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republicans fight
LOSING BITTLE FOR
MELLON TAX PUN
Washington, May 3.—Repub
licans stood by the Mellon plan to
day in the opening skirmish in the
senate fight on income tax reduc
tions in the revenue bill when the
Democratic attack was led by Sen
ator Simmons, North Carolina. Sen
ator McLean, Connecticut, the Re
publican spokesman, conceded, how
ever, he was fighting a losing battle.
Many o' the vital provisions of
the Mellon proposal already had
been repudiated by the senate, Sen
ator McLean said, and he added
that in the face of the Democratic
conference, approval of the Simmons
plan, “it is a sheer waste of time
to be arguing the normal and sur
tax rate reductions.”
Senator Simmons assailed as "un
fair and discriminatory” the Mellon
rates providing for a reduction in
the maximum surtax rate from 50
to 25 per cent, and reinserted in the
bill by finance committee Repub
licans in place of the Longworth
compromise adopted by the house.
Less than a score of senators
were on the floor during the debate,
and on the conclusion of the two
speeches, discussion centered on
other topics. Senator McLean called
attention that for some time only
six members were present, “and
only three part of the time.”
Chairman Smoot, of the finance
committee, in charge of the bill, re
iterated today he would seek night
sessions next week. There were no
indications of when a vote would
be possible on the income tax sched
ule, the heart of the bill, although
some leaders predicted it would be
possible Monday.
Based on Ability to Pay
Explaining the Democratic in
come schedule, Senator Simmons
said it was based on the principle
of ability to pay. It calls for a re
duction in the maximum surtax to
40 per cent, but would allow greater
cuts in the normal and lower sur
tax rates than would the Mellon or
house plans.
Senator McLean declared, “a low
surtax in years of full production,
which means full employment and
consumption, will bring much more
than, a high surtax which can and
will be evaded, and the direct effect
of which, if not evaded, will be to
retard- both production and con
sumption.”
“In 1916,” he continued, "with a
maximum surtax of 10 per cent, the
treasury collected .$81,000,000, and in
1921, -with a maximum of 65 per
cent, the treasury collected from
these same taxpayers, only $84,-
000,000.”
Senator Simmons argued that
more- of a reduction should be made
on the smaller incomes than pro
posed by Secretary Mellon. He de
clared that Democrats believed in
reduction to the limit, but opposed,
at this time, so much of a cut in
the surtax rates.'
Senator McLean advanced the
suggestion that the maximum surtax
be cut to 20 per cent, a sales tax
of one-half of 1 per cent be imposed,
taxes on luxuries of 5 per cent be
made, and issuance of tax-exempt
securities be prohibited.
Opening the Democratic income
tax battle, Senator Simmons leveled
an attack on the Mellon rates which
he described as “unequal and dis
criminatory.” The Democratic sched
ule, he declared, was based upon the
“traditional principle of ability to
pay, while the so-called Mellon plan
reverses that principle.”
Propaganda Denounced
Senator Simmons denounced the
"system of propaganda” which he
said ha'd placed the Mellon plan be
fore the country and had “charged
Democrats with opposing tax reduc
tion when they denounced it.”
“No propaganda, no scheme of
publicity,” Senator Simmons contin
ued, “was ever more powerfully fi
nanced and ably engineered and di
rected. On the other hand, the op
ponents of the program were unor
ganized. But the result of this prop
aganda for the two-fold scheme —to
untax the rich and kill the bonus —
is overwhelming, crushing repudia
tion.
“The vaunted Mellon plan was
abl e to command but a few votes in
the house and it is now known that
its few sponsors in the senate have
abandoned hope, if they ever had
any, and are fishing on both sides
Xf the chamber for a compromise,
-he overwhelming repudiation which
lis proposition has so far received
is conclusive evidence of its utter
lack of merit and of its amenabil
ity tn the charge, leveled against it
of its inherent iniquity and selfish
ness.
"In the reduction of war taxes
made in 1921, large incomes wqre
relieved to a. far greater extent than
small ones. The excess profits tax
upon corporations was repealed,
thus remitting over four hundred
millions of dollars in taxes, thereby
increasing the incomes of the indi
vidual stockholders of those corpo
rations. That reduction in individ
ual income tax was chiefly for the
benefit of the larger taxpayers.
Small Incomes Neglected
The total of reductions then ad
corded to the larger incomes was
between five and six hundred mil
lions of dollars, while small individ
ual incomes received only a small
share of the reduction then made.”
