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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
MAY MODIFY
OFFER ON SHOALS
To SUIT COOLIDGE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-By the
Associated Press.l-After confer
ences with President Coolidge and
Secretary Weeks here today Henry
Ford announced that he had taken
under Amusement" a request Of the
war secretary, concurred in by the
chief executive, to modify his offer
for the purchase and lease of the
governments power and nitrate
projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala.
The meeting between Mr.. Ford and
Secretary Weeks lasted slightly
more than half an houE and Secre-
tary Weeks the mesa orted Mr..
Ford's~ group to the White House
where they were received by Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Secretary Weeks is understood to
have informed Mr.. Ford that the
government would be compelled I'M
der the contract agreement with the
Alabama Power company to sell the
Gorgas power plant on the Warrior
river to it, although there was some
dispute as to the legal status Of the
agreement. It was the war secre-
tary's belief that Mr.. Ford could
eliminate the Gorgas unit from his
offer without sacrificing the end he
has in view relative to the operation
of Muscle Shoals property.
In the event the Gorgas property
is eliminated from those Mr.. Ford
seeks to purchase, it is planned that
the money paid the government by
the Alabama Power company would
be allowed as credit on the pur-
chase price fixed by the Ford offer.
Throughout the congressional hear
ing on the Ford proposal, representa-
tives of the Detroit manufacturer in
sisted that the Gorgas unit be in
cluded, anG they ,steadfastly refused
suggestions from members of the
house and senate committees that it
be eliminated.
Mr.. Ford is said to hold the same
opinion today, and to still believe
that the property is indispensable to
the success of the plan he has in
mind for the development of the
shoals properties. 1t is understood,
however, that final decision on the
proposal made today by President
Coolidge and Secretary Weeks would
be communicated to the Washington
office as soon as it has been given
due consideration in Detroit.
Neither President Coolidge nor
Secretary Weeks was willing that
the Alabama Power company should
be allowed to buy the Gorgas plant
until Mr.. Ford had been consulted.
The power company had formerly
offered $3,OOO,000 for the plant, and
| if the Sale is executed, it is under
| stood that this sum would be deduct
ed from the 100000 which Mr..
Ford offered for the Gorgas plant
and the nitrate factories.
The Alabama Power company act
ing in accordance with the agree
ment entered into with the govern
ment when the Gorgas plant was
constructed, has served notice that
the war department should vacate
the property not later than October
ia. Presumably Mr.. Ford's answer
to the request to eliminate il rs a
part of his purchase offer will be
made known to the war secretary be.
fore the date, fixed for the evacua-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
.FLOGC|NCS IN TULSA
ARE LAID To Nj KLUX
. BY0kLAHOMA CH|EE

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, Sept.
.7.-(By the Associated Press.)-The
Ku KIux Khan yeas revealed today
as the organization charged by
Governor Walton with responsible
ity for the lash reign in Tulsa
county.
Evidence gathered by the mill
tary court investigating mob flog'
gings in the vicinity of Tulsa lays
authorship of the outrages directly
at the door of the khan, it was de
clared by Aldrich Blake, counsellor
to the governor. Blake was CON-
missioned by Governor Walton TO
review the testimony taken by the
military authorities and tell the
story of Tulsa"
In all the testimony of more than
five hundred witnesses examined
not a suspicion has been cast upon
a single person outside the in
visible empire" Blake declared.
Summing up the brutal refrain
of the 1.2O0 pages of the testimony
already adduced, the eXecutlVe>couH-
Sellor asserted:
Its always the khan or some
members Of the khan
The report not only names the
organization as responsible for the
whippings that multiplied uncheck-
ed in Tulsa county for more than
a year, until martial law was ia
voked, but the Khan also was re-
vealed as the force which Governor
Walton charged "has honeycombeu
the courts and civil officers of the
county, protecting floggers and mas
ing justice impossible"
First Direct Accusation
1t has been no secret that klans-
men were involved in certain of the
flOggings, but, until last night,
Governor Walton and his advisers
ing the khan as the agency that
introduced the lash rule in Tulsa.
Shortly after the military court
began it's inquiry some three weeks
ago, four members of the khan con-
fessed participation in WhippinSs
and pleaded guilty to charges Of
rioting, each being sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Scores of victims of Tulsa mob
rule have fled in fear of their lives,
and the entire story can never be
told, Blake said. Tulsa county s
most famous whipping pasture" a
spot a mile and a quarter southeast
of Alsuma, was described by Blake
as a place of torture from which
strong men stagger away ruined
for life" A broad leather strap
"cat-tailed" at the tip was the in
strument of punishment, he pic
tured.
The files of the military court
yield the story of prominent Tulsa
citizen, formerly a member of the
khan, who attended a whipping par
ty. A man from some other town
conducted the proceedings, he said.
II did not know him; you see they
usually have a man from some other
khan, stranger to the community,
to take charge" he testified. At
least $50 masked men attended the
flogging party, according to the tes-
timony.
Woman Describes Whipping
A woman tells how she was
dragged out of bed DIT night by a
band of men and was taken to the
whipping pasture with her husband.
Both were flogged.
Another victim, an elderly man,
was whipped because he signed a
petition opposing the local. school
administration.
One man, a member of a town
ship school board, escaped punish
ment when he promised to vote for
school head favored by his alb
ductors.
Reports circulated in the state
that the khan in Tulsa had offered
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Information Sought
OF Missing Persons

