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Next Financial Campaign
and Future of Mercer and
Bessie Tift Colleges Para
mount Questions
BY LOUIE D. NEWTON
(Editor of The Christian Index.)
The Georgia Baptist convention
will assemble in the one hundred
and second annual session of that
body at 2 o’clock, eastern time,
Tuesday afternoon of this week, at
Macon.
Dr. John D. Mell, of Athens, for
the past twelve years president of
the convention, will call the gather
ing to order. Following a devotional
service, the convention will organize
with the election of officers and
appointment of committees. It is
1 expected that Dr. Mell will be chosen
* as president by acclamation and
that Dr. H. D. Ragsdale, of Macon,
secretary of the convention for the
past twenty-seven years, will like
wise be re-elected.
The convention elects four vice
t presidents. These officials do not suc
ceed themselves. The vice presidents
for this year ■were J. H. Carmichael,
Jackson; C. D. Graves, Dublin;
John B. Payne. Blue Ridge; Clifford
Walker, Monroe. Dr. E. J. For
reston, of Sparta, is treasurer and
Rev. W. T. Granade, of Statesborc
is assistant secretary.
Three Major Questions
There are three questions that
will hold the attention of the con-
■ vention this year. The first is the
matter of the allotment of the funds
in the next general campaign of
the denomination. It will be remem
bered that the Baptists of the south
launched a campaign in 1919 to
raise seventy-five millions of dol
lars in five years. This campaign
t was very successful and resulted in
subscriptions amounting to approxi
mately ninety-two millions of dol
lars. That campaign will terminate
November 30, 1924. It is likely that
by the close of the campaign a
minimum of the original sum of
seventy-five millions will be collect
ed. With the closing of this cam
paign next year has arisen the gen
eral question of the next financial
» program of the denomination and at
the state conventions this fall
throughout thg denomina
tion is taking tentative position with
regard to the next campaign.
The question of tne allotment
of the funds of the next campaign
to the agencies within, the states
anti those outside the state boun
daries is a, very vital one and is
proving a serious problem in a num
ber of states. In the present cam
paign. the general basis of distribu
tion was fifty-fifty, that is, half of
4 the money was expended within the
, states and half beyond the state
bounds for what is general'y termed
world wide missions In Georgia,
there is a disposition to give forty
per cent of the next campaign to
. outside interests and keep sixty for
the Georgia interests. At the same
4 time there is a vigorous feeling that
x the old basis of fifty-fifty should be
maintained. This question will come
up for final settlement, so far as
Georgia is concerned, a.t the con
vention in Macon this week.
Mercer and Bessie Tift
There will also be keen interest in
the allotment of the funds within the
slate. Each agency of the Georgia
Baptist convention has submitted a
tentative budget of needs for a period
of five years, and the appeal for each
t institution will bg made by its friends
based on the needs for present op
eration and reasonable expansion.
There will be a recommendation to
the convention by a special commit
tee appointed last year touching the
allotment of the funds to the Geor
» gia interests. This report will be
made early in the convention ses
sions and will be awaited with the
v greatest interest.
A second question in the conven
tion at Macon which holds th e at
tention of the messengers and the
denomination at large is the proposal
to abolish the holding commission in
•o far as it relates to Mercer univer
. sity and Bessie Tift college. This re
quest is made by friends of these in
stitutions on the ground that the
present organization of the conven
®on providing for a commission of
teven men to hold all titles to the
properties of the convention pre
cludes certain gifts that otherwise
might be had for Mercer university
>End Bessie Tift college.
This holding commission was estab
lished some years ago by the conven
tion with the purpose of further safe
? guarding the properties of the de
nomination against indebtedness and
loss. It was thought wise at that
time to have such restrictions. The
proposed changes will necessitate a
change of the constitution of the con
vention and will require a two-thirds
vote of the convention. There is a
r difference of opinion touching the
* advisability of this change at this
time, and it is not possible to predict
the vote on th e proposal. The mem
bers of the holding commission at
this time are: U. V. Whipple, Cor-
. dele; Howell Cone, Statesboro; J. B.
