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VOL. XXVI. NO. 95
HEARINGS GN SHOALS
BIDDING TO CONTINUE
UNTIL FIRST DE JUNE
General Manager of Ala
bama Power Company Ex
plains Plan of Joint Bid
WASHINGTON, May 13. The
Muscle Shoals hearings likely will
continue until June 1, Chairman Nor
ris, o£ the senate agriculture commit
tee, said today, adding that he "did
not see how they could end earlier,”
1 as he wished to' hear the testimony
expert government engineers after
of the various proposals
had conch ' 1
Supporters of Henry Ford’s bid are
expected to act soon to force a sen
ate vote on Ford’s proposal, and the
first move is likely to be an effort
to have the committee discharged, it
was said.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis
sissippi, spokesman for the Ford sup
porters on the committee, declared
today that "as far as it lies within
my power there will be some definite
action respecting development of
Muscle Shoals, or there will not be
any adjournment of congress.”
Much Testimony Coining
Chairman Norris said the power
companies’ witnesses wou’-d require
several days to complete their testi
rnony, the Hooker-White-Atterbury
bidders wished to submit more evi
dence, supporters of the Lloyd bid
remained to be heard, and he wished
to hear government experts, which,
he declared, would carry the hear
ings to June 1.
Chairman Norris, who has a bill
pending providing for government
operation of the shoals plants and
who opposes to the Ford offer, said
he believed the Ford proposal would
be beaten if it came to a vote in
the senate.
Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala
bama, who some time ago requested
Chairman Norris not to delay the
hearings and to give the senate an
opportunity to vote on the Ford bid,
is known to be prepared to lead a
fight for such a vote.
Senator Harrison has warned the
Shoals committee that unless it re
ports the Ford bill he will move to
<1 icharge the committee and put the
bill on the senate calendar.
Senator Heflin, Democrat, Ala
bama, another member f the com
mittee, also urged a report on the
Ford bid, which he favors.
Power Company Chief on Stand
E. A. Yates, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Alabama Power
company, appeared at today’s
Muscle Shoals hearing of the sen
ate agriculture committee to ex
plain the Associated Power com
panies’ bid for Muscle /Shoals.
Yates said the power companies’
offer was in the interest of the gov
ernment with the view of produc
ing fertilizer and distributing power.
He said the proposal was signed by
the Alabama Power company, the
Tennessee Power company and th-.
Memphis Power and Light company
although all of the power compa
nies in the southeast were interest
ed in the proposal.
He expressed a willingness to
modify the bid to suit the demands
of the committee.
Yates said power would be dis
tributed over a large portion of
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee
through intercbnnected high volt
age transmission lines of the Asso
ciated Power companies.
Would Ferm Corporation
Yates said the power companies
would agree to organize a corpora
ht ti m. wail a capital of $15,000,000 in
■ cash, to lease Nitrate Plant No. 1,
Bjhe water power projects to be oper
under the federal water power
act.
* The witness said he was certain
power companies in Mississippi and
Louisiana would join the bidders he
represents.
Yates said the fertilizer proposal
contained in the bits-was made by the
Tennessee Electric Power company,
Memphis Power and Light company,
and the Alabama Power company,
together with Raymond F. Bacon,
Theodore Swann and Louis C. Jones.
I'his i proposes the formation of
a cori>oration for the* manufacture
of nitrogen and fertilizer at or near
Muscle Shoals, with an initial capi
tal of $5,900,000 and the right to use
one or more processes which have
been commercially developed for
fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and
tor the manufacture of phosphoric
acid.
’The corporation would maintain
Nitrate ..mt No. 2 in its present
state of read ness as long as ‘he gov
ernment desired to hold it for ex
plosive production.
The company would construct, at
or neaFj Muscle Shoals, a plant to
produce annual}! fertilizers whkh
contain 50.000 tons of fixed nitrogen,
to be sold at a net profit of not more
than S per cent, he said.
Would Buy Sheffield Plant
"If the government so desires,”
Yates said, “the company will pur
chase the Sheffield steam plant for
$1,500,000 cash, or will lease it at
an annual rental of 4 per cent on
that figure.”
He declared the company agrees
to furnish 100,000 horsepower energy
at actual cost to be used for the man
ufacture of fertilizer at Muscle
Shoals.
