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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Presi
dent Coolidge not only has defnitely
entered the race for the Republican
presidential nomination next year,
♦ but some of his friends are prepar
> ing to put his name on the primary
ballot in California, the home state
of Senator Hiram Johnson.
Entrance of the president into the
California primary was indicated as
probable today after a call at the
' White House by William H. Crock
er, Republican national committee
. man from California and for years
a member of the anti Johnson Re
publican faction of that state.
Mr. Crocker declined to confirm or
deny that he had urged Mr. Coolidge
to give battle to Senator Johnson in
his home state, but he declared that
he wishes his “chances of heaven
were as good as the chances of Presi
dent Coolidge to carry California
against Hiram Johnson.”
Reveals California Plans
Mr. Crocker laid before the presi-
♦ dent the plans of the leaders of the
anti-Johnson faction to organize the
state for the Coolidge campaign; de
clared that a number of prominent
leaders who had supported Senator
Johnson in previous campaigns were
behind the movement for Mr.
Coolidge; and described the forma
tion of a number of California cities
of “loyal Republican Coolidge-for
president clubs.”
Announcement of Mr. Coolidge’s
candidacy was made last night
while party leaders were gathering
in the capital for the annual meet
ing of the Republican national com
mittee and three days after he had
outlined his policies in the first mes
sage to congress. Assurances of sup
t port immediately began to pour in
upon William M. Butler, Republican
national committeeman for Massa
chusetts, who was named his "per
sonal representative” in the cam
paign.
The announcement was made by
Frank W. Stearns, of Boston, known
( as the president’s closest personal
\ political friend, through a statement
issued by James B. Reynolds, for
mer secretary of the Republican
national committee, who directed
Mr. Coolidge’s campaign in 1920.
■Whether Mr. Butler will act as
national campaign manager was not
indicated. It was made known, how
ever, that he will establish temporary
headquarters in Washington, where
♦ he will be in a position to confer
frequently with C. Bascom Slemp,
the president’s secretary; Mr. Rey
nolds, Mr. Stearns and other party
leaders and advisers while perfecting
an organization.
Slemp Southern Manager
First consideration, it is thought,
will be given to the selection of
regional managers, and Mr. Slemp,
who is the national committeeman
for Virginia, is expected ,to have
charge of the campaign in the south.
■* The president, it is understood,
hopes to remain as much as possible
in the background during the cam
paign, his friends explaining that he
desires to conserve his time and
energy for the duties of his office.
No personal declaration to supple
ment the announcement by Mr.
Stearns is anticipated for the pres
t <nt, at least.
Mr. Collidge's announcement was
not unexpected in view of his mes
sage to congress, the imminence of
the national committee meeting with
the selection of Cleveland as the
1924 convention city virtually as
sured, and the unanimous indorse
ment recently given him by the
South Dakota Republican proposal
convention. It is expected to have
an immediate effect on the plans of
Senator Watson, of Indiana; Govern
a or Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, and
other prominent Republicans report
ed to be considering entrance into
the race for the nomination.
Cleveland to Get Convention
The Republican national commit
tee, which will fix the date of the
v 1924 convention as well as select the
meeting place, is not scheduled to
name the city until Wednesday. In
» view of the withdrawal of its invita
tion by Chicago, however, action
may be taken tomorrow after Des
Moines, San Francisco and Los An
geles have been given an oppor
tunity to present their claims. Al
most all of the party chiefs here re
gard acceptance of Cleveland’s in
vitation as certain, Fred W. Upham,
treasurer of the committee, having
asserted in announcing withdrawal
of Chicago from the contest, that
“responsible administration lead
ers” favored the Ohio city.
The committee members will be
the guests of President Coolidge at
luncheon Wednesday, and they wlh
be given a banquet tomorrow night
by Chairman Adams.
Among the questions that may
? come before the committee tomor
row is that of giving the women as
sociate members full representation
and voting powers. The committee
also will hear protests, chiefly from
the south, against some of the reduc
tions in state delegations proposed
in the tentative reapportionment for
4 the 1924 convention, but leaders say
5 no substantial changes will be made.
