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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY. —Adjutant Gener
al Hartley A. Moon announces pro
cedure of observance of National De
fense day in Alabama, September 12.
[ Mobilization committees are named
r in every county in Alabama, and
plans are announced whereby “one
day volunteers” will join active mili
. tary organization.
’ HALEYVILLE.—J. J. King, of
L near Haleyville, finds big rattlesnake
■ near his home. He pins reptile's ,
* head to ground and jerks rattles off ,
before killing snake. There are seven ;
rattles and five buttons.
TUSCALOOSA.—Fred C. Turner,
S 3, prominent farmer of Tuscaloosa
county, dies at_home near here.
L BIRMINGHAM.—B. W. King, of
Birmingham, is named state organ
izer in Alabama for l.a Follette-
| “ Wheeler campaign.
HALEYVILLE.— Prospect Ba pt ist
church, near here, is destroyed by
fire thought to be of incendiary ori-
• gin.
DELMAN. —James Nailen, 75, well
. known citizen of Franklin county,
dies at home near here.
-■ REFORM.—Pickens County Her
■ aid, under management of John P.
L McGee and Daniel E. Draper, is sold
- to Jack M. Pratt.
DOTHAN. —Alabama negro grand
lodge Knights of Pythias holds an
nual session here, with 1,200 dele
gates in attendance.
| ATTALLA. —Plant of Alabama Mill
1 ■ and Grain company here is destroyed
» by fire. Loss $75,000, with $35,000
? . insurance. Plant will be rebuilt at
once.
MOBlLE.—Course of One and
Three Mile creeks will be diverted
and swamps will be drained, as part
J. of port development here.
GADSDEN.—Streit Bakery is
R burned and several stores damaged,
'at total loss of SIO,OOO,
| MONTGOMERY. Cotton ware
| house receipts of Alabama ware
" houses, operating under new Ala
’ bama law and regulations of board
§ of agriculture, will be accepted by
Atlanta federal reserve bank, when
presented by member banks, as col-
Uteral covering discounts, according
to information from M. B. Wellborn,
governor of Atlanta reserve bank,
SFLMA. —Dallas county fair dates
are fixed for October 14 to 16. Poul
try show will be one of biggest fea
tures this year. _
\ AUBURN. —Work on Ramsay en
. gineering building at Auburn col-
K lege, which will cost $250,000, is
commenced. C. A. Fulghum & Co.,
of Pensacola, Fla., are contractors.
- MONTGOMERY. Birmingham-
Montgomery highway, one of most
I? important units of state highway
program, will be completed in two
years, according to W. S. Keller,
& .state highway engineer.
TALLADEGA.—City officials are
making war on automobile speeders.
Fifteen prominent people are arrest
pi ed and fined $5 each.
EUFAULA. —R. D. Jones, superin
t tendent of Cowikee Cotton mills, city
councilman and chairman of Eufau
la water works, undergoes operation
& for appendicitis.
GREENVILLE. Sunday school
conference for 699 Methodist Sunday
schools of central and south Ala
bama. and west Florida sects here,
i September 2 to 4.
ATHENS. New dormitaory of
Athens college is completed and
L $5,000 worth of furnishings are being
| installed.
|
" Johnson, of Athens Agricultural col
lege, announces that this institution
will open August 25.
HAMILTON. More than 2,000
farmers, their wives and children at
tend barbecue near here, given by
Marion county farm bureau.
? MOBILE.—J. B. McPherson, plan-;
tation owner of near Nadawah, Mon- [
i! roe county, is found guilty in fed
! oral court here on charge of holding
Giles Stall worth in state of peonage.
HUNTSVILLE.— More work is be
ing done in Madison county on rural
K roads at this time than in several
years. Free labor is being used.
ANNISTON. lncrease of 68 per
cent in attendance at schools for
illiterate adults in this county is
reported by Harvey E. Page, super
visor.
HEFLIN.—J. S. Morrison, 53. pro
prietor.and manager of Heflin Tele
phone company, is dead.
ANNISTON.—Six consignments of
£ government fish are received at An-
I niston for stocking creeks.
| MONTGOMERY. lncreased ap
g propriations, recently granted by con
gress for development of southern
forest experiment stations, now make
it possible for this research organiza
tion to cover more adequately than
r. before timber producing region em
braced in nine coastal plain states
from South Carolina to Texas, ac
cording to R. D. Forbes, of New Or
t leans, director of station.
PIKE ROADS.— In address here,
E. A. Beeler, of London, secretary
Alabama Wool and Sheep Growers
association, tells several hundred
farmers there is big money toy be
U made in Alabama in growing spring ;
lambs.
BUTLER. — In an effort to secure
lai ger attendance for Choctaw Coun
ty High school. Professor L. B. Ben-'
son, principal, is advertising school
S by placing mile posts on all roads
leading into Butler, giving distance
| ■ to high school building.
t JACKSON. —Family of Mexicans,
u consisting of man. his wife and four
children, are ali badly injured .near
a vcso
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Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism
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THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLY JOURNAL
here when their motorcycle and side
car in which they are traveling
turns turtle.
