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VOL. XXVI. NO. 86
COHEN IS ELECTED
TO SUCCEED HOWELL
AS COMMITTEEMAN
Judge Newt Morris Chosen
Chairman and C. E. Brown
Secretary of Harmonious
Session at Lyric Theater
At the meeting Wednesday after
noon of the delegates to the national
Democratic convention in New York
Major John S. Cohen was elected na
tional Democratic committeeman
from Georgia and Mrs. Edgar Alex
ander was chosen national Demo
cratic committeewoman. The elec
tions were unanimous.
Eight delegates-at-large to the
Democratic national convention, in
structed to vote fo’r William G. Me-
Adoo, were selected by the state
Democratic convention Wednesday
morning as follows:
Thomas J. Hamilton, Richmond
county; Miller S. Bell, of Baldwin
county; Hollins N. Randolph, from
Fulton county: Mrs. Mary Harris
Armor, of Dodge county; Mrs.
Nicholas Peterson, of Tift county;
Judge N. A. Morris, of Cobb county;
H. H. Dean, of Hall county, and j
Pleasant A. Stovall, of Chatham
county.
The convention also elected two
presidential electors-at-kirge as fol
lows:
Governor Nat E. Harris, of Ma
con, and John -G. Valentino, of Sa
vannah. Alternate electors-at -large,
chosen by the convention were W.
E. Simmons, of Lawrenceville, and
Hugh Rowe, of Athens.
District Delegates
The following district delegates
and electors, nominated by district
caucuses, were elected by the con
vention:
First District—Mrs. Lena B. Stev
enson, Chatham county; Francis
Hunter, Bulloch county; W. B. Bell,
Burke county; T. R. Kettles, Screven
county.
Elector Newt J. Norman, Albany;
alternate, Mrs. R. L. Miller, Lutke i
county.
Second District —W. A. Covington,
Colquitt county; P. S. Hawes, De
catur county; Perry D. Rich, Miller
county; Mrs. A. L. Miller, Calhoun
county.
Elector G. M. Ledbetter, Mitchell
county; alternate, L. D. Passmoie,
Worth county.
Third District—Mrs. Noah Law
rence Smith, Turner county; L. L.
Griner, Ben Hill county ; C. E. Brown,
Crisp county, and M. C. Edwards,
Terrell county.
Elector, Mrs. Lon Dickey; alter
nate, Mrs. Oscar McKenzie.
Fourth District—Mrs. Bettie Cobb,
Carroll county; L. 11. Chappel, Mus
cogee county; John A. Smith, .Lab
hot county; A. S. Camp, Coweta
county. , .
Elector. Buford Boykin, Carroll
ebunty; alternate, Charles Roberts,
iluscogee county.
Fifth District—Mrs. Z. V. Peter
son. Fulton county; Albert J. Wood
ruff, DeKalb county; Louis I ■
Marquardt, Fulton county; D. L ■
Bullard. Campbell county. I
Elector, J. F. Duncan, Douglas I
county; alternate. C. E. Sigman.
Rockdale county.
Sixth District Group
Sixth District—Mrs. C. C. Harrold.
Bibb county; R. L. Turner Henry (
limwntw E. B. Weatherly, Bibb coun
■P’* J. H. Carmichael, of Butts
E?eoior D. P. Nelson, Clayton
countjH alternate, W. M. Hamilton, ;
Bibb county. '
Seventh, District—Mrs. Ralph 1
Northcutt, Cobb county; E. E. land- j
sey, Floyd county; J- K \.? ,f T “'.Lhu’
Walker county; W. E. W ood. M hit
£ie Elect°or', ll> C. M. Milam, Bartow
county; alternate, Mrs. Annie i iee
man Johnson, Floyd county.
Eighth District—Andrew C la
win, Clarke county; Miss Manon
Colley, Wilkes county: Howard n.
Payne. Elbert county; Albert G. ros
ter. Morgan county.
Elector. James C. Williams, of
Greene county; alternative, A. E.
Caldwell, of Walton county.
Ninth District—Mrs. G. A. Johns,
Barrow county; Dr. Jeff Davis. Ste
phens county; A. O. Nix, Gwinnett
county: William Gault.
Elector, W. B. Rice: alternate,
Thomas A. Brown, Fannin county.
Tenth District Mrs. Annie
Wright, Richmond county; John I’.
West, McDuffie county; Byrd B. Lov
ett, Washington county; W. B.
Pierce, Richmond county.
Elector, Roy Harris, Jefferson
county; alternate, D S. Stanford,
Baldwin county.
Eleventh District— F. M. Carlett.
Glenn county; D. M. Parker. Ware
county: George A. Paulk. Berrien
county; Mrs. R. G. Dickinson.
Clinch county.
Elector W. R. Wilson. Coffee
county; alternate, W. 11. Strickland.
Ware county.
Twelfth District —Mrs. L. A.
Whipple, Berkley county; 1. L.
Price. Emmanuel county; C. D.
Rountree, Johnson count?-. N 1..
Gillis. Treutlen county.
Electoi GiW ° Stone. Wheeler
county; Rev. A. P. Seg
gards, Wilcox.