G. w. Hair, Route 2, Lancaster,
6. c., desires information about w.
B. CASTOR, who was last heard from
while in Savannah, Ga, in Novem-
Der of last year.
Mrs. S. ]. Montgomery, Route ?,
Sumner, Ga. seeks word of her
son, Ernie, IA years old. supposed
to have left Waycross in August
with a band Of gypsies. He is slen.
der, with light hair, blue eyes and
Swith dark mark on under lip.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
ND ARRESTSMADE
IN CONVECTION WITH
Fleetwood MURDER

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga, Sept IA
throng of sorrowing friends and rel
atives attended the funeral at III
o'clock here this morning of Mr.. w.
F. Grant, telegraph operator VINO
was slain Wednesday night at his
post of duty in Fleetwood. Rev.
Joe Thrailki1l, pastor of the Method
ist church here. officiated. The
Stockbridge lodge of Masons con-
Quoted the services at the grave.
Clayton county officers and rail-
way special agents have been Dusty
engaged on the case with local au-
thorities here and at Fleetwood, out
so far little light has been thrown on
the crime which has stirred the
whole county. Mr.. Grant was well
known. - 1t was said authoritative
a better reputation among his TEL
lows. If he had an enemy, it is not
known. 1t was said authoritative
ly this morning that no arrests had
been made in connection with the
case. Reports yesterday to this Ell
feet were in error, it was said, ana
any arrests made at that time were
in connection with other cases.
The coroner's jury assembled by
Justice Of the Peace w. r. Whit
aker, reconvened this morning at 9
o'clock and resumed their investiga-
ton.
Officers are confident that intent
to rob MI. Grant was not the motive
of his assailant, and they are busy
trying to develop some other motive.
Mr.. Grant, who was SO years old,
is survived by his wife; three sons,
Cecil Grant, Atlanta; Fred Grant,
Atlanta, and Jesse Grant, If Macon;
two daughters, Mrs. Hugh Galloway,
of Atlanta, and Mrs. Frank Will
liams, of Macon; two brothers, r. E.
and Ed Grant, of Atlanta, and one
sister, Mrs. Emma Berry, of Stock
bridge.
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The Weather

FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia: Fair with somewhat low
err temperatures.
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia: Probably local thunder
showers; somewhat lower tempera'
tire.
Florida, extreme northwest f'lor
ida: Partly cloudy, local thunder
showers ...-'
Alabama, Mississippi: Fair, slight
ly cooler in interior.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair.
West Virginia: Fair with mod
crate temperature.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy, probably
. local thunder showers.
Arkansas: Generally fair.
Oklahoma: Generally fair.
(, East Texas: Partly cloudy; prob
ably scattered thunder showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF

