
The president's letter accepting
Mr. Christian’s resignation W’as made
public tonight at the White House.
It follows:
"My dear Mr. Christian:
"Your favor transmitting your
resignation as secretary to the presi
dent has been received. My state
ment issued at the time I took office
covered you and all others, but, of
course, I recognize that your attach
inent was personal to President Har
ding. It is exceedingly kind of you
to offer to remain and assist in tak
ing up and familiarizing myself with
the routine of the office and I shall
avail myself of your thoughtfulness
and leave the date of the time when
r your resignation will take effect to
be mutually determined later.
- “You have had a successful curw
of public service in Washington in a
most difficult and exacting position.
Os course, I came intimately in con
tact with you apd had the opportu
nity to note with satisfaction your
ability and your helpfulness to Pres
ident Harding. I part with you re
gretfully, because of -your useful
ness and because of our friendship.
Wherever you go a. J whatver you
do, you know that sentiment will
continue between us.
“With highest personal regards
and every good wish, I am
“Cordially yours,
“CALVIN COOLIDGE.”
• Christian’s Letter
Mr. Christian’s letter of resigna
tion. dated August 8, follows:
“Dear Mr. President:
• “I have the honor to hereby ten
der to you ijiy. resignation as .sec-re I
> tary to the president.
* “Please command any services i
may be in my power to render you, .
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Masked Men Rob
Georgia Mill Man
Os $550 Payroll
WAYCROSS, Ga.. Aug. 12.—Two
• masked men held up and robbed
G. P. Langford, sawmill man, of
$550 near Alma, Saturday afternoon.
Langford, driving his automobile,
was returning from Waycross,
where he had just drawn the money
from a bank to be used in paying
off his weekly payroll. Both men
escaped into ihe woods. Track dogs
have been put on their trail.
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DEALERS ■ HIT
BE DAKOTA mH
CHICAGO, Ills., Aug. 11.—An
nouncement today by the Standard
Oil company of Indiana that it would
i reduce its price, of gasoline to 16
'■ cents a gallon in South Dakota to
: meet the price which Governor W.
- 11. McMasters had had ordered the
| state storage house to fix, was fol
l lowed b ya statement from L. V.
Nicholas, president of the National
Petroleum marketers’ association,
that independent oil dealers in that
state would be crippled.
The Standard Oil company stated
that the sixteen- cent price was much
below the cost of production but
that it would carry out its policy that
customers should not. be asked a
highei price than fixed by any com
petetor.
Mr. Nicholas scored the Standard
in a statement in which he declared
that the company had “brutally and
cold bloodedly’’ made its decision.
“They have not honestly and fairly
reduced their price four cents per
gallon as they should, but they have
reduced, their price 8.6 cents per
gallon.” Mr. Nicholas’ statement
said, “in other words they have
brutally and cold bloodedly reduced
their prices over the entire state of
South Dakota to a point where, not
only will they lose money on every
gallon they sell, but they will force
an incalculable loss on the indepen
dent oil industry in the state —a loss
which the Standard Oil company well
knows is crippling to the industry
and will tend to further place t*he
oil industry in the state completely
and irrevocably at the mercy of the
Standard Oil Company.”
GOVERNOR OF IOWA
—...Jliax GAIN IN FIGHT
DES MOINES, lowa, Aug. 11.—
Governor N. E. Keendall, of lowa,
today interested himself in the
movement to bring about a reduc
tion in the price of gasoline, 1/ in
quiring of the governor of
Dakota the basis for that official’s
recent action.
What action, if any, the low ex
ecutive may be able to take, prob
ably will depend upon a survey of
lowa statutes, now. ui der way. The
attorney general declared several
days ago that lowa had no law un
der which the governor might offi
cially join the “gas price war.”
BACKING GOVERNOR. SAYS
INDEPENDENTS’ PRESIDENT
PIERRE, S. D.. Aug. 11.—F. G.
Allen, president of the Independent
Oil Dealers of South Dakota, in a
statement issued today, declared that
he was supporting the governor to
the limit in his fight on gasoline
prices.
