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VOL. XXV. NO. 183
MUCH AWAITING
FULL moi
ON PLANS OF PARIS
German Hopes Renewed by
S. Representative at New
Invitation of Allies for U,
Reparation Meet
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Amer
ica's reply to the latest overture for
participation in settlement of the
German problem awaits detailed in
formation as to the scope of the
plan proposed by the reparations
commission.
This government has notified the
reparations commission, through
Colonel James A. Logan, Jr., its
unofficial representative, that it de
sires specific details. Until these
are received, no final reply will be
made.
Instructions were cabled Logan
last night to this effect. In the
message to Logan. Acting Secretary
of State Phillips outlined the Amer
ican attitude during the recent ne
gotiations over the original Hughes
proposal, when the United States in
formed France that the inquiry into
Germany’s capacity to pay repara
tions would be useless under Pre
mier Poincare’s reservations, which
would have restricted the investi
gation to 1931.
The present plan of the repara
tions commission for the appoint
ment of two committees of financial
experts, one to make a study of the
stabilization of German currency
and the other to investigate Ger
many’s capital abroad and how’ to
secure its return, has injected a new
element in the situation, however.
A suggestion was made by the
United States some time ago that
an inquiry on currency stabilization
be made.
Logan officially advised this gov
ernment yesterday of the impend
ing decision of the reparations com
mission on this inquiry, and of the
allies’ desire that the United States
be represented. Phillips, before re
plying to Logan, is understood to
have consulted over the long-dis
tance telephone with Secretary
Hughes, who had gone to Philadel
phia, where he spoke last night* at
the observance of the Centenary of
the Monroe doctrine.
FRENCH HAIL DECISION
OF REPARATION BOARD
PARIS, Dec. ‘2.—Notwithstanding
the cordiality that marked yester
day’s meeting of the reparation com
mission—one delegate described it as
“Eden-like"—opinion here views the
situation with only moderate satis
faction There is no disposition
whatever to cry “triumph” over
Great Britain as a result of the de
cision to appoint two expert commit
tees which will examine Germany’s
financial position.
Every commentator expresses the
Uope that America will be able to
“come in.” All pay tribute to the
spirit of conciliation that prevailed
at the important meeting of the am
bassadors on Friday, pointing out
that Premier Poincare was niet half
way by Prime Minister Baldwin.
GERMANY HOPING
FOR L. S. INTERVENTION
BERLIN, Dec. 2.—With the new
cabinet of Chancellor Marx already
threatened, even before being pre
sented to the reichstag, new hope
was felt in .official circles here to
night by reports from Paris that the
United States had been asked again
to participate in an inquiry into
Germany s capacity to pay repara
tions.
Germany still believes in the
ability of the United States to solve
the European muddle, but officials
tonight withheld comment on the
latest move in Paris to obtain Amer
ican collaboration, pending official
notification of the move.
The new ministers probably will
be presented to the reichstag Mon
day or Tuesday, and will ask
a vote of confidence, which he may
obtain if the Socialists follow the
present course of benevolent neutral
ity.
The people got little hope out of
the renewed possibility of American
intervention.
Hundreds besieged the American
consulate today, begging to be al
lowed to book passage for the
United States. The rush followed
notifications sent out by the big
steamer lines that no more tickets
should be sold, because Germany’s
immigration quota for the month
had been exhausted.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
ST. PAUL—William 11. -Brill, 52,
i widely known newspaperman and
former war correspondent, died here.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Turkish
American conference on war indem
nities, due Americans from Turkey
is reported deadlocked.
ROME. Mussolini declares for
Italian recognition of the Russian
government, and asserts that this
recognition is for Italy’s welfare.
. BERLIN —Four party coalition
cabinet, headed by Dr. Wilhelm
Marx, is completed and begins func
tioning.
LONDON. —Lloyd George return
ing to London after campaign tour
predicts a million majority for free
trade in Thursday’s elections.
PEKIN. Father Frederick,
Catholic priest held by bandits in
Shantung province since November
13,.was rescued last Wednesday, it
is (learned officially.
