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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
PORT-JE?AY'NE. DeKalb county
1 grand jury registers protest against,
bathing suits ,at Mentone
and other resorts of that section.
I AIoS»’TGbMERY. Alabama pub
; Tic service commission will make in-
, vestigation of intrastate express
k rates in Alabama before January 1.
with view to harmonizing these
I rates with new interstate structure,
prescribed by interstate commerce
B commission.
| ROANOKE. William R. Hold
in er, brother of Charles B. Holder,
will arrive here from Africa on Au-
F gust 31, where he has spent four
P;’ years as missionary from Christian
church. He will remain in this
country one year.
E
RED LEVEL. Allen Caton. 89.
1 jane of Covington county’s pioneer
K citizens, is dead.
F WEDOWEE. S. E. A. Reaves,
former probate judge’ of Randolph
county, at age of S 9, finds and robs
bee tree onihis farm near here.
ANNISTON. Henry M. Bryant,
fc deputy sheriff, dreams that negro
near Choccolocco is selling liquor.
S- Deputy raids negro’s home and finds
his dream is true. About two gal-
■ lons of whisky is found and con
•< fiscated and negro is arrested.
DOTHAN. Mrs. H. G. Wade
recovers her husband's stolen auto
| mobile while he and officers are
searching for it. She recognizes car
driven by two women and detains
E-' them until police are summoned.
MOULTON. Work is progress-
K ing on mew highway connecting
■ Moulton with Decatur and Albany.
Jr Entire work will be completed next
F spring. _
MONTGOMERY. lnformation
I concerning Alabama’s participation
in Stone Mountain Confederate mem
orial 'is givefl in statement, by Mrs.
Marie Bankhead Owens, director of
department of archives and history,
| and secretary of Alabama branch of
Stone Mountain association. She
says: "Campaign of misrepresenta
tion is being carried on by interest
- ed parties to effect that commission
is already making up its selection
of Alabama’s heroes who will be
E . represented on memorial, and that
action to omit General Joseph Wheel
’• er, who will certainly be on list, is
‘being considered.”
fcTUSCALOOSA. Plant of Tus-
L’- caloosa Lumber company, destroyed
by fire recently, will be rebuilt at
/ cost of approximately $200,000.
GEORGIANA?— Mrs. Mary Nor-
< ton MacDonald, New York artist,
Will establish ceramic pottery plant I
here for utilization of various fine
p clays which are to be found in Ala
-5 bam a.
UNION SPRINGS. Cotton gin
here, owned and operated for ten
years by Southern Cotton company,
k is leased to Moseley interests. Plant
I will be overhauled and enlarged.
GADSDEN. —Dave Appling, farm
fe er of Tidmore Bend, is in hospital
here suffering with pistol wound in
d chest and four in right arm. While
asleep‘-on front porch of his home
a he was shot by some one unknown.
BAY MINETTE. Consolidation
. e of Rosedale and Foley schools is
authorized by county school board.
B- TUSCALOOSA. Fifteen persons
are fined from $lO to $25 each on
L /charges of shooting squirrels out
f of season, fishing without permits
and seining.
GADSDEN. Julian Castleberry,
| negro hoodoo doctor, is sent to chain
gang to work out SIOO fine against
him, on charge of selling "conjure
| / bags,” declaring they would ward
| off all trouble.
j, HUNTSVILLE?"-—"Oscar Walker,
33, Marshall county farmer, dies at
| city hospital of burns sustained in
L kerosene explosion while kindling
|g fire at his home.
HUNTSVILLE. With favorable
I weather conditions from now until
September 10, experts are predict
|* ing 30,000 bales of cotton for Madi
p son county this year.
MONTGOMERY. L. C. FranL.
ft of United States Public Health Serv-
' ice, who is co-operating with Ala-
bama health authorities in milk con
t trol work, goes to Texas to explain
, Alabama’s method of milk control,
> to Texas state health authorities.
DECATUR. Within next GO
days Alabama Highway commission
will commence work on building
1 gravel highway from Decatur to
; Muscle Shoals, and another road
i. from Decatur to Moulton.
DECATUR. Tjohn A. Thoma-
> son, city aiderman for 12 years, is
s opposing James A. Nelson for re-
I election as mayor for sixth term.
B- Election occurs September 15.
FLORENCE. Alleyne Call, 7,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Huston
Hp Call, is perhaps fatally injured when
• struck by automobile.
ALBANY. — - i\~A? Bowles, J. M.
Jones and C. A. Patterson are ap
,--vpointed board of arbitration to set
s'' :le differences for depositors in $40,-
» JOO shortage of Bank of Madison,
I which failed recently at Madison,
f Board will meet here September 2.
Bondsmen want to pay only SIO,OOO,
| It is stated.
JASPER. While seated on box
i , if dynamite caps at Manchester
;oal mines near here, dynamite ex
|* plodes, blowing off legs of Foster
v Dunahoo, 35, and bruising his head
? sadly.
GADSDEN. "=~Wiley C. Wright
s elected commander of Emma San-
I ion camp of Confederate veterans,
lucceeflmg Col R. A. Dunlap, who
| lied recently.