Associated with the power compa
nies in the proposed production of
fertilizer, Yates said, were Raymond
F. Bacon and Dr. Louis Jones, indus
trial chemical engineers of New
York city; Theodore Swann, president
of the Federal Phosphorus company
operating in Alabama, and E. M. Al
len. president of the Mathieson Al
kali Works. Inc.. Now York city.
House Committee
Favors Revision of
All Freight Rates
WASHINGTON May 13,—Favor
able report of the Hoch resolution to
direct the interstate commerce com
mission to investigate the railroad
rate structure with a v.ew to a gen
eral readjustment was ordered today
by the house commerce committee.
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SCOLO. Italy.—Body of Eleanors
i Duse, Italy’s famous tragedienne,
is interred.
WASHINGTON. House sends
revenue bill to conference for adjust
ment of differences between senate
and house.
WASHINGTON. Attorney Gen
eral Store plans to direct personally
bureau of investigation of depart
ment of justice.
WASHINGTON. President and
Mrs. Coloidge abandon official af
fairs for brief period to enjoy them- ■
selves at circus.
WASHINGTON. Annual supply
bill.of the department of agriculture,
carrying $60,954,633, is reported to;
the senate.
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DENVER. Five miners en
tombed since Saturday in mine of
Empire Zinc Mining company, near
Gilman, Col., are rescued.
BOCHUM, Germany.—Mine Opera
tors’ association declines to partici
pate in mediation conferences look
ing toward settlement of lockout.
LONDON. —House of commons
formally agrees to budget resolution,
abolishing McKenna duties on manu
factured articles.
PARIS. —Latest returns in French
elections give Poincare parties 229
and opposition 342, 310 deputies are
re-elected and 261 new members
chosen.
NEW YORK.—Franklin D. Roose
velt, with staff of clerks, opens new
headquarters for New York commit
te for nomination of Governor Alfred
E. Smith for president.
LONDON. —House of commons,
by vote of 317 to 252, rejects Stan
ley Baldwin’s motion to retain Mc-
Kenna duties on automobiles and
other manufactured articles.
LONDON. Prime Minister Mac-
Donald, at labor party demonstra
tion, declares government’s greatest
problem at present is getting ex
perts’ reports into operation.
COVI NG TON, KyCongressma n
John W. Langley, Kentucky, is
found guilty in federal court on
charge of conspiracy in connection
withdrawal of whisky.
NEW YORK.—Charles W. Eliot,
president-emeritus of Harvard, tak
ing issue with Nicholas Murray But
ler, president of Columbia univer
sity, asserts complete prohibition is
in sight.
HAVANA. —Frederico Laredo Bru,
regarded as leader in recent anti-gov
ernment outbreak near Cienfuegos,
formally accepts President Zayas’
offer of amnesty and arrives in Ha
vana.
NEW YORK. —Work on Cathedral
of St. John, The-Divine, in New
York, will be resumed, Bishop Wil
liam ’J’. Manning tolls diocesan con
vention in announcing gifts of $2,-
500,090.
WASHINGTON. Senate com
mittee hearing contest for seat of
Senator Mayfield, Democrat, Texas,
is told of Ku Klux Klan practices
by E. J. Clark, once “grand titan”
in the organization.
BERLIN. —German newspapers re
joice in what they term the discom
fiture of Premier Poincare in
French elections, but none are hope
ful of any change in French policy
toward Germany.
WASHINGTON.—BiII to authorize
funding over a sixty-two-year period
of Hungary’s $1,685,000 debt to
United States, as negotiated by debt
oommission, i s passed by the house
and sent to senate.
WASHINGTON.—PIans to carry
fight against Ku Klux Klan to floor
of Democratic convention are an
nounced by supporters of Senator i
Oscar W. Underwood, Alabama, can- ;
didate for presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON. Representative ,
Madden, of Illinois, is given unani
mous indorsement of Illinois Repub
lican house delegation as candidate
to succeed Speaker Gillett, who is to
enter Massachusetts senatorial fight.
WASHINGTON. After senate
refuses to override executive veto of
\Bursiim pension bill, providing out
lay during first year of $58,000,000,
Senator Bursum, Republican, New
Mexico, re-introduces bill in slight
ly amended form.
CHICAGO. Cardinal Mundelein,
in his first formal address as cardi
nal, declares duty of church and
citizens is to keep American people
undivided and to shield it against
foreign propaganda.
