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VOL. XXV. NO. 142
COTTON “CO-OP” GAINS 31,500,000 FOR MEMBERS
COMMITTEE ASKS
HOWARD TO RESIGN;
JUDGE REFUSES
Condemens Conduct as Im
proper, Illegal and Cor
rupt-Meeting of Bar As
sociation Called for Friday
* “It is inconsistent with the proper
administration of justice that Judge
Howard should continue to hold of
fice as judge of the superior court.”
declares a resolution prepared by
the executive committee of th At
lanta Bar association Wednesday
for submission to the entire associa
t on for action at a meeting to be
held Friday morning at the court
house in connection with the so
called ‘‘financial barter” charges
preferred by Attorney Edgar La
tham against Judge G. H. Howard.
Howard Issues Statement
When he was informed of the
> executive committee’s action, Judge
Howard the following state
ment:
“I have no comment to make on
the decision of the executive com
mittee except to say that my friends
and I wilt welcome an opportunity
to offer our witnesses and present
our case to any tribunal having au
thority to hear it.
“Until I have this opportunity,
the public cannot know the facts.
“I believe every one will agree
that I am entitled to a fair trial in
a legally constituted tribunal. Able
attorneys, including two ex-judges
of the superior court, who volun
tarily represented me, as friends on
their own responsibility and after I
had put myself in their hands, ad
vised me to decline to call witnesses
and present my case to the griev-
* ance committee of the bar associa
tion.
Refuses to Resign
“I am busy in court at this time
and have bad no opportunity to
confer with them, but I cannot
comply with the request of the
* executive committee and retire from
the bench.”
Judge Howard, when asked if he
wished the resolution adopted by the
executive committee of the bar as
sociation read to him, replied tnat
he did not care to hear it read.
In executive session the commit
tee investigated the report of its
grievance committee and reached the
decision that the charges against
Judge Howard are true. The griev
ance committee’s report was trans
mitted to the Bar association, to
gether with the following resolution,
which was recommended for adop
tion : '
AWiereas, certain charges
have been made relative to the
conduct of Judge G. H. Howard
in connection with the appoint
ment of the judge of the supe
», rior court of Fulton county, and,
“Whereas, the grievance com
mittee of the Atlanta Bar asso-
* ciation has investigated these
charges in accordance with they
by-laws of the Atlanta
sociation and found that the
charges are true.
Condemns Judge’s Conduct
* “Therefore, be it resolved, x;
That the Atlanta Bar association ,
approves the report of its griev
ance committee; condemns with
out qualification the conduct of
Judge Howard, set out in detail
in the report of the grievance
committee, as improper, illegal,
corrupt and contrary to public
policy and declares that it is
inconsistent with the proper ad
ministration of justice that
_ Judge Howard should continue
to hold office as judge of the
superior court.”
Decision Is Unanimous
Members of the executive com
mittee, who were unanimous in
ctheir decision, are: Grover Middle
brooks, chairman; R. W. Crenshaw,
, John A. Hynds, James A. Branch,
Eugene M. Mitchell and E. W.
. Moise.
Mr. Branch, president of the bar
association, announced that Friday’s
meeting of the association would be
held at 10 o’clock at the court
house.
Should the bar association adopt
the committee report and sustain
the charg.es, it is declared by friends
*of Attorney Latham that a move
ment toward disbarment of Judge
Howard from the practice of law at
the Atlanta bar would be launched.
Laborer Now Denies
Discovering Treasure;
Says Story Was Hoax
HAGERSTOWN. Md„ Aug. 29.
Lee Houser, laborer, who last Thurs
day reported he had discovered a box
containing more than SIOO,OOO in gold
and bills while working on a road
Btear here, last night declared the
story was a hoax.
♦ One of Houser’s fellow workmen
declared he saw a coin and the box.
Houser now says he took a coin from
his pocket and threw it to the
ground, causing the report to be cir
culated that he had found a fortune.
Houser is said to have visited a
lawyer during one of his mysterious
absences from home recently and
neighbors believe he found and has
hidden the treasure, fearing the gov
ernment would take it if it were
found to be that said .to have been
buried in this vicinity by Grover C.
Bergdoll.
Pat Cahill, Republican
Leader, Dies in Chicago
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—Patrick J.
