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| NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY. F. W. Gist,
agricultural statistician, estimates
Alabama's cotton crop this year at
approximately 900,000 bales.
TUSCALOOSA.— A. J. Bishop, 62,
prominent farmer and saw mill own
er, returns home from business trip
to Marion and falls dead at home at
, Fosters, near hear, lieart trouble
Is cause.
FLORENCE. Orders are issued
by Louisville and Nashville railroad
abolishing Columbia, Tenn., as ter
minal point, effective August 15.
Trains will be operated to Florence
and Sheffield direct to Nashville,
Tenn., and from Decatur and Albany
to Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., then to Flor
ence and Sheffield.
BAY MINETTE. Sweet potato
harvesting in Baldwin county is at
its height, with 250 cars already
shipped and about 100 cars of early
crop still to be moved.
UNION SPRINGS.—New plant of
L. French Stave company com
mences operation here. More than
12 carloads of oak lumber weekly is
being manufactured into staves.
CULLMAN. Cotton, potato and
strawberry crops of Cullman county
for this year are valued at over $3,-
000,000, according to expert esti
mates.
TUSCALOOSA.—New educational
building for First Baptist church,
containing 100 rooms, and costing
oyer SIOO,OOO, will be completed by
November 1. It will be one of Tus
caloosa’s finest structures.
GOODAAATER.—John A. Darden,
attorney and county solicitor, has in
his possession bill for sale of negro
slave, made over 80 years ago.
Slave’s name was Nathan, 26,
and the price paid was $1,200. Slave
was sold by Thomas B. Burford to
John Dunn, transaction taking place
Uin Butts county, Georgia.
HARTSELLE.— Confederate vete
rans of north Alabama hold annual
reunion at their camp grounds near
here.
AUBURN.—About 40 per cent of
satsuma trees in Alabama were kill
ed by cold of past winter, according
to G. C. Starcher, former state horti
culturist.
MONTGOMERY—GeneraI hospital
board of Methodist Episcopal church,
south, in session here, approves of
fer of Huntington, W. Va., of $200,-
000 and five-acre tract of land, if
board will erect hospital there.
BIRMINGHAM—Charged with at
tempting to kiss and embrace young
girl employed by him, John Argo, 30,
Greek proprietor of fruit stand here,
is fined $250 and given six months
at hard labor.
MONTGOMERY. State of Ala
bama purchases lot on which to
, build $20,000 building to be used ex
clusively by state forest commission.
Harwell G. Davis, attorney general,
holds that state money cannot be
. used for erection of such building.
UNIONTOWN. —Examinations for
postmaster will be held here August
23. Postmaster S. D. Buck resigns
several weeks ago, and place is now
being filled by_T. C. Collier.
ANNISTON. Thomas Crews Is
perhaps fatally injured, John Welch
seriously wounded and Charles Fel
ton injured as result of knife fight
near here.
MOBILE.—With arrival here
. about middle of August of Pacific
steamer, Caribbean and Gulf steam
, :hip line with products from Pa
cific coast, Mobile enters upon new
era of business with West Coast,
made possible by action of shipping
board in forcing parity rate for Mo
bile with Atlantic ports.
MAYLENE.—B. L. Rhodes, bridge
and building supervisor for this sec
tion of Southern railroad, is found
dead under trestle near here. Death
believed due to apoplexy.
FLORENCE.—More than $150,000
will be spent in developing Flor
ence's river front. New streets will
be graded and paved and new
wharves built.
MONTGOMERY?—"SoIdiers’ poll
tax amendment” to state constitu
tion, which exempts from paying
poll tax men who served in United
States army from January 1, 1917
to November 11, 1918, will be voted
on at November election. Six total
amendments will also be voted on.
CARLOW VILLe7— First rain
since April falls here and revives
crops somewhat. All crops are al
most ruined.
MOBlLE.—Charges of bribery
against Aubrey Boyles, United
States district attorney, in connec
tion with Mobile's famous liquor
cases, are nol prossed by B. B.
Chamberlain, solicitor in federal
court. Boyles -Is reinstated in office.
BIRMINGHAM. Audit of city
books shows additional shortages of
SIO,OOO, bringing total up to $37,-
000. It is now estimated that total
shortage may reach between $75,000
and SIOO,OOO.
DOTHAN.—Edward Flowers, 52,
of Sneads, Fla., who is visiting his
.sister-in-law, Airs. C. AV. Peterman,
near here, i 3 struck and killed by
automobile while walking to Dothan.
FLORENCE.— James Simpson, 98,
one of Florence's oldest and most
j prominent citizens, dies.
Fertilizer ton
nage in Alabama from October 1
l?r3, to August 1, 1924, was -170.791
tQns against tons for same
Period in 1922-1923.
Hl N7S\ILLE. Sudden illness
WJu.e on railroad train coming here
prevents Congressman Ed B. Almon
speaking at big barbecue at Owens
Cross Roads.
HUNTSVILLE.—Red spiders are
reported in cotton fields of .Madi
son county, but as yet damage Is
only slight. Farmers are warned to
watch out for next generation of I
spiders and prepare to fight them.
REIORM.— Three negroes who
«ie employed at Thompson's road
camp, near here, are sitting O n bale
of hay during thunder storm when
flash of .lightning instantlv kills
. np s'oes, leaving one in
middle uninjured.
i «-nt ßA f‘ X ° X ’~'‘ )ne hundred and
iwentv-Lve attend family reunion I
at home of Mrs. W\_T. Killian ,
NORTH CAROLINA
—" itb introduction in
' " at * sfate port commission bill 1
of ('L?' i° ok ‘ng to restoration
or ( ape lear and Yadkin \ alley
•'anrni't ?’ con,inous *ast and west
tsllroad from tidewater ar Wilmin ■-
Alry - North ' aroliiia
nos, nf d ° Wn tO real busi "
ness of its pxtra session.