DECATUR. —Bishop Warren G
Candler, of Atlanta. Ga., delivers
several sermons at Decatur, Albany,
Athens and Callman.
TALLADEGA. Arrangements
are made for building new gas plant
here to cost $75,000.
MONTGOMERY.—Work of Ala
. bama experiment, station at Auburn
attracts attention as far away as
i Germany, from which country comes
request for data on this station.
MONROEVILLE.—Over 100 bales
of this year s cotton crop are already
ginned in Monroe county.
BIRMINGHAM. —While resisting
arrest, Clint Dunn is shot, and seri
ously injured by M. E. McDuff, su
perintendent of city bureau of identi
fication.
HU NTS VILLE.—T. M. Mason,
60, one of best known building con
tractors of north Alabama, is dead
at his home here, after illness of
one year w ith heart trouble.
HUNTSVILLE.—HuntsviIIe, Knit
ting mills, which have hem closed
several weeks, will-start up on full
time, September 1.
BIRMINGHAM—Increase ir Jeff
erson county’s taxable property of
about $12,000,000 over 1923 will be
shown in tax digest for 1924, now
being prepared by Roy Dillon, tax
assessor.
BIRMINGHAM. As means of
ertering legally nto courts with fight
entering legally nto courts with fight
estate of Thomas Edwards, of New
York, will seek papers of incorpora
tion for Edwards Estate corporation,
according to announcement of Joel
F. Webb, of Birmingham, legal ad
visor.
MONTGOMERY. Appointment
of S. C. Crockett, of Montgomery as
department adjutant of American
Legion, department of Alabama, is
announced by J. Fred Johnson, de
partment commander.
ENSLEY. —Six business buildings,
involving total cost of over SIOO,OOO,
are nearing completion here.
MONTGOMERY.—Checks amount
ing to over SBOO,OOO are being mailed
to farmers of Alabama by Alabama
Farm Bureau Cotton asociaton, in
final payment for cotton crop of
1923. This payment makes total of
$10,000,000 for cotton crop of 1923
marketed through farm bureau.
BIRMINGHAM. Miss Mildred
Adams is named Miss Birmingham,
through contest conducted by Birm
ingham News. She will be one of
many contestants at Atlantic City in
September, when Miss America will
be selected.
MOULTON.—Herman Hughes is
found guilty of killing Miss Sadie
Blaxton, because she refuses to mar
ry him, and is sentenced to life im
prisonment.
RUSSELLVI LLE.—Tom Barks
dale and Porter Puckett, both of
Russellville, are arrested on charge
of criminally assaulting eleven-year
old girl. They are. taken to jail in
another county, for fear of mob vio
lence.
HUNTSVILLE—Mrs. A. J. Coop
er, eighty-five, one of best known
women of Madison county, dies at.
home of her son, J. B. Cooper, at
New Hope.
MONTGOM E RY. —Ma x Sassanof,
artist, who became famous by "paint
ing his way” out of federal prison at
Atlanta, is commissioned by Big
Brothers’ Bible class here to paint
heroic sized picture of Christ for
Kilby prison.
ANNISTON.—Mrs. Lillian C. A ter
hold, widow of late T. M. Aterhold,
dies at her home here.
j TARRANT CITY. —Alabama By
| Products corporation announces
I they will build another unit to their
by-products plant here, costing ap
proximately $ 1.000.000.
ALBANY.— E.~M. Tuttle, well
known truck farmer, tells champion
fish story. He says for some time
small fish have been pumped out of
deep well on his farm, and that re
cently his pump became so badly
choked up with fish he was forced
to remove it and take the fish out.
SOUTH CAROLINA
PICKENS.—County Chairman W.
E. Finlay and J. J. McMahan, can
didates for United States senate, en
gage in word tilt, when chairman
announces if McMahan indulges in
| mudslinging he will cut short time
iat campaign meeting.
COLUMBIA- State Insurance i
-Commissioner .1. J. McMahan orders
southeastern underwriters' rating;
and inspection bureau here to sus- .
pend operations, on ground it is not
organized in accordance with laws.
CHESTER.— Baldwin Cotton mill
here returns to full time operation.
ABBEVILLE.— Frank Butler, ne
gro. trusty on chaingang, attacks
Hulett Scoggins, white, at latter’s
residence, and then attempts to
choke Mrs. Scoggins. Mr. Scoggins
crawls to shotgun and tires, killing
Butler. Jury exonerates Mr. Scog
gins, who. with wife, is ill.
LANCASTER. — E. It. Jenkins, 51. '
shot by Thomas Sim?, near .Lancas-[
ter, on August 4. when he and R. F.
I Sims and others went to Tom Sims’
home to protest against his alleged
immoral life, dies of wounds in Rock
Hill hospital. R. F. Sims was killed
outright.
GREENVILLE.—Institute of pol
itics at Furman university here will
be made annual event, according to
announcement by Dr. W. J. McGloth
lin, following close of
first such gathering, with plans al
ready started to make 1925 gather
ing greater than this year's.