Cahill. SO, prominent in Republican
circles, died here yesterday,
i He was a former president of the
Old-Time Printers’ association, and
•past high chief ranger of the Cath-
• die Order of Foresters.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
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1823 PEACH CROP
! SECOND LARGEST IN
GEORGIA'S WOW
!■' To put Georgia peaches on the |
distant markets of the east and west ■
in the time necessary to insure their '
arrival in gocd condition, the South- I
ern railway system operated 173 spe- !
cial peach trains during the season i
I that has just closed, according to '
i announcement by Vice President
iR. B. Pegram. All were run
| from Atlanta, 106 going to Potomac
I Yards, Va., and 67 to Cincinnati, the
Southern having handled altogether ,
5,700 cars of this highly perishable I
fruit with practically 100 per cent
efficiency, it is stated.
Os this total. 5,312 cars were re-
I ic#d at Inman Yards, th e Southern’s
Atlanta terminal at which peacnes
ifrom south Georgia are concentrated;
|'3,250 were moved east through Po
■ tomac Yards; 1.792 north through
i Chattanooga, Cincinnati and Louis
t ville; 44 west through Birmingham,
i 26 south through Macon, and 20 to
1 connection and consignees at At
| lanta.
In addition, 133 cars were moved
north from Chattanooga and 255
cars were moved east, 229 from the
Cornelia section in northeast Geor
gia, 22 from northwest Georgia and
| 4 from Augusta.
Including August 18, the total
I movement from Georgia had been
18,559 cars, according to reports of
' the United States department of ag-
I riculture. This is the second largest
I crop ever produced by Georgia or_-
| chards, having been exceeded only
i by the crop of 1921, which ran .to
I 10,468 cars Fit was stated.
Exchange of Seats
In Utilities Commission
Marks Official Change
Cornmisioners James A. Perry and
John T. Boifeuillet, of the Georgia
Public Service commission, ex
changed seats when the board met
Tuesday morning. The exchange
; resulted from the recent action of
J the commission in selecting Com-
I miss'oner Boifeuillet to succeed
Commissioner Perry as vice chair
man.
When the commission met, Mr.
Perry suggested that in accord with
etablished custom the vice chair
man of the board should occupy rne
seat to the chairman’s right, and
i that since Mr. Boifeuillet had been
chosen vice chairman an exchange
of seats was in order. Whereupon
I Commissioners Boifeuillet ifnd Perry
| shifted positions. The former now
occupies the seat to the immediate
I right of Chairman Paul B. Tram-
I mell. and the latter sits immediately
to the left of the chairman.
Four Persons Killed
As N.,C.&St.L. Train
Hits Auto on Tracks
BELL BUCKLE, Tenn., Aug. 28.
Struck by fast passenger train No.
j 1, of the N., C. & St. L. railroad, four
: persons were ihstantly killed at a
' railroad crossing here shortly after
noon today.
The dead:
J. H. Armstrong, 70, Bell Buckle.
Mrs. J. H. Armstrong, 54, Bell
Buckle.
Mrs. Eva C. Acuff, 80, Scottsville,
Alabama.
Mrs. W. F. Crawford, 55, Bell
Buckle.
The party was returning from a
funeral, and was crossing the tracks
when the train crashed into a, small
automobile in which they were rid
ing.
Mr. Chas. L. Davis,
Former Legislator,
Buried in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 28.—Mr.
Charles L. Davis, of Warm Springs,
chairman of the board of county
commissioners of Meriwether coun
ty. owner of the Warm Springs
I property, former Georgia state game
J warden, representative in the legis
| lature for his county many years,
j ex-president of the Georgia good
: Roads association and prominent in
I west Georgia politics, was buried in
I Columbus Tuesday, funeral services
I being held from the train on the ar
| rival of the body from the Johns
; Hopkins institute, Baltimore, where
j he died after a long illness.
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VOTEffION-WE
GASOLINE WQUIRY
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 28.
' A “thorough and nation-wide inves-
I tigation of gasoline prices” was de
j cided upon by national association of
attorneys general in a resolution
I adopted at its annual convention
■here today.
Two Hudson Brothers
In Party That Flogged
Perry, Two Men Say
MACON, Ga., Aug. 28.—Two of the
three Hudson brothers, C. F. and J.