The proposed total is 1.036 delegates
as compared with 984 in 1920, more
increases having been made than re
ductions.
To Acknowledge Indorsement
It was indicated today that Presi
dent Coolidge still plans to send a
message to South Dakota Republic
ans acknowledging the indorsement
given him last week by the state pro
posal convention. The message prob
ably will go to Sam Elrod, former
governor of the state, who placed
the president’s name before ‘he con
vention, and will be the first state
ment direct from the president on
the political situation.
Senate Resolution
Asks for Acceptance
Os Ford Shoals Bid
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. —Senate
Investigation as to whether the sec
retary of war had a legal right to
sell the Gorgas steam plant at
muscle Shoals, Ala., to the Alabama
Power company is proposed in a
resolution offered today by Senator
Kellar, Democrat, Tennessee.
Another resolution by Senator Me-
Kellar asks that the offer of Henry
Ford for the lease and final pur
chase of Muscle Shoals would be ac
cepted.
Example of Coolidge
Is Cited in Urging
Church Attendance
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11.—Dr.
♦ James Clement Reed, pastor of the
Howard Presbyterian church, in urg
ing a greater church attendance,
• yesterday posted the following no
tice on his bulletin board:
"President Coolidge did not wait
lor a hearse to haul him to church.”
THE ATLANTA TfU-WEEKLY JOURNAL
An Aviation Enthusiast
jM ’■RHr- 1
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DAYTON, 0., Dec. B.—lntroducing the first woman member of
the National Aeronautical association. .
Her name is Phyllis Kumler. And it appears on the Dayton
chapter’s rolls.
Miss Kumler admits she’s a “regular bug” on aviation.
Indications are the membership bars will be thrown down to
other fair flying devotees.
GEORGIA SENATORS
GIVEN IMPORTANT
COMMITTEE MES
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 —Commit-
tee assignments of members of the
senate made public Monday after
noon show that both Georgia sena
tors have been given important as
signments, retaining the excellent
committee places held during the
past congress, and getting additional
places.
Senator Harris keeps his place on
the appropriations, immigration and
territories, and insular possessions
committees. In addition, he gets a
fourth assignment to the worth-while
committee on manufactures, now en
gaged in an investigation of the oil
industry.
Senator George is transferred from
the committee on immigration to the
committee on military affairs, which
handles all legislation relating to the
army. In addition, Senator George
retains his place on the civil serv
ice and postoffice, and postroads com
mittees. He receives a fourth and
new assignment to the committee
on privileges and elections: This
latter committee handles all contest
ed election cases, such as the famous
Newberry case of the past congress.
The two Georgia senators were
pleased with their assignments for
the 68th congress, being on active
and influential committees.
Virginian Kills Wife,
Shoots Sister-in-Law
And Also Husband
DANVILLE, Va., Dec. 10—Mrs.
W. Austin Carter is dead, J. H.
Price probably fatally shot, Mrs.
Sudie Price slightly wounded and
W. Austin Carter, a Danville insur
ance man, is lodged in jail here as
the result of a shooting affair at
Reidsville, N. C., last night. Carter
was arrested at daybreak today by
a posse which had surrounded his
borne at Stokesland, Va.
When seen by newspapermen this
morning’, Carter declared he had
shot to kill Pric© when the latter
attacked him with a chair, but that
he had not meant to shoot his wife.
According to reports from Reids
ville, the shooting followed trouble
Saturday afternoon when Carter, it
is alleged, went to the home of L.
L. Moore, his wife’s father, and held
members of the family in terror at
the point of a pistol, abusing and
cursing’ them. Police, were sum
moned and Carter was placed under
arrest, bond being arranged by Al
Stacy, Reidsville business man.
Carter, according to police who
made the arrest during the after
noon, declared that Price, who mar
ried a sister of Carter’s wife, had
broken up Carter’s home. Members
of th© Moore family denied that this
statement had been made. Carter
was crazed with drink, members of
the Moore family stated.
Hazlehurst Chief
Shot Dead by Man
He Tried to Arrest
HAZLEHURST, Ga., Dec. 10.—T.