PARlS.—Premier Poincare, in ac
cepting verdict of country against
his policies, will cease from all po
litical initiative during balance of
his tenure of office, and it is expect
ed will cancel his reparations confer
ence with Prime Minister MacDon
ald.
NEW YORK. Mrs. Eleanor
Elaine Harris, whose husband, Bev
erly D. Harris, former vice presi
dent of National City bank, is seek
ing annulment* of marriage, is ar
rested in New York for forgery of
evidence, presented in connection,
with her petition for new trial in
annulment case.
Brazilian, 118, Father of
48, to Take Girl, 23,
As His Fifth Wife
JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil. May 13
Vincenti Henrique Ferreira. 118
years old and father of 48 children,
has just announced his forthcoming
marriage to Georgiana Lourdes de
I Silva, 23.
Vincenti already has outlived
6 jr wives, the last one of which
i presented him w’th two healthy off-
I springs a few years ago.
! Besides being the oldest citizen of
Juiz de Fora, Vincenti is black as
ithe ace of spades and served three
I m isters before slavery was abolish
ed.
Woodland Votes for Tax
Os 5 Mills for Education
WOODLAND. Ga.. May 13.—At an
(election held here May 10, an addi
tional tax of five mills for education
|al purposes was voted by almost
. three to one. The grammar grades
had only seven months’ term this
i past year, the additional ‘ax insur
ling a full nine months' term for all
grades.
JOHN W,LANGLEY
GIVEN TWO YEARS
IN ATLANTA PEN
Kentucky Congressman and
Three Others Are Sen
tenced in Liquor Plot
COVINGTON, Ky., /May 13.
Judge A. M. J. Cochran in federal
court here today sentenced Congress
man John W. Langley, Kentucky,
convicted of conspiracy in connec
tion with a whisky transaction in
1922, to two years in federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga.
Milton Lipschutz, Philadelphia,
convicted with Langley, also was
sentenced to two years in the At .
lanta penitentiary.
The same sentence was pronounced
upon M. E. Huth, Alliance, Ohio,
and Walter B. Carey, Canton, Ohio,
indicted with Langley and Lipschutz,
who pleaded guilty to the charges
during the trial.
No fines were imposed in any of
the cases.
Sentence was imposed after the
court overruled motions for a new
trial for Langley and Lipschutz.
The attorneys announced that an
appeal would be taken and Langley
and Lipschutz were released on
bond pending the filing of their ap
peal at the October term of court.
The verdict of guilty was returned
against Langley after the jury had
deliberated more than three, hours. He
was convicted of using his influence
to secure the issuance of illegal
liquor permits for the withdrawal
and transportation of 1,400 cases of
whisky from the Belle of Anderson
distillery, near Lawrenceberg, Ky.,
to Philadelphia, Pa.
Albert F. Slater, former clerk in
the office of the federal prohibition
director’s office in Philadelphia, tried
with Langley and Lipschutz, will
stand trial again on the charge of
issuing the permit, the jury disagree
ing in his ease.
The trial had been In progress
since Tuesday, May 6.
M. E. Huth, Alliance, Ohio, and
Walter B. Carey, Canton, Ohio, were
indicted with Langley, Lipschutz
and Slater on April 7. All entered
pleas of not guilty, but Huth and
Carey reversed their pleas during
the trial and pleaded guilty to the
changes.
LANGLEY CASE IS AIRED
BY SENATE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON. May 13—The |
case of Representative Langley, Re-I
publican, Kentucky, who was found
guilty yesterday by a federal court
in Kentucky of conspiracy in whisky
tuansactions, was taken up today
by the house con.—nanrud to
investigate the charges against him.
Chairman Burton refused to pre
dict what action might be taken by
the committee, which also has been
looking into charges against Rep
resentative Zihlman, Republican
Maryland. He pointed out that Lang
ley’s appeal must be passed on be
fore the court charge against him
could be considered definitely con
eluded.
Pending the appeal, Mr. Burton
said, he understood Langley would
not participate in any of his duties
- - use member, and that tein-
purr.ri he had turned over to Rep
resentative Elliot, Republican, In
diana, the chairmanship of the pub
lic buildings committee.
A formal report on the Zihlman
case, Mr. Burton said, will be made
in the near future.
