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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-14

Mr.. CAN'T stands for a thorough and
comprehensive revision Of the taxing
system OF the state; better and less
complicated code OF school laws; a
revision of the road building laws of the
state to the end that the states sys-
tenn Of public roads may be construct
ed more Systematically with reference
to the services Of communities, as well
as with greater economy than is now
the case; effective laws for the pro-
lection, conservation, and propagation
of the game and fish resources Of Flor
ida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-14
MINSTREL WEDNESDAY
AT HIGH SCHOOL.

First artificial eyes We're made oc
gold and silver then Of copper and
ivory.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-14
SALE STARTS AT $3.50

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preciates patronage.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
CAROLINA OFFICIALS
PROTECT RAILWAY
Governor Morrison Will Send
Troops to Spencer Shops
of the Southern
Road.

RALEIGH; n. c., Aug. 1S.-"You may
be assured the state of North Carolina
will protect the property of your compa-
ny and it's other rights in this state
GG!ernor Morrison today telegraphed
President Fairfax Harrison of the South
ern Railway, in explaining that he had
20. -Joned sending troops to the Spencer
shops because his Investigations there
convinced him that conditions may be
so improved as to make the use of mill
tary unnecessary,
The governors telegram was in reply
to one from Fairfax Harrison, asking that
troops be sent to Spencer, follows:
Your wire OF yesterday received
promptly. l postponed sending troops to
Spencer because, under all circumstances
believed it was the best course. I no.
titled all parties there that orderly con-
ditions must be preserved and the rights
of your company and all others respected
or 1 would promptly send troops. You
may be assured the state of North Caro-
lima will protect the property Of your
company and it's other rights in this
state, but I believe conditions in this
so improved that it would be unneces-
sary If find am mistaken, I shall act
promptly and with ample forces to con-
troll the situation"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
PEACE PROPOSITION 81
OFFERED; EXECUTIVES CONSIDER
Acceptance Would Mean Return Strikers to With
Full and Unimpaired Seniority Rights-ProposaI on
Basis of Genemans Agreement.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-The five great
railroad brotherhoods, which have stepped
into the nation wide shipments strike as
mediators, today offered to the roads
what they termed a practical proposition
for peace, and the roads, took the propos-
al under consideration.
Neither side would officially disclose
the terms of the proposition. In some
quarters close to the conferees, it was
said that acceptance of the proposal by
the executives would result in immedi-
ate return of all strikers to their old
jobs with full and unimpaired seniority
and pension rights. in addition to reten-
ton of men hired during the strike.
The proposition on the other hand was
outlined in other quarters as providing
for restoration of strikers as rapidly as
possible, with their seniority rights to be
adjusted ultimately to the satisfaction of
all.
The proposal in these quarters was
understood to be on the basis of a gen.
tlemen's agreement which those close to
the conferees said would give due respect
to the rights of the new men. This
agreement, it was said, would assure
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
Thousand Moved
From Danger Zone
Without Casualty

DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. 1S.-Thousands
of men, women and children living IN
towns and villages and isolated sections
Of the north country menaced by forest
fires yesterday were removed to safety
without single casualty, it was revealed
tonight when check showed that all OF
the ten persons reported missing last
night were accounted for.
Governor J. A o. Preus ordered the
troops out for duty tonight when rang
ers suggested that high winds tomorro"
again might fan the fires into serious
proportions.
Forestry men visiting the fire zone,
expressed the belief that there would be
no loss of life.
The fires now a week old, covered the
largest area in history of fires in Mime
sofa, according to w. T. Cox, Minnesota
state forester.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
MORE SHOPMEN ON
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Sheriff at Spencer Charged With
Trying to Serve Road In
stead of People.