LACROSS, Wise. —Aged nun is
burned to death and 134 others im
perilled in fire in convent of Order
of Franciscan Si ters of Perpetual
Adoration.
ROME. —Six hundred lives are re
ported lost in breaking of great dam
at Lake Gleno. Italy, flooding vil
lages in the Bergamo valley, not far
from Milan.
WASHINGTON. —Federal tax col
lections during the year ending
June 30 were as com
pared with $3,197,451,000 for year
previous. 1
. PARIS.—Leon Daudet. leader of
monarchist movement in French
chamber of deputies, declares that
his fifteen-year-old son was killed in,
revenge by anarchists.
ATLANTA.—Geraldine Farrar
sings before half-filled auditorium at
Atlanta, and observers declare that
protest of churches affected attend
ance at concert.
NEW YORK.—William Vincent
King, seventy-five, former president
of New York Cotton exchange and
Spanish-American war veteran, dies
at home here.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idg. stands committed to plan for
transferring prohibition enforcement
unit from treasury department to
department of justice.
CHICAGO—Mrs. Harold McCor
mick, former Ganna Walska, re
ceives members of Illinois branch of
woman’s party and enters fight for
complete equal rights for women.
NEW YORK.—Elbert H. Gary, in
New York address, asserts that any
proposals for cancellation or reduc
tion of European war debts to Unit
ed States are irrational and prepos
terous.
WASHlNGTON.—Progressives in
hots of representatives demand
changes in house rules and legisla
tion. openly threat to block organi
zation unless a compromise is
reached.
Contracts Awarded
For Two Projects
By Highway Board
Contracts for a concrete bridge in
Hart county and a surfaced road in
Hall county were announced by the
scale Saturday.
The contract for the road in Hall
county, to be 4.47 miles in length
was let to Dunn & Woodall on a bid
of $22,720.64. subject to the approval
of the Hall county commissioners.
The stretch of road is on the high
way from Lula to the Habersham
countv line.
A contract for a reinforced con
crete bridge on the Hartwell-Roy
ston road, in Hart county, was let
to Scott, Chambers & Co., of West
Point, jin a bid of $7.016.24.
Liquor Schooner
Will Be Released
JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 29.
Judge R. M. Call, of the United
States district court, in an opinion
handed down Wednesday, upheld the
contention of members of the crew
of the British auxiliary schooner,
Louise F., that the vessel was
brought within the /hree-mile limit
ajamst the wishes of the officers.
His opinion says he will restore the
vessel to its owners without bond
under writs which will follow.
Federal agents had instituted libel
proceedings against the vessel charg
ing that she had delivered liquor to
the Florida coast.
INDIANAPOLIS.-—Negro is ar
rested at Indianapolis charged with
murder of Mrs. Helen Welchel, an
attractive young widow.
NEW YORK. —California has the
highest automobile death rate and
New oYrk comes next, census fig
ures show; more than 11.000 persons
were killed in United States regis
tration area last year.
PARIS —Dr. Meyer. the/German
charge in Paris, delivers note to
reparations commission asking that
deliveries in kind made by Ruhr in
dustrialists be credited to German
reparations account.
ABERDEEN, S. D.—lrene Cas
tle and her third husband, Major
Frederic McLaughlin, are recog
nized boarding coast train here, but
decline to say -where thej r are go
ing on wedding trip.
WASHINGTON. Full informs
tion regarding French war debt to
United States, amounting to nearly
four billions of dollars, is requested
by Senator Borah in letter to Secre
tary of Treasury Mellon.
BOSTON—General Joseph Halle 1 ’,
of Poland, fails to call on Mayor Cur
ley, of Boston, and the latter in
turn declines to attend banquet
given by the American Legion in
General Haller’s honor.
PHI LADELPhTaL— Secret ary
Hughes, at Philadelphia, declares
that American foreign policy
squares consistently with Monroe
doctrine, and that United States
■must stick to its independence in ac
tion.
SAN FRANCISCO.—WUHatn G.
McAdoo tells members of Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En
ginemen that he does not regard
government ownership as the “wisest
solution” of the American railway
problem.
