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I.eroy E. Humphries, who recently
become distributor for the American
Balanced Six, stated yesterday that
a new plant ils being erected in
Greensboro, N. €., so rthe manufac
ture of American cars to be distrib
uted exclusively among Southern
dealers.
The main plant of the American is
located in Plainsville, N. J. The
' Southern plant ?fll assure dealers in
the South an equitable distribution of
cars in all seasons, the summer as
well as the winter, it will also make
lower freight rates possible. Thehnew‘
plant is expected-to be in operation |
by March 1. 1‘
Mr, Hurfiphries stated that since
making his initial announcement two
weeks ago he has received a number
of telegrams and letters from dealers
in all parts of Georgia. He has al-
Jotted several contracts and expects
to close up his entire territory within
the next thirty days. \
Mr. Humphries is devoting all of
his time to building up a dedler or
gzanization. He stated that for some
time to come he will gtve most of his
attention to his dealers and will let
g iem have all of the cars he secures
nstead of holding them for retail.
Immediate*’ deliveries can be made
from his Atlanta stock while future
orders can be shipped direct from
ractory.
The American Six, which Mr, Hum
phries represents, is one of the best
sellers on the market. It is a very
handsome job and has numerous ex
clusive features that appeals strongly
to motor fans. It is known as an ex
tremely easy riding car and one that
hugs the road. This is due to, a
scientific distribution of weights,
there being the same amount on each
of the four wheels.
Mr. Humphries is making tempo
rary hgadquarters at 92 Houston
street. He plans erecting a new
building for his exclusive use,
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Indian Divorce Plan
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Condemned in Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The board of
Indian commissioners in its fiftieth anni
versary report to the secretary of the inte
l rvior, just made public, asserts it is time
for the descendants of American aboriginea
to drop the customs of savagery when it
comes to the marifal and family relation.
The department has ruled, the report
states, that in cases of non-citizen Indians
living in tribal relations, a mere separa
tion is all that is necessary for a divorce.
This holds, whether ‘the marriage was un
der tribal customs or under the ¢ivil laws.
The commissioners assert that this ruling
tends toward immorality. They say that
thousands of Indians have qualified for
American citizenship in the last few vears
and that it is imperative that those re
maining on reservations be given a step
toward ultimate adoption into the ranks of
civilization. 1
The report makes a plea for Navajo In-|
- dians in Arizona and New Mexico who are
declared to bhe facing eviction. Alternate
sections along railroad lines were given to
railroad companies in the expectation that
the Indians would be given lands elsewhere,
but Congress prohibited enlargement of
reservations, and the white settlers are
said to be crowding the Indians out of the
checkerboard lands remaining.
Although prohibition among the govern
ment’s Indian wagrds did not wait for the
national constitutional amendment, the re
port shows that plenty of firewater was in
¢ circulation. During the fiscal year 1918-
1919, 26,544 gallons of liquor was seized by
Indian agents.
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Thief Hires Boy to .
Take Grocer’'s Wagon
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—“1 took a chance
like that Brodie fellow did,” 12-year-old
Joe Pipisa, a bootblack, told Juvenile
Judge Arnold. “Some man offered me §2
to drive a grocery wagon and a team that
was standing at South Water and La Salle
streets over to Western avenue. I didn't
know it wasn’t his wagon, honest, I didn’t.
I hadn’'t any more than got started when
a .rcopper arrested me. The horses and
wagon didn't belong to that man at all.”
There was more than S2OO worth of gro
ceries in the wagon, which belongs to H.
Adier, a grocer,
The police are searching for the man
who hired the boy.
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Anti-Race Suicider
DENVER, Jan. 3.—Frank Morrato, local
Italian banker, elaims the championship
in the anti-race suicide sweepstakes.
Morrato has ten chiidren of his d6wn; has
brought up as part of his own family three
nephews, and has acquired during the past
twenty years 185 godchildren.
“TI never forget,” said Morrato, *'to send
my godchildren a gift during the holiday
season, but it isn’'t such bad business.
The godchildren often reciprocate and
they send me many things."”
