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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
DELEGATES FROM ALL PARTS OF
STATE MEET IN PROTEST AGAINST
BILL FATHERED BY SEN. CALKINS
Object to the Inclusion of NUM-
cipalily Owned Pub
lie Utilities.
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Claim Is Made That Bill Invades
the Rights of Self
Government.
(5Y JOHN c. TRIcE.)

TALLAHASSEE, April 19.-Delega- =
tions from nearly a dozen cities were
here tonight to protest at a public
hearing on the Calkins bill. proposing
a public utilities commission, agains-
its inclusion Of municipality owned
! public utilities.
! Among the cities represented were;
T a mpa, Jacksonville Pensacola
! Gainesville, Alachua, Newberry. High
! Springs, St. Petersburg, FIT. Myers.
Lake Wales, Frostproof and Braiden-
/ town
Mayor Guyte MCCord, of TanahaS-
see, acted as master of ceremonies for
those opposed to the bill Chairman
Rowe, of the senate public utilities
I committee called on Senator Calkins.
attorney for the railroad commission
/ and inroducer of the bill to explain
! il.
Senator Calkins said no public util-
ity knows anything about what was to
be in it, he alone being responsible for
its drafting and introduction. He had
read carefully the laws Of other states
which have such commissions mi
thought it well that Florida should
j have such law. 1t merely extended
| the present powers of the railroad
commission, to gas water and electric
, light plants
Hilton S. Hampton. of Tampa, spoke
at length against the bill. saying 1t
came as rude shock to the cities Cf
the state who had not known they
We're to be included. He asked why
ice companies of all public utilities
should be exempt. He pointed out that
the bill taxes water, light and power
| companies to maintain the commission
and said he could not find that other
utilities are so taxed. He wanted to
know why not. If the bill is passed
he claimed that all franchizes in con-
tracts made between cities and pub
lie utilities would be null and void or
the bill itself would be a nullity and
urged that this should not be the case
He claimed the cities were stopped
from granting competitive franchise
in order to get good service ana
secuted the idea that it would be
given through the commission.
John b. Jones, city attorney of Per-
sacola, voiced a formal protest from
that city against cities being included,
saying it would vitiate all contracts
between that city and the public U-tli-
ties doing business there. He told
how it had been held within the last
year that street railways are within
the jurisdiction of the railroad COM
mission and how rates had been raised
in Jacksonville and Pensacola by the
commission. Against what he said
were contracts made by the companies
with the cities.
A. s. Wells, member of the railroad
commission, defended the commission
and attacked Mayor McCord and the
city administration of Tallahassee,
saying it was impossible to get good
service from the Tallahassee utilities.
F. Y. Smith, of Alachua, spoke for
the small cities, saying the system OF
required would be a serious
burden to small towns.
John s. Bond, of Jacksonville, en-
Continued On Page Two.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
RIGID RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION
RECOMMENDATION OF SECRETARY OF
STATE HUGHES in OFFICIAL NOTES
Particular Reference Is Made to
Undesirable Classes From
Eastern Europe
(ey The Associated Press!

