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VOL. XXVI. NO. 81
M'ADOO IS ENTERED
INWOLIHCE;
UNDERWOOD TO RUN
Former Secretary of Treas
ury Opens Texas Campaigp i
With Denunciation of Re
publican Party.at Amarillo
RALEIGH, N. C„ April 10.—Wil
liam G. McAdoo, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for president,
,5 today entered the presidential pri
mary to be held in North Carolina
on June 7 by filing notice of his
candidacy with the state board of
elections.
Formal entrance of Mr. McAdoo
in the North Carolina primary
makes it certain that be will
be opposed in this state by Senator
Oscar, W. Underwood, according to
statements from the latter’s cam
paign manager in Raleigh.
Announcement that the former
teasury secretary’s tiling already was
in a the mails, was preceded by a state
mentment here by Waiter Murphy,
in charge of Senator Underwood’s
candidacy in North Carolina, that
the senator immediately would file
for the nomination should his rival
do so.
Underwood “Forced” to Run
Murphy, however, had expressed
the hope that McAdoo v/ould not en
ter the campaign, declaring that Un
derwood would not enter unless he
was “forced” into it and that the
Alabama solon had voiced a
that North Carolinas delegation
might go to the national convention
in New York with instructions to
vote for the nomination of Josephus
Daniels, former secretary of the
navy.
Under the North Carolina laws,
the state convention can instruct its
delegation or send it uninstructed,
provided there are no entrants in
the primary; but in the latter event
the delegation is bound to the candi
date receiving the popular vote.
“In entering Mr. McAdoo’s name '
in the North Carolina primaries,” ;
■aid a statement issued by Judge '
"Walter E. Brock, his campaign man
ager, “it was felt by those support
ing him that the voters in the party
should have the same privilege in
■electing the nominee for president
that they have in selecting the nomi
nee for any other office.”
All Classes for Him
“All classes are for him," stated
Judge Brock. “The farmers know
that during Mr. McAdoo’s term as
■ecretary of the treasury in Presi
dent Wilson’s cabinet the time came
when help was necessary or the
farmers were destroyed, for the rea
.«on that the local banks did not have
sufficient funds to finance the crops.
That help came, and from whom? 1
From this ■samw-ntau, McAdoo. Then
that great body of our citizenship
known as the laboring man knows <
that of all the men in public life, .
for many years McAdoo has been j
one of their best friends. He demands i
for them justice and equity. They <
will be at the polls on June 7 and
support him.
“And, finally, there cannot be .
found anywhere in the world a more ,
liberal and patriotic set of business ,
men than is found in North Carolina,
and they appreciate the fact that
McAdoo is fair and just. They do not
want anything but justice. And they
will be at the polls on June 7 and
support the one man who can lead
the partv to victory in November.
M’ADOO OPENS CAMPAIGN
IN TEXAS AT AMARILLO
AMARILLO, Texas, April 10.—
Promising he would “drive the
“crooks out of Washington and put
them in jail,” William G. McAdoo
opened his Texas campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination
here tonight.
i Mr. McAdoo charged a “bootleg
1 battalion and the reactionary ele
-1 mfent” control one-third of the Dem-
B'x>ratic convention and threaten to
■?cjnd a Republican back to the White
He pleaded that instructed
BVelegates be sent to New York.
The speaker flayed the Republi
can foreign policy, demanded repeal
of existing tariff laws, a reform of
the Esch-Cummins railway act, and
said if he went to the White House
he would call another armament
conference and submit the result to
the people for approval.
‘What’FtheUse?’ Asks
Condemned Murderer,
Refusing Last Meal
OSSINING. N. Y., April 10.—An
thony Viandante, convicted wife
killers who is to be electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison late tonight, today
refused to eat.
“1 don’t want anything.” he said
when attendants asked if he desired
anything special to eat.
“What's the use?”
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FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia: Cloudy; little change in
temperature.
North Carolina: Cloudy. •
South Carolina and Georgia:
< 'loudy.
Florida: Mostly cloudy; probably
showers; cooler in extreme north
portion.