INDIANAPOLIS. Governor Mc-
Cray, of Indiana, will submit to ar
rest and give bond to answer charges
against him whenever authorities
are ready to serve capias, it is an
nounced after conference between
McCray and counsel.
Skeleton of
Jimmy Glass is found in heavy un
dergrowth near Greeley, Pa., and
ing World-wide search for child who
disappeared after leaving home to
go out to play,eight years ago; his
father now believes he wandered off
following a pet dog.
LONDON—Oliver Baldwin and A.
G. MacDonald, sons of Prime Min
ister Baldwin and James Ramsay
MacDonald, speak from same plat
form at London election meeting
an A J’ oun ß' Baldwin continues to
criticize his father’s ministry.
M ASHINGTON. Senate public
lands committee gets conflicting tes
t.mony as to personal financial
status of former Secretary Albert B.
Fall, after he signed the Teapot
Dome oil lease, and Fall is invited to
appear before committee to clarify
situation.
Owners of Mammoth
Cave Entrance Plan
Infringement Suits
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Dec. I.
Mammoth Cave, noted as one of the
seven natural wonders of the world,
was closed today to tourists and
sightseers for the first time, so far
as it is known, since the great
cavern was discovered. The. cave is
in Edmonson Kentucky,
eighty miles from Louisville.
A development company which
controls what it claims is a. “new
entrance” to the cave had diverted
considerable traffic from the original
of “discovery” entrance, it was in
dicated.
In an announcement that the
original entrance had been closed
until further notice, the trustee for
the estate “Which owns the cave
alleged that to reach Mammoth Cave
through what has been advertised
as the “new entrance” it is neces
sary- to pass through»six connecting
caves. It was indicated by the
statement of the trustee that the
management of the original eu
trance would “seek the proper
remedy" and that legal action
against the development company
for advertising that it controlled an
entrance to the famous cavern was
to be taken.
Last of Lost Fleet’s
Officers Tried; Freed
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. I.—Lieu
tenant Commander Richard Booth,
eleventh and last of the navy officers
to face court-martial as the result of
the wrecking of seven destroyers on
Point Honda the night of September
J 8, was today acquitted of charges of
! negligence.
; Os the eleven officers to face the
i court, three were found guilty in
some degree, and eight were ac-
1 quitted.
I
Naval Aviation Hero
Marries in Louisiana
CROWLEY, La., Dec. I.—Louis
I A. Kloor, Jr., former lieutenant in
the naval air forces, who, in the
winter of 1920 with Lieutenants Far
rell and Hinton was lost in the
Canadian wilds after their balloon
had been blown off its course, was
married here yesterday to Miss
I Louise McCorkle, of Crowley. Since
| resigning from the service, Kloor,
who is a sugar chemist, hag divided
j his time between Cuba and Louisi
ana.
Would Enjoin Election
BRADENTOWN, Fla., Nov. 29.
Advocates of a local no-fence law for
Manatee county, a vote on which has
been set for December 10, are having
opposition from property owners on
the south side of the river. An in
junction was filed Tuesday in circuit
court seeking to restrain the election
i board. The suit will be heard Satur
s day afternoon.
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PROGRESSIVE SLOG
BIBS ELECTION DF
SPEAKER Illi HOUSE!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The nev.
congress began its first session to ,
day and before it was an hour old
the house was in the throes of a ;
spectacular fight over lhe election
of a speaker.
The little progressive bloc, made
up of followers of Senator La 1
Follette, of Wisconsin, refused tc
support Speaker Gillett for re-elec- ;
tion and precipitated a deadlock
blocking all other business.
.Mr. Gillett had the support of the j
Republican organization, but his i
strength fell short of the majority
over all necessary to elect. The
Democrats voted .solidly for Repre
sentative Garrett, of Tennessee, and
the bulk of the progressive bloc
strength went to Representative
Cooper, of Wisconsin.
Compromise negotiations, to per
mit of an a election within a day or
two were expected by the Repub
lican chief;, but as the voting went
on there were no indications of,
capitulation to the bloc*
demand for concessions in commit
tee assignments and changes in the
house rules.
On the senate side things went I
much more smoothly. By pre-ar I
rangement a truce was declared in i
the fight over senate reorganizations, i
and after a session of three-quarters
"of an hour adjournment was taken
until tomorrow out of respect for
senators who have died during the
nine-month recess.
