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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The im
portance of the cotton the
United States and the necessity of
justice to the farmer in the matter
of 'fertilizer, was stressed in the
Yspeech of Senator W. J. Harris, of
■eorgia, speaking here recently dur
ag debate on the Muscle Shoals bill
“Let us do justice to the farmer
jm this Muscle Shoals development,”
he urged. “Regardless of anything,
j. shall continue my efforts to help
the farmer in this matter and every
other way possible. Let us amend
this bill to give the farmer the prefer
ence under its terms.”
His speech follows:
k “Mr. President, there is no differ
ence of opinion among senators
a'bout the development of Muscle
S’hoals for national defense, but there
is a very great difference among us
as to what shall be done with this
great power when it is not needed
for war purposes. Heretofore the
.bills that have passed congress have
provided for government operation
tfjjring war times and for the manu
facture of fertilizer, or. rather, of
nitrate, during peace times, to be
supplied to farmers at cost.
During the last war Germany dis
covered that our weakest point was
in the matter of nitrate. We were I
•dependent upon a foreign country—
y^ule— to supply this. We are the
only government in the world of any
size that is really dependent upon
another country in that respect. So
twe are all in agreement that the
project should be developed to pro
duce nitrate for the manufacture of
munitions during a war. Muscle
Aoals was selected by a board of
anny officers appointed by the presi
dent, uporj the recommendation of
the secretary of war, and without
any favoritism whatever. It is the
greatest power that, can be utilized
for this purpose east of the Missis
sippi river and away from the sea
coast where it could not he exposed t
to attack. The hills that have pass
ed heretofore have not only taken
care of national defense, hut have
protected the farmer. As I under
stand the pending bill, it does not
do that, and the amendments which
I and others have offered to give
preference to the farmers in the sale
and distribution of fertilizers manu
factured at Muscle Shoals were ob
jected to by the senator from Ala
bama (Mr. Underwood) and have
been defeated.
k Hopes for Amendment
*'l had hoped that I might be flble
to vote for the Underwood bill, and
still hope that it may be amended so
that I may do so. Objection to the
amendment offered by the senator
from South Carolina (Mr. Smith),
which I shall support, has been made
■on the ground that President Cool
idge would probably veto it.
I “I do not think there is anything
fin the president's message that can
bit construed in that way. He stated
that he favored a desirable lease, but
failing in that he urged the govern
ment to develop the power. The
Smith amendment is not one provid
ing for government operation. It
simply provides for the government
to develop the best way tq. ipanufac
fture nitrate so as to manufacture
fertilizers cheaper in time of peace
amd for the manufacture of muni
tions during the war, and then the
property can be leased. It is not in
tended by the Smith amendment, as
J understand it, to have government
operation permanently. I am op
losod to government operation as a
Tile, but there is no more of gov
ernment operation involved in the
Pmith amendment and the govern
ment developing a. way to get cheap
Bi abundant nitrate in time of war'
afnd pence than there is in the gov-|
piViment developing the submarine or
aircraft or in building and maintain
ing the Panama. Canal. There is no
difference whatever in the two prop
ositions. Neither one involves gov
ernment operation—hotli are for na
tional defense.
One objection I have to the Un
derwood bill is the defeat of an
Amendment I introduced, which al
rowed the farmers to have th© pref
erence or rather allowed the secre
tary of agriculture to distribute the
fertilizer to the farmer. As I under
stand. the bill of the senator from
Alabama, unless it is amended, in
jlttead of being a benefit Io the farm
er’s of the south in giving them
cheaper fertilizer, a lease could be
under the bill to the fertilizer
trltst. who could raise the price of
feirtillzers to the farmers. The fed
eral trade commission investigated
tlm fertilizer trust and found that a
companies fixed the price, or
rather controlled the price ami the
other smaller companies followed
There is nothing in the Underwood
bill as I see it that would prevent
half a dozen of the large fertilizer
'corporations from leasing the prop
erty, and instead of lowering the
Iprice of fertilizer to the farmer they'
rould raise it .and the farmers would
'be helpless.