Extreme Northwest Florida: Prob
ably showers.
Albania: Cloudy: probably showers.
Mississippi: Cloudy; probably
showers.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Unset
tled: probably showers.
Louisiana: Unsettled: probably
showw warmer.
Arkansas: Unsettled; probably
showers.
Oklahoma: Unsettled: probably
showers in east portion.
East Texas; Unsettled; probably
showers.
West Texas: Friday partly cloudy:!
warmer except in southwest portion;
nsttlv cloudv; cooler in the Pan Han
dle.
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DUBLIN. —Dail Eireann ratifies
Anglo-American liquor treaty.
BERLIN. —Hugo Stinnes, foremost
German industrialist, dies of pneu
monia.
BERLIN. German newspaper
comment is generally favorable to
the reparations experts' report.
SITKA, Alaska.- —Army aviators on
flight, around world reach here from
Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
BAYPORT. N. Y.—Federal offi
cers seize $40,000 in counterfeit S2O
bills and arrest four 'men and two
women.
LONDON.—The house of commons
unanimously passed the second read
ing of the bill to ratify the treaty
of Lausanne.
Kovno, Lithuania. —A. treaty pro
viding for the extradition of crimi
nals between United States and Li
thuania is signed.
NEW YORK. Marquis Luigi
Curci, first husband of Amelita Galli-
Curci, the opera singer, dies in
Rome, dispatches say.
PARIS. —Indications are that rep
arations commission will defer for
at least a week official action on re
port of experts committee.
Hastings, Neb. —Charles H. Diet
rich,former governor of Nebraska
and former United States senator,
dies from an apoplexy stroke.
LONDON- London newspapers
treat the reparation experts’ report
as providing a new and business
like basis for future arrangement
of the reparation problem.
DUBLIN. Desmond Fitzgerald,
foreign minister of the Free States,
announces in the flail eireann that
he hopes within a month to have an
Irish representative at Washington.
BRUSELS. —Assurances in high
governmental quarters say th® Bel
gian government is certain to accept
with enthusiasm the report of the
reparation experts.
CHICAGO.—With fifty-four pre
cincts missing, former Governor
Deneen has lead of only 3,450 over
Senator Medill McCormick in race
for Illinois senatorial nomination.
ROME. —Signora Marconi, granted
a. divorce from William Marconi,
wireless inventor, marries the Mar
quis Liborio Marignoli, and resigns
as lady-in-waiting to the queen.
ROME. —Absence of pope at dedi
cation of Knights of Columbus Wel
fare building Is believed to be due to
belief that his presence might be in
terpreted as a departure from Vati
can.
BRUSSELS. Brigadier General
Charles G. Dawes, spending a. brief
sojourn in the Belgian capital, tells
of difficulties surmounted in prep
aration of the reparation experts’
report. _
WASHINGTON. Senator Wat-
Mon, Indiana, Republican, chairman
of special committee investigating
internal revenue bureau, seeks by
resolution to have committee dis
charged.
WASHINGTON. —Insurgent house
Republican join with Democrats in
adopting resolution declaring Repre
sentative Sol Bloom, Democrat, Nine
teenth New York district, entitled to
his seat.
IV ASH INGTON. —Sena t e commit
tee investigating internal revenue
bureau by vote of 3 to 2 authorizes
employment of Francis J. Heney, of
California, as special counsel to con
duct inquiry. *
HONOLULU. Japanese should
be accorded the same immigration
treatment as other nationalities in
the pending legislation before con
gress, the Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce resolves.
CHICAGO. —Leaders ip campaign
of Senator Hiram Johnson so rprefii
ueutial nomination plan conference
shortly to consider future course of
campaign in view es defeats in mid
dle western states.
MEXICO CITY. —Confidential ad
vices say that representatives of
Adolfo De La Huerta, and General
Felix Diaz reached an agreement at
Galveston to continue the revolu
tion with joined forces.
AMARILLO, Tex. —William G.
McAdoo ofiens his Texas campaign
for the Democratic presidential
nomination with the promise he
will “drive the crooks out of Wash
ington and put them in jail.”
