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VOL. XXVI. NO. 93
SUffl MINE STRIKES
WEB SUCCESS
OF NEW DEBT W
Threat to Seize Properties Is
Made by "Micum” Organ
ization—Berlin Fears Hun
ger May Bring Violence
BERLIN, May 8 The strike and
lockout in the Ruhr is effective vir
tually throughout the entire indus
trial basin, according to reports
here, and threatens to endanger
prospects of a reparations settle
ment if continued. Practically all
mines were idle today, dispatches
’' A.Khough the initiative was taken
I by tHe operators who locked out
thousands of men who declined to
accept an eight-hour day for under
ground work, communist miners
immediately countered by declaring
a general strike in the Ruhr.
Their funds are short, and their
resistance to pressure by the indus
trialists weakened accordingly,
Silesia and Saxony are reported
considering sympathy strikes. Min
ing is tied up from Hamm to Duis
burg.
Deliveries under the “micum"
agreement between French and Ger
man industrialists are threatened.
The former threaten to confiscate
mines unless production is main
tained.
If new confiscations are made, the
reparations settlement manifestly
will be badly influenced. The social
ists warn that continuance of the
strike might even endanger seriously
the reparations conclusion.
“.'.uCt M” UIIGAN IZ ATI ON
THREATENS TO SEIZE MINES
DUSSELDORF, May 8. The
“Micum” organization, with which
the mine owners have an agreement
for reparation deliv-ries, is insisting
that these deliveries must be kept
up. It threatens the seizure of
mines unless there is a speedy set
tlement of the labor trouble.
In Munster the gas supply of the
city has been cut off owing to a
•o-;l shortage due to cessation of
operations. Other of the Ruhr
towns report coal reserves to be rap
idly vanishing.
H’DON’ALD AWAITS FRENCH
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
LONDON, May B.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Premier MacDonald
s not likely to take any new step in
.he reparation situation until after
he French parliamentary elections,
vvhich take place Sunday, it is stated
it the foreign office.
The letter which Mr. MacDonald j
3 repi . ted' to have sent to Premier
.’oincare, it ;s added, was merely a
nessage Io rhe British embassy in
’aria asking that M. Poincare be in
armed of the British premier's con
versation at Cheuqers Court, last Sat
urday with Premier Theunis, us
Belgium.
II al f-Mill ion Dollar
Liquor Plot Charged;
31 Are Indicted
NEW YORK. May B.—A federal
grand jury before Judge Goddard
today handed up an indictment
charging thirty-one individuals and
a corporation with conspiracy to
violate the prohibition act and de
fraud the government out of liquor
taxes in transactions in the west I
and middle west, said to have ag- ,
gregated more than $500,000.
Assistant Federal Attorney Lemon
said the Benthei Manufacturing cor
poration, mentioned in rhe indict
ment, and engaged in making hair
tonic, had sold more than half a
million dollars worth of alcohol to
, bootleggers in Chicago, Minneapolis
and other western and middle west
'TcrtbjCities since October, 1921.
’ The indictment was found several :
| drfvs ago, but held under seal until ;
1 this ' afternoon. Louis Lurie and i
Philip Katz, of New York, and Ben- ,
jamin. Miller, of Wilkesburre, Pa., ar- <
raigned before Judge Goddard, were
held in SIO,OOO bail each.
The 28 other individual defendants,
as yet not arrested, were said to be
bootleggers, chemists, warehouse I
! proprietors and employes.
Mr. Lemon said the Benthei cor- |
poration, because it was a manufac-
* turer of hair tonic, had a permit to ,
use industrial alcohol, but that it '
had abused its privileges and had;
sold the alcohol for beverage pur- .
poses. _
No Trace of Missing
' Flight Leader Is Found;
Mates Delayed by Fog
ON BOARD UNITED STATES
COAST GUARD CUTTER HAIDA.
Atka. Alaska., May 8. (By Wireless
to the Associated Press.) —Snow and .
fog. it was feared, probably will
prevent a hop-off today of three 1
United States army air cruisers
V from Atka, island for Attu island, on
the western end of the Aleutian
archipelago.
No word has been picked up by
the coast guard cutter Haida's wire
less ns to the whereabouts of Major
Frederick L. Martin, missing com
mander of the expedition.
PORTUGUESE AIRPLANE
CRASHES IN INDIA
ALLAHABAD. British India, May
j;—(By the Associated Press.'—The
Portuguese aviators, Brito Pae? and
Sarmento Bieros. attempting a flight
from Lisbon to Macao. Chin,'., are
reported to have crashed at Papir.
in Jodhpur. _
O’Keefe “Not Guilty”
'• In Cotton Fraud Case
AUGUSTA. Ga.. May 7—William
P. O'Keefe, who was tried in superior
court here Tuesday on a charge of
larceny after trust in connection
with the alleged theft of a quantity
of cotton from the Atlantic State
Warehouse company and the Allied
Compress company was found “not
guilty” late in thr day. The jury
was out ten minutes.