ROCK HILL. —World conference
of business men of all nations, to
work for world peace in purely busi
ness way, is advocated by J. S. Wan
namaker, of St. Matthews, S. C.,
president of American Cotton asso
ciation, in address to gathering at
Tirzah, near here, of business men
and farmers.
ANDERSON—Foster Fant, may
or-elect, and new members of city
council, Eugene Burris, Thomas Bai
ley, ’Harry McClesky, Reed Fowler,
W. P. Brennan and Robert Carter,
are installed.
ANDERSON. —Motorcycle Officer
W. L. Gibson, injured in automobile
accident, dies from double pneumo
nia, which followed injuries.
GREENVILLE. —September 2 Is
announced as date for criminal court
here, when case agianst Reuben Gos
nell, federal prohibition agent; Con
stable John McCauley, and latter's
son, Albert McCauley, charged with
shooting members of party of At
lanta business men when stopped on
I highway, will be tried.
ROCK HILL.—Rock Hill plant of
Hamilton Carhartt cotton mills re
sume operations on half-time basis
after long shut-down.
GREENVILLE.— John Smith, lion
i or graduate of Davidson College, N.
C., and two friends, return from tour
of west in light .automobile. They
visited both Mexico and Canada and
many western states, speedometer
showing journey of 10,000 miles.
Most of time thev camped.
I .
SENECA. —Kenneth Richardson
resigns as clerk of town and is suc
ceeded by W. P. Reid.
ANDERSON.—When C. L. Maul
din, of Anderson, traveling salesman
for Belton firm, attempts to crank
Ford, it runs over him and inflicts
severe injuries.
COLUMBIA. Congressman Mc-
Swain files campaign expense ac
count, showing use of $298, of which
S2OO was filing fee.
SPARTANBURG.— Princess Nell
Ormsby, Holstein cow owned by V.
M. Montgomery, of Spartanburg, is
state’s leading cow of breed for pro
' Auction in one year as senior four
year-old, with record of 847.8 pounds
of butter. For seven days’ produc
tion Lady Boony Mary Korndyke, of
same herd, holds record with pro
duction of 481.7 pounds of milk and
32.76 pounds of butter.
SENECA.—A. Gaines begins work
on construction of new Baptist
church here to cost $46,000.
FLORENCE.—Agents of tax com
mission buy large quantities of cigar
ettes, and finding these without
state license stamps, hale merchants
to appear before commission and
show cause why should not be penal
ized.
GAFFNEY.— Large numbers of
soft shelled edible turtles are reported
by fishermen as having been found
in Broad river, .near here.
GREENVILLE.—"Nothing but a,
rope of sand” is Republican plan for
association of nations, declares Prof.
J. W. Garner, of University of Illi
nois. in address here.
TAYLORS.—-Mrs. Harriett Hamil
ton, seventy-three, dies at home
here.
GREENVILLE.— W. B. Harrison,
plumber, who died of pistol wound,
suffered accidentally by own hands,
coroner’s jury declares.
FORT MILL?—Rev". G. W. Belk,
Jr., former pastor of Presbyterian
church at Pelzer, is accepted by
Bethel presbytery as pastor of Pres
] byterian church of Fort Mill. In
| stallation services for September 14
i are arranged.
INMAN.—Andrew Bryant Bishop,
sixteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P.
Bishop, dies here after lingering ill
ness.
GREEN WOOD™Luther T. Smith,
fourteen-year-old son of Mr. /nd
Mrs. W. C. Smith, of, Donalds, dies
at hospital here frorX blood poison
ing caused by infection on head. He
was ill only four days.
NEWBERRY.—John D. Lane, of
Lamar, graduate of Newberry col
lege here, is elected professor of
English at Clemson college.
COLUM Bl A. —State Superintend
ent of Education J. H. Hope, sets
aside September 17 for observance I
| in public schools of 137th annivers-I
i ary of signing of United States con
st itut ion.
SPARTANBURG.™ Several stores
are raided and state and county offi- I
cers confiscate several carloads of
Jamaica ginger, used for beverage
purposes, known as "Jake,” contain
ing 93 per cent alcohol. Joe Beaman
is arrested.
AI KE N.—C. J. IHill, chair ma n
county commission, is notified by
state highway department of allo
cation of SIOO,OOO for aid in building
Aiken-Augusta highway.
FLORENCE.—Atlantic Coast Line
railroad plans $72,000 addition to rail
road Y. M. C. A. here, for boys’ de- ■
partment, according to W. B. Coving- |
ton. secretary.
WALHALLA?- While J. J. Mc-
Mahan, aspirant for United States
; senate, criticizes opponents, judges.
I legislators, state and local officials,
newspapers et al., Former Governor
■ Bleise conducts campaign free of
' personalities, and Con gress nt a n
j James F. Byrnes, also candidate for
• senate, works aggressive campaign I
i of addresses, literature and personal !
; word, all three seeking to unseat j
'United States Senator Dial, whose!
| friends predict he will be re-elected.
with possibly second primary neces
! sarv.
I ' ■
i ROCK HlLL.—Arcade and Ara
gon cotton mills resume operations
after long period of inactivity on
full-time basis.
