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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
DECATUR. Over 2,000 men
are now engaged in clearing Ten
nessee River bottom lands near
here, which will be inundated when
dams at Muscle Shoals are complet
*d - f
MONTGOMERY. Alabama’s na
tional forest reserve, located in
Winston and Lawrence counties,
may become one of many game ref
uges to be established throughout
country by federal government, ac
cording to I. T. Quinn, game and
fish commissioner.
BERRY. Since January I farm
ers sell 1J5,W0 railroad cross ties
and several hundred thousand feet
of logs here.
DECATUR. W. H. Aycock,
wholesale•jjry goods merchant, loses
$30,000 Cy heavy rains flooding
basement.
SCOTTSBORO. Farmers and
merchants of this section are as
sured of better transportation on
Tennessee river, since steamer J.
• Luther Troxell is making regular
trips between Decatur and Chatta
nooga, Tenn., carrying large cargoes
of goods.
sons of veterans
OPEN MEET WITH
IMEMCE
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 3.—(By
the Associated Press.) —With approx
imately 500 sons of veterans and of
ficial ladies registered, the annual
reunion of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans opened officially here to
night, with the largest attendance in
years.
W. L. Hopkins, of Richmond, Va.,
adjutant-in-chief, estimated that the
total registration of sons and official
ladies would approximate 15,000.
“The most magnificent gathering
of beautiful women I have ever
seen,” was the manner in which Mr.
Hopkins described the visitors at the
hotel headquarters of the organiza
tion, as the crowds assembled for
registration and greetings.
Colonel W. McDonald Lee, of Rich
mond, commander-imfchief, extended
the official greetings tomgne when
he presided over the first official
meeting of the Sons of Veterans. The
commander-in-chief was the guest of
the Memphis Rotary club at lunch
eon today. I
J. L. Highsaw, commanded Na
than Bedford Forrest camp, Mem
phis, called to order the night meet
ing, while the commander-in-chief
was presented 7 by J. L. Buard, of
Chattanooga,} Tenn., commander
Tennessee division.
Atlantian Speaks
The official ladies were presented
by Dr. W. C. Galloway, commander
army of northern Virginia, while
the address of welcome was de
livered by Mayor Rowlett Payne, of
Memphis, and a. formal address was
made by Hendei-son Hallman, of At
lanta, Ga. J. S. Davenport, com
mander/ army trans-Mississipni, of
fered the response for the ladles.
The reawakened spirit of the
southland of long ago stirred aguin
as thousands of Confederate veter
ans and visitors poured into the
gaily attired city for the thirty-'
fourth annual reunion of the vet
erans and allied organizations-r-the
Sons of Confederate Veterans land
Confederated Southern Memorial as
sociation—which swung under way
with a dual observance of Confeder
ate, Memorial day and Jefferson Da
vis’ birthday anniversary.
More than three thousand of the
veterans had reached the city by
noon and took part in the memorial
service set for the afternoon. This
service, held under auspices of the
Confederated Southern Memorial as
sociation, was the chief preliminary
to the general sessions of the three
organizations which will begin to
morrow.
Memorial Services
A musical program, featured by
hymns and melodies, peculiarly
southern, and addresses by high of
ficials of the three organizations
composed the memorial service at
the municipal auditorium where the
reunion sessions will be held. At
the conclusion of this program, thy
veterans and their guests moved to
Elmwood cemetery, where the
graves of several hundred Confed
erate dead were decorated with flow
ers and flags.
Governor Austin Peay, General
W. B. Haldeman, commander-in
chief of the veterans; McDonald Lee.
commander-in-chief of the S. C. V.;
Mrs. Frank D. Harrold, president
general of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and Mayor Rowlett.
Paine, of Memphis, were speakers
at the memorial service.
Reunion officials expressed the
belief today that the attendance at
£he veterans’ meeting this year will
be as great, if it does not exceed,
the figure set last year at New Or
leans. Arrangements have been
made for more than 30,000 veterans
and visitors.
Augusta Man Testifies
To Oil Stock Losses
TEXARKANA. Ark., June 4.
Five government witnesses testified
in federal court here Tuesday in the
trial of Otto L. Morris, charged with
misuse of the mails, that they lost
money by investments in the Morris
oil companies.
Among witnesses testifying to
losses was R. S. Sills, painter, of Au
gusta. Ga.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
BIRMINGHAM. O’Dell Jackson,
third member of confessed negro ax
murders, is sentenced to hang. Jack
son’s wife, Pearl, and Peyton John
son, other members of gang, will also
hang.