Hart, Macon; Frank Pidcock, Moul
trie; A. W. Evans, Sandersville; F.
S. Ethridge, Atlanta, and C. J. Hood.
Commerce.
Secondary Schools
A third question that will likely
come up for discussion at the con
vention this week is the future policy
of the denomination regarding the
present secondary schools of the Mer
cer university system of colleges and
schools. There are twelve of these
secondary schools at this time, and
. it has been suggested that the de
nomination settle the question which
0 has for some years been pending as
to the number cf schools that should
be included in the permanent pro
gram of education on the part of
the denomination. A special com
mittee of five men has been at work
on this matter for practically a year
and will make a report at the con
vention this week. It is not known
just what their recommendations will
be.
The convention will be preceded by
the Pastors’ and Laymen’s confer
ence, which meets in the First Bap
tist church of Macon Monday eve
ning at 7:30 o’clock and will hold a
second session on Tuesday morning
in the same building. Tne program
i for the conference follows:
Laymen’s Conference
Monday Evening—Devotion con
ducted by W. Russell Owen, of Ma
con. Address by Frank S. Ethridge,
Atlanta. Sermon by Dr. W. M. Har
ris, Thomasville.
Tuesday Morning—Devotion by
j Rev. George Steed, Lavonia. Ad-
• dress by J- P. Nichols, Griffin. In
troduction of new pastors. Sermon
by John W. Ham, Atlanta. Ad
journment.
Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Commerce.
Is president of this conference and
yrlll preside at the sessions. Elec-
•IrJi ATLANTA TLLWgEkLY JOURNAL
LEADERS IN THE STATE BAPTIST CONVENTION, which
will convene Tuesday in Macon. Left to right, top: Dr. Arch C.
Cree, Atlanta, executive secretary; Dr. John D. Mell. Athens, presi
dent. Bottom: Dr. W. A. Taliaferro, Savannah, who will preach
the convention sermon Tuesday afternoon, and Dr. B. D. Ragsdale,
Macon, secretary.
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For Mother and Infant
Victims of Accident
MARIETTA. Ga., Dec. B.—Funeral
services for Mrs. Joe M. Dobbins
and her one-year-old baby, both of
whom were killed here at 9 o’clock
this morning by the “Dixie Flyer,’’
crack train of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railroad, will be
held at the First Baptist church of
Powder Springs, Ga., at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Dobbins and her child were
killed when she. carrying the baby
in her arms, started to cross the
railroad tracks at the intersection of
Atlanta avenue and the Atlanta-Ma
rietta road.
Eye-witnesses declared she turned
to wave to a friend on an incoming
trolley car, the street car tracks
paralleling the railroad at that
point, and that the noise of the ap
proaching street car apparently pre
vented her from hearing the bell sig
nal on the railroad crossing.
Mrs. Dobbins was instantly' killed
and the baby died before medical aid
could* be summoned. The bodies
were taken to the undertaking estab
lishment of John S. Dobbins, Mrs
Dobbins’ father-in-law, where her
husband. Joe Dobbins, is employed.
King of Bootleggers
Withdraws Appeal;
To Serve Sentence
-NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The Dutch
schooner Zeehond, believed by fed
eral authorities to belong to “Man
nie” Kesslgr, “King of the Bootleg
gers,” today was seized off Fire
Island with $200,000 worth of as
sorted liquors, and a few hours later
Kessler and his partner, Morris
Sweetwood, decided to take their
medicine and withdrew their appeal
from a conviction of wholesale boot
legging which carried with it a sen
tence of two years in Atlanta and a
SIO,OOO fine.
As a result of their change of front,
the pair will spend Christmas in the
Georgia penitentiary.
tion of officers for next year will be
held Tuesday morning before ad
journment.
The convention follows this con
ference with its initial sesson Tues
day afternoon beginning at 2 o’clock.
An order of business will be sub
mitted by a committee composed of
W. W. Gaines, W. H. Major and
R. L. Bivins.
Convention Sermon
The convention sermon by Dr.
W. A. Taliaferro, pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist church, Savannah, will
be one of the features of the open
ing session on Tuesday afternoon.