Rs tilt of First Ballot
On the first ballot in the house ;
speakership fight Speaker Gillet re- j
ceived 198 votes to 195 for Repre-I
sentative Garrett and 17 for Repre |
sentative Cooper. Representative j
Madden, Republican, Illinois, w?.s '
given live votes.
The second ballot also failed to
result in an election.
In both house and senate the
gavels fell promptly at 12 o’clock, I
with Senator Cummins-, of lowa, the
president pro tern, presiding over his
colleagues, and Clerk William Tyler
Page occupying the speaker’s chair
of the house pending the outcome of
the fight over the speakership.
While on the senate side the open
ing formalities passed off with the
usual outward calm and decorum. ;
the threat of a fight to force reor
ganization of the senate and some:
of its more important committees !
was in the background. /
• Organization Blocked
For an hour before the house went
into session the progressive bloc had
been in conference.
“There will be no election of speak-!
er today,” said Representative Nel-!
son, of Wisconsin, chairman of the ■
group, after the meeting. He reiter
ated that the bloc controlled enough
votes to prevent the re-election of <
Speaker Gillett, but declined to say i
how long the insurgents expected to!
hold out.
“Our real fight.” he said, “will;
come later when we seek to modify j
house rules.”
The senate Democrats also held al
conference during the morning, |
elected Senator Robinson, of Arkan-i
sas, as Democratic floor leader, and I
selected a slate of candidates for sen
ate offices. The Republican senators I
at a meeting last week had re-elected'
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, as!
their leader.
Legislative issues were not discuss
e4,at Democratic meeting,
“M hile we are not prepared and
do not propose at this time to assume
the responsibility which devolves up- |
on the majority to take the initiative I
respecting the details of legislation,"
said Senator Robinson afterward, “it
is expected that our organization will
stand for a material reduction in
taxes and for aggressive j easures
to effectuate retrenchment in public 1
expenditures.”
Farm Relief Favored
The transportation question is
worthy of careful study and decisive
action. Practical and well considered
measures for the relief of conditions
among farmers will receive sympa
thetic attention. Proposals advanced
for the adjustment of international
conditions are to be disposed of with
out partisanship.”
Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin,
the recognized leader of the progres- .
sive bloc, was the only absentee
when the roll was called in the Sen
ate. He has been ill for several days
and probably will be unable to at
tend senate sessions before next
week. The new senator and those
re-elected at the last election took
the oath of office, administered by ,
Senator Cummins, while crowds .
which overflowed the galleries, look
ed on.
Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the president, i 1
was seated with several friends in I <
the president’s gallery.
Balloting for speaker in the house
was delayed while the. clerk went
through the long formality of calling
the roll by states to determine wheth
er a quorum was present. The gal
leries there were packed, too, the
crowd extending into adjoining cor
ridors.
Senator Shipstead was accom- '
pmied bv Senator Brookhart, Rc- 1
publican, lowa, as he went to the
president's desk to take the oath. '
Senator Johnson, who took the oath
later, was accompanied by Senator
Shipstead.
Ford at White House;
Discussion of Shoals
Disposal Is Reported
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Henry
Ford, who came to Washington to
day to appear before the interstate
commerce commission hearing affect
ing his railroad properties, conferred
briefly with President Coolidge, dis
cussing, it is understood, the status
and disposition of the administration
toward his offer for "Muscle Shoals.
Mr. Ford, after seeing the presi
dent. reiterated that his offer for
Muscle Shoals, row pending before
congress stood. Beyond saying that
the question was discussed with the
president during the twenty-minute
conference, however, he would not
disclose what details were considered.
He was accompanied by E. G. Lie
bold, his secretary; W. B. Iwe-yo, his
engineer, and C. B. Longley, one of
his attorneys.
On leaving the White House Mr.
Ford was asked if he cared to make
a. statement as to his attitude toward ;
movements looking toward his nom- j
ination as a presidential candidate.;
His only comment was: “‘Humph!'
That would be funny, wouldn’t it?”