LAURENS. Henry Turner.;
young white man of county, is at I
| hospital here, suffering with knife;
j wound in side, inflicted by Floyd |
t'oates, who surrenders to - sberit’f. i
i Turner may die.
GREENVILLE. State-wide tax
' conference here recommends to con-:
■ gress repeal of federal inheritance
i lax. and Dr. J. 11. T. McPherson.
! of University of Georgia, advocates
repeal of all property taxes in state, i
j holding that tax on net income is
i most logical form of taxation.
LAUREN'S.—John Leak, negro, is
arrested near here and charged with
killing of Charles ’Garwood, taxi
driver, near Lexington, N. Au
gust 7. He is taken back to Lex-
• ington by Deputy Sheriff Blalock.
LITTLE MOUNTAIN. — Barn on
farm of Luther W. Shealy, near ;
here, i$ burned, with loss of two '
mules and quantity of feedstuffs.
LaUßENS—Ernest L >Niett escapee i
■ convict from Greenville chaingang,
is arrested by Police Chief Bob i
Wham and Deputy H. F. Owings are '
he is about to board freight train
■to get away from town. Iron bands
on ankle, from which chains had
Peeu Lid arrest.
COLUMBIA. "Lay-by” schools
are more largely attended this year
than ever before, according to re
port of Miss Will Lou Gray, super
visor of adult education for state
board of education. In Greenville
county alone such schools have at
tendance of 443. They teach three
“R’s” to adult illiterates.
NEWBERRY.—United States Sen
ator E. D. Smith is announced as
speaker for August 15, here, in
courthouse on co-operative market
ing of cotton.
NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH. —Consideration of leg
islation looking to restoration of
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
way, sold by state many years ago
| to Atlantic Coast Line railway, and
; which it is alleged has been fraudu
lently dismembered by Coast Line
and Southern systems, is begun in
state senate, with debate on pro
posals to cite these railways for
contempt and revoke sale-
LEXINGTON. —John Leak, negro,
sought for slaying near here of
Charles Garwood, Lexington taxi
driver, is arrested near Laurens, S.
C., by Deputy Sheriff Bla.olck, who
returns with fugitive and says Leake
confessed to striking fatal blow.
Leake blames Kenneth Hale, negro,
arrested at Charlotte, N. C., for plot
to kill and rob Garwood, declaring
Hale took all Garwood’s money.
RUTHERFORDTON. Spindale
mill, Elmore mill, at Spindale, and
Alexander Manufacturing company,
of Forest City, resume full time op
erations, and other mills are expect
ed to start soon after long periods
of drastic curtailment.
CHARLOTTE. —Ending long fight
■ by various civic and health organi
zations, Mecklenburg county com
missioners announce decision to
build $125,000 tuberculosis sanitari
provision will be made for treatment
um on 35-acre site near here, where
cf sixty patients.
ALBEMARLE. —Colonel Ike Meek
ins, of Elizabeth City, opens cam
paign as Republican nominee for
governor in address in which he de
nounces John W. Davis. Democratic
presidential nominee, as “corporation
lawyer tied to big business” and com
pares President Harding’s mistake
in naming Albert Fall to cabinet to
Christ’s action in appointing Judas
as one of disciples.
ALBEMARLE. Monroe Tucker,
45, well-known farmer of near
Oakboro, whose leg was broken
when team of mules ran away, dies '
of loss of blood.
WHITEVILLE.—Town s electric
lighting plant will be sold to Tide
water Power company, of Wilming
ton, N. C., and it is understood trans
mission lines will be extended to pro
vide current for Chadbourn, Cerro
Gordo and Fair Bluff.
WINSTON-SALEM. Search for
Wesley H. Doub, employe of post
office, proves fruitless after several
days, and no explanation is avail
able for mysterious disappearance.
WINSTON-SALEM. About 400
men, members and friends of Ku
Klux Klan, hear address of Judge
Grady, of Clinton, grail dragon of
klan in this state, in which organi
zation’s aims and principles are i
discussed.
CHARLOTTE. lnvestigation of
state prison at Raleigh, proposed by
\V. R. Matthews, representative from
Mecklenburg county, will be made
by house committee on penal insti
tutions without being formally
brought to attention of house, at
extra session of legislature, says
Matthews, here on visit to home.
CHARLOTTE.—Sum .of $650 is I
raised for fund to pay expenses of |
efforts to compile lost records of ■
Confederate navy's personnel by tag
day in Charlotte. This is largest ■
fund raised by any city of sia.t. i
Office for collecting th.;-, daie is re-j
moved from Charlotte 'o Saiisbui y. ■
DERITA.—Samuel N. Dunlap, >3, ;
of York county, S. C., dies after few I
hours of Alness while visiting ail
home of F. T. Dunlap, son.
CHARLOTTE. —Members of Char
lotte’s Confederate veterans’ reunion
committee announce plans i’Jr one
day drive to raise $5,000 entertain
ment fund for veterans of state, who
hold annual reunion here September
16-18.