Mercer university will be the chief
feature of the Tuesday evening ses
sion. Education will be the" princi
pal matter under discussion on
Wednesday morning. It is under
stood that state mission will be the
topic for Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday night will likely be de
voted to the 75 million campaign.
Thursday sessions will be devoted to
missions, benevolences and other
matters. •
Prominent men in the denomina
tion are expected to come to Geor
gia for the convention. Dr. L. R.
Scarborough, of Texas, will speak
Wednesday evening on the cam
paign. Dr. J. F. Love, secretary of
the foreign mission board, is ex
pected to speak Thursday morning.
Dr. B. D. Gray, secretary cf tha
home mission board, will also speak
Thursday. Dr. I. J. Van Ness, sec
retary of the Sunday school board,
will speak Wednesday afternoon. It
is expected that Dr. E. Y. Mullins,
president of the Southern Baptist
convention, end also president of
the Baptist World alliance, will
speak" during the convention.
Departmental Reports
Addresses by th© departmental
heads of the Georgia Baptist work
will be delivered under the respect
ive reports: George W. Andrews
and James W. Merritt will speak on
Sunday school work. H. L. Batts
will speak on B. Y. P. U. work.
B. S. Bailey will speak on enlistment
work and Miss Laura Lee Patrick
will speak on W. M. U. work. W.
P. Anderson will speak on the work
of the orphans.
The convention in Macon will pass
on matters of more than ordinary
interest to the denomination, and
for that reasOTi it is expected that a
large attendance will be registered
on the opening day. The Baptists
of Macon are making every effort to
care for the visitors in away that
will invite a large attendance. Under
the supervision of a local commit
tee the Macon Baptists homes are
being opened on the “Harvard
plan” of entertainment. Rev. Z. E.
Barron is chairman of the commit
tee to arrange these homes. The
Lanier hotel has been designated as
hotel headquarters.
CLEVELAND TO GET
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. An
nouncement that the invitation from
Chicago for the Republican national
convention of 1924 to be held in that
city -would be withdrawn was made
here last night by Fred W. Upham,
treasurer of the Republican national
committee.
The responsible administration
leaders desired the convention to be
held in Cleveland, 0., Mr. Upham
added.
The announcement by Mr. Up
liani. who came here Saturday with a
delegation of Chicago business men
to urge Chicago’s claims for the
convention, was said by Republican
leaders virtually to assure the selec
tion of Cleveland as the convention
city.
Representative Burton, of Ohio, a
leader among those urging the -se
lection of Cleveland, when advised
of the withdrawal of Chicago, said
this meant definitely that the con
vention would go to the Ohio city.
“Now we will go to work,” Mr.
Burton said, “and with the Cleve
land spirit make arrangements to
insure the comfort and satisfaction
of the delegates. It will be Cleve
land’s first big convention and
Cleveland will do it right.”
The break from Chicago will mark
the first time that the Republican
have not met in the Lake City for
tw’enty years.
Result a Surprise
The support given Cleveland by
administration leaders, Representa
tive Burton said, came as a surprise
and developed late today. Chairman
•Auanis, of the national committee,
David Mulvane, of Kansas, head of
'the sub-committee on the selection
of a city, and Charles D. Hilles, na
tional committeeman for New York,
it is understood, were influential in
the administration backing Cleve
lan I.
Mr. Adams is known to have ex
pressed the belief that a change from
Chicago would be beneficial for the
Republican party and this point was
stressed by Representative Burton
and Carmi Thompson, before the
Mulvane sub committee.
Mr. Thompson contended also that
the selection of Cleveland would be
in the nature of a memorial to the
late President Harding. In Cleve
land’s behalf it was also pointed out
that four former presidents were
buried in Ohio and that Republicans
attending the convention could make
pilgrimage to the Harding tomb at
Marion, Ohio, and also to the last
resting places of Presidents Gar
field, .Harrison and McKinley.
Cleveland’s claim as a neutral bat
tle ground also was advanced, the
Cleveland spokesman declaring that
Ohio would have no Republican
presidential candidate this year. In
this connection Representative Bur
ton said tonight that if President
Harding had lived the convention
would not have gone to Cleveland.