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
DEATH MARCH TO GALLOWS
FOR SIX ITALIAN SLAYERS
WILL BE FIXED BY ALPHABET
AMITE, La., May 8. —Governor
Parker today declined to g'rant a
reprieve for Joseph Bocchio, sen
tenced to hang here tomorrow with
five others, for the murder of Dallas
Calmes three years ago today, and
declared that all six must die. The
reprieve was requested by Dallos
Calmes, Jr., son of the slain man,
on behalf of his mother, other rela
tives and himself.
AMITE, La., May B,—Unless
something unforeseen develops the
six men to hang here tomorrow for
the murder of Dallas Calmes will die
in alphabetical order, Sheriff Lem
Bowden announced today. By this
arrangement Joseph Bocchio and
Natale Deamore will mount the gal
lows first, to be followed by Joseph
Giglio and Andrea Lemantia, then
Roy Leona and Joseph Rini.
The only change in the plan, the
sheriff said, would come at the last
moment should any of the men
break down under the strain and be
come violent. In that event the vio
lent ones would be hanged first.
The sheriff previously had an
nounced he would leave it to the
men themselves to determine the or
der in which they would die.
The prisoners confessed and re
ceived communion at the hands of
two priests this morning. The priests
said the last communion would be
administered Friday a few hours
before the executions.
The sextet, having unsuccessful
ly fought wi'h every legal proceed-
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
PARlS.—Planet Mercury may be
inhabited, Professor Bigouran, the
astronomer, says.
BERLIN. —Ambassador A. B.
Houghton gives dinner in honor of
President and Frau Ebert.
A’ERA CRUZ. —Fourteen persons
were buried under a huge landslide
in village of Misantla, near Jalapa.
ST. JOHNS, N. F.—Premier W. R.
Warren, for second time within two
weeks, tenders resignation to Gov
ernor Allardyce.
WASHINGTON.—"Some farm re
lief measure” will be enacted at this
session, senate administration lead
ers announce.
COLOGNE—HaIf million Ruhr
workmen are idle in consequence of
lockout by mine owners and subse
quent general strike.
WASHINGTON7=President Cool
idge favors participation by United
States in International Exposition at
Seville, Spain, in 1927.
DETROIT.—Sophie Lyons Burke,
76, one-time Internationally known
confidence woman, who later aided
criminals to reform, dies.
ARLINGTON, Mass. —• General
Nelson Monroe, nephew of President
Monroe, and veteran of Mexican and
Civil wars, dies, aged 99 years.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.—Loss in
California fro mthe foot and mouth
disease is placed at $2,962,122 in
state department of agriculture re
ports.
MOSCOW.—Tshrdynzeff and Kal
inin, directors of state textile syn
dicate, are sentenced to death for ex
ploiting government enterprise in
their own interests.
WASHINGTON. —House insular
committee reports bill providing ab
solute independence for Philippine
islands in twenty years without
plebiscite.
SAN FRANCISCO. President
Coolidge has lead of 46,870 over
Senator Hiram Johnson in California
primaries when returns from 6,326
of 6,974 precincts are tabulated.
NEW YORk7=j7~P. Morgan, re
turning from Europe on the
Homeric, declines to corroborate
Wall street that his firm has under
taken floating of $100,000,000 German
reparation loan.
BOSTON.—A serum which may
reduce death rate from pneumonia
by 25 to 50 per cent is announced
at Boston by Dr. Lloyd D. Felton,
assistant professor of preventative
medicine at Harvard.
SEATTLE.—Search by airplane
for Major Frederick L. Martin, miss
ing eomhiander of World flight
squadron, will be instituted as soon
as plane can be dispatched to Alas
kan water, it is announced.
PARlS.—Members of reparations
commission are planning further
meetings with London financial au
thorities regarding project for inter
national loan under experts' plan,
authoritative sources say.
W ASHINGTON, —Another coali
tion of democrats and insurgent re
publicans in senate results in adop
tion of amendment to revenue bill
taxing undistributed corporation
earnings on granduated scale.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge and Sir Esme Howard, British
ambassador, pledge anew traditional
friendship of American and Cana
dian peoples when painting entitled
“President Harding in Canada” was
presented by the Vancouver Sun.