Japanese Demand
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Universal Suffrage
TOKIO, Jan. 3.—Mass meetings are
frequently held in Tokio and other cities
for the purpose of demanding reforms,
more especially the granting of universal
suffrage.
A group of young men who formed the
Young Men's Reconstruction Association
called on Premier Hara and asked his
views on the question of universal suf
frage. Mr. Hara replied that the question
was so important that he could not give
an off-hand opinion.
Cals Reporter to
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Witness His Suicide
L.OS ANGELES, Jan. 3.—“ Send to my
room at the hotel and I'll give you the
hest story of the day,” said a telephone
message to a city editor here, purporting
to come from Albee Smith Jr. of Chi
cago.
The editor sent a reporter. Before the
latter arrived Smith jumped or fell from
his windof and lit on a wire glass sky
light, five floors helow, the concussion
shattering another skylight five feet be
low, although the first one held. Smith
died .in the Receiving Hospital early this
afternoon.
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Silver Bars Melted
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And Turned to Dimes
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.—Ten millions
of dollars, all in silver, are being melted
%mn silver bars at the United States mint
here.
Later the bars are turned into dimes,
quarters and half dollars, The government
finds it cheaper to melt the dollars than
to go into the market and buy silver,
now selling at the highest price in many
years, 4
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Stage-Struck French
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Girls Given Warning
PARIS, Jan. 3.—When a French girl is
stage-struck she generally wants to become
a dancer at the world famous Paris opera.
But just to let the swarm of girls who
dafly besiege his office know what it all
means the director of bullets wants the
world to know that this is a dancing girl's
daily progfam:
lesson from 10:30 to noon.
Rehearsals from 1 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Special lesson from 5 to 7 p. m.
Performance from 7:45 to 11 or 11:30.
And she earns just SSO a month.
Georgiana knows what you want
to know. Ask her, See page 8, So
cial Section, today.
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There 15 oiie motor vehicic to every
thirty-three persons in Chicago.
Serubwomen In C)earfleld‘ Pa,, go!
to work in thetr own motor cars. !
There were 3,174 motor cars stolen
in Philadelphia in 1919, |
several lines of motor busses are
now operated in Tokio, Japan. ]
Twenty years ago engineers termed
the gasoline engine impractical,
The State of New York has eighty
thousand miles of public highway.
Brooklyn has nearly forty motor
truck lines operating out of the city, |
There are no road rules nor speed |
limits in Chile outside of the cities.
One-half of all the rubber imported
to this country goes into automobile
tires,
King Aifonso of Spain, is among
the latest buyers of American made
motor cars,
There are 7,000 concerns in the
United States engaged is making
automobile parts,
The lillinois Automobile Club of
Chicago has a membership of more
than 10,000.
In the first year of the production
of automobiles, sixteen motor cars
were turned out.
In California, an automobile li
cense of any other State is good for
three months.
Cuba is repairing many of the old
military roads, as well as constructs
ing new highways,
' There are approximately 120,000
‘passenger cars and 9,600 trucks in
'Ontario, Canada.
. A large oil company of New Jer
sey, with headquarters at Newark,
operate 346 motor vehicles.
‘ The National Automobile Dealers’
Association j€\represented by 30,000
dealers throughout the country.
Since March, 1918, the Japanese
government has actively encouraged
the manufacture of motor trucks in
Japan, - 4 e
American. manufacturers have
practically controlled the Sou#h Afri
can automobile market for the past
four years.
All records were broken when
400,000 visitors enterd the Western
national parks by motor during the
past year. !
The Pittsburg Transportation Asso
clation is a new organization re
cently formed by motor truck owners
in Pittsburg, Pa.
Many London ladies’” maids are
learning to become chauffeurs to
their mistresses, thus performing a
double duty with increased pay. .
Due to the congested state of rail
ways in England, a daily motor lorry
service between London and Birming
ham has been established.
- N. W. Cooper of Los Angeles, ,Cal,
recently purchased his nineteenth
automoblle, The total mileage cov
ered is 201,000 miles. ; i
- A motor truck has been inventéd
for farm use that loads, hauls, and
scatters fertilizer, using -the same
power for all three operations.
There has been an increase of 13
per cent over the registration of mo
tor« vehicles since January 1, 1919,
throughout the United States.
