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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
FLORIDA s SOLONS
PASS BILL WHICH
DOOMS THE Lash

TALLAHASSEE Fla, May Ia
The upper house Of the general as
sembly Saturday passed measure plac-
ing corporal punishment under a
ban for trial period of two years,
and abolishing it forever in the han
ding of county convicts, while the
lower house. after adding an amend
ment scratching out two years and
making it read forever" in its pro-
visions as relating to state convicts,
approved the measure by vote of
SO to 2.
The measure will go back to the
senate probably Monday. Senate adj
vocates of the lash ban declared to-
day they have enough votes to make
it law, Senators Taylor and Mitch
ell having gone over to the anti
lash forces.
The bill, which was introduced by
Senator Turnbull, of the senate, met
with approval by a vote Of Is to IA,
after a long debate over an amend
ment offered by Senator Stokes
which had the same wording as the
house amendment. The Stokes
amendment failed by one vote, which
anti-lash leaders contend was due to
the absence of two senator's.
Representative Mckenzie, of Lake,
who introduced a bill during the
morning session to abolish outright
all whipping of convicts and which
was passed by a vote Of 81 to 8,
tackled the amendment on the SEN
ate measure and declared don't pass
the buck to the next legislature and
yield not to temptation to compro-
mise Representative Jones,
staunch supporter of the whipping
boss, voiced opposition to the amend
ment asking Representative McKen-
zie chow are you going to make
those negroes wocl- without the
whip?" There was no reply to the
question, and motion was made to
adODt the bill
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
BOND
ISSUE FOR STATE
ROADS ENDORSED

MACON, May 14.-UDanimous in
amendment to the constitution Of
the state of Georgia, prepared by
Attorney Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta,
and four representative of the
Georgia Good Roads association,
providing for a bond issue in the
amount of $7O,O0O,0O0 for permanent
roads connecting each of the one
hundred and sixty county seats of
the state, at an adjourned meeting
of the Good Roads association held
here Monday.
The meeting was attended by
members of the house representa-
tives, former members of the gen.
eral assembly, representatives of aU-
tomobile associations. county engi-
neers and representative business
and professional men of the state.
Nat r. Winship, member Of the
house of Representatives from Bibb
county, and an ardent supporter of
good roads measures, presided at
the meeting, and practically every
member present gave verbal indorse
ment to the proposed measure.
A. $. Anderson Converter
Solicitor General A. S. Anderson,
of Miller, Ga, who was recognized
as one of the leaders for the eXpen-
duture of road funds by the county
commissioners in the respective
counties when he was member of
the general assembly four years ago,
indorsed the proposed measure
drafted by Mr.. Watkins, and an
nounced to the audience that he had
been converted from the county
commission plan which he formerly
supported, and was heartily in favor
of expenditures under the direction
of the state highway commission.
S. d. Dell, of Hazlehurst, said that
the conversion of Mr.. Anderson rep
resented the laying down of arms of
the last of the advocates of the
county commission plan, and was
a healthy indication that sentiment
throughout the state favors a bond
issue of sufficient amount to care
for the traffic needs in every sec
ton, with the work to be done I'M
der the supervision of the state
highway commission, or as the legis-
lature may direct.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
The Weather

Virginia: Tuesday, showers; little
change in temperature.
North Carolina: Showers Tuesday;
little change in temperature.
South Carolina, Georgia; Unset
tied Tuesday with local rains; little
change in temperature.
Florida: Mostly cloudy Tuesday;
probably local thundershowers IN
north and central portions.
Extreme Northwest Florida,
Mississippi and Alabama: Showers
Tuesday; not much change in tenn
perature.
Tennessee; Tuesday, showers; not
much change in temperature.
Kentucky: Tuesday, showers; not
much change in temperature.
louisiana: Tuesday unsettled, oc-
casional showers.
Arkansas: Tuesday unsettled; &C.
casiOnal showers; cooler.
Oklahoma: Tuesday, fair, cooler.
East Texas; Tuesday clearing;
cooler in tn, interior
West Texas: Tuesday partly
cloudy, cooler.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
CROPS AND CATTLE
SHARE IN DAMAGE;
ALL WIRES DOWN
Relief Workers Leave for
Scene of Texas Disaster in
Automobiles Falls
Near Big Springs