Draco. C? A. Allred, 25. is
|v ihot and instantly killed, and deputy
T" sheriffs are looking for Fletcher
f, IVilbrooks, said to have shot him.
Vo motive for shooting is given,
p nit it is believed result of quarrel
® • ver whisky.
FAIRHOPE. Option is obtained
m Larson hotel property here as
K lerntanent homo of Alabama Press
issociation. Building is on bluff
iicing Mobile bay. and in addition
V o 16 rooms, sleeping quarters for
Ibout 100 additional can be arrang-
id on wide galleries.
, MOBILE. —""Alabama Farm Ru-
eau federation, with separate units
I'.. hroughou’ state, and ranking eighth
$ list of .arge business institutions,
rill use port of Mobile more than
•ver and will double 1924 business
text year, according to Edward A.
1 J’Neal.'of Florence, president.
FLORENCE. Various labor or-
E| of Florence. Sheffield
.nd Tuscti.nb.a will cel< bra<te Labor
Rl Jay here jointly.
SELMA. Marx accidents hap-
T ten on approac’.i to x’ah.i’oa bridge
n- Marlon Junction road, but none
.. quals sheer luck of Louisiana wom
| in driving several tourists to Sei
| tia. Her ear collides wit’.', truck
riven by G R. Rentr. and plunges
l bwn 20 foot embankment, landing
g n all four wheels and she drives
i back into highway. "Is anyone
t surt?” she asks “We are all 0.k..”
i reply in concert.
OPELIKA. ?? W? T. Andrews
ashler Farmer’s National bank.
E ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
business man and farmer, is elect
ed president of this bank.
GADSDEN. Mrs. Guy Woodliff.
widow ot Gin \\ oodliff, who died
suddenly two months ago, is dead
las result of automobile accident.
ANNISTON. John Allen. Pied
mont policeman, is bound over to
grand jury under $3,(100 bond, charg
ed with assault with intent to mur- .
der Charlie Steele. Piedmont youth, i
HUNTSVILLE. - New Lincoln {
cotton mill will be ready for opera- ,
tion October .1, and will give ent-j
ployment to 1,500 people at that i
time.
BI RM 1 NGH AM .—< Iraphite plants,
constructed in Clay county during'
World War. are sold to Canadians-
I and equipment will be shipped to
! that country.
BIRMINGHAM. Reports say
I that northern steel interests will
i build $1,000,000 steel plant at Gate !
; City, suburb of Birmingham. Re- |
port has not been confirmed.
GADSDEN. Out of 22 men in
Etowah county jail only two- are
negroes, and only five live in this
county. Others are sent here for
safe keeping. For more than year
i but few negroes have been arrest
: ed in this county.
NORTH CAROLINA
HENDERSON. —C. L. Wiggins
and Lawrence H. Hilliard, both 2 1
t and of Norlina, are instantly killed
(when automobile overturns 12 miles
from here, pinning occupants under
neath.
CANTON. —Attempt to blow up
city hall at night results in ten win
dows of building being broken. Chief
of Police Summer is investigating.
Reward of $250 for arrest of bomb
ers is offered.
LEXINGTON. —John Leake and
Kenneth Hale, negroes, found guilty
in Davidson county superior court
of murdering Charles Garwood, Lex
ington taxi driver, are sentenced by
Judge Bryson to he electrocuted at
state -prison, Raleigh, October 9.
Each negro in confession of com
plicity accused other of striking
fatal blow.
GOLDSBORO. —After short delib
eration jury acquits George Grant
ham, 35, charged with criminally as
saulting daughter of tenant on his
farm. Many witnesses were heard at
hard-fought trial, arousing high pub
lic interest.
SALISBURY.—CaII for farmer
labor political conference, which will
launch campaign in this state for
La Follette-Wheeler independent na
tional ticket, is issued by C. P. Bar
ringer, president of state federation
of labor, acting chairman of confer
ence, which will be held at Greens- ;
boro, Septeniber -6.
GREENSBORO?—Edward L. For- |
bes, 50, insurance company agent, j
swallows tablets which would cause |
slow death by poisoning in effort to
commit suicide as result of worry
over financial affairs. When severe
pains strike him he repents of act,
and urges wife to call physician,
who, on arrival, pumps poison from
stomach. Forbes may recover.
HICKORY. —Tax rate is increased
40 cents to $1.60, which will give an
additional $125,000 for schools. Four
new schools, including $250,000 high
school, are lining constructed.
AV IN STON-SALEM.—Miss Sallie
E. Schaeffer, for half century teach
er in Salem college and well known
throughout south, dies at Sisters’
home, in Salem, after long illness,
aged 79, orv first anniversary of
death of sister, Miss Louisa, also for
many years teacher at Salem.
HIGH POlNT.—Henry Bean, 65,
farmer, dies suddenly at home near
her,e.
TAYLORSVI LLE? - Lois Deal,
aged -seven, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Deal, laughs as brother
throws handful of china berries in
her j face, one of berries being in- i
haled, and child chokes to death.