MONTEVALLO. —Alabama spends.
less than a third as for col
lege tor its women as it spends on
institutions for men, according to
Dean O. C. Carmichael, of Alabama
College for Women.
SELMA. —Biggest crop of corn
and soy beans ever known in Dallas
county is being planted this year,
according to Ernest Johnson, of
farm bureau.
MONTGOMERY.—C. Homer Bil
lingsley, former food-feed clerk of
state department, is found guilty of
embezzling SIO,OOO state funds, and
is given term of from one to three
years in state penitentiary.
NORTH CAROLINA
RALElGH.—Governor Morrison
goes to Louisville, Ky., to deliver ad
dress at meeting launching campaign
for bond issue to pay costs of impor
tant program of highway and insti
tutional development.
TaALEIGH. Civilization is again
today at cross roads, says E. C.
Brooks, in address urging friends of
M’ADOO FORCES IN CONTROL
OF CONVENTION, ACCORDING
TO HERALD-TRIBUNE EXPERT
Dictation of Personnel and Policies of Four Big Com
mittees Will Help His Candidacy, Impartial
New York Paper Says in Tuesday Article
BY RALPH SMITH
NEW YORK, June 3.—The New
York Herald-Tribune, which is im
partial as between candidates seek
ing the Democratic nomination, pub
lished Tuesday morning the follow
ing significant story by Charles
White, its political expert, concern
ing the Democratic convention:
“William G.. McAdoo has cap
tured control of the organization of
the Democratic national convention,
with thirty-two of the fifty-four del
egations. The convention will as
semble here on June 24.
“McAdoo will dictate the person
nel and policy of the four big com
mittees—permanent organization,
rules, credentials, and resolutions.
He will be able to frame the major
ity reports of all these controlling
committees.
I “The McAdoo men will be in con
ference today at the New Willard in
Washington with reference to the
permanent chairmanship of the con
vention. Senator Pat Harrison, of
Mississippi, is to be the temporary
chairman and sound the campaign
keynote. The McAdoo men in Wash
ington today probably will pick J.
Bruce Kremer, of Montana, vice
chairman of the national committee,
as permanent chairman. The choice
will lie between Kremer and United
States Senator Key Pittman, of Ne
vada.
“The friends of Mr. McAdoo, in
apportioning the plums of the con
vention, say that New York, in hav
ing the convention, with the crowds,
flags, drums and national leaders in
array, is getting all that it can hope
for, and that as the south has been
honored by furnishing Senator Pat
Harrison for temporary chairman
and keynoter, the west should come
in for its share of the honors, and
that the permanent chairman should
come from there. Checking up on
the list of eligibles for th e arduous
task, the McAdoo people say that
Mr. Kremer, who is young and capa
ble, fills the bill for permanent chair
man, and that if for any reason he
does not want the job, Senator Pitt
man will fit in, satisfying everyone
but the Smith and Underwood men,
who seem to be on the losing end of
the game so far as organizing the
convention goes.
“There is some talk of Colonel Wil
liam J. Bryan for chairman, of the
committee on resolutions, if the col
onel wins in the Florida primaries
this week as delegate at large. Col
onel Bryan is in accord with Mr.
McAdoo in hostility toward corrupt
political bosses, Wall street and lax
prohibition enforcement.
“While the control of the organi
zation of the convention does not
necessarily imply the nomination of
McAdoo, even the Smith men admit
that it is a big advantage to be able
to control the big committees and
furnish a majority report on the
platform.
“Homer S. Cummings and J. Bruce
Kremer, prominent in the McAdoc
camp, started for Washington yes
terday. Judge David Ladd Rock
well, national McAdoo manager, is
on his way there, so that these, with
the aid of senators and congressmen
favorable to McAdoo, will arrange
the large features of the convention
program, relieving the friends of
Governor Smith of mental exertion
with reference to it.
McAdoo Operating Steamroller
“With Tammany leaderless, it be
gins to look as if there would be
only one steamroller in the conven
tion with power on and cups full of
grease, ready to go, and that Mc-
Adoo holds the operating license.”