GASOLINE 5 CENTS GALLON
IN SAPULPA PRICE FIGHT
SAPULPA, Okla., Aug. 11.—Gaso
line sold for five cents a gallon at
five filling stations here yesterday
in the midst of a “price war” which
has been waged for several weeks.
The fuel had climbed to ten cents
today with none of the retailers ven
turing a prediction as to when the
“war” will cease.
NORTH DAKOTA DEMANDS
SIXTEE CENT GASOLINE
BISMARK, N. D„ Aug. 11.—North
and South Dakota tonight joined
forces in a war on high gasoline
prices. x
Following the coup of Governor
W. H. McMaster, who forced the
Standard and other big companies
to reduce retail prices ip South
Dakota to 16 cents a gallon. Gover
nor R. A. Nestos sent a telegram to
the Standard Oil company of Indi
ana demanding 16 cent gasoline in
North Dakota.
IS YOUR RURAL BDUTE IN DANGER?
Does your rural carrier leave his postoffice with a large
mail, or just a handful ?
If the latter is the case, you are in a fairway to lose the
present mail service- you have.
Routes once ordered reduced or discontinued are mighty
hard to get restored. Red tape and routine block the effort
at every turn, and it takes a lot of patience and expense.
We understand that from September 21 to October 20
there is going to be a careful examination of the amount of
mail matter handled on every route and in every postoffice
in the country.
If your route or your postoffice are not up to the stand
ard, talk the matter over with your neighbors, and act before
it is v too late.
There is no more practical or inexpensive way to build
up a .weak, route than by getting up a club of fifty or one
hundred subscriptions for The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal.
The special clubbing offers wc now are making are ideal for
the purpose.
Canvass your route, obtain 50 subscriptions, remit S2O
and we will mail The Tri-Weekly Journal to each one of the
names for eight months. One hundred and fifty pieces of mail
matter a ‘week will add a lot of strength to your route, and
may save your daily delivery for you.
Better still, obtain 50 names, remit S4O and we will mail
The Tri-Weekly Journal to each for sixteen months, which
will take your ’route through this special test period and also
through the usual January and July weighing periods.
If your route is far below the standard, you had better
make it 100 names and remit twice the amount stated above.
Your carrier is prevented by the regulations from acting in
his own behalf. ‘ ,
It is up to you to act for yourself and for him.
GEORGIA CONTRACTS
FOB HUGE SUPPLY OF
CALCIUM ARSENATE
Twenty Million Pounds
Yearly to Be Resold to
Farmers at Ten Cents.
Factory to Be Built
Completion of a contract whereby
the state of Georgia is to be furnish
ed with twenty million pounds of cal
cium arsenate annually for five
years at a stipulated price of ten
cents per pound, by the National
Gold Arsenic corporation, was an
nounced by J. J. Brown, commis
sioner of agriculture Saturday night.
Mr. Brown said the contract was
made between the corporation and
the state board of entomology, tnd
provides that the state may buy any
amount up to twenty million pounds
annually at ten cents per pound,
with an option of buying more at
the same rate, if the farmers of the
state demand more.
He said that the company had
agreed to erect a factory at some
point in Georgia within the immedi
ate future, and that the lime de
posits of the state would be utilized
to supply the necessary lime, calcium
arsenate being composed of forty
per cent white arsenate and sixty
per cent lime.
Mr. Brown announed that the ar
senate would be resold to the farm
ers of the state at cost.
Several weeks ago, at the request
of Mr. Brown, and Edgar Watkins,
president of the City club, Governor
Clifford Walker appointed a com
mittee consisting of Henry Kennedy,
vice president of the Fulton National
bank, and Ira Williams, state ento
mologist, to inspect the properties
of the company. This committee re
ported sometime ago, and, according,
to Mr. Brown, samples from the'
mines were approved by the state
board of entomology. The report
further showed, Mr. Brown said,
that the company was able to sup
ply the needs of the cotton farmers
of Georgia with calcium arsenate.