WILSON.—Ziza Terhple, of Dra
matic Order, Knights of Khorassan, !
meets August 21 for ceremonial, I
when about 60 candidates are initi- ;
ated.
ASHEVILLE.—Proposed issue of,
$35,000,900 in highway bonds will be !
"more than sufficient’’ to complete ;
North Carolina's originally planned!
6,200-mile system of improved roads, :
says Charles Upham, state iiigbway I
engineer. State now has 2,200 miles 1
of paved highway, 1,800 miles gravel |
surfaced, 1,500 miles graded.
ASHEVILLE.— Rhome Rhoades is
held in Buncombe county jail with
out bond on charge of attempting to
kill, and Homer Jones is in Ashe
ville hospital, gravely injured, as
result of shooting affray at Craggy,
near Woodfin. Jones’ spinal column !
was shattered by bullet which
pierced lung.
CHAPEL HlLL'—George Pickard.'
Superintendent of grounds at Uni- !
versity of North Carolina, intimately
known to students for about 30
years, dies, aged 69, following stroke
of paralysis.
KINSTON.— Daniel Hardy, young
farmer, is held under $5,009 bond,
accused of killing tenant. Walter
Bell, negro, in clash developing when
Hardy took Bell to task for reported
attack by Bell on brother of. Hardy.
CHARLOTTE. —Dr. Henry Yeo
man Mott, 83, retired physician,
widely known as student, "dies at
country home in Iredell county, near
Davidson, after long period of de
clining health.
SPENt ER.—Dr. C. L. Koon, of
Wilson, is principal speaker at mass
meeting when Rowan county’s
school improvement campaign is
launched large crowd hearing sev
eral addresses.
A\ ICSON.—seventy-seventh annu
al grand encampment of Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, of North
Caiolina, at closing session votes to
men next year at Charlotte 'and
elects H A. Ballard, of Asheville,
grand patriarch: John L. Wade of
Fayetteville, and John E. Wright.
| of Shiloh, grand representatives.
I Fay ETTEXTLLE.—George Hall
j fugitive from state prison, when he
i was stntenced tor killing several
; >ears ago of man named Pope, is
I arrested by posse by Sheriff Mc
j Geachy, who carry home, enclosed
m high barbed wire barricade, by
i assault, conquering fierce dogs.
• Fourteen gallons of whiskv and still
1 also are captured.
ASHEVILLE?’-“With Masonic
honors. Rev. Alfred Hougl t
■ ■ .
tor. whose death occurred at lot-il
I hospital, is bin-led at Rivet side
cemetery.
ANDREWS W c on trans
j mission lint from towns $350,000
hydro-electric plant to Andrews and
that on substation is completed
GASTONIA. Gaston county i
I World War veterans launch cam
i paign to elect Major R. G. Cherry. |
former mayor of Gastonia and grand I
chancellor of Knights of Pythias ■
in state, as department commander ’
at September annual meeting of|
American Legion at Asheville.
HICKORY. Train of 37 ears of
agricultural lime from Mascot, Tenn.,
passes through Hickory on route to
farmers in Piedmont, S. C. Ship
ments total 1.400 tons.
JEFFERSON. Ashe county's
two-day annual Sunday school con
vention is held at Warrensville, when
prominent figures in state wide Sun
day school activity deliver addreses.
ASHEBORO. About -w
: of Randolph county make tour of
' ten counties in Piedmont section of
state inspecting experiment and
! model farms.
AVH ITEVI LLE. Refusing for
years to have hair cut, claiming- he
' would lose .strength. Andrew Car
. teret, 55. is attacked by unknown
persons and his hair forcibly cut,
! after he is taken into nearby woods.
• -
GRAHAM. Grant Estlow, manu
facturer’s representative, dies at
! heme near here, aged 59.
VASS. Contract is awarded for
i ccnstruclion of $43,000 school build
ing.
RALEIGH. — Disposition of Frank
lin McNeill’s $125,000 estate will in
clude gifts of $5,000 to Davidson
college and SI,OOO to First Presby
terian church, Raleigh.
DUKE. Biggest "sing” ever
held in state is held here third Sun
day in August, when choirs from
Johnston. Cumberland, Sampson and
other counties unite, great crowd
attending.
RALEIGH. Poultry specialists
of United States and Canada attend
sixteenth annual meeting of Ameri
can Association of Instructors and
Investigators in Poultry Husbandry
at State College, August 19-22.
DURHAM. L. W. Heath, promi
nent business man, suffers severe
injuries when he jumps from burn
ing building, lie is taken to hos
pital for treatment.
BURLINGTON. Charles O.
Walker, 51, prominent resident, dies
after long period of failing health.
NEWTON. Mrs. Sue Grigg Cele
brates 100th birthday at home in
Cleveland county.
REIDSVILLE? With only $129.-
000 available, Rockingham county
spent last year for roads $290,000
and commissioners raise tax rate
eight cents to fneet deficit. County
recently borrowed SIOO,OOO for run
ning expenses and. $40,000 to take up
notes.
MORGANTON. Captain W. B.
Berry, 69. widely known citizen, dies
at home near here of heart trouble.