Atlanta Klan Official
Is Sought as Witness
In Mayfield Contest
WASHINGTON. May 13.—New ef
forts to summon N. N. Furney, cash
ier of the imperial palace of the Ku
Klux Klan, and J. Lynn Hunter, of
Austin. Tex., who is alleged to have
been financial agent for Senator
Mayfield, of Texas, during his cam
paign, were made today bv attorneys
for George E. B. Peddy, who is con
testing Mayfield’s j,eat before a sen
ate investigating committee.
Neither Hunter nor J- E. McQuinn,
an assistant cashier of the Atlanta
palace, who was summonded in Fur
ney’s absence, appeared westerday
when their names were called. Ac
cordingly Peddy’s counsel today ask
ed for additional subpoenas. They
claim to have located Hunter in
Smit iville, Tex., and Furney at
Rochester, Minn.
The hearings will be resumed this
afternoon.
Probe of Telephone
Rates and Service Is
Proposed in House
1 WASHINGTON, May 13.—Con
• gressional investigation of tele-
I phone rates and service throughout
I the United States and of the or
; ganization of the American Tele
' phone and Telegraph company and
its relations with other corporations
[ wa.s proposed today by Representa
i tive O'Connor. Democrat. New York
The Weather |
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY:
Virginia: Partly cloudy.
North Carolina. South Carolina.
Georgia: Fair: slightly cooler.
Florida: Generally fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida. Ala
bama and Mississippi: Cloudy.
I Tennessee and Kentucky: Cloudy;
moderate temperature.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy to
•loudy.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy ; cloudy.
East Texas: Unsettled, probably
lo il showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
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Phenix-Girard Directors Are
Checking Refund With
Jackson’s Shortage
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 13.—James
R. Jackson, cashier of the Phenix-
Girard bank, who fled this morning
with more than $12,000 of the bank’s
curerncy in a suitcase, this afternoon
was brought back to Columbus by
his brother, who lives in Thomaston,
and the two, with officers of the in
stitution, were counting the returned
money and checking it against the
shortage which was established when
the young cashier left.
According to Jackson’s own story,
he put all the bank’s currency in a
yellow suitcase this morning, hired a
taxicab and went to Thomaston,
where his brother resides, there dis
missing the driver. Learning of his
defalcation, the brother forced him
into a small coupe and drove him to
Columbus, stopping at the Terminal
hotel. From that place, they tele
phoned the president, Clarence L.
Mullin, who, with Directors T. W.
Britton and James O'Grady, made ar
rangements for a conference at the
bank.
The young cashier said practically
all of the shortage was in the suit
case.
Officials of the bank declined to
comment on prosecution further than
stating that it seemed necessary un
der the circumstances.
Jackson has been an employe of
the bank for four years. He is a
resident of Columbus, is married and
has three children.
Peach Exchange Plans
Nationwide Campaign
To Advertise Product
MACON, Ga., May 13.—Directors
of the Georgia Peach Growers’ ex
change in session here practically all
of yesterday voted almost unani
mously to inaugurate a national ad
vertising campaign in behalf of the
Georgia peach. Several advertising
firms in Florida and one Atlanta
firm was represented at the meet
ing. The Johnson-Dallis company,
of Atlanta, will handle the campaign,
it was stated by J. L. presi
dent of the exchange.
Other sections of the country are
producing peaches on a larger scale
every year, and the Georgia ‘grow
ers have been made to realize that
they must produce better fruit and
give it more advertising than they
have in the past, if the ready sale of
the crop is to continue and top
prices are to be received.
E. E. Conklin, of the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture, also addressed
the growers on the necessity of thin
ning out the present crop. Most of
the trees are too full of peaches to
produce the quality of fruit desired,
he said. Many Bibb county grow
ers have already thinned our their
fruit and a number of the big or
chardists in the peach belt have
done the same thing.
While the May drop is not yet
over, it is believed that over 10,000
cars of peaches will be produced in
Georgia this year. The latest re
ports from the U. S. department of
agriculture place the estimate at
over 11,000 cars.
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tional conventions soon will assemble to decide on
candidates for the highest office in the world and the
most important to you. Platforms will be written and
then will come the- appeals to the voters, followed b\
the election in November.
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cratic paper and will present the cause of Democracy
to the best of its ability, but it is a NEWSpaper first,
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SENATE SUSTAINS
PENSION BILL VETO
BV CLOSE MARGIN
WASHINGTON, May 13.—Presi
dent Coolidge’s veto of the Bursum
pension bill was sustained today by
the senate.