’ Competition in Power
The same thing is true in the mat
ter of power. 1 have an amendment
which I shall offer to prevent leas
ing it to any power corporation that
.would come in competition with the
Xlusele Shoals plant, because, just as
lb g Ito case of the fertilizer trust, as
I Aavo suggested, the power com
panies in that section could get con
trol of the property by a lease, and
Instead of it being a benefit to our
people ami lowering the cost of
Pt'Wer, they could raise the price to
thA consumers. I have an amend
rnwit that will allow them to lease
IhflLpower at a price lower than
»thw: corporations if necessary. The
reason I shall offer such an amend
ment is this: Suppose we have to
lease this surplus power to the Ala
bama. Power company and the other
power companies, if they had a sur
plus of power at times from their
>wn plant they would not take the
government surplus power. They
-4-ould sell tlwir own power and
wv ours to go to waste. During
Ihojrainy season there would be
twice as much power as at other
limes. 1 think we ought to be pro
tected and we ought not to allow one
>f the power companies in competi
tion with us to take the property for
bat reason.
I Favors Lease Transfer
The senator from Alabama object
'd to another amendment of Wnine
' 'k h I think very important. It
>ou>! he used to prevent the trans
ferring of the lease of the property
o the fer:ili:t?r trust or the power
rust. My amendment provided that
to lease made tinder this act could
.<» trat sferred to another without
he consent of our government. No
ate in leasing a one story building
<n a back street for 50 years would
ail to reserve the right to cancel
b»it lease if it should get in the
tends of undesirable persons, and
et the s iator from Alabama Ob
feted to that provision being placed
1 the bill relating to the lease of
luscle Shoals when on this plant so
Jueh depended f<’r our national de
ws*. We know that at one time a
Metgn corporatism was t-ving to get
ontrel of the propmtj and trjing.
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THE ATLANTA TRIWEEKLY JOURNAL
Chosen as Tallahassee's Fairest
Miss Mary Springle, who was chosen as the fairest, of the
maidens of Tallahassee, Fla., to represent, that city in the recent
Florida state centennial, held in the capital.
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FORMER LORD OF ADMIRALTY
GOING BACK AS A COAL MINER
Fate of Frank Hodges, Mem
ber of Britain’s Labor
Cabinet, is Vivid Example
of Political Twists.
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LONDON, Dec. 26. —Frank Hodges
is going back to the mines
After wearing the ermine ?f lor 1 !
of the admiralty, consotring with :
kings and queens and being a mem- !
ber of the government, Hodges will j
take his pick and shovel again and
go back to the collieries from which
he rose to greatness. f
Announcement of the labor leader,
membmer of Ramsay MacDonald's
government, that he will resume
work as an ordinary miner, caused
a sensation today. It focused atten
tion of England again on the quirk
of fate that brought the labor gov
ernment into power only to throw it
out again after a year.
Hodges has been one of the lead
ing figures of the labor movement in J
the British Isles for years. Born of I
poor parents he went into the mines I
through their agents, to interfere
with th© leasing of it to others. They
have been open in their opposition.
I am going to discuss the price of
the cotton, because that concerns)
New England and the western peo
ple as it docs my own section. The
high cost of labor makes it abso
lutely necessary for utj. to have
cheaper fertilizer to me'ct the compe
tition of the world in the production
of cotton. England for two years
has put a tax on every bale of cotton
used by her cotton factories and is
using that money in her colonies
where they have cheap labor to de
velop the production of cotton. The
time is not far distant when they
are going to take from the south the
monopoly of cotton raising which we
now have unless we can get cheaper
fertilizers. We cannot compete with
those people, because their labor ami
many other things are cheaper than
ours. When that time conies the
purchasing power of the south is
going to be so reduced that New
England and the farmers of the
north, as well as the farmers of the
wfest, who sell us their products are
going to feel it very severely. When
the south cannot raise cotton at a
profit, the New England cotton mills
will lie compelled to go out of busi
ness, and other manufacturing com
panies will have to reduce their pro
duction, as they will be unable to
find customers to take the place of
the people of the south. When the
southern people fail to raise cotton
they will have to plant grain, much
of which they buy from the west.
If th© western farmers should lose
their market in the sale of wheat in
the south, they would have a large
surplus on hand and the price would
go below the cost of production, as
it always does when there is an
overproduction. The north and west
are interested in cheap fertilizer in
the south and the cheap production
of cotton as much as our section is.