C. Hudson, held here in connection
with a recent flogging base, county
I police announced last night, w’ere
identified as having been members
of a party of men which kidraped
Ollie ’Perry and severely whipped
I him. The Hudsons, together with
their brother, S. F. Hudson, were
arrested while attempting to flog a
negro near here a fortnight ago.
The arrest of the trio, the police
said, resulted in bringing to an end
a reign of terror . which prevailed
here after almost a score of flog
ging cases were reported.
County officials said the brothers
l were identified by two men who were
! in a store operated Jay Perry when
it was invaded by masked men. They
j told the police they remonstrated
• with the alleged kidnapers and were
i subdued. Perry, the police said, was
undecided as to the identity of the
Hudsons.
Perry is said to be a tubercular
victim, and since the whipping his
condition has been pronounced seri
ous -by doctors.
Additional charges of rioting and
assault and battery will be filed
against the Hudsons today, the po
lice said. Hearing in connection
with the charges growing out of the
| alleged flogging of a negro is sched-
I tiled to be given the Hudsons early
! in September. _
Mother Saves Children
When Pony Bolts, but
Is Badly Hurt Herself
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 28.
i Mrs. Alfred Levine is resting easily
i Joday but is suffering from serious
j wounds as the result of being kick
•ed by a bolting pony when she threw
I herself in its path to save the lives
of two children, aged eight and five.
The pony was pulling a lawn mower
upon which the children were riding
when it became frightened and bolt
ed. The children were unhurt.
WHITFIELD LEADS
BILBO IN RUNDVER
| FOB GOVERNORSHIP
i
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 29.—H. L.
Whitfield, former president of the
Mississippi State College for Women
at Columbus, was maintaining a lead
of more than 15.000 votes over
i Theodore G. Bilbo, former governor,
iin yesterday’s Democratic run oft
| primary for governor of Mississippi,
according to unofficial and incom
plete returns tabulated up to noon
today.
The vote stands:
Whitfield, 114,916; Bilbo, 97,222.
Indications were that the vote
would not far exceed 200,000. Heavy
rains in some .sections and the lack
of interest that was evident in the
first primary on August kept many
away from ;he polls.
In the first primary 247,603 votes
were cast, a new record for the state.
This was partly due to the voting of
women for the first a purely
state election.
The only other state contests yes
terday were for commissioner of ag
riculture, in which P. P. Garner, in
cumbent, was leading J. H. Holton
by, approximately 6,000 votes, and
that for railroad commissioners in
the northern and southern districts.
The tabulated vote early today for
commissioner of agriculture was
Garner 62,543, and Holton 56,293.
C. F. had a lead of about
6,000 over L. P. O’Bryant for rail
road commissioner for the northern
district, the total incomplete vote
being Lagronne 181,506; O’Bryant
12,450.
In the southern district a
hundred votes separated Dean
Holmes and C. M. Morgan for rail
road commissioner. The vote was
Holmes 18,833; Morgan 18,737.
Woman Falls to Death
Under Train’s Wheels
Trying to Steal Ride
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 28.—A
desperate plan to escape adversity
which had beset her, cost Mrs. Violet
Kashko, 21, her life. Mrs. Kashko
fell beneath the wheels of a freight
train o n which she sought to “bum”
her way to Granger, Wyo., where
her brother lived. Her legs and
right hand were severed. She died
in a hospital early today.
Mrs. Kashko sought aid of the
faith mission here for her two chil
dren last winter. At that time she
said her husband had deserted her,
and produced a bottle of poison,
which she said she had purchased
with the only money she had.
Ax. Mitchell Palmer,
Os Wilson’s Cabinet,
1 o Marry Wednesday
STROUDSBURG, Pa., Aug. 29.
A Mitchell Palmer, attorney general
and alien property custodian in the
Wilson administration, and Mrs. Mar
garet Fallon Burrall, of Waterbury,
Conn., are to be married this after
noon at the bride’s summer home at
New London. Conn., according to in
formation given out here today by
Mr. Palmer’s law partner. The mar
j riage is to be performed by the Rev.
;P. K. Emmons, of Trenton, N. J.,
! formerly of Stroudsburg.
I The bride was the widow of John
Booth Burrall, a manufacturer, who
died at Palm Beach. Fla., four years
ago. Mr. Palmer’s wife died two year;
ago.