NEW YORK,--Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia uni
versity and delegate to Republican
national convention, favors anti
prohibition plank in G. O. P. 1924
platform, and announces that other
wise Republicans will lose eleven
important states in coming election.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
X irginia: Cloudy.
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia, Florida: Fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida. Ala
bama and Mississippi: Fair Friday
and probably Saturday.
Alabama, Mississippi: Probably
fria.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Partly
cloudy with moderate temperature.
Louisiana: Probably showers.
Arkansas: Showers.
Oklahoma: Unsettled, probably
showers.
East Texas: Unsettled, occasional
showers.
I West Texas: Partly cloudy.
irig to save their lives, were brought
to Amite yesterday from New Or
leans handcuffed and manacled un
der the guard of troops and a large
force of deputy sheriffs and placed
in the parish jail without disturb
ance or incident of any kind.
Ropes enclosing the jail were fixed
as a deadline at sundown and no
one was permitted to approach the
prison beyond that boundary. Inside
of the prison guards constantly
watched every move of the con
demned men against possible at
tempts at suicide.
A determined last moment effort
to obtain a reprieve for Joseph
Boochio was under way today. Busi
ness men and women of the parish
sponsored the movement with the
consent of Mrs. Dallas Calmes and
other relatives of her husband.
It was learned that Bocchio made
a plea for his life to this relative of
Calmes, begging that he, Judge El
lis, Sheriff Bowdon. Matt Allen, dis
trict attorney, and Mrs. Calmes,
widow of the slain man, ask Gover
nor Parker to grant him a repieve
and recommend that his death sen
tence be commuted to life imprison
ment.
He is said to have recited the part
he played in the murder, saying he
drove the automobile, which took the
men to Independence, but that he
did not leave it during the commis
sion of the crime.
Leona, who stabbed himself yes
terday in a suicidal attempt before
leaving the Orleans paish jail, was
not seriously injured, it was said.
| ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—ln an
j nouncing withdrawal of her opposi
tion to Harry K. Thaw's efforts to
regain his freedom, Evelyn Nesbit
says: “The Thaw millions are too
much for a working girl to com
bat.”
BERLIN.—M. Krestinsky, Rus
sian ambassador to Germany, leaves
for Moscow after German 'govern
ment refuses satisfactory explana
tion for recent police raid on quar
ters of Russian commercial delega
tion in Berlin.
NEW YORK.—Reward of SI,OOO
for discovery of Major Frederick L.
Martin, missing army aviator, is of
fered by North American Newspaper
Alliance to stimulate Aleutian In
dians to greater activity in search
for lost flyer.
LONDON.—House of commons
passes third reading- of West Indian
telegraph bill, providing for expendi
ture of 400,000 pounds ($2,000,000) to
establish cable system and wireless
in British West Indian Islands and
British Guiana.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Ratifica
tion of Methodist church, south, of
unification report adopted by north
ern church in conference at Spring
field, Mass., is predicted by Bishop
W. F. McDowell, chairman of Unifi
cation commission.
WASHINGTON. Senate and
house conferees agree to recommend
postponement of Japanese exclusion
provisions of immigration bill until
March 1, 1925 to allow state depart
ment to negotiate with Japan for
for exclusion by treaty.
CLEVELAND. Resolution, urg
ing settlement of Japanese immigra
tion problem by “friendly negotia
tion” rather than congressional ac
tion. is adopted by foreign commerce
section of United States Chamber of
Commerce at convention here.
W A SHING TON.—Shipping boar d
I votes to withdraw its certification
| to interestate commerce commission
| that present shipping facilities war
rant application of presidential rail
rate provision of merchant marine
act.
WASHlNGTON.—lvestigation of;
internal revenue bureau, halted by |
controversy' over employment of |
Francis J. Heney, as counsel for !
Senator Couzens, of Michigan, will;
not be resumed until after senate
disposes of tax bill, Chairman Wat
son says.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Lodge,
chairman senate foreign relations
committee, submits new world court
plan in a resolution providing for
reconvening of The Hague confer
ence by President Coolidge and crea
tion by it of permanent court of
adjudication.
CINCINNATI.—Hearing on hab
eas corpus proceedings begun by M.
S. Daugherty, brother of former at
torney general, for his release after
service on him of a warrant charg
ing contempt of the senate, is post
poned until next Thursdav.
f
River Jordan to Be
Harnessd fore Power
NEW YORK. May 9.—The Jor
dan river in Palestine is to be har
nessed for the creation of electric
power and light. Work will start
ibis year, according to an announce
ment today by the Palestine develop
ment coinii'il.
i For Receiving Stolen Goods
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9.—A
! charge of knowingly receiving stolen
j property was filed in criminal court
j Thursday against Charlotte Seay, a
negress, ninety-one years old, who
claims that as a slave she belonged
I to President Zachary Taylor. Jew
l elry and clothing thought to have
! been stolen were found in the aged
woman's home.