Judge Rockwell, in leaving Chi
, cago yesterday for Washington, en
route to New York, dictated the fol
lowing:
"The alarm of the anti-McAdoo
coalition over the possible abroga
tion of the two-thlrds rule is signifi-
education tn give expression to en
thusiasm for truth, as he. is inaugu
rated president of North Carolina
State A. & E. college, at. exercises at
which Governor Morrison and other
I leading men of state deliver brief
addresses. Twenty - eight colleges
’ throughout United States are repre
-1 rented.
RALEIGH. General Manager
Blalock, of North Carolina Co-Op
erative Cotton Growers’ association,
announces that organization,
i through American Cotton Growers’
Exchange, will establish sales of
fices in Japan and begin to seek
that nation's business.
RALEIGH.—State Highway Com
missioner Frank Page estimates
there are 2.659 gasoline filling sta
tions in state, in which 270,000 mo
tor vehicles have been licensed, av
eraging 450 gallons of gasoline each
per year, which averages 150 gal
lons of gasoline sold daily by each
of state’s filling- stations at average
profit of $7.50.
RALEIGH. —Thirty - fifth com
mencement week at North Carolina
State college is marked by baccalau
reate sermon delivered by Dr. Wil
liam A. Brown, rector of Ports
mouth (Va.), church, and address
cant chiefl.y because the suggestion
of repealing the rule originated with
George Brennan, Illinois boss and
anti-McAdoo man. As a challenge to
the claim that McAdoo would have
a majority in the national conven
tion, Brennan suggested the repeal
of the two-thirds rule, and the nomi
nation of McAdoo by a majority
vote. To this challenge, I answered
that if Brennan would seriously pro
pose the repeal of the rule in the
convention, the McAdoo delegates
would offer no objection.
“At the time the anti-McAdoo
forces were deceived as to McAdoo’s
real strength, but now that they real
ize that McAdoo will control the con
vention, they are trying to impute
to his forces a change, in party law
and procedure in a national conven
tion.
“The McAdoo delegates are not
going to enter the New York con
vention as obstructionists. They
are coming to New York with a def
inite, fixed purpose as progressive
Democrats, and that purpose is the
nomination of William G. McAdoo
as the logical candidate to lead the
party to victory in November.
“The discussion of the two-thirds
rule is purely academic, and is of
no great concern to the McAdoo
following, for aware as they are of
their strength, they are assured of
McAdoo's nomination under such
rules as may obtain.
“In a word, we will nominate Mc-
Adoo under the two-thirds rule, if
the rule, obtains, and we will nom
inate McAdoo under the majority
rule, if the two-thirds rule is abro
gated by the convention.”
Breckenridge Long, former assist
ant secretary of state, and an in
fluential Missouri Democrat, at the
McAdoo headquarters yesterday
said:
“The statement that I have seen
in the newspapers from time *o
time that the Missouri delegation is
opposed to Mr. McAdoo is without
foundation, in fact. Any such claim
is without justification. The lead
ing and most influential Democrats
in the state are for McAdoo. Fred
erick D. Gardner, former governor
of Missouri; Frank H. Harris, chair
man of the state committee and one
of the ‘Wet’ leaders of the state,
and Charles, M. Hay, the dry leader
of the state, are each delegates-at
large and each of them unequivo
cally and whole-heartedly for Mr.
McAdoo. It is tine there are eight
members of the delegation who fa
vor the nomination of Governor
Smith, but the remaining 28 are
for McAdoo and under the u. ' rule
they will be voted for Mr. McAT ’’
Farm Relief Bill
Compromise Drawn;
Approved by Coolidge
WASHINGTON, June A com
promise farm relief bill was drawn
today at a conference of members of
the farm bloc in both the house and
senate, which, it was indicated. had
the indorsement of the White House.
Modelled on the lines of the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill, it would empower
the war finance corporation to pur
chase "exportable surplus” of wheat
and meat products, sell these abroad
and meet the loss, if any, from the
corporation’s present surplus of $161,-
000.000.
The McNary-Haugen bill was de
feated today in the house.
Last minute efforts of its support
ers to put through a less drastic
measure also failed.
The vote was 224 to 154.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
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by United States Senator Wood
bridge N. of Michigan.
RALEIGH —Loans to farmers of
state who are members of tobacco
and cotton growers’ co-operative as
sociations, will soon pass’million dol
lars, according to J. H. Bonshall, of
Raleigh, president, who says much
of this amount has been expended
I for fertilizer.