After the contract with the state
had been completed, L. P. Jubien,
secretary of the corporation, issued
lhe follow’ing statement:
“The National Gold Arsenic cor
poration immediately will begin the
erection of a calcium arsenate plant
at some point in Georgia with a ca
pacity of 50,000,000 pounds a year.
Georgia lime, 'which 14 60 per cent of
the volume of calcium arsenate, will
be used.
"The operations with respect to
calcium arsenate will be carried on
by the parent company. No subsid
iary company will be formed, nor
will any stock be sold in the state
of Geogia.
“While the pi-sent contract for
calcium arsena’e is the largest that
has ever been made in the history
of the manufacture of this insecti
cide, its fulfillment will not exhaust
the resources of the company, and
it is expected that from the Georgia
plant other states’ requirements
probably will be supplied.”
Clarence Saunders
Resigns as Head
Os “Piggly Wiggly”
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 12.
Clarence Saunders, who rose from a
three-dollar-a-week grocery clerk to
head of the Piggly Wiggly company,
has resigned as president of the
chain of stores, he indicated Saturday.
Saunders’ resignation will become
effective Monday when pool inter
est which financed his recent sensa
tional fight on Wall Street meet
here, the youthful financier inti
mated, following a conference' with
heads of the Memphis pool tonight.
In the conference tonight Saun
ders proposed that members of the
local pool sanction a plan to act
as stockholders and take stock at
SSO a share enabling him to return
to the company and ■ reorganize the
business.
‘I have workeu over ether plans
but this is the best ie,” he de
clared. ‘‘lf something is not done to
get money Memphis is going to lose
Piggly Wiggly. I will say, however,
if you let someone else come in
and try to run Tiggly Wiggly fail
ure is bound to result.
Kills Wife With Ax
When She Denies Him
Money for a Shave
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 11.—
When Stephen Pellath, 72 years old,
asked his wife for 50 cents yesterday
for a shave, she upbraided him. a
violent quarrel ensued, and he struck
her on the head wit han ax, causing
her death. He was held today with
out bond for a hearing.
He toid the police he had begged
his wife to stop “nagging” him and
when she paid no heed he lost his
temper. The couple had been mar
ried 44 years.
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GENERAL TAX ACT;
O-K’S 3-CT. GAS TAX
The general tax act passed by the
house of reresentatives on Saturday,
containing several new imposts and
increasing many items, will, in all
probability, go over until the
session of the general assembly be
fore it is given consideration by'the
senate, according to indications
Monday, after the senate finance
committee had expressed itself
rather definitely on the subject.
The committee voted to have
copies of the bill printed. These
copies will be in the hands of the
senators Wednesday, the last day
of the 1923 session. The committee
also has promised the bankers and
insurance men that they will be
given plenty of notice of a hearing
at which the- merits of the new
bank capital stock tax and the new
insurance premium tax will be
thoroughly threshed out.
This, many senators contended,
makes it practically certain that the
tax act will nut come up in the sen
ate this year. In fact, Senator
Lankford, chairman of the finance
committee, expressed the opinion
that it would be well for the sena
tors to take copies of the act home
with them to study during recess,
returning next summer better qual
ified to pass on the measure. Sev
eral other members of the commit
tee agreed with him.
The senate on Monday passed the
house bill by Representative Mann,
of Glynn .county, increasing the tax
on' gasoline from one cent per gal
lon to three cents per gallon. The
one cent tax was imposed two years
agOr-A-hd’ the Mann bill-adds another
two cents oh each gallon. The sen
ate vote was 26 to 15.
There was no debate on the meas
ure. It now goes to the governor
for final approval, and he has in
dicated he will isgn the bill. Under
provisions of the bill the revenue
received under this act will be used
by the state highway department in
building roads. It is estimated that
it will add $2,000,000 a year to the
revenue of the state.
Inspection Force Unchanged
A bill by Senator Grantham, seek
ing to abolish all oil inspectors in
the state except six. was lost in the
senate Monday by the vote of 24 to
17. A measure by Senator Pace sub
stituting the United States navy test
of gasoline for the specific gravity
test now employed in Georgia was
adopted, 30 to 0.