He said that Mr. Harding opposed
having the convention in his state
and was believed to have favored
San Francisco.
Big Auditorium
If Cleveland is selected, Represen
tative Burton said that the conven
tion would be held in the mammoth
civic auditorium on the Lake front,
built by the city at an expense of
$7,000,000. It is in a projected civic
center, close to the leading hotels,
the business center, the courthouse
and other public buildings. Its
acoustic properties are said to be
superior to those of the Chicago
coliseum. Large committee rooms for
the platform and other convention
bodies are available.
Accompanying the Cleveland invi
tation is an agreement to bear all
expenses and written pledges that
current hotel and restaurant rates
will prevail. There is also a state
law prohibiting rate changes without
notice.
Cleveland has only one other con
vention in 1864, and this a com
paratively minor one, a number of
Republicans opposing Abraham I.in
col n having met there and. nomi
nated John Cochran.
One Dead, Two Wounded
By Fire From Shotgun
CHARLESTON, S. C„ Dec. B.
One person was killed and two oth
ers wounded near Ladson by two
discharges from a shotgun.
Carroll Orr, according to police,
has confessed that he fired both
barrels of his shotgun, killing John
Heape, 78 years old, seriously
wounded the victim’s son, John, and
his daughter. Elizabeth, 8 years old,
as the result of a quarrel.
LACK OF QUORUM
MAY BLOCK ACTION
ON Hitt BILLS
Despite the deadlock that existed
over the Lankford income tax bill
when the Georgia general assembly
adjourned Friday, supporters of Gov
ernor Walker’s tax reform program
were still optimistic Saturday that
some form of revenue bill will be
passed by the middle of the present
week. They do not -say whether it
will be the Lankford bill or the Ellis
statutory income tax measure, but
admit that the latter has the best
chance, as it does not require, the
support bf -wo-thirds of the entire
membership of both branches of the
assembly.
The chief danger sensed by sup
porters of the tax reform program is
the threat of many members of both
houses to stay at home for the remain
der of the extra session. This threat
was made by' several advocates of the
tax bills, who were disappointed at
the refusal of the senate to agree to a
conference committee recommends,
tion on the Lankford measure Friday
afternoon. One of the members who
declared that he saw no hope for
constructive legislation was Senator
Phillips, of Louisville, a member of
the state tax commission.
It is predicted that the entire
strength of the tax reform group in
both houses will be thrown to the
Ellis bill, if the Lankford measure
is finally defeated. With all sup
porters of the administration voting
for it, the Ellis bill would be certain
of passage in the house, and would
have a good chance in the senate, it
is believed.
Governor Walker stated Saturday 7
that he hoped the members of both
houses would see the importance of
being in their seats throughout the
week, as the fate of the revenue re
form program doubtless will be de
cided within the next few days; of
the session. The governor would not
comment on the present situation,
but declared that he will continue to
bend every effort to have the pro
gram of the extra session carried out.
Ellis Is Optimistic
Representative Robert C. Ellis, of
Tift county, vice chairman of the
state tax commission, is of the firm
opinion that his statutory income
tax bill can be passed, whether the
Lankford constitutional amendment
measure is adopted or defeated. Mr
Ellis points to the fact that 30 mem
bers of the house who voted against
his bill on Thursday night, turned
around and voted to have the meas
ure reconsidered on Thursday morn
ing.
Mr. Ellis’ claim is borne out by
the house records. On the passage
of the bill Thursday night, the vote
was 84 in favor of it and 77 against
it, and the measure was declared
lost, through failure to receive a
majority vote of 104. On the motion
to reconsider made the next day', the
vote was 114 for reconsideration and
47 against it, with exactly the same
number present.
The house amended the Lankford
income tax bill in four particulars.
1. The legislature was given the
“power” to enact an income tax
measure, instead of the “authority"
to do so. The senate agreed to this
amendment.
2. The legislature was given pow
er to impose a tax “upon incomes,”
instead of “upon net incomes,” as
the bill read when it passed the sen
ate.
3. The house struck out a clause
giving a taxpayer the right to charge
off his ad valorem taxes against h : s
income taxes.