FRANCE SEES W
CLEAR TO SETTLE
PROBLEM OF RURR
Differences Between Three
Allies on Reparations Could
Be Settled by Conversa-
■ tions, Is View in Paris
PARIS, Aug. 28.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The impression in of
ficial circles today after reading Bel
gium’s reply to the recent British
reparation note is that the field is
now clear for a new start toward
negotiating a settlement of the prob
lems between the allies.
Each of the most interested pow
ers has stated its attitude clearly,
and the difference between them in
actual money figures is regarded as
not so great as to preclude an agree
ment when their statesmen take an
opportunity to talk the situation
over.
The question now is as to who
will- make the first move toward
such conversations. The British
prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, is
looked upon here as the one from
who mthe initiative would most
properly come, since he has the best
occasion to take the step before
I leaving France, where he is spending
| a short vacation.
I He is expected to call on Premier
' Poincare at any event while passing
! through Paris for London, and it
I pointed out that he could find no
i better opportunity for a heart-to
. heart talk with the French premier ‘
Belgium Defends Claims
; The Belgian government, in its re
' ply to the British note, stands with
j France on principal points, main
taining that the legality of the
Ruhr occupation establish
ed by the previous action of the al
lies, including Great Britain, and
that evacuation of the Ruhr valley
is impossible on simple, promises
I from Germany.
The reply, given out at the Bel
gian embassy here this morning,
dwells particularly upon the justice
of Belgium’s claim to priority in. rep
aration payments. It points put that
thus far Belgium has received only
two million gold marks more than
Great Britain.
Foreign Minister Jaspar asserts
“that the whole problem of repara
tions and the question of inter-allied
debts are definitely bound together”
and he proposes a new method of
procedure in the negotiations, sug-
■ gesting conversations among the al
lies “without reverting to the old
system of conferences.”
M. Jaspar remarks that if a reduc
tion in Germany’s debt is necessary,
the balance she is obliged to pay
ought to apply to material damages
only. This might be understood as
meaning the elimination of pensions
from the allied claims on Germany,
thus reducing the British share to
an infinitesimal percentage.
The Ruhr'regime, the note says,
is what the Germans have required
j it to be by their violence and resist
i ance. It was intended to be an eco
i nomic operation and a simple seiz-
■ ure of the pledges which the allies
i had a right to take under the treaty
lof Versailles. If the military feature
iof the occupation has been neces
j sarily extended, the note continues,
j the Germans alone arc responsible.
I The occupation will *be modified
I whenever the German people afcan
j don their present attitude.
Recognized by Wilson
Six of the twenty-two pages in the
! document are devoted to a discussion
I of Belgian priority in reparation pay-
I ments. They answer in detail the
1 implication in the British communi-
I cation that Belgium has been unduly
| favored, since th e other allies have
made sacrifices while her priority
I has remained.
“Belgian priority in reparations,”
' asserts the note, “was recognized in
the seventh of President Wilson’s
I fourteen points. It was recognized
by the British government in the
I solemn document giving Belgium
j formal assurance that she would re
| ceive, after the war, integral repara
i tion for the immense damage in
flicted upon her solely because she
I remained faithful to her engagement
! with the powers that guaranteed her
j neutrality.”
| In spite of her priority claims, M.
Jaspar points out, Belgium has re-
I ceived in cash and kind only a little
! more than Great Britain or France.
I He then gives the exact figures in
I gold marks as follows:
I Great Britain, 1,297,000,000; France,
'1,175,000,000; Belgium, 1,299,000,000;
the other allies, 642,000,000.
Material Damage Claims
| M. Jaspar lays down the principle
l that if the German debt y; reduced
I the percentages of the allied shares
. must be revised. He contends that
the balance due from Germany must
apply only to material damage done
by her during the war, that is, the
destruction of property in Belgium
and France, shipping losses at sea
' and damages from air raids in Eng
| land.
He says that although the material
j damage is perhaps less than the 132,-
000,000,000 gold marks now consid
ered as due from Germany, it is
considerably more than the sums
mentioned by certain of the allies
as the total Germany can pay.
The note agrees that the negotia
’ tions thus far show that Germany’s
I debt can be. considerably reduced.
| The question', he asserts, is how it
I can best be done with justice to all
I the allies.