Mr. Ford and his party also called
on Secretary of War Weeks.
COUNTRY SQUIRE OF NATIONAL POLITICS—
THAT IS WHAT LOWDEN TERMS HIMSELF
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Meet the Lowden family. Above: Frank (). Lowden, Frances Lowden, Harriett Lowden and Mrs.
Lowden. Below: Pullman Lowden and Florence Lowden. Centered below is Sinnissippi farm, the
Lowden home, near Oregon, 111.
WSEIMDEM
WHITE OBTL.W
Kin FOB GRIMES
HARBIN, Manchuria, Dee. I.
(By the Associated Press.) —For the
first time in history, the Chinese
courts have condemned a white
man to death. This sentence was
the result of the trial of the noted
desperado, Korniloff, an educated
Rtissian of good family, who is
charged with several murders and
i robberies, and to whom have been
I imputed a variety of exploits of
i almost motion picture sensational
j ism.
I One of these developed last sprin;
1 when Korniloff, charged with a
I civil offense, was brought into the
| same court house where he has just
■ been sentenced to death. The out
law. wearing manacles, stood with
| another prisoner near a window. A
; confederate passed him two revolv
ers
With these, Korniloff and his
companion defied the crowd, scaled
a wall and seized a cab in the street.
They escaped by furious driving,
exchanging shots with policemen.
Months later the police, advised
I that Korniloff was secreted in a
house in the city, surrounded it.
killed the outlaw's companion and
■ the latter’s wife, and captured
Korniloff. %
In his trial, Korniloff’s counsel
contended the proposed punishment
of death could not be inflicted be
cause the Chinese decree under
which the prosecution sought to
have it applied, bad been issued
since Korniloff’s alleged offense
was committed, and was not retro
active.
The outlaw may appeal his case.
The court’s finding is regarded as
indicative of the lowered state of
white prestige here.
Losing Beauty Prize,
Miami Girl Disrobes
To Prove Her Charms
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. I.—Responding
to a riot call, police rushed to a lo
cal theater last night where a crowd
of 500 persons had jammed into ,the
lobby when Miss Clara Lamme, 17,
who had been denied a prize at the
Thanksgiving bathing revue, calmly
disrobed to a one-piece bathing suit.
Miss Lamme sought to prove in
the lobby that her charms were su
perior to the beauty winners who at
the moment were parading on the
stage.
With arrival of the police, Miss
Lamme held up her hand to calm
the crowd, advanced, with a smile
to the first policeman, shook hands
with him and in the applause which
followed, the police disappeared.
Miss Lamme then addressed Ihe
crowd, over the protests of the the
ater manager, detailing her reasons
why she should have won.
Youthful Hunter
Killed Accidentally
WILLACOOCHEE. Ga., Nev. 30
Donald McCranie, 13> was accidental
ly shot and killed by Joe Hadneck,
15, son of a tenant on the McCranie
farm, while the two boys were hunt
ing Thursday afternoon.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia. North Carolina: Rain;
not much change in temperature.
South Carolina, Georgia: Rain; not
much change in temperature.
Florida: Possibly showers.
Extreme northwest Florida. Ala
bama: Probably rain; cooler by Tues
day night.
Mississippi: Probably clearing and
cooler.
Tennessee: Probably rain, some
what colder.
Kentucky: Rain, somewhat colder.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy and
I warmer in north, unsettled in south
i portion.
I Arkansas Partly cloudy, somewhat
; warmer.
Oklahoma: Probably fair.
East Texas: Unsettled.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, December 4, 1923
Farm Management Is Occu
pation of Illinois Candidate
■ for G, 0. P. Presidential
Nomination
BY GEORGE BRITT
OREGON, 111., Dec. I.—Outstand
ing’ country squire among American
presidential Farm man
agement jiis occupation, cattle breed
ing his hobby and norseback riding
over his own 5,000 acres his favorite
exercise.
Such is Frank O. Lowden, former
Illinois governor, wno Is hailed as a
real farmer even by his neighbors.
His has been the real "back to the
soil” movement, for he has returned
in both residence anct interest to the
rustic atmosphere from which he
■started.
