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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Court Fight to Save
Slayer From Chair
Is Ended by Death

GREENVILLE, s. c., March 10.
Only the lowering of the casket to
the grave remained today to forever
close the records of the state Of
South Carolina versus Cliff Haw
kins. charged with and convicted of
murder.
Condemned to die in the electric
chair as a climax to a long and bit
ter legal battle dating from July,
1920, and twice placed in the death
house of the state penitentiary only
to have sentence suspended, Haw-
kins died yesterday in the county
Jail here. Physicians pronounced
meningitis as the cause.
Case closed by death of defen-
dant." were hte words written
across the state records.
Hawkins was convicted of killing
William Morgan, a farmer, who was
said to have circulated reports that
Hawkins had shot and killed
negress in July, 1920. Hawkins
then attempted suicide.
At the time Of his death, the
court Of general sessions had his
case on the docket for final decision
at the present term.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Florida Road Program
Big Aid to Georgia

QUITMAN, Ga, March 10.-Mad-
ison county, Florida, adjoining
Brooks county to the south, has
overwhelmingly passed a road bond
issue of $750,000 and is planning
to build highways through the
country in all directions, which will
represent an expenditure Of one
million and a half dollars when the
program is completed. The state
aid doubles the $750,O00. The road
crew is at work on a hard-surfaced
road to connect at the county line
with the road which is being built
in Brooks county. This will give a
paved road direct to Greenville,
Perry and Hampton Springs, Fla,
and other sections of Taylor coun-
ty.
1t is contemplated in the general
highway improvement program to
complete the paved highway from
Tallahassee to Jacksonville. This
cross-state hig way will pass
through Greenville and Madison,
connecting at Madison with Quit
man and Perry, which will give
Quitman a hard-surfaced road to
Jacksonville and ITALIA haSsee.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Total of $11,568,OO0 Is APP
propriated for New Plants
to Increase Output of
Power