RALEIGH.— Senator Harris, of
wake county, piloting state port
commission bill through senate an
nounces to senate he and colleagues
expect to conduct fight on proposal
tor referendum to popular vote.
CHARLOTTE.—Edgar AV. Pharr,
representative from Mecklenburg
county, expresses opinion lower
house will insist on referendum of
state port commission bill to popular
’ me. Pharr heatedly denies report
Governor Morrison has asked him to
THE ATLANTA UM-WEEKLY JOURNAL
pilot bill through house and declares
he "will not do so.”
RALEIGH.—House pays tribute
io memory of late Claud Kitchin,
for many years national representa
tive of Second North Carolina dis-
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RALEIGH. Boxing would be
1 1 legalized in Greensboro under bill
I introduced in house by Representa
i tive Wright, of Guilford county.
RALEIGH.—House of representa
! lives early in special session refuses
to put limit of influx of bills when
move by Representative Dennis, of
Cleveland county, to limit delibera
tion to measures Governor Morri
son urged is defeated.
RALEIGH. —Ship and water trans
portation proposal of Governor Mor
rison is subject of two bills offered
in extra general assembly, one cre
ating ship and ports commission
and another relating to east and west
railroad situation.
RALElGH.—Erection of $500,000
state office building is provided in
bill introduced in senate by Harri
son. of Rockingham. Building would
house number of state offices now
in rented quarters.
RALEIGH. —Higgs-Roanoke insti
tute would be incorporated by bill
introduced in senate bv Everett, of
Bitt.
GUILFORD COLLEGE. North
Carolina Friends convene in 227th
annual meeting. Principal business
of first day is reading and considera
tion of epistles from London and
Dublin, two largest bodies of
Friends outside of United States.
BURLINGTON.—For attempting
to sell undivided interest in alleged
lease on oil land at Electra, Texas,
W. E. Simpson is arrested on charge
of violating state "blue sky” law
and is held by Judge Cates under
$5,000 bond.
YADKINVILLE?—A. A. Hege and
E. P. Baker, prohibition enforce
ment agents, are bound over to su
perior court under S3OO bond each
after hearing on charge of assault
with deadly weapon in
with search of automobile occupied
by H. O. Carpenter, of Winston-
Salem, and R. L. Beall, of Greens
boro, in Yadkin county on July 18.
RALEIGH.-—Sheriffs of 26 coun
ties name commission to draft bill
for introduction at special session of
legislature to extend their terms of
office from two to four years.
RALEIGH. —Confident that ma
jority in senate is ready to accept
full responsibility for enactment of
ship line and terminals legislation,
senate advocates determine to let
lower house fight out proposal for
referendum on bond issue.
RALEIGH.—Acting after two re
cently released prisoners registered
complaints that convicts at state
prison here are cruelly treated, AV.
R. Matthews, representative from
Mecklenburg county, announces leg
islative inquiry of state prison will
be conducted during special session
of assembly now in progress.
CHARLOTTE.—Kenneth Hale, one
of two negroes sought in connection
with killing near Lexington, N. C.,
,of Charles Garwood, taxi driver, is
arrested by Charlotte officers who
say suspect admits complicity in
crime but lays blame for striking
fatal blows with iron bar to John
Leak, another negro, who escapes
when officers surprise them as they
dismount from freight train.
TRYON— ElghLyard bolt of home
spun cloth, woven by hand by "Dem
ocratic North Carolina weavers,” is
sent to John W. Davis, Democratic
presidential nominee, accompanied
by explanatory note signed by F. H.
Bacon.
RALEIGH.—PeopIe of North Car
olina are called upon by Governor
Morrison in formal proclamation to
observe and lend earnest support to
National Defense day September 12,
in compliance with policies of Pres
ident Coolidge and war department
HENDERSONVILLE. Parade,
barbecue, sports contests and ad
dresses feature "Florida Day” cele
bration, attended by crowd, repre
senting score of Florida towns, trav
eling in 350 automobiles. Five thou
sand persons attend barbecue. John
W. Martin, Democratic gubernatorial
nominee of Florida, delivers principal
address.
ASHEVILLE. Three more phy
sicians are arrested in drive to stamp
out alleged violations of anti-narcotic
laws, each of whom is released on
SI,OOO bond for action by federal
grand jury. Those held are Dr. G.
W. Purefoy. Dr. M. P. Moorer apd
Dr. P. P. Chambers. Previously
three physicians and ten others had
been arrested on similar charges.
RALEIGH. First two carloads '
of North Carolina peaches ever ship- i
ped to English destination are sent j
from Mannice and Derby orchards,
and are Hale and Elberta varieties,
each shipment being classed by fed
eral inspectors as "U. S. No. 1, fan
cy.” Steamer Olympic is expected
to land them at English port August
18.
KINSTON. Eastern Carolina
chamber of commerce estimates Pitt
county, one of 50 best agricultural
counties of nation, should receive
about $20,000,000 for this year’s
crops. County's normal yield is
about 30.f100.000 pounds of tobacco
and 25,000 bales of cotton. Other
important crops also are grown.
County’s property is assessed for
taxation at $52,000,000.
CHARLOTTE. Citv board of
school commissioners authorizes em
ployment of two additional nurses
for work among pupils of city
schools.