Resolutions Report
After the list of delegates had
been rati’ed by the convention the
report of Ljie resolutions committee
was received.
The resolution was adopted pro
viding for eight-delegates at large
with a half vote each and four dele
gates from each congressional dis
trict with a half vote each, the first
two named to be known as the dele
gates and the second two as alter
nates and they were instructed to
vote as a unit for Mr. McAdoo until
he was elected.
Another resolution was adopted
recommending the repeal of the
Fordney-McCumbcr tariff bill and
the present federal tax system and
(Continued ou Page 2, Column 2)
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Told in
Briefs
PHILADELPHIA—Harry K. Thaw
is declared sane and capable of man
aging his affairs by a. jury here.
LOCUST VALLEY, N. V.—Byford
Ryan, former tenor in the Berlin
Opera house, in Germany, dhes of
heart disease.
FT. WAYNE, Ind.—Clara Kimball
Young, actress, is said by her phy
sician to be "practically out ofy dan
ger," following an operation.
! ROME.—Cardinal Mundelein, of
Chicago, formally assumes posses
sion of his titular church of Santa
Maria del Popolo in Rome.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge returns from New York City,
where he addressed annual luncheon
of the Associated Press.
H AVANA. —Fourteen America n
seaplanes, returning from winter
maneuvers at Culebra, Canal Zone,
land near Havana.
LONDON. Discovery of an
ancient wall in Jerusalem convinces
archaeologists the city of Melchize
dek has been penetrated, the Daily
Telegraph reports,
CHICAGO. —A hospital has no
right to hold a human for an .n
--paid bill, it is ruled in a court order
restoring a 14-months-old baby, held
for a $125 bill, to its mother.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge is criticized in senate by Sena
tor Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, for
abandoning practice of shaking all
White House visitors’ hands.
MOSCOW.—Po pul a r ima gi nation
is stirred by soviet Russia’s decision
to send an aerial expedition to plant
the Red flag alongside Peary's Stars
and Stripes at the North Pole.
PLYMOUTH, - Vt.r-John C. Cool
idge, father of the president, walks
half a mile to "listen in” on neigh
bor’s radio to his son’s address at the
Associated Press annual luncheon.
ROME.—Premier Mussolini orders
Prince Caetani, Italian ambassador
in Washington, to proceed to Pitts
burg to pay Italy’s homage to the
dead tragedienne. Madame Duse.
BR E M ERH AVE N~ The North
Germany Lloyd steamer Columbus,
largest German merchant ship con
structed since the World war, clears
for New York on her maiden voy
age.
NASHVILLE, Tenn—Dr. Ivan
Lee Holt, of St. Louis, is elected a
member of the Southern Methodist
Educational board to fill the vacan
cy caused by the death of Dr. Paul
Lynn.
ST. JOHNS, N. F.—Sir Richard
Squires, former Newfoundland pre
mier, is arrested on larceny charges
growing out of an inquiry into al
leged irregularities under his gov
ern me n.t.
,’NEW YORK. —In opening the
French exposition Ambassador .Jules
Jusserand present's to the United
States a goblin tapestry depicting
the departure of American troops
from France.
YOUNGSTOWN, O. Senate'
Hiram Johnson, in opening his Ohio
campaign, says Andrew Mellon, sec
retary of the. treasury, should be the
candidate for the prsridency backed
by the forces now in po’..er.
WASHINGTON. —The house pass
es a bill which would authorize the
leasing at public auction b.y the sec
retary of the interior for oil and gas
mining purposes, certain unallotted
land on Indian reservations.
NEW YORK. —Members of com
pany of Mme. Eleonora Duse, Ital
ian actress, who died in Pittsburg
early Monday, will accompany body
to Italy on liner Duilo, sailing
May 1.
PHILADELPHIA.—WiIIiam Til
den 11, national lawn tennis cham
pion, announces his withdrawal
from 192 1 American Olympic and
Davis cup competition, because his
status as an amateur is questioned.
WASH 1 NGTON —Democratic mem
bers of senate finance committee pre
sent minority report on tax bill, de
manding Simmons income tax sched
ule in place of Mellon rates, and mod
ification of corporation and estate
taxes.
| NEW YORK. —James W. Gerard.
J former United States ambassador to
I Germany, declares "the lifting of the
■ lid in Washington” would bring
I back' to the Democratic party the
I 3.500,000 voters necessary to its vic
i tory.
■ NEW YORK.—Florenz Ziegfeld or
; dets his traveling and New York
i product ions closed on May 31, the
day before the Actors’ Equity asso
ciation agreement with the Produc
ing Managers’ association goes into
effect.
JERSEY CITY'. — Election in New
Jersey of all delegates pledged to
President Coolidge seems assured
! when returns from three-fourths of
I the state give president lead of more
j than 60.000 over Senator Hiram W.
iJohnson.
SAN FRANCISCO. — Damages of
I SIIB,OOO, said to be the largest ever
I given for personal injuries, are
I awarded to Miss Mildred Muller, for-
I mer Boston teacher, by a jury which
! heard her suit against a street car
I company.