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-Rigid re-
striction of immigration was recon-
mended today by Secretary Hughes in
official documents transmitted to con-
gress. They We're interpreted by house
and senate leaders as reflecting in
creased need for the immediate pass
age of the immigration bill reported to-
day by the house committee limiting
admission of aliens for IA months be-
ginning next May l to 3 per cent of
each nationality resident in the United
States in 1910. Debate in the house
will begin tomorrow under special rule.
Our restriction on immigration
should be so rigid" Mr.. Hughes re-
port said, "that 1t would be impossible
for most of these people to enter the
United States. Particular reference
was made to the undesirable classes
from Balkan cities, Armenia, Russia
and Georgia.
The report said 606,2 ,292 passport
vises were granted by American con-
suls in Europe for the year 1920, re-
flecting a stimulated desire in most
European countries to emigrate to
America before Immigration laws
were passed.
The principal restraining influence
was said to be lack Of funds to de-
preciated currency values.
"The director of police of Rumania,"
the report said, 'has issued an order
excusing all Jews from military ser
vice and permitting their departure
from the army if they desire to emf
CRATE to America
In Rumania $4,000 persons were
awaiting examination for permission to
come to the United States. 1t was said,
while tremendous pressure" for pass
age was reported by officials in Poland
where $4,000 awaited third class ac-
commodations.
Let's and Lithuians leaving the Bal
kan states. Mr.. Hughes said, were
largely people from the slums. the vast
ma jority of them Jews of an unde-
sirable type"
In the Russian Caucasus ut may be
accepted as nearly literally true" Mr..
Hughes said, that every Armenian
family which has enough money to get
away or is not impregnated with boil
shevism will ultimately endeavor to-
emigrate to America. Russians and
Georgians are likely more and more to
emigrate to the same haven.
1.-THE great bulk of emigrants to the
United States from this district are
highly desirable as material for future
American citizens"
The report said that 5000 Armenians
and 1000 Syrians were awaiting pass
age from Bagdad and that, despite diff
ficulties of emigration from Germany,
the number desiring to come from that
country had doubled in the last year,
Continued On Page Two)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
BRITISH MINE OWNERS COMPLETE
NEW PROPOSALS TO BE SUBMITTED
TO WORKERS TOWARD SETTL LEMENT

garding the relations between wages
and profits for the future.
Ninth-Providing for a joint audit
of the mine owners books.
After the board of trade conference
the president of the owners association
said:
I'VE are hoping that the miners will
meet us on the wage question very
soon"
1t is possible therefore that the next
"a hours may see the reopening nf ne
gotiations. although the miners thus
far appear desirous of awaiting the re-
suit of their delegates meeting Fri
day.
Meanwhile the situation arising
through the shortage of coal is grow
ing more serious day by day. In many
Of the poorer districts of London and
other cities where the people buy in
small quantities coal cannot be OBJ
tanned, and long lines of women and
children wait in the hope of Obtaining
sufficient to keep themselves warm.
Every hour sees more factories closed
and more men and women thrown out
of employment.
The North Staffordshire potteries
closed today. depriving 10000 men of
work, while in all parts of the coun-
try iron and steel works are dumping
their fires. 1t is estimated that be-
tween 500 and 900 steamships are tied
up owing TO stagnation of trade and
the strike
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
FORMER GERMAN
EMPRESS RESTS
NEAR OLD HOME
Men and Women of Old Regime
Follow Mate of Former
Ruler to Grave.
(sy The Associated Pressl.

PoTSDAM. Germany, April 19.-It
is the Germany that has passed which
laid Augusta Victoria, former empress
TO rest today in the antique temple
surrounded by forest trees family
showing their. new leaves and bright
ened by the sun OF early spring.
Old men and women 'predominated
among the mourners. Most of the
thousands of the officers who lined the
roadway leading to the mausoleum
were men of years. many of them
wearing the uniforms and decorations
of former wars.
1t was the demobilized army and
navy and the dethroned rulers of va
rfous principalities of the kingdom
once forming the German federation.
which gathered at Wild park. And it
was chiefly the men and women of the
old regime who cheered von Hinden-
burg, Ludendorff, and Won Mackensen
when they left Antique temple after
the ceremonies, which was probably
the final great gathering OF the fol-
lowing of the Hohenzollerns.
Germany's new government offered
no objection to a ceremonial funeral
for the former empress; neithed did it
officially participate further than to
send troops to police the grounds
through which II was estimated fifty
thousand persons passed in the course
OF the day to view the body lying in
state. No funeral attended by so
many persons could be any quieter or
more peaceful. Rumor of communist
demonstrations proved without foun-
datiOn The demon sf IN tiop In bnpor
OF Won Hindenburg and other promi-
nent military leaders after the services
were the only evidence of the deep po-
litical feeling underlying the occasion.
DIR. Dryander. former court chaplain,
read the one hundred and twenty sixth
psalm in Antique temple and preached
from the text "They that SOW in tears
shall reap in JOY"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
STATUES OF TWO HEROES UNVEILED
SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CARACAS AND
NEW YORK BY TWO REPUBLICS
Washington and Bolivar Memor-
allied by Venezuela and
the United States.
PRESIDENTS OF EACH
COUNTRY TAKE PART
Fundamentals of Monroe Doc
trine Proclaimed Anew by
President Harding.
lnv rhs Assoelated Press.l