The present president of the
United States, the preceding presi
dent of the United States, Mr. Har
ding, and I think also President Wil
son, recommended the St. Lawrence
canal. One of the reasons for urg
ing that project was to get lower
freight rates to help the wheat
growers of the west. That was the
principal argument used. I believe
that project is coming rapidly, and
if that is true, why should not the
senators from that section of the
country favor the development at
Muscle Shoals in peace time to help
the cotton growers down in my sec
tion of the country? It is just as
important to help agriculture in the
south as it is to help it in the north
or the west.
I shall not take longer time to dis
cuss this matter. Mr. President, but
I want to call the attention of the
senate to the importance of cotton
to the Unied Sates. Except for the
gold brought into our country in
payment of cotton exported from the
south our gold reserve now would
* not be much more than one-half of
j what it is. The southern cotton
growers compete with the world, and
: it is necessary to have cheap fer
tilizer to raise It at a profit, as
I much of the land is wearing out. In
two-thirds of the south where cotton
is produced fertilizer is an absolute
necessity, and they will have to raise
other crops unless we can get
cheaper fertilizer to use in connec
i tion with the growing of cotton.
| There can be no general prosperity
in our country until the farmers are
prosperous. When the firmer re
ceives a. good price for his products
it helps all business, trades and pro
fessions. We have too long neg-
of Ahertilly when he was a child of
six and worked as a collier at the
Vivian colliery until he was 21. Then
he went to the Oxford labor college,
became a miner’s agent; a member of
the royal commission on coal mines,
was elected to the executive commit
tee of the Labor party and finally be
came secretary of the powerful Mi
ers’ International Federation.
Then when labor scored its great
electoral victory that swept Ram
say MacDonald into power with the
first labor government England had
ever known, Hodges became civic
lord of the admiralty. He was at the
zenith of his power a few short
months ago, and now he goes back
to the mines, one of England’s toil
in gthousands who bring British
coal out of the earth to send her
great steamships around the world.
Hodges had to give up his position
with the miners’ federation when he
accepted his portfolio in the Mac-
Donald government. Like most la
bor leaders he had little money of
his own and when he was defeated
in the recent parliamentary elections
there was nothing left to do but to
go back to the mines.
Miami Detective
Searching for Bride,
Missing After Quarrel
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 24.—E. Sutton,
a private detective, is today search
ing for his bride of four months who
disappeared early Wednesday, fol
lowing a cross, word battle over
spending Christmas at home with
her Indiana parents.
Mr. Sutton said it would be im
possible for her to make the trip.
She left her husband while he slept.
Today, Mr. Sutton asked police and
detectives to accompany him in the
search.
Nation’s Gasoline Supply
Drops 619.292 Barre's
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Gasoline
stocks decreased to the extent of
619,292 barrels during November,
according tn reports received by the
American Detroleum instit ite. cover
ing approximately 62 per cent of the
operating capacity of to© United
States. Pipe line and tank farm
crude oil stocks east of ‘he Rocky
mountains decreased 4,1.56,000 bar
rels in November.
The daily average gross crude oil
production of the United States in
creased 9,100 barrels for the week
'ending December 20, totaling 1.986,-
j 400, according to Lie weekly sum
mary of the American Petroleum in-
' stitute.
; lected the needs of the farmer, and
; now is the time to begin by provid
: ing in this bill terms that will give
I the farmer cheaper fertilizer. The
I farmer gets loss benefit from the
i protective tariff than anyone. He is
I taxed heavily because of the tariff
j and gets little benefit. Let us do jus
; tice to the farmer in this Muscle
I Shoals development. Regardless of
i anything. I shall continue my es
. forts to help the farmer in this mat
! ter and every other way possible.
’ Let us amend this bill to give, the
i farmer the preference under its
I terms.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
PAT STo'-KEEpUH ADVER-
TISIN' CHRIS'NAUS STUFF
'Fo Thanksgivih’ git
heah , but folks don*
want SANDY ’ CLAUS
COMIN' ROUN* HEAH TEAT
Thanksgivin' DiNNUIA wid
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ALLIED CDDNCELLORS'
POSTPONE MEETING
TO WAIT FOR NOTE
PARIS, Dec. 24.—The meeting of
the allied council of ambassadors
now has been put off until Satur
day, principally to give time for the
experts to complete their draft of
the note relative to the evacuation
of Cologne, which will be submitted
to the council and, after ratification,
delivered to the German govern
ment.