I NAPLES.—Vincenzo Nitti, son of
j former Premier Nitti, is wounded in
‘ the right arm in a duel with sword*
I resulting from the publication of an
article in the Facist newspaper Mez
zo Giorno. which Nitti considered in
sulting to his father.
ROCHESTER? Minn.—Mark A.
I Woods, of Lincoln, Neb., Coolidge
I delegate to the Republican national
: convention, states he will launch a
campaign to give General John J.
! Pershing the Republican vice pres
| idential nominal ion.
I DUBLIN. —In budget estimates tc
be submitted to the Dail Eireann
provision is made for reduction of
I 13,877.026 pounds in Free State ex
, penditun s by curtailing appropria
! tions for army, schools and old age
I pensions. k
BROOKIA N —Celia Cooney. Brink
■ lyn’s bobbed hair bandit, and het
i husband-eemnanion. Edward S.
j Cooney, confess to police, and are
j jailed pending action of grand jury
following their arrival from Jackson
| ville. Fla., where they were appre
i he tided.
NEW YORK. —District Attorney
I Dodd, of Brooklyn, plans to summer
’ grand jury to consider evidence ir
girl bandit cases pending the ar
rival in New York of Celia and Ed
ward Cooney, arrested in Jackson
ville Fl.a. Monday as the bobbed hall
bandit and her companion. ,
I •
iCOMMERCIAL POISON
■STOTSHDILS
PLANNED By HOOKER
WASHINGTON. April 22.—The
possibility of manufacturing at Mus
cle Shoals two chemicals described
as specific destroyers of the peach
borer and the Ijoll weevil in conjtmc-
I tion with the production of concen
trated fertilizer was held out to the
senate agriculture committee today
during further consideration of the
I llooker-White-Atterbury bid for the
| government properties.
A. H. Hooker, who is connected
I with the group, .said he knew of no
i reason why calcium arsenale, or
* arsenate of lime, which is used in
L combating the boll weevil, and par
adichlor, made from clorine and
bleaching soda, and acting in the
manner of poison gas against the
peach borer, could not be produced
in adequate quantities at Muscle
Shoals.
Predicting that the demand for
arsenate of lime would soon reach
1250,030 tons annually, Mr. Hooker
| asserted that the supply at present
is only about 25,000 tons a year, it
could be produced, he testified, as
a by-product in the manufacture of
ammonia for use in the fertilizer.
Experiments Are Made
Research is being conducted, he
added, in an effort to develop a
specific similar to paradichlor to
exterminate wheat rust and tobacco
wildfire. Flour manufacturers of
the northwest, he said, are spend
ing more than $250,000 a year on
this investigation.
The value of paradichlor as a
specific against the peach borer, he
related, was set forth first in a
pamphlet by the agriculture depart
ment which brought about a “de
sultory and rather minor use of
this product followed in geperal with
good results.” The pamphlet also
served, he said, to indicate an out
let for a considerable amount of
paradichlor benzol accumulated dur
ing the war as a by-product of
monochlor benzol manufactured for
the French government to combine
with picric acid in the making of an
important explosive.
Active Campaign Made
"We supplemented the govern
ment bulletins,” he continued, "with
an active educational campaign
among the peach growers of the
south, of New Jersey, Georgia, New
York and other fruit-growing states.
"The result has been that not only
has all of the by-product paradich
lor been used, but large quantities
have been manufactured direct and
have done a tremendous amount of
good to the peach-growers of the
country in destroying this pest and
saving their crops.
“This same situation is exempli
fied again in the use of chlorine as
an economical method of oxyijizing
and producing calcium hf’senate or
arsenate of lime for the cotton grow
ers of the sovith with which to com
bat the boll weevil, and thereby!
utilizing the by-product hydrogen in I
the fixation of nitrogen in the man
ufacture of ammonia, which is one
of the ingredients of the concentrat
ed fertilizer we propose to produce
and distribute at Muscle Shoals.”
Si'ores Fertilizer Industry
Senator McNary. Republican. Ore
gon, asked Mr. Hooker if the, an
ticipated saving in transportation
on fertilizer Would apply to the
northwest, and the witness replied
that in his opinion cheaper rail
rates would be limited to territory
east of the Rocky mountains, but
that water transportation througn
the Panama canal probably would
aid the northwest. He said he be
lieved Muscle Shoals would furnish
a nucleus for a similar operation at
some water power site in the west.
"The fertilizer industry in the
United States is rotten from top to
; bottom.’’ Hooker declared, adding
1 that present commercial fertilizer
[contained “many useless materials.
I At Muscle Shoals, however, lie said
I fertilizer could be produced in con-
I centraled form and the farmer could
! mix his own fertilizer on the farm,
j This would effect a groat saving in
I transportation, he added.
Senator AloNary asked if *ne
I Hooker bidders could do an? thing at
I Muscle Shoals which the government
could not do, and the witness ie
plied the Hooker corporation could
produce ammonia better than the
government.
Hooker suggested Henry fords
offer said nothing about fertilizer
content, but the Alnhuma Power
companv had mentioned making one
eighth of the first unit the Hook r
liuders planned.
“But this is only a sop, in my
op'nion, eompared with my process,”
Hooker asserted.