NEW YORK, April 19-The re-
publics OF North and South America
Joined hands across the Caribbean to-
day In two notable historical events
commemorating their heroets who
showed each continent the road to
liberty.
Amid the roar of cannon and the
plaudits OF a distinguished gathering,
President Harding, at the bronze
equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar,
unveiled in Central park. New York,
proclaimed anew the fundamentals of
the Monroe doctrine and cited the de-
STABILITY Of standing firmly together
for service both to the new and the
old world.
simultaneously in Caracas, Venezue-
las capital, President elect Gomez and
the people OF Bolivar's native land
gathered around the statue OF George
Washington. which was unveiled with
appropriate exercises in Washington
park, n new site to which IL had been
transferred
President Harding's brief visit to
New York gave the public it's first
opportunity to greet him as president
with the enthusiasm always reserved
for tho nations chief executive. From
the moment Of his arrival until his de-
parture three and a half hours later,
crowds waited good naturedly in the
chilly streets, through whica he had TO
pass and cheered a cordial welcome .
President Harding was generously
applauded when he declared the Uni
ted States is ready TO fight In uphold
ing the Monroe doctrine. The history
OF the generations since that doctrine
was proposed. he said. "has proved
that we never intended it seIfishly,
that we had no dream OF exploitation,
on the other side, the history OF the
last decade certainly must have con-
vinced all the world that we stand
willing to fight. If necessary, to pro
tect these countries, these sturdy
young democracies, from oppression. /"
The presidents arrival at Bolivar
Hiil was signalized by a salute of 21
guns. After he had been escorted to
the stand facing the statue followed by |
Secretary OF State Hughes. Rene VI
viani, envoy extraordinary from
France, Governor Miller, Mayor Hylan.
DR.. 70. Gill Borges. Venezuelan foreign
MINISTER, and host of Latin American
Continued on Page Two.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
(ey The Associates Press.l

LONDON, April 19.-The mine own
ers late tonight completed proposals
which, 1t was believed. may go some
way towards the settlement of the coal
strike. This was the outcome of a
conference held at the board of trade
between owners and government Of
ficials, where a revision of their pre-
vious offer to the miners was fully
considered. The new proposals are:
First-The establishment of a ma
tional wage board.
Second-The application of national
principles to wages in each district
based on the financial condition of the
industry In the respective districts.
Third-The periods for ascertainine
district results to be settled nationally
Fourth-The point below which
wages shall not be automatically re-
duced to be determined nationally.
Fifth-To turn over as wages to the
workers. in addition to these rates. the
whole Of the surplus revenue available
in each district during the existing alb
normal period.
Sixth-To satisfy the workers rep
resentatives with a view to dealing
with the wages of the lower paid men.
Eighth-To seek an agreement with
the workers on a national basis re-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
REGULATION OF AIR NAVIGATION
is SUGGESTED TO CONGRESS BY
NATIONAL AERONAUTIC COMMITTEE

It was particularly urged that the
an air route between Chicago, Min
department be authorized to establish
neapohs and st. Paul, and another be-
tween Chicago ard st. Louis.
The report emphasized the advisa-
bility Of encouraging investive skill
in aeronautics and urged that con-
tinuous research under tnea direction
of the advisory committee for aeronau-
tics be conducted with the view OF
utilizing new ideas concerning avia =
ton.
The committee also stressed the ne
cessity Of maintaining in peace time an
adequate force of trained aviators and
up to date planes for use as a nucleus
in case of war. Continuation Of the
army air service as a coordinate COM
batant branch Of the army was urged
and it was suggested that the naval air
service be centralized in a bureau of
aeronautics in the navy department.
1t was also suggested that the chiefs
Of the air mail service and of the pro-
posed bureau Of aeronautics in the de-
partment of commerce be made mem
bers Of the national advisory commit
tee for aeronautics.
The report declared that the army
had no specific authority of law to
establish air routes. but had charted
seven main airways as follows:
Augusta, Maine. to Camp Lewis.
Washington: Washington. D. c.. to San
Francisco; Savannah. Ga. to San
Diego. Calf: Augusta, Maine, to Mi
ami, Fla; Camp Lewis. Wash. to San
Diego. Calf; Laredo, Texas. to Fargo.
y. D.: Chicago to Baton Rouge. La,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
(ey The Associates Presso. .