M. Laroche, chief of the political
department, and M. Fromagcot, chief
legal adviser of the foreign office,
worked all day yesterday on the
note with General Desticker, Mar
shal Foch’s chief of staff, and had
a long conference with Premier
Herriot last evening.
The armaments control commis
sion will not have completed its in
vestigation until after tl : tenth of
January and consequently will not
be able to make a full report con
taining its final opinion on th© ex
ecution of the disarmament clauses
of the Versailles treaty by Germany
until after that date.
Only when in possession of the
commission’s report will the allied
governments be in a position to pro
nounce finally the question of
evacuating the Cologne bridgehead.
At the same time it is stated in
French diplomatic circles that a
provisional report by the co: mis
sion unanimously concludes that
Germany is not fulfilling her obli
gations under the disarmament
clauses, which would suffice to jus
tify maintenance of the Rhineland
occupation in its entirety.
The treaty of Versailles called for
evacuation of the first zone of occu
pied Germany, which embraces
Cologne, five years after the pact
became effective. Thus British
troops, which have occupied Co
logne on behalf of the allies, were
due to leave January 10, provided
Germany had fulfilled her obliga
tions.
A report of the inter-allied com
mission which has been investigat
ing disarmament in Germany was
to the effect that requirements of
thfe treaty had not been met. Ac
cordingly, the ■ British will not
evacuate Cologne.
Congressman Langley
To fake Legal Action
Against Publications
PIKEVILLE, Kv., Dec. 25.—De
claring that heretofore he had re
frained from making a public state
ment upon legal advices as he con
templated “legal action against cer
tain publications and certain parties
at the proper time,” Congressman
John W. Langley, of the Tenth Ken
tucky district, .aid Wednesday at
Christmas time he wished to express
“my deep gratitude to my legion of
friends for their unflinching loyalty
in these dark hours of my life.”
Mr. Langley arrived at his home
here from Washington a week ago
joining Mrs. Langley and their chil
dren. He was suffering from a re
currence of a former attack of ill
ness.
Congressman Langley was convict
ed on aVharge of conspiracy to vio
late the prohibition law in federal
court in Covington, and sentenced
to two years imprisonment in feder.*
prison at Atlanta. An appeal for a
new trial is pending. Just prior prior
to Mr. Langley's return to Ken
tucky. a man who gave his name as
John W. Langley and his occupation
as “congressman” was arrested in
Washington and charged with intox
ication. The prisoner posted $lO col
lateral which was forfeited.
Popular Song Writer
Dies Unknown; Four
Mourners at Funeral
DENVER, Colo., Dec. 25.—Milton
Henry Hall, two decades ago, one
of the best known of the blackface
minstrel comedians, and the man
who wrote “Down Where the Cotton
Blossoms Grow” and the “Cuban
Star March,” was buried here Wed
nesday with only four mourners at
his grave.
The last twelve years he has spent
as a dishwasher in a Denver hotel,
and when he died Monday there was
none at the hospital who knew of
his early career. To them he was
just a dishwasher.
Not until he was buried Wednes
day, did his identity become publicly
known. At one time Hall was an
intimate friend of the late Lew Dock
stader and Al G. Fields.
Negro Chokes Woman
Unconscious and Gets
$440 From Mattress
MACON. Ga., Dec. 25—Mrs. C. B.
Arnold, wife of a Central of Georgia
railway conductor, reported to the
police last night that she had been
attacked by a negro in her home
and robbed of $440. The money, she
said, had been sewed into a mat
tress. Detectives found thM the
mattress had been slashed in sev
eral places.
According to Mrs. Arnold she
heard a knock at the door and open
ing it she faced a pistol in the hands
of a negro. She says the negro then
knocked her down and choked her
when she screamed.
she was ren ' uncon
scious and when she revived the nr
gro?was gone and the house had been
thoroughly ransacked.
Fowl Plague Fund
Approved by Coolidge
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Presi
dent Coolidge today signed the bill
appropriating SIOO,OOO to enable the
department of agriculture to combat
the European fowl plague and other
diseases which have led tn an em
bargo by New York and other east
ern states against live poultry from
the middle west. The department s
campaign already has been inaugu
rated.
Regulations were issued today 1 y
the department forbidding interstate
I movement of diseased and exposed
fowls, and ordering all shipments
i held up until disinfected and certi
' tied by federal agents.