CHARLOTTE. —Tendency to cen
tralize vast power of government at
Washington must be stopped or
American nation will be headed to
ward "the destruction which befell
Rome,” says D. R. Crissinger, gov
ernor of federal reserve board, in
address to 300 North Carolina and
South Carolina bankers.
RALEIGH. William Tate, 16,
son, of Walter Tate, is bound over to
Wake county superior court on
charge of criminal assault on girl at
Caraleigh, after father had brought
him back from Danville, Va., where
he fled in father's car after jumping
SSOO bond.
WASHINGTON. Third car lot
of poultry sold within three weeks on
co-operative plan is shipped to east
ern markets by farmers of this sec
-1 tion.
GEOMS TO SAVE
jimooo intakes
UIVOERPRESEhITIAW
Georgians will save approximately
$1,250,000 on their 1924 income tax
payments as a result of President
Coolidge’s approval of the tax reduc
tion bill, it announced Tuesday
from the office of Josiah T. Rose,
collector of internal revenue for
Georgia. Savings on other taxes af
fected by tly? bill,vvill run the total
up to $3,500,000, by a conservative
estimate, he said.
Effective Tuesday, the beverage
tax of 10 per cent was abolished,
and on July 1, taxpayers no longer
will pay the special 10 per cent taxes
on jewelry selling for less than S3O;
on watches selling for less than S6O,
and on amusement admissions un
der 50 cents. The savings in this
group is expected to total $2,000,000.
The 25 per cent reduction on indi
vidual incomes, authorized in the
bill, will apply to all payments due
June 15. It will not be neces
sary for taxpayers to apply to
the internal revenue office for any
special forms or otherwise communi
cate with the revenue officials in re
gard to making this reduction in
their payments.
Maj. Martin Refuses
Proposal to Resume
World Flight Lead
WASHINGTON. June 4.—Acting
upon the personal request of Major
Frederick L. Martin, former com
mander of the army-around-t.he
world flight sq tsdron, Major General
Patrick, chief of the army air serv
ice, today designated Lieutenant
Lowell H. 'Smith to be permanently
in command of the globe-encircling
fliers.
A plain to halve Major Martin re
sume command during the later
phases of the flight was abandoned
after he had conferred with the air
service chief and other war depart
ment officials.
House Approves Bill
Extending Pay Raise
To Postal Employes
WASHINGTON. June 3—A bill
carrying salary increases for postal
employes, differing in many respects
fm mthe one approved recently by
the senate, was passed Monday by
the house.
Farm Loan Board Quiz
Urged by Committee
WASHINGTON. Jun e3—A favor
able report was ordered today by the
senate committee on audit and con
trol of a resolution authorizing in
vestigation bv a special committee
of the operations of the federal farm
loan board.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia; Generally fair, followed
by showers Thursday night.
North and South Carolina; Gen
erally fair.
Georgia: Partly cloudy; probably
scattered thunder showers In south
portion.
Florida; Partly cloudy; possibly
scattered thunder showers in north
and central portion.
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala
bama: Partly cloudy with scattered
thunder showers.
Mississippi: Partly cloudy with
scattered thunder showers.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Local show
ers.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J P Alley
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NEW m TO ASK
KU KLUX M'S JIG
IN NATIONAL FIGHT
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 3.—The
American party, organized in Penn
sylvania three months ago and hold
ing its first national convention here
today, will ask support of the Ku
Klux Klan and the prohibition party,
according to an announcement of
W. M. Likins, of Uniontown, Pa.,
temporary secretary, today.
Mr. Likins stated the party hopes
to put a full state and congressional
ticket into the field in the fall elec
tion. He said that the American
party is seeking the support of the
Ku Klux Klan because "our party
depends upon those who desire to
see the laws enforced.”
About 100 delegates are exected
. to attend tne convention. The dele-
I gates represent the Knights of
i Malta, the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, several locals
of the Ku Klux Klan, and a number
of Protestant churches.
A permanent organization will be
effected today with election of a
national committee together with a
j slate of candidates.
The party platform includes
I planks against all immigration from
southern and central Europe, paro
chial schools; belief that a foreigner
or alien breaking the law should be
deported; that foreign newspapers
should be censored and that a limi
tation should be placed on all per
sonal wealth.
Peach Growers
Warned by Experts to
Spray Hileys at Once
FORT VALLEY, June 3.—Hileys
j will be ready for the final applica-
I tion of spray during the first week
in June, and growers are advised
by the government and state labo
ratories here to spray every Hilev
tree before the close of the week.