GREENSBORO. for La- I
bor Day celebration here include pa
rade in which unions from’ High ;
Point and other neighboring towns I
are expected to participate. Varied
program of activities for day is be- ;
ing arranged.
CHARLOTTE. - More than 1,200
pieces of real estate in Charlotte and
Mecklenburg county have been sold I
{ or un P ai ? taxes within a few weeks, i
Shetiff cochran announces at con
clusion of final public sale. Own
ers may redeemed property by pay
ing taxes and costs within year.
.County bid in almost all of realty
j items sold.
GUILFORD COLLEGE—Dr. H.
' AV. Chase, president of North Caro-
I Hna university. Chapel Hill, is on
program as principal speaker at an- ■
\ nual educational meeting at Guil- j
ford college. August 9. College
faces prospect of record enrollment
this fall.
CHARLOTTE.— Thomas S. Trott,
conductor of Piedmont and Northern
passenger train in collision near
here with freight train when one i
was killed and number injured? con
tinued unconsciousness eighth day
after accident. J. F. Davis, of Kings
Mountain, also injured, continued
unconscious except at intervals.
CHARLOTTE. Miss Elizabeth
Cousar, IS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
N. B. Cousar, of Lancaster. S. C.,
dies at hospital of peritonitis fol- 1
lowing operation for appendicitis
after five weeks' illness.
MOREHEAD CITY.—John „S. I
I Weskert, of Bayboro, is named presi
-1 dent of Atlantic and North Carolina
: railroad at annual meeting of stock-
I holders, succeeding Ernest M. Green,
of New Bern. State owns majority
of stock and since Morrison has been
governor new president has been
named each year by him. All other
officials are re-elected.
GREENSBORO. —Suit for $25,000
damages growing out of automobile
accident is compromised when Miss
Katherine Hayworth accepts $l,lOO
in settlement from Mrs. AV. E. Froe
lich, of Winston-Salem.
RALEIGH. —• Annual report of
State Auditor Baxter Durham shows
general fund expenses amounted to
$8,610,000 and special fund expenses
amounted to $6,156,000. Expenditures
during year amounted to more than
$50,000,000, including expenditures
of bond issues’ proceeds.
NEWTON. —Albert D. Carpenter,
i 58, widely known farmer, dies at
I home near here week after suffering
stroke of paralysis.
AVARRENTON. Services com
memorating dedication of Emanuel
Episcopal church 100 years ago are
held, large crowd attending,
FAYETTE VILLE~— Hawthorn e
mills, established 35 years ago,
which closed down in March on ac
count of market conditions, are un
able to resume operations on ac
count of lack of negro labor, this
being first experience of kind in his
tory of plant. Ordinarily mill em
ploys 600 workers.
WINSTON-SALEM? Police of
ficers are inclined to discard theory
of robbery in investigation of mys
| terious killing of J. H. Vaughn, mer
(chant, found slain at his home
August 2. Revenge is thought to
have been motive. George Hoback,
negro, is arrested for investigation.
RALEIGH. Many fields have
been abandoned because of wet and
grassy conditions, says state depart
ment of agriculture survey' on
I August 6. Progress of cotton crop
is declared generally to be satis
factory.
KINSTON. Co-operative Tobac
co Growers’ association announces it
will operate central warehouse, one
of largest in eastern belt. Co-opera
tive growers marketed about 2,500,-
000 pounds here last season.
HENDERSON. Davis-for-Presi
dent club is organized, and drive is
undertaken to raise membership to
tal to 500. J. c. C. Kittrell, presi
dent, calls dub to meet second time
on August 11.
RALEIGH. Gilliam Grissom, in
ternal revenue collector for North
Carolina, announces 25.000 persons
will receive rebates on income taxes
under new law by September 1 Re
bates will total $250,000, and "I am
~a c' n ? task of signing my name 25,
000 times in less than month,” says
Grissom.
Mistaking his
wife, aged 27, for burglar, B. F. Me-
Largue, 26. shoots her when alarm
ed at night in their home, shotgun's
discharge tearing off her left arm.
che had been suffering recently
from insomnia. Despite delicate ply
sical and severe loss of blood, hos
pital surgeons say she will recover.
ASHEVILLE. - Dr. G. D. Gard-
P | actlcing . Physician, is held for
tedeial grand jury under $2,000 bond
O ad C aft rSe i of violatin S anti-narcotic
er Gudler nnK bef ° re Commissi<>n
wiHSllEVuVLE ’ ~~ I>lans for coping
No?th P X • f ° reSt fireS in western
North Carolina are discussed at con-
I V C H O1 a n bV State P °‘eX
J. S. Holmes; Federal District Forest
Inspector E. M. Bruner and Carl I
Peterson, state district forester.
han IC of° R csk~ Mr W ’ Mc Clana-
President f ’‘ bsan . vU,e > . >-s re-elected
president of Woman s Missionary
Society of North Carolina Lutheran
years’ ?ffiCe - she ha ' held
tion. ° S,ng of annual conven-
3OM a ? n totul' > "y
aS sas* *? j&ru Cf-
RALEIGH. Attorney General
Hw nn n n8 ’ d r lieS haVing ruled B °wie
law, providing for survey for pro
posed state-owned railroad into iso-
He tieS ’ 1S unconst itutional.
survey dlsavows a, W effort to halt
WILMINGTON.7ZF rices rangin<v
from la cents to 43 cents per pound
;.4 ( r P °V ed , frorn va| ious towns in
eastern North Carolina on opening
of warehouses for .1924 tobacco selh
ing season. Whiteville has peak
pi ice and at Rowland 30,090 pounds
of tobacco is sold_a£_ls-cent average
CHAPEL HlLL.—Severe damage
h.-mo CaUSed A 0 seve ral important
biid„es in this section by heavy
rains, causing travelers great incon
vemence State highway eoZ:
sion hastens temporary repairs.