LONDON.-Cholera has broken
out in Yokohama, Kobe unconfirm-
ed news agency report says.
SAN FAANCISCO.-Pacific mail
liner President Taft sails with d
sehipment of 800 tons of rice for Jap
anese earthquake victims.
BERLIN. - Germany's floating
debt August 81 was more than one
quadrillion marks. In round fig
ures, 1,235,O67, OOO,OOO,OOO.
ROME. - Official announcement
made of occupation by Italy of
Paxos and sew II small islands to
complete the ring around Corfu.
HONOLULU.-"Hell" alone can
describe the scene in Toxic during
the r-the-earthquake, Toxic cor
respondent Of Hawaii newspaper de-
clares.
OMAHA.-The Omaha Bee asks
government to buy great. quantities
Of flour for Japan and links earth
quake necessities with emergency of
farmers in the grain belt.
CHICAGO-Fred w. Upham, treas
urer of Republican national commit
tee, announces that he will ask
President Coolidge to intervene in
the Franco-German reparations diff
ficulty.
, MARION.-Mrs.- Harding approves
plan Of Marion civic committee to
hold a memorial for the late presi.
dent in Marion November 2, the 58th
anniversary Of his birth.
NEW YORK.-Wage adjustments
for employees of United States Steel
corporation whoe working day was
reduced from - to 10 hours will be
an increase of about 10 per cent it
is indicated by Ebert Gary.
; WASHINGTON. - Proportionate
distribution of the proceeds of sales
to members Of cooperative associa-
tons was declared by the Internal
revenue bureau to be the only l--eth.
cd by which the income of such as.
sociations could be tax exempt.
SALEM, O.-Prof. Irving Fisher,
Yale economist, is barred from
speaking here because of his recent
statement that President Harding
favored the League of Nations, but
did not dare to make public his per-
sonal views.
WASHINGTON.-A previous rec
ords for loading of revenue freight
were broken during the week ending
25, when 1,069,932 cars were
loaded, it is announced by car serv-
ice division of American Railway
association. Total exceeds previous
record of the week ended July % by
2S,888.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08

HONOLULC.-kila volcano In
Hawaii resumes activity and molten
lava is hurled $50 feet into the air.
MANILA-Three distinct earth
quake shocks were felt here between
and 8 o'clock Wednesday morning
TOMIOkA, Japan.-Three Amer
lean destroyers arrive in Yokohama
and take 800 Americans aboard.
ROME. - King of Spain informs
the uuirinal and vatican that he will
visit Italian sovereigns in Novem-
Der.
SAN FRANCISCO. - Yokohama is
a charnal house with its canals and
waterfront choked with dead, direct
Toxic advices say.
MILWAUKEE. - Gaylo1d M.
Saltzgaber, Vanwert, Ohio, is elected
commandment o. the Grand
Army of the Republic.
OKLAHOMA CITY. - Oklahoma
authorities publish facts in floggings
that prompted Governor Walton to
invoke martial law in Tulsa county.
ATLANTA-E. r. DuBose, Of the
firm of Chamberlain ohnson-DuBose
Co., and Will S. Ansley, veteran
real estate man, die here Thursday
night.
GENEVA-Italy's refusal to rec
ognize right of the League Of Ma
tons to intervene in Greek dispute
imperils League of Nations, and Brit
ish view is that foundations Of Eu-
rope are shaken.
WASHINGTON. - Mrs. Harding
leaves Washington for Marion, and
plans to close up affairs of the late
president including filing of his will.
VALPARAISO, Ind. - Valparaiso
university will continue to operate,
regardless Of discontinuance of ne
gotiations whereby Ku Klux Khan
was to have taken over institution,
it is announced by President H. M.
Evans.
WASHINGTON. - Two thousand
immigrants Who were rushed to New
York before midnight August 81 in
order to beat time barrier on immi-
grafton quota for September, are or
dered admitted, but fines of 5000 for
each of them is ordered imposed on
steamship companies.
CHICAGO.-The valuation of the
farmers income on this years crop,
of $1,000, 100000 more than for last
year, is challenged by HIN. Moore
house, director of American farm bu-
reau federation's research depart
ment, which claims that estimates
had been put on July crop not yet
harvested, and that the bureaus es-
innate for sales indicate an increase
of $2O0,000,000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
Lightning Bolt Kills
Woman and Injuries
Husband and Children

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.,-A stroke
of lightning late Wednesday killed
Mrs. Rufus Proctor, probably fatally
injured her husband and severely
burned their two small children at
their home at South Side, Montgom-
cry county. The house was badly
damaoed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
Carolina Editor Hurt