BIG SPRINGS, Tex, May IA
Fifty persons were killed and about
100 injured three miles of Colorado.
Tex, when a tornado swept this sec.
ton, according to meager and I'M
confirmed reports telegraphed here
this morning.
Since this news was received com.
munication has been cut off, due to
damage to telephone and telegraph
lines.
The worst damage is forty miles
from Big Springs, it was reported.
1t is reported damage toscrops and
cattle is heavy and that the loss OK
life and property IS heavier in the
country district than in the town or
Colorado, according, to the uncon'
firmed reports. Relief parties left
here in automobiles this morning.
TWELVE BODIES COUNTED;
WIDE AREA is SWEPT
COLORADO CITY, Texas. May IA,
Eight bodies of persons killed in
tornado near here early Monday have
been brought to Colorado and it was
reported that several more bodies
were on the way here. Twelve per-
sons have been counted dead.
Persons doing relief work reported
dead and injured being found at al
most every scattered farm and ranch
dwelling for miles southeast of here
Joe Richburg and his two children
were killed and number of persons
injured when the tornado struck the
Spade ranch, soutlsof Colorado CITY.
and moved a path 25 miles long
across Mitchell county, Texas, last
night. Just west of Lorraine six or
eight houses were demolished and q
number of persons were reported
fatally injured, including T. e. VIII.
f, lis, Otis Willis, Joe Willis and eight
members Of the family of Henri It'd
we'll
1--WE have ieight bodies here and
more are coming. Our workers hay
ing located twelve persons whose
bodies were found outside the wreck
age" j. II. Green, chairman Of Rec
Cross workers here said. "Tle in
jured probably will reach 100 and
probably as many as fifty are killed."
Doctors and nurses from q dozen
nearby towns have been appealed to
and are searching in the devastated
area, covering many sections OF
grazing plain, for the dead and in
jured.
7 Only slight damage was done to
Colorado City itself
At Westbrook, Mrs. w. S. Shell
ton vas killed and her two children
are not expected to live. Other
members of the family also were in
+ jured. The tornado centered betweeR
Lorraine and Colorado City, accord
ing to reports here. The southwest
/ ern Telephone and Telegraph com.
pany reports three miles of theifl
lines down between these two places
Physicians from Seetwater. Lor'
raine and Colorado City were rush
ing to the scene of the disaster in
! automobiles.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
BOMB SUSPECT HELD; HIRED
WAGON THAT CARRIED DEATH
INTO WALL ST., POLICE SAY
Boosted of Part in Tragedy
While in Russia, Accord
ing to Story ToId by Col-
pie on Return

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Wall
street bomb explosion was recalled
tonight when police arrested Noah
LerneP, %, an electrician, on Il
charge of homicide in connection
with the disaster which killed more
than 80 persons on September Is,
1920
Lerner is charged with having
hired the wagon that carried the
explosives to Wall street, the police
announced.
The information that brought his
arrest was said to have been given
to the district attorney by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Doyle, of Baton Rouge,
La. They returned recently from
a Kuzbas colony in Russia where
they charged they had found con-
dtions entirely different from what
had been represented to them by its
New York agents, Several officers
of the Kuzbas were indicted on the
strength of their accusations.
Lerner was resident of the KuZ-
bas colony in Russia, to which the
Doyles and their two children were
sent from New York, it was said,
and they were reported to have told
the district attorney that he boosted
openly of his part in the Wall street
tragedy.
Lel-4er. it was said, slipped into
the United States on the Homeric,
which arrived on May last. De
spite the vigilance Of detectives both
here and in various European ports,
neither his sailing nor his arrival had
been disc 5vered.
Authorities had been looking for
Lerner since the Doyles returned
from the Kuzbas colony and told
their story Immediately on their
arrival. After a long search Lerner
was located in Bensonhurst, a we'll
TODD section Of Brooklyn.
Lerner, nattily dressed and with a
cap covering a mass of blonde hair,
was questioned in police headquarters
for more than an hour tonight Of
ficials said he admitted he had spok-
en- about the little red wagon" but
refused to, say anything further
about the explosion.
The district attorney said the
Doyles told him that while they were
in Russia, they were forced to take
two boarders into their home, one of
whom they said was Lerner.
II am the man who hired the lit
tie red wagon that exploded in Wall
street" they said he told them.
Later Lerner, police said, de-
clared he had been arrested on the
night of the explosion, charged with
disorderly conduct. He said he had
been driving a wagon carrying So
cialist speakers who were. stump
ing" the east side for candidates
to replace Socialist assemblymen
ousted from their seats in Albany:
He told police. they said, be had
Quarreled with patrolman, who ar
rested him. He was discharged IN
night court, he said.
Lerner was unable to describe the
horse and wagon.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
CHINESE PIRATES
SEIZE VESSEL AND
ROB PASSENGERS
Valuable Cargo Is Left In
tact - Mountain BrigandS
Promise to Free Some of
Foreign CaptiveS