WILMINGTON. C. W. Stew
art and son, Elmer Stewart, are held
in jail at Southport aqd here re
spectively, pending trial on charge
of killing Deputy Marshal Samuel
Lilly and Detective Leon George,
July 29, in Brunswick county, 15
miles from here.
CHARLOTTE? Hall Reid, living
near here, is held for Mecklenburg
county superior court after coroner’s
jury is unable to return verdict aft
er inquest into death of George
Salem, aged three, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F'rank Salem, run down and
instantly killed by car driven by
Reid.
RALEIGH. James A. Parham,
managing editor of the Charlotte
Observer, is commissioned by Gov
ernor Morrison as member of state
prison board.
BURLINGTON. - Alamance coun
ty’s 71 boys and girls, members of
farm clubs, who made motor trip to
Washington, D. C.. return home.
SANFORD. (lus Womble, one
of town’s most prominent business
men. is found in dying condition by
tourists near Lakeview, where his
car had been run into ditch. Body
was hanging over side of car. Heart
trouble is held as cause of death.
RALEHGH. Governor Morrison
assures New York bond syndicate
that state will issue no more bonds
until after general election but in
dicates that $20,000,000 of $25,000,000
in notes issued in anticipation of
bond sales will be taken up by pro-
of bonds to be sold in Novem
ber and December.
ROCKY MOUNT? .Cheatham
Evans, Earnest Lee and Tom Lee,
negroes, are held in jail for trial i
on charges growing out of murder
of Arthur L. Joyner, of Hollister,
taxi driver. Trial is expected at
Nash county court convening Sep
tember 17.
RALEIGH. Supreme court or
ders Durham superior court to heat
evidence in case of H. M. Goss, ac
cused of stealing watch at Virginia
Beach, Va., whose extradition by
state. 'Thirty-five are from Univer
is Held at Durham. Governor Mor
rison granted extradition and re
fused hearing. Supreme court’s ac
tion sets precedent for state.
RALEIGH. One hundred and
thirty-two for licenses to
practice law ir. state take examina
tions before supreme court, this be
ing the largest class in history of
state. Thirly-fice are from Univer
sity of North Carolina; like number
from Wake E'orest.
ALBEMARLE?"—“ Judge N. A.
Sinclair, of superior court, recovers
sufficiently from injuries received
.several weeks ago in automobile ac
cident to go to Charlotte, where he
will rest at home of daughter, Mrs.
J. E. Williamson. He may resume
duties late in October.
WILSON. J. K. Thigpen and
Mrs. Bessie Litchworth, both mar
ried. of Wilson county, are arrested
at Washington. N. C., on elopement
charge.
WILSON. - P< r< y White, Joe Bis
sett, negro, and Bissett's son are
arrested for alleged complicity in
flogging of Percy Lisles in Wilson
couqty.
BLU’E RIDGE. While boat is
within a few feet of him. Joe Tucker
drowns in Sky Camp lake. Body
’is recovered and sent to home at
Nashville.
WINS r< >N SALEM " - - Sam W.
Vance, secretary, reports that Jun
ior Order United American Me
chanics in state increased its mem
bership by 2,500 to 49,272 during
past fiscal year.
SOUTH CAROLINA
ORANGEBURG. Circuit, Judge
1. W. Bowman dies here, falling
suddenly, stricken with heart failure,
while dressing.
ST. MATTHUWS - '— Dr. J. A.
Woodley, prominent resident, die;
u nexpoctedly.
MARION. Plans for Marion
county fair, to be held November
3-6, are made.
CHARLESTON. Ashley river
bridge commission asks state high
way department to prepare plans
for bridge over Cove inlet, connect
ing Sullivans island and Me tint
Pl is
AIKEN Maggie Holmes, col
i orc.l dancer, is killed and Edgar
I Watson, of Augusta, is wounded,
j probably fatally, in mix-up between
l South Carolina and Georgia negroes.
! at supper and dance near here.
MANNIN ; - 1.1. Wells, for
I IS years county treasurer, dies here
i at age of 77.
CHARLESTON, Contract is let
by sanitary nnd drainage commis
sion for paving of road from end
of King street paving to Dorchest
er county line, and also road to
Berkeley county line. Simons-51 ay
rant company, of Charleston, getting
job. These are main highways in
to central part of state.
COLUMBIA. Check forger uses
{tame of Mayor W K A. Coleman to
get money on bogus paper, receiv-
SHffl BIOMES
OMISSBMG.O.P.
CMGN BOOK
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building:.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The
Republican campaign textbook, is
sued here yesterday, today was as
sailed by Chairman Clem L. Shaver,
of the Democratic national commit
tee. “not so much for what it con
tains, but for what it omits.”
Thus, the Democratic statement
urges, the Republican textbook
“.soft pedals” upon the activities of
former Secretary of the Interior Al
bert B. Fall and the leasing of the
naval oil reserves, so that ”if one
depended on the campaign book for
his information, he would never sus
pect Mr. Fall was ever a cabinet
; officer.” The book fails also to
mention the “bureau of engraving
scandal,” or “Secretary Slemp’s con
nection with the collection of money
for the sale of Virginia postoffices,”
the Democratic chairman < itinues.
and “neglects even to record that
Colonel Charles R. Forbes was at
I one time director of the veterans’
bureau, or that he is now under in-
I dlctment.”
