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VOL. XXV. NO. 136
SENATE PASSES
... MILNER BILL FOB
BIG TOBACCO TAX
Sales Tax on Cigars and
Cigarettes Receives Ap
proval of Senate by Big
Majority
The senate Tuesday afternoon, by
< * a vote of 26 to 11, passed the house
bill by Representative Milner, of
Dodge, levying a sales tax of ten
per cent on cigars and cigarettes.
The bill now goes to the governor
for his signature.
The vote on the measure came aft
er President George H. Carswell re
' linquished the chair and took th.?
' floor to pay his respects in plain
language to what he described “the
powerful lobby which has been en
gaged for several days in an effort
to kill the bill.’’
“I would be guilty of political cow
ardice if I did not raise my voice at !
this time,” President Carswell said.
“Since 1905 and 1906 I have never
■seen such a powerful lobby in the
capitol as that confronting us today.
From every corner of the state the
call was sent out, and they have
gathered here in this effort in be
half of the selfish interests. It is the
most unfair and unjust lobby I have
seen in twenty years of legislative
service. It includes ex-representa
tives, ex-senators and many others
. who are here at the clarion call of
* the American tobacco trust.
> “I am from south Georgia, and I
raise tobacco, and I tell you that the
. passage of this bill will not affect
a single tobacco producer. If I
i thought so, I would fight the bill.
This same lobby stood here in 1905
and 1906 and fought us when not a
sprig of tobacco was being raised in
Georgia. At that time they com
bined with the liquor trust.
“The acid test is now here, and
it is up to this senate to say today
whether the people shall run the
state or whether the selfish inter
ests shall dominate it. It is up to
the senators to take the part of
the old soldiers and the state’s tu
bercular patients on one hand or the
American Tobacco company on the
other. For my part, regardless of
political consequences, I take my
■tand against these selfish interests
and appeal to you to support this
♦ bill.
“The chief executive of the state
cried lobbyists a year ago and de
clared he wanted them stamped out.
Where is his clarion voice today?
Last year and again in his inaugural
he cried for money to pay the Con
‘ federate pensioners. Where is his
call today?
* There was no further debate on
the bill after President Carswell con
cluded h s speech and on a roll call
vote twenty-five senators voted aye.
This was one vote less than the
requisite constitutional majority,
and the senate president voted for
the bill. Speeches against the meas
ure ' were made by Senators Gran
tham and Lankford.
The bill was recommended for pas
sage late Monday by the senate ap
propriations committee. The vote
was 10 to 7.
Approximately $2,500,000 annual
ly is expected to be added to the
state’s revenue by this act. The first
$500,000 will be used for improve
ments and extensions at the tuber-
* cular sanitarium at Alto, and the
• balance will go towards liquidating
the sums due Confederate pension-
« *rs.
The committee voted an amend
ment which graduates the tax as
follows: On cigars and cigarettes
costing ten cents or less, a tax f
one cent; on cigars and cigarettes
costing from 11 cents to 20 cents, a
t c of two cents, and so on. Sena
tor Pace, author of the amendment,
said this would prevent tobacco
dealers from making a profit out of
the .ax collected on their sales.
Court Upholds Wife
Who Deserted Home to
/« Escape Mother-in-Law
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 14.—The
duty of a wife to stand abusive lan
’ guage from her spouse “may not
i be extended to cover the tongue of
r a cantankerous mother-in-law,” the
' state supreme court of South Caro.-
lina held in an opinion written by
Associate Justice J. H. Marion.
i The case was that of the state
• against Sam Bagwell, who lived in
a mill village at Laurens, S. C. He
was convicted of non-support of his
wife, and he appealed to the su
preme court which upheld the lower
court.
Mrs. Bagwell contended she had
to leave the abode of her husband
because of the abusive language of
her mother-in-law and had to sup
port herself. The court held that
the husband must supply his wife
with a home “free from abuse, ill
treatment and unwarranted interfer
ence from members of the house
hold;” if not the wife had a right
to leave and in so doing she is “not
only not guilty of desertion, but may
charge the husband with construc
tive desertion.”
Special Congress
v Not Needed Now,
Coolidge Decides
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Presi
dent Coolidge deems the present is
no occasion for a special session of
congress in advance of the regular
December meeting, it was said offi
cially today at the White House.