CHARLOTTE. Perhaps several
months must elapse before American
Trust company of Charlotte, receiv
er, will be in position to announce I
approximate amounts on deposits!
which will be paid depositors in re- i
cently closed Security Savings bank I
of Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE. Twenty-six of
Mecklenburg county’s rural schools
start new school year first Monday
in September. These schools have
225 teachers.
CHARLOTTE. — L. C. Taeusch. re
tired Charlotte man, admits sending
telegram urging Judge Caveriy to
impose extreme penalty "which case
merits” upon Loeb and Leopold, Chi
cago youths, master criminals, who
are being tried before Judge Caveriy
for murder. He laughs when shown i
dispatch quoting judge as declaring j
him "violator of the law.’’
LAURINBURG. Watermelon;
crop of Scotland county will be about !
20 per cent of normal this year, sur- ■
vey shows. To date only 23 cars |
have been shipped, compared with ;
109 at same date last year
RALEIGH. — Markets bureau oil
state department of agriculture an- ‘
nounces state's shipments of water-1
melons to August 5, inclusive, total-1
ed 135 cars, compared with 730 to j
same date last year. Cantaloupe (
crap was reduced 65 to 70 per cent I
by unfavorable weather.
SMITHFIELD. —Alleging criminal ,
libel. Mrs. Minnie Duncan, wife of;
Paul C. Duncan, swears out warrant
for arrest of C. A. Holt, of Prince
ton. who. she alleges declared and
wrote he had supported her as "his
woman” and that he had threatened
to expose her if she refused to accept '
"an insulting proposition" alleged !
to have been written to her. Mrs. i
Duncar is member of oldest Jftid
most highly respected families of |
Johnston county. Holt is said to
have prison record.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Several hun
dred farmers attend picnic at Uppei
Coastal Plain branch experimental!
station, near here.
GASTONIA. Gaston county!
school commissioners award con- '
tract for construction of new school
near Arlington Yarn mills. Building
to cost about $49,000 will be com
pleted January 1.
PINEHURST. Annual Sandhilh ;
fair at Pinehurst. October 28-31. |
promifts to eclipse all former exposi-j
lions here. Musical festival will be
held as feature of fair, program also :
including parades, horse races, con- j
tests at sports and annual harvest
ball.
GASTONlA.—Creeping up to open
window where he could see sleeping !
form of intended victim, unknown j
person shoots and fatal’.-, wot >is
Wade Lewis. 25. negro, who ett .
to die of loss of blood > e> - being .
robehd of about? 15". Newspaper.
partially burnt, on floor indicates in
tention to burn Lewis’ home.
GUILFORD "COLLEGE. North
Carolina Society of Friends, in an
nual meeting, sends to President
Coolidge, Secretary of War Weeks
and Governor Morrison, of North
Carolina, letters vigorously opposing
Defense day, September 12, program,
which governor has advocated in for
mal proclamation.
GASTONIA. —Mrs. J. B. Barnes,
47, injured when automobile, in
which she and party of friends were
riding, turned over, dies at city hos
pital. Others injured are reported
recovering.
SALISBURY. — United States Sen
ator Carter Glass, of Virginia, is in
vited to deliver principal address at
formal opening, August 18, of Yad
kin river bridge.
NEWTON. —Truck in which fif
teen boys and girls, members of Ca
tawba county farm clubs, are riding
on return from camping trip, falls
75 feet down side of mountain near
Old Fort. All occupants are in
jured. Miss Lottie Thornburg, 19,
of Newton, is reported'dead of broken
back. Six others are reported grave
ly hurt. Party riding in several
trucks included 100 boys and girls
between 17 and 20 years of age.
WADESBORO. Cotton crop in
this part of state suffers severe dam
age as result of long period of dry
weather.
FAYETTEILLE.—Home of Dr.
Henry Hollister, negro, is dynamited
and seriously damaged by unknown
persons. Police announce, after ques
tioning night watchman who admits
witnessing bombing, that arrest may
soon be made. Entire town is shaken
by explosion occurring at night.
RALEIGH. —North Carolina house
of representatives refuses to pass
hill prohibiting publication of name
of woman victim of criminal assault.
Argument that innocent man might
WHEELER ID OPEN
THIRD PARTY ORIVE
IN BOSTON SPEECH
j WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Active
campaigning in behalf of the La, Fol
lette-Wheeler ticket probably will be
begun Labor day with an open-air
address on the Boston common by
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, the
vice presidential candidate.
Senator La Follette plans to wait
until the middle of September before
delivering his first speech, probably
in New York City.
It is likely, however, that from
his headquarters here he will issue
a Labor day message.
Speaking itineraries of both candi
dates will be shaped at conferences
to begin here Thursday.
David K. Niles, acting head of the
speakers’ bureau in Chicago, will be
here to discuss plans with Senators
La Follette and Wheeler, and on
Saturday, John M. Nelson, national
campaign manager with Chicago
headquarters, will be in Washington
for conferences with the two candi
dates.