SIO.OJOO Loss in Fire
NEW ORLEANS, May !•.—Fire
early today in the heart of the whole
i sale business district in Magazine
i street neap Gravier, practically de
stroyed the buildings and stock of
the Lighting Fixture Supply com
pany, and Knight Manufacturing
company and the Diem and Wing
; Paper company. The loss was es
j timated at more than SIOO,OOO.
Charming Lingerie
Glove silk lingerie in pink, blue
I or white is particularly nice when
, trimmed with inset ovals of white
; silk. These ovals are filled n with
floral designs done in colors ,n pc
| t:tc point embroidery.
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■I U. S. IMG w
IS ASKEDBY LODGE
1 1 WASHINGTON, May 8. Estab
’ i Lshment of a world court at The
} Hague, to which the United States
j would adhere, was proposed today in
J a resolution introduced by Senator
' Lodge, Massachusetts, chairman of
the foreign relations committee.
For the purpose of creating the
new tribunal, President Coolidge
1 would be “respectfully requested to
1 propose the calling of the third
-, Hague conference.”
2 The resolution embodied :i coin-
• plete plait for the proposed court. It
a I would be composed of 16 judges—
f four of them deputies—who would be
- selected by an electoral commission.
This commission would consist of
• a “general committee composed of
representatives designated by the
; signatory powers, and a special com
’ mittee composed of representatives
1 designated by the United States, Brit
lish Empire, France, Italy and Japan,
t together with representatives of five
e other signatory powers, which pow-
3 ers shall be selected by the signatory
3 powers by a majority vote from time
- to time.”
Members of the. coyrt would be se
’ leeted by the electoral commission
- “from a list of persons nominated by
’ the national groups in the permanent
court of arbitration.”
The tribunal would sit at least
once a year, with extraordinary ses
j sions authorized at the call of its
I president.
I The signatory powers would rec
j ognize “as compulsory, ipso facto”
; the jurisdiction of the court in all
j cases of legal dispute concerning in
terpretation of a treaty; questions
of international law; evidence of
breach of international obligation,
I and the nature and extent of indent
; uity for such breach.
Senator Lodge presented his pro-
I posal without extended explanation
and there was no authoritative in
dication whether it had been pre
pared after consultation with the
White House. Officials there declined
to discuss it until they had seen
the text.
The action of the Republican floor
leader was accepted as having fur
ther complicated a tangled senate
situation with regard to a world
tribunal. A foreign relations sub
committee is considering the recom
mendation made by President Har
ding and seconded by President Cool
idge for American adherence to the
present permanent court of interna
tional justice set up by a committee
of jurists, including Elihu Root, and
a resolution proposing such adher
ence was presented a few days ago
by Senator Swanson, of Virginia,
ranking Democrat on the foreign re
lations committee, after a Demo-;
eratic conference.
Prisoner, Who Escaped
En Route to Prison
Here, Is Rearrested
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May B.—Rob-1
ert Lambert, federal prisoner who j
escaped from a moving train while
being taken to the Atlanta penitenti
ary several days ago, was arrested
here Wednesday by Louisville po
licemen.
LAMBERT MADE GETAWAY
FROM GUARDS OF M’CRAY
I
; Robert Lambert, the federal pris
oner arrested Wednesday at Louis
ville, escaped from the guards who
also were bringing former Governor
Warren T. McCray, of Indianapolis,
to Atlanta to serve a ten-year sen
tence for using the mails to defraud.
Lambert's escape occurred last Wed
nesday morning. He went into the
bath room on the Pullman and leap
ed through the window. He was
under sentence of a year and a day
for interstate theft of an automo
bile.
Women’s Meet Scores
Georgia Congressman
SAVANNAH, Ga.,'May B.—At its
closing session yesterday the Wom
en's Missionary society of the Meth
odist church of the Savannah dis
trict went on record as expressing
“deep disappointment” that Con
gressman R. Lee Moore, of the first
Georgia district, voted against na
tional legislation regarding child
I labor.
j The women also praised congress-
I men who voted for the measure,
I which was passed by the house. The
I bill provides that an amendment to I
j the constitution regarding federal ;
; regulation of child labor be sub- I
; mil ted to the people. ,
i The women ended 'their conven- j
I tion last night.
I
Florida Candidates
File Statements
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May B.—i
Worth H. Trammell, of Miami, the I
last of the five gubernatorial candi- j
dates to get his preliminary state- i
i ment of campaign expenditures to j
I the secretary of state, reported an ;
I outgo of $1,897.69, and contributions I
|of $655. His statement was received :
i today.