J. Kersey, 45, chief of police of
Hazlehurst, was shot and killed here
late Sunday by Warren Waters, 50,
who immediately escaped in an au
tomobile. Kersey’s head was blown
off. Posses today continued the
search for Waters.
According to officers here. Waters
had been convicted some time ago
for violation of the prohibition law
and was released on parole. Late
Sunday afternoon Chief of Police
Kersey was notified that he was in
town under the influence of liquor,
and when the officer went to place
him under arrest the shooting oc
curred. According to the story told
by the authorities Waters continued
to shoot after Kersey was dead, the
head being severed from the body.
New Anti-Klan Body
Formed in Oklahoma
Headed by Walton
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Dec. 10.
Organization of the National Society
of American Freeman, anti-Ku Klux
Klan body, was announced here to
day by J. C. Walton, deposed gover
nor of Oklahoma.
Walton is national chairman and
will have charge of the formation of
chapters outside of Oklahom. .
TENNESSEE WOMAN
SHOOTS HUSBAND:
KILL BIS SISTEB
ROCKWOOD. Tenn*, Dec. 10.—A
few minutes after she signed a state
ment that her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Sallie Edmonds, shot her absolutely
without provocation, Mrs. Nora Col
lins died here at 1 o’clock Sunday
afternoon. Death was due to wounds
received at the home of Mrs. Ed
monds, in Oliver Springs, last Thurs
day. Oliver Edmonds, brother of
Mr.s Collins, ami husband of her al
leged slayer, who was shot at the
same time as his sister, is not ex
pected to live through the day. Mrs.
Edmonds waived preliminary exami
nation Sunday, and was bound over
to the grand jury, which met today
at Kingston. One death, probably
two, will be charged to the young
wife.
Mrs. Collins, in her deathbed state
ment, said that she did not lift a
hand against her sister-in-iaw, that
she took no part in the struggle be
tween Edmonds and his wife, and
that the wife, after shooting the hus
band, turned the pistol on her. Mrs.
Collins is survived by her husband
and two little children, the youngest
only five months old.
Edmonds and his wife, shortly aft
er their marriage seven months ago,
came from the home place, three
miles front Oliver Springs, to town
to reside. They had been separated
for a few days, and Edmonds had
returned to his home in the country
previous to the shooting, which re
sulted when Edmonds returned to
what had been his home and forced
entrance, in order, he said, to get
his clothing and some other effects.
Robber Shot in Bank
In Alabama Town;
Two Pals Escape
FLORENCE, Ala., Dec. 10. —A man
who gave his name as Wyman Par
ker was in the Lauderdale county
jail suffering from a gunshot wound
this morning and the country in the
vicinity of Waterloo, Ala., is being
searched by a posse headed by Sher
iff C. C. Morrison with bloodhounds
for two other men, who entered the
Farmers’ and Merchants, bank, of
Waterloo, about midnight last night,
robbing the cash drawer of less than
S3OO. They made their escape after
abandoning their efforts to break
into the vault, where thousands of
dollars in cash was stored.
Ed Lard, who lives near the bank,
discovered the presence of the rob
bers and after awakening J. L. Coop
er, cashier of the institution, they
arrived on the scene just as two of
the men clambered into a car in front
of the building and made their es
cape. The other man, who was still
in the building, was shot down by
Cooper. Chase was given the rob
bers’ car, which was abandoned about
two miles from Waterloo. Several
shots were fired at them and blood
in the front of the car indicates at
least one of them was injured.
The bank has offered a reward of
SIOO each for the two men, dead or
alive.
Man Kills Daughter
And Wife and Wounds
Himself With Pistol
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 10.—Peyton
Pierce, shot and killed his wife, Cora,
and his 13-year-old daughter, Ruth,
and probably fatally shot himself
at their home here today, according
to police.
Officers said Pierce brought the
girl home from school at 9 o'clock,
led her to the mother’s bedroom
where he locked the doors and fired
the fatal shots. He is not expected
to live.