I Daugherty and Fall Forgotten
The Republican book “is as silent
lon the Mellon tax plan as is the
Cleveland platform,” adds Mr. Sha
ver, and “Harry M. Daugherty will
never know from a perusal of the
book that he once held the high of
fice of attorney general.”
“By some strange circumstance,”
says the statement, “the authors and
compilers of the volume omitted
even to mention his name, much
less discuss the achievements of his
acmiinistration, of which the country
I heard so much only a few weeks
I ago, and will hear more during the
I impending campaign.”
I Chairman Shaver observes that in
I the Republican chapter on the de
i partment of the interior, which
omits all-mention of former Secre
tary Fall, there is a disposition of
I the G. O. P. to talk about the activ
| ities of the bureau of Indian affairs
iand of the fact that the patent of
| fice has increased its output while
I “soft-pedaling on Fall.”
| “And from the brief mention that
I is made of Teapot Dome,” continues
I Chairman Shaver, one would sttr
| mise that former Secretaries Lane
land Daniels and Senator Thomas J
! Walsh were the real culprits, and
I Fall, Denby, Doheny and Sinclair
the guardian angels of the navy's
oil reserves.
The Civil Service
The Democratic chairman added;
“In the chapter on civil service,
the campaign book, horrified by the
fact, finds that certain employes of
the New York po.stoffice once com-
I mitted a theft of money and securi-
I ties, and that they “entered the
service under the Democratic admin
istration.” But it fails to mention
the bureau of engraving scandal, o"
the many other raids on the civil
service which have taken place dur
ing the ' present administration,
among them Secretary Slemp’s con
nection with the collection of money
for the sale of Virginia postoffices.,
as disclosed by the famous series of
"Dear Ben” letters, including the
one on the “Meadows of Dan.”
“There is also an interesting chap
ter on the veterans bureau. It
records how ma.,y millions of dol
lars have been appropriated for the '
care of sick and wounded service
men, and how many millions of dol
lars of insurance the lattey have,
taken out—for which they paid so
much per thousand—but it neglects
to even record the fact that Colonel |
Charles R. Forbes was at one time
director of the bureau, or that he
is now under indictment, and that
under his administration there was
an orgy of graft and corruption that
sickened the country, and that ac
counted for the wasting or stealing •
of mibre than $209,000,000 of money
intended for the care of the disabled
service men.
Humor in Tax Claims
“The book tells How the treasury
department ‘bears after-war bur
dens,’ but is as silent on the Mellon
tax plan as is the Cleveland conven
tion platform. And it attempts to;
show a reduction of (axes by the
Republican ad" ’nistration by offer
ing as an exhibit a table comparing
the income taxes that will be paya- I
ble under the 1924 revenue act with |
those imposed by the war revenue j
act of 1918.
Passing over the unfairness of any
comparison between peace and war 1
taxes, it is highly humorous even in
I a Republican campaign book, to
I claim for this administration credit
I for tax reduction in the 1924 tax
| bill, passed by Democratic and fti
-1 dependent Republican votes over the
I determined opposition of President
i Coolidge, Secretary Mellon and ad
; ministration Republican leaders in
I both branches of congress.
“The chapter on foreign relations
is as indefinite as has been the ad
i ministration’s foreign policy. There
I is a boast that General Dawes and
the other ‘unofficial observers,’ etc.,
who went over, opened the way ‘to
the economic rehabilitation o fEu
rope,’ but no mention of the fact
that their status was wholly unoffi
cial. as explicitly announced by the
’ administration at the time of their
going, so that had the negotiations
! broken down. the administration
could have washed its hands of Gen
i eral Dawes, as well as his asso
| ciates.”
Absent voters’ Law
V/ill Not Apply to
September Primary
Georgians who desire to partici
' pate in the state primary on Sep-
I tember 10 will have to be at home
i on election dav. as the new absent
voters’ bill will not affect U. fall
primary. State officials have receiv
ed numerous inquiries on this point.
The new law requires that absent
’ voters must make their intention
known and apply to the registrars
of their home counties for ballots
not more than sixty days nor less
than thirty days before the election
Idate. In the present case the pri
i mary will occur in less than thirty
days after the new act was signed
and became law.
The new law will be in full force
jand effect for the regular el* tion
lin Novemh'w. •’ v .-s s -id.
ing cash in change for check with
which he purchases chickens al mar
ket, leaving chickens to be called
for later. The chiekoiis are all mar
ket has now to show for money given
“customer" in change.
('OLUMBIA. A. Fuller Brooker,
member of prominent family, dies
at Cleveland, Ohio, his late home,
and is brought here for burial.
GREENVILLE. Mrs. F’ranci'i
Montgomery leases Chicks Spring
RADIO-PHOTO FILM SHOWS
WEIRD SYMBOLS IN TESTS
FOR MARTIAN MESSAGES
Actual Measurements of
Temperature of Planet In
dicates Mars Is Habitable)
Contrary to Long-Held
Theories
WASH LN’dTOX, Aug. 27. —Devel-
opment of a photoraphic film record
of radio signals during a period of
about twenty-nine hours while Mars
tvas closest to the earth has deep
ened the mystery of the dots and
dashes reported heard at the same
time by widely separated operators
of powerful stations.