When Lowden bought the first
tract of Sinnissippi farm, 25 years
ago, he joined the community under
the handicap of being a. stranger,
known'as the son-in-law of the Pull
man company magnate and weaned
from the soil by years of city law
practice. It required time for him
to merge witli the landscape and to
be accepted.
In Oregon they like to recall his
starting to tour the district in his
first congressional campaign in 1906,
driven by a coachman behind a pair
of stepping bang-tailed horses.
“For heaven’s sake, colonel, get
down to earth or you'll be snowed
under,” advised a courthouse sage.
“Hire a buggy from the livery sta
ble when you go out after votes.”
Practical Fanner
Lowden recognized good advice,
and a never-outgrown interest in
farming coupled with keen political
sense have made him, to the core, a
farmer.
“The Lowden farm goes better
when the colonel’s at home,” says
an observing neighbor.
“The colonel knows as well as any
man in the county whether a field
should be put in oats or corn. He
used to raise Shorthorn cattle and
was an expert at judging them. He’s
good at Holsteins now. The farm
is on a business basis and has to
earn its keep.”
Around the courtnouse the loung
ers give ready appraisals of the com
munity’s first citizen. To them all
he is “Colonel;” not “Governor” and
not “Frank.”
‘He isn’t a good politician,” says
one.
“He’s too conscientious. Take
when he was governor. Our county
didn’t get any roads or big favors.
He didn’t want it thought he was
spending the state’s money on his
home folks.”
“Colonel Lowden just won’t let
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anybody dictate to him,” says an
other admirer. “He could have been
governor when Deneen was nominat
ed if he had compromised. I heard
him say in a campaign speech once,
‘I want to be in good company when
I’m by myself,’ and tnat is the way
he works.”
“Well, the governor is democratic
all right,” testifies a third. “He
doesn’t walk around slapping folks
on the shoulder, but he knows your
name whenever you meet him, is
glad to see you and ready to listen
to you. The Lowden kids are all
right, too, not a bit snippish.”
Those who have watched Lowden’s
campaigning are ready to dispute his
fellow-townsman who says he isn’t
a good politician. Comes the pjem
ory of a hot slimmer afternoon in a
crowded convention hall. The chair
man introduces Lowden, a stocky,
vigorous, clean-cut man who talks
clearly, ingratiatingly, w: h a world
of punch.
Likes Shirt Sleeves
Ilis tanned face reddens and he
perspires. Off comes his coat. One
notes the suspenders. H® loosens
his collar. On he talks and his hear
ers clamor for more.
Ogle county is for “Colonel Low
den.” As a neighbor for 25 years
he has impressed the people here
with his sincerity, fairness, generos
ity and exceptional ability.
The beautiful homestead overlook
ing the Rovk river is his “home,”
and he is o|ie of the community.
Lowden first demonstrated practi
l<cally the advantage of dairy farming
on the river ravines, and led to the
establishing of a large milk con
densery here. In local charities and
civic enterprises he took a large
share. In county politics he attempt
ed no dictatorship.
That is the home town slant on
the man who narrowly missed the
presidential nomination in 1920, re
fused the ambassadorship to Eng
land this fall and may yet reach the
White House.
Lowden was born in 1861 at Sun
rise City, Minn., son of the town
blacksmith. It was pioneer country
then, and Jiis mother used to take
him as a baby with her to get the
cows for fear Indians might steal
him. The family moved to Hardin
county, lowa, when the boy was 7.
There he grew up, teaching school
to pay his way through the Uni
versity of lowa.
In 1886 he moved to Chicago, work
ed in a law office while going to law
school and finished the course in a
single year at the head of his class.
Ten years later he was a leader
at th© bar and married to Florence
Pullman. He quit practicing law in
1906. When not in public office, most
of his time since then has been spent
on the farm.
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OH OF SESSION
Sixty Members of Congress
United Behind Legislation
to Aid Fight on Weevil and
Reduce Crop Costs
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building,
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. I.—<
Approximately sixty senators and
representatives from th# southern
states met m caucus here Saturday,
formed what will be popularly known
as a cotton bloc and appointed sever
al committees to report on legisla
tion and executive action
aid the cotton farmer. '
The cott’on bloc conference took the
following action:
Unanimously approved the Henry
Ford proposal for the lease of Mus
cle Shoals and agreed to insist upon
legislation to bring it about.