Senator La Follette, independent
candidate for president, apparently
I had been relieved today of the likeli-
I hood of being required partly to re
!align his forces by the statement in
New York Tuesday night of Warren
IS Stone, head of the Brotherhood of
I Locomotive Engineers, denying the.t
I be haj resigned as treasurer of cam
: paign funds solicited f>om labor or
j ganizations and their members,
i Reports that Mr. Stone was pre
i paring to resign were accompanied
Iby intimations of differences and
j some talk of a split, but the latter
was denied on all sides.
Mr. Stone, meanwhile, was urged
to continue as treasurer with as
surance that a staff of assistants
to take charge of the mass of de
tails will be placed at his disposal,
an r ] an effort made to simplify the
collection and disbursement of
funds, together with the accounting
which will be entailed. His brief
statement was taken as assurance|
I of his acquiescence.
I.A FOLLETTE ENTERED IN
NEBRASKA ELECTION
GRAND. ISLAND, Neb., Aug. 20. i
i ißy the Associated Press!.- Senator j
Robert M. lui Follette, of Wisconsin,!
and Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon-!
tana, were placed in nomination in ;
Nebraska for the presidency and
vice presidency and electors pledged
to support them in the electoral col
lege should they carry Nebraska in
November, were named by the mass
convention which met here yester
day which formed a political organi
zation designated the La Follette
"Independent Party,” and selected
i a state central commitete.
The convention decided against
j naming a state and congressional
: ticket.
Further Reduction
In World Wheat Crop
Seen by Department
i WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.—The
; wheat crop of ten European coun
tries is 16 per cent under that of
i last year, according to forecasts an-
I nounced by the department of agri
;culture today in predicting a further ;
j reduction in the world supply.
Recent news of reductions has '
caused the price of American wheat
to jump for the farmers and the !
present announcement of the depart- !
ment was considered *s an indication
that the European market night be
[opened for the American surplus.
England and Wales are four mil I
jlion bushels under last year; Hun-|
gary fourteen million bushels short. !
[and Poland’s reduction is estimated ;
iat seven million bushels.
At the same time the •’epartment !
announced that the Indian wheat
crop is higher than expected and j
“somewhat more than twenty mil- '
! lion bushels surplus will be available
' for export.”
(Trial of Chicagoan
Accused by Georgia
Girl Is Postponed
' CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—The case of
I Frank Foster, thirty-five, charged
; with contributing to the delinquency
jof a minor on complaint of a
I former Rome, Ga., girl was
i continued until August 26 when
■ called in the court of domes- j
1 tic relations. The formal charge [
! was preferred Monday. The girl •
j is said to have told the police that
Foster lured her to his apartment a
■ week ago. where she wa? detained
, untii Sunday when she managed to
be involved ly unscrupulous woman
seems to have influenced vote.
Cl IAR LOTTE.—Mrs. J. G. Bram
lett, 40, is found dead in bed at
home.
RALEIGH.—Fear that Democratic
party in state will be divided by is
sue if port commission bill is re
ferred to popular vote is expressed
by Senator Mendenhall, of Guilford
county, when urging senate to enact
bill without referendum provision.
CHARLOTTE. —Vigorous opposi
tion to consideration of proposed fed
eral constitutional amendment, regu
lating child labor by North Carolina
general assembly at present extra
session is expressed by James H.
Barrett, editor of Charlotte Labor
Herald and prominent figure in state
labor activities. lie says defeat of
proposal now would turn “thousands
of Democrats to vote for La Fol
lette or Coolidge.”
CHARLOTTE. —After unsigned
letter, evidently from bootlegger at
Columbia, S. C., had been read in
court and admitted to record, J. Lee
Rutzler, prominent Charlotte busi
ness man in whose desk raiders
found two quarts of whisky, is de
clared not guilty of violating state
prohibition law. Testimony indicates
B. F. Hunter, until recently partner
of Rutzler, gave tip to raiders.
RALEIGH. —Highway department
officials of Australia spend several
days in state investigating highway
building and studying policies of
Frank Page, chairman of state high
way commission.
RALEIGH. —Day of holding state
Democratic primary would be chang
ed from first Saturday in June to
Tuesday following first Monday in
June by bill introduced in house of
representatives by Carr, of Duplin.
RALEIGH. —Declaring senate has
“no right to accuse Governor Mor
rison of insincerity” and that gov
ernor probably knows more about
M'DONALD LETTER
TO ALLIES CAUSES
STORM OF PROTEST
PARIS, Aug. 20.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The storm raised by
the British prime minister’s letter to
France and Belgium, urging expedi
tion of the evacuation of the Ruhr,
continues to rage.
Official circles, however, maintain
that Mr. MacDonald acted quite
naturally in the matter, using the
only procedure available to him to
make known officially, apart from
the London conference, the tradition
al viewpoint of his government.
It is further pointed out in these
circles that the letter, dated last Sat
urday, was written prior to Premier
MacDonald's speech at the close of
[the conference in which he expressed
gratification at the happy solution
of the Ruhr evacuation question.
Consequently, 'hey contend, the pub
lication of a letter delayed by purely
fortuitous circumstances, can ir* no
way modify France’s attitude nor di
minish the satisfactory results ob
tained in London.