I Tn conclusion the Belgian foreign
I minister declares that so long as
I the security of the countries which
I suffered from invasion is not as
! sured. there can be neither a real
; and endurable peace. nor z a reduc
tion in armament. /
Mad Dog Bite Fatal •
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 28.
Funeral services were conducted
here today for Ernest Craft, twenty
seven, victim of a rabid dog. Craft
was bitten in July, but paid no at
tention to the wound. He was seized
with violent spasms and died of
what doctors declared to be hydro
phobia.
tlanta, Ga., Thursday, August 30, 1923
Members Tell How
Made Money for Them
THE satisfaction felt by members in the results of the handling
of their cotton by the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co-operative
association in its first year was indicated by the testimony
of two prominent Bulloch county planters who received their final
statements at the association’s offices Monday afternoon.
D. E. Bird, of near Statesboro, delivered 116 bales, of which
seven bales are long staple and have not yet been sold. He care
fully checked over his statement, item by item, and compared the
figures with memoranda ire took on the day last fall when he ob
tained bids from buyers before turning it into the association.
When he had finished his computation, he said the association had
gained over $2,000 for him.
J. A. Metts, also of near Statesboro, sai3 Lnat four of the
28 bales he delivered to the association were’ classed as “dogs”
(which is the lowest grade of salable cotton) by a buyer at States
boro, and that he was offered 12 cents a pound, or a total of sl9 5
for the four bales. The four bales were sold as two grades higher
by the association and netted him $354, a gain of $159 on 1,633
pounds of cotton. x
Mr. Metts was offered 19% cents a pound for the. Other 24
bales of his cotton, $2,190. The association paid him $3,346 for
the same cotton.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
TOKIO. —Count Yamamoto is ap
pointed premier of Japan to succeed
the Tate Baron Kato.
ST. LOUIS. —Damage estimated pt
$200,000 is caused by fire at the
Aluminum company.
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LONDON. —Maharaja Gaekwar, of
Baroda, said to be the richest prince
in India, dies at Flushing, Holland.
JACKSON, Miss. —Whitfield has
apparently beaten Bilbo in primary
to choose Democratic nominee for
governor of Mississippi.
ROME. —Entire Italian mission as
signed to task of fixing Albanian-
Greek frontiersfhas been massacred
by Greeks.
LOS ANGELES. —Captain Smith
and Lieutenant Richter, army avia
tors, s.et new records for the en
durance and speed in California
tests.
LAREDO, Tex. —Joseph Biata, alias
Joseph B. Marcino, wanted on
charge* of embezzling < $213,000 from
bank in Warren, Mass., is arrested
here.
NEW YORK. —Representatives of
eleven Atlantic and New England
states and of the District of Colum
bia reach New York to plan coal re
lief in strike emergency.
ATLANTIC CITY—John L. Lewis,
i head of United Mine Workers, re
ported too ill to attend Harrisburg'
conference, goes from Atlantic City
to Philadelphia, where he will keep
in tou<;h with Pinchot parleys.
NEW YORK. American Society
of Dancing Teachers, in convention,
- seeks satisfactory device to keep
dancers’ heads in proper position,
and their bodies a correct distance
-apart.
CHICAGO. Secretarj’- of State
I Hughes expresses to reporters his
I unqualified support of President
Coolidge and predicts that new presi
dent will soon attract good opinion
of entire country.
LONDON. —Death of Hertha Ayr
ton, only woman member of the in
stitution of electrical engineers and
inventor, of anti-gas fan used in
World war, is announced at Lancing,
Sussex. ,
TULSA. —William Arthur Finley,
constable of Broken Arrow, and ad
mitted member of Ku Klux Klan, is
sentenced to two years imprison
ment for participation in whipping
of Leslie Goolsby and Mrs. Myrtle
Spain on night of July 29, 1922.
WASHINGTON.—CoI. William N.
Haskell, who was in charge of the
American relief administration in
Russia, declares in final report to
Herbert Hoover that “communism,is
dead in Russia and country is on
road to recovery.”
CHlCAGO.—lntegrity Mutual Cas
ualty company of Chicago files suit
against Casualty‘.'lnformation Clear
ing House, Inc., of Chicago, and 22
other firms and 35 officers, for dam
ages of $5,000,000, and it is indi
cated charge will probably be con
spiracy with resulting injury to
business of complainant.