BOSTON.—Governor Cox signs a
bill repealing an act of the legisla
ture two years ago calling for the
removal of John Singer Sargent's
painting, “The Synagogue,” from
the walls of the Boston public li
brary.
WASH ING TON .—Se na tor Hiram
Johnson, candidate for Republican
presidential nomination, who (has
met repeated defeats in primaries
in middle-western states, announces
that he is not quitting what he "is
attempting to do politically."
Stone, Taking Office,
Says He’ll Keep U. S.
On the Straight Path
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Harlan
F. Stone, of New York, taking up
the post of attorney general today,
announced as his policy the keeping
of the nation "in the straight path
of justice under the law.” He pro
posed. he said, to make the consti
tution and the laws “the shield of
innocence, but the swift avenger of
guilt.”
The new attorney general arrived
in Washington today, conferred with
President Coolidge and then after in
quiring of the White House police
men “where the department of jus
tice is.” went to his office there to
be sworn in.
Reaching the department at 9:30
a. m.. Mr. Stone took the oatTi of
office at once in the private office
of the attorney general. There was
no ceremony. The oath was admin
istered by the departmnet's appoint
ment clerk in the presence of a half
dozen other department officials.
GERMANY’S RICHEST
Mi. HUGO STINNES,
IS TAKEN 81 DEATH
BERLIN, April 10. — Hugo Stinnes.
richest man in Germany, died to
night.
Double pneumonia and other com
plications set in after the financier
had been greatly weakened by a se
ries of operations for gallstones.
The last operation was Saturday,
after which the industrialist’s physi
cians believed him well enough to
leave the sanitarium where it took
place and return home.
Within the last two days Stinnes
sank rapidly.
Stinnes’ death is certain to have a
tremendous effect upon stocks on
the German Bourse. Immense sums
had been offered for tips on the exact
time of his death in order that spec
ulators might take advantage of the
market. Late today, Stinnes’ doc
tors announced he could not live
through the night.
The Bourse had been in a panicky
condition all day.
Was Able Financier
Hugo Stinnes, “the man who
bought everything,” was born on
February 12, 1870 in Muelheim on
the Ruhr. He was the son of a mer
chant, Hugo Stinnes, and Adeline
Coupienne Stinnes.
He was the coolest, most deliber
ately calculating - man in^Germany —
the. man who reckoned everything
in gold, in service, in production, in
power and in political accomplish
ment.
At the age of 23 he founded his
own mining company, with capital
of 50,000 gold marks. Before the war
his wealth had reached 40,000,000
gold marks. His power was beyond
measure. Cabinet members called
him into their confidence.
He represented Germany at the
conference with the allies at Spa,
where he spoke freely against the
entente and was greatly criticized
for his open expression of ais opin
ions.
In 1922 he concluded the famous
Stinnes-Lubersac agreement for re
construction of France.
House Seats Bloom,
New York Democrat,
Ovey His G. 0. P. Rival
WASHINGTON, April 10.—By a
vote of 210 to 198 the house tSday
adopted a resolution declaring that
Sol Bloom, Democrat, was entitled
to his seat as a member from the
Nineteenth New York district.
By this action the house threw
out the election contest of Former
Representative Walter M. Chandler,
Bloom’s Republican opponent at the
polls.
After the vote had been announced
Representative Longworth, the Re
publican leader, taking advantage
of a parliamentary opening, de
manded another roll call. Republi
cans immediately attempted-* to
round up some absentees.
74-Year-Old Woman
Found Hanging in Barn
At Fayetteville Home
FAYETTEVILLT, Ga.. April 9
Mrs. Nannie Dickson, well known
Fayette, county woman, was found
hanging by a rope in a barn near
her'home by her son, Oscar, and her
daughter, Miss Leila, on their re
turn from Atlanta Tuesday. De
spondency is blamed for her act. She
had been in ill health for about a
year.
Mrs. Dickson was the daughter of
the late Judge John Gilbert, of
Jonesboro. Other relatives are a
son, L. C. Dickson, well-known law
yer here, and a daughter, Mrs. Bar
ker Dorman, also of Fayetteville.