This view is not shared by Pre
mier Herriot’s critics, who, roused
to fresh i'ury by the letter, continue
to attack him. Thus the Echo de
Paris, nationalist organ, declares
that, having defined France’s new
foreign policy at the London confer
ence, M. Hetriot must recruit a new
diplomatic staff to put it into force,
the existing staff being unfitted for
the task.
The newspaper hears, although
merely as a rumor, it adds, that
Count de Saint Auluire is to be suc
ceeded as ambassador to Great
Britain by Leon Blume, socialist
deputy.
Premier Herriot is to read a decla
ration before both houses of parlia
ment, Thursday, giving a complete
report of the work of the London
conference.
Hail of Lead Halts
Speeding Liquor Boat;
700 Cases Seized
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—An alleg-I
ed rum runner was wounded by ;
members of the customs marine pa- ;
trol off Rockaway Beach, N. Y., to
day during a chase in which scores
of machine gun bullets were fired
by the government men in pursuit of
the "Man o’ War III,” a former sub
marine chaser, which was captured
with 700 cases of champagne and
other liquors aboard. Six men on
the craft were arrested.
William Rosen, of Brooklyn, a su
per-cargo, was shot in the knee by
a machine gun bullet. The hat of
one member of the crew was shot
from his head.
The vessel, 69 feet long and
armored from stem to stern with
steel plates, was sighed at dawn by
the revenue scout bout H. B. M.,
which was searching for the “float
ing cabaret" off Fire Island. The
former chaser immediately made a
run for the open sea and the govern
ment boat opened fire. After a brisk
run she hove to and the customs
men hoarded her.
Farmer Is Killed
By Gases m Well
GADSDEN. Ala., Aug. 20. Mr.
Holly Stancil, a farmer living near
here, was killed by gases at the
bottom of a deep well. Mr, Stan
cil had contracted to clean the well
and succumbed to the deadly gases •
shortly after undertaking the work. |
His companions on the surface be-!
came alarmed when he failed to |
signal them shortly after going to
the bottom and, investigating, found
Stancil dead.
Experiment Station
Sets Tift County Day
TIFTON, Ga., Aug. 20.—Wednes
day has been set aside as Tift Coun
ty day at the Georgia Coastal Plain
Experiment station. Many farmers
of the county are expected to take
the appointed time to visit the sta
tion. where they will be shown over
the various experimental plats by
those in charge at the station. A
delegation from one of the smaller
towns in the county already has sig
nified its intention of coming to the
station Wednesday.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 23. 1924.
ship and port question than any
other man, Senator Woltz, of Gas
tori, urges retention of referendum
provision in port commission bill.
RALEIGH. — Bill creating boxing
commission for Raleigh is enacted
by legislature.
RALEIGH.—Senator Giles intro
duces bill providing for construction
of $300,000 highway across federal
Linville reservation in McDowell
and Yancey counties, of which cost
federal government would pay SIOO,-
000 and counties ray remainder.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Roy Springs is
fatally injured; C. J. Dempsey, driv
er, suffers fractured skull and may
recover, and G. A. Burgess and Car
roll Griffin, are painfully injured
when car in which they are riding
turns over near here. All are of
Rocky Mount. Defect in steering
gear caused accident.
RALEIGH.—Otto Wood, serving
30-year term in state prison for slay
ing A. W. Kaplan, Greensboro pawn
broker, several months ago, “slips
out ’ to Raleigh Times letter ad
dressed to “people of North Caro
lina” in which he urges them to de
mand investigation of “way I have
been treated since I have been con
fined in state prison under the su
pervision of George Ross Pou and
Warden Busbee.” Wood recently es
cared and was recaptured after sev
eral days of sensational chasing, and
has been in solitary confinement.
RALEIGH. —House committee con
sidering proposal interurban motor
bus regulation convinced proponents
proposed bill is doomed to failure
and subcommittee representing.house
and senate is named to draft sub
stitute bill.
CHARLOTTE. —About 3,000 per
sons attend annual farmers’ picnic
at Sharon, near here, when A. F.
Lever, of Columbia, S. C., former
congressman, now president of First
t’arolina Joint Stock Land bank, de
livers address on advantages of co
operative marketing.
FARM’BLDC SCORES
ON IN VICTORY
OF PAT HISON
BY THEODORE TILLER
Atlanta Journal Nows Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—As ad
ditional reports came in Wednes
day indicating an overwhelming vic
tory for Senator Pat Harrison In
the Mississippi primaries, politicians
in Washington checked up a victory
mark on the record of another mem
ber of the senate’s “farm bloc.” The
next “farm bloc” senator whose rec
ord will be passed upon by his con
stituents is Senator William J. Har
ris, of Georgia.
Mississippi reports are that. Sen
ator Pat Harrison, opposed by former
Governor Earl Brewer, who made a
long and progressive campaign, has
won by a. majority of seven to eight
to one dnd has received the congrat
ulations of his opponent. Former
Governor Brewer had been a power
in Mississippi poiltics but was
snowed under by Senator Harrison,
who stood on his record in the sen
ate during his first term there.
The renomination of Senator Har
rison means that practically every
member of the “farm bloc” has re
ceived indorsement at the polls,
most of them by great majorities.