After the meeting the statement
again was made at the White House
that all of the cabinet officials now
in Washington had agreed to con
tinue to serve in their present, ca
pacities with President Coolidge and
that there was every prospect that
the Harding official family would
remain intact.
President Coolidge s administra
tion was said by a White House
spokesman today to stand on the
position laid down by Secretary
Hughes in his speech at New Haven
. ‘last December in the matter of Ger
man reparations. The government,
* it was declared, is ready to help in
I any way it can, without involving
r Itself unduly.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
BERLIN. Bergdoll assailants
have preliminary examination before
German courts at Eberbach;
TULSA, Okla.—Governor Walton
places city of Tulsa under martial
law as result of a series of flog
gings.
CHlCAGO.—National Commander
Owsley denies that the American
Legion is connected with attempted
abduction of Grover Bergdoll.
CHIAGO.—Wheat experts' .meet
ing declares that estimates of great
over-production are not borne out
by an intelligent study of, the situa
tion.
BERLIN. Twenty persons are
reported to have been killed in Han
over and fifteen in Zeitz in riots
caused by the shortage of food and
money.
WASHINGTON. —Department of
justice is investigating gasoline sit
uation in central and western
states where a price war has de
veloped.
TARBES France. Twenty
three tourists are killed in a motor
bus accident at Saint Sauveur, a
Pyrennes resort, about 25 miles
south of Tarbes.
WASHINGTON.—German women
appeal to President Coolidge’ to help
avert shrine which, they say, faces
them at hands of colored troops in
the Treves district.
CHICAGO. - Gasoline prices in
midwestern and southern states
continue to tumble. Governor Dona
hey, of Ohio, sends request to Pres
ident Coolidge for federal action.
WASHINGTON. Mrs. Harding
will live temporarily at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean in
the environs of Washington until
she goes to Marion to help close Mr.
Harding’s estate.
CHICAGO. Governor Len Small
definitely decides at conference to
announce candidacy for renomina
tion for governor on the Repub
lican ticket, according to the Chi
cago Herald and Examiner.
PARIS. A “yellow book” of
diplomatic documents issued by the
French government brings out clear
ly that the United States ultimately
will be asked by the allies how much
of the inter-allied debts she expects
to be paid.
LOS ANGELES. Mary Miles
Minter, motion picture actress, ad
mits she was engaged to marry Wil
liam Taylor, motion picture direc
tor, when he was shot to death in
his apartment February 1, 1922, ac
cording to the Los Angeles Exam
iner.
WASHINGTON. Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty announces that the
government will not appeal from 1 the
recent decision of the United States
court at St. Paul, in which it was
held that the interstate commerce
commission had authority to con
sent to the lease and stock owner
ship of the Central Pacific railroad
by the Southern Pacific railroad.
Admits Slaying Wife
And Her Mother; Police
Find Bodies Boxed
MEDFORD, Mass., Aug. 14.
Nunie C. Tsekos, of Franklin, N. H.,
was arrested today charged with
murder, after two boxes containing
the dismembered bodies of two
women were found in a field here.
The police said Tsekos had confess
ed that he killed his wife, Natalie,
and her mother, Mrs. Katherine
Adams, last Saturday night.
According to the alleged confes
sion, Tsekos’ quarreled wtih his wife
and her mother at their home in
Franklin over money matters and
he declared they attacked him with
a bat and knife. He said he over
powered them and then stabbed his
wife and cut Mrs. Adams’ throat.
He dragged their bodies to the
cellar.
Sunday morning, the alleged con
fession continues, he took his three
small children to his mother's in
Boston and returned to his home
Sunday night, he said, he went to
the cellar, dismembered the two
bodies with a knife and put them
in wooden boxes, nailing the covers
down.
Atlanta Spot Cotton
Jumps $1.75 a Bale
On the basis of a New York fu
tures market, which closed 47 to 51
points up, Atlanta spot cotton was
quoted Tuesday afternoon at 24.60
cents, representing an advance of 35
points, or $1.75 over the previous
day’s quotation.
New York spot cotton was 24.65,
while New Orleans spot cotton was
24.50 cents. New Orleans futures
closed 42 to 53 points up.
Tallahassee Named for
Municipalities Meeting
LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 14.