Announcement of a vast develop
ment program, including four new
water-power plants and various SUBJ
stations and transmission lines at a
cost of $11,56S. 900, was made Satur-
day by officials Of the Georgia Rail
way and Power company. Construc-
ton work on the plants will start
Immediately with the expectation of
completing tA@ e.aS2ram in 1925. In
addition to this $8,%Q0,000 has been
appropriated for engagements and
improvements in 1923, making the
total sum to be expended for this
purpose more than $18,000,000.
The new program will make the
deliverable output Of the company
| two and third times its present
capacity, and is announced "as as
surance to every community on the
lines of the Georgia Railway and
Power company that they now can
attract any industry, no matter how
large, with the certainty that de-
pendable and abundant supply OF
water power will be available
In addition to the Tugalo dam and
powerhouse now under construction
and the Mathis.Tallulah power plant
to be started this summer, the new
plans provide for four more power
houses and additional transmission
lines and sub-stations.
Completion of these developments
will increase the deliverable output
of the company 1874 per cent, from
PIP 100000 to 6S5,0O0,O0O kilowatt
hours.
Work will be started this sum-
mer on the first two of the four
new power houses and will be car
ried along at the same time con-
struction work is in prog IS ON the
Tugalo and the MathisTallulah
water power plants
The location of these two plants
will be at points yet to be deter
mined on either the Tallulah or
Tugalo rivers. Borings to determine
the best locations will be started
within the next few weeks and soon
thereafter construction will begin
and the work will be finished with
in about a year,
There will be erected two other
power plants, one at the Burton
dam, the largest storage reservoir
for the company. The fourth is the
Seed development to be located on
the Tallulah river between the Bur
ton and the Lakemont or Mathis
dams The Seed d velopment is to
be finished in 1925 and the Burton
power plant in 1925.
Also included in the program and
| to be completed in 1924 or sooner
are transmission lines from Lindale
| to Summerville to Lafayette to.
| Chickamauga to the Tennessee state
line; from Marietta to Canton to
| Ball Ground to Tate; from Berry
ton to Summerville to Trion; from
| Social Circle to Madison.
New Transformer Stations
| Transformer stations n~0 to be
erected at Lafayette, Chickamauga.
! Marietta and SummerVille and eX-
| tensive enlargement at the Butler
and Davis street steam stations, in
addition to those already announc-
ed, in order that the company may
always have ample steam reserves.
| Already announced on the 1928
program were the completion Of the
Tugalo development. now under
construction; the 100000 Mathis
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
HOKE SMITH SAYS
He MAY MOVE HIS
LAW OFFICES HERE
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
409 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, March 10.-After
speaking Friday night in New York
before the National Council of TRAY
cling SaIesmen's association, former
Senator Hoke Smith returned to
Washington Saturday and announc.
ed he would go to Atlanta next week
for a visit and probably would move
his law offices to that city next sum-
mer.
Senator Smith, who represented
the travelling statesmen in their fight
for interchangeable mileage books,
which the interstate commerce COM
mission has ordered, was the prin-
cipal speaker at. the New York
meeting, which adopted resolutions
protesting against the threat of the
railroads to contest in the courts
the order for interchangeable
mileage at reduced rates.
The former Georgia senator has
endeared himself to the travelling
men and was loudly acclaimed at
the New York gathering. He ex.
pressed confidence that the opposi-
ton of the railroads would be futile.
While Senator Smith has not fully
determined to return to Atlanta and
practice law, the prospects are that
he will move back to that city next
summer. He said here today that he
is DESTROYS Of spending more time
in Atlanta and Georgia. He will re-
main about week on his forthcom-
ing visit to the state and attend to
various business matters.
Since opening his law offices here
it is known that Senator Smith. han
ding several large Etigations, has
made more in fees than his salary
in the senate amounted to for twelve
years. He recently has been offered
employment before an international
arbitration tribunal which will sit
at The Hague. Should he accept
this it would take him abroad for
two months. With two exceptions
all of Senator Smiths clients have
been citizens of the United States,
principally from the southern states.
The two exceptions were Swiss COM
panies. The time of his return to
Atlanta to resume the practice of law
there will depend upon the adjust
ment of pending cases here.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Mr.. FRANK P. RICE
PIONEER ATLANT|AN.
DIES At AGE Of 81

Mr.. Frank P. Rice, one Of the
most prominent citizens in Atlanta,
and a. resident of this city for the
last seventy-five years, died about
1880 o'clock Saturday night at the
residence, 3S6 West Peachtree street,
after an illness vf several months.
He was eighty-four years Of age. .
Coming here at the age Of nine,
Mr.. Rice was prominently identified
with the growth of Atlanta from a
village of less than 1900 inhabitants
to the present great city. He was
in the real estate and lumber bust
ness for years and was regarded as
one of the keenest judges Of real
estate values in the city. He par
ticipated in both the city and state
administrations, serving several
terms in city council, in the Georgia
houses of representatives and in the
state senate.
He was one of the organizers of
the DOdfQ OIL nedlluB dIlu SCI FSu VII
that organiza ton for nine years; as
a. member of the Georgia house Of
representatives from 1879 to 1888,
he introduced and chanpioned the
bill chartering the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad; and
in 1882, he was named to visit the
chronological schools of the north,
his visit being followed by legisla-
ton which resulted in the establish
ment Of the present Georgia School
of Technology.
He also introduced the bill to erect
the new state capitol, the measure
receiving executive sanction in Sep
TENDER, 1888. In commemoration of
this service, the state senate in 1921
adopted a resolution requesting Mr..
Rice's portrait to hang in the capt.
toll. During his service in the state
senate, Mr.. Rice was a member of
the special committee which framed
the bill providing for the lease of
the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
NEW LAWS GREAT
HELP To FARMERS,
CAPPER DECLARES