Senator Harris, of Georgia, will
round out the list and indications
are that the “farm bloc,”, composed
of southern Democrats and western
Republicans who banded together to
force farm relief legislation through
congress, will be at full strength in
the next congress.
In some sections members of the
farm bloc have been criticized for
forming a bi-partisan alliance, even
in behalf of the farmer, but in ev
ery instance, as the Mississippi,
Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska,
lowa, Alabama and other results
show, the voters have approved this
step, taken by their senators In the
interest of the agricultural sections.
La Follette to Invade
Home State of Davis
In Battle for Votes
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Senators
La Follette and Wheeler will give
bat'le to the Democratic national
ticket in John W Davis’ home state,
We.it Virginia, and in the “solid
south," according to Robert M. La
Follette, Jr., who arrived here to
day.
The senator s son leaves tonight
for Washington where the progres
sive nominees will confer Thursday
as to speaking tours.
Mr. La Follette’s attention was
called to the report that Warren S
Stone, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, was to re
sign as treasurer of the conference
for progressive political action.
"Mj’ understanding of the matter
is hat Mr. Stone’s resignation has
nj significance,” he said. "It is
largely a tec’ nical proposition as he
felt that the treasurer should also
be located in Washington along with
the offices of Mr. Bronson, who has
direct charge of the drive being
made among the labor organiza
tions.”
"Six weeks ago I would have said
there was not any possibility of car
rying any of the southern states,”
m4\ La Follette continued, “but we
have had men in the field making a
survey to decide whether we should
spend any of our limited resources
in that territory, and we have re
ceived such encouraging reports that
we have decided it is worth while
to make a strenuous campaign
there.”
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IN BAWLS'SPEECH
PLEASING TO G.D.P.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Gen
eral Charles G. Dawes- speech of ac
ceptance awakens here among Re
publicans even more enthusiasm
than the address of President Coo
lidge, not because he expound" the
issues any more skillfully, bi?l be
cause he takes an aggressive posi
tion. And politicians like the fire
of an attack.
It was the Republican vice presi
dential nominee’s attack on iba Fol
lette and radicalism, howeve*.. which,
made it inspiring to the Republicans.
Whatever misgivings there may
have' been immediately after the
Cleveland convention when General
Dawes was nominated over the pro
test of friends of President Coolidge!
who feared the effect of General
Dawes’ anti-union labor utterances,
there is no doubt now that since
Follette has entered the race
labor has indorsed La Follette,
Republicans are more than glad oj
a champion of the Dawes type who
appeals to the conservative business
interests of the country.
The whole Republican strategy
now is to get their Democratic and
Republican conservatives under the
Coolidge-Dawes banner without mak
ing any effort particularly to coa.-i
the radicals into line. There ard
more conservatives if the
Republican and Democratic strength
is measured than there are
especially those of tne extreme type,
Concedes Davis Is Sound
Mr. Dawes concedes that John W.
Davis is safe and sound but argues
that the three-cornered fight may;
deadlock the contest and make Gov<!
ernor Bryan president. The Demo
crats will use the same argument,
no doubt to convince labor that by
voting for La Follette they ara
throwing their votes away. -
But as an example of Republican!
doctrine which fits in with the de*
sires of conservatives who think the
only way to kill La Follettism and
radicalism is to knock it in tha
head by strong utterances, the
speech of General Dawes is the first
gun in what may be expected to be
a vigorous offensive on his part ali
through the campaign. His pres
tige in connection with the settle
ment of the reparations problem has
given him more than ordinary powJ
ers to attract attention. He is not
the usual kind of vice presidential
candidate. Hi.s speeches will dra>M
crowds and will be read. So whild
the silent Calvin Coolidge will con
duct the dignified campaign of
president seeking continuance id
power, the vice presidential nomined
will be engaged in the “rough and
tumble” game of politics and hit!
hard. His speech of acceptance was
aleng that line. He called Senator
La Follette by name and condemned
his program unequivocally. From
now on there will be no quarter.
General Dawes, moreover, is to bd
the animated answer to lhe criticism
that the Republicans have dond
nothing on foreign policy. Every*
day's news dispatches tell of the
operation of what has been called
the Dawes plan.
European News Helps Him
If Europe begins an era of recov
ery and prosperity is reflected back
to America, the Republicans will
keep on talking about the Dawes
plan. The speech of the vice presi
dential candidate contains no new
promises of constructive legislation,
but. argues that the policy of La
Follette is unsafe and unsound and
that the surest way to avoid it is
to stick Io the conservative band
wagon with a ticket that is conserv
ative at both ends. The suggestion
of General Dawes that the Demo
crats are “straddling” between the
two extremes, is a keynote within
itself. It is what the Republican
managers will try to accomplish in
the campaign—they want the public
to have the impression that the
fight is between radicalism and con
servatism of a common sense sort
and that there is no middle ground.
The speech of John W. Davis at
Columbus next week is looked for
ward to now as the next develop
ment in the campaign, for in it, no
doubt, there will be an answer to the
questions raised by General Dawes.
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