I Frank Clark, candidate to succeed •
• himself as representative in con- j
i gress from the Second district, has |
; spent $1,241.37, while Representative!
IJ. H. Smith Wick, the unopposed j
| candidate from the Third district, re- |
] ported expenditures of $375. the i
j amount of his qualification fees. Mr |
I Clark is opposed by R. A. Greene. I
I of Starke.
I .
Prison Board Refuses
Clemency for Slayer
; The Georgia prison commission '
i Thursday declined to recommend ;
i clemency for Grant Johnson, a |
| Clarke county negro sentenced to I
. oe hanged on May 16, for the mur- I
i der of Guy Hawkins, another negro. ;
I at a dance in Athens. According to '
j the record. Johnson shot Hawkins
j with a pistol that had been furnish- ’
ed him to frighten some dogs away !
I from meat that was being barbe- !
1 cued. T. W Rucker, of Athens, rep
■ resenting Johnson. ’cn i-d that thr
negro is an epileptic. Mr. 0, :tu<’k> .
j said ho would take the case to Gov ,
I ernor Walker.
FIGHT DR TAX BILL
IS GIVING MllE
: CAMPAIGN ISSUE
- BY DAVID LAWRENCE
B (S’a'i-ial Leased Wire to The Journal.)
s (Copyright, 1921.)
a J WASHINGTON, May B.—Presi
r I dent Coolidge may veto the tax bih
f and appeal to the country in the
coming elections to give him a con
e gress which will support the Mellon
e plan.
o Such a course is being seriously
d I advocated here, together with a pro-
I posal that the 25 per cent reduction
i-jin taxes dn incomes earned during
t j 1923 shall be applied also to 192-1, in
- | asmuch as the congress elected next
e I November could not be called into
• i session urttil after March 4, 1925.
f | Apart from his own personality
f j and capacity as an administrator,
® I there is no issue as yet on which
s I the present administration can go to
t- the country. The opposition will, of
: course, have plenty of basis for at
e
.. tack, but it is not the purpose ot
v i the Coolidge administration to wage
e j a defensive campaign. Some com
l Crete proposals will be necessary in
"; order to ask for a continuance in
. power.
j The Mellon plan, it is pointed out,
1 1 was received with a. wave of almost
t ; unanimous support when it was first
announced. Congress was flooded
s ; with petitions and the editorial opin
i ion of the country seems preponder
. • antly in favor of the Mellon idea.
’ j Insurgents Change Outlook
1 i Since that time, however, a com
. I bination of insurgent Republicans
s ‘ and Democrats have operated in botli
f i the house and tlie senate, not only
, ; to defeat the Mellon plan, but to add
-j on certain objectionable features,
l such as the opening of all income
- tax returns to public inspection. Mr.
i Coolidge, as the leader of the Re-
- publican party, has been unable to
• command the Republicans to follow
? the Mellon plan. His only redress is
1 at the polls, where it can be decid
i ed which brand o f Republicans the
| electorate wants and whether the
• country wished to replace Republic-
- ains with Democrats.
> The whole theory of the Demo
-1 cratic plan has been that it is bound
■ to be more popular than the Mellon
• plan when fully explained to the
voter. The administration is being
urged to take a contrary view,
■ namely that the Mellon plan when
explained will have the same sup-
■ port at the polls as it was given by
I the editors before it was apparent
■ that there would be partisan divi
i sion.
Which would help business? An
acceptance by the president of the
; bill proposed by congress, or a fight
i in a campaign to get a congress
j that would be committed 'to sup-
I port the Mellon plan?
There is abundant evidence that ;
i the uncertainty over tax revision j
j has been a factor in adverse busi
ness conditions here and there The
■ whole situation has been so confused
I in congress that many business men
i have not realized that they would
j be given a cut of 25 per cent on
j their 1923 incomes payable this
year.
Slash Assurance Would Help '
If in addition to that they knew :
that the incomes received during,
the present year would be taxed at ;
I a 25 per cent reduction when pa ! d I
; in March, 1925, they would be able j
to make their plans accordingly. A i
flat 25 per cent reduction would, in
many ways, be easier to compute
than the present house or senate bill
with its complications.
There is another school of thought,
however, which says the present bill
ought to be accepted by the presi
dent and a fight waged for further
tax revision later on. If the pub
licity feature of the bill and other
seriously objectionable clauses were
eliminated such a course might be ’
viewed with more favor at the White i
House.