Highways engineering is rapidly
becoming recognized as one of the
important courses in the curriculum
of the technical colleges throughout
the country.
There are 1,101,402 persons en
gaged in the production of automo
biles. This does not include acces
sory manufacture, garages, repair
shops or sales establishments.
Despite the restrictions imposed
during the war period, the motor car
industry has averaged a production
of 1,500,000 cars every ear during
the last three years. /
Starting in a small way, sixteen
vears ago, with three horse éarawn
trucks, one of the largest coal dealers
in New York City now operates a
fieet of tewnty-two motor trucks.
~ To compete with American motor
eors, $30,000,000 of capital stock was
recently placed on the market in
Kngland by six British companies
‘with the object of mass production of
100,000 cheap cars yearly.
Interests at Washington, D. C., are
‘working on a plan to makes the auto
'mobile license national and interna
tional, “Progress is being made, and
it promises soon to be a fact that
the motorists with "one licerise may
'go anywhere in the civilized world.
Rio de Janeiro has the finest taxis
in the world, for the reason that -in
Brazil's period of financial depression
following 1912, many wealthy Bra
zilians found it necessary to dispose
of their highly finished cars, and a
large number passed into use as taxi
cabs.
With the use of motor trucks in
Central Asia, they will replace a cara
camel company now operating be
' between Tientsin and Kulja, China. A
van camel company now operating
average Of twenty miles a day, and
[one yvear is required for each round
trip while the six ton trucks will
lmake it once every thirty days.
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Not a ‘Heller’ in .
Box, Burglar Says
BERLIN, Jan. 3.~There is honor
among thieves.
One Herr Dulak of Frankfurt, who
gigned himself “professional burglar,”
sent the following letter to the ¥Frank
furter Generalanzeiger:
“with great surprise T read recently
fn your valued sheet under the title, ‘The
Usual Burglary,’ of a breaking and enter
ing of a dwelling in Wolfgangstreat, You
write of cash that apparently was stolen
out of the money chest,
“Therefore, I call your attention to the
fact that I broke into the chest, but that,
to my great nastonlshment and o the
shame of the owaer, there was not a red
heller therein. I ask you to publish this
in order to avoid any unjust claim against
the insurance company.
s "gespectfully, Dulak, professional burg
ar.
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Test Asiatic Grases
And Legumes for U. S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Numerous
grasses and legumes secured by botahical
explorations in central Asia may disclose
species that wiil spive the problem of range
improvement on semi-arid iands, accord
ing to the bureau of plant industry, United
States department of agricuiture. There is
a constant demand for grass that will in
crease the amonnt of feed n{)ove that which
may be secured by rational grazing of the
jand under fences, and specialists of the
department are undertaking a systematic
testing of Asiatic grasses and legumes.
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Catholics Will Erect
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$5,000,000 Memorial
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-—The National
ghrine of the Immaculate Conception, a
memorial to Catholic sérvice men who died
in the recent war, will be erected on the
grounds of the Catholic University at
Michigan avenue and Harewood road, next
spring, aaocording to plans approvéd at a
meeting of the boatd of trustees of the uni
versity. The memorial will co=t $5,000.000
Jifteen bishops from various sections of
the country attended the meeting, which
was presided over by Cardinal G!bbona
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN— A Newspaper for People Who Think —SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1920.
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People Demand Best, Says Expert
in Woollen—Costs Boosted by
Government Sale to Britain,
BOSTON, J;T 3.—The insistence
of the public on cloth from fine wools
is a large factor in the high prices of
clothing, -according to W, M. Wood,
president of the American Woolen
Company.
Mr. Wood, who recently charged
that some ' meérchants in Lawrence
were demanding excessive prices and
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316 PEACHTREE STREET ATLANTA, G:;.,
were ralsing prices with every in
crease ih wages in the compagny's
mills in that city, gave out a pre
pafed statement. A summary of the
statement follows:
“Briefly, the particular reasons for
high prices of cloth and clothing are
these:
“The people demand cloth of fine
wools-and will buy no other. They
will not take fabrics contaimng the
coarser wools, although much cheap
er.