Sepator Grantham offered his bill
as a substitute for the Pace meas
ure. Senator Pace announced that
it was acceptable to him. The
measures were identical except for
the added provision in the Grant
ham bill to abolish the inspecting of
ficers,
“These ‘local inspectors,” Senator
Grantham said, “are part of a big
political machine. Six men can in
spect the oil in Georgia just as we’l
as the horde of inspectors now draw
ing pay. There are one or more in
spectors in every country in the
state, and some counties have three
or four.”
Senator Grantham proposed to fix
the salary of six inspectors at $l5O
a month each and to allow tin m
an expense account for traveling
over the state. His bill further pro
posed to reduce the inspection fee
on gas from one-half cent per gal
lon to one-quarter cent per gallon.
He said that this reduction would
not take any money out of the
treasury, as the local inspectors
have been receiving it.
System Defended
Senators Kings, Pace and Hodges
made, strong speeches for the Gran
tham substitute while Senators Red
wine, Mason and Arnow defended
the present inspection system and
urged that the present corps of in
spectors be retained.
The houe bill repealing th* tax
equalization law unconditionally
was given its second reading in the
senate and recommitted to the fi
nance committee. A hearing on it
may be held Tuesday afternoon al
though the committee already has
reported favorably on a senate sub
stitute which repeals the present
law but retains most of its provis
ions.
A bill by Senator Davis, seeking
an increase in salary for the insur
ance clerk in the comptroller gen
eral’s office, was tabled by the sen
ate after debate.
Chinese Girl Seeks
Death Rather Than
Leave United States
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 13.—Tsz
Lien Yui, pretty twenty-two-year-old
girl from Shanghai, preferred to die
rather than return to China. .
The girl, who until recently was
studying journalism at the Univer
sity, of North Carolina, was recov
ering today from injuries received
when she plunged from a second
floor window of her home.
She was despondent over ill health
which forced her to give up her stu
dies, she said. And when told
she would have to return to China,
she decided to die.
Tsz Lien Yui came here Saturday
with her guardian. Miss L. J. Tut
tle, of Morgantown, N. C., a former !
missionary at Shanghai. She had ;
been in a sanitarium at Chapel Hill.
N. 6., for several months.
BEWABD DFFEBED
FDR APPREHENSION
DE MDO MEMBERS
One Man Held in Milledge
ville Machine Guns
Mounted to Prevent Repe
tition of Disorders
The “full power of the executive
department will be used” to stop
the ‘‘series of floggings in Macon,
Bibb county and other, mob outrages
in the state,” Governor Walker
stated in announcing rewards
for the arrest, with evidence to con
vict, the persons connected with the
recent whippings in Macon and an
invasion of the state reformatory,
at Milledgeville.
The governor offered a reward of
SSOO for the leader of the Macon
flogging party and SIOO for each
member. He offered similar rewards
for the leader and members of the
mob tba‘ '"vaded he state reforma
tory.
The governor’s action came after
he had investigated both the Bibb
county floggings and the occurence
at Milledgeville. In his proclama
tion offering- the rewards, the gov
ernor charged the Baldwin county
mob with committing the offense of
rioting and later assaulting Jim
Douglas, negro janitor at the State
Reformatory.
The Bibb county floggings began
several months ago, when whippings
were administered Dr. Eugene
Schrieber, formerly of Boston; Dr.
R. N. Mills, Lynwood L. Bright and
others. Mrs. Fredericka Pace, of
New York, was taken captive by the
party when Bright was whipped, but
was not flogged.
Thursday night, four men were
flogged and left in the woods near
Macon, according to reports given
police. R. E. Bobo proprietor, of a
small grocery store; Ollie M. Perry,
under indictment for alleged illicit
liquor traffic; Gus Roberts, a re
ported' friend of Perry, and J. B.
Goodyear, were the men said to have
been whipped. .
FIRST ARREST MADE
IN WHIPPING CASES
MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga., Aug. 12.
r JT arrest in connection with
whippings in middle Georgia took
place at 5 o’clock Saturday after
noon, when J. J. Nolan, former guard
at training school for boys, was
taken into custody, on a charge of
inciting to riot.