4. The house struck out the scale
of exemptions provided in the Lank
ford bill, similar to the exemption
permitted under the federal law. and
merely provided that the legislature
might allow exemptions.
The third conference committee
appointed by the presiding officers
of the two houses agreed to let the
house amendments as to “net” and
the “set-off” stand, leaving them
out of the bill, but to restore the
scale of exemptions, and. to reduce
the ad valorem tax rate from five
mills to two mills, instead of fro n
five mills *o three mills, as the Lank
ford measure originally provided.
The senate refused, by votes of 21
to 21 and 21 to 20, to agree to the
report in so far as it concerned a
surrender to the house on the “net”
and “set-off” amendments. A vote
of 34 would have been necessary to
agree to the report. President Cars
well declared that the reduction of
the ad valorem tax rate had no place
in the report, since it was not a
point in dispute between the two
branches, but he presented it any
how, and this recommendation was
defeated by' the overwhelming vote
of 33 to 8.
Characterizing the third confer
ence committee’s report as one of
the best compromises that can be
devised to break the deadlock on the
Lankford measure. Senator Adams,
of the Forty-seventh district, de
clared Saturday that he will move a
reconsideration of the senate’s ac
tion in disagreeing to it, when the
senate convenes Monday.
It the report had been debated
longer Friday, it would have been
accepted by the senate, according to
Senator Adams, who added he did
not believe the members had an op
portunity to give thorough consid
eration to the matter.
“I am of the opinion that this
report makes the measure a better
bill than it was w'hen it left the sen
ate and came back from the house,”
Senator Adams said. “If we should
adopt the measure, as recommended
by the committee, we would have a
real income tax.”
Vote Seen as Significant
The senate vote on the reduction
of the ad valorem tax rate was re
garded as especially significant,
since the complete elimination of the
ad valorem tax is the ultimate de
sire of a majority of the members
of the house. Largely because of
the additional reduction of the ad
valorem tax rate, administration
leaders have hopes of securing a
two-thirds majority in the house for
th’e conference committee report
when it is brought up Tuesday, al
though it is known that several rep.
resentatives who voted for the Lank
ford bill originally will not do so
again.
The vote for the Lankford bill,
when it passed the house in its
amended form, was 141 to 51. The
vote required for its passage was
138, so it could lose only four votes
on the same division of the house.
However, supporters of the meas
ure expect to recoup their losses and
to bring in enough absentees again
to get the measure through. There
were 14 absent on the original roll
call.
Opponents of the Lankford bill
are encouraged over the present sit
uation, and express confidence that
no income tax measure is going to
get through .the present legislature.
They point to the fact that there
were many absentees all during the
past week, in both houses, and pre
dict that there will be even mor©
this week. President Carswell, of
the senate, and Speaker Neill, of
the house, have ruled that constitu
tional majorities are required in
both houses to pass thp Lankford
bill, if It Is changed in any manuw-
MERCURY VAPOR INVENTION
DOUBLES ENGINE’S POWER
i Boiler Perfected by General
! Electric Company to Add
50 Per Cent to Turbine En
gine, Is Claim
SCHENECTADY, Dec. 7.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Power from mer
cury vapor, making possible a double
vapor power plant in which turbines
for generating electricity are driven
both by mercury vapor and water
vapor from the same fuel source, re
sulting in a gain of about 50 per cent
in power per pound of fuel, is the
outstanding achievement, of a new
boiler perfected by the General Elec
tric company 7 . '
The last great step in improving
the efficiency of manufacturing!
power was the replacement of the
reciprocating engine by the steam
turbine. The invention of th© mer*
cury vapor boiler is regarded as a
greater step in the progress of
science.
The modern steam turbine is about i
40 per cent more efficient than the
best reciprocating engines, but ac
cording to W. L. R. Emmet, con
sulting engineer for the General
Electric company, and inyentoi’ of
the new process, the mercury boiler
is more than 50 per cent more ef
ficient. than the best steam turbine.