Floridian Drowns
On Fishing Trip
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 10.—Mr. Har
ry Thomas, 28, salesman, well known
throughout Florida, was drowned
Sunday in Lake Worrell, near New
Port Richey, where with two com
panions he had gone on a week-end
fishing and hunting trip. The boat
in which he and one of his friends
were fishing capsized -when Thomas
tried to take a fish off a hook. His
companion swam ashore to divest
himself of his clothing and return
for Thomas, but when he started
back, both Thomas and the boat had
disappeared. The body was recov
ered.
'COOLIDGE SUBMITS
2.101 NOMINATIONS
FOR SENATE ACTION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—More
than 2.000 nominations, including
that of Frank B. Kellogg, of Minne
sota, to be ambassador to Great
Britain, were sent to the senate to
day by President Coolidge.
Among those nominated were
Richard M. Tobin, of California, to
be minister to the Netherlands;
Frank McManamy, of Washington,
D. C., and Mark W. Potter, of New
York, to be members of the Inter
state commerce commission, and
George R. James, of Tennessee, and
Edward R. Cunningham, of lowa, to
be members of the Federal Reserve
board.
Edward P. Farly, of Illinois;
Frederick I. Thompson, of Alabama,
and Bert E. Haney, of Oregon, were
nominated to be members of the
shipping board.
John H. Cunningham, of Westmin
ster, Md., was nominated to be sur
veyor of customs of the Baltimore
district.
Several of the nominees already
are holding office under recess ap
pointments. Similar appointments in
the treasury department, were cov
ered by the nominations of Garrard
B. Winston, of Chicago, to be under
secretary of the treasury. Henry
M. Dawes, of Chicago, to be comp
troller of the currency; Robert J.
Grant, of Denver, to be director of
the mint, and Frank E. Shepard, of
Denver, to be superintendent of the
Denver mint.
Four appointments to membership
on the federal farm loan board,
made during the recess, were sub
mitteed, the appointees being Louis
J. Pettyjohn, Dodge City, Kansas;
Elmer S. Landes, Wooster, Ohio;
Morton L. Corey, Omaha, and Ed
ward E. Jones, Harford, Pennsyl
vania.
Registers of land offices included:
George C. Crom, Gainesville, Florida.
Edwin P. Morrow, who retires to
morrow as governor of Kentucky,
was nominated to be a member of
the public group of the railroad la
bor board. Horace Baker, of Ohio,
was reappointed as a member of the
management group, and E. F.
Grable, of Michigan, now holding a
recess appointment, was named a
member of the labor group of the
board.
Collectors of customs nominated
included: Russell H. Dunn, Port Ar
thur, Texas.
J. Walter Drake, of Michigan, was
nominated assistant secretary of
commerce, and George K. Burtess.
of California, to be director of the
bureau of standards. Henry H. Cur
ran, of New York, now serving un
der recess appointment, was named
commissioner of imigration at Naw
fork.
Postmasters nominated today in
cluded:
Alabama —Henry A. Cathey. Flor
ence; Stephen H. Murphy. Hunts
ville: Roy A. Lifsey, Montgomery.
Edwin P. Morrow, who retires to
morrow as governor of Kentucky,
was nominated to be a member of
the public group of the railroad la
bor board. Horace Baker, of Ohio,
was reappointed as a member of the
management group, and E. F.
Grable-, of Michigan, now holding a
recess appointment, was named a
member of the large group of the
boa» d.
J Walter Drake, of Michigan, was
nominated assistant secretary of
commerce and George K. Burtess, of
California to be director of the bu
reau of standards. Henry H. Cur
ran, of New York, now serving un
der recess appointment was named
commissioner of immigration at
New York.
Postmasters nominated today In
cluded: Arkansas, Robert M. Dea
son, Eldorado.
Florida, Joseph P. Hull. Sanford;
Harrison W. Lowe. Daytona.
Persimmon Purveyor
. To the White House
Tells World About It
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Traffic
in front of the White House was
stopped today by an aged white
baired negro who waved down auto
mobiles with a cane.