The funeral was held here today.
Heard County Citizen
Loses $ 10,800 From
Trunk Savings Bank
FRANKLIN, Ga., April 10.—J. P.
Shellnut. one of the oldest citizens
of Heard county, has had SIO,BOO
stolen from him. He had an iron
box in his trunk where he kept his
money. Sunday, he went to count
it and the bottom had been taken
out and no money was to be found.
Mr. Shellnut is a man who does not
believe in keeping his money in
banks.. The money was the savings
of a lifetime.
Army Fliers Arrive
At Sitka, Alaska, on
Globe-Circling Flight
SITKA. Alaska. Anril 10. — (By the
Associated Press.) —America's round
the-world airmen reached here at
12:43 p. in. Thursday.
PRINCE RUPERT. B. C., April 10.
A squadron of American army fliers
on a flight around the earth took the
air here at 9:22 this morning and
winged their course fOr Sitka,
Alaska. 300 miles northwest.
Mr. Chas. H. Dietrich,
Former Senator, Dead
HASTINGS, Neb., April 10.—Mr.
Charles H. Dietrich, former governor
and former United States senator
from Nebraska, died suddenly of
apoplexy today.
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HUGO STINNES, financial
leader of Berlin and chief
figure in the industrial reor
ganization of Germany since
the signing of the Versailles
treaty.
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DEMOCRATS OFFER
NEWTAXSCHEDULE
WITH REVENUE BILL
WASHINGTON, April 10. The
new revenue bill was formally re
ported to the senate today, and along
with it was presented a new Demo
cratic tax plan carrying an income
tax schedule somewhat similar to the
Longworth plan adopted by the
house and turned down by the ma
jority of the senate finance commit
tee.
The Democratic proposal which its
sponsor believes will have the sup
port of the Republican insurgent
group, carries a maximum surtax
rate of 40 per cent on incomes in ex
cess of $500,000 as compared with
the maximum of 25 per cent on in
comes in excess of SIOO,OOO in the
finance committee bilk
Normal income tax rates proposed
in the Democratic plan are 2 per cent
on incomes up to $4,000; 4 per cent
on incomes between $4,000 and SB,-
000, and 6 per cent on incomes . hove
SB,OOO. All heads of families, irre
spective of the amount of their in
come, would be given the present
exemption of $2,500. No other change
in the exemptions is proposed.
Senator Simmons, of North Caro
lina, ranking Democrat on the fi
nance committee, presented the Dem
ocratic substitute just after Chair
man Smoot had brought in the ma
jority report of the committee, and
had announced that he probably
would call the bill up for considera
tion next Wednesday. It will be use
less to consider it befcpe then, he
said, as senators would not have
time to sufficiently inform them
selves of its provisions.
The sur tax rate under the Demo
cratic plan would begin at 1 per
cent on SIO,OOO. and would graduate
up to the maximum. The rate on
incomes of SIOO,OOO would be 37 per
cent as against 25 per cent in the
Mellon plan, and 36 per cent in the
house bill. The rate on incomes of
$200,000 to $300,000 would be 38 per
cent, and on incomes between $300,-
000 and $500,000 the 39 per cent rate
would apply. i
R. C. Jordan Named
To Fill Out Term of
Judge Gunn in Macon
R. C. .lordan, Macon attorney,
was appointed by Governor Walker
Thursday as the successor to Judge
Will Gunn as judge of the Macon
city court. Judge Jordan wlil as
sume his new duties on April T 5,
and hold office throughout the unex
pired term of Judge Gunn, lasting
until January 1, 1927.
The .appointment was offered
Judge Jordan several days ago, Gov
ernor Walker stated, and he has re
ceived official notice of its accept
ance. Judge Jordan was in Atlanta
to confer with the governor on Wed
nesday.
Judge Jordan has been a resident
of Macen for thirty-five years and
has never offer d for public office be
fore. lie has been a successful at
torney, and Macon counsel for the
Cent'- ’ of Georyia railroad for sev
eral years. He is also district gov
.. the Lions’ club.