The mercury boiler is still considered
an experiment, but like all great
Held as Wife’s Slayer,
Colquitt Man Insists
Shot Was Accidental
MOULTRIE, Ga., Dec. B.—Al
though he stoutly insists that toe
shooting was accidental, Fred Young
blood has been arrested on a charge
of murder in connection with the
death of his wife, and is being held
in the Worth county jail without
bail.
Mrs. Youngblood had been an in
valid for several years. She was
seated in a chair in her bedroom in
the Youngblood home, near Vicker’s
Still, when a load of shot from the
gun her husband held in his hand
struck her in the side. Youngblood
insists he was cleaning the shotgun
at the time.
The warrant for his arrest was
sworn out by Dan Simpson, a rela
tive of the victim.
The senate has passed It In its origi
nal form, and th© house with four
amendments, so it must be voted on
again in at least one branch be
fore becoming a law. >
Threat to Override
It has been reported that efforts
will be made in both branches to
override the rulings of the presiding
officers that a two-thirds vote is re
quired to agree to a report of a
conference committee. President
Carswell has said that he does not
believe any senator will make such
a movement, and Speaker Neill has
been quoted as declaring that he
will not sign the bill, if it is adopted
through such tactics.
If Speaker Neill should refuse to
sign the bill, it would be necessary
for him to explain his reasons, and
he has said that he would attach
to the measure a certificate to the
effect that he did not consider its
passage legal, under the rules of the
house.
The report was current Saturday
that some of the tax reform leaders
are to start a movement to have the
house recede from its amendments
and pass the Lankford measure as
it came over from the senate. In
that case the senate would not have
a chance to vote on the bill again.
If it is Seen that this movement
will fail, it was said that the reform
forces would make a last desperate
effort to pass the Ellis statutory tax
bill, whicli lacked 20 votes of re
ceiving a majority when voted on
Thursday' night. Representative
Ellis, author of the bill, admits that
he made a mistake in advocating
too many amendments to the meas
ure, and he believes that he can se
cure the required majority for the
measure in a changed form.
A new complication was added to
the legislative program when the
senate Friday amended the Ennis
r.venue department bill in so many
respects that it was hardly recog
nizable when it got back to the
house. The principal amendments
placed the department under the
control of H. J. Fullbright, state tax
commissioner. Representative En
nis, of Baldwin county, author of
the measure, asked the hous© to
disagree to this amendment, and the
house did so. Mr. Ennis does not
believe that the senate will insist
upon its action.
Conference Committee
If the senate does insist upon its
amendments to the Ennis bill, a con
ference committee will be appoint
ed Monday.
The house bill to repeal the tax
equalization law is scheduled to
come up in the senate Tuesday, as a
special order. The senate committee,
to which the bill was referred, voted
ten to five to report it with the
recommendation that it do not pass,
but the five supporters of the bill
have filed a minority report recom
mending that it do pass, which will
bring the issue to the floor of the
senate.
The house had the school book
issue under consideration when it
adjourned Friday. The resolution
of Senator Beauchamp, providing
for a textbook commission, was
under discussion, with a committee
substitute that had the indorsement
of Dr. N. H. Ballard, state super
intendent of schools. This substi
tute makes the state board of edu
cation the textbook commission,
and authorizes them to enter into
a contract for textbooks for a
period of one or more years.
The substitute meets the agitation
for free school books by providing
that county, municipal or district
school boards shall be required to
keep a supply of textbooks on
hands, to either be furnished the
pupils free, rented to them at not
more than half the original cost, or
sold to them at a cost not to ex
ceed th? wholesale list orice.
NEW LAMP BURNS
94% AIR
Beats Electric or Gas
A new oil lamp that gives an amazing
ly brilliant, soft, white light, even better
than gas or electrictiy, lias been tested by
the U. S. Government and 35 leading uni
versities and found to be superior to 10
ordinary oil lamps. It burns without odor,
smoke or noise—no pumping up, is simple,
clean, safe. Burns 94% air and 6% com
mon kerosene (coal oil.)
The inventor, A. N. Johnson, 642 N.