The Weather
Virginia: Thursday, probably fair,
mild temperature.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia: Probably local thunder
showers Thursday.
Florida, extreme northwest Flor
ida: Probably local thundershowers
Thursday.
Alabama, Mississippi: Partly
cloudy in north, probably local
thundershowers in south portion
Thursday.
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Vir
ginia: Fair Thursday, mild tempera
ture.
Thursday, partly
cloudy, probably scattered showers
in south portion.
Arkansas: Thursday, fair.
Oklahoma: Thursday, fair.
East Texas: Thursday, generally
fair in interior, probably powers
near coast.
West Texas; Thursday, generally
fair. i
NEW YORK.— Mayor Hylan, of
New York, is reported ill at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y., but his condition is
not yet regarded as serious.
' BERLIN. —Big Rhenish and Ruhr
industrialists are weary of sustain
ing passive resistance and chafe at
continued idleness of their plants.
LONDON.—Princess Anastasia of
Greece, former Mrs. Wm. B. Leeds,
is reported dying in London with
disease of the liver and intestinal
tract. x
HARRISBURG, Pa. Governor
Pinchot adds Bishop Hoban, of
Scranton, Pa., to list of unofficial ad
visers in anthracite mediation ef
forts.
WASHINGTON. Nomination of
President Coolidge as standard-bear
er of party in 1924 is advocated by
Senator Weller, Republican, of Mary
land.
LOS ANGELES. James Kirk
wood, motion picture actor, is in se
rious condition with basal fracture
of the skull result of fall from
horse.
DUBLIN.—Irish elections are gen
erallly dull, cautious observers de
clare that ministerialists have a safe
lead; official returns may be delay
ed at least three days.
BALTIMORE. One thousand
eighty-two buildings at Camp
constructed during the war ftre sold
at an auction in which several hun
dred bidders participate, to Frank
Harris, of Chicago, for $250,000.
LONDON.—One passenger is kill
ed and the pilot and nine passengers
ar<? seriously injured when French
passenger airplane crashes near
Maidstone.z
LITTLE FALLS, Minn.—Senator-
Elect Magnus Johnson, in an ad
dress, said that the only remedy
for agricultural people “is to, in
crease powers of farm bloc in con
gress.” ’ 1
CHICAGO.—Robert W. Stewart,
I chairman of board of Standard Oil
company, of Indiana; Allan Jackson,
vice president, and other officials
leave for Pierre, S. D., at invitation
of Governor W. H. McMaster to
hold a conference with governor on
gasoline situation.
Black Typhoid Kills
Three of Family and
Threatens Five More
SIOUX CITY, lowa, Aug. 29.
Seemingly hemmed in by a cordon
of death, generated by the ravages
of black typhoid fever, the entire
family of Henry Klewe, whose farm
is elev’en miles east of Sioux City, is
threatened with detraction.
Since the advent of the disease, a
little more than a month ago, the
mother, father and eldest son have
died. Since that time the remaining
five members of the family have been
confined to beds and are'reported in
critical condition.
Dozen Are Indicted
Secretly at Houston
For Misuse of Mails!
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 29.—More
than a dozen persons were named
today in the first indictment re
turned by the federal grand jury
here investigating the alleged mis
use of the mails. Bonds set by Judge
J. O. Hutcheson, Jr., ranged from
$2,000 t oslo,ooo. Capias for imme
diate arrest were ordered issued by
the court. Names of those indicted
were not made public-
Thieves Get Priceless
Painting; Detectives
Scour Nation for It
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 29. The I
original of “The Entombment of j
Christ,” painted early in the seven- j
teenth century by Guido Beni, a rec-'
ognized master of the Bolognese >'
school and considered by cities as al- j
most priceless, was stolen from E. B. '
Crocker Art Gallery here last Satur-1
day, it became known today. A I
tion-wide earch is in progress to re
cover iL
5 CENTS A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
NETS AVERAGE OF
25.03 CENTS POUND
TO THE PRODUCERS
First Year of Association
Ends With Remarkable
Showing in Handling of
Cotton for Georgia Farmers
BY EDWIN CAMP
In its first year the Georgia Cot
ton Growers’ Co-operative associa
tion netted an averae price of 26.03
cents a pound for all the cotton han
dled according to final statements
which are going* out Tuesday with
checks to its members.