This is an exceedingly important
treatment for both curculio and
brown rot, and as it is the last ap
plication before harvest a special
effort should be made to thorough
ly cover each peach, using the full
four pounds of arsenate of lead to
the 32-32-200 self-boiled lime-sulphur.
If dust is used the 80-515 formula
is recommended for this applica
tion.
Georgia Belles should receive the
last treatment sometime during the
week of June 9-14, and Elbertas
should receive the final spray dur
ing the week of June 16-21. Do not
make the mistake of spraying Geor
gia Belles and Elbertas for the last
time immediately after finishing Hi
leys. Wait until the dates given
above.
The quality prospects of the crop
of peaches which is soon to be har-
I vested are the best since 1918. The
fruit is remarkably free from evi
dences of the curculio, and unless
very unfavorable weather conditions
occur brown rot should give no se
rious trouble. The crop is, how’ever,
not yet made, and growers should
not become over confident as to the
final outcome. It is still possible
for either curculio or brown rot to
| cause serious losses. The late va
rieties are just completing or are
now in the stone-hardening period,
which is a period of curculio inactiv
ity. The curculio will become ac
tive again in each variety three to
four weeks before ripening, when
the acid test in curculio control will
occur. Therefore, the last Applica
tion should be applied on time, and
in addition disking under the spread
of the trees should be frequent dur
ing the next several weeks for cur
culio pupae destruction.
20 Cars of Peaches
Move Through Macon
MACON, Ga„ June 3.—Twenty
I cars of peaches from the peach belt
I moved through Macon to the eastern
| markets last night and this morn
j ing, the largest num tier of cars
i since the shipping esason began a
! few days ago. The bulk of the early
• crop will be on the market by Thurs
i day of this week. The first ship
, ments from Jones county left last
i night. The other shipment's were
■ from Houston county.
The shipping will be at its height
, within a few weeks from now.
Operation on Heart
Saves Charleston Boy
CHARLESTON, S. C.. June 3.
Stabbed in the heart during a fight
■ last month, Ernest Frazier, 20-year
old Charleston youth, has com-
’ pletely recovered from a half-inch
knife wound in that votal organ, al
though several stitches were taken
in his throbbing heart.
A remarkable operation was per
formed, following which he. was
threatened with complications, but
gradually improved and after 44
I days was discharged. The case at-
I tracted the attention of the state
medical society, members of which
examined Frazier but pronounced
I him sound in every way.
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A. LAMAR POINDEXTER,
proprietor of Hotel Tybee, who
is in a critical condition as a
result of being shot by his
night clerk.
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INVESTIGATORS DIG
INTO NEW,CHARGES
AGAINST_2 KILLERS
(Continued from Page 1)
The boys still showed enmity to
ward one another today.
They occupied different cells, a
robber suspect having been lodged
with each of them.
They paid no attention to their
cellmates and the latter, while inter
ested in them, nevertheless seemed
to look down on them. “Dudes,”
they called them contemutuously.
“Yeh, he's got furder to fall,”
snickered one bewhiskered prisoner
as he looked at Lcopolod.
Both Maintain Silence
Since their consultation with law
yers yesterday neither boy has
talked ~ with reporters.
“I felt creepy all night,” Loeb
told the assistant jailer. “I can’t
sleep very well.”
Leopold, however, was said to have
slept soundly.
Loeb was polite toward inquirers,
merelv saying when asked how he
felt, "I am sorry, but I must not
tell you.”
Leopold became irritated and
shouted “I tell you, once and for
all, I won’t say anything.”
But yesterday when their family
history was being taken at the jail,
while Loeb answered all questions,
Leopold, when asked the place of
birth, religion and similar questions,
announced: "I refuse to answer ex
cept by advice of counsel.”
Writes Love Letter
Just before crossing the “Bridge
of Sighs” to the county jail from
the criminal court building yester
day, Loeb wrote an intimate per
sonal note to a girl, expressing his
love for her and asking her not to
grieve for him, but on advice of the
state’s attorney he destroyed it.
When they first went to jail, it
was Leopold, the dominant figure
who appeared the shakier of the
two when he dropped to a bench
while Loeb stood. But today Leo
pold still had his old composure and
confidence.
“If I hang,” he had said last
night, “There’ll be one boy in the
room who will not tremble.”