Senator K- ndriek, Democrat. V. yo
ming, said he thought the Hooker
plan for manufacturing at Muscle
Shoals was "ideal" and v. ot ,f
joth the firm and the government
c be diet not see why the power
"jestion v as not variable and couk
easily be separated between the gov
ernment and the corporation.
Hooker said the questions of pow
er and the manufacture of fertilizer
were so interwoven they could not
I te seoarated easily.
Investigation of Henry Ford's
| Muscle Shoals proposals bv the sen-
I ate agricultural committee awaits
I the arrival of W. B. Mayo. Ford's
i chief engineer, who is exptecd to ap
pear soame time this week. He will
be questioned principally about the
! amount of return the government
would receive from the Ford offer
and provisions for fertilizer produc
tion and power distribution.
The Weather
i
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia: Iperettsing cloudiness and
somewhat warmer, probably showers
in west portion.
Noi th <?arolina. South 1
Increasing cloudiness, possibly show
ers in west portion.
Georgia: Increasing cloudiness,
i probablv local rains.
Florida: Generally fair.
Alabama and Extreme Northwest
I Florida: Probably showers.
Mississippi: Showers and probably
t h u n d e r s to r m s.
Missouri: Increasing cloudiness,
probably showers.
Illinois: Increasing cloudiness,
probably showers.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy, some
what unsettled.
Arkansas: Unset'led.
Oklahoma and East Texas: Partly
cloudy tn unsettled.
i West Texas; Generally fair.
| Marshal and His Son
Are Shot by Attorney
In Attempted Arrest
SEBASTOPOL, Miss., April 22.
Aud Reid, son of A. B. Reid, town
marshal, is in the Newton hospital,
with a bullet wound in his chest, the
marshal is suffering from a slight
wound and R. L. McLendon, an at
torney, is in the county jail at For
est, as a result of a shooting scrape
on the streets here late yesterday.
The Reids were shot by McLendon
when McLendon attempted to arrest
the younger man on a charge of
drunkenness on a warrant sworn out
by McLendon’s wife, justice of peace.
Prior to McLendon’s attempt to ar
rest the younger Reid his father had
refused to take him into custory and
Mrs. McLendon deputized her hus
band to do so.
iWisDEcm
SK, BUT IS HELD
PENDING FOES' PLEA
PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—Al
though he was declared sane and
fully capable of managing his af
fairs by a jury in common pleas
court last night, Harry K. Thaw to
day is still in the Pennsylvania Hos
pital for Mental and Nervous Dis
eases, where he has been confined
for the last seven years.
After the verdict had been
brought in. William A. Gray, coun
sel for Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw’s di
vorced wife, whose thirteen-year-old
son was permitted to intervene in
the trial; requested the usual four
days in which to file a motion and
reasons for a new trial. The motion
was granted and Judge Monahan,
before whom the case was heard,
held Thaw in the custody of the
court pending its disposition. No
time was set for the hearing of the
motion. Meanwhile Thaw must re
main in the asylum.
In announcing they would ask for
another trial, Mr. Gray said he also
spoke for Arthur D. Dickson, coun
sel for the trustees of Thaw’s es
tate, who also opposed his release
Thaw and his aged mother. Mrs.
Marj’ C. Thaw, received news of
the verdict in Mrs. Thaw’s suite at
the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Thaw said
he would not make any definite
plans for the future until his case
finally was disposed of.
Thaw returned to the asylum just
before midnight. He did not say
whether he would voluntarily, go to
New X to answer the indictment
charging him with an attack on
i Frederick Gump, Jr., a Kansas City
' schoolboy, should he gain his free
[ dom. Former Judge John M. I
terson, his counsel, said the courts
. of Pennsylvania could take no cog
n’zai.ce o ft he New York indictment
I until new extradition papers were
1 sent here.
Civil suit for $650,000 damages en
tered against Thaw by Gump’s fa
ther was settled out of court last
January.
Since he shot and killed Stanford
White in New York iy June, 1906,
1 Thaw has spent about sixteen years
I in jails and asylums.
Young Girl Is Found
Bound and Gagged
In Savannah Home
SAVANNAH. Ga„ April 22.—The
police are in vest ig*at in.sr a most un
usual story toM to them by Ressie
’ Gressett, the lt-> ear-old daughter of
Mrs. Bresella Gressett. her mother.
When Mrs. Gressett went home yes
terday after a shonnini tour she told
the police she found her daughter
bound and gagged.
I After being released, the girl said
• a strange man came to the house
■ when she was alone and. saying he
! was a meter inspector, gained ad
j mission to the house.
The police believe it to be the work
of a man mentally unbalanced.
The Gressetts live at 320 East
Broughton street in a thick!?’ popu
lated section of the city.
Injured Teacher Wins
Verdict of $1 18,000
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—Miss
Mildred Muller, former Boston high
[ school teacher, was awarded dam
i ages of SIIB,OOO, said to be the larg
i est ever given in the United States
for personal injuries, by a jury in
superior court here Monday in her
suit against the Coast Counties Gas
and Electric company, controlling
owner of the Union Traction com
pan?’. of Santa Cruz.