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Recom-
mendation for the development and
regulation of aviation. drawn up at
the request Of the president by the
national advisory committee on aero
nautics, were submitted to congress
TODAY with the executives approval
and in the expectation that legislation
will be enacted TO carry the program
into effect.
The report to the senate and house
was accompanied by a brief message
from the president in which he eX-
planned that he had solicited from the
committee suggestions for regulation
Of air navigation. air routes to cover
the entire United States and coopera-
ton among the various departments of
the government concerned with avia-
ton.
The committee recommended that
the army and navy continue to control
their own air services, that the post
office department be authorized to
establish air routes and that a bureau
of aeronautics be established in the
of commerce to foster COM
mercial aviation.
Congress was urged to appropriate
50 900 900 for use during the next two
years by the war department in es-
tablishing air routes. and to grant ex-
plicit authority TO the postoffice de-
partment TO establish air ways other
than the route between New York
and San Francisco. which It is contend
ed by some is alone authorized by ex-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
HELPING PENSACOLA

Each day, In this space, The journal
VIII give condensed history OF ore ~
the leading business firms Of the city.
THE PENSACOLA sJTpRIrrr NM,
COMPANY-In January, 1918. ground was
broken on the shore OF Bayou Chico 10
make way for what is now one OF the
most modern and best equipped shipbuild-
ine plants In the United States. Having
contracts with the United States shin
ping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
for more than $50. O0O 600 90 worth OF shin
work IL was necessary for the Pensacola
Shlpbullding Company to lay out it's plant
with view 20 the rapid and economical
handling OF materials going into ship con :
struction and the results achieved indi-
cate that the layout was we'll conceived
The Pensacola Shipbuilding Company has
completed ten s0o0-ton steel cargo vessels
eight OF which are now sailing the seas
and two are still at the company's docks
awaiting assignment TO ship operating
cmpanies. IL has also turned out one of
TN most powerful tugs in the United
Staes
TIE company has at times employed as
man az 1000 men and still maintains a
forceof about 1000 men. Within the past
threeyears more than 1000. 900 90 has
been hid out to employees for wages and
saiai - ana large sums of money have
also ben paid to Florida interests for
materia for plant and ship construc-
tion.
since pmpleting the large ships, the
Pensa.oAShipbuilding Company has ex-
tended ltsactivities 10 other lines and
IN additioito the large ship repair jobs
constantly nder way at the plant, the
company NJ contracts at present for
tugs, river teamers. tow boats, motor
boats ary ego barges. oil barges, bas =
cule oriagesswing bridges. fixed steel
bridges cohote bridges, signal towers
rnil pulIolhssend other steel and con-
crete structuE A largo mart n, tba
present outputf the connan,, a. for ev-
port 10 Mexicosouth AnsrIco ana c,uha
more than thiy steel hargas now, heing
In process Vi 0oiruction for foreign cor.
porations.
Credit is due toe Officers ~ the PEN
sacola shlppul,ul company for the re-
markable developrbt an tbis Inaustrv In
Pensacola, the off,rs beins pa,l y
Stewart. president d genera ,,anarer.
Fayette souie' ~ fesident; +. Roman
Aszmah' Seeie'a'S' Nd John Il. Mare
'-~asnrex
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
FINDBODY OF MAN;
BULLET IN HEAD
1Ru The Associated Press.l }

BRISTOL, Tenn.-Va., April 19.-The
body of a man about % years of age
with a bullet wound in his head. was
found today near the top of Black
leading to Lynch, by boy. The man
was identified by papers in his cloth
ing as Martin Harris, of Bulls Gap
Tenn.
The body was found at the base of
a 20 foot precipice. None of the cart
ridges In a revolver found in his pocket
had been discharged. 1t is thought
the man was shot from ambush.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
NO VERDICT YET:
JURY LOCKED UP
(ey The Associated Press.)