The >sli of the whole thing Is ■
that congress is about to furnish I
the president with a vital issue bn 1
which to base his appeal for election I
next November. Whether he signs |
the pending bill or vetoes it the !
president will continue his effort to .
get a scientifically adjustment of;
tax schemes adopted, the fundamen- i
tai principles of which were outlined ;
by his secretary of the treasury. Sev- i
eral changes in the original Mellon ’
plan are .acceptable to the adminis
tration, in fact, the treasury itself
helped to make some, but on the big
question of surtaxes the administra- i
tion is not yet in a mood to coin- |
’>t'om se.
GIFT TAX TS WRITTEN IN;
COMMITTEE OVERRIDDEN’
WASHINGTON, May 8.--The sen-1
ate today approved without a record ■
I vote a gift tax written into the reve- '
I nue bill by the house, but rejected
I by the senate finance committee. I
Modified raters, however, were ac- I
j cepted to conform with the schedule ;
I for the inheritance tax approved ■
j last night, starting at 2 per cent at |
i $25,000, and graduating to 36 per ,
: cent on gifts over $5,000,000.
I An amendment offered by Senator I
I MeKiYiley, Republican, Illinois, pro- |
I posing to restore the postal rates es- 1
Ifective in 1919 on newspapers, was
| approved.
The amendment was adopted 55 to ;
■ 18. It would make the rates on
; fourth class mail matter 1 1-2 cents al
pound for first and second zones:
two cents for the third; three cents
for the fourth: 3 1-2 cents for fifth;!
j 4 cents for sixth; five cents for thei
! seventh, and 5 1-2 cents for the;
j eighth.
j The Democrats yesterday gained
| one of their principal objectives, I
; when a graduated tax on undistri- j
1 buted profits of corporations—sec- {
j ond on their program only to their ■
I income tax schedule —was put into :
j the bill after a ten hour contest. >
I Republican insurgents, who made I
; possible the adoption of the Demo- |
i cratic income rates, again joined I
' forces with the minority on the cor- I
i poration tax.
Republican organization leaders
j continued hopeful today, however, ;
j that a reversal of the income tax
| vote might be gained on the final
; test when the measure as whole |
! comes up for approval, but little in
dication of a break in the insurgent !
i ranks was in evidence.
President Coolidge has let it be
known that he is even more op
posed to the .corporation tax a'lcpt
rd yesterday ' the provision fur
• 1.1 pu' lick of tax returns, than
I •> ht- D ii ’ ’n? schedule
|ln view of the decisive vote—4B to
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, May 10,1924
Married Sixty-Three Years Wednesday
This couple—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laurent Powell, pioneer
residents of Atlanta—celebrated the sixty-third anniversary of
their marriage Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Powell’s daughter,
Mrs. Ida Higgins, 195 Whitehall street. Mr. Powell is ninety and
Mrs. Powell seventy-nine years old. —Staff photo by Winn.
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MR. AND MRS. CHARLES POWELL
OBSERVE 63RD ANNIVERSARY
A tiny white-haired lady who pre
fers her rolling chair to an auto
mobile, and a grizzled veteran of
the sixties —a native of England and
the son of a shawl manufacturer at
Birmingham—celebrated Wednesday
the sixty-third anniversary of their
wedding that took place in Shelby
ville, Tenn., the year the War Be
tween the States began.
This couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Laurent Powell, moved to Atlanta
fifty-four years ago when the streets
were “knee-deep” in mud and north
Atlanta a mass of blackberry thick
ets and “squirrel woods.” Now they
are living quietly at the home of
Mrs. Powell's daughter, Mrs. Ida B.
Higgins, at 195 Whitehall street,
where the Atlanta Doll hospital, one
of Atlanta’s unique institutions, is
operated.
Mr. Powell sat on the porch Thurs
day morning in the sunshine, a re
markably well-.Tireservd man who
will celebrate his ninety-first birth
day on June 25, several months be
fore his wife, on September 13, will
celebrate her eightieth birthday. He
reads signs across the street without
glasses, and his wife also disclaims
the use of her spectacles, which she
carries more for show than for any
thing else, she says.
Ride in Ambulance
Mrs. Powell suffered a fall last
November and cannot walk a step,
but moves about in a rolling chair
that, by peculiar co incident, former
ly was used by her daughter, Mrs.
Higgins, during the time that she
was crippled by a fractured hip.