| HONG KONG, May 14.-(By the
Associated ess.)-European pas
! sengers were among those terrorizeH
and robbed when the Chinese steam
err Taishun was seized near Swallow
Saturday by pirates who, disguised
as passengers overpowered the crew
sailed the ship for nearly "a hours
and finally left her yesterday at the
mouth of a small creek, transferring
| to junk loot valued at 100000.
The Taishun, which was bound
from Hongkong for Shanghai, re-
turned to Hongkong yesterday after
noon. The chief officer, wounded
in the forearm by pirate, was
taken to a hospital. Most Of the
passengers had lost all their money
and personal effects. The vessels
cargo, a valuable one, was not dis
| turbed
The steamer, which registers 1000
lions, left Hongkong with more than
100 passengers. The pirate passen-
gers numbered about forty. When a
point near Swallow was reached the
buccaneers, who had spreak into
small parties, as pre-arranged,
worked suddenly and Systematically.
Soon they had the ship at their
mercy.
They rushed the armory obtaining
all the equipment. there. The crew
was taken by surprise. The captain
and the officers and the European
passengers were locked up together
in the captains cabin where they
were compelled to remain until the
pirates left the ship.
A large number of Chinese pas
sengers panic-stricken were bearded
into the hold after they had been
searched and their valuables stolen
The pirates had no difficulty in
handling the ship. Steaming all
night in complete darkness, they
reached the small creek that was
their rendezvous, about 100 miles
from Swallow, yesterday morning. A
junk slipped alongside; the loot was
lowered into it; the pirates vanished.
FREEDOM FOR SOME
OF CAPTIVES PROMISED
PEKIN, May 14.-fBy the Asso:
ciated Press.)-A. conference last
Saturday night between representa-
tives of the railway bandits and the
Pellin government resulted in agree
ment by the brigands to release some
of their captives Immediately ana to
free the remainder when their terms
including the. withdrawal of TIL
troops-Were complied with. the min
istry of communications announced
yesterday.
The American, French and Ital-
ian legations have received word
from their respective consuls now
at Lincheng, that the bandit chic
early Saturday morning Informed
the officials of his intention of kill
ing every captive in two days if his
terms were not met.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Sea Gull Salvages
Skipper S Purse After
Atlantic Shipwreck

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass.
11.-A seagull has salvaged the
poclzetbook of Captain Daniel ]
Miller, Jr., of Bath, Me, who was
saved after his command, the col.
lier Seaconnet, sank in Vineyard
sound, April 90, with a loss of seven
lives.
Ed Dalen, a fisherman, was cross
ing the sound yesterday when he
noticed a gull pick an object from
the sea and drop it.
Dalen investigated and found the
pocketbook with Identification card
inc1OSed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Baby Killed by Train
In Front of Home

CONVICTION, Ca, May 12.-Lit
tie Charlie Joseph Berry, young son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Berry, and
grandson of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Owens and Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Ber-
ry, of Almon, was run over and
instantly killed by Georgia rail.
road freight train at Almon, about
II o'clock this morning.
The baby, who was only eighteen
months old, and an only son, jumped
out of his grandfather's lap, and
ran on the track in front Of the en-
CINE before he could be stopped.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Blind Man, Age a.
Is in Jail After
Shooting Another

AKRON, Ohio, May 11.-Albert
Wilson, "A. a blind man, is in Jail
charged with shooting to kill. Henry
Glen, 81, is in a hospital in a crit
ical condition with a bullet wound
in his abdomen.
Glen told police Wilson shot him
during an argument over some
clothing Glen is alleged to have
taken from Wilson two weeks ago.
Wilson said he shot in the direc
ton of Glen's voice when Glen re-
fused to leave his home last night
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
28 Cars Destroyed
By Fire; Z Iralnmen
Overcome by Smoke