CHAPEL HILL.-Burning out of
motor and wrecking of emergency
pumping plant by high waters re
sult in failure of water supply, town
exhausing reserves and suffering in
conveniences before temporary re
pans are completed.
GOLDSBORO~I^ usuaIIv ■ large
number of exhibits are in prospect
n' O a rnh C ° U B nty aIIUUaI °Pen-
m o October 8. says Walter Den
m.uk, secretary of fair association.
RALI-nGH.— North Carolina na
lon.il guard is instructed bv Ad
jutant General Metts to participate
i" * Na Mp. nal D J fens e day. September
"test” o S a° rders say day is b °th
m n d lnstruc tive advertise
ment of our national defense ’’ and I
each ” S '
eacn community. |
for'iu^fi E ' AIIen > nominated •
° f peace in recent Uemo-j
matic primary, is placed in jail at
CJreenville. Pitt county, on charges '
S £"’ , StOre b^ak ing :1 „d smug- '
Pit 8 hac ' Si ‘ws to three negroes fn
o lrive U n V XegrOes a * p d I
-0 have turned state’s evidence.
SMITHFIELD. Members of j
Johnston County Co-operative Mar-i
wluf associations are warned bv
Council secretar -v of National
Marketing * armer s’ Co-operative!
Marketing associations, that bitr
ba s ,n ess making nation-wide et !
dls credit co-operative market
GREENS RO Ro~ Strik : (1? tes( . '
mony of need for facilities for treat
ing Guilford county negroes who '
tuberculosis is given in Pa ;
.m b> ’ IS ' Clara J ’ Pet ‘k. tuber- 1
Y‘ s nilr? e. to district nurse and
relief committee.
National campaign !
eadquarters of Senator La Follette
- s been asked to provide one of
for bis L “»°" 1«-
-eieoration. Several nationaKlv
Known meh in labor union S.
Tom P P r T °sram as speakers. Rev.
chw T Ji “ison, labor leader and
B forces in this
s.ate. is celebration chairman.
. WILMINGTON. _ state’s road
no; d oon a L e r ? n r L ched tn nf
' " dur ‘ n o pasfr
through payment of three cents per
gallon tax on gasoline by several
companies operating branch plants
at port of Wilmington.
WHITEVILLE. —* Tobacco sales
continue at three independent and
one co-operative warehouses, aver
age prices for week ending August
9 being given by independent ware
houses at 16.50 cents per pound;
14.47 cents; 14.98 cents.
FAIRMONT. Following data
relative to total sales and average
price per pound of tobacco sold on
Fairmont market is based on official
figures: August 5, sales 215,000
pounds; average, 13.18 cents; August
6, .130,000 pounds; average, 14.08
cents; August 7, 182,000 pounds;
average, 14.56 cents; August 8, 142,-
462 pounds, average. 16.82 cents.
GREENVILLE.—AII tobacco ware
houses and factories here have been
overhauled and other preparations
completed for opening September 2
of tobacco selling season.
SOUTH CAROLINA
ANDERSON.—Archie McConnell
■ reports singing rate visits his home
nightly.
AVINSBORO. —Sheriff James Mac
fie leads raid on still ten miles from
town and officers engage in pistol
battle with negro still operators. One
negro is killed and Sheriff Macfie
suffers wound on arm.
COLUMBIA.—SIate Dairymen’s as
sociation hold annual convention on
large dairy farm near here, operated
by Frank Hampton, with Hugh G.
Van Pelt, editor of the Dairy Farmer,
as chief speaker.
GREENWOOD—U. S. Senator Dial
and John J. McMahan, candidate for
Dial’s seat in senate, engage in near
fist fight at state campaign meeting
here. Former Governor Cole L.
Blease, also candidate for senate
seat, intervenes and prevents blows.
Dial started to strike McMahan when
latter made charge that he employed
daughter as clerk.
COLUMBlA.—Enrollment in state
for Democratic primary on August
26 is 257,796, approximately 31,000
higher than enrollment in 1922, ac
cording to ofifeial records of Harry
N. Edmunds, secretary state Demo
cratic executive committee.
GAFFNEY. ■— Coroner Parker
here has requested Coroner
BERLIN AND PARIS
NOW MUST RATIFY
TERMS OF TRUCE
(Continued from Page 1)
The German delegation insists that it
made no trade on tariff arrange
ments to gain the Ruhr evacuation
decision and that it will be in the
negotiations in Paris untrammelled
by a pledge to admit Alsatian iron,
ore or othe French products free.
MacDonald Sees Hope
Premier MacDonald, in addressing
the delegates, characterized the re
sults of the London conference as
the first really negotiated agreement
since the war. It was more than
words printed on paper, for it was
in fact the first peace' treaty, inas
much as the delegates at this con
ference had turned their backs on
war and*thoughts of war, he said.
Addressing Chancellor Marx, Mr.
MacDonald spoke of the difficulties
the German ministers face. He
knew their burdens were heavy, he
said, and their people might not be
too happy at the results achieve',
but he recommended to Germany to
study the system of arbitration
agreed upon, where the defects in
the Dawes plan might be remedied.
“In other words,’’ said the premier,
“the period of national isolation is
ended, and that of exchange of views
and of reasonable exchange of ex
periences has begun. That is the
advance the London conference has
made. However, our work is only
beginning, and we must continue
step by step the work of peace
making and restoration. There is a
long way to go before we reach the
goal of European peace and securi
ty, but I think we are on the right
road.’’