“If the Mellon plan should pass,
the big incomes would again get the
lion's share of the reductions. In
deed, it is now apparent and gener
ally recognized that the paramount
objective of this scheme is to re
duce the surtaxes of the big taxpay
ers. Bor this reason we feel that
in the reductions now to be made,
special consideration should be ac
corded tn that class of income tax
payers who were unjustly discrimi
nated against tn the 1921 revision.
For these reasons the reductions we
have made on incomes of loss than
.$64,000 much greater than those
made under the Mellon plan and less
than those proposed in any plan
that has been suggested.
Denby Visits Coolidge
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Edwin
Denby, former secretary of the navy,
called on President Coolidge today
but explained it was “merely a
friendly visit.”
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
LEADING FIGURES IN STATE
COMPOSE DELEGATION TO
NEW YORK CONVENTION
High Personnel Draws Fa
vorable Comment, From
Newspapers—All Lines of
Endeavor Represented
BY C. E. GREGORY
The delegation selected by the re
cent. state convention, in Atlanta to
represent Georgia at the Democratic
national convention in New York
city on June 24, is generally recog
nized as the most distinguished and
representative ever sent to a nation
al gathering by the Democratic party
in this state. The Macon Telegraph,
the Savannah Press and other lead
ing newspapers of the state, have
commented on the high personnel of
the delegation.
The list of delegates, alternates
and electors to the national conven
tion Includes one ex-governor, one
former speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, one former United
States ambassador, ten present or
former members of the legislature,
seven editors, two judges, four so
licitors, thirteen attorneys, four bank
ers, seven farmers, two outstanding
labor leaders, seven representative
business men and capitalists, four
teen women, wjio have gained promi
nence by their activity in. civic, club
and church work, three nhysicians
and three mayors of Georgia cities.
The state convention that selected
the national delegates was one of
the most representative ever assem
bled; and included at least six supe
rior court judges, it is stated.
All of the delegates and alternates
to the national convention are now
planning their trips to New York,
and arrangements are being made to
charter special cars in order that the
Georgia representatives may go to
gether to and from the national con
vention. They will let New York
and the rest of the world know that
they are proud of William G. Mc-
Adoo, native Georgian, who piled up
such an overwhelming - majority in
the Georgia presidential preference
primarv on,March 19. (g
Personnel of Delegation
The eight delegates-at-large and al
ternates are:
Thomas J. Hamilton, owner and
editor of the Augusta Chronicle, old
est newspaper in the south; success
ful business man and progressive
Democrat, who was chairman of the
McAdoo comnaign committee in Geor
gia, and devoted much of his time
for weeks to the successful fight for
Mr. McAdoo in the state.
Miller S. Bell, former mayor of Mil
ledgeville, banker and business man,
boyhood companion of William G.
McAdoo, and his devoted friend for
forty years. Mr. Bell came to At
lanta and gave his entire time to the
management of the McAdoo head
quarters throughout the campaign.
Hollins N. Randolph, prominent At
lanta attorney and capitalist; close
personal friend of Mr. McAdoo and
his local attorney as director general
of railroads' general counsel for the
Atlanta'Federal Reserve bank, and
the Federal Land bank; active or
ganizer and financier of co-operative
marketing associations among Geor
sria and pecan growers; pres-
ident and general director of the
Stone Mountain Monumental asso
ciation, and one of the best known
men in national Democratic politics.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, of East
man, pioneer in the fight for nation
al temperance; member of the na
tional lecture staff of the. W. C. T.
U. and speaker in every state in the
union in the cause of temperance,
Georgia director of temperance pub
licit" and one of the nationally
known temperance workers.
Judge Newt A. Morris, of Mari
etta, former judge of the superior
court in the Blue Ridge circuit; one
of the best-known attorneys in north
Georgia; originator of the McAdoo
homecoming celebration in Cobb
county, where Mr. McAdoo was
born; chairman of the rec.ent state
convention; former speaker of the
Georgia house of representatives,
and the champion of much construc
tive legislation, especially concern
ing drainage.
Leader in Club Work
Mrs. Nicholas Peterson, of Tifton,
who was signally honored for her
activity in club work by being elect
ed a lifetime director of the Georgia
Federation of Women’s Clubs at the
recent state meeting in Rome, is one
of the originators of the idea for
tlie federation's industrial school at
Tallulah Falls, and a director of that
institution, and known throughout
the south.
H. H. Dean, of Gainesville, one
of the leading business men and
capitalists of north Georgia; an ac
tive leader in Democratic policies
for many years, often mentioned as
a candidate for the United States
senate, and an outstanding Geor
gian in every particular.