C. Francis Jenkins, of Washing.-
ton inventor of the device, which
he calls the “radio-photo message
continuous transmission machine,”
was induced by Dr. David Todd, pro
fessor emeritus of astronomy of Am
herst, and organizer of the interna
tioanl movement, to “listen in” for
signals from Mars, to take the rec
ord.
The film, thirty feet long and six
indies wide, discloses in black and
white, a fairly regular arrangement
of dots and dashes along one side,
but on the other side, at almost
evenly spaced intervals, are curious
ly jumbled groups each taking the
form of a crudely drawn face.
“I don’t think the results have any
thing to do with Mars,” says Mr.
Jenkins. “Quite likely the sounds
recorded are the result of hetero
dyning, or interference of radio sig
nals.
“The film shows a repetition at
intervals of about a half hour, of
wh-at appears to be a man’s face.
It’s a freak which we can’t explain.”
Dr. Todd, however, takes a more
serious view of the record, although
admitting he is at a loss to explain I
its significance.
“We now have a permanent record |
which can be studied,” he points out, j
‘‘and who knows, until we have |
studied it, just what these signals
may have been?”
William F. Friedman, chief of the
code section and chief signal officer
of the army, has been requested by
Mr. Todd to make an attempt to
decipher a section of the developed |
film, am] Mr. Jenkins retained an- '
other strip to lay before Dr. J. H. I
Dellinger, chief of the radio division!
of the Bureau of Standards, for his I
opinion. '
$39,000,000 Power
Project in Alabama
Authorized by Board
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 27. '
An order of the Alabama public serv- i
ice commission, issued Tuesday, !
grants to the Alabama Power com
pany authority to construct on the
Tallapoosa river the biggest single
hydro-electric development project
ever undertaken by private capital
in this state. The project is that
generally known as the Cherokee ;
Bluffs development. Wheat com- |
pleted, the cost, including the gen- ;
erating system, is estimated at |
$39,000,000.
Plans for the project call for the |
building of six separate dams, a I
main dam, 150 feet in height,, and ,
five storage dams, the storage dams '
to be erected along the river from I
the point where the main dam will j
be located, at Cherokee Bluffs, to J
the mouth of Crooked creek, a dis
tance of about six or eight miles.
The Cherokee Bluffs development
will create a lake which will cover
between 40,000 and 50,000 acres and
will be the largest of its kind in the
world. From 1,200 to 1,500 men will
be employed in this work until it Is
completed. It is expected that the |
first electric generating unit will be ■
in operation sometime during the '
fall of 1926.
4 We Gambled and Lost,’
Writes Bandit to Pa!
In $24,000 lampa Job
TAMPA. Aug. 27 “We’ve gam
bled and lost,” wrote R. D. Hogue, '
former finger print expert, of the ;
Tamjia police department, to George
B. White, now on trial for the '
Clewis $24,000 bank robbery, accord
ing to a letter read in court last
night. On the stand Hogue admitted
writing the letter to the defendant
after the two had been arrested for
the sensational holdup of April 23.
James Albury and Hogue, con
fessed principal and accessory, toll
yesterday how the.v planned and
executed the robbery and how they
divided the money. Hogue said he
buried his share in the yard.
Judge H. K. Olliphant, of Bar
tow, will come here tomorrow as
a substitute judge to hear the cases
of Mrs. Edith M. Conway and
Charles Killingsworth, two other de
fendants in the Clewis case.
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hotel property, formerly used by
government as training school for
veterans, and proposes to operate
sanitarium.
G REE NV I LLE.—(leorge I ‘ruitt.
fifteen, is held by Greenville police
Lad claims he was driven from home
by father.
NE\V BERRY.—State Lut hera n
league holds state convention here,
The Jenkins device was attached
to a radio receiving sot adjusted to
wave lengths of 6.000 metres, and
the dots and dashes are recorded on
the film by an instrument passing
over its surface from side to side as
it. was unwound fifty times to the
inch, which responded to incoming
sounds with flashes of light.
NEW RADIO METER
GIVES MARS TEMPERATURE
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 27. —
‘The heat problem of the planet Mars
has been successfully attacked by
use of the Coblentz radiometer, an
instrument so delicate that it meas
ures accurately the heat of a candle
one hundred miles away, it was re
vealed at Lowell Observatory, here.
The measurements of the planet
show an active temperature for Mars
of about eight degrees centigrade, or
forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit—in
dicating the planet is within habit
able limits—and contrary to theoreti
cal eompuetations that the tempqra
-1 ture of Mars is far below the freez
ing point of water.
Heat radiation observations of
Mars were conducted at Lowell by
Professor C. O. Lampland, of the ob
servatory staff, and Dr. W. W.
Coblentz, of the United States bu
reau of standards, for a long period
prior to proximity of the planet to
earth last Friday midnight.