Instructions have l-een sent to 13 (i
inspectors in principal poultry areas
to survey infected areas. These will
be quarantined as ranidlj as the in
spections are completed.
DEBT STATEMEKT
NDTCONTRDVERSIAL.
WHITE HOUSE SAYS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—An in
clination in some quarters to make
a diplomatic incident out of White
House comment Tuesday on Ambas
sador Jusserand’s recent public ad
dress on the French debt led to a
White House statement Wednesday
disclaiming any intention of initiat
ing a controversy.
The formal statement was issued
after a conference between Presi
dent Coolidge and Secretary Hughes
and had reference to an authorized
version of the president’s views
given out informally Tuesday at the
White House, According to that
version, Mr. Coolidge saw no reason
why the American government
should take notice of Ambassador
Jesserand’s public statement that
France desired a moratorium, and
felt that the ambassador had chosen
to make his suggestion in a speech
addressed to the American public
despite the fact that the American
debt commission is the proper agen
cy to deal with such questions.
Wednesday’s statement was as fol
low’s:
“It was said at the White House
today that it was well understood
that Ambassador Jusserand had
made known his views to Secretary
Mellon as tq the French debt some
time ago and that this was commu
nicated to the commission.
“Nothing to the contrary has been
given out at the White House. The
comment of yesterday was simply a
refusal to discuss in any way a re
cent address of Ambassador Jusse
rand.”
Alabamian Is Killed
In Christmas Crash
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 26.
Fred Bobo, of Bessemer, Ala., was
killed Thursday when his automobile
was struck by another car driven by
an unidentified negro. His sister
was uninjured. They recently moved
from Fayette, Ala. ;
H. L. Southerland, of this city, is
in a hospital with a fractured skull
as a result of being struck by an
automobile here Thursday.
Bishop George H. Bickiey
Will Be Buried Saturday
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26.—The
funeral of Bishop George H. Bick
iey, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, who died Christmas eve in
the Methodist hospital after a long
illness will be held Saturday. Many
prominent clergymen are expected
to attend.
Dr. Bickiey, a cousin of Bishop
Charles Burns of the San Francisco
area, was elected a bishop in 1920
and assigned to Singapore in the
straits settlement, life health failed
and he returned home last spring,
but attended the general conference
of the church in Springfield, Mass.
His health did not improve and he
was granted a long leave of absence,
since which time he had been in dif
i ferent hospitals trying to regain hi.s
waning strength.
Dice Blamed for Killing
ROCKWOOD, Tenn., Dec. 26. —
Tom Taylor is dead and Walter Lo
gan is in jail at Kingston as a result
of a battle over a dice game late
Wednesday night at Bakers’ Slope
ore mine, it is learned here. Login
was arrest'd a short time after the
shooting by fteputy .lames Sartin at
the home of Will Sissions, another
member of the dicing party.
Chattanooga Editor Dies
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 26.
James G. Rice, aged 69, former edi
tor of the Chattanooga News, and
well known southerh journalist, died
at Alexandria, La., Thursday from a
stroke of according to in
formation received by hi.s family
here. Mr. Rice was a native of Co
lumbia, Tenn., and began his journal
istic career at Pensacola, Fla.
Bradenton Votes Bonds
BRADENTON, Fla., Dec. 23.—8 y
[ majorities ranging from five to one
[ to ten to one. Bradenton's freehold
ers have voted a. f bond issue of
I five items, for $753.000. <>f this
I amount $200,000 is for a municipal
I gas plant; $350,000 for a new mu
! nicipal waterworks; $141,000 for com
pleting sanitary sewer system in nil
sections of the city; $72,000 for storm
sewers: $20,000 for small bridges
over Ware's Creek.
NEW LAMP BURNS
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A new oil lamp that gives an
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even better than gas or electricity,
; has been tested by the U. S. Gov
| ernment and 35 leading universities
j and found to be superior to 10 ordi-
I nary oil lamps. It burns without
| odor, smoke or noise—no pumping
| up. is simple, clean, safe. P ’rns
94% air and 670 common kerosene
! (coal oil).