Pleasant A. Stovall, president and
publisher of the Savannah Press: a
delegate to all national Democratic
conventions for the past 20 years.
United States minister to Switzer
land under the administration of
President. Wilson, and a notable fig
ure in Democratic politics through
out the present generation.
The electors from the state-at
large are: Former Governor Nat E.
Harris, of Macon, president of the
board of trustees of Georgia Tech,
and intensely devoted to that insti
tution; honored by Georgians in
many ways throughout a long life
of activity in politics and public af
fairs; one of the best-beloved men
in the state, and John G. Valentino,
of Savannah, representative of the
younger element in Georgia Democ
racy; former president of the Geor
gia Federation of Labor, former
member of the Chatham county
delegation in the Georgia house of
representatives. progressive leader
in all labor and child labor legisla
tion, and an outstanding figure in
state politics.
The alternate electors from the
state-at-large are: AV. E. Simmons,
editor of the Gwinnett Journal, at
Lawrenceville, and a war-horse in
Democratic politics, and Hugh Rowe,
editor of the Athens Banner, and
a leader in Democratic politics in
northeast Georgia.
District Delegates
Among the district delegates are:
Willem D. Bell. Sardis banker and
farmer, and member of the legisla
ture from Burke county: T. R. Skit
tles. of Sylvania, banker and promi
nent business man; Judge W. A.
Covington, of Moultrie, prominent
lawyer and jurist, Avho is a repre
sentative of Colquitt county in the
legislature and the leader in much
constructive legislation; Mrs. Nora
A. Smith, of Ashburn, editor of the
Wiregrass Farmer, and the daugh
ter of one of the best-known news
paper men in the state; Charles E.
Brown, editor of the Cordele Dis
patch, a member of Governor Walk
er’s staff and a wheelhorse in the
cause of Democracy throughout
many campaigns; L. H. Chappell, of
Columbus, several times mayor, and
Representative A. S. Camp, of Cow
eta county, one of the youngest but
most active members of the legis
lature.
Other prominent delegates in
clude Representative A. J AV odd
ruff of DeKalb county, president
of the Woodruff Machinery com
pany in Atlanta; successful busi
ness man, and author of the bill
to abolish pool rooms that created
a furore during the last session of
the legislature. Andrew C. Erwin,
of Athens, prominent business man
who led the fight for the district
caucuses before the state conven
tion; Miss Marian Colley, of AA ash
ington, daughter of Hon. Frank H.
Colley, one of the old guard of
Wilkes county democracy. Albert
C. Foster, Madison lawyer and po
litica Header, and solicitor of the
Morgan city court, whose mother is
related to Mr. McAdoo; Senator A.
O Nix, of Lawrenceville, former
member of the state senate an<J an
aggressive leader in that body, prom
inent lawyer and one of the few
men in the state who have declined
an appointment to a superior court
judgeship, and Miss Annie Wright,
of Augusta, daughter of the late
H Gregg Wright, the former bril
liant editor of the Augusta Chron
icle and a leader in women s club
work and social life in
county.
Outstanding Figures
Still other outstanding Georgians
on the delegation are John T. West
of Thomson, prominent attorney ana
wheel horse of democracy in the
Tenth district, who attracted na
tion-wide attention by his persist
ent fight upon the policies of his
distinguished fellow townsman, the
late Senator Thomas E. Watson, and
has been active in Democratic poli
tics for many years; Frank M. Scar
lett, prominent Brunswick attorney
and solicitor of the city coui- there,
C D. Rountree, editor of the
Wrightsville Headlight and presi
dent of the Georgia Press associa
tion; Perry D Rich, of Miller coun
ty, former member of the Georgia
legislature and an active Pemo
cratic worker; L. L. Griner, of Fitz
gerald, representative of Ben Hill
county in the legislature and a
member of Governor Walker s
staff; Mrs. Bettie R. Cobb, of Car
rollton, prominent in club work and
the social life of Carroll county;
Mrs. Z. V. Peterson, of Decatur,
leader in women’s club, political and
parent-teacher activities; Louis P.
Marquard, of Atlanta, attorney and
labor leader associated with Solici
tor General John A. Boykin; Mrs.
C. C. Harold, first woman aiderman
in the city of Mac< n and one o the
most prominent women there; E.
B. Weatherly, Macon attorney who
did yeoman service for Mr. McAdoo
throughout middle Georgia; Mrs.
Ralph W Northcutt, of Marietta,
club woman and civic leader; J. R.