Farmers who were offered 18
to 20 cents a pound for their
cotton at harvest time last fall
but who turned their cotton over
to the co-operative selling organ*
izatioix gained 6 to 8 cents a
pound, which means S3O to S4O a
bale net after the deduction of all
expenses, and increased their
revenue by at least $1,500,000.
The association obtained an
average price of 27.60 cents a
pound for the 55,184 bales of cot*
ton it handled.
Expense of doing business in
its first year was only 1.57 cents
a pound. This figure includes
storage, insurance, grading, sell
ing, interest charges and all the
costs of organization.
The figure is strikingly low and
one in which the management takes
pradonable pride. The heaviest
items in it are storage and interest
on money borrowed to make ad
vances to the producer members. It
is the function of the association to
sell its members’ cotton gradually
in the course of twelve months, thus
obtaining an average price. Thia
necessitates the making of heavy ad-
Lrtfnces to the members upon delivery
of cotton. ■ But since the association
can sell no cotton at the time of de
livery and since the average period
of carrying each bale is six months,
the advance of S6O a bale must be
made from money borrowed by the
association for an average period,
of six months.
Expense Remarkably Low
i The expense of carrying on the
j organization, what is called “over-
I head” in the language of commerce,
was astonishingly low and reflects
the greatest of credit on the manage
ment. Yet when it is considered
that it was necessary-for the asso
ciation last year to make plans and
create an organization for handling
at least 100,000 bales of cotton in
j view of a sign-up of 270,000 bales.
' and when because of the crop ’fail*
ure in that part of Georgia in which,
the heaviest membership lay ths
total amount of cotton turned in was
only 55,184 bales, the achievement
of the management in holding total
expense down to 1.57 cents a pound
is little less than remarkable.
The association starts its second
I year with every likelihood of great-'
i ly reducing this expense.
Whereas one year ago it had 13,-
000 members and handled only 55,009'
bales of cotton, it now has 40,000 (
members and will handle from three
to four times as much cotton. This*
tripling or quadrupling of the
amount of cotton will not.only en
able the management to merchan
dise its cotton more effectively from,
larger lots of even grade cotton, but
it can be done with no material in
crease in organization expense, which
i fact alone will divide overhead cost'
by three or four.
Further, the association begins Its,
second year with a thoroughly or
ganized, smoothly running force.'
One year ago it was forced to create
an drganizatijbn out of a theory.
The average price obtainedjfor cot
ton, 27.60 cents, reflects the great-,
est credit on the salesmanship of the
association.
Season’s Average Exceeded
In his recent year-end report, H.
I G. Hester, who is the world’s great-
I est authority on cotton prices and
| statistics, announced that the aver
i age, price of middling cotton in pri
i mary sales during the year was 24.60
i cents a pound.
The report of the association
I shows that it obtained 3 cents more
L than estimate of the sea
son’s average.
All that could, have been expected'
of the association’s management was,
that it get an average equal to the'
year’s average. Yet it grossed sls ai
bale more and netted to its membeiSj
$7.15 a bale more.
The, association has sold every
bale of cotton turned in by
Except a relatively-'small amount'
bf long staple cotton for which no I
market has existed for months ax*(
cept at a sacrifice price. Normally
long staple cotton brings a premium l
of 3 cents or more a pound over
middling cotton of the same grade.
During the past season there wad
little or no demand for this stapl*
length and rather than sell the cot
ton at an absurd price the associa--
tion, after consulting with the pro
ducers, decided to carry the cotton
over to a more favorable market, re-’
mitting to the producers at the rate
of 20 cents a pound, with a further
As an indication of the enormity;
of the task of handling ro small an,
amount of cotton from so many
different producers, rt is interest-!
ing to note that the 55,000 bales fell,
into 81 different classifications,
ranging from “dogs” to tthe highest
grade of long staple cotton.
Range From 18 to 28 Cents
The prices averaged for the 81
pools ranged from 18.49 cents for the
sorriest cotton turned in up to 28.80
cents for excellent grade and staple,
payment to be made on sale.
The association -eports that its
grading of cotton brought only words
of praise from th® members. In
scores of cases they have record of
the fact that the cotton subsequent
ly turned in by them had previously
been given much lower grades by
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