Dr. Coblentz is the inventor of the
radiometer.
“The gist of the extensive series
of measurements on Mars,” .said
Professor Lampland, “is that the act
ual heat conditions on the planet, as
revealed by the delicate measuring
instrument, is due to a much higher
temperature of the surface than de
terniined by theoretical calculations,
which methods necessarily involve
imperfectly known factors in the
computation.”
The heat measurements through
j the radiometer showed:
1. That the equatorial zones are
j much warmer than the polar regions
j which send out no appreciable
I amount of heat.
2. The morning side of the planet,
just turning into sunlight, is at a
lower temperature than the after
noon side which has been longer ex
posed to the sun's rays.
3. The dark regions are at a high
i er temperature than the light ones.
i 4. The observations bring' out the
I gradual rise in temperature of the
i southern hemisphere where summer
i is now advancing.
Improvised Cannon
Kills Georgian at
Klan Celebration
LUMBER CITY, Ga„ Aug. 27.
i Mr. Paul Bryant, of Hazlehurst, was
killed here last night during a cele
bration of the Ku Klux Klan. He
attempted to fire an improvised can
non made of iron pipe as a part of
the celebration. It exploded and blew
his head off. Colonel John Rogers,
well-known lawyer of Hazlehurst and
an officer of the klan, who was
[Standing near Bryant, was rendered
i unconscious by the concussion, but
I recovered and brought the body of
! the dead man here later in the night,
j Mr. Bryant was 27 years of a£e and
I came to this section from Wilson,
j N. to engage in tobacco raising.
[He is survived by a father and three
I sisters in Wilson, where the body
; will be carried for interment. His
; father is on the way here to take
I charge of the body.
Successful Flight
Made by American
•/
Dirigible in Germany
FRT EI >ER ICI ISH A FEN. Germany
.Aug 27.—(8y the Associated Press.) j
i The giant dirigible ZR-3 which was
■ built here for the United States and
is soon to start her t ranestlantic j
flight to Lakehurst, N. J., made her!
first trial flight successfully tins aft-;
ernoon The dirigible sailed for two |
hours and twenty minutes above the i
vicinity of Lake Constance, return-1
ing to her hangar at 5:30 o’clock this
; 'afternoon.
; The start was perfect, the dirigi- i
• ble taking a westerly course over !
; the lake and then turning south to- I
wards Switzerland. There were four !
'naval officers on board.
Ten minutes after the ship reached •
an altitude of 400 feet a heavy rain ■
set in which blotted the dirigible I
! from the sight of thousands of spec- I
tt tors. Dr. Hugo Eckener. director I
of the Zeppelin company, was in !
command.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
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1 with prominent churchmen on pro
gram, among them Rev. J. R.
Struck, missionary to India.
AB B E VILL E— F? A. Flem ing,
seventy-eight, has leg broken when
kicked by horse.
SPARTANBURG. lsom Tim
mons, mill worker, is found near
bridge over Tyger river at Fair
mont, this county, and flit's at hos
pital here short tiriie afterwards.
He fell from bridge, jury finds,
ns nssce
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LI FOLLETTE PUNK
EV DAVID LAWRENK E
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal —Copy-
right, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 —The
! American Federation of Labor is
not swallowing Senator Robert M.
La Follgtte or radicMism.
Although an indorsement has been
given the third party nominees as
individuals, the “Federationist,” the
official organ of the American Fed
eration of Labor, will say in its edi
torial in the September number
shortly to be issued some important
things whifch can not but be con
strued as a fundamental objection
to certain principles for which La
I Follette stands.
' The American Federation of La
bor firmly agrees with La Follette
on the subject of trusts and
monopolies and government owner
ship, and demands that the Sherman
anti-trust law be repealed. The
“Federationist” expresses a friend
ship for trusts as a means of con
serving labor and thinks the La Fol
lette program of trying to cure
monopoly, by political regulation is
wrong.
kfter reading the editorial, one
can not help wonder how the Ameri
can Federation of Labor could in
dorse Ea Follette at all, for on prin
ciple they are far apart. Would the
I Wisconsin senator subscribe to what
the “Federationist” says?
Here s Labor’s Editorial
Anyone who knows the Wisconsin
reader can answer the question by
studying the forthcoming editorial,
which says in part:
“Privately owned monopoly as ti
political issue is bound to play a
part in the present political cam
paign. It compels attention, direct
ly or indirectly, in the political plat
forms. The Democratic party de
mands strict enforcement of the
Saerman anti-trust law'. The La Fol
lette platforms call for use of the
lower of government to crush pri
vate’ monopoly, rather than foster
it. The Republican platform pro
pounds the good old doctrine of
Laissez Faire, or leave things about
! as they are.
“No political platform meets the
thought of labor on this great ques
tion of monopoly, and labor, in con
sidering platforms, could not and did
not make its analysis on that issue
alone. There are many issues but
this one is well worth special con
sideration at the outset in order that
labor’s future course may be as
clear as has been its past record.