Finding of a letter written to Ja
cob Franks by the boys in a Mich
igan Central railroad car in New
York has completed the collection of
evidence made by the state, accord
ing to Mr. Crowe, with the exception
of a portable typewriter on which
the ransom demand was written.
Divers are searching a park lagoon
into which the typewriter was
hurled.
Leopold ’» nshaken
The letter found in the railroad
car was part of the elaborate sys
tem of directions to Mr. Franks for
the delivery of the SIO,OOO ransom,
Mr. Crowe said. Mr. Franks first
was instructed by letter to prepare
the money, then directed by tele
phone to visit a drug store where
he was to receive directions to board
the train and car in which the let
ter was placed, directing him where
to throw the money from a window.
The plan miscarried when Mr.
Franks forgot the address of the
drug store and when the body of a
boy, found in a culvert earlier in
the day, was identified as his miss
ing son.
The promise by State's Attorney
Crowe that he will seek the death
penalty for the youths has not shak
en Leopold from the contemptuous
philosophical attitude he has main
tained since first taken into custody.
“Death doesn’t make any differ
ence,” he said. “It’s the end. Why,
nobody's afranff of death.”
He told of two suicide plans he
had made to carry out in the event
“they made it too hot for me.” One
was to get ten powders made up,
nine containing baking soda, and a
tenth filled wtih poison. His plan
was to take the poison if he was
“unable to talk myself out of the
mess.” The harmless powders were
intended to deceive analysis if a
search was made and they wers
found on him.
A second plan was detailed after
detectives found two automatic pis
tols in his home after he told them
the weapons had been carried in the
auotmobile at the time of the kid-
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THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1924.
naping as a. preparation for pursuit.
Leopold said he had access to the
pistols Friday night when officers
were searching his room for the
muddy boots he wore when the
Franks boy’s body was hidden.
“If I had only known that Loeb
was peaching at the time,” he said,
“I’d have killed myself there in
the room. Do you recall when I was
standing at my desk?” he asked de
tectives. “I had my hand on my
gun. But before I killed myself
I’d have put a few policemen out of
the way. Yes, I’d have got you.”
Leopold maintained his noncha
lant air at the coroner’s inquest into
young Frank’s death, reopened yes
terday and continued to June 27.
Loeb, called by his erstwhile hoon
companion, “that chump that drop
ped my glasses,” and “the weakling
who confessed,” had lost some of
the unperturbed carelessness both
maintained up to the time they con
fessed.
Each in his admission has shifted
the responsibility on the other of,
having struck the blow with the
taped chisel that killed Frames.
FORD SHOALS OFFER
BACKERS THREATEN
ADJOURNMENT PLAN
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pie, even so radical a course would
be open to less objection than that
which the majority propose.
“The majority of the committee
would have the government engage
in an undertaking in which any
plant, however well designed, admit
tedly may become obsolete even be
fore its construction is completed.
“How can any reasonable man in
sist upon taking the taxpayers’
. money by the scores of millions of
dollars and sinking it in great fer
tilizer plants under such conditions
when under the Ford offer private
capital to research these im
proved processes on a commercial
scale and to adopt such processes
as prove their worth, insuring that
the nitrate plant will be kept up to
date without one cent of expense to
the United States government?”
Warns of Failure
Declaring that the government’s
experience in the nitrate business at
Muscle Shoals should serve as a
warning, the report asserted that
nitrate plant No. 1 was to cost $3,-
000,000, but actually cost $13,000 -
000,and then was unsuccessful. Suc
cess of a manufacturing enterprise,
the report said, is largely depndent
upon competent, experienced man
agement, which could not be obtain
ed for $7,500, and will not be found
in a government bureau. The in
fluence of politics presents another
“easy road to failure” under gov
ernment operation, the report added.
“If congress wishes to repea the
scandals of the veterans’ bureau,
the shipping board or the oil lenses,
it needs only to turn this great
plant over to a government bureau
to be operated as a government un
dertaking.”
Scarf Pin Remains
In Infant Without
Injury for 34 Hours
MOULTRIE, Ga., June 3.
Frances Covington, sixteen-months
old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. F.
Covington, of Moultrie, is playing
around the house today none the
worse for the swallowing of a scarf
pin two and three-eighths inches
long, which remained in its stomach
for 34 hours.