Miss Muller was struck by a
street car operated by the Union
Tract,ion coinpan?, in Santa Cruz,
July 21. 1921. and suffered injuries
i which she said have made her an
invalid for life.
McCray’s Discounting
Methods Are Reviewed
INDIANAPOLIS, April 22.—Testi
mony regarding alleged methods em
ployed by Governor McCray in dis
counting notes indorsed by him, was
continued by government witnesses
today at the trial of the executive in
federal court here on charges of us
ing the mails in furtherance of a
scheme to defraud. Approximately
175 witnesses, most of them bank
ers from over th e state, have been
summoned by the prosecution.
Seven witnesses, six of whom are
bankers, were examined at yester
day’s hearing, the first dav- of the
trial.
WILL TREAT CATARRH DEAF
NESS AND HEAD NOISES EREE
Davenport, lowa. Dr. W. O. Coffee,
suite 2146 St. James Hotel Bldg., an
nounces he found a treatment which com
pletely cured him of catarrh of t’ie nose,
deafness and head noises. Thousands
have used it successfully. He b lieves it
, will relieve an?- case. He offers a IP
itay supply Fire to ever? reader of thi«
paper ’< ho writes him. Send your nam»
. md
J
DAUGHERTY IS HIT
FUR FAILURE TD
PROSECUTETRUSTS
Chairman of Federal Trade
Board Says Southern Pine
Association Price-Fixing
Went Unpunished
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Chair
man Huston Thompson, of the fe<-
eral trade commission, today laid
i before the Daugherty investigating
! fommitt.ee further evidence to sup-
I port his testimony that anti-trust
cases were not properly prosecuted
under Attorney General Daugherty
after facts warranting legal action
had been developed by the commis
sion and turned over to the depart
ment of justice.
Turning from conditions in the
trade industry, which he described
at length, yesterday, the commission
chairman related how he and his
colleagues uncovered “price-fixing”
and “coercive measures” among
lumber producers in an investigation
beginning in 1919. The results of
this inquiry, he said, were laid be
fore the justice department before
Mr. Daugherty took office. Suit
against the Southern Yellow Bine
association was instituted in the
closing days of tne vvnson admin
istration, he declared, but “has re
mained in status quo ever since and
now’ rests in the district court at
Kansas City.”
Boosted Pine Prices
John H. Kirby, of Texas, Mr.
Thompson said, has been head of
the Southern Pine association. Sen
ator Wheeler read into the record
a speech made by Mr. Kirby in New
Orleans last month, vigorously de
fending Attorney General Daugh
erty and Secretary Fall.
"The effect of these methods and
of other conditions," Chairman
Thompson resumed, "was to increase
the price of yellow pine from $15.29
per thousand feet in 1915 to $59 per
thousand feet in 1920. The profits in
, 1920 averaged $25 per thousand
feet.”
"No criminal prosecution of any
kind has ever been brought?” Sen
ator Wheeler asked.
“No, sir.”
“Notwithstanding the evidence
shows conclusively there had been
violation of the criminal statutes?"
“I don’t want to say conclusively, ’
Chairman Thompson replied, “be
cause that is the point for a jur.v,
but to my mind there is no doubt
i aUout it.”
Action Halted
Chairman Thompson said lumber
I prices had gone up during recent
months “to points higher than they
were during the war.”
“In the spring of 1921.” he pro
ceeded. "two attorneys from Colum
bus, Ohio came down to sea Attor
ney General Daugherty. Nothing
has been done since.”
The witness declared the South
ern Pine Group had financed the
“build your own home” movement,
and “promptly raised prices.” Tak
ing up the case of the West Coast
Lumber association, he said that in
1920 the trade commission presented
i a report seeking prosecution of that
• organisation.
"Nothing has been done since,”
! he said, “and no action taken. There
I was a. better sentiment out there,
I and they were not so well organ
, ized as the Southern pine, but they
I soon got together and joined in the
j ’build your own home’ deal. Prices
I mounted they ran them up to tlie
; levels corresponding to the South
i ern Pine.
I “My opinion is that the evidence is
I much more direct as to the West
! Coast, than the Southern Pine.”
Price Conspiracy Charged
Altogether, the witness declared,
I there was strong evidence of a gen
j eral "conspiracy” among lumber as
sociations, resulting in high prices
and "ver?/ considerable profits to the
lumber manufacturers.”
i Against the Western Pine associa
! tion, Mr. Thompson said, the depart
ment of justice did file a civil suit
in 1923, Outside of this, he said, no
! action was taken.
Mr. Marion Erwin’s
Body Brought to Macon
MACON, Ga., April 22. —The body
iof Mr. Marion Erw in, former U. S.
district attorney of the southern dis
trict of Georgia, with headquarters
in Macon, reached Macon today from
New York, where he died suddenly
Saturday. The funeral will be held
' from the Christian church here
I Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock,
i Rev. Benjamin F. Foster, officiat
ing. Interment will be in Riverside
cemetery.
Mr. Erwin was prosecuting attor
ney. for the government here for
about eight years, during his time
he prosecuted the noted Greene and
Gaynor harbor fraud case, one of
the biggest cases of its kind ever
tried in the south. Upon leaving
| Macon, he’went to New i’ork and
I organized a law firm there, of which
he was president at the time of his
death.