“I’m the only negro who ever took
persimmons to the White House,” he
shouted after he had brought a long
line of cars to a standstill. “You
ask those boys who used to ride the
ponies” (referring to the Roosevelt
youngsters.)
The old negro, a Virginian, who
has supplied the favorite negro fruit
for the White House for years, had
just delivered a consignment for
President Coolidge, and had decided
to take the matter of publicity into
his own hands.
City Manager Shot
Acting as Posseman
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., Dec. 10.
John Bray, city manager of Eliza
beth City, was accidentally shot last
night while engaged with a posse in
searching for Leroy White, negro,
wanted on charges of committing
fiv© highway robberies in the last
four days and shooting one man.
Manager Bray received a. charge of
buckshot in his shoulder when he
attempted to take a shotgun out of
an automobile
J. T. Thompson, a hosiery mill op
erative, was held up by a negro last
night, th© fifth such incident since
Friday night. Th© highwayman,
whose description fits the negro
wanted for the other crimes, obtain
ed twenty-one dollars.
O. C. Bray, insurance man, who
was shot by the highwayman when
he failed to obey the command t<?
hold up his hands, is in a critical con
dition at a local hospital.
Judge A. P. Ag ee
Resigns in Alabama
ANNISTON. Ala., Dec. 10.—A. P.
Agee, judge of the seventh judicial
circuit of Alabama, has tendered.his
resignation to Governor Brandon, it
was learned here today. Judge Agee
urged that he be relieved immediate
ly. 11l health made his retirement,
necessary, the judge declared.
It was believed here that the gov
ernor would appoint Judge Hugh D.
Merrill, speaker of the Alabama
house of representatives, if the lat
ter could be persuaded to accept.
Walter B. Merrill, of Talladega,
brother of the speaker, Judge R. B.
Carr and Judge S. W. Tate, both of
Anniston, were mentioned as pos
sible successors.
Belgrade Fights Rats
RELGRA.DE. The government
I has offered a bounty on rats. This
j city is overrun by the pests,
AMERICA’S FINANCIAL BUDGET
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 1925
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Here are the budget bureau’s esti
mates on government receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year
1925, as compared with the present fiscal year of 1924:
RECEIPTS 1925 1924
Internal Revenue $2,727,585,000 $2,783,585,000
Customs 493,000,000 570,000,000
Miscellaneous 473,177,078 541,092,712
Totals $3,693,762,078 $3,894,677,712
EXPENDITURES
Legislative establishments 13,595,448 $ 13,961,066
Executive office 415,667 416,849
War Department, including Pana-
ma canal 314,190,650 314,184,390
Navy Department 311,020,050 341,873,550
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce 23,710,000 21,692,000
Interior Department 310,507,699 321,283,333
Department of Justice 21,451,960 19.322,200
Department of Labor 6,107,076 7,747,744
State Department 14,988,446 16,054,963
Treasury Department 288,811,090 262,012,366
District of Columbia 26,896,798 26,105,308
Postoffice Department (deficit).. 2,085,184 24,679,673
Veterans’ Bureau 403,369,450 451,053,424
Emergency Fleet Corporation ... 25,852,817 54,635,167
Other independent offices 18,825,238 48,204,325
Total ordinary expenditures . $1,876,611,773 $2,071,914,093
PUBLIC DEBT
Reduction of principal $ 482,277,975 $ 511,968,125
Investment of trust funds 49,190,696 41,155,870
Interest on public debt 890,000,000 940,000,000
Grand total expenditures ...$3,298,080,444 $3,565,038,088
Excess of ordinary receipts over
expenditures $ 395,681,634 $ 329.639,624
Balance at beginning of year ... 270,939,145 370,939,121
Total balance 666,620,779 700,578,745
Deduct amount, available for re-
demption of public debt 395,681,600 429,639,600
Balance in Treasury at end of
fiscal year $ 270,939,179 $ 270,939,145
SIGNS OF CLEARING
REPARATIONS SNARL
READ IN REPORTS
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Al
though cha British political situation
at the moment is holding in check
the progress of the reparations com
mission as well as all other diplo
matic activity, there is reason to be
lieve that something tangible in the
way of an understanding on the rep
aration problem may be expected
Soon.