The little girl, while in her fa
ther’s lap, pulled the scarfpin from
his necktie and began playing with
it.i He put her down for a moment
and on returning to the room saw
.that she was choking. Instantly, he
knew- the little girl had swallowed
the pin. An X-ray picture revealed
the pin in the. child’s stomach. Sev
eral other pictures were made and
each time it was found that pin still
was standing straight up. In 16
hours it had reached the ileocascal
canal and as it passed into it she
child suffered the only pain felt’ as
a result of the accident. Fourteen
hours later the pin had completed
its trip through the entire alimen
tary tract.
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itinl Kill the
Golden-Egg
Farmers are vitally interested in the life
and well being of the railroads. Like the
good old goose that laid the golden eggs,
the railroads have brought prosperity to
the farmers.
Pondering over their present troubles (troubles
for which the railroads are in no wise respon
sible) some farmers may be misled into being
influenced by the present agitation in the public
mind over the proposed legislation which would
further restrict the practical operations of the
W second thought will not let
eaded, fair-minded farmers
ke any hand in this. In, their
vn interests, they won’t aid
killing the faithful and help
-1 railroads—their "Goose of
the Golden eggs.”
FREED OF MURDER. H
YOUTHS ARE FINED
ON EIOUOR CHARGE
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., .Tune <
Robert Earl, placed on trial yester
day in the superior court at Tren
ton, Ga., with Judge M. C. Tarver
presiding, was acquitted Tuesday of
the murder of Lee Mayo, who was
fouhd dead in his automobile near
Rising Fawn on May 15.
Mayo. Earl and Roy Garwood, of
Chattanooga, made up an automo
| bile part ythat went to Rising
j Fawn, Ga.. where they picked up
| two girls. Mildred Cantrell and Mil
i dred Dean. The party drove out
of the village several miles and two
cf the couple sgot out of the car,
leaving Mayo, who all testified, was
drunk. On their return to the car
they found Mayo dead and reported
that he died of drinking poisoned
liquor. Later, one of the girls ad
mitted that Earl and Mayo bad a
fight and that Earl struck Mayo
over the head with a wrench.
During she recess in the murder
trial Earl and Garwood weretried
on the charge of transporting liquor
and statutory offenses, and sen*
fenced to two years each on the
chain gang and fined s7a each in
the transporting case. In the other
case Earl was fined $l5O and Gar*
wood SSO. /The girls were alsJ
given a year in the workhouse, buj
Judge Tarver suspended sentenJO
when the girls agreed to reform an/J
attend Sunday school every Sunday.
The prison sentences of the men.
were also suspended on good be
havior; .
Wade Walker, Slayer
Os Brother, Indicted \
On Murder Charge
Wade Walker, who shot and killed
his brother, Nick Walker, on the
evening of May 2R, and who was
subsequently exonerated of any guilt
in a, preliminary hearing recently
in. police court, was indicted on a
charge of murder Tuesday morning
by the Fulton county grand jury.
The shooting occurred at the home
of Wade Walker, 79 Ponders ave
nue. The indictment charges he.
killed his brother with a rifle, shoot
ing him in the brain, the bullet en
tering behind the left ear. Wade
Walker is -*£ty years of age, and
his brother was thirty-seven year*
old. „
Walker has been at liberty follow
ing his release after the police court
hearing, but warrants for his arrest
have been issued.
Walker claimed he shot his broth
er after the latter had come home
to supper in an intoxicated condition
and had cursed and abused the sen
ior Walker’s two daughters.
Eight witnesses appeared before
the grand jury during its considera
tion of the case, but the information
they gave was not disclosed.
Councilman Harry York, who pre
sided over police court when Walker
was given a preliminary hearing,
held that the shooting had been
self-defense and dismissed the
charges.
Christian Subpoenaed il
By Oil Grand Jurors
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Georg®
B. Christian, Jr., secretary to Presi
dent Harding, was one of the wit
nesses subpoenaed today to testify
before the grand jury investigating
the naval oil leases. Others called
were E. S. Booth, former solicitor
in the interior department; Birch
Helms, of New York, connected with
the Pacific Coal and Oil company,
of Fort W’orth, Tex., and George X.
Thomas, of the Pioneer Oil company.
Legality of Soldiers’ 1
Bonus May Be 1 ested
NEW YORK, June 3.—Action to
test the constitutionality of the
bonus bill is contemplated by the
Ex-Service Men's Anti-Bonus league.
Captain Knolton Durham, na
tional president of the league, said
today that a committee of lawyer®
had been appointed to determine
whether injunctions could be