SALISBURY, N. c., Aug. 1S.-Fo1-
lowing the visit yesterday of Governor
Morrison and the promise made him
by union leaders to do their utmost to
maintain order at the Southern Rail :
way shops at Spencer there was less
tenseness apparent among the strikers
today than for a week past.
Principal developments Of the day
were the entrance into the shops OF
two contingents aggregating sixty
nine new workers. both being escorted
into the shops by Sheriff Krider and
deputies and meeting of the strikers
and other union men this morning, at
which J. M. Ellis, general chairman Of
the shop crafts on the Southern and
newly elected president of the North
Carolina Federation of Labor was the
chief speaker urging the men on strike
to maintain order, refrain from all
violence and do nothing in violation OF
the law or the federal injunction sign
ed at Asheville this week.
Rev, Thomas Jimison, former chap
lain of the state federation of labor
also spoke, denouncing Sheriff Krider
as a. weak -kneed sheriff and charg-
ing that the officer was trying to serve
the railroad instead of the people.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
FINAL TOUCHES BEING PUTON
ADMINISTRATION TARIFF BILL
Measure Over Which Many Political Debates Have Been
Waged Will Passed TOday-Eeyenth- Hour Efforts to
Bring About Changes But With No Avail

barge" said he. Dyes and coal tar
chemicals not made in this country
will have to pay a rate of duty so
high that it is a crime. No human be-
ing can defend these rates before the
American people"
Senator Frelinghuysen, republican,
New Jersey, urged that the senate
stand pat, declaring that the protec-
ton of the organic chemical industry
from the German chemical trust" was
essential for the national defense. He
called attention that Great Britain,
France and Italy had placed an en-
barge on such chemicals.
Reiterating his opposition to the
rates, Senator Simmons, democrat,
North Carolina, declared that they
We're eq,p to an embargo.
After two hours fight, the senate by
vote of 35 to 3S reaffirmed its prev
ious action in increasing the duty on
sugar from cents a pound to 23
cents pound. The rate on raw sugar
GIlunoo slql spues qo!qA 'eqnO moIJ
the bulk of its supply, would be 1.S4
cents because of the 20 per cent tariff
differential in favor of that country.
By a vote of AZ to Is the senate re-
jected an amendment by Senator As
hurst, democrat, Arizona, to increase
the proposed duty of cents a pound
on long staple cotton to ten cents a
pound
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19

NEW YORK, Aug, 1S.-"Shufflin Phil
Douglas, pitcher barred from organized
baseball, because OF a letter he wrote
offering to throw down" the Giants, to-
day, declared the letter was sent to Les
lie Mann st. Louis Cardinal outfielder.
Douglas said he "got drunk and went
to sleep" in a friends apartment July
81, and that two detectives took him to
a sanitarium where he was held until
August 5.
He said he believed Manager McGraW
had suspended him and he wrote to
Mann. Later he said he telephoned
Mann to tear zip the letter, but Mann
showed it to Manager Hickey. Douglas
said he was drunk, had been given hypo-
dermics and was not himself when he
wrote the letter. He said in Pittsburg
he was questioned by Judge Lands. who
told McGraw he could not be used again.
Douglas letter to Mann, as made pub
lie today by Judge Landis in Chicago,
reads:
II want to leave here. | don't want to.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The SEN
ate began today putting the final
touches on it's draft of the admins
tration tariff bill. It's work was in
coplee when it recessed late tonight,
but the measure will be passed to-
morrow and then will so to conference
for final rewriting.
During the long day and night hours
efforts were made to change sections
OF the bill, but only few of them met
with success. An outstanding feature
was a renewal Of the dye fight and the
reaffirmation by the senate of its ac-
ton of last night In increasing the
duties on coal tar dyes and synthetic
chemicals and explosives and basing
them on American instead of foreign
valuation. The vote to reaffirm was
80 to 81.
When this section was reached,
Senator Moses. republican New Hamp-
shire, who has reserved a separate
vote on it, announced that in view of
the overwhelming vote, SO to %, by
which the senate had first approved
the increased duties, he would not
press his motion for a reconsideration.
Immediately Senator Smoot, OF Utah,
ranking republican on the finance
committee, was on his feet, pleading
that the senate rescind it's action.
This is an embargo a thousand
times over and worse than an en-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
REPUBLICANS MOVE
QUICKLY TO CARRY
o U T SUGGESTIONS
Harding Had Hardly Concluded
Speech Before Wires Were
Busy Calling Absent Ones.
GIVE SPEEDY ACTION
CREATING COMMISSION
Some of His Recommendations
Will Have to Go Over to Next
Congress, Leaders Say.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-Repub1i-
can leaders in congress moved quickly
to carry out the more urgent recon-
mendations made by President Hard
trial situation. Their efforts for the
ing today in his message on the indus
most part, although not in all. were
seconded by democratic members.
Representative Mondell, of Wyoming
republican house leader, within an
hour after the president concluded de-
livery of his address had kilograms on
the wires to absent members of the
house interstate commerce committee
requesting them to return to Washing
ton at once to begin work on bills to
carry out the presidents recommends
tions for authorization to set up an
agency to purchase, sell and distribute
coal and for creation of commission
to ascertain the facts in the coal in
dustry.
Assurances From Gillette
The republican leader accompanied
by Speaker Gillette later visited the
White House and personally assured
the president that legislation creating
the fact finding commission would be
introduced within a few days and
probably passed by the house next
week.
Senate leaders also promised speedy
action on this piece of legislation.
House and senate leaders alike, how
ever, expressed the opinion that the
recommendation for coal distribution
and price control agency could not be,
SO speedily carried out. Some senators
declared federal distribution and price
control during the strike had not been
successful and they were not prepar-
ed to try the experiment again.
Some Held Over
Other recommendations Of the presi-
dent, such as legislation to put teeth
in decisions of the railroad labor board
and to accord federal protection to
aliens leaders said. could go over until
the next session Of congress.
The determination of the president,
'to use all the power of the govern
nent to maintain transportation and
sustain the right of men to work"
was almost universally approved by
members Of congress.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
PHIL DOUGLAS SENT LETTER TO
ST LOUIS OUTFIELDER OFFERING
TO GO HOME FOR CONSIDERATION