Wild Buying Stampede
Sends Cotton Jumping
Five Dollars Per Bale
NEW ORLEANS, April 10.—A
wild stampede of buying orders sent
cotton up $5 a bale at the opening
of trading on the exchange here to
day. May contracts traded up to
32.31 cents or 103 points above the
close of yesterday.
A strong Liverpool market influ
enced the upward movement.
May futures extended its gain to
S 5 a bale yesterday forenoon, but
the advance was lost before the close
of trading. However, the advance
to-day places the value of cotton
nt -15 a. bale higher since Tuesday.
NEW YORK SEES MAN HOP
S 3 POINTS I P TO 31.95
NEW YORK. April 10.—The cotton
market was full of buying orders
this forenoon as a result of strong
cables ,-snd excessive tain throughout
the belt. May contracts jumped 93
points to 31.95, while new crop
months advanced from 55 to 57
points. The trade was a heavy buyer
of contracts at the opening.
EXCHANGE DIBECTOR
IN NEW DEBT PUN
GIVEN WIDE PDWEB
PARIS, April 10.—(By The As
sociated Press.) —The installation of
a world’s exchange dictator, who
probably would be an American, is
one of the most significant pro
posals in the reparation experts’ re
port. The proposal would create an
agency for reparation. Payments
consisting’ of “an agent for repara
tion payments and five persons
skilled in matters relating to for
eign exchange and finance, repre
senting five of the allied and as
sociated powers,” namely. United
States, France, Italy, England and
Belgium.
Each member would be ippointed
by the reparation commission after
consultation with the members of
the general board or the bank of is
sue of the same nationality.
The president of the committee
(the agent for payments),
also would be appointed by the rep
aration commission and it is con
sidered that if he should be a strong
man he would direct the committee’s
work and be in himself the controller
of the transfers from the new bank
of issue to the debtor nations, choos
ing the time and means, out calling
together the members of ‘■he com
mittee from time to time : or their
approval.
It would be in part the business
of the committee to go into the
world exchange market and buy for
eign trade balances to be used in
the transfers for reparation pay
ments. The committee’s representa
tives would most likely be stationed
permanently in New York, London
and Amsterdam, so that the head
of the committee, whose office
would be in Berlin, would direct the
contact with the great exchange
markets.
This official would, most likelyy
be a neutral, probably an American,
because it was declared in the ex
perts’ discussions that only a neu
tral financier’ would have sufficient
detachment from Germany’s credl
tors to be able to exercise properly
the immense powers bestowed upon
him.
The dangers of such a dictator
ship were discussed at length by
the experts’ committee, but it. was
concluded that such a control must
be adopted in order to avoid other
equally dangerous contingencies to
which allusion is made in the re
port.
American investors would be
asked to lean the equivalent of
$100,000,000, it transpired in the con
versations among the experts, or
about half the 800,000,000 gold marks
to be raised by external loans and
paid into the new bank of isslue for
currency stability., American finan
ciers would be requested to under
take such a loan for two reasons,
first, that the money -would be ab
solutely secure, because the loans
are so small that Germany would
in no event fail to meet them, and
secondly, because the purpose o'
the loans would add to the solidity
of the international fabric of
finance. The interest rate would
prboably be 5 1-2 per cent.
FRENCH CIRCLES PLEASED
WITH DAWES FINDINGS
PARIS, April 10.—(By The As
sociated Press.) —After ‘wenty-four
hours consideration of the reports
of the two reparations committees,
spokesmen for official circles today
declared no official opinion had been
formed of the recommendations cori
tained in the documents. Satisfac
tion, however, was freely expressed
that the experts had found evidence
tending to confirm the French at
titude regarding Germany.
DAWES PLAN IMPARTIAL.
DEC LAR ES ST RESE MA N N
LONDON, April 10. —The German
foreign minister. Dr. Stresemann,
questioned by the Daily Express
correspondent regarding the report
of the reparation experts, is quoted
as saying:
“Mv colleagues and myself are
carefully studying the momentous
document. It is too early yet to
make any comment beyond saying
that we realize that the report is the
product Os earnest and impartial
study by a body of men who are
anxious to solve the reparation prob
lem.