Tallahassee will have the honor of
entertaining delegates to the next
quarterly meeting of the League of
Florida Municipalities in November,
it was unanimously decided at the
third quarterly meeting held here
yesterday. There are 31 towns rep
resented in the league, 13 of which
had delegates here.
The meeting yesterday heard sev
eral addresses of welcome and
responses, reports of standing com
mittees and interesting papers. A
committee was named to draft leg
islation for prevention of wanton
destruction of Florida forests.
BERLIN.—New German cabinet
is given note of confidence by the
reichstag.
SEONE. —Tidal waves and severe
storm submerges 25,000 houses on
the west coast of Korea.
NEWNAN, Ga.—Body of Millard
Trenton, 33, victim of kidnaping
party, found floating in a creek.
WASHINGTON.—Former Repre
sentative Campbell Bascom Slemp,
of Virginia, has been appointed sec
retary to President Coolidge.
CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.—Governor
Neff, of Texas, declares prohibition
is here to stay and appeals for more
drastic action against violators of
liquor law.
PHILADELPHIA.—Judge Auden
ried grants petition of the Kaboteh
nicks to change their name to Cabot
despite objections by descendants of
noted English navigators.
WASHINGTON. Bertram M.
Stewart, of Washington, is instantly
killed when an airplane he is pilot
ing falls 1,000 feet, and John Ward
Jr., of Harlan, Ky., is seriously in
jured.
CHlCAGO.—Defense of magazine
Tolerance, anti-Ku Klux Klan pa
per, to $50,000 libel suit filed by
William Wrigley, Jr., after name
was published as a klan member,
will be that statement is true, At
torney Benjamin Vanderveld an
nounces.
MACON, Ga. —At request of
Sheriff J. R. Hicks, city council of
fers additional reward of SSOO over
that previous reported, for arrest
and conviction of persons' guilty of
mob whippings, and local chapter of
the Ku Klux Klan announces that
it will add SIOO.
ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y.—Su
preme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley
grants injunction to state of New
York restraining Knights of Ku
Klux Klan and sister organization,
the Kamelia Inc., from acting as
chartered benevolent fraternal or
ganizations in state.
NEW YORK—Federal Judge Win
slow denies petition of Knights of
Ku Klux Klan, inc., of Georgia, for
preliminary injunction restraining
International Magazine company,
controlled by William Randolph
Hearst, from publishing aticles by
Norman Hapgood against the klan.
CHlCAGO.—Officials of Pullman
companay announce that “Superb,”
car in which President Harding
traveled across continent and in
which his body was carried back to
Washington and later to Marion, is
being overhauled and not retired
from service, as was previously an
nounced.
NEW YORK—Public offerings of
a $20,000,000 of 20-year 6 per
cent sinking fund external loan gold
bonds of Kingdom of Norway will
be made Thursday by American
banking syndicate headed by Nation
al City company, J. P. Morgan &
Co., Harris, Forbes & Co., and the
Guaranty Trust company, at 96 1-2,
to yield about 6.30 per cent interest.
Solicitor Campbell
Will Aid Prosecution
Os Flogging Charges
Solicitor General Doyle Campbell,
of the Ocmulgee judicial circuit, has
been ordered by Governor Walker
to go to Milledgeville Saturday
where the preliminary trial of J. J-
Nolan, held in connection with an
alleged mob invasion of the state re
formatory recently, is scheduled to
start.
Solicitor Campbell volunteered to
go to Milledgeville to assist in the
prosecution, the governor said. The
solicitor told the governor that he
wished to co-operate to the full ex
tent of his authority to stamp out
such alleged acts of lawlessness, and
in his reply the governor requested
that he be in Milledgeville Saturday
to represent the state.
Tobacco Boosts
Nashville Business
NASHVILLE, Ga., Aug. 14.—Ap
proximately two hundred and fif
teen thousand pounds of tobacco
were sold here Monday at a general
average of 31 cents per pound.
Nashville has sold, up to date, a
million and a quarter pounds. There
is not a vacant building in Nash
ville. Stores ar e doing business to
their full capacity. People here now
predict that they will sell three mil
lion pounds of tobacco this season.
Meteor Lights Skies
At Colorado Springs,
Bursting Like Rocket
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug.