NORFOLK, Va, May 12.-Twen-
ty-eight freight cars, seven of which
were loaded with starch, were de-
stroyed by fire which originated in
an abandoned warehouse in the
Southern railway yards at Primers
Point early today. The loss is es-
timated at $155,OO0. Two trainmen
were overcome by smoke and heat
when they attempted to move a
string of 10 cars out of the danger
zone, but both recovered.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Convict Camp Bosses
And Former Sheriff
Indicted In Florida

PENSACOLA, Fla, May 13.-J.
r. Jones, former sheriff of Leon
County; Walter Higginbotham, whip
ping boss of the camp of the Put
nam Lumber company, at Clara,
Fla, and Superintendent Fisher of
the camp were indicted in federal
court Saturday in connection with
the death of Ned Thompson, aged
negro, who died as the result of al
legged brutal treatment while in the
Putnam Camp.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Charred Skeletons
OF Flyers Missing
Five Months Found

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 12.-The
charred bones of Col. Francis H.
Marshall, former chief of the Unit
ed States cavalry, and Lieutenant
Charles Weber, army aviator, were
found today near Cuaymaca Peak,
40 miles from San Diego, by George
McKane, a cattleman. Both Off
GERS have been missing since De
cember Z, when they left San Diego
for Arizona in an army plane.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Heat Wave Forces
Early School Closing
In California City

CLEXICO, Cal, May 11.-Be.
cause of the hot weather, the schon
board has issued an order for
schools to open at 8 o'clock in the
morning and close at noon.
The thermometer registered 1C3
degrees yesterday but q cool breeze
today Indicate the peak of the heat
wave had been reached,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Motion Picture Dog,
Prince Ski,' Is Dead;
Made $50 a Day

LOS ANGELES, May 1.-THE
death Wednesday of prince Ski
motion picture dog, became known
today. The snoW-white Russian wolf
hound commanded a salary of $50
a day. His speciality was strolling
through gardens with richly gowned
women.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
Doctor Forced to Tell

WALPOLE, Eng.-Dr. Arthur
Collins was forced by the coroner
to make known facts told to him
by q woman patient who later COM
mitted suicide.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
WHEAT UNDERGOES
SHARP SETBACK
Week Sees Price Drop, Due
to Official Estimate of
Big Canadian Crop.
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 15.-Wheat
has undergone a sharp setback in
price this week, chiefly owing to an
official estimate that the 1923 Cana
dian crop ss- 10. 900. 900 bushels larger
than last years total. Compared with
a week ago. wheat this morning was
.3is to 4% down, corn 1 to 23sa2A
Off, oats varying from "a decline to
1A advance and provisions showing
losses of 10 to %.
, Selling Of wheat on the basis Of
experience in former years that this
was a regular calendar time for ex-
pecting lower prices did a. good deal
also to depress values. Reports mean
while that the German government
had ordered a stoppage OF passive
resistance in the Ruhr gave some en-
couragement to bulls, but failed to
have any immediate effect on prices.
For the time being all other factors
appeared to be dwarfed by the huge
Canadian surplus.
Corn went lower with wheat and as
a result of bearish aspects of the
government crop report as to corn.
Meagerness of the supply of oats
here made the oats market relatively
firm.
Provisions reflected a less active
shipping trade.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
STOCKS AND BONDS
TURN REACTI0NARY
Bull Operators Fail to Draw Pub
lie Following During
Past Week.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 15.-Stock
and bond prices, which have been on
the upgrade for more than a month,
turned decidedly reactionary this
week
Failure of operators on the long
side to attract public following was
reported to have induced resump-
tion of speculative operations. The
reduction in the forward buying of
steel and, the continued unsettlement
of the oil industry also have been re-
garded as contributing factors. The
Spanish revolution, the Greco-Italian
crisis, the dispute over Fiume and
the delay in reaching a reparations
agreement likewise were believed to
have had pessimistic effect.
The downward trend was accom-
panied by increased activity, the New
York Stock Exchange witnessing its
first million share day on Thursday
since last June.
Not all the news was uneavorable.
Car loadings for the week ending
September 1, the latest figures which
O. aEuLinblCt CoIdUAlSAcu d new nlgn
record for all time. Commodity prices
were generally firm.
Money rates were somewhat firner
as result of the calling of loans in
anticipation Of federal income tax
payments today. Call loans touched
per cent for the first time in six
weeks and time money was on a 51
per cent basis.
Foreign currencies moved irregu-
larly, although French and Belgian
francs and italian lire showed good
gains on the week.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.
Received by Private WI