“We approach our study of the
report with absolutely open minds
and with conviction of the impart’aJ
ity of its authors.”
BERLIN PAPERS URGING
CONSIDERATION FOR REPORT
BERLIN, April 10.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The bulk of the edi
torial comment published in the Ber
lin papers today inclines to the opin
ion that the report of Brigadier Gen
eral Dawes’ expert reparation com
mittee constitutes a basis for nego
tiations. Only in the isolated in
stances of the nationalistic organs is
oppos.tion voiced, and even there the
familiar cry of “unacceptable,”
which has greeted past plans is whol
ly lacking.
Hugo Stinnes’ Deutsche Allgeme
eine Zeitung declares it behooves the
German government to give the re
port “objective and intensive exam
inaticn,” Vorwaerts says its rejection
would Oe a catastrophic piece of
stupidy on which the “French im
perialists,” unquestionably are specu
lating.
“The question which now con
fronts any German government,” the
Socialist organ, continues, is: “Can
the gover»-w;ent march into the Ruhr
and drive the French? If not,
then there is only one path to free
dom left us, and that is indicated in
the experts’ report.”
The only organ which suggests
the recommendations should be
bluntly rejected is the Nationalist
Deutsche Zeitung. which declared
they would involve “the enslavement
of Germany.”
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, April 12, 1924
Starting Tuesday, April 15
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Crucifying a Real Man
On the Altar of Am bition
(Editorial From the Augusta Chronicle)
The grossly unfair, the sinis
ter, the desire to perpetuate fac
tionalism in Georgia when it
seemed that for once in Georgia
politics all elements would come
together, can be observed in the
daily in the Atlanta
Constitution. It was to be hoped
that all Georgians would rally
around a distinguished native
son, the first bona fide candidate
Georgia has had for the presi
dency since William H. Craw
ford, but hardly had the smoke
cleared away after the great tri
umph of William G. McAdoo on
March 19 when certain people
began a guerrilla warfare which
is calculated to embarrass the
great American whom we had
indorsed for the presidency and
to crucify a distinguished citizen
of Atlanta, and a friend hereto
fore of the so-called Howell ele
ment in Georgia politics for over
twenty years. It was said that
thee Hon. Clark Howell wished
to retain his place as national
committeeman. This has been
denied in some quarters and if
be is not a candidate then why
this puny barrage which is being
laid down? The distinguished
citizen of Georgia who is the
object of daily attack in the Con
stitution Is Hon. Hollins N. Ran
dolph, one of the first men in
the country to come out for Mr.
McAdoo, a tower of strength
financially and in every other
way to his cause in Georgia, a
leader in every sense, a gentle
man unselfish, true and tried.
The managers of the McAdoo
campaign, of which Mr. Ran
dolph was one, had it on plain ‘
authority from their chief that
he wished to reward those who
had fought the good fight and
won the race for him. This was
obviously the only position for
Mr. McAdoo to take and when
Mr. Randolph—after this social,
political and business friendship
with the Hon. Clark Howell for
year —had to tell him that un
der the conditions it would not
be the correct thing for him to
continue to be honored as na
tional committeeman —then this
gentleman permits to he run in
bis paper day after day these
slanderous and almost vicious
articles, which would be calcu
lated to injure Mr. Randolph ir
retrievably, if his standing in
Georgia was less high and if the
source of the attacks upon him
was not considered.
Not Due Consideration
To make a long story -of the
Constitution’s position short, we
might recite the fact that this
paper had led the McAdoo man
agers to believe that cordial sup
port would be given the cause
•and yet a few weeks before the
primary the chairman of the
movement was informed that the
Constitution would give no sup
port. That Mr. Howell is not
entitled to any consideration in
the matter of national commit
teeman all Georgians will agree
and the McAdoo managers feel
that the honor should be bestow
ed upon Major John S. Cohen,
editor of The Atlanta Journal,
whose powerful daily contribut
ed so much to the cause.