14.—What observers say was the
largest meteor ever seen in the Pikes
Peak region fell at 1 o’clock this
morning. It broke into several frag
ments high in the air, resembling a
huge rocket, and lighted the whole
heavens momenatrily. The meteor
fell northeast of the city.
Big Snake Killed
MOULTRIE, Ga., Aug. 14.—After
biting and killing a fine bird dog
a rattle snake with 13 rattles and
said to be one of the largest seen
in this county since pioneer days,
was shot and killed by John W
Giles, on his farm near Norman
Park. Another rattler, although not
as large, was killed on th e same
spot.
GASOLINE MT
SIGNED; GOVERNOR
ASKS PRICE PROBE
Instructs Attorney General
to Investigate With View
to Determining If Exces
sive in Georgia ,
After approving the Mann bill, in
creasing the tax on gasoline from
one to three cents per gallon, Gov
ernor Walker, Tuesday morning,
took steps to probe the' price of
motor fuel oils in Georgia.
He addressed a letter to the at
torney general, directing him to in
stitute an investigation to ascertain
if .the motor fuel consumers of the
state are not being discriminated
against in the prices they pay for
gasoline, and to ascertain further
whether gasoline distributing com
panies are not making an excessive
profit on the sales of gasciir.e in
Georgia.
Governor Walker determined upon
his course after reading Associated
Press dispatches from the middle
west showing that the Standard Oil
company and other refiners have
made substantial reductions in the
price of gasoline, as a result of the
action of the South Dakota governor
in lessening the cost of gasoline to
consumers in that state..
Although the governor is anxious
that the Georgia consumers of gaso
line shall receive every benefit pos
sible from a reduction in the price of
the fuel, it is his desire to avoid any
action that will work an injustice
upon the small independent
whose continuance depends upon
their meeting the competition of the
large refiners.
Signs 3-C’ent Tax Bill
It was not until after he had sign
ed the Mann bill, increasing the gaso-1
line tax to three cents a gallon, that I
the governor’s attention was called
to the Associated Press dispatches
of substantial reductions in the price
of gasoline in the middle west. His
approval of the Mann bill was the
occasion of an informal ceremony,
which -was witnessed by a number of
legislators, including Representative
Mann, of Glynn county, author Os
the measure.
Effective October 1, gasoline prices
in Georgia will jump two cents per
gallon over the normal retail price,
in consequence of Governor Walk
er’s action in approving the Mann
bill. It is estimated that the
enactment will bring into the state
treasury approximately $3,000,000 a
year, and, under provisions of the
law, this fund will bo apportioned
between the highway construction
and the retirement of Western and
Atlantic railway bonds.
Heretofore the levy on gasoline
has been one cent per gallon, and
at this rate the tax has netted the
state approximately $1,00G,000 an
nually. The main bill raises the tax
from one to three cents per gallon.
If, as is estimated, $3,000,000 is
raised by the gasoline tax, $1,000,000
will be used for retiring outstanding
state railroad bonds; $1,000,000 will
be diverted to the state highway de
partment for construction and main
tenance of highways; and $1,000,000
will be apportioned among the vari
ous counties, on the basis of each
county's total road mileage of so
called federal highways.
As has been the custom hereto
fore, the state will collect the .tax at
its source; that is to say, from, the
big refiners and wholesale distribu
tors. But the consuming public will
pay the tax, as usual, since the, re
tail price will be boosted to cover
the tax.
‘Devil’s Grippe’ Spreads
At Richmond; Dozen
New Cases Reported
RICHMOND, Va„ Aug. 14.
Twelve new cases of “devil’s grippe”
making a total of forty cases now
under treatment here, were reported
Tuesday to Health Officer Dr. C. D.
Hudson. As a result of the spread
of the mysterious and painful new
malady Dr. Hudson recommended
that all sufferers be isolated. He
said that the characteristics of the
d:sease indicated it was infectious.
Children have been found to be es
pecially susceptible to the disease,
the health officer declared, adding
that he believed it be an outgrowth
of influenza.
“The disease is being carefully
studied by state health officials and
by members of the Richmond Acad
emy of Medicine,” Dr. Hudson said,
“and the city authcrities are co-op
erating in every way in the efforts
to control and find out all about it.