The action crowned with success
.he fust attempt of Mr. Coolidge to
block legislation by exercise of the
veto power.
Like President Harding he dis
approved the bill because of the ex
penses involved. The measure would
have granted pension increases to
veterans of several wars.
The vote to override was 53 to 28.
one vote less than the two-thirds re
quired.
Thirty Republicans and the two
Farmer-Labor senators voted to over
ride the veto, while Demo-
cr‘’ts voted tn sustain it.
Chief support for the president in
the discussion came from tlie Demo
cratic .side, with Senator Dial, of
South Carolina, again leading the
foes of the measure. He was joined
by Senator Fletcher, Democrat,
Floriad, who voted for the bill when
it was passed some weeks ago, 51
to 10.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, May 15, 1924
BAPTIST COMMITTEES WHIP
REPORTS INTO SHAPE FOR
SUBMISSION TO CONVENTION
Conferences and committee meet
ings preliminary to the opening
Wednesday morning of the annual
session of the Southern Baptist con
vention at the municipal auditori
um were in full swing Tues
day. Many matters of vital impor
tance to the denomination were dis
cussed at these gatherings, prepara
tory to the formulation of reports
which will be passed ppon by. the
con vention.
The Baptist editors of the south
assembled at the First Baptist
church, the trustees of the South
ern Baptist Theological seminary at
the Piedmont hotel, and the stew
ardship and enlistment conference
at the First Baptist church. In the
afternoon there was a meeting
of the board reorganization com
mission at the First Baptist church,
this being one of the most important
commissions to report at the conven
tion.
Tuesday night, at 7:30 o’clock, oc
; curred the big mass meeting of lay
men at the municipal auditorium, at
which churchmen of all denomina
tions gathered for a discussion of
present-day religious problems.
United States Senator Walter F.
George, of Georgia, and Douglas
’ Freeman, editor of the Richmond
I News-Leader, delivered the prinei
i pal addresses. Governor Clifford
I Walker and Dr. M. Ashby Jones,
I pastor of the Ponce de Leon Ave
nue Baptist church, made short
talks. Dr. E. Y. Mullins, president
of the Southern Baptist convention,
conducted the devotional service.
Coincidently, the Woman's Mis
sionary union, the great woman's
organization of southern Baptists,
opened its annual convention at the
Baptist tabernacle, to continue in
session for three days. Hundreds
of delegates arrived Tuesday for
this assembly. ;
Bible Conference Session
Another important meeting sched
uled for Tuesday night was the South
ern Baptist Bible conference session
at the Central Baptist church, on
Cooper street. This gathering dis
cussed the fundamentals of Chris*
I tianity and Baptist doctrine, the con
ference having been organized to
combat nationalistic tendencies in
religion.
The future programs committee,
at an important session Monday,
formulated tentative recommenda
tions which are certain to command
intense interest from the convention.
The $75,000,000 campaign, launched
I five years ago at the Atlanta gath
ering of the denomination, to
: finance denominational activities for
I a five-year period, comes to a close
j this fall, and it is planned to carry
; forward another campaign along
! similar lines, although not for a like
; period of time.
The committee recommendation,
I it is understood, calls for a one-year
j campaign in 1925 to raise $7,500,000
I for southwide denominational pur
: poses, the opinion being that better
■ results will be achieved by a one-
I year drive than in a five-year cam-
I paign.
j The apportionment of these funds
i tentatively agreed upon by the com
mittee is as follows: Foreign mis
; siops, 45 per cent; home missions,
| 23 per cent; relief and annuity board,
j 12 per cent and Christian education.
I 20 per eent.
Budget Needs Listed
It is the recommendation of the
i committee that the canvass of th-
I churches in support of this budget
i be conducted from November 30 to
December 7, and that such churches
as are not reached in that time be
canvassed during the remainder of
December. Throughout the campaign
for the new program Stewardship
an ( j tithing will be stressed as a
pair of the program of education.
Estimates of their needs for 1925,
< filed with the committee by the
various participating southwide
clauses, are as follows: foreign mis
sion board, $4-046,000, home mis
sion board, $1,685,637; relief and
annuity board, $1,150,000; Southern
Baptist Theological seminary, Louis
ville, $1,050,900: Woman's Missionary
Union Training school. Louisville.