WASHINGTON. March lore
viewing acts of the last congress
affecting agriculture and forecast
ing probable legislation in the next
congress, Senator Capper, Repubi-
can, Kansas, chairman of the sen
ate farm bloc" in a. statement
today declared there is no quick
and sure cure for the troubles of
the farmer" Legislation control in
crease the price of farm products,
he said, but laws which the 9th
congress enacted. in his opinion,
will be of material assistance to ag-
ricul ural interests.
Congress erred, Senator Capper
contended, in failing TO accept Hen
ry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals.
THE country should have the
benefit of the peace time operation
of this huge enterprise" he said.
"Fxperienco has proved that gov
eminent operation adds heavily to
the peoples tax burdens. FoTd's
offer, in my judgment. was fair and
should have been accepted. This
question must be- decided by the
next congress
Declaring that the biggest prob.
lem before congress was that re-
lating to transportation, the Kan
sas senator asserted that freight
rates are too high and must come
down"
The sixty-seventh congress start
ed agriculture on its way TO a last
ing prosperity. Senator Capper de-
clared,. listing as farm bloc meas
ures" which it placed on the stat
ute books the cooperative market
inr act, the anti-grain gambling act,
the packers and stock yards act.
the emergency tariff, the act giving
farmers representations on the fed
eral reserve board, the filled-milk
measure. the act extending to ag-
riculture aid from the war finance
corporation and the farm credits
act.
The placing of dirt farmer" on
the federal reserve board, he stated,
Will insure the American farmer
against ruinous discrimination from
which he suffered during the de-
flatior period of 1919 and 1920, while
agriculture and live stock producers
were furnished a reservoir OF
credit" amounting to $1,000,000 by
the law which revived the war fl
nance corporation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
POWER COMPANY TO SPEND
MILLIONS IN IMPROVEMENTS

Tallulah power plant at the head of
the Tallulah lake; new 10000
volt transmission line from Tallu-
! / through Toccoa, Commerce, JEFF
ferson. Winder, and LaWrenceVillc
to Atlanta; various substations; in
creased gas service in Atlanta and
kirkWood; vastly improved street
railway service and numerous other
improvements to insure additional,
continuous and dependable power
services.
The water of the Tallulah and
Tugalo rivers will be used six or
more times to generate power under
proposed developments. First at
the Burton power plant; thence into
the lake to be created by the Seed
development; on through the Seed
power plant, the Mathis lake and
power plant; the Tallulah lake and
power plant; the Tugalo lake and
power plant and also the two other
plants at locations not yet decided
upon.
BY the end of 1926 power from
seven water power plants will act
ually be in operation, all controlled
through the central switching sta
ton to be erected at Tallulah this
year and which will make it pos
sible to- switch power from any of
the seven stations onto any of the
transmission lines whenever de-
sired.
, These plans will mean the vir-
tuallY complete development of the
Tallulah and Tugalo rivers by 1925
after which the company expects
to undertake other developments.
The initial development was the
Tallulah Falls dam and power
house, completed in 1913. The Sec
ond was the Mathis or Lakemont
reservoir. The third, the gigantic
Burton dam which formed a lake
"a miles in circumference, was
started in 1917 at the same tine as
the Tugalo development and was
completed in spite of the large costs
then prevailing. The fourth, the
Tugalo development, started in
1917 and discontinued on account OF
war conditions and the inability Of
the company to finance it, is to be
finished this year. The fifth devel.
opment, the Mathis-TalluIah power
plant, will be started this summer
and the four other plants will fol-
low as announced above.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Grady County Farmer
Sentenced to Death
For Killing Neighbor