It causes severe pains in the
abdomen and is accompanied ~by
pleurisy, diarrhea, and othep malad
dies. Pneumonia has followed in
one local case. It is not thought
to be particularly fatal, although
one patient in the state died of heart
trouble incident to the disease.”
“Devil’s grippe” is being treated
by laxatives, sedatives to relieve the
pain and by local hot applications
Dr. Hudson declared.
The Weather
Louisiana Thursday, generally
fair in north and west, local thun
der showers in east portion.
Arkansas Thursday, partly
cloudy, probably scattered show’ers.
Oklahoma Thursday, generally
fair.
East and- west Texas —Thursday,
generally fair.
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina —Generally fair Thursday.
Georgia, Florida, extreme north
west Florida, Alabama —Local thun
der showers Thursday.
Mississippi—Partly cloudy Thurs
day; local thunder showers near the
coast.
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Vir
ginia—Generally fair Thursday.
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SHARP NORTHERN LAWYERS
VICTIMS OF GEORGIA NEGRO
IN UNIQUE BUNCO GAME
Postoffice Inspectors on Trail
of “Illiterate Who Was
Forced to Quit Atlanta,
Leaving $5,800 in Bank"
It would be difficult in a newspa
per column to do full justice to the
adventures in involved finance of
one certain Edward Petty, colored,
who under a flock of aliases has
been getting money from astute
lawyers in the Ohio valley by posing
as an illiterate negro who had to
leave Georgia one jump ahead of
revenue officers, leaving also behind
him here —and in this part of the
story his victims have evinced par
ticular interest —some $5,000 in cash
in a savings accourtt, SBSO in a
checking account, a valuable auto
mobile, and some lands which were
about to be sold.
With one or two exceptions noth
ing has been heard from the negro’s
lawyer-victim after the latter had
been disillusioned by the Atlanta
bank. But those exceptions were
enough to indicate that the negro
always finds himself completely out
of funds shortly after his first talk,
and on the strength of all the money
he left in Atlanta manages to bor
row an advance before the lawyer
has had time to get a reply.
How much he has secured nobody
seems to know.
The negro is still at large and is
regarded by postoffice inspectors as
One of the smart, t tliey have hunt
ed. Joe P. Johnston, inspector in
charge of the Atlanta district, an
nounced to the world Tuesday that
he would be charmed and delighted
to hear a hint as to the negro’s
whereabouts, for Uncle Sam wants
him very badly. The charge will be
"using the mails to defraud.”
Victims Are Numerous
Since June 26 letter's from lawyers
in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus,
and Toledo, O.; Detroit, Chicago, In
dianapolis, and Covington, Ky., have
been arriving- in batches at the of
fices of at least one Atlanta bank,
addressed now to one officer of the
institution, now to another. There
have been as many as two or three
in one day from as many lawyers in
one of the above cities.
All these letters bring the same
story; that the negro had presented
himself at a bank in that city with
his story of leaving a lot of money
behind in Atlanta, under the cir
cumstance already outlined, and had
asked to be referred to a good law
yer; that the lawyer, being the ons
who was writing the letter, had in
vestigated, and stood ready with all
discretion to arrange matters as
quietly as possible,
“He has explained to me in de
tail his reason for being away and
communicated to me your instruc
tions regarding the handling of cer
tain business affairs,” one lawyer
wrote.
“Regarding the land transaction,’’
another wrote, “if Judge Jones will
prepare and forward the deed I will
see that the same is executed at a
point a considerable distance from
here.”
Another let -the cat clean out of
the bag, revealing the reasons for
the mysterious references running
through all th letters.
“He told me he had been operating
a still just outside of Atlanta, and
that your Mr. Blank (naming a high
officer of the bank) had been financ
ing his operations; that the revenue
officers had discovered his still, and
that Mr. Blank had driven him in
an automobile some 30 miles and
put him on a train and directed him
to come to Toledo and seek the ser
vices of a lawyer.”
Used Many Aliases
At first, letters were written by
the Atlanta bankers in reply. Later
this became too much of a burden,
and recently collect telegrams have
been going to various new addresses.