The Chronicle cannot agree
with its neighbor, the Macon
Telegraph, that the national
committeeman should take an
impartial, in fact, a neutral, posi
tion. and we find Mr. Howell in
the campaign just closed neutral
for the first time in years. He
was for Underwood against Wil
son at Baltimore in 1912 and was
for Palmer at San Francisco in
1920. He was for Parker in 1904,
and for Bryan in 1900 and 1908.
That he was unable to hear
plainly the rumblings for Mc-
Adoo in 1924 in Georgia and get
on the band wagon as usual is
due to a. deficiency in hearing
with which we did not think he
was afflicted.
We hope that the Randolph at
tacks now going on in Atlanta
are without the authority of the
editor since he is out of the
state, and we hope further that
he will do the big and magnani
mous thing and eliminate him
self, even as he said to the Mc-
Adoo managers that their can
didate was eliminated.
As chairman of the McAdoo
movement in Georgia, the editor
, of the Chronicle wants to ex
press through these columns an
appreciation of Hollins N. Ran
dolph’s services, feeling that in
the mass of misrepresentation
some Georgians might get the
wrong idea, as to the manner of
man Mr. Randolph is.
A National Figure
To those who know him well
such an explanation, or defense,
is entirely unnecessary.
A descendant of Thomas Jef
ferson, a native of Virginia, Hol
lins Randolph long ago adopted
Georgia for his permanent
home. He has been conspicuous
in the civic, political and social
life of Atlanta for a great many
years, and is right now presi
dent of the Stone Mountain Con
federate Memorial association,
which is collecting and spend
ing millions to carve the like
nesses of heroes who wore the
gray on the face of this mar
vellous handiwork of nature,
Hollins N. Randolph, we may
say with absolute regard for the
exact truth, is not only a state
but a national figure, and at
the Chicago McAdoo conference,
as at all Democratic gatherings
and conventions, for about
twenty years, his great ability,
his wide acquaintance, his
splendid personality, all stood
out prominently, and without
even a suggestion of inordinate
ly pushing himself forward, we
find him a big figure because
his compatriots alwaj’s insist on
his leadership.
Both the editor of this news
paper and Mr. Randolph have
announced that they are not
candidates for the position of
national committeeman, and as
far as this editor is concerned
he asks that the delegates to the
national convention name as na
tional committeeman a man who
performed real service, a true
and tried friend of Mr. McAdoo
and not one who failed us at a
critical time.
Harns Wins Fund for
Army Chemists to Aid
In War Upon Weevil
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building. '
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 10.—
The army appropriation bill will
contain the amendment of Senator
Harris, of Georgia, providing $25,-
000 for experiments with poison by
the chemical warfare service to kill
the cotton boll weevil, to be expend
ed during the next fiscal year. The
senate subcommittee framing the
bill, of which Senator Harris is a
member, today agreed to the item.
He obtained an appropriation for
similar work last year.
The army work will be independent |
of the field investigations by the
geological survey to find sources of
arsenic for calcium arsenate which
is being carried out by funds se
cured through an amendment of j
the Georgia senator.
Five Cotton Brokers
Under Indictments
NEW YORK. April 10. —Five mem
bers of the firm of Scott, Norris &
Co., cotton brokers; who failed No
vember 16, last, for approximately ;
$1,000,000. were indicted today on
charge of bucketing. .
The men indicted are: Carlysle,
Maxwell and L. N. Roundtree; E. L.
McGuigan and Herbert H.
5 CENAS A COPY/
SI A YEAR. \
FOUB-YEAB FIGURES.
ON PBOBIBITIDN FOR
GEORGH GIVEN OUT
Property Worth $1,846)434
Destroyed—Tax Assess-
ments Totaling $4,778,275
Recommended by Dismuke
During the four-year period begin
ing January 1, 1920. and ending Dec
ember 31. 1923, federal prohibition
agents operating in Georgia dstrov
ed property estimated to be worth
$1,846,434.18 and recommended tax
assessments totaling $4,778,275.52
against moonshiners and others
charged with violating the national
prohibition act, according to figures
made public Thursday by Fred D.