Wednesday, on her anniversary, she
was taken on a two-hour ride through 1
Writ of Error Plea
May Stop Kentucky
Triple Electrocution
EDDYVILLE, Ky., May B. '
Whether the first triple electrocu
tion in Kentucky is staged in the
western state penitentiary here early
Friday depended today upon possi
bility of presentation to the su
preme court of a plea for a writ of I
error in the case of Frank Thomas, j
71, murderer, and action of that!
high tribunal. The aged man, with
a record of three men slain, faces |
the chair for the killing of hisj
friend and benefactor, Lee Arbegust l
With Thomas in the prison death i
house are George VVeick, senlvncfed
to die for the murder near Louis-1
viile, of William Oelke, a fellow
farmer, and Charles Miller, negro,'
given the death penalty tor rnurde. 1
of two railroad guards. The aged ■
prisoner apparently had abandoneilj
hope and declared he was ready to.
die. ;
27—for full publicity of returns, the
Republican leaders have decided to
center their efforts to defeat this
proposal on inference action on the
bill. Some of them also expressed
doubt today that the* action on th<
corporation tax could be overturned.
The Democratic corporation tax
plan was adopted last night by a <
vote of 43 to 32, six Republican in- '
surgents noting with the Demo
crats. It would provide, i;t place of;
tiie present flat tax of 12 1-2 per',
cent on corporations, a normal tax i
of 9 per cent on corporatio’i earn-;
ings and a graduated scale of rates |
starting at one-fourth of one peri
cent on 10 per cent of undistributed I
profits. A maximum rate of forty !
per cent is fixed, applying on all '
undistributed profits in excess of!
60 per cent.
On motion of Senator Walsh. •
Demcerat. Massachusetts, the sen-i
ate, wh.bout a record vote and prac- '
licaliy without dissent, also substi-1
tilted an tnheri: .tice for the present
estat” tax last uigiu, making the j
•-vy ■ ...'.-ble )• btne. • • of es
ta • - T i 1 of inking it before the
estates are divided.
Atlanta, accompanied by her hus
band and daughter, in the Poole am
bulance. through lhe courtesy of
Harry G. Fople and members of his
establishment.
Mr. Powell came to the United
States when he was fourteen years
old, and hqd never seen a negro un
til he landed in this country, accom
panied by his brother. They both
wondered why the negroes “didn't
wash the smut off their faces.” His
marriage to Miss Almedia Marshall
took place at Shelbyville on May 7,
1861, several months after the open
ing of the War Between the States.
Mr. Powell wears a Confederate cross
smybolic of his service during tiie
war, as a repair machinist in a gun
ners' unit.
Autos “Go Too Fast"
“We didn't have automobiles in
those days, thank the Lord,” declared
Mr. Powell. “They go too fast and
kill more people than anything 1
know of.” Mrs. Powell, likewise,
had a wholesome fear of such ve
hicles, and her parting words to the
reporter and photographer was a
prayer that they would escape in
jury on the “dizzy streets.”
Flowers and other gifts sent by
friends made the anniversary cele
bration a particularly happy one for
the couple who probably have been
married longer than any other cou
ple in Atlanta or vicinity. To Mrs.
Higgins, their sole support, the cou
ple are just “her babies,” and her
work at th’ Doll Hospital, she says,
is a labor of love because it enables
her to care for them.
Triumvirate to Rule
Tammany; Son-in-Law
Os Murphy Declines
NEW YORK, May B.—Surrogate
James A. Foley, son-in-law of the
late Charles F. Murphy, has declin
ed to be a candidate for chieftain of
Tammany hall, according to the
New York Evening World today,
which says a triumvirate will pre
, side over the destinies of Tammany
■ hall.
The triumvirate, the newspaper
| says it is informed from well-authen
i ticated sources, will consist of for*
i mer Sheriff Thomas Foley, Murphy’s
’ right-hand man; Frank Goodwin,
clerk of the city court, and Sheriff
Peter A. Dooling.
Bryan’s Boom Dropped
By Friends in Florida
On His Own Request
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 8.
Plans to launch a boom for the
presidency for William Jennings
Bryan, who last night addressed a
crowd of 2,000 in Waterfront park,
were dropped by local Democrats
yesterday when the noted Democrat
and dry leade rrequested this course
be taken, as it might injure his can
didacy for delegate to the national
convention. Petitions had been cir
culated asking Bryan to make the
race, but they were not presented to
him, because of the request.
Life Savings Spent
For Burial Comfort,
Laborer Hangs Self
BERNAY, France, May B.—Elab
orate preparations for his final rest
were made by Ernest Deshayes, a
laborer. First, he invested his sav
ings in a handsome oak coffin an&
in it placed a soft pillow, a hot
water bottle and a flask of old
brandy.
Then, drc.-Mng himself in his best,
he hanged himself from a peach
tree ip full bloom.
& CENTS A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
IVTADOO IS CERTAIN
TOGETNOMINATION,'
ROCKWELL ASSERTS
Sentiment of People Seen as
States Fall in Line.