The negro is described as about
forty years old, Ground 5 feet 5
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, August 16,1923
THE CUP CHANGES HANDS
inches in height, slightly built, “with
slightly curled hair,” “with quite a
prominent upper left gold tooth,”
wearing a double-breasted brown
suit and tan shoes. He has used the
aliases of Edward Petty, Henry
Campbell, Edward Henry, Henry
Smith, William Jones, William S.
Henry, William Smith, Henry Feem
ster, John F’eemster, Henry Stephen
son, Eddie Feemster, Babe Abbott
(“Mr.”) Babe Abbott, the lawyer call
ed him), and Robert Feemstear. His
address is given invariably as No.
110 some street or other in Atlanta;
in one instance Peachtree street, in
another “Decada” (Decatur), etc.
The negro’s yarn varies in each
case except for certain fixed details.
He always has SBSO in the checking
account, of which $35 is to* be re
tained by the banker, having been
advanced when he got out of town;
he has $5,000 in the savings depart
ment: his safe deposit box is always
number 62; his mother’s name is in
each case “Mary” something or oth
er; and usually he wants word sent
to “Freddie’s” mother that Freddie
is with him and all right.
2 Americans Jailed
In Bergdoll Kidnap
Attempt Are Moved
EBERBACH, Baden, Aug. 14.
(By the Associated Press.) —Calvin
Hoover Griffith, of Plamilton, 0.,
Eugene Victor Nielsen, of Chicago,
the Americans arrested in connec
tion with last Saturday’s attack on
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the
American draft evader, were taken
from Eberbach today and ansfer
red to the jail at Mosbach.
Griffith says he is in the employ
of the American graves registration
board and says he was searching for
the bodies of Americans buried in
this vicinity.
The police report discovering of a
supply of ether on the person of
Karl Schmidt, whom Bergdoll shot
and killed during the attempt to
kidnap him, and that a further sup
ply was concealed in the American
automobile which was seized.
IS YOUR RURAL ROUTE IK DM?
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 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 we 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.
MRS. R. J. LOWRY
LEAVES 5350.080
TO GJ. COLLEGES
(
Two hundred thousand dollas is
bequeathed to Oglethorpe university
by the will of Mrs. Emma Markham
Lowry, whose death here last week
saddened the hearts of hundreds of
friends. This amount, representing
approximately half of the entire
estate left by Mrs. Lowry, is to be
used in erecting a memorial building
for a department of the university
that will be known as "The Robert
J. and Emma Markham Lowry
School of Banking and Commerce.”
The residue of the estates after
paying specific legacies amounting
to around $55,090, and after getting
aside enough securities to yield life
annuities aggregating $425 per
month specified by Mrs. Lojvry in
addition to other annuities specified
in 1919 by her late husband, is to
become a perpetual fund, to be di
vided equally between Oglethorpe
university and the Georgia School of
Technology, which will be known as
the Lowry Memorial scholarship
fund. This legacy is dedicated to the
“purpose of educating worthy boys
who desire an education and are un
able to secure the same for lack of
funds.” *
12 Reported Dead
In Utah Cloudburst;
Damage $ 1,000,000
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 14.
Twelve lives are believed to’ have
been lost in northern Utah as a
result of a series of cloudbursts
last night and early today. Prop
erty damage is expected to total
upwards of $1,000,090.
Four persons are known to be
dead at Farmington, ' Utah, just
north of Salt Lake City; two men
and a woman are reported dead at
Willard, Utah, and five Boy Scoufs
are reported drowned in a canyon
east of Farmington.
The cloudbursts, preceded by a
severe electrical storm, tore down
telegraph poles and hence com
munication is crippled.
ft UEN'lb A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
GASOLINE PRICES
SLASHED 8 CENTS
INTHEMIDWEST
Reduction Gains Momentum
as War Spreads—Govern
ment Investigation of Trust
Charges Adds Pressure
Following a reduction of one cent
in the price of gasoline here Tues
day, it .is announced additional re
duction amounting to 2 or 3 cents
will be made within the next few
days.
CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—(8y the Asso»
dated Press.) —Reductions in gaso
line prices, begun when Governor
W. H. McMaster, of South Dakota,
ordered state highway supply de
pots to sell gasoline at 16 cents a
gallon, assumed a national aspect to
day, when price cuts announced by
the Standard Oil Companies of In
diana and Kentucky and independent
producers became effective in mid
western and southern states.