Broad St., Philadelphia, is offering to
send a lamp on 10 days’ FREE trial, or
even to give one FREE to the first user
in each locality who will help him intro
duce it. Write him today for full particu
lars. Also ask him to explain how you
can get. the agency, and without experi
ence nr money make $250 to ?500 per
mont'a.— t Advertisement.)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1923.
steps iff advance, time will be re
quired to develop and perfect a sys
tem before this process can be ex
pected to reflect on the operating
costs of public utilities.
Mr. Emmet estimates that if the
mercury boiler comes up to all ex
pectations, it Will produc© with 35
pounds gauge pressure, when com
pared with a steam turbine generat
ing plant which uses 200 pounds
steam pressure, about 52 per cent
more output in electricity per pound
of fuel. “And if,” Mr. Emmet adds,
“in such a plant the boiler room is
re-equipped with furnaces and mer
cury apparatus arranged to burn 18
per cent more fuel, the station ca
pacity with the same steam turbines,
condensers, auxiliaries, water circu
lation, etc., would be increased about
80 per cent.”
The mercury vapor process in
volves the vaporization of mercury
in a boiler, driving of a turbine by
the mercur" vapor and the condensa
tion of the exhaust in a condenser
where its latent heat is delivered to
water, and thus used to generate
steam at pressure suitable for use
in existing steam plants.
“Naturally,” Mr. Emmet explain
ed, “the question which will arise in
connection with* * his mercury proc
ess is the danger from mercurial
poisoning, either to the •’omraunity
or to the attendants. In the first
place, all joints are -welded, so that
it is impossible for mercury to es
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arrangements are such that leakage,
if it should occur, will go into the
stack where it can do no harm.”
Death Ends Appeal
Plans of Daughter
Os Janies Satterfield
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec. B.
Death today interrupted the plans
of Miss Elizabeth Satterfield to see
her father before he pays with his
life for the murder of his brother
in-law at Atlanta.
Miss Satterfield, returning home
from Los Angeles, Cal., died to
day from the effects of poison taken
a few weeks ago in Los Angeles.
At the time she took poison, she
declared she wanted to die before
her father was executed, but phy
sicians frustrated her hope.
She then undertook the journey
homeward in an effort to make a
personal appeal to the governor to
save the life of her father.
She was stricken here, however,
as a result of the poison, and had
been confined in a hospital for near
ly a week.
SATTERFIELD MOURNS
IN CELL FOR DAUGHTER
Alone in his cell, James B. Sat
terfield, under death sentence for
the murder of R. H. Hart, his
brother-in-law, was grieving Satur
day over the eftath of his youngest
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Satter
field, who died Saturday morning
in a sanitarium in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
For several days Miss Satter
field’s condition has been critical,
and her father has paced his cell
worrying about her. He has never
seemed to worry about his own pre
dicament, but for the past few days
he has talked only of his youngest
daughter.
Immediately after receiving the
message that Miss Satterfield was
dead, the condemned man entered
his cell and lay down on his bunk,
where he has remained ever since,
according to jail officials. He has
denied himself to all callers and re-1
fused to see his attorney, Murphy
M. Holloway, who called to offer
his sym pa th y.
Shoots and Kills Wife,
Wounds Sister-m-Law,
Then Commits Suicide
FORT MYERS. Fla., Dec. B.—Wai-’
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street, Sheboygan, Wis.. shot and
killed his wife, Lydia, 24, seriously
wounded his sister-in-law, Miss Lila
Bauman, 20. also of Sheboygan, and
then committed suicide near the
downtown section of Fort Myers late
today. Jealousy prompted Johne’s
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Rockwell, of Ravenna, Ohio, who is
national chairman of a committee
furthering the movement to obtain
the Democratic presidential nomina
tion for William G. McAdoo, in a
statement today declared that Presi
dent Coolidge, Republican president
ial preference nominee of the recent
South Dakota primary, was named
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ter, the secretary of state of South
Dakota, is by law forbidden to allow
his name to go on a South Dakota
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ASSERTION OF ROCKWELL
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PIERRE, S. D., Dec. B.—President
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. B.
Investigated, indicted and sentenced
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of twenty-eight minutes is the court
record of H. F. Wells, alleged dope
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Os Telephone Magnate;
Alabamian Is Held
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