see this guy win the pennant. You know
I can pitch and am afraid that if 1 will
win the pennant for them.
talk this over with the boys, and if
il all right, send the goods to my house
at night and 1 will bo to the fishing
camp. Let me know If you all want to
do this and ! will go home on the next
train. ....
"Phil Douglas"
While he was in the sanitarium Doug
las said McGraw lined him 500 and five
days pay, and then he was given bill
for taxicab fare and treatment in the
sanitarium. The latter amounted to 1924.
81 was broke the big pitcher said 'I
thought McGraw had fired me. I haven't
anv way of making a living except in
baseball and 1 was sore on McGraw.
had to do something for living so !
wrote to Mann
81 am not sore at Mann because he
turned the letter over to Rickey. It was
all NIX fault.
Il just didn't realize what was doing"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
CHINAMEN UNAWARE
OF SMUGGLING CASE
Mongolians Are Taken Near
Petersburg by PrOhi Of
ficers Searching
for Ryan.

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 1S.-That they
started from Jacksonville, Fla, where
they had been in search of work, and did
not know the two men following them IN
automobile, was the testimony late today
of four of the eighteen Chinese arrested
early yesterday near Petersburg by fed
eraI prohibition officers who mistook
them for cargo of liquor.
When the fourth prisoner had been
heard the examination was continued
until tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The re-
naming fourteen Chinese and the four
men charged with violating section s. OF
the act Of February 5, 1917, will be heard
tomorrow.
All of the Chinese put on the stand de-
clared they were born in the United
States and had been employed at various
occupations, but none of them was able
to show his registration card Of residence
in this country.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
Funeral DR.. Rice
To Be Held Today

RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 1s.-Funeral
services for Rev Theron II. Rice, D. D.,
a member of the faculty of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, Ginter Park, who died
Friday at Baltimore, will be held tomor-
row morning at 10 o'clock from Watts
Chapel at the seminary. Doctors T. {.
johnson, W. A Moore and w. T. Thomp-
son, assisted by DR.. John NJ Wells, of
Columbia, s. c., will conduct the services.
Burial will be in Hollywood.
Dr. Rice who was born in Wetumpka
Ala, July 8. 1868, was graduated from
Union Theological Seminary In 1892. At
Davidson College he was awarded the
D. D. degree. He was pastor of Second
church of Alexandra Tor
number of years, later answering caii
to Central Presbyterian church or At
lanta. DR.. Rice was Stuart Robinson
professor of the English Bible and pas
toral theology at the seminary here
On May %, 1913, he married Miss Eliza
beth Matthews Sherrard of Crozet. va
Dr. Rice is survived by his widow and
thre children.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
FEELING BETTER