$100,090; Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical seminary, Fort Worth, $530,-
000; Southwestern Training school,
Fort Worth, $50,000; Negro Theo
logical seminary, Nashville, $50,000,
and projected Southwide Baptist
hospital, New Orleans, $250,000.
The committee on the future pro
gram will ask the convention to
make its report a special order for
Friday morning.
Election First Business
The convention sessions open
promptly at 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning and the first item of busi
ness, after the devotional service
and preceding the address of Presi
dent Mullins, will be the election of
officers. Dr. Mullins has let it be
known that he will not consent to
be a candidate for re-election and
it is known that several names will
be presented in nomination. Among
these are*to be Dr. John D. Meli, of
Athens; Dr. George B. McDaniel,
of Richmond, and Dr. Z. T. Cody, of
Columbia, S. C. Tlie name of Dr.
1.. R. Scarborough, of Fort Worth,
Tex., will not be presented, at his
request.
Registration of messengers began
Tuesday at the auditorium, where
the secretaries of the convention were
busy furnishing cards and badges.
Dr. Hight C. Moore, of Nashville,
veteran secretary, was called Mon
day night, to the bedside of his moth
er, at Ridge Crest, N. C.,Jjy a tele
gram saying that she had suffered
an attack of paralysis, and was sink
ing rapidly.
Special trains bearing messengers
from distant states were arriving
all day, and when the gavel falls
Wednesday morning it is expected
that all of the 6,000 messengers and
visitors will be on hand.
Elaborate exhibits by the various
denominational agencies were being
prepared in Taft hall and book dis
plays will be ready when the con
vention , opens.
■Tlie convention sermon will be de
livered Wednesday just before ad
journment, by Dr. Finley F. Gib
son, of Louisville, Ky.
A feature of the various sessions
will be the singing of the old-time
hymns, with Charles A. Sheldon, city
organist, accompanyi.'? - the huge
gathering on the big pine organ.
Digging for Buried
Treasure in Campbell
County Is Suspended
FAIRBURN, Ga., May 13.—Ap
parently discouraged by his failure
to find any trace of buried treas
ure under the large oak tree which
he uprooted on the old McLarin
farm, three miles south of Fair
burn Monday, R. E. Lindler, of At
lanta, last night dismissed his labor
ers until Thursday. General opin
ion is that the digging operations
are not likely to be resumed.
A large rock was found under
the tree after it had been pulled
over, and it was thought that dyna
mite would be used by the seeker
of the -U’o,ooo in gold and silver
coin which he says a chart in his
possession indicates is buried be
neath the tree, but he c<|ptented
himself with a bit more digging
around the rock. Mr. Lindler is
accompanied by two blind men.
Riley Puckett and Charlie Nabell,
and has been engaged in selling the
songs which they sing.
Hoover Announces
Cotton Committee;
Jackson Is Included
WASHINGTON, May 13. Ap
pointment of a standing advisory
committee on compilation of cotton
statistics in the department of com
merce was announced by Secretary
Hoover today as follows: David C.
Reed, Austin, Tex.; J. H. Manning.
Latta, S. C.; Dr. E. C. Brooks. Ra
leigh, N. C.; H. M. Jacoway, Little
Rock. Ark., and L. B. Jackson, At
lanta, Ga.
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FLOODS IN VIRGINIA
CAUSE THIRD DEATH
AND GREAT DAMAGE
Hundreds Abandon Homes to
Escape Waters—Record i ‘
Stage Is Threatened ]
RICHMOND, Va., May 13.— The
most serious flood in years
sections of Virginia today, rendering
numbers of families homeless and
causing heavy damage to railroat*
property, farm lands, highways aM
public utilities. One person, a youth,
is known to be dead, the third
fatality in two days.
Rivers and streams in virtually all
parts of the state, swollen to record
proportions, continued their rapid
rise with no sign of abatement.
The Shenandoah river late yes
terday had reached a depth of 30
feet above normal, the highest in
more than half a century. Report*
from points in the river’s vicinity i
told of thousands of acres of farm
lands inundated, lowland dwellings
flooded, power lines demoralized and
railroad trackage and bridges
menaced. 1
At Riverton, where the Shenan
doah was at its highest, Southern
and Norfolk and Western railroad
tracks, were from four to six feet
under water and bridges and high
ways at many points were sub
merged.