For several days there have been
informal exchanges of views between
Colonel James Logan, the unofficial
American representative on the rep
arations commission, and the de
partment of state, relative to the pro
posal of the commission that an in
quiry by experts be set in motion to
discover Germany’s true capacity to
pay.
Parallel with this there have been
conversations between leading finan
ciers and business men of the prin
cipal allied countries as well as with
German industrialists in the hope
of finding a commond ground on
which to base a settlement of the
all-important reparations question.
Hughes Suggestion Lives
Tne present parleys are theoreti
cally at the initiative of the repara
tions commission but actually they
are a prolongation of the negotia
tions over the proposal made by Sec
retary of State, Hughes in his New
Haven speech which was made the
basis of an invitation by the British
government for an international in
quiry. 1 remier Poincare saw fit to
impose limitations on the powers of
the commission which were based
upon a conviction that a parley
which meant an immediate scaling
down of German debts would be fu
til:. Since that time the French
premier was prevailed upon not to
let American co operation fall by the
wayside and the new proposition,
which differs in some respects from
Mr. Hughes’ proposal is in process
of being constantly modified in or
der to meet the views of the Ameri
can government.
It has been made clear that even
if the proposal is satisfactory to the
United States government, th© rep
resentatives chosen will not be offi
cial agents of th© American gov
ernment but American citizens act
ing in a private capacity. This
means men in whom the American
investor public would have confi
dence, financiers as well as business
men.
Solution Not Impossible
It has long been realized, however,
that the formation of a commission
of inquiry is merely the creation of
machinery whereby a. final settle
ment could be accomplished and
until some idea of the final terms
was known to the principal govern
ments the inquiry itself would have
little chance of success. There
tever was a time when official opin
ion here, for instance, belibvec the
reparations problem unsolvable. In
deed, the belief has been held by the
highest officials that if th© indus
trialists of the allied countries could
sit down with a group of bankers
and business men, they might at
any time reach an agreement for a
German moratorium and the exten
sion to Germany of an international
Loan. The obstacle to the loan has
been French insistence on the right
to exact penalties in case of a de
fault in reparation payments. As
an offset to this, the idea of a guar
antee by international bankers who
would underwrite the German loan
has been advanced, together with
suggestions for a treaty of mutual
guarantee against aggression.
When the British political situa
tion has cleared, some announce
ment of progress in the direction of
a settlement may be expected.
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GEORGUPBOHIBITIDN
MEN LEAD NATION
IN STILL CAPTURES
Georgia led the entire nation in
the number of stills and distilleries
seized and destroyed during the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1923, ac
cording to the official report of In
ternal Revenue Commissioner David
H. Flair for the period, a copy of
which has been received by Fred
D. Dismuke, director of federal pro
hibition forces in the state.
. Stills and distilleries numebring 2,-
946 were seized in Georgia during
the twelve month period, represent
ing approximately 14 per cent of all
stills and distilleries seized in all
states. Virginia was Georgia’s
closest rival with 2,032 seizures.
Georgia was first in the seizure
and destruction of malt liquor or
be-r, with 2,338,078 gallons, and-also
was first in the number of still
worms seized with 734.
The state was third in the amount
of whisky destroyed with 24,312 gal
lons; tvas second in the number of
liquor cars peized with 198, and was
fourth in the number of arrests and
prosecutions with 3,438.
The value of all property seized
and destroyed in the state during
the year by the federal agents was
$633,368. To this was added $104,-
070, the appraised value of the 198
liquor automobiles and $1,099, the
appraised value of other undestroyed
material.
“While on the face of figures,
Georgia seems to be the worst liquor
hole in the United States, 1 do not
think it is,” Director Dismuke said.
“I just believe the prohibition force
in Georgia, despite the smallness of
its personnel, has been more active
and more efficient than any other
state force.”
“I believe Georgia is as clean from
a whisky standpoint as any other
state, and that it is much cleaner
than many states. This is particu
larly true since the smuggling sit
uation at Savannah has been cleaned
up.”