CAIRO, Ca, March 10.-For the
first time in the history of Grady
county the death sentence was late
last night imposed on a white man,
when Ira Bryant, farmer, residing
near Cavalry, was convicted of the
murder on February 16, last, of
James Lewis, a neighbor.
Judge w. V. Custer, of the Albany
circuit, superior court, set June 20
as the execution date
Lewis was in Bryant's home when
the killing occurred. The two were
said to have been drinking, but two
witnesses testified that Bryant was
not intoxicated. Bryant asserted he
struck Lewis with a stick of fire
wood in self-defenSe.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
TREMENDOUS GAIN TO STATE
SHOWN IN SUCCESS MADE
BY COTTON CO-OPERATIVES

with more cotton under control.
the influence on the market will
be more effectual.
A lot Of intelligent people
still are ignorant of the pur-
poses and principles of the asso-
citation. Only the other day one
of the civic leaders of the state,
q man of brilliant attainments,
ventured the opinion that sit
was the law of supply and de-
mand, and not the cotton coop
eratives, that had raised the
price of cotton from Is cents
to 81 this year"
In making such a statement
this leading business man show
ed he had no real conception of
the sound principles on which
the co-operatives are builded.
They do not intend to raise the
price of cotton arbitrarily. They
are NOT holding associations.
They are not out to defeat the
operation of the law of supply
an1 demand.
On the contrary, all they can
do, all they purpose to do, Is
to get forl the PRODUCER the
fair price reached by the free re-
action of demand on supply.
And if any one who knows
the fundamentals and the his
tory of the cotton trade will give
the matter a moments thought
he will realize that if the cot
ton cO-operatives succeed in do
ing that they will have accom-
p,isted the greatest financial and
business feat in the history of
the world.
There never has been an &C
complishment so colossal
It means the turning, every
year, of hundreds of millions Of
dollars into The pockets of the
producers of cotton-money
that has hitherto gone to specu-
lators and middlemen.
This man thinks the associa-
tions have been lucky" this
year, and have ridden on q ris-
ing market.
OF course they have ridden on
a rising market. But there was
no luck" about it.
There will ALWAYS be g. ris-
ing market in cotton, so long as
a million or a half million or a
quarter million farmers have to
dump their years crop in the
three fall months ard drive the
price down temporarily.
There has been i rising mar
ket every year since the Civil
war.
Going back only twenty years,
there was a rising market in
1902-03, when cotton fell 81
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Woman Scion Offers
Strict Divorce Law
In Tennessee House

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 10
Grounds for divorce in Tennessee
will be confined to one cause-un-
faithfulness-if bill introduced yes
terday in the lower house of the
general assembly by Miss Marion
Griffin, Shelby county representa-
tive, becomes a law.
Il propose a bill that will allow
separations, but not divorces except
for unfaithfulness," she said in ex.
planning the measure. "The bill does
not apply to marriages contracted
before the bill becomes a. law, if it
passes. The bill puts everybody in
Tennessee on notice that divorces
will be hard to get and consequently
they may think while before they
leap into matrimony. Instead of
being a divorce law, it is really a
marriage law"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Swamps Of Wnegrass
Searched for Slayer
Of Policeman Brooks

BLACKsHEAR, Ga, March TO-
Deep'ip the swamps of the wiregrass
section near here Sheriff DIN p. Rob.
inson and his deputies today were
continuing a search for the persons,
believed to be distillers, who shot
and killed Ivy C. Brooks, a police.
man, on Thursday.
The hunt, according to officers,
conferred about S. 1. Sharpe, the al.
legged slayer, and the question of
gun battle remained to be solved.
The section in which the deputies
and sheriff are making their search
has been the scene of many gun bat.
ties in time past between prohibition
officers and mnonshiners.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Alleged Rum Runner
Is Slain by Officers;
Companion Wounded

CHARLOTTE, n. c., March 10
After a spectacular chase, that led
from the suburbs up Mint street al
most to the heart of town, a man
identified as John Davis and charged
by the police with being a rum run.
ner, was shot and killed here to-
was wounded, as they abandoned
their automobile and fled.
Eight officers in two machines
chased the car bearing the TWO mer
and police said that supply of Ii.
quor was thrown away during the
race.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13