NEW YORK, September 15.-The
selling movement on the curb market
continued during the closing Session
of the week. Price fluctuations We're
largest In stocks of the type of
McCrory Stores new, Prairie OIL and
Gas and Durant Motors of Delaware.
McCrory, however, was an exception
to the general tendency and at 641s
was at new high for the year.
Prairie Oil and Gas has attracted
considerable attention recently as the
result of the resignation of the presi-
dent and the temporary closing of the
company's New York offices. The
stock opened where 1t had closed last
night, then dropped almost points,
only to make up the loss in the last
hour
Evening star., 1923-09-15
QUOTATIONS ON GERMAN
MARKS TO CONTINUE

NEW York, September 15.-The
Tribune today says:
Reports that the leading banks had
ceased to quote the German mark be-
cause it's nominal value was so vari-
able as to make computation impos-
sible were proved yesterday to- be
based upon q. slight misapprehension
Of the facts. There is still a fairly
large demand for marks In connec-
tion with commerce Iatween the
United States and Germany. and the
banks are entirely prepared to meet
this need. Under the circumstances,
there is no suggestion of withdraw
ing quotations as was done in the
case of the Russian ruble, but only
after trade between the two coun-
tries had come to a virtual halt.
= The fact is that the trading In
marks such as is normally carried on
in the foreign exchanges has stopped
but there has been little such trad
ing for the last six months. When
q transaction involving 100, 900, ,000, 900
marks represents a dollar equivalent
of only $1,000, dealings Of this char
cater are % fously out of the ques-
tton. II an importer needs marks,
however, he has no difficulty in OBJ
tanning quotation at which he can
purchase them from his bank.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
Spectators Control Market
As Stocks Suing Downward
Buying WaUe in Domestic Trade Circles
Fails to DeUeIop--OIs and Steels
Weak-Farm Situation Better.

New England mills, many of which
have bought southern holdings in
order to take advantage of lower
labor costs and cheaper power.
German Mark Passed Out.
Perhaps the most significant event
OF the week I'm international business
was the elimination of the German
the leading international banking in
terests of the world decided during
the week 70 cease quotation of the
mark and this position was followed
closest possible touch with German
financial conditions. When the mark
depreciated to a point below 100000,
900 to the dollar it became evident
that business so far as Germany is
concerned must be done in dollars or
pounds sterling in order to carry "a
meaning to foreign interests.
Trouble In OH Industry.
Internal dissentions are reliably re-
ported to have had bearing on the
movement of oil stocks during the
week The question of maintaining
prices for crude at a certain level to
provide support for Independent pro-
ducers was raised and the prevailing
opinion that large refiners were buy
ing stocks of crude oil at advan-
tageous prices, while their own crude
production was shut I'M received a
rather severe shock.
Nevertheless. 1t was established
beyond question that about 4 per cent
of the Oklahoma production was be-
ing "bootlegged" at prices well under
the market level and that about ~
per cent of the Kansas production
was being similarly disposed Of
In the final proceedings OF the
stock market for the week, holders
Of securities took comfort from the
fact that the hurting of 1900 and
1000 share lots at the market, as was
done for time In the case of Stude-
baker and other leaders, resulted in
losses so small as those recorded.
They reiterated the old maxim that
for every seller there was a purchaser.
Evening star., 1923-09-15
PRICES OF BUTTER
GAIN DURING WEEK
Buyers Begin to Draw Heavily
From Storage Stocks-Out-
put Lower.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 15.-Prices in
the major butter markets averaged
from to Il cents higher during the
week and the tone remained firm.
Reports of production were disap-
pointing.
Use of storage butter was begun,
many large buyers drawing from their
cheaper storage stocks.
Scarcity of under-grade butter
opened a market for imports, which
during the week amounted to zoe
casks unsalted Holland, 443 seventy
Esthonian and 500 casks Siberian.
Range and close in wholesale prices,
92-score butter. were as follows:
Chicago. 2 cents higher at q; New
York, 1 1h cents higher at As u Bos-
ton. u cents higher at At, and Phila.
delphia, 1 Il cents higher at 471s.