The arrest was made by Sheriff
S. L. Terry. Preliminary hearing
will take place next Saturday
Mrs.. Orion Manson, superintendent
of the boys’ training school, an
nounced Saturday that a machine gun
with an experienced operator had
been set ur> at the school for the
purpose of protecting the inmates
and the people employed there. She
also said that other means had been
taken to protect the institution from
possible attack.
Nolan is accused of being the
moving spirit in a visit to the re
formatory of a band of 25 or 30
men who sought to seize Tom and
Mary Thomas, negro attendants, for
the purpose of flogging them. Nolan
is said to have had a grudge against
the negroes because of his dismissal
from the institution where he had
been a guard for 15 years.
The band failed to get the negroes
because of armed resistance.
Earlier the same night the mob
seized Jim Douglas, brother of
Thomas and administered a severe
lashing, because he would not tell
fhem where Thomas could be found
Mrs. Manson declared tonight she
had received threats that the build
ings housing the negro boys at the
institution would be dynamited. She
added that last night approximately
twenty-five cars were seen parked
about two miles from the reforma
tory, but, because, she said, of the
heavy guard thrown around the
buildings, no effort was made to
come near the
The superintendent also declared
she had received an ultimatum from
the inmates, their ages ranging from
6 to 18 years, that they would run
away in a body if adequate protec
tion was not furnished them. There
are about 200 youngsters at the in
stitution.
NO ARRESTS MADE
BY MACON AUTHORITIES
MACON, Ga., Aug. 12.—Neither
county officers nor the police had
made any arrests in connection with
four whippings of Thursday night
up to a late hour Saturday. The of
ficers insisted that they had nothing
to work upon; that the victims were
unable to identify the men who
flogged them.
R. E. Bobo, one of the men
whipped Friday said that he had
been given 48 hours in which to
leave the city on penalty of death.
He said that he had done nothing
wrong, and ‘hat accusations of his
kidnapers were false. The man sa-.d
that his friends had advised him to
disregard the warning.
Ollie M. Perry, another victim vs
the whipping, is said to be a victim
of tuberculosis. He recently returned
from the state’s tubercular hospital
at Alto, Ga. Perry was so bad’v
whipped that it was said tonight
that he had little chance to recovei.
The Weather
Virginia: Fair and mild Tuesda -.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mis
sissippi: Partlycloudy Tuesday; wide
ly scattered thundershowers.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Tuesday
fair.
Louisiana: Tuesday partly cloudy,
scattered thundershowers in south
west portion.
Arkansas and East Tues
day generally fair.
Oklahoma: Tuesday partly cloudy.
West Texas: Tuesday generally
fair.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, August 14,1923
Cuno Ministry
British Score
SOCIALISTS GAIN
CABINET CONTROL
OR FALL OE CUNO
Gustav Stresemari Becomes
Chancellor —-Riots, Strikes
and Bloodshed Mark the
Week-end in Ruhr Towns
LONDON, Aug. 13.—With the
downfall of the Cuno government,
the publication of ‘correspondence
between the allies and two fighting
speeches by Premier Poincare, of
France, the reparations situation be
came decidedly more acute over the
week-end.
In anticipation of a break be
tween England and France, the
French franc fell to the lowest, point
of its history.
From Hanover, Germany, new
and fatal rioting was reported with
twelve dead and fifty injurde.
German Socialists, by a decision
reached on “Constitution day” to
join with communists in voting lacK
of confidence in the Cuno ministry
today, forced the chancellor’s resig
nation.
Herr Gustav Stresemann, leader
of the Peoples’ party, is forming a
new ministry.
Great Britain caused a sensation
which many believe may lead to a
definite break with France and
Belgium over reparations when a
note in which the legality of the
Ruhr occupation was flatly chal
lenged. was made public.
On Sunday at Marville and
Stenay, Premier Poincare made
two inflammatory speeches in which
he recalled the horrors of war-time
and attempted to inflame his hear
ers to continued hatred of Germany,
declaring occupation of the Ruhr
will not end until Germany has
paid.