Appointed a committee to see the
appropriations committee and urge
appropriations for establishment of
additional agricultural experiment
station in the southern states, such
stations to specialize in the fight on
the boll weevil.
Named a committee to call on
President Coolidge and request that,
under the flexible clause of the tariff
law, he reduce by 50 per cent the
present tariff on calcium arsenate,
which is used in exterminating the
boll weevil Eventual-elimination of
the entire tariff will be sought by the
cotton states senators and represent
atives. The present tariff" on cal
cium arsenate is 25 per cent.
Crop Estimate Change
Adopted a resolution favoring a
change in the method of making
cotton market and ginning reports.
Such reports in the past, it was con
tended at the conference, have been
more or less unreliable and have had
a bad effect upon the market. The
government will be urged to systema
tize its reporting machinery and fur
nish more detailed and accurate cot
ton census figures.
The committee named to work out
a program for better cotton reports
comprises Representative Rankin, of
Mississippi, Chairman; Senator Har
ris, Georgia; Representative Almon,
Alabama, and Representative Win
go, Arkansas.
The action taken at the Saturday
caucus was in line with recommen
dations of a special committee ap
pointed at a preliminary meeting
Friday afternoon. The committee
on program and procedure com
prised Representatives Black, of
Texas; Tillman and Driver, Arkan
sas; Lowrey, Mississippi, and Sen
ator Harris, Georgia.
The conference also indorsed
cheaper import freight rates on fer
tilizer brought from abroad, and
cheaper rates from ports to southern
farms. A committee was named to
study this question and report, thia
committee consisting of Senator
Sheppard, Texas, and Representa
tives Vinson, Georgia; Bankhead,
Alabama; Lazaro, Louisiana, and
Hastings, Oklahoma.
Ask Larger Appropriations
Representatives Buchanan, of
Texas, and Lowrey, of Mississippi,
and Senator Heflin, of Alabama,
were named to go to the appropria
tions committees of congress and in
sist upon the establishment of addi
tional agricultural experiment sta
tions in the cotton belt.
The preliminary conference of th*
cotton bloc was attended by Repre
sentatives of the department of agri
culture, the farm loan board, th®
bureau of mines and the geological
survey, who “sat in” during a dis
cussion of the plans for combatting
the boll weevil and putting through
congress legislation to help the cot
ton producer.
Members attending the conferenc®
do not themselves use the word bloo
and say they do not intend to us®
any “big stick” methods in congress.
Nevertheless, since congress already
has a farm bloc, a labor bloc, a
soldier bloc and a reclamatioii bloc,
it is inevitable that when the cotton
states members combine their or
gainzation become known as the
cotton bloc. »
Mississippi Executive
Advises Successor to
Get Suit of Armor
JACKSON, Miss., Dec. I.—Gover
nor-elect H. L. Whitfield called at
the office of Governor Russell yes
terday to get a few pointers from
the executive who retires within
a few weeks as to the governor's
experiences while on the job.
Governor Russell expressed his
“sympathy” to the next governor,-
and advised him that it would b®
well for him to “get fitted for a coat
of armor,” and have “pants half
soled” bettor- he takes office.
“This,” said Mr. Russell, “will en
able the next governor to partially
withstand the kicks and blows that
are bound to fall to his lot during
the four years that he is to guide
the ship of state, add to at least
get out at the end of his term with
his life.”
Baby Is Captured
With Father in Car
Transporting Whisky
VALDOSTA, Ga., Dec. I. ISlik®
Watson, his wife and baby, their
automobile’and thirty cases of Irish
whisky were captured by Prohibition
Officers Land and Parks four mile*
below the city Friday night. They
claimed to be on the way from Jack
sonville tn St. Louis, though Watson
stated that he was employed by a
man named Smith to transport the
liquor, his fee being $25(1.
The man, with his wife ana baLv/.
were detained by the officers
All of the whisky was destroyed qx
cept for a small amount which was
kept as evidence.
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