After keeping ali wires not for
the past two weeks in an effort to
locate two carloads of. .newsprint
paper which had been shipped from
the northern mills, the Journal was
in luck yesterday when it learned
definitely that the paper is in
Montgomery, Ala.
The Louisville and Nashville Off
cials promised that it shall be in
Pensacola not later than Monday.
And once more the Journal viii as
sumo its regular proportions, be-
ginning early next week. The ordi-
nary outsider is unable to realize
how it makes the publisher feel tC
know that he has just few rolls
of newsprint on hand with TO pros
poets of getting a supply.
But things like that are expected;
the same situation confronts them
all sooner or later, so the Journa.
hopes to have its many readers
getting their paper in its usual size
early next week-they hope. Strikes
are uncertain.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
LAWYER TELLS HIS
VERSION OF FIGHT
Tells What He Saw of Gambler
Bifield Episode While
Oceanic Voyage.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S-August Drey-
er, New York lawyer, mentioned in
connection with the quarrel between
Clyde K. Bifield and Walter T. Cand-
Ter on the steamship Berangaria in
volving Mrs. Bifield, told his version
of the incident today.
Shortly before the liner reached
Cherbourg and at the end of a cham
pagne party in the earl yhours of
July II, Bifield escorted his wife to
her stateroom and the husband re-
joined the party. Gambler disappeared
a short while after, he declared, and
did not return
ST gathered from accounts of the
affair circulated among first cabin
passengers" Dreyer continued, that
when Mr.. Bifield went to his state
room he found his wife in bed, and Mr..
Gambler, fully clothed, but intoxicated.
Mr.. Bifield flew into a rage, cursed
his wife and attacked Mr.. Gambler.
"The noise of the scuffle attracted
a throng of curious persons and ships
officers, whose presence sobered Mr..
Gambler. The latter told Mr.. Bifield a
had been made and that he
wished to pay for his intrusion by Civ
ing Mr.. Bifield check on his Atlanta
bank for $25, 900"
Dreyer said that Gambler consulted
him as to the best course to pursue
when he learned that he was a lawyer
and the check was exchanged for a
draft.
In turn Mr.. Bifield gave a letter,
which he signed under protest, exon
Grating Mr.. Gambler, the lawyer de-
clared
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
Four Express Men
For Embezzlenent

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 1s.-Four
men, including r. L. Eckard, Charlotte
agent of the American Railway. Express
Company, were held in city jail tonight,
following their arrest. early today in. con-
nection with charges of embezzlement
and larceny of the company's funds and
equipment. Other arrests were expected
to follow, according to the police.
Eckard is being detained, It was said,
pending complete investigation of the
company's books. o. S. Perry. part own
er Of two retail furniture houses here,
and C. B. Phillips, a. telephone company
employe, are charged with receiving
goods known to have been stolen, while.
c. S. McClelland, in charge of the express
"old hoss" sales, is charged
with embezzlement.
The arrests came as the elimination
of the work of special agents who have
been working on the case for weeks, it
is said
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19

jobs to both the strikers and the So
called new men, since railroads and
brotherhood officials have stated that
they could use $50 per cent of their nor
NAL shop craft forces to prepare for the
resumption of coal mining and the trans
portation of bumper crop.
The gentlemen's agreement. it was un-
derstood, would provide that the question
which will arise at the end Of the busy
season would be handled as it has been
in other years-according to the usual
wedding out process.
The whole plan, it was unotficially in
dicated, would mean that without any
apparent surrender by either the rail-
roads or shop crafts, the strikers would
not suffer any more in the long run than
would be usual after an industrial strug-
gle Of this kind.
A committee of nine executives, ap-
pointed to meet the brotherhood men,
listened to this proposition, hastily sum-
moned a general meeting of the repre-
sentatives of 14S roads, which probably
will be held next Tuesday, then fixed
the next meeting with the mediation
committee for next Wednesday in this
city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
SUPREME COURT
REVERSES The
GAS TAX CASE
Opinion Is by Judge Ellis and
Is COncurred in by Justice
West and Whitfield.
CHIEF JUSTICE ONLY
CONQUERED IN PART
Case Went Up on Grounds Leg
islature Officials Had No Right
to Sign After Sine Die.
Especial to Tho JournaI.)

TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Aug IS.-ThO
supreme court today reversed the order
OF the circuit court of Leon county IN
the case of Ernest Amos. as comptroller,
appellant, VS.. Shelton ]. Gum, ct al, ap-
pellee. This is the celebrated gasoline
tax case, the law having been previously
held invalid.
The main opinion - by Judge Ellis,
concurred in by Justices Whitfield and
West. Judge Whitfield filed a separate
concurring opinion. The chief justice
concurs in part and dissents in part.
Judge Taylor dissents as to a portion Of
the opinion. The case is remanded with
the direction to dismiss the bill unless
the complainant amends his bill within
fifteen days after the receipt of the
mandate by the clerk of the circuit
court.
Signature Figures.
IN the main opinion it is held that the
signature of the governor to the bill is
the record of an executive act in which
the executive acted in a legislative ca
pacity, and that record insofar as it re-
to the governors power or authority to
make it is prima facie valid and imports
verify and is unimpeachable except by
an executive record of equal dignity
1t is held that as an enrolled bill in
the secretary Of states office being the
record Of an official act of the legislature
may be impeached only by the legislative
Journals so the record of the executive
official act may be impeached only by
an executive record of equal dignity.
Gum Brought Suit.
1t will be recalled that Shelton J. Gum
brought suit to restrain the comptroller
from enforcing the provisions of house
bill number 702, claiming that the same
was invalid in that it had been signed
by the officers of the legislature and pre-
sented to the governor after the sine die
adjournment of the Legislature. Demur-
rer was interposed by Rivers Buford, at
torney general, and ]. B. Gaines, assist
ant representing the comptroller, and
this demurrer was overruled by the cir
cult judge. es--
On appeal to the supreme court that
court originally affirmed the order Of
the circuit court judge. The counsel for
the comptroller applied for and were
granted a rehearing. and the opinion to-
day is the outcome of the rehearing. Mr.
Gum was represented by c. NJ, Chas' r
and J. C. Cooper of Jacksonville.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
SHUT DOWN TEXTILE
MILLS In CAROLINA
Several Hundred Will Be Closed
Soon on Account of Short
, age of Coal.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 1S.-Many
of the several hundred textile plants
in the Carolinas will be closed down
within the next ten days or two weeks
on account Of the inability to secure
COAL in the opinion of David Clark,
editor of the Southern Textile Bulle-
ton, who has just completed a tour
and survey of manufacturing centers
in the two states.
This does not apply, Mr.. Clark said
in a statement today, to mills using
hydro electric power exclusively but
does apply to practically all the mills
beyond the reach of the hydro electric
transmission lines and also those with
in that territory which operate partly
by steam.
Even with a large number OF coal
mines resuming operation, said Mr..
Clark, the fuel problem of the textile
mills is by no means solved, because
of the railroad strike situation, which
makes it impossible to haul anything
like a normal tonnage.
Phillips and Perry were released
late tonight on bond of $4,000 and ST.
OOO respectiVely.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
Favonian Wins
Philly Races

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1S.-Favon-
ian owned by Mrs. Fred Edman, OF
Memphis. Tenn, and driven by her
husband, today won the distance
handicap trot, the feature event Of tie
final days racing of the Grand Cir
cult meeting at Belmont Park. THE
race was for purse of $500 and the
Bellevue -Stratford cup.
Six horses started, Favonian, 2:Oo
"a; having the shortest allowance
140 yards. E. Colorado, 2:O4 IA, VIII
a handicap of 1S0 yards and Princess
Etawah, 2:0S IA, came under the wire
only heads behind the winner in
sensational finish.
John Henry, the Bay Colt. by VIII
koe. driven by Cox, won the Kirk
stake, purse $1,000 for EOS PAGERS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
Three Workers
Badly Beaten

AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. lS.-Franlt
Hall OF Vidalia, Ca, H p. Cawiey OF
Harlem. Ga, and ]. r. Clase. employ
ed at the Georgia Railroad shops here
were tonight attac%ed on Broad street
by a crowd Of unknown men ana
severely beaten. Hall is the more SER
iousIy injured OF the three, he received
severe wounds about head. The IN
iurcd men were carried to the Gnivcr-
sitv hospital The wounded men were
unable to identify any of their assall-
ants.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-19
DE VALERA REPORTED DEAD.

DUBLIN, Aug. 1S.-Rumors were ex-
tensively circulated in Dublin today that
Eamon DeVaIera, republican leader, was
dead. Confess Markievicz, former mem
Der of the Dali Eireann, who has been
closely associated with Mr.. DeValera in
championing the republican cause. when
questioned said Mr.. DeValera was suffer-
ing from slight chill, but that his con-
dition gave no cause for anxiety.