Herriot Thanks MacDonald
M. Herriot, in the name of France,
expressed gratitude to Mr. MacDon
ald, who, he said, had guided them
patiently and loyally. He declareu
that to put the Dawes plan into op
eration was a difficult work, the be
ginning of a new era. All the prob
lems of the war were not solved, he
said, but he saw the dawn; France
had suffered much, but she only ask
ed for her rights.
Chancellor Marx also thanked . ir.
MacDonald for his understanding.
He pointed out the heavy task the
German delegates and the responsi
bilities they had assumed in accept
ing the Dawes plan. They were
much encouraged by the provision
made for arbitration. He -expressed
the hope that this would always be
used, and that war would come to
an end. He also hoped that in the
future there would be brought to
all international conferences the
spirit of peace which had reigned
over the London conference. Ger
many was prepared to collaborate n
the work of peace.
allies agree to help
GERMANS GET BIG LOAN
LONDON, Aug. 16.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —One of the final
acts of the international reparation
conference was the adoption of an
important resolution dealing with
the financial phases of the Dawes
pian. The resolution reads:
“It is agreed that putting into ex
ecution of the Dawes scheme and
the arrangements for those pur
poses embodied in the present agree
ment depend upon the issue of a
loan of 800,000,000 gold marks for
the purpose of the plan and are con
ditional on this issue.
“The allied governments, desiring
that this loan should be successfully
raised and contemplating that the
loan will be the first lien"of security
pledged thereto, will invite the cen
tral banks in their respective conn
tribs to use their good offices to fa
cilitate the placing of the loan.”
After the resolution was formu
lated the American delegation made
a- statement in which it was de
clared:
“We understand this resolution
does not restrict the German gov
ernment’s entire freedom in nego
tiating the loan with bankers of its!
own selection.”
The American statement was to I
prevent possible restriction of Ger .
many’s financial negotiations to the
.central banks, instead of permitting ’
them to negotiate for the loan in the ■
open market, and when the confer- I
ence agreed to it, the resolution was i
adopted.
AMERICAN AT ((INFERENCE
CONGRATULATED BY DAWES
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Upon learn-'
ing from London today that the;
allied and German representatives
had initialled an agreement in ac- ■
ceptance of the Dawes plan, Briga
dier General Charles G. Dawes sent
the following cablegram to Colonel .
James G. Logan. Jr., at the Ameri- '
can embassy in London: “The great
work you have done from the begin
ning to the end in the effwt for
I Vaughan, of Greenville, to obtain
i from Attending physician statement,
as to cause of death of James Lilly,
Greenville citizen, who died as re
sult of auto accident at Blacksburg,
this county, Boyd Petty, who backed
car into Ully’s, being held for lat
ter’s death.
COLUMBIA. Former Judge T.
Spain, lately professor in University
law school here, asks Governor Mc-
Leod, chairman of university board,
for hearing es to reasons why he
was not re-elected to faculty, and in
making public correspondence with
University authorities he charges
irregular proceedings.
GAFFNEY. —Two conditions for
reform of taxation are laid down by
W. G. Querry, chairman state tax
commission, in letter to Boyce' Whi
sonant, local merchant; merchants
and business men making study of
tax situation and needs, -.i.nd amend
ment of tax laws. Mr. Querry is
himself a merchant.
DARLINGTON.—First week of
state’s tobacco season is most grati
fying success, opening average price
being little under 18 cents, and
week’s average being 20 cents.
COLUMBIA—CharIes H. Moore
field, chairman South Carolina state
highway commission, is requested
by J. N. Holder, chairman Georgia
j state highway board, to name en
i gineer from state and two from oth
j £,r states to serve on committee to
; select route of Brunswick-Columbus
highway in Georgia.
CLINTON—Sum of $12,000 Is re
ceived by Presbyterian college of
South Carolina, here, from general
education board, bringing total from
that source to $76,000.
COLUMBIA.—Ten persons were
killed during July in accidents on
public highways, state highway com
mission’s report, just announced,
shows, and there were 94 accidents,
67 of which were due to careless
ness, recklessness and intoxication
of drivers.
i FLORENCE.—Mayor Waters Is
j sues statement in which he says
' city council welcomes assistance of
■ Rev. R. I. Corbett and other min
i isters in warfare on vice, and de
clares authorities will rid town of
i houses of ill fame.
ALL “FARM BLOC” SENATORS
WINNING HANDILY AT POLLS
Voters Apparently Indorse
Forgetting of Parly Lines
to Accomplish Worth While
Legislation
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BV THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 16.
Members of the "farm bloc” in the
United States senate, regardless of
i their party affiliations, are being
overwhelmingly renominated by their
constinuencies, which apparently ap
prove this sort of a bi-partisan or
ganization to protect the interest of
the farm in legislative matters.
In some of the states nolitical op
ponents of the "farm bloc” senators
have made the rather far-fetched
charge that a combination of southern
and western senators. Democrats and
Republicans, was an unholy alliance.
Recent primary election results show
that such charges have been ignored
by a majority of the voters, who
appreciate that it is necessary some
times to form bi-partisan alliances in
order to put through worthy legisla
tion. For instance, southern sena
tors who may be attacked for mem
bership in the farm bloc may justly
demonstrate that the senate is con
trolled by a Republican majority.
Fighting alone, the southern Demo
crats representing farmer constituen
cies would be powerless against a
Republican machine engineered in
the main by senators who represent
cities instead of farms or non-agri
cultural states.