McFarland, of Walker county, for
mer state senator; Dr. W. E. Wood,
of Dalton, Whitfield county po
litical leader; Dr. Jeff Davis, of
Toccoa, a prominent physician and
leading citizen of northeast Geor
gia, and Mrs. G. A. Johns, of AVin
der, prominent because of her own
activities, and the wife of Senator
George A. Johns, the only member
of the last two successive state sen
atorial bodies.
Other Notables
Other Georgians on the honor roll
who have been markedly successful
in their chosen lines are J. H. Car
michael, of Butts county, banker,
farmer and merchant, operator of
i. chain of store sail over the south,
including twelve in Atlanta, and
the recent purchaser of $4,000,000
worth of army shoes from the gov
ernment; William Gault, ot Can
ton, real estate dealer, farmer and
capitalist, who is credited with own
ing half of his home town; Dr.
George A. Paulk, o_ Alapaha, promi
nent physician, former representa
tive of Berrien county in the leg
islature, at present a member of
Ihe Georgia workmen's compensa
tion board, and undoubtedly one of
the most popular men in the state;
R. L. Turner, Henry county bank
er and farmer, and Wallace B.
Pierce, Augusta attorney and for
mer solicitor, who is one of the
best known citizens of eastern Geor
gia, and Byrd B. Lovett, Sanders
ville cotton factor.
Outstanding Georgians on the
delegation also include D. M. Park
er, of Waycross, member <>( the law
firm of Parker & Parker and a cous
in of Representative Calvin Park
er, of Ware county; N. L. Gillis
Jr., solicitor of the Soperton city
court, operator of a. 100-plow farm,
son of the ordinary of Treutlen
county and a brother of State Sena
tor Jim Gillis; Mrs. Lena B. Steven
son. Savannah club and school
worker and civic and social leader:
Francis Hunter, prominent States
boro lawyer and solicitor general of
the Bulloch superior court; John
Andy Smith, former editor of the
Talbotton New Era and now ordi
nary of Talbot county; E. E. Lind
sey, prominent Floyd county attor
ney and present chairman of the
Rome city commission, and Howard
B. Payne, Elberton attorney and Eg
bert county political leader.
Terrell Judge in List
Dewey T. Bullard, of Campbell
county, is a prominent farmer, mer
chant and cotton factor, who is
well known all over the state Judge
M. E. Edwards, of Terrell county,
is judge of the Dawson city court,
president of the Bank of Dawson,
president of the Dawson board of
education, and one of the leading
men of his section; P. S. Hawes, of
Decatur county, is a former mem
ber of the Georgia legislature; I.
L. Price, of Swainsboro, is a prom
inent young attorney and a close
friend of Mr. McAdoo, who accom
panied him on his speaking tour of
Georgia; Mrs. L. A. Whippie, of
Bleckley county, is the daughter of
Mrs. Leia A. Dillard, state president
of the W. C. T, U., and the wife of
Lucius A. Whipple, prominent Coch
ran attorney. She is active in club
and church work in her community.
Mrs. A. L. Miller, of Calhoun coun
ty. is a. social and civic leader in
Arlington. Mrs. R. G. Dickinson, of
Clinch county, is the wife of Judge
Dickinson, of Homerville, and was
district chairman of the woman's di
vision of the McAdoo campaign.
Mrs. Alexander Prominent
The national delegation lias se
lected Major John S. Cohen, presi
dent and editor of The Atlanta
Journal, and Mrs. Edgar Alexander,
of Atlanta, as national committee
man and national committeewojnan.
Mrs. Alexander is the grand
daughter of Thomas A. I>atham, pro.
nose Georgian who came to this
state from Virginia, the daughter of
COOLIDGE FACING
ACID TEST OF HIS
ABILITY IS LEADER
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi
dent Coolidge's opportunities for
leadership, for assertiveness, and
for curbing the multifarious tenden
cies of congress in the present ses
sion are coming in a bunch —all in
the next six weeks.
Not since the day he suceeded the
late President I'arding in office has
there developed such an occasion
for decision on policy. The course
of the whole Coolidge administra
tion, its character and ‘ objectives,
will be charted now and may furnish
the basis for discussion in the com
ing presidential campaign. For Mr.
Coolidge has before him these essen
tial things to decide:
First, whether or not to sign the
soldier insurance bill.
Second, whether to use *his in
fluence in the conferences between
the two houses to prevent the publi
cation of income tax returns and the
removal of other features of the bill
which are contributing to business
uncertainty.