The inventor. A. N. Johnson, 642
N. Broad St.. Philadelphia, is offer
, ing to send a lamp on 10 days’
: FREE trial, or even to give one
FREE to the rtrst user in each lo
■ cality who will help him introduce
it. Write him today for * ill partic
ulars. Also ask him to explain how
i you can get the agency, and with
out experience or money make $250
to 1500 ner month.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
MAH BILLS A'N SO VEY
BI6 NOW-PAYS, CASE DE
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1024.
NEW YORK CITY OCCUPIED
BY ARMY OF PANHANDLERS
Annual Christmas Invasion;
of Metropolis Augmented
by Thousands This Year.
Over $600,000 Will Be ;
Given, Is Estimate
BY EDNA MARSHALL
(C'oi'.vriglit, 1924, by the Consolidnte.l Press i
Association —Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal )
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—A verb |
table panhandling army of occupa- j
tion stood under the dripping eaves
of New York’s many buildings Thtirs-!
day reaping a particularly big |
Christmas harvest because of the !
rain and sleet which made their I
plight seem mor© distressing to the i
gentle-hearted passersby.
Bringing their wives and children j
with them, more than 3,000 proses- .
sional panhandlers descended on j
Manhattan a few weeks ago for a i
pleasant visit in th© big city and |
will depart on or about January 2, |
taking with them some $600,000 |
worth of the big city's benevolent [
Christmas spirit.
They have been aided and abetted
in their inroads on the public pocket
book in these last few weeks of pre-
Christmas giving by thousands of
local panhandlers whose tales of woe
may not have been as oft-told but
were as touching as their own, and
wrung from the city sympathy to ;
the extent of several hundred thou- I
sand more dollars.
And off in the city churches the I
lately famed Mr. Zero has been i
adopting church benches for beds '
and church coal for warmth for an I
army of .500 jobless, homeless, hun
gry followers.
Fake Charity Schemes
However worthy may be the needs
of Mr. Zero’s gang, the aims of the
real army of occupation who begged
under the eaves were varied.
Some asked money for charities
which do not exist, according to
Bird S. Coler, welfare commissioner.
Some apparently woebegone in- I
di vidua Is shivering in the chill winds i
had hidden beneath their hats ori
in pockets whose bulges would not
show bank rolls larger than those
of people from who they asked.
Others, apparently blind or suffer
ing, asked money or sold pen
cils, shoe strings or chewing gum
for some would-be charity or be
. cause that was the only way they!
could “earn” a merry Christmas for
their families, and counted the
money gloatingly before tucking' it
into some well-filled pouch to be
used on personal pleasure.
Uniforms of the army, navy and
marines, or costumes s© resembling
them that they cannot be distin
guished by the ordinary layman's
eye, were popular with a large
percentage of the pan-handlers. Peo
ple will give to veterans and to
service men. Their hard luck stories ;
seem the harder because they “found '
poverty in service” —although but >
the smallest number of the uniform- j
ed beggars are actually connected
with the organizations they seem j
to represent.
New York is the mecca of pan- j
handlers —the city where “every one
has money,” and where there are
so many people that detection of
boosters of fake charities is diffi
cult.
Come Each Year
Each year with the coming of the
holiday season, an army of pan
handlers migrates here, authorities
say. They come, prepared to stay j
for three or four weeks og begging. I
Professionals who come here year
after year and live the whole year
through on what they get those
weeks, or treat their families to a
riotous vacation on “what their hard
luck tales bring.” Others live here
nil year long and count on the holi
days to furnish their “big diggin's.”
A tour of lower Manhattan
resulted in a count of more than
150 panhandlers in a radius of four
blocks, desperately engaged in look
ing their saddest and making the
most of the last day before Christ
mas when people’s purse strings
would be open. They were young
and old, men and women, strong
and crippled, blind and seeing, boys
and tiny girls, begging or selling or
ringing little inner bells in imita
tion of the Salvation Army and oth
er organizations who legitimately
offer help of holiday dinners for their
poor.
A few of the most glairing fakes
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TRIG TO RESCUE
WW ON ME
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 21.—The
three naval men who lost their lives
in the swamping of the naval am- |
bulance seaplane at the Hampton j
roads naval air station Tuesday .
died in a vain effort to save the life ■
of Landrew Williams, civilian, who ;
lay ill on a stretcher in the forward
cockpit of th© machine, survivors
and comrades of the men who wit
nessed the accident declared Wed
nesday.