THIRTY ARE KILLED
IN WEEK-END RIOTS
BERLIN, Aug. 13—Dr. Gustav
Stresemann, leader of the Peoples’
party, sought today to form a
coalition government to replace that
of Chancellor Cuno, which resigned
Sunday. Stresemann, regarded as
mouthpiece of the industrialists,
will continue Germany’s policy of
passive resistance in the Ruhr, it is
understood.
The reasons for Cuno’s downfall
were economic and had to do witn
the internal situation.
Decision of the Socialist party to
vote against the government on a
question of confidence, today forced
the resignation. Speculation on the
personnel of the new cabinet this
morning centered around the post
of foreign minister. Some observers
believed Stresemann himself would
fill the portfolio temporarily.
Names mentioned for other port
folios included Reich Deputy Soli
man, a Rhenish editor with backing
of the United Socialists, interior:
Herr Jaeckel, prominent in the
union movement, labor; Rudolph
Hilferding, finance, and Herr Rad
buch, justice. /
Stresemann, whose desire for the
chancellorship had been an open
secret for months, finally got his
chance last night when President
Ebert accepted the resignation of
Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, “business pre
mier," and his entire cabinet, be
cause of the Socialist opposition.
The new chancellor began forma
tion of his government amid scenes
of turmoil and despair throughout
tl\e nation. He faced a task that
might well have daunted the
strongest leader of a united coun
try, instead of a people divided by
politics, torn by communist dissen
sions and suffering from military,
economic and political pressure
from without.
Stresemann had the advantage,
however, of an apparently strong
coalition majority in parliament
with only the communists and ex
treme monarchists for immediate
opposition.
While the political crisis was on,
Berlin continued an armed camp
strong detachments of soldiers and
police patrolling the Wilhelmstrase
and guarding government buildings
to prevent reds from carrying out
their threats of an attack on the
retiring chancellor and President
Ebert.
Although the retirement of Cuno
was expected to bring a lull in
disorders which swept the nation
over the week-end resulting in up
wards of thirty dead and scores of
wounded, it was not believed either
Stresemann or any other leader
would be able to stave off for long
the impending storm caused by
hunger and despair.
Florida Starts Move
To Recover Taxes
Paid in Civil War
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 10.—
Governor Hardee late Thursday
signed a contract with attorneys as
the first step in an effort to have
returned to the state of Florida or
its citizens direct taxes collected by
the U. S. on cotton and other prop
erly in Florida during’ and subse
quent to the War Between the
Staets.
A sum of money has been set
aside by the federal government
and now is held in the treasury
from which refunds will be made
to several southern states which
have fought the case for several
decades contending that the taxes
were illegally collected. The legis
lature this year passed a special act
authorizing the governor to employ
counsel to look after Florida's inter
ests in the matter.
The contract, which the governor
now has before him, is with W. J.
Oven, of Tallahassee, and Lucien
H. Boggs, the latter of Washington,
who represents South Carolina and
other states in the proceedings. It
calls for a payment of ten per cent
of such collections as are made, all
costs to be paid by the attorneys.
Governor Hardee expressed the
hope that the case soon would be
brought to a conclusion satisfactory
to the state and heirs of persons
from whom the taxes were collected.
World News
Told In
Brief
PARlS.—Poincare asserts that if
German persists in her stubborness
it will lead finally to a catastrophe.
WASHINGTON—President Cool
idge has brisk walk, goes to church
and then passes Sunday in se
clusion.
LONDON. —Enrique Tirabochi, of
Argentine republic, swims the chan
nel in the record time of 16 hours,
33 minutes.
MARION, O.—Body of Warren G.
Harding rests in receiving vault in
Marion, 0.. cemetery close to grave
of his mother.
WASHINGTON. Mrs. Harding
rests at the White House spend
ing much of Sunday alone in room
to regain her strength.
MINNEAPOLIS.—Wheat growers
urge President Coolidge to call im
mediately special session of con
gress to give them relief.