Farmers’ Bill Next
Third, whether he will sign the
McNary-Haugen bill, providing for
the creation of an agricultural ex
port corporation, and machinery
whereby the price of wheat and oth
er products shall be arbitrarily
raised to come up to a fixed ratio
with other commodities.
Fourth, whether he will sign the
immigration bill with clauses in it
giving direct offense to Japan and
impairing the good relations which
existed with that country, especially
since the armament conference and
the recent earthquake.
lie already has vetoed the Bursum
bill, passed by both houses, provid
ing for increased pensions for vet
erans of the sixties and the Spanish-
American war.
There are dozens of other bills in
volving important principles, but the
foregoing constitute the outstanding
measures. Mr. Coolidge said at the
outset of his administration, that' he
did not care, to indicate in advance of
action, by congress what his policy
toward specific proposals would be.
As a consequence congress has gone
ahead in many instances and legis
lated without regard to possible ac
tion by the president.
Might Have Nipped Some
Now Air. Coolidge must face the
problem of rejecting bills, some of
which miglit have been nipped in the
bud if he had indicated his firm in
tention to disapprove them.
The president had taken no action
with reference to the making of all
income tax returns public. The sec
retary of the treasury has opposed
this provision, but Air. Mellon does
not have the veto power. The sen
ate has just gone ahead with the
very provision which house leaders
succeeded with difficulty in. defeat
ing. AVhethei’ the provision which
permits anyone to see income tax re
turns will be retained after confer
ences between the house and senate
is doubtful, but already there is so
much left to conference that the ad
ministration’s effort to get a good
tax bill has been thwarted.
Publicity of income tax returns in
order to prevent corruption is ap
proved, but the opportunity for In
dividuals who are not law makers to
get trade secrets is the chief objec
tion. Under the house bill, the in
formation would be available to con
gressional committees under regula
tions which would safeguard the mis
use of the data bjz business competi
tors. Under the senate bill, there is
no such precaution. Anybody who
wants to walk into the treasury and
find out what his business opponents
are doing can look at the income, tax
returns. They would be as public as
library books.
Harmful Changes Threatened
The interesting thing about the
whole fax situation is the way the
prediction of Senator Smoot last au
tumn has been verified. He was
against tax revision this presidential
year because he felt that politics
aqd radicalism would supercede and
plan for tax modification. He said
then that a combination of insurgent
Republicans, together with the Dem
ocratic minority, would be enough to
defeat the administration proposals
and might result in a tax bill that
would do more harm than good. But
public opinion insisted almost unani
mously that an effort be made to
revise the taxes.
The Republican leadership has
been struggling with insurgency.
Many regular Republicans have fail
ed to attend sessions of the senate,
at which their votes were badly need
ed. The senate bill in the end will
be a hedge podge, more radical than
the house bill. The supposition that
conference between the two houses
will make a satisfactory bill is rapid
ly growing less plausible. Air. Cool
idge himself has not interfered in
what congress has done. As a re
sult. he will receive a bill with many
features in it which would justify a
veto. »
Tn the desire for an early adjourn
ment of congress and the fear that
the president cannot overcome the
radicals who hold the balance of pow
er. the measures presented to him
very likely will bp signed.
Dewberry Growers
Form Association
LOUISVILLE, Ga., May 3.—The
Jefferson county dewberry growers
have organized themselves into an
association, and are also, in this
way, lined up with the Georgia Dew
berry association. C. V. Clark, of
Louisville, is president; J. R. O.
Smith, of Bartow, is vice president,
and B. P. Ramsey, of Louisville, is
secretary-treasurer. The growers in
this county association are expecting
a good crop, and the yield for the
county is predicted to run as high
as twenty cars. Clark & Ramsey,
the biggest growers in the county,
are pushing this crop as one of their
main money producers.
Colonel Thomas W. Latham, com
mander of the Thirty-fifth Georgia
regiment in the War Between the
States and solicitor general of the
Coweta circuit for many years, and
the wife of Edgar Alexander, south
ern representative of a large road
machinery company.
Airs. Alexander was horn in Camp
bell county, where her father was
a leading attorney, and educated at
LaGrange Female college and Co
lumbia university in New York City.
Her mother was a Miss Park, of
Meriwether county. Before her mar
riage Airs. Alexander taught in the
Atlanta public schools for several
years, and has always taken a keen
interest in state and civic affairs.