Dismuke, chief of prohibition forces
in Georgia.
The figures, attaches of Mr. D:s
muke’s office stated, represent the
complete enforcement of the prohi
bition law in the state with the ex
ception of the first quarter of 1924.
The destroyed property included
9,320 stills, 2,575 distillery worms,
80,346 gallons of whisky (mostly
corn), and 6,957,104 gallons of beer
described “as fit for distillation.”
Six hundred and sixteen automo
biles seized during the period were
not valued, as the cars were sold
at public outcry 'or varying amounts
following institution of “in rem” or
condemnation proceedings by the
government.
The tax assessments were made
under the provisions of the old reve
nue act, and were based not only on
the an cunt of whisky seized, but
on the estimated amount of whisky
manufactured by a moonshiner or
sold by a bootlegger. What percent
age of the tax was collected was not
revealed, it being pointed out that
the prohibition department merely
made the assessment which was
passed on to the internal revenue de
partment for further action.
Arrests during the four year»
totaled 4,376 and prosecutions num
bered 7,957.
While no official statement was
made by the prohibition department
in connection with the figures, Mr.
Dismuke being ill, ataches of his ofs
fice stated that the figures showed
how effectively the prohibition law
has been enforced in the state. It
was also pointed out that in the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1923,
Georgia led the entire union in the
number of stills and the amount of
beer destroyed.
PROPERTY WORTH $25,578
SEIZED BY PRO HI HERE
, Property valued at $25,578.30 was
destroyed by federal prohibition
agents in the enforcement of tha
national prohibition act In Georgia
during March, according to figures
made public Thursday at the office
of Fred D. Dismuke, director of pro
hibition forces in the state.
The report showed 180 stills, 780
gallons of whisky and 143,415 gal
lons of beer destroyed during the
month. It also revealed that 71 ar
rests were made, 121 prosecutions
ordered and 187 convictions obtained
in feedral courts.
Hiram Johnson Aids
Preparing to Vacate
Chicago Hotel Suite
CHICAGO, April 10.—(By the As
sociated Press). —Hotel rooms in
presidential row, which have serve!
as headquarters for Senator Hiram
Johnson’s campaign, will be avail
able to new tenants next Monday.
Officers of the hotel expected the
Johnson suite would be vacated to
day or tomorrow.
Although the Chicago offices have
not teen considered national head
quarters of the campaign sine*
Frank 11. Hitchcock relinquished ac
tive general direction of the Johnson
forces ready in February, they have
s-rved as a clearing house for
strategic plans for several rpidwest
ern states.
JOHNSON’S FRIENDS DENY
ANY IDEA OF WITHDRAWAL
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 10
S nator John.son’s campaign in
California is well organized and will
ue pretsed vigorously, according to
a statement issued here today by
headquarters for the Johnson-for«
President organization. The state*
ment denied Senator Johnson had
withdrawn from the presidential pri*
mary campaign.
R. C. Jordan, Slated
For Macon Judgeship,
Calls on Governor
R. C. Jordan, well-known Macon
attorney, who is slated to be appoint*
ed judge of the Macon city court to
succeed .Judge Will Gunn, resigned,
was in Atlanta Wednesday to confer
with Governor Walker. It was ex
pected that the appointment would
be announced during the day.
Mr. Jordan is district governor of
the Lions’ club and active in the
affairs of that organization. He has
practiced 1. w at Macon for many
yearn He was accompanied to Gov
ernor Walker’s office by Bruce
Jones, of Macon, and L. J. Kilburn,
former resident of Macon, who i«
now a member of the Georgia in
dustrial commission. Governor Walk
er was delivering an address Lo th*
American Society of engineerw whe:.
the delegation called on him. hut
was expected tn return to hts office
in 'he afternoon.
Judge Gunn resigned, effective
April 15, to become, vice president
of the ueorgia Casualty company,
of Macon. His term will expire
January 1, 1927.