GRAY, Ga, April IA jury in Jones
county superior court after hearing evil
dence against Buster Bonner, a negro
charged with the murder of Sidney Jones
wealthy farmer. had been unable tc
reach a verdict late tonight and was
locked up for the night.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
FARMERS PASS
RESOLUTIONS
(sy The Associated Press,

WASHINGTON. April 19.-Resolutions
expressing appreciation for the work OF
the federal trade commission in expos
ing unjust determinations of business
combinations against the agricultural in
terests' were adopted today by the direc-
tors of the national board of farm or
ganizations in session here. The resoIu-
tions also opposed suggestions that the
commission be placed under the admin
isl tative control Of government depart
ments
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
THE WEATHER TODAY

PENSACOLA AND VICINITY-Fair and
warmer Wednesday; Thursday increas-
ing cloudness; probably showers by
Thursday night.
WINDS-Efatteras to Key West-afod-
crate shifting winds and fair weather
Wednesday.
East Gulf-Moderate shifting winds
and faith weather wednesday.
West Gulf-Moderate to fresh south
east and south winds, fair weather We'd
nesday.
u s. WEATHER REPoRT
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20

Mean ........ Z Normal ...... So
Mean same date last year ..........- 70
Accumulated excess this year to date 20s
Highest of record for April %
Lowest of record for April ........... "a
RAINFALL
For 81 hours ending p. m. .......
Total for this month to p .2.32
Normal for April ................3.1
Accumulated deficiency this year to
date ................ .s.72
HUMIDITY.
a am....71 II noon Al Tp.m. So
BAROMETER
7am.......3O.28 7p.m... .so.D
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20
s. WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterdays Weather
TEMPERATURE

D y " sL
Bulb. Bulb,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-20

Zach day, In this space, The journal
the leading business firms OF the CITY.
Arizona republican., 1921-11-24

'Then saw the telegraph develop and later the telephone that lets me call on my friends while I stay right here at home.
 When the World war was on, read about Submarines and remem- bered that when I was a girl the fastest ship was a sailing vessel that took months to cross the Atlantic.
 Eager to Fly
 T saw the airplane come, too, and nothing would make me happier than to take flight some day. I'm go- ing to do it, too, if get a chance.
 Now, wouldn't any old lady be un- grateful if she didn't thank her Creator for letting her see all these 'changes?"
 Mrs. Drake was married at r when Andrew Jackson was president. She reared nine children and survives six of them.
 As a young bride. she was a pio- neer in the Michigan wilderness. She went to her first social function" in cart drawn by a team of oxen.
 That I have a spirit of thankful ness I have had my full share of disappointments and some sorrows But life as I look back upon it hides the sorrows in valley that now reveal no sorrowful depths. and the hilltops are bright with the rays of the west ward moving sun And I verify be- heve that "at eventime there shall be light"
 This is to be day. of thankful ness. and l wish you also full joy of it
Arizona republican., 1921-11-24

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 23- What should a 100-year- old woman give thanks for on Thanksgiving day2
 Why, for being alive, of course.
 But( more than that, for having lived through a whole century and having seen the world develop in the most wonderful century of it's his- tory, says Mrs. Emily Laberteaux Drake, who's going on 101."
 When Mrs. Drake was born in 1s21-
 Everybody travelled on horseback or in horse drawn vehicles.
 All of North America except the Atlantic seaboard was bowling wilderness.
 Napoleon was still living and Eu- rope was just getting on its feet again after the war into which he plunged the continent.
 Saw U. s. Grow
 The United States was about as important as Czecho- -Slovakia is to- day.
 And I'm going to give thanks for the privilege of seeing the world grow from that to what it is now." Mrs. Drake says.
 T watched our country grow upl I lived through the gold rush to Cali fornia and the later gold rush to the Klondike.
 q saw the automobile replace the horse. And. let me tell you. I don't object to a spin now and then. my self