Gasoline today was selling at 15.4
cents in Chicago, 161-4 cents in
Omaha, 15.9 cents in Kansas City,
22 cents in Louisville, Ky., 11 cents
in Dallas, Tex., and from 13 cents to
16 cents in other parts of Texas,
with prices on the other sections af
fected by the reductions varying ac
cording to freight rates.
In Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, North Dakota,
I South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri and
I parts of Oklahoma, the cut made
by the Standard Oil Company of In
diana was 6.10 cents and that of in
dependents in the same territory S
cents.
Slight Cut in South
Retail prices in Kentucky, Florida,
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia
was reduced one cent by the Stand
ard Oil Company of Kentucky. Gaso
line dealers in Nebraska announced
a cut of 6 1-4 cents. The Magnolia
company reduced the price in Fort
Worth, Tex., 2 cents, making a pric»
of 11 cents a gallon.
After the announcement that an
investigation of the gasoline and oil
situation would be undertaken by
the department of justice, refiners
and distributors in the Rocky Moun
tain states declared they courted in
quiry, which they said would show
no unreasonable profits had been
made. Officials of the Continental
Oil company in Denver said they
were not concerned in the price cuts
being made in other sections of the
country.
Investigations of local conditions
are either under way or have been
ordered to proceed by various state
executives and municipal authori
ties.
Arizona Governor Acts
Governor George P. Hunt, of Ari
zona, in an announcement last night,
said an inquiry would begin at once
to determine if gasoline prices were
top high in Arizona and if they were
steps would be taken to reduce
prices, which range from 25 cents
to 26 cents a gallon, including state
| taxes.
A threat of state sale of gasoline
in Nebraska was made to oil com
pany heads by Governor Bryan who
asked them to reduce gasoline prices.
The Chicago city council petitioned
Governor Len Small, of Illinois, ti»
take action enabling purchases by
state agencies of supplies adequate
to break prices, before annuonce
ment was made of the reduction.
Governor Victor Donahey, of Ohio,
in an answer to Governor McMaster,
of South Dakota, said there were
no laws in Ohio under which he
could assist in the campaign tor
price reduction and said it appeared
to him a matter for federal rather
than state action. Governor Preus,,
of Minnesota, previous to the reduc
tion, announced an inquiry into the 1
cost of gasoline production.
An investigation of short measure
in gasoline in Cleveland resulted in
five arrests yesterday.
Trust Evidence Sought
The inquiry by the department of
justice officials said, is designed to
determine whether there had been 1
combination in restraint of trade in
interstate commerce in connection
with the recent announcemet of 25
refineries in the mid-continent field
to shut' down.
Limitation of purchases of crude
oil in Texas and Oklahoma was an
nounced by the Magnolia Petroleum
company simultaneously with the
announcement of price reductions
in other sections.
The company will accept only 50
per cent of the production of the
wells connected with its pipe lines,
the other 50 per cent to be run into
the company’s storage stock.
Reductions of more than five cents
were said to be unfair and ruinous
by L. V. Nicholas, head of the Na
tional Petroleum Marketers’ asso
ciation, in announcing the five-cent
reduction made by independents in
mid-western states. The Standard
Oil Company of Indiana, in its an
nouncement, declared it was not en
gaged in an effort to put competi
tors out of business and said it
would welcome a change of attitude
on the part of all parties concerned,
resulting in a reasonable price for
gasoline which will enable not only
it but all of its competitors to en
joy a reasonable profit.
“WAR JUST BEGUN,” SAYS
MAN WHO STARTED IT
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Aug. 14
The gasoline “war” begun by Gov
ernor W. H. McMaster, of South
Dakota, “has just begun,” the gov
ernor said today and will be con
tinued until the product is being
permanently retailed at a “reason
able price.”
OFFERED 10,000,000 GALLONS
AT 8.5 CENTS A GALLON
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 14.—Gov
ernor J. A. O. Preus today was of
fered ten 'million gallons of gaso
line at 8:5 cents per gallon f. o. b.
Oklahoma to be sold in the p- '?e war
in the northwest. John A. West,
Chicago, made the offer. The gover
nor refused to say whether he would
accept.
Gasoline is sellipg here today for
14.9 to 19.5 cents a gallon.