Natural Outcome
However, there are western Re
publicans who come from the farms
and the nrairies and when the west
ern and southern senators forget their
party differences so far as farm leg
islation is concerned the "farm bloc”
is the natural outcome.
Practically all of the farm bloc i
senators have been renominated or '
soon will be. Senators Simmons, of
North Carolina, and Heflin, of Ala
bama, Democrats, had no opposition i
Gash in Liver Sewed,
11-Year-Old Boy Will
Recover From Mishap
DUBLIN, Ga., Aug. 16.—Reuben
Warren, 11 years of age, is in a
local hospital with a long gash in
his liver neatly stitched up follow
ing an unusual accident.
He was running with an open
pocket knife in his hand at the home
of hie father, Jesse Warren, a few
miles from Dublin. Reuben stum
bled and fell and the knife blade
entered the pit of his stomach and
cut a gash through his liver sev
eral inches long. He is resting very
well tonight after having been in
jured twenty-four hours. Physicians
stated they sewed up the gash in
his liver and expect him to recover.
Eight-Foot Rattler Caught
VIDALIA, Ga., Aug. 16.—A party
of tobacco men crossing the Alta
tnaha river at Towns Bluff today,
shot and brought to Vidalia the
champion rattlesnake of all that
have even been brought to this place.
The snake had twenty-four rattles
and the usual button and measured
close to eight feet, unusual in a
rattler.
Sixteen rattles is the record num
ber hung to any specimen brought
here previously.
world peace is now recognized by
all. including the people of the
United States. 1 send my sincere
congratulations.
(Signed) “CHARLES G. DAWES.”
AMERICAN IS DELIGHTED
AT SUCCESS OF EFFORTS
LONDON, Aug. 16.—(Hy the As
sociated Press.) —Owen D. Young
known as the man behind the Dawas
plan, after attending the final ple
nary session of the reparations con
ference, said the Associat?u Press.
“I wish to express my great pleas
ure that the plan has gone through.
Ambassador Kellogg and Colonel
Logan by their tactful and able aid
have been large contributors to the
success of this conference.”
Brigadier General Dawes has sent
Colonel Logan a congratulatory
message, in which he gives much
credit for th® success to Colonel
Logan's efforts.
UNION.—Miss Mary Ruth Garner I
is declared winner of health contest !
of county “short course” here and
wins trip to Chicago in November
for national health contest.
NEWBERRY.—Prof. Edwin Setz
ier, of Newberry college, is elected
professor of English at Clemson col
lege.
GREENVILLE—AV. B. Harrison,
plumber, dies of wounds inflicted in
bathroom, where he was alone:
wound said to have been either acci
dental or self-inflicted.
GREENVILLE. —Death of Ray
mond Brewer, 6, son of Mr. and
Mis. John Brewer, killed when
struck by auto truck driven by Bay
lis Pearson, colored, is held by cor
oner’s jury to have been accidental.
EASLEY. —Rattlesnake measuring
5 feet in length and with thirteen
rattles is brought to town by John
E. Craig and George Hendricks
EASLEY. —Rev. E. C. Watson is
elected moderator of piedmont Bap
tist association at annual gathering
here.
WINNSBORO. —New ice and stor
age plant is to be erected here by
company formed by J. H., S. R. and
J. C. McMaster, prominent business
men.
ORANGEBURG.—O. V. Fogle and
other hunters capture seven alli
gators in Fogle s mill section of
county.
COLUMBIA.—Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Montgomery, missionaries in China,
leave via Vancouver for their mis
sion fields after year s furlough
spent with relatives.
COLUMBIA. lnsurance com
panies, operating under Southeast
ern Underwriters’ association and
rating bureau, file with state insur
ance commission appeal from order
of Insurance Commissioner McMa
han, issued August 2, for reduction
of fire insurance rates by August 15.
FLORENCE. Emily, 5-year-old
daughter of R. M. Jenkins, Jr., of
St. Charles, near here, dies two
hours after falling to cement side
walk from second floor of Florence
infirmary, where, with parents, she
was visiting sick relative.
EDGEFIELD. George Dugas,
colored, shoots William Adair,
in the primaries and would have
been unbeatable had there been op
position. Senator Morris Sheppard,
of Texas, another member of the
farm bloc, won by 150,000. Senator
Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, accord
ing to reports reaching Washington
from that state, will win handily.
Senators McNarv. of Oregon’,
Brookhart, of lowa, and Norris, of
Nebraska, Progressive Republicans,
have each been renominated by their
party voters, who also indorsed their
farm bloc activities. In preceding
campaigns Senators Swanson, of AHr
ginia; McKellar, of Tennessee, and
Trammell, of Florida, were renomi
nated by large majorities.
All along the line the farm bloc
senators have met attacks by show
ing legislation enacted in behalf of
the farmer and which was made pos
sible by a bi partisan aligntnent of
western Republicans and southern
Democrats. Members of the farm
bloc assert that had it not been for
this organization the great property
at Muscle Shoals, Ala., holding out
the promise of cheaner fertilizers,
either under private or government
operation, would hava "scrap
ped” long ago. As it is Muscle
Shoals is being completed with con
gress yet to determine the method
of operation.
Senator Arthur Capper, of Kan
sas, has just gone through a bitter
primary campaign. He is one of the
leaders of the farm bloc. He was
renominated by more than a two
to one vote. Georgia is repesented
on the farm bloc by Senator William
J. Harris, one of the organizers of
this group. The late Senator Thomas
E. Watson, of Georgia, was also a
member of the bloc and most active
in its deliberations u.p to the time of
his death.