NEW YORK. —Former Senator
Fall, of New Mexico, returns from
Europe on Berengaria and expresses
I opinion of optimism for future of
Russia.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Clarence
Saunders announces tha<. he v
give up presidency of Piggly Wiggly
St —es, Inc., and will retire from i
directorate.
WASHINGTON. Francis B.
Sayre, Woodrow Wilson’s son-in
law, has tentatively accepted post
as counsellor in international law to
the king of Siam.
MARION, O.—George B. Chris
tian, Jr., announces his resignation
as secretary to the president and
calls Mr. Harding the finest friend
ever given to man.
GLOCESTER? Mass.—John Hays
Hammond declares coal fact finding
commission believes that neither
coal operators nor miners will take
the responsibility of a lockout or
strike.
MEXICO ClTY.—President Obre
gon declares confession of Jesus Sa
las, member of Durango legislature,
of assassination of Francisco Villa
was “high spirited act,” and assassin
is being held prisoner in Mexico City.
MONTREAL.—Damage of more
than $500,000 is caused by fire that
destroyed entire block .opposite the
Windsor hotel and Spreading to
apartment houses and a garage
where 200 automobiles were de
stroyed. -
CONSTANTINOPLE—Ismet Pa
sha arrive from Lausanne where he
was engaged for many months in
treaty conference with allies and
United States, and is received amid
elaborate decorations and popular
acclaim.
TORONTO—AnnuaI loss of $21,-
000,000 is being sustained by people
of Canada through diversion of 300,-
000 horsepower from Great Lakes
by Chicago sanitary canal, declares
Sir Adam Beck, chairman of Ontario
Hydro commission.
NEWPORT, R. I—Raphael Pum
pelly, widely-known author and geo
logist, dies in his 86th year. He
was professor of mining at Harvard
from 1866 to 1873 and conducted
many scientific explorations in
many scientific explorations in
many lands.
IOLA, Kan.—Kansas Democrat,
at Harding memorial meeting at
lola, asks the people to pledge
themselves against destructive criti
cism of our presidents, which he
says killed Lincoln and Garfield and
contributed to the deaths of McKin
ley and Harding.
COBLENZ.—Inter-allied high com
mission orders seizure of mines in
occupied territory owing to failure
by Germany to deliver fuel in ac
cordance to reparations demands,
and committee appointed to exploit
mines and sell coal, all expenses to
be charged to Germany.
NYACK, N. Y.—Six women and
girls die from burns received when
bus carrying sixty employes of the
Christian Herald skidded into a
concrete mixer, snapping off the
boiler cap which released scalding
steam into the bus. Three more
women are ih a serious condition.
SANTA BARBARA Cal.—Forest
fire in Santa Barara forest which
died down Thursday nigh-t and was
brought nearly under control, revives
with a rush when wind Increase and
flames are sweeping westward over
ten miles front, with Mount Mc-
Kinley and Santa Cruz mountain al
ready converted to blackened peaks.
OMAHA.—Governor C. W. Bryan
telegraphing heads of principal oil
companies throughout Nebraska re
quested that they reduce price of
gasoline to the minimum price ex
isting in South Dakota, according
to World-Herald, threatening for re
fusal to make reduction by establish
ment of state-owned filling- stations
AUSTIN, Texas. —Details for rec
ognition of Mexico by United States
were complete and awaited only re
turn of President Harding to Wash
ington when president was stricken
in San Francisco, it is declared bv i
John Norris, chairman of the Texas i
water engineer board after confer- I
Mexican engineers and the
international boundary commission, |
Zs Ousted;
Ruhr Seizure
RHINE OCCUPATION
DECUBED ILLEGAL
IN NOTE OF LONDON
Complete Break With Poin
care Government Held In
evitable as England Sup
ports Position of Germany
PARIS, Aug. 13.—(8y the AssO
ciated Press.) —The British note if
regarded in French circles as a posi
tive disavowal of Great Britain’s wa:
allies and a frank espousal of the
German cause.
It is thought Px'emier Poincare
will reply in due time although at
the Quai d’Orsay It is held the docu
ment smacks so much of propagan
da it might properly be ignored.