His brother, L. M. Erwin, is clerk
I of the federal court here at the pres
ent time. Mr. Irwin was well
i known to all the older members of
the Macon Bar association and to
' many others here in all walks of
life. His widow, three daughters
i and his brother survive him.
Humorist Bequeaths Fund
To Purchase Diners Cigars
LONDON, April 22.—1 n the wih
! of the late Sir Henry Lucy, for many
I years the famous “Toby M. P.,” of
Punch, a provision is made that at
1 the annual dinners of the Punch
staff a box of cigars is to be passed
i to the guests to be smoked in mem
ory of the donor. The will sets aside
100 pounds to be invested and used
for this purpose.
Louisiana Election Quiet
NEW ORLEANS. April 22.—A
' light v-te was cast in today’s gen
: eral election to formally ratify the
| nominations for all state and parish
| offices and the legislature made in
the recent Democratic primary.
Henry L. Fuqua, for governor, was
1 the successful candidate in the pri
mary. For the first time in sixteen
years the Republicans nominated
j candidates for governor, lieutenant
* governor, and secretary of state.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, April 24, 1924
Coolidge Sounds
For His Own
COOLIDGE TRYING TO SHOW
FOLLY OF U. S. ALOOFNESS
Economic Appeal to America s
for European Relations
Marks Turning Point —De-
fies G, 0. P. Anti-League
Group
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BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire tu The Journal.)
(Copy rigid, 1924.)
NEW YORK, April 22. —President
Coolidge has undertaken to convert
the P inlic opinion of the United
States to at) economic rather than
political relationship with Europe.
Pointing out that formulas for
peace, armament conferences and
even the revision of international
'aw must await “a composed state
of mind in Europe.” the president
has appealed to America to give its
moral and material support to the
Dawes-Young report for the econo
mic reconstruction of Europe.
While Mr. Coolidge bodly defied
critics inside the Republican party
by announcing his unaltered belief
in the necessity of American mem
bership in the world court, he seized
the opportunity afforded him in ad
dressing the editors assembled at the
annual luncheon of the Associated
Press here to beginning a campaign
of education on the part America
shall play in helping Europe to econ
omic stability.
Mr Coolidge asks, in effect, that
the inves f ors of the United States
shall subscribe to the forthcoming
loan, not merely to resuscitate Ger
man finances, but to aid in the gen
eral reparation settlement. He sig
nificantly pointed out that the
United States refuses to dsicuss re
duction of allied war debts still owing
to America, but tffat this policy
"never meant that America was not
willing to lend its asisstance to the
solution of the European problem in
any way that did not involve us in
their purely political controversies."
Turning Point of Policy
Mr. Coolidge's address carried with
it an appeal of transcendent import
ance. It means the turning point
in the po'icj’ of isolation which has
been erroneously interpreted not
only as political detachment but as
economic
The president follows the note of
Secretary Hughes’ rei'ent speech in
arguing that political independence
for America does not mean economic
aloofness. Realizing the pendulum
has swung away from Europe too
much. Mr. Coolidge attempts in his
New York speech to bring Ameri
can. opinion back to economic I'eali
ties —the very thing which League
of Nations advocates used in their
early championship of that cause.
Mr. Coolidge, however, draws the
line sharply between political assto
elation and economic conditions. The
one is a product of governmental
JIB FDR FARMERS
PLEDGED BY M'ADDO
IN FRISCO SPEECH
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.
i Promising that if elected president
! he would “drive all the grafters and
corruptionists out of Washington
and into the jails of the United
S'tates,” William G. McAdoo, in an
address here last night, asked sup
port for a delegation to the Demo
cratic nationpl convention pledged
to seek his nomination.
In addition to discussing the “oil
scandal,” which, he said, “was ex
clusively Republican,” Mr. McAdoo
criticized the veterans’ bureau’ and
; “the prohibition enforcement scan-
I dais," charging that they “permeate
j the government at Washington,
which must be cleaned out.”
Mr. McAdoo promised that if he
I should be elected he “would call as
I quickly as possible a special session
wf congress to consider the agricul
ture questions” and would take up
international co-operation to reopen
European markets, seek reduced
; rates and efficient service from the
i railroads and attempt jo have re
pealed the Fordney-McCumber tariff
bill, particularly the labor and rate
making sections.
N. Y. MEET DISCUSSES
CON VE NT ION D ETA ILS
NEW YORK, April 22.—Members
of the subcommittee of arrange
i ments for the Democratic national
co. vention in Madison Square Gar
den in June met today to discus*
further details of the big meeting.
Plans for the Convention are well
auvanced. according to Cordell Hull
chairman of the national Democrat
ic committee, who said details were
more nearly in readiness than at
the same stage of convention with
in his memory.
Five names stand out as having
been prominently mentioned as can
didates for temporary chairman of
the convention, Mr. Hull said. These
are Representative Garrett, of Ten
nessee; Senator Harrison, of Missis
sippi; Homer S. Cummings, of Con
necticut; Thomas S. Marshall, for
mer vice president, Indiana, and
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas. The
temporary chairman will deliver the
party keynote speech.