“'rhe American Federation of La
bor has demanded and will continue
to demand the repeal of the Sherman
anti-trust act. It can not hold with
[the Republicans that nothing needs
to be done, but it would prefer the
j status quo to a tinkering process
[that would result in strengthening
|the anti-trust act or in creating new
'political machinery with which to
[burden industry and labor without
I real benefit to either.
Labor-Capital Inseparabale
"Let it be set forth definitely here!
that labor and industry are indivisi
bel and inseparable. Labor as such
may have interests of other factors
in industry, but as a part of the
great world of industry, labor, man
agement, science, all share in the re
sponsibility for the productivity and
general well-being of industry and
they are all bound up in its fate.
“Labor can not go with the Demo
cratic demand for strict and stern
| application of the Sherman law. The
only strict and stern enforcement
that act has yet had has been against
labor—and labor confessedly and ab
solutely has had enough.
“Labor has protested from time
out of mind against being’ classed
with dead, dull merchandise. Labor
is not a commodity. The Democratic
platform declares that labor is not a
commodity but it cancels this lip
| service by demanding enforcement of
la iaw which almost, more than any
I other, has served to place labor be
jfore the courts in the category of
I commodities.
"Neither can American labor ap
| prove tile demand for what is often
j termed government repression of
| monopoly. Labor’s fight is not
I against combination in industry as
I such, but is against the evil influ
j ences which control’great combina
j tions and which are too often ex
! erted in our political, judicial and
! economic life.
No Political Solution
“Labor declares that the question
■of controlling monopoly and con
; serving the public welfare against
; abuses by monopoly can not be
i solved by the politica. state and al-
■ most every attempt so to absolve it
; will lead to more abuse than remedy.
' “Consider this vital fact: govern
' ment stands as the guarantor of the
' rights of private property. We
' shall have the institution of private
property as long as our present form
;of government stands. Democracy
rests upon the private ownership of
property as much as upon any other
basis.
“The basis of monopoly, and of all
large ownership, is in the institution
of private property. There is no
going back of that fact. It stands
and all theorists will do well to re
member it.
"Starting on that basis, ownership
submits to natural forces at work
in the field of industry. These natu
ral forces make for constantly en
larging units of production and con
stantly enlarging organizations for
production and distribution. Some
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of tliis enlargement is undoubtedly
devised also to enlarge profits. But
basically it is all, so far as it is sound
; and lasting, in accord with changing
methods of production and devised
to secure economy of production,
volume of production anti facility of
distribution. It is economically
sound. _lt is in response to normal
and natural demand for methods
that fit i In' requirements of men
! and machinery.
“Trust” Idea Approves
“The United States Steel corpo-a
tion is called a trust. It ig a produc
tion machme of tremendous worth
to the people of America. It was
built to work, and it does work. The
supreme court, wiser than platform
builders, found away to allow it to
live. It was good strategy, too, for
it saved the government tlie humil
iation of an unenforcible decree.
“Henry Ford, in a national adver
tising campaign, is frankly telling
America of his great combinaF-c-n
of production units, a horizontal
trust, including mines, forests, mills,
smelters, railroads, ship lines and
factories. Here is a machine which
came into being in response to a
natural demand. It is a wonderful
economic machine for economical
production. Ford knows this, and
he is doubtless advertising the leg
islation of its sound merits in order
to build up a public understanding
that will be too wise to attack it
destructively.
“Whatever platform builders may
say, it is too late in the economic
day to °o out with a broom to sweep
back the tide. The tide was started
when steam power was discovered,
hastened when steam was harnessed
to machine pulleys, accelerated whea
Ben Franklin flew his kite into/
electricity and fame, and given Ir- Z
r< sistible force when the modern
factory system stood forth in full
flower. 5n this tide we got on to
better things, or in it we go down ’
to destruction.
“We cannot turn back the tide,
but we can ride it.
Government Should Help
“The proper sphere of govern
ment in helping toward beneficial
results is to find and furnish infor
mation, to get at and make known
t'he facts, to encourage and insist
upon development within industry
of machinery which will take from,
invested wealth its dictatorial power
ever policies of production, employ
ment and public relations. There is
a normal course which must be pur
sued, just a ; there always is where
life and its perpetuation are con
cerned. The government may he
helpful, but it cannot take over the
task, without spoiling the whole ef
fort.
“The American labor movement
will resist at al ltimes every effort
at governmental coercion, every ef
fort of government blindly to go
counter to the natural and evolu
tionary forces that are at work where
life has its being and its sustenance.
Labor is concerned with life, while
government too often only sees
formulas.
“In this issUe there is bound up
the whole contest between govern
mentalism and individual and group
freedom, between free industry 'and
stat'e socialism. Labor is for free
dom, for the normal, rational things,
for the utmost of freedom and full
ness for life and life forces. Let
politicians give heed to these
thoughts.”
2 Killed, 15 Injured,
As Confiscated Liquor
Explodes m Detroit
DETROIT, Aug. 28. —Two persons
were killed and fifteen others seri
ously burned in the explosion of a
large quantity of confiscated liquor
in a west side precinct police station
here Wednesday afternoon.
Police were attempting to trans
fer the liquor outside from the va
cant cell where it had been stored
when the explosion occurred.
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