“This amazing document proposet
to haul France and Belgium before
a tribunal to answer for their es
forts to make Germany carry out
her treaty obligations” said an of
ficial of the foreign office today.
“France and Belgium are “ noi
ready to answer such a summons 1
even from Great Britain.”
The same official, whose state
ments, while unofficial in a strict
sense, reflect the tense feeling
aroused in the higher French cir
cles, said the note obviously was in
tended to influence American opin
ion. He was curious to know, how
ever, how the Americans would re
ceive a document which made ali
settlements of the reparation ques
tion depend upon the payment of the
i debts to the United States, which,
he remarked, amounted to throwin;.'
the responsibility for the European
chaos on the United States. i
The most surprising feature of the
note to the French government offi
cials, it was said, was the contention
that the occupation of the Ruhr was
illegal. ’ '
French Intentions
The official characterized as an
"unheard of proceeding” the com
parison made by Lord Curzdn be
tween France’s war debt and the
reparation due from Germany.
"Our war debts,” he said, “enabled
us to win- the war and helped us to
make a greater military effort* to
save British and American lives,
while the German debt represents
blood of the allies that was shed.
France does not repudiate her debt.
She has wiped off the war debts
owed her by some of her allies, out
she intends to pay her own.”
The French reply, if a reply Is
sent, will but reaffirm the position
of this country as repeatedly set
forth heretofore, the official de
clared.
France, he said, would never con
sent to the British demand that
Germany pay less and that France
pay more, which is the official in
terpretation here of the statement in
the note that Great Britain must col
lect 14,500,000,000 gold marks and
that, if she does not receive that sum
from Germany, she must get it from
the allies.
The British note has been received
with profound disappointment bj’
French opinion. This is evident
from the comment of the morning
newspapers.
Le Matin, generally understood
to be a Poincare organ, calls the
note “a marvel of confusion and
contradiction.”
“The. Baldwin’ note,” it says, “is
lamentable for England. It shows,
to an unsuspected degree, the state
of moral disintregation into which
English leaders have fallen, whk't
is only comparable to the state of
financial disintregation into whicn
Germany has fiiiien.” .
Stand With Poincare
Even L’Oeuvre, sharply critical
of Premier Poincare and always
ready to turn every event to his
disadvantage, remarks:
"Stanley Baldwin, the English
capitalists, considers that the rights
of English capitalists must have
precedence over those of French
and Belgian war sufferers.”
Echo de Paris declares that the
note “purposes to make us bear
the burden of the inter-allied debt
ana deprives us of the possibility
of transferring it to Germany.”
Le Journal is inclined to b-»
ironical, saying:
"The note is incontestably the
most disagreeable that has come to
us from London. In case of dis
agreement there is nothing like
recognizing the facts frankly and
bringing up clearly th e elements,
of discord.”
The writer adds that the tone
of the note betrays the disappoint
ment of the British at the failure
of the great campaign to emerge
from Mr. Bonar Law’s passive neu
trality and intervene as mediators
before the triumph of France and
the collapse of Germany.
GENERAL APPROVAL
EXPRESSED IN LONDON
LONDON, Aug. 13.—The British
note to France and Belgium in
which the Baldwin government says
the Ruhr occupation is illegal under
the Versailles treaty, has made a
very deep impression here. For* the
most part it is regarded as creat
ing a new situation which may
cause serious developments.
Even where the government’s ac
tion is approved, the plain phraseol
ogy of the note caused astonishment,
although that astonishment was
mingled with satisfaction that the
government used language which
the commentators indorse.
Among those who oppose the line i
the government has taken there is
excitement, anger, even alarm, and
the position is considered to be one
of grave crisis.
The communication reiterates
that Great Britain still is deter
mined Germany shall pay “to the ■
maximum of her capacity,” but as
esrts that “what that maximum
may be should be decided by an im
partial inquiry.” For her own part,
Britain would be willing to oLt.i n
from Germany reparations and .ri
lled debts a sum sufficient to
her debt to the United Stages.
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