points after the season opened
and then rose $40 points. The
rise was 1926 a bale, after the
farmers sold.
There was a rising market in
19O4-05, when cotton fell SIS
points after the season opened,
and then rose ASS points, $3.50
a bale, after the farmers sold.
And so on, year by year, till
1867, when cotton fell 100
points after the season opened
and then rose 1850 points, $3.50
a bale. after the farmers sold.
In 1917-18 it fell 40 points
after the season opened. and then
rose 1880 points, STA a bale after
the farmers sold.
In 1888 it. fell 1910 points
after the season opened and then
rose go points, $45 a bale, after
the farmers sold.
In 1920 it fell 400 points
after the season opened, and
then rose 1890 points, $74 bale,
after the farmers sold.
In 1920-21 it fell 1,775 points
after the season opened and then
rose S75 points, $1S.75 a bale,
after the farmers sold.
In 1922 it fell 1856 points
after the season opened and then
rose 7O5 points, $35 bale, after
the farmers sold.
There is nothing extraordinary
about the course of the market
this season, as you can see from
the figures above taken from
the official quotations of the
New York Cotton exchange.
For half century and more
the farmers of the south have
been dumping their cotton with
in three months and driving
down the price - defeating for
the time the law of supply and
demand.
Then, when the poor, helpless
fellows have taken the pitifuI
sums due to this supreme folly,
the price has INVARIABLY
risen giving vast profits to spec
ulators and useless middlemen
The law of supply and de-
IudIlu' bCJUpOt dI lily ueLIIOneu DY
the act of throwing a twelve
months supply on the market
in three months, INVARIABLY
has regained its ascendency, and
has yielded riches to those who
deserved it less than the poor
producer.
The cotton co-operatives are
not run by fools or idiots. They
have no insane notion of corner
ing cotton and of defeating the
inevitable working of supply and
demand. They know it can't be
done.
All they expect to do is to en-
able the producers to get the
price fixed by the law of supply
and demand. -"
They have never got it in the
past.
If they had. the south would
be rich, not beyond the dreams
of avarice. but beyond the stupe-
flying deadenfng struggles of the
past that have made so many of
an honest, upright citizenry the
prey and tool of demagoguery
and movements of violence
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Even Cross Feversh Sick Children Love its Taste
and it Never Fails to Empty Little Bowels

Hurry mother! A teaspoonful of
California Fig Syrup" today may
prevent a sick child tomorrow. If
your child is constipated, bilious,
fretful, has cold, collie, or if stomach
is sour, tongue coated, breath bad,
remember d good liver and bowel &C.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Mr.. Jas. J. Langford
Dies at Conyers, Ga.

CONYERs, Ga, March 1O.-Mr.
James Judson Langford, one Of the
best known and most beloved citi-
zens of Conyers, Ca, died here Fri
day evening after a few months ill
ness.
Mr.. Langford was seventy-two
years of age. He had been in the
mercantile business in Conyers for
over fifty years. He was an active
member of the Conyers Baptist
church
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Floriidian Kills
Man in Argument
Over Creek Water

DEFUNIAK, Fla, March 10. -
Sim Brown, Al. is in Jail at Crest
view charged with the murder OF
Jay Smith, So, of Bolton, Fla. The
men met at Fishing creek and a
dispute arose as to whether water
was fresh or salt. The argument
led to a skirmish.
Brown got the drop on Smith and
fired, killing him instantly.
Brown has a wife and three chill
dren. The murdered man left a wife
nd SeNen childran
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13

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ASK your druggist for genuine
California Fig Syrup" 1t never
cramps or overacts. Full directions
for babies and children of all ages
are printed on each bottle. Say
california" or you may get an imi.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
~ Alabama Stills
DESTROYED in March

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March To-
Reports of the destruction Of five
stills received by the state law en-
forcement department today in
creased the total for the first seven
days of March to forty-four. Shelby
county furnished three stills, 1900
gallons of mash and twenty-one gal
Ions of liquor. These raids were con-
Quoted by state and federal officers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13
Man Charged With
Shooting Gets Bail

AUGUSTA, Ga, March 10.AR. F.
Shelton, charged with shooting Miss
Annie Laurie Williams at her home
here last Sunday, was released late
yesterday under bond of $4,000. Ply
sicians say Miss Williams recovery
iS now assured
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-13

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