All the naval men in the plane
knew that she was doomed to found
er the moment she settled upon the
water, it was stated, but their so
licitude for their charge kept Chief
Petty Officers E. M. Keyser and
A. S. Manwaring and P. S. Gavin,
hospital apprentice, from making
the dive that would have enabled
them to swim to safety. The heroic
efforts of the men was described by
a comrade as “a thing to remember
all your life, but it seems too bad
that it was done.”
A naval board of inquiry was pre- j
paring today to delve into the cause I
of the accident, brit it was admitted I
at the air station that this was only .
a formality, as the facts, which are
few, are already known to all.
The seaplane, the F-5-L, piloted by
Lieutenant AV. B. Gwin, was sent
to Buxton, N. C., to bring AVilliams,
suffering of pneumonia, to a hospi
tal here. While flying low on the
return trip the plane struck an air
pocket which forced it to drop fifty
feet to the surface of the water.
The impact tore a jagged hole, two
’feet wide and three feet long, in
the bottom of the machine
but the pilot managed to regain con
trol and forced its nose upward. The
hole could not be repaired while the
plane was in flight and there was
no alternative, but to continue the
trip to the naval base, which was
thought to be the safest of landing
places.
Prohi Agent, Accused
Os Fatal Kicking, Is
Acquitted of Murder
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25
James L. Asher, prohibition a ent,
known as the “lone wolf,” was ac
quitted by a jury in the federal dis
trict court Tuesday night of charges
of second degree murder and man
slaughter in connection with the
death of Peter Yancauskas, a saloon
keeper. The jury returned a ver
dict of not guilty after deliberating
about five hours.
Counsel for the state, which pros
ecuted the case, contended that
Yancauskas died in consequence of
kicks in the stomach by Asher dur
ing a raid on his saloon in August,
1923. The saloonkeeper died about
two months later from perit His.
which the commonwealth alleged,
developed from the kicks.
Asher denied having used unneces
sarily rough measures.
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TEMPERINCE HEAD
URGES ATTENDANCE
ATWALKER SESSION
All members of the Women s
Christian Temperance union have
been urged to attend the law en
forcement conference to be held ‘n
Atlanta on January 15, upon the
call of Governor Walker.
The governor has received a copy
of the following communication by
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, president
of the Georgia W. C. T. U., which
will appear in ihe forthcoming issue
of the Georgia W. C. T. U. Bulletin:
“When I read the governor's ring
ing call for a law and order meet
ing in Atlanta January 15, at the
state capitol, my heart leaped for
joy, and there sprang to my mi.id
these words:
“Freedom calls you; quick, be
ready! Rouse you in the name 01
God.
“The governor invites not only
the law enforcement officials of the
state, but all the social welfare or
ganizations, and other citizens in
terested in the welfare of the state.
“Now is the time for every White
Ribboner to prove her loyalty to law
and order, by doing all in her power
to-make this meeting a success. Be
I there, if possible, even though you
j have to make a great sacrifice to
! go. Use every means in your power
to persuade others to go. At your
! January 1 meeting for law enforce
ment, bring this up and try to en
thuse the people on the subject of
attending. It is a glorious beginning
for the new year, and may mean
much for out state and nation.
“Your state officers will all be
there to greet you, and we are count
ing on you to come, with such faith
and courage and enthusiasm, and in
such numbers, as to put the fear of
God into the heart of every Jaw
breaker in this dear old state. Let's
help to make it the biggest tweeting
ever held in Atlanta. The attend
ance will prove to the governor how
much the people are really concerned
in good government, and it will
prove the same to the lawless ele
ment.”
Bandits Loot Bank
And Every Store
In Texas Village
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 24.
' The bank and practically every stor©
!in Paradise, Wise county, were
; looted last night, according to word
i received here this morning. The
bandits are believed to be the same
* ones who sacked and burned Valley
View last week.
Man Fatally Injured
When Autos Collide
COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 26.—W.
C. Bennies, forty-one, was fatally
injured yesterday when the auto
j mobile in which he was riding was
I wrecked in a head-on collision with
j another machine said to have been
I driven by J. F. Kelly. Hennies suf
fered a fracture of the skull, dying
shortly after being removed to a
hospital. Kelly is being held by
police.
Hennies was an employe of th®
city engineerin" department.
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