She has» been an active worker in
the Joseph Habersham chapter of
the D. A. R. and in other local or
ganizations, and is unusually popu
lar in Atlanta because of her ac
tivity in public affairs and her per
sonal cleverness and charm. In the
recent campaign Airs. Alexander was
state chairman of the women's or
ganization of the AlcAdoo campaign
committee, and the overwhelming
support of Mr. McAdoo by the wom
en of Georgia was largely due to the
success of Mrs. Alexander in pre
senting- the record n f Mr. McAdoo
to the women voters.
RELIEF PROVIDED
CAROLINA MILLS'
STORM SUFFERERS
ANDERSON, S. C., May 3.
Three days after the terrible dis
aster which befell this city in the
tornado of Wednesday, It cannot be
said that the city is back to "nor
malcy,” but it can be said that no
city could have recuperated more
quickly, nor have taken care of the
dire situation better than did the
citizens of Anderson. The situation
at the Riverside Mills, which suf
fered most, has been under the su
pervision of the president, B. B.
Gossett, now of Charlotte, assisted
tendent of the mill.
by Major Jesse Crawford, superin-
Tornado insurance of $250,000 was
carried on' the Riverside mill, while
Toxaway carried about $312,500. En
gineers stated that Toxaway was
damaged much more than was at
first thought, the large girders
which brace the building having
slipped from the corners making the
walls insecure.
Relief is being given to the suf
fering famiiles and 28 families have
been moved into houses at Toxa way,
Anderson and Brogon Mills. A rep
resentative of the National Red
Cross, Miss Dorothy Dyer, is in
charge of the relief corps, coming
in late Wednesday evening. Lefore
the Red Cross could get here local
women had everything well organ
ized, under the management of Miss
Cleo Bailey and Miss Frances Shir
ley, teachers of the Riverside-Toxa
way school. In the city Mrs. Wil
liam Stringer and Mrs. Dan Brown
were in charge of relief work.
The relief fund today amounts to
$6,200 without the appropriation of
$5,000 made by the city council. The
Sullivans, of the Sullivan Hardware
company, sent a check for $1,300,
the largest single contribution that
has been made. George E. Spof
ford, vice president of the Anderson
Mills, sent a check for SI,OOO.
LAGRANGE ASKED TO AID
CHIPLEY STORM SUFFERERS
LAGRANGE, Ga., May 3. —The
Chipley Red Cross has appealed to
the people of LaGrange for hurried
assistance In helping destitute resi
dents of Harris county, victims ot
the storm, according to a letter re
ceived here today.
The letter in part read as follows:
“The Chipley Red Cross has organ
ized to relieve the destitution caused
by the cyclone that swept across
Harris county, below Chipley, on
Tuesday morning, and would appre
ciate it very much if the people of
Troup county will assist in relieving
the distress. Nine people were
killed and many injured.
“In the track of this storm, no
property was left, so there are
many people who are absolutely des
titute, except for the torn and bat
tered clothing that they have on.
They « re bravely trying to start
over, but with nothing to work with,
no house, no household furnishing
and no clothing. We think that all
good people should be anxious to
help them.”
The LaGrange people are hurry
ing to the aid of their neighbors,
having but a few years ago gone
through the same harrowing expe
riences.
AID FOR STORM VICTIMS
SOUGHT AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 3.—Pleas
for aid are being received in Colum
bus from sufferers of the recent
storm and some responses have been
made.
Mayor J. IT. Dimon has received
several calls for aid from the Warm
Springs section, Chipley and other
points in Harris and Meriwether
counties. L. E. Floyd, chairman of
a committee dispensing relief at
Chipley, is urging aid. At Opelika
the chamber of commerce is asking
for contributions and a citizens’ com
mittee at Warm Springs is seeking
help for the homeless.
A number of individual contribu
tions have been made and other
funda are to be raised here, accord
ing to the mayor. It is stated that
many are homeless irt the territories
named and that they need clothing,
as well as money.
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TOLL CLIMBS TO 74
COLUMBIA, S. C„ May .3.—While
relief measures went forward in
areas stricken by Wednesday’s
scourge of tornadoes, the known
dead in South Carolina mounted to
74 today, with the report of one fa
tality in Lee county. The victim
was the ten-year-old daughter of
John Fortune, of Mechanicsville
township. Three persons were re
ported seriously injured, and from
25 to 30 slightly hurt in that county.
First reports from Lee county were
that six people lost their lives, but
this was later denied.
The Lee county report indicated
that the state's total of homeless
would be considerable increased, as
fifty buildings were said to have
been wrecked. The seriously in
jured were: Dr. N. Y. Alfred, F. D.
Smith and W. C. Josey.