“There is a shortage in the world’'s
supply of fine woois amounting to
200,000,000 pounds.
“Our government released to the
British government 66,000,000 pounds,
which if held here would have helped
us out a little,
“Because our government has so
conducted the gale of its own wool as
to susiain these tremendously high
prices, especislly of the finer wools in
such great demand,
| Tt i ‘my rem:it that as long as peo
ple continiie {0 demand clothing made
of wocl which costs anything like
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mot going tc be much reduced. 1f
our peovle would consent to wear\
good. subsfantial, durabie clothes of |
the coarser wools clothing could be
purchased at considgiably lowet
prices than now prevail' |
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Giant California Oak
Rivaled by New Tree
fiorgoml. Cal, Jan. 3.-The Hooker
Oak, Jocated itl Bidwell Park, Chico, which
is estimated to be over 1,000 years old
and s sald to be the largest oak in the
world, has a rival in Tuolumme County,
according to H. H. Sherrard, the local
far madviger.
The Hooker is 101 feet high, has a
spread of branches 147 feet, a trunk di
ameter of 9 feet and a circumference of
28 1-6 feet.
Toulumme’s oak & Yocated on the Duck
welg ranch, five miles east of Toulumme,
is 65 feet hlgy{\, has a spread of 134 feeot
and four-tenths of an inch, trunk diam
eter of O feét 10 inches and a trunk
('ircumferenfie of .’(ol2_ making it 2 feet
and 4 inches greatér- in circumference
than the Hooker oak.
From now on, what was known as the J. R. Holland Auto
Co. will be called the Parker-Holland Company, with E.
R. Parker President and General Manager.
There will be no change in the policy of the company or
- in the lines of cars we represent. We shall continue to
distribufe Chandler and Cleveland cars in Georgia and
shall render the best service possible to both dealers
and owneljé during the year 1920, 5
We expect, and are fully prepared to handle, a record
breaking business during the coming year. Each of our
departments have been augmented and strengthened in
anticipation of the big business that is sure to come in
1920. .
We are highly gratified over the results of the past year
and only regret that we were unable to supply all those
who desired Chandler and Cleveland cars.
To those who anticipate an early purchase we earnestly
advise to place their order now. Spring will be here be
fore you know it and an acute shortage will be felt and a
probable raise in priges,
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. S,
PARIS, Jan. B.—The body of Mata
Hari, once famous Parisian dancing
star who was executed for communf
cating intelligence to the Germans
lies in the dreary graveyard outside
Vincennes prison, unclaimed by any
one of the thousands who were once
her admirers, -
Relatives of gpractically every no
torious spy who faced firing squads
at Vincennes have reclaimed ,their
bodies and borne them away. Not a
single application was made in be
half of the girl whose name was once
starred on the billboards, and who
said to her friends a few years befors
her execution: i
“Wehn I die I want to be well em
balmed and become a beautiful mum
my, like Thais.”
8010 #asha, another of the traitors
executed at Vincennes, still rests near
Mata Hari. His brother, a priest, has
made several attempts to reclaim the
body, but has always been réfused by
the authorities on the ground that
only Bolo’s wife has the right to make
guch a request. The woman who bore
Bolo's name for ten years before his
death is not legally recognized as his
wife and has been unable to make a
claim, :
Mme. Lenoir, mother of Pierre
Tenoir, the last spy to be executed at
Vincennes prison, has finally obtained
permigsion to remgve the body to an
other cemetery, She first was per
mitted to have a religious service in
the cemetery chapel, but only the
family was allowed to attend.
King Distributor 2
Changes Name as .
~ Well as Address,
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. The King Southern Motor Comhw
‘pany, distributors for King cars, 'fis
from now on be known as Hopkins
tMotor Company, with Walter Hop-
Kins president,
. This company, like several othersa,
on “the row,” are starting the newd.
year at a new address, having moveds,
from 455 Peachtree street to 238 and®
1240 Peachtree street, formerly thg,,*
lhome of the Taylor Motor Company.
| 'The C. 8. Lee Motor Company, ais=7
itribumrs for Sayers Six, McFarland -
and Monroe, now occupy the ol
aome of the King company at 455
Peachtree street. "
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