The next two farm bloc senators to
face a verdict at the polls are Sena
tors Harris, Georgia, and Pat Har
rison, Mississippi. Practically all
others have been renominated and
indications are that the farm bloc
will be intact in the next congress
and will carry forward its non-parti
san and bi-partisan advocacy of farm
relief legislation.
i Butts County Growers
To Begin Delivery of
Pimento Crop Tuesday
1 JACKSON, Ga., Aug. 16.—Farm
ers of Butts county who planted pi
i mento peppers this season will be
gin .delivering them to the local fac
tory Tuesday, when the peorgia Pi
i mento C’anners, Inc., begin opera
j tion of their plant, according to an
’j nouncement made Thursday. The
opening of the plant had been set
for Monday’, but was delayed one
l clay’. ' Farmers will gather the pep-
per Monday and deliver it to the
plant Tuesday.
Despite a month of dry weather,
which has done some damage to the
crop, the outlook is for a. satisfac
1' tory yield of peppers this season.
Appproximately 1,000 acres were
I planted to pimento peppers in Butts
I county this season. This is an in
dustry in which Butts, Henry and
i Spalding counties have taken first
[ rank during the past few years. The
pepper crop is a highly profitable
one, as both the ripe and green pep
j pers can be sold, and returns of
: more than SIOO per acre have been
, reported.
The Georgia Pimento Canners.
Inc., have one of the most modern
I plants in the south. The cannery
I will employ several hundred labor
ers for three or four months, and
this enterprise is one of the most
important in this community.
Erin Gives Subsidies for
Acres Planted to Trees
DUBLIN. Aug. 16.—Last year the
Free State government planted
4,000,000 tree? on 1,098 acres of land,
and proposes this year to plant 1,000
acres.
The minister of agriculture de
scribed Ireland as perhaps the worst
wooded country in the world. The
establishment of peasant proprietary
has helped to deforest the country.
It was said in the dail that the first
; thing a farmer did on getting his
\ land vested was to cut down the
I timber.
The government is inviting the
county committees of agriculture to
se.- aside a certain sum for forestry
and will make a grant nf SIOO for
every acre used for growing trees.
A
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 11)21.
white, in arm and flees, but Adair
fires at him and he drops dead.
Coroner's jury returns verdict of
justifiable homicide.
SALUDA. —Dry weather hns re
tarded all crops of state except cot
ton, according to report of Frank
O. Back, statistician of U. S. de
partment of agriculture.
SPARTANBURG. Girl May
Johanna 11, Holstein cow owned by
J. T. Willard, leads all breeds for
July in production of butter fat,
with 73.3 pounds.
CAMDEN. County campaign
opens with special interest in house
race. Former Judge Mendal L.
Smith, AV. L. DePass, Jr., J. B.
Munn, A. B. Murchison, R. L. Peeb
les and Norman S. Richards, candi
dates.
GREENWOOD Paul Moseley,
leading pitcher of Greenwood tean.
in Carolina league, is signed by
Pittsburg Pirates.
ANDERSON.—Anderson Hosiery
Mills increase capital stock from
$25,000 to $75,000.
AVI LLIAMSTON.—J. A. Patter
son is appointed magistrate here by
Governor McLeod.
DILLON. —W. J. Carter, promi
nent citizen, dies after illness of few
minutes.
NEWBERRY. —Party of farmers
is organizing to tour upper part of
state, visiting extension offices at
Clemson college and other points of
interest.
GAFFNEY. —Only two voters at
tend campaign meeting for congres
sional race, and AV. R. Bradford,
York county legislator, opposing AV.
F. Stevenson for re-election to con
gress, shakes hand with two mem
bers of audience and meeting is de
clared adjourned. Mr. Stevenson
was absent due. to recent death ot
wife.
AIKEN —Members of "Byrnes-for-
Senate” club here plan tour of state
in interest of campaign of Congress
man James F. Byrnes, candidate for
U. S. senate against Senator Diel.
COLUMBIA.—Remains of Robert
Dailey', 18, drowned in river while
in swimming with friends, is laid tu
rest. Pathetic story is told of pet
dog that swam to place where body
went down and kept swimming
around and around until body was
recovered from depths.
)■ GAS EXPERTS
HUNT POISON DOOM
FOP SOIL MIL
BY THEODORE TILLER
(Copyright, 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association —Special Leased .Wire
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 16.
Following the recent visit of Briga
dier General Amos A. Fries to the
Georgia experiment station at Grif
fin, Ga., where tests are to be made
with poison gas in extermination of
the boll weevil, there was obtained
from th© chemical warfare section
of the army on Saturday advance
information regarding the forthcom
ing experiments. The chemical war
fare section and its chief, General
Fries, intend to try to put the boll
weevil out of existence'.
Experiments just begun In the
laboratories at Edgewood arsenal,
Maryland, will try to develop a poi
son probably 10,000 timbs as poison
ous as calcium arsenate, which al
ready has been used in the depart
ment of agriculture’s war against
the pest. To do this, officials of the
chemical warfare service here said
today, combinations of all known
poisons will be made' and studied
until a satisfactory poison is evolved.
If possible, the chemists hope to
produce something that will be
deadly to the weevils without being
injurious to the cotton plants. How
ever, if they are' not successful in
this, they will try to produce a poi
son more deadly than any now
known, so that it can be diluted with
some ca:-y i ’”g agent before being
used. The idea of this concentrated
poison is to cut down ...e‘ cost. Cal
cium arsenate, while it has been
found to be somewhat effective, Is
expensive and has to be applied sev
eral times.