According to the report, California
led the union in the number of au
tomobiles seized with a total of 333.
California was also first in the num
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SENATOR GEORGE
MAKES MOVE FOB
. CHEAPER FERTILIZER
BY THEODORE TILLER
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. —Accept-
ing a s sincere President Coolidge's
utterances for legislation to relieve
the farmer. Senator Walter F.
George introduced on Monday a sen
ate bill to put sulphate of ammonia
on the free list and to remove the
present duty of $5 per ton. The
free listing of sulphante of ammonia,
largely used in the manufacture of
fertilizer, according to the junior
Georgia senator, will be of ines
timable benefit to agriculture.
“In his message to congress,” said
Senator George Monday, "President
Coolidge says that cheaper fertilizers
must be provided. Also, the agri
culture of the nation needs a greater
supply and lower cost of fertilizer.
Again: The great advance of low
priced nitrates must be secured for
the direct benefit of the farmers and
the indirect benefit of the public. So
I have prepared an amendment to
the tariff act taking the $5 per ton
duty off of sulphate of ammonia.
“Sulphate of ammonia Is a coke
oven by-product and probably the
most important ammoniate used in
fertilizer. It is not conceivable that
congress, in view of the strong state
ment of President Coolidge, will con
tinue this duty of $5 per ton at the
direct expense of the farmers, when
all other fertilizer materials are duty
free.
“Current market reports show that
foreign sulphate of ammonia is com
ing in despite the $5 per ton handi
cap, which of course,out farmers pay.
Yet this country is producing above
our present needs an enormous ex
portable surplus, and it is being sold
abroad in c ompetition with the sam 9
foreign producers who find our do
mestic market attractive over the
bar of the $5 duty.
“The help to our farmers would
only start with relief of this duty.
Any lower price of sulphate of am
monia in consequence would instant
ly reflect in the chief competitive
material, nitrate of soda, which is
duty free. All other ammoniates, in
fact, would respond.
“If the president’s message is giv
en effect by his party, and no one
would question the accuracy or the
sincerity of the president’s timely
demands, immediate reduction in the
cost and price of fertilizers is as-
Isured.
I “Some time must unavoidably
| elapse iTefore. relief can be na'd
i through the development and opera
-1 tion of Muscle Shoals, even if this
property be sold to Henry Ford.”
Fire Damage $250,000
PARAGOULD, Ark., Dec. 10.—Fire
which destroyed the Hurt Wholesale
Grocery company and threatened
nther buildings in the business dis
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Twenty-Eighth Child
Is Born to Gentles.
Oldest Is Over 40
Another Atlanta milestone has
been laid, with lhe arrival Friday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee C.
Gentle, 139 Curran street, of the
twenty-eighth child, a fourteen
ppund boy.
Already well known as a horse
and mule dealer, Mr. Gentle has be
come increasingly famous here and
throughout Georgia by the regular
additions to his family of young
sters, which have occurred on an
average of once every sixteen
months over a period of forty-one
years and have given him undis
puted claim to the title of Georgia’s
champion parent.
The latest child has been named
Thomas Raleigh. He is the eight
eenth to be born to the present Mrs.
Gentle, the other ten children hav
ing been by Mr. Gentle’s first wife,
who died in 1894. Mrs. Gentle and
the baby were doing well Monday.
While Mr. Gentle is obviously op
posed to race suicide, he says he did
not start out to raise a record fami
ly, and has not set a definite goal
to reach.
“They just kept coming along,"
he explained. ,
Mr. Gentle's oldest child, Maner
Colbert Gentle, is 41. Next to the
child born Friday. Yhe youngest is
Isaac Newton, aged two. Os the
twenty-eight children of which he
was the father, eleven died, but
j none at birth. Mr. Gentle is the
I grandfather of twelve children.
Walton’s Apepal Filed
With Supreme Court
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—The ap
peal of former Governor Walton, of
Oklahoma, from dismissal of his in
junction suit to prevent the Okla
homa house of representatives from
proceeding with his impeachment
case, was filed today in the supreme
court. When the case may be reach
ed is uncertain.
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