Sweeping Victories-. Are
Piled Up in West
NEW YORK, May B.—William
Gibbs McAdoo is a certain winner,
in the race for the Democratic presi
dential nomination, according to his
national campaign riianager. Judge
David Ladd Ivockwelt.
Judge Rockwell, in a special in
terview with a representative of The
Atlanta Journal last night, declared
that state convention and primary
results point to a clear-cut victory
for Mr. McAdoo at the national
convention next month.
State after state falling in line
for iVlcAdoo reflects the sentiment*
of the public and justifies the pre
diction of victory, Judge Rockwell
said. He added that during the past
few days Texas, Oklahoma, Wash-1,
ington and California have stepped
into the McAdoo line.
in the Texas contest on Saturday
Mr. McAdoo won an overwhelming
victory with Governor Neff, of
Texas, running second, and Senator
Underwood, of Alabama, running a
poor third. The entire delegation
from Texas, with its forty votes,
will come to New York convention
pleuged under unit rule for McAdoo,
in the opinion of Thomas B. Love,
Cato Sells and Marshall Hicks, Mc-
Adoo managers in Texas.
In Oklahoma, the entire delega
tion, with twenty votes, has been
pledged to McAdoo. On Tuesday,
California came through with an
overwhelming victory for McAdoo
and gave him the entire delegation
with twenty-six votes. Last Friday,
the state of Washington gave its
fourteen votes to McAdoo Under the
u it rule, this rule not to be broken
except by two-thirds vote of the dele
gation.
These victories follow close on the
heels of Mr. McAdoo's victories in
North Carolina, where he was given
twenty-six votes under the unit rule,
and South Carolina, where the entire
delegation of eighteen votes went
to him.
Judge Rockwell declared that dur
ing the past few weeks there has
been noticeable change in the atti
tude of the metropolitan press in
the east and the strength of the
McAdoo movement is being more
generally realized throughout this
section of the country.
“There is absolutely no doubt in
my mind,” he said, “as to the re
sults in the national convention next
month. Mr. McAdoo will be nomi
nated. Nothing can prevent this.”
CONNECTICUT DELEGATION
TO GO UNINSTRUCTED
NEW HAVEN, May B.—The ef
fort of Delegate P. Fitch to secure
adoption of a resolution instructing
the twenty national convention dele
gates named by the Democrat!®
state convention here today for Gov
ernor Alfred H. Smith, of New
York, failed just before adjourn
ment. \
A substitute resolution permitting
the delegates to vote as their judg
ment dictated “for the best inter
ests of the Democratic party” was
adopted amid cheers.
’Uncle George’ Sheram
Won’t Hike to Reunion
This Year, He Avers
“Uncle George” Sheram. one of
Georgia’s best known Confederats
veterans, famous for having walked
to the annual reunions for many
years, has decided to discard the
“heel and toe” method and take a
chance on a train for the Memphis
gathering in June, he said while in
Atlanta Wednesday.
“Uncle George” has specific busi
ness on hand. If he is to ride he
must have the fare and from 84
years in this vicinity it was not diffi
cult for him to hit on a plan.
“1 am going to sell pecans and
salted peanuts around Atlanta,” he
said, although the peanut feature of
his wares is not as definitely settled,
as the peoans. “I got permission
from the cliief of police to sell any
where in the city and 1 am going to
get busy right away.” ,
“Uncle George,” a native of Gog
ginsville, Ga., recently has returned
from Florida, where he said the bad
weather played havoc with his pedal
activities. He is full of hope, how
ever, and the same glint of deter
mination that shone at northern line®
in the 60’s still flashes from his blue
eyes.
“I decided it-would be too hot in
June to walk to Memphis,” he said.
“I'm a year older than I was last year
and I’m beginning to feel my age a
little. I don’t think it hardly -would
be safe to attempt to make the trip
afoot.”
But when the “boys in gray” con
gregate June 3 in Memphis the odds
all are in favor of ‘‘Uncle George”
being there. If the trains quit run
ning, he says he figures there are a
few miles still left in his 84-year-old
legs.
‘Doug and Mary’ Offer
To Visit Danish King
But Get Cold Response
COPENHAGEN, May B.—When
Douglas Fairbanks’ press agent in
formed a Danish newspaper today
that Fairbanks and Mary Pickford
were ready to visit Denmark if the
newspaper could arrange audience
for Doug and Mary with the king,
the editor of the paper rang up the
king’s chamberlgin and asked
whether this would be feasible.
“Who a*e Fairbanks and Pick
ford?” asked the chamberlain.
Learning their vocations and na
tionality the chamberlain replied
that “American citizens must apply
for an audience through the Ameci
can minister.” w A