This deadly poison, if the chem
ists are successful in their tests,
would be applied after the cotton
has been picked so that the destruc
tion of the plant would cause no
damage. After the cotton has been
picked many of the pests manage
to survive the winter and a pair of
them is capable of producing 12,000,-
000 young, the scientists say. Thus
the army engineers believe that if
they can get their poison to work
before the young are born, they will
be able to make much progress in
cutting down the boll weevil pop
ulation which is now playing such
havoc in the south.
How the poison will be applied is
yet to be determined. Airplanes
might be used to spray it over the
large? plantations, but officers of
the chemical warfare service doubt
if this means would be practicable
to reach the weevils on the numer
ous smaller cotton farms.
The experiments will be made
near Griffin, Ga. H. W. Walker,
chemist, and H. S. McQuaid, asso
ciate chemist, at Edgewood, will
leave next Wednesday for Griffin to
study the situation there. This work
is being carried on by the chemical
warfare service under a 525,000 ap
propriation included In the last war
department appropriation bill at
the instance of Senator Harris, of
Georgia.
The Edgewood arsenal also Is ex,
perimenting with a. poisonous paint
to prevent destruction of piles and
wharves by marine animals that at
tach themselves to these things.
Jacksonville Troupe
Os Bathing Beauties
Must Dress in Macon
MACON, Ga., Aug. 16.—Mayor
Alsop, of Jacksonville, Fla., and a '
party of bathing beauties from Jack- j
sonville, will arrive here this after-1
noon for the purpose of advertising i
Florida and the Georgia-Florida get-1
together celebration in Jacksonville,
August 21-22.
It was first planned to have the
girls parade in bathing attire but a
city ordinance prohibits this and for
reason they will march fully attired
in street wear. Mayor Alsop wil.
speak tonight at the city audito
rium on the Georgia-Florida celebra
tion.
A large reception committee of
prominent Macon men was organiz
ed to meet and march with the visi
tors but when it was announceej that ;
the girls would parade in bathing
suits, a number of the members of
the reception committee declined it.
serve.
Ifi MISSISSIPPI IS
BBOUGHTTO CLOSE
■ JACKSON, Miss.. Aug. 16.—Missis
sippi’s political campaign for the
nomination by the Democrats in
Tuesday’s primary of one United
States senator, four representatives, V
one supreme court judge and five
members of the state highway com
mission, virtually was brought to a
close today.
At the headquarters of the two
senatorial candidates, Pat Harrison
and ex-Governor Earl Brewer, the
opinion has been expressed that the
total vote will not exceed 60 per cent
of the registration and it may fall W
below that figure. ’
Representatives John E. Rankin,
in the First district: William G.
Lowery, in the Second district; Jeff
Busby, in the Fourth district, and
T. Webber Wilson, in the Sixth dis
trict, will have no opposition.
In the Third district, where Rep
resentative AVilliam Humphreys
completing the term of his
the late Benjamin G. Humphreysr
State Representative Harry Hulen,.
of AVashington county, and State ♦ f
Senators AV. M. AVhittington, of Le- ’ ,
flore county, and Walton Shields, of
Washington, are contesting for the
office, Mr. Humphreys not being a
candidate. "
In the Fifth district, Floyd Loper,
former U. S. marshal, is seeking the
nomination against Representative
Ross Collins. In the Seventh, Rep
resentative. Percy Quinn has two op- «
ponents. E. H. Ratliff, of Natchez, ’ *
and M. S. McNeil,, of Forrest county;
In the Eighth, Representative J.
W. Collier is opposed by State Sena
tor J. C. Seller, of Yazoo City and <
Jack Greaves Taylor, of Canton.
The fight for the seat on the eu
preme court oench occupied by ’
Judge E. C. Sykes, who voluntarily
retired at the expiration of his term,
is between Chncellor J. G. McGowen,
of AVa ter valley, and Judge C. F.
Long, of Tupelo, a member of the
circuit bench.
The contest for five memberships <
on the state highway commission
have attracted almost no attention j
whatever and indications are that "
present occupants will, in nearly all
instances, be re-elected. The placea
are purely honorary, no salaries be
ing attached. ,
Suit Against Parents i
Os Wife Causes Arrest v
Os Man for Bigamy,
BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 16.
infield C. Evans, automobile dcab
er of Baltiinor eand Charlottesville,
Va., who recently sued his wife’s ♦
rarenfp, Mr. and Mrs. Walter O;
Dunnock, of this city, for $75,000
fey alienation of his wife’s affec
tions, was arrested today on a.
charge of bigamy. Confronted in
police court by Catnerine M. Evans,
who claims to have been married to
Evans March 20, 1915, and to be the \ ,»
mother of two of his children, and
by Lois Mae Dunnock Evans, who 4
wa s married to him April 26, 1924,
Evans was released on $2,000 ball
for the grand jury.
Today’s development is a result
of Evans’ suit against his wife’s
parents, it is said. Mrs. Catherine
M. Evans, living in New York city,
read of the suit in the metropolitan
newspapers. She c ame to Baltimore, a
and got in touch with Mr. and Mrs. i 1
Dunnock Th ecase was laid befor» ’
Assistant State’s Attorney Altfield,
who issued a warrant for Evans’ an
rest.
Connecticut Treasurer
Wounds Self and Resigns
WATERBURY, Conn., Aug. 16.—•
G. Harold Gilpatric, whose mys-| ’i
terious financial operations are said
to have wrecked the First National
Bank of Putnam, of which he was
cashier, resigned today as stat*
treasurer. , ♦
Governor Templeton, at his horn* '
here received a short letter of resig
nation from Gilpatric, who is in a
hospital at Putnam as the result of
self-inflicted wounds.
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