Section of Washington
Elm Is Presented to
The State of Georgia
The state of Georgia has re
ceived a section of the famous tree
under which Washington took com
mand of the Continental army, for
preservation in the archives of the
state. The gift came from the city
of Cambridge, Mass., and the board
of park commissioners of Cam
bridge.
The section sent to the state of
Georgia is twenty inches across and
five inches in length, indicating that
it was taken from one of the large
limbs of the historic Washington elm
as the trunk of the tree is known
to have been of a much greater
thickness.
On the section Is a brass plate
showing a picture of the *ree under
which Washington took command of
the American army on July 3. 1775.
The plate also bears an inscription
showing by whom it was presented
to the state of Georgia. The inscrip
tion indicates that similar section 1 - -
are being given to each state in the
union.
Governor Walker manifested much
interest in the historic gift and will
keep it in his office on exhibition
for several days before turning it I
over to the department of history j
and archives.
Noah, 1924
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia. —A pas
senger on the Cunarder Saxonia,
which recently docked here, brought >
a small Noah’s ark with him. He ■
had two geese, two ducks, two owls. ;
eight different kinds of cage birds :
in pairs and a pair of wiut« mice
Jumps Overboard, But—
Fights Sharks for Life
NEW YORK, May 3.—To the
list of plain men made
heroes by caprice of the
sea was added today the name of
Clarence L. Staden, erstwhile
able seaman on the tanker Fred- .
erick W. Weller.
Staden, adrift in a life belt in
the Gulf of Panama, alone! except
for sharks, fpught the man eaters
for twenty-three hours with the
long blade of a. sailor’s jack, until
the steamer Dorset picked him
up. He had eaten no food and
had had no sleep.
Stade'n’s shipmates and offi
cers said he was inclined to be
melancholy, which they assumed
was the reason he jumped over
board. Their belief was that once
adrift fear of the sharks super
seded any other thought he may
have had, and he desperately
slashed and stabbed at the en
circling fins.
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ASK 11. S. COURT TO
STOP EXECUTIONS
' NEW ORLEANS, May 4.—Coun
sel for the six men sentenced to
hang at Amite May 9 for the murder
of Dallas Calmes, won a prelim
inary skirmish in their effort to save
the lives of five of them when they
obtained in federal court Satur
day an order to the sheriffs of Tan
gipahoa and Orleans parishes to ap
pear before Judge Rufus Foster
Monday and show cause why the
prisoners named should not be pro
duced in court on a certain day, yet
to be named. The order resulted
from a petition for release of the
prisoners on a writ of habeas cor
pus. The crime was committed in
Tangipahoa parish and the men
have been held in the Orleans par
ish jail here for safe keeping.
Judge Foster's order was merely
a citation and counsel tor the state
and the prisoners will argue Mon
day. If the court decides the writ
of habeas corpus should not be is
sued then the six prisoners will be
executed at the time set unless the
defense can force an appeal from
such a decision to a higher court.
Should the court issue the writ it
is said the men may have a chance
for their lives. ■
The case has been fought for
three years—Calmes was killed the
night of May 8, 1921—and has been
in the lower courts and the state
supreme court on two occasions.
When it reached the supreme court
of the United States recently that
tribunal refused to review it for
want of jurisdiction.
Defense Has Money
Now an attempt is being made to
get it into the federal courts and
renew the battle in another direc
tion. There have been ample fundj
for the defense for Italians, and
Italian-American organisations and
individuals in all parts of the coun
try early in the fight came forward
with financial assistance.
The petition did not affect the
case of Roy Leona, of Brooklyn, N.
Y„ whose protest of innocence for
thre© years suddenly gave way to
a confession two weeks ago that he
fired the shot that killed Calmes.
The other five men, his compan
ions on an expeditibn to rob a bank
at Independence, near Amite, were
two blocks away and had no part in
the pistol battle with Calmes, he
said. A statement a day later by
Joseph Bocchio corroborated in ev
ery detail the story of Leona.
An announcement by the New Or
leans Times-Picayune today that
Goerge Gulotta, of counsel for the
men, would in his petition for the
writ, charge that Governor Parker
had declared "if they didn’t lynch
them, I will see they hang,” drew
from the governor a statement
branding such an assertion “a de
liberate falsehood.”
The petition, filed several hours
later, set forth that the governor
"appreciating the probability and
imminent danger of lynching your
petitioners, immediately got in touch
with the leaders of the parish of
Tangipahoa and promised that if
lynch law was not resorted to peti
tioners would ba found guilty under
the forms of the law and would be
executed.”