Trio in Kidnap Case,
Including Ex-Atlantian,
Banished From Virginia
SALEM. Va.. April 22.—Mrs. D.
B. Cooper, of Birmingham, also
known as Mrs. Jack Lane, of At
lanta, and E. H. Robertson and L.
G. Hammond, both of Georgia, are
under bond today not to enter this
state for a year. Having pleaded
guilty to the charge of “kidnaping”
; the three-year-old child of Mrs. Coop
er and the Rev. D. B. Coopen of this
city, the trio was fined $250 each
I and required to furnish bond not
! to enter V irginia for a period of
i twelve months.
Two other men. both of Roanoke,
apprehended in connection with the
■ "kidnaping," were dismissed.
action and agreement and the other
is the natural flow of funds and
private business energy.
"Part of the plan (the Dawes-
Young report) contemplates,” Mr
Coolidge says, "that a considerable
loan should at once be made to Ger-,
many for immediate pressing needs,
including the financing of a bank.
I trust that private American cap
ital will be willing to participate in 1
the financing of works of peace in
Europe, ihough 'we have repeatedly I
asserted that we were not in favor
of advancing funds for any military
purpose. It would benefit our trade
and commerce, and we especially
hope that it will provide a larger
market for our agricultural produc
tion.
Humanitarian Note Touched
“It is notorious that foreign gold
has been flowing into our country
In great abundance. It is altogether
probable that some of it can be
used more to our financial ad
vantage in Europe than it can be
in the United States. Besides this,
there is the humanitarian require
ment. which carries such a strong
appeal, and the knowledge that out
of our abundance it is, our duty to
help where helj) will be used for
meeting just requirements and the
promotion of a peaceful purpose. We
have determined to maintain, and
we can maintain, our own political
independence, but our economic im
portance will be strengthened and
increased when the economic sta
bility of Europe is restored."
The foregoing passage is not a
new philosophy, but it represents
the cautious beginning of a new era
in domestic policy, an attempt to
draw America closer to Europe with
out formal ties. It is the reiteration
of a thought, that the prosperity of
the United States is bound up in
the future of Europe and that for
eign markets will come as European
currency increased in value as.con
fidence is restored abroad. The Re
publican administration since 1920
has pointed with pride to the fact
that five billions of dollars of Amer
ican capital have been invested in
Europe since the armistice and has
insisted that America was not ignor
ing Europe.
The speech of Mr. Coolidge is an
attack on those who have accused
the administration of neglecting Eu
rope. The prejudices against eco
nomic partnership with Europe, how
ever, have grown stronger as the
political relationship has been
frowned upon. The president and
Secretary Hughes have begun an ap
peal to bring America closer to Eu
rope. not merely for Europe’s sake,
but for the advantage of American
farm and factory whose exportable
surpluses, if marketed abroad,
would correspondingly stimulate do
mestic prosperity.
As Mr. Coolidge said in conclusion,
“our first duty is to ourselves,” and
he has proclaimed the theory that
America helps itself by giving Eu
rope material aid.
AMERICAN MAY HEAD
SUPERVISION BOARD
PARTS, April 22.—Reports from
New York that an American would
he chosen to supervise the putting
into effect of the experts’ repara
tion plan were found impossible of
confirmation here. In French offi
cial circles it was said nothing was
known of any such project, and a
similar rep!?’ was made in repara
tion commission quarters.
The report, it is thought here,
may have grown out of speculation
as to who might be named on the
various control boards under the
experts’ plan and to act as “com
missioner" to utilize the index of
prosperity to determine when Ger
many could increase her payments,
and to decide when it would be dan
gerous to the German currency and
budget tc export German payments
on reparation account.
Louis Barthou, president of the
reparation commission, in a long
talk with Premier Poincare concern
ing the methods of procedure in put
ting into effect the reparation pro
gram agreed that it is for the repa
ration commission to proceed first
with the organization as far as the
commission’s jurisdiction goes, after
which the interested governments
will deliberate on the points they
must decide.
GERMANY SENDS NOTES
TO ALLIES ON PROPOSALS
BERLIN, April 22. —Germany has
prepared a careful program for her
conduct during the corning negotia
tions in Paris tn effect r settlement
of the reparations question on the
basis of the Dawes report, it was
learned today, and already has sent
notes to the principal allied coun
trie outlining her poatuon.
Following the inquiry addrtssed to
England, in which it was made plain
that Germany believes that her sov
ereignty over the occupied regions
should be returned to her and uer
man prisoners restored, similar notes
have been sent to the other allied
powers.
The foreign office intends these
notes to serve as clarifying the Ger
man position in accepting the Dawes
report and should serve as an addi
tional basis for negotiations.
It is no secret that the foreign
office, in view of Premier Poincare’s
recent attitude, feels that there still
is a considerable divergence in the
Fr"nco-German viewpoints.
Three Brothers Slam
At Dance as a Result
Os Long-Standing Feud
NEW ORLEANS. April 22.—Three
brothers. David, Alfred and Alexon
Young, were shot a,.d killed by
Daylin B. Fontenot at a country
dance in the Bellair Cove section,
near Ville Platte. Sunday afternoon,
as a result of a long-standing feud
bet.'veen th p Young a no' Fontenot
families, according to word received
her«| today.