A loss of more than $200,000 was
reported at Charlottesville, where
the Rivana river attained a stage
of 25 feet above normal. Several
manufacturing plants were flooded
and the city was without electric
power. Seven bridges were de
molished. I
A dam and numerous buildings
along the water front were washed
away in the Rappahanock river -at
Fredericksburg, where William Lu
cas was drowned while trying to res
cue a small boat; while from Har*|
risonburg came word that several
power plants had been put out of
' commission in that section, plung
ing many villages into darkness.
The streets already under water
contain few structures with valuable
contents but the section of Main
street likely to be inundated first is
directly in front of the Main street
freight station, across the street from
which are many retail mercantile
establishments.
On the other side of Lhe river, in
historic Manchester, many manufac
turing planijß are baling with water (
in their cellars while Mayo Island'
park, home of the Richmond base-’
ball club of the Virginia league, is;
under more than five feet of water.
The lower floor of the Potomac’
Boat clubhouse also is flooded and i
scores of shacks and shanties along
tlie river either have been washed
away or are completely inundated. i
FOURTH DROWNING OCCURS 1
WHEN’ ROWBOAT CAPSIZES
WINCHESTER. Va., May 13. '
Cletus Funkhouser, 30, foreman for.
the Winchester Lumber corporation, 1
was drowned today when he attempt-j
ed to cross the Lost river nea<r,
Wardensville, W. Va., in a rowboat.'
The boat was caught in the swirling!
water out of its banks as a result of,
heavy rains last week, and capsized. l
The body lias not been recovered. I
The Front Royal-Riverton Muni-1
cipal electric plant is completely un- 1
der water,* only the roof showing,'
messages here stated. .
WHOLE VILLAGE IN FLIGHT;
ISLAND HOMES SUBMERGED!
FREDERICK, Md., May 13. i
Flood waters of tlie Potomac river 1
caused a large part of the population*!
of Point of Rocks, a town of 300 in- i
habitants, to flee from their homes '
late last night and early this morn- I
ing. Homes close to the river banka
were almost submerged by the I
waters which rose 30 feet, said to be |
the ighest since the Johnstown
flood in 1889. Tracks of the Balti- <
more and Ohio railroad were inun- j
dated. Heater's island, miday in the '
river between Maryland and Vir- {
ginia, was entirely sunmerged, but i
the inhabitants are supposed to have !
fled before tlie .vaters became I
menacing.
Flood conditions, but without dam- ;
age. are reported at Brunswick.
HOMES ABANDONED AS OHIO
NEARS ITS FLOOD STAGE'
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, May ;
13.—Residents of Jethro, a suburb,
today were moving from their homes I
as the 35-foot flood stage in the |
Ohio river seemed inevitable before
night. The water stood at 31.8 feet I
at 10 a. ni., and was rising slowly. >
SEVENTY-FIVE FAMILIES
FORCED TO LEAVE HOMES
DRAVOSBURG, Pa., May 13.
Flood waters of the Monongahela
rived today forced more than 75
families here to vacate their home*
and many residents along the river
front moved to higher land.
Many dwellings in McKeesport
were affected by high water, it was
reported here.
FLOOD WATERS OF OHIO
COVER GREAT CORN FIELDS
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, May 13.
The Ohio river passed flood stage
at the mouth of- the Kanawha riv
er here today and hundreds of acres
of corn land were inundated.
The government gauge here this
morning registered 41 feet of water
in the Ohio river, which was ris
ing at the rate of three inches an
hour. More than a 50-foot stage is
expected. .
ALL INDUSTRY PARALYZED
AT WILLIAMSPORT, MD.
HAGERSTOWN, Md.. May 13.
The worst flood in a decade swept
over Williamsport, Md., today, par
alyzing industry and destroying
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
property. It sent residents in the
lower part of tlie town fleeing for
their lives.- '
At noon the Potomac was more
than 30 feet above normal and con
tinued to rise at the rate of five
inches an hour. Traffic over the
Western Maryland railway at Wil
liamsport was suspended.
ALLEGHENY ON RAMPAGE
ABOVE PITTSBURG, ALSO
PITTSBURG. Pa., May 13— Flood
waters of tlie .Allegheny and Monon
gahela rivers’ are doing thousands
r.f dollars damage to river front
properties and lowlands.