Prisoners Raving
The men whose lives the attor
neys are attempting to save are
Joseph Rini and Natale Deamore,
New Orleans; Joseph Bocchio and
Andrea Lemartia, Chicago, and Jos
eph Giglio, Brooklyn, N. Y. Leona
and Deamore for several days have
been hysterical, Deamore having
reached the stage where he at
tempted suicide, and then later
wrecked the plumbing and other
fixtures in his cell. He insists that
he is aflame. Leona was informed
a few days before his confession
that, he had developed tuberculosis
and could live only a few months.
He insists that he is already dead
and has been shot in the back and
exhibits the whittled core of a
thread spool as the “bullet.” Boc- ;
chio, a gentle and studious man ;
who at one time was preparing ,
himself for the priesthood and who
had educated himself in the Eng
lish language since his imprison
ment, has been on the verge of a
breakdown for several days. Offi
cials believe Deamore and Leona are
feigning insanity because of certain
pecularities in their ravings, but
they are under observation. The ;
j Louisiana law provides that if they
should be sent to an asylum instead |
of the gallows they would be exe- I
cuted when they recovered their,
sanity.
Tn addition to the usual guard in
the prison, three derut ies armed
with sawed-off shotguns are patrol
ing the sidewalks about the jail
each night because of numerous
threats of one kind or another |
the authorities have received.
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TUESDAY, MAY fi, 1924
POWER IT SHOALS I
LESS THIN GLIIM.
EXPERT TESTIFIES
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Muscle
Shoals does not possess the gigantic
power possibilities that have been
claimed, if estimates submitted by
W. G Waldo, engineer employed
by the Tennessee River Improve
ment association, are to be accepted.
Instead of being able to produce
850,000 horsepower, as other en
gineers have claimed, Waldo con
tends that only 241,300 horsepower
of commercial current can be gen
erated the year round at Muscle
Shoals. • •
He explained to the senate agri
culture committee at today’s Muscle
Shoals hearing that he had derived
his figures from the flow of the
river over a normal year. At times,
he explained, the power would go
far beyond the million horsepower
mark but the average would not
exceed his estimate.
For this reason, he declared, the
committee must decide whether
Muscle Shoals was to be used pri
marily for fertilizer or power pro
duction as there was not sufficient
current for both.-
He further claimed that in order
to produce the 40,000 tons annually
of fixed nitrogen, which he says
Henry Ford is obligated to produce
under the terms of his bid, 257,000
horsepower will be needed, which,
he said, shows why Ford will need
an auxiliary steam plant.
Would Violate Pledge
If congress decides the power is
to be used for distribution to pub
lic utilities and industries, it “will
have violated its pledge to the farm-
I ers of this country” that the Muscle
Shoals power was to be used to
produce cheap fertilizer, ' e said.
The fertilizer provision of the
Ford contract is the “very heart”
of the bid, he added. "The com
pany expressly agrees to manufac
ture and distribute fertilizer to
farmers throughout the lease pe
riod.”
Ford could make light metals,
such as aluminum and magnesium,
Waldo said, as a by-product of fer
tilizer and in so doing reduce the
cost of fertilizer.
“If the entire cost of the am
monia or nitrogen fertilizer product
is charged against the aluminum,
the nitrogen can be furnished free
of charge for fertilizer manufac
ture and the cost of the aluminum
will be reduced about 40 per cent,”
he stated.
Farmers Held Justified
“The farmers are unquestionably
justified in their contention that the
operations at Muscle Shoals under
the Ford offer will result in cut
ting the price of fertilizer to the
farmer at last one-half, which'
means an annual saving of fully
$175,000,000 to them.”
Major General C. C. Williams,
chief of army' ordnance, concluded
his testimony today. He gave the
committee a technical discussion of
the comparative advantages ot the
Muscle Shoals proposals pending be
fore the committee.
He concluded with the statement
that “there is a chance of a heavy
loss being incurred in guarantee
ing to produce a fixed quantity of
fertilizer and it Is felt that from a
fertilizer production standpoint all
• the offers are *>f uncertain value.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 3.
Only one of Florida’s cabinet mem
bers will have opposition in the June
primary, according to indications this
afternoon. R. R. Riley, of Zephyr
Hills, was the only candidate that
had qualified, for one of these posi
tions other than the incumbents. He
will oppose W. S. Cawthon, state su
perintendent of public instruction.
Rivers H. Buford, attorney gen
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and Nathan Mayo, commissioner of ;
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to oppose the two justices of the su
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