Keynote
Candidacy
CONGRESS DELAY
BN TAX REFORM
BIT BY PRESIDENT
BY LAWRENCE MARTIN
NEW YORK, April 23.—President
Coolidge 'Tuesday dedicated himself
to the task of restoring to America
its lost or forgotten ideals.
He made the keynote of his com
ing campaign for the presidency and
the platform on which his adminis
tration is to be built if he is re
elected, the “law of service” boLh
domestically and internationally.
The president spoke in the Waldorf
Astoria to leading editors of the
country, guests of the Associated
Press luncheon. He was introduced
by Frank B. Noyes, phesident of the
Associated Press. The speech was
relayed to radio broadcasting sta
tions throughout the country, giving
thousands an opportunity of hearing
the president.
The president epitomized his plat
form in these words:
"One of the pre-eminent’ rqeulre
ments of our country at the present
time is to establish and emphasize
in the public mind this law of serv
ice. The danger of America is not
in the direction of the failure to
maintain its economic position bm
in the direction of the failure to
maintain its ideals."
Around that thought, Mr. Cool
idge built up a complete program,
both "domestic and foreign, of legis
lation and policy, which he mad--
clear, he will attempt to carry out
if elected.
Real “Law of Service”
To Mr. Coolidge this "law of serv
ice” is not a sentimental phrAse. He
said emphatically it was not to be
confounded with a weak and im
practical sentimentalism. And then
to illustrate his meaning, he applied
his idea of service to the questions
of taxation, government economy,
the uprooting of iniquity m high
places as disclosed by the scandal
investigations and to America’s for-
J eign relations.
Taking up first scandals. Mr. Cool
idge said their genesis lay in the
“easy-money” era begotten of the
war, and declared that it was not
surprising some government officials
had been corrupted.
“From all of this sordidness, ths
affairs of government, of course, suf
fered,” said the president. “In some
of it, a few public officers were guil
ty participants. But the winder Is
not that there was so much or so
many, rather that it has been- so
little and so few. The encouraging
thing at present Is the evidence of
a well-nigh complete return to nor
mal methods of action and a sans
public opinion.”
He pledged himself to “administer
punishment, wherever competent
evidence of guilt can be produced."
"That,” he said, “I z am doing and
propose to continue."
Blqcs and minorities must not ex
pect his help, the president said, in
raiding the public treasury for
money to carry out their projects.
The president declared that bills
now before congress for projects
■backed by minorities would spell
financial disaster to the nation it
their $3,600,000,000 total was appro
priated.
Bonus Stand Not Revealed
“The law of service must be ap
plied to this situation. At present
our country does not need a greater
outlay of expense, but' a greater ap
plication of constructive economy.’’
lie made in this connection a
passing reference to the bonus, but
i did not reveal his attitude on the
I insurance plan bonus bill now in its
I final stages in congress.
On taxes, the president criticized
congress for its failure “up to the
present time' accurately to cornpie- ’i
hend and expeditiously to minister
to the need of taxation reform,” but
said he believed in spite of this there
would he tax reduction.
He assailed the opponents of th* j
Mellon plan, who, he said, were as
suming the country wanted to evade
the law of service and sought the
benefits of government without pay
ing for that government.
He said the idea that taxes on
the great ipass of the people could
be cut and more taxes extracted
from lhe rich was an unworkable
principle.
He assured his hearers that funda
mentally America is sound, its gov
ernment in honest hands and Its
business, “including the owners,
managers and employes, representa
tives of honorable and patriotic mo
tives.”
Turning then to foreign affairs,
the president, after repealing that
the League of Nations is dead ho
far ag the United States is concern
ed, paid high tribute to Secretary
Hughes for initiating the idea of
the experts’ conference on repara
tions and lend impetus to the Dawes’
vice presidential boom by highly
praising the wdrk of Dawes and his
associates in Europe.
Urges Loan to Germany
Mr. Coolidge then warmly urged
that American bankers make a
large loan to Germany, to ass’trs
complete success of the Dawes’ plan.
American gold can be of more use
alfhoad than piled up at home, he
said, emphasizing again the need
of service.
And with stability assured abroad,
the president said, a new opportunity
for American leadership for world
peace may present itself.
When it does, he will call an
other world conference on limita
tion of armaments, he said. The
present is not the time for this, he
added, but as soon as it seems such
a parley would be participated in
willingly by Europe, and would hax>»
chance of success, he will urge tnat
it be held.
He again perfunctorily commenc
ed the Harding world court, but said
other measures are necessary, in- ’
eluding modification of international
law and the holding of frequent in
i ternational conferences to take up
, specific problems as they arise.
America first of all must be true
to herself and order her course
rationally and peacefully at home, he
said, in order that her leadership
for world peace may be strengthened.
' .n 1 he warned that thoueh Amer
ica be ever so peaceably indeed, the
nation cannot force the milleniutn on
the other nations if they are not
willing 'nr it. YVorld peace, ho said,
must come, finally “from the heart
of the people.” l
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