MEBANE, N. c.. Sept. &C. F,
Parnell, editor of the Mebane En-
terprise, was painfully hurt about
the back and legs here late Wed
nesday when an airplane in which
he was riding was badly wrecked.
The pilot, William H. Fillmore. of
here for exhibition fights
at the Mebane fair, escaped injury.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
Baby Is Drowned
In Garbage Can

GURLEY, Ala, Sept. 6. - John
Cloud two-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Cloud, of Gurley. was
drowned at their home Wednesday
by falling into a garbage can head
foremost. He had been dead an hour
when his mother found him
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
SETBACK FOR LONDON
SEEN IN NEGOTIATIONS
ArncoI NIn,rnIs


BY Edgar Ansel Mower
Especial Cable to The Atlanta Journal aud
Chicago Daily News-Copyright, 1921
ROME, Sept. 6.-The Italian po-
sition in it's conflict with Greece,
now seems so strong that unless
something unexpected occurs, Great
Britain will receive another setback.
THE English will again have to
pay for backing the wrong horse,
is the opinion expressed here.
Italy practically can do what she
likes, for the Franco-Britain dlVerg-
ence splits the only European com
bination capable of forcing them to
evacuate Corfu, or to accept the de-
cision of the League of Nations.
France and Italy apparently have
discovered a working basis for that
understanding which they long had
sought in vain, the writer believes
that the French. will remain neutral,
will discourage Jugo-Slav action,
will tacitly back Italy-and in re-
turn will receive Italian support in
the Ruhr.
URUGUAY DENIES PLAN
TO SIDE WITH ITALY
MONTEVIDEO, Sept. Elm con-
nection with advices from Rome
that Uruguay and Brazil have de-
cided to Instruct their representa-
tives at Geneva to stand with Italy
and abandon the League of Nations
if she decides to do so, the Uru-
guayan foreign minister authorizes
the following statement:
although after an exchange OF
ideas with the president, the Uru-
ahppn
cable communication with the Uru-
guayan delegate on the League OF
Nations council, Senior Guanl rec
ommending him to lend the most
deferential attention to the argu-
. ments of the Italian thesis, no such
instructions as is Indicated in these
.advices has been sent, nor has the
Uruguayan attitude been compro-
missed in the matter stated"
ITALY CONFISCATES ARMS
ON ISLAND OF CORFU
CORFU, Sept. 6.-By the Asso-
ciated Press)-The Italian occupa-
ton authorities have ordered the
confiscation of arms of all nation
alities residents here. including
members of the italian colony. British
subjects may store their weapons in
their own consulate. a.
This city is quiet and orderly, but
the inhabitants are anXiously Won
dering how long the occupation will
last. No Greek ships are arriving
or departing and it is impossible to
proceed directly to Athens.
ATHENS ENDS INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS WITH ITALY
ATHENS, Sept. 6.-The Athenian
Chamber of Commerce has decided
to break commercial and industrial
relations not only with ITALY, but
also with Italian firms in Greece.
'GREEK FLEET AVOIDS
CONTACT WITH ITALIANS
ATHENS, Sert. 6.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. 1.-THE Greek fleet has
received orders to retire to the Gulf
Of Volo to avoid contact with the
Italian fleet, it was learned on good
authority.
The Gulf Of Volo, an arm of the
Aegean sea, is on the eastern side
of the Greek peninsula and approx
mately 80 miles north Of Athens.
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to disband if Governor Walton
agrees to withdraw his military in
vestigators and lift martial law
have found no official confirmation.
Governor Walton refused to COM
ment on reports that Adjutant Cen
eral B. H. Markham, who came
here Wednesday for a conference
with the executive, brought with
him a peace offer from khan Off
Gals conditioned upon withdrawal
of troops from Tulsa county.
SOLICITOR GARRETT SAYS
BLANIES KHAN IN FLOGGINGS
MACON, Ga, Sept. 7.-Charles H.
Garrett, solicitor general of the Bibb
circuit, superior court, who is in
charge of the preparations of evil
dence for the trial of seven persons
accused of flogging in this county,
declared last night that the men,
bers of the Ku Klux Khan are deep
ly involved in the local cases.
Evidence in a vast majority of
the cases." said Mr.. Garrett, "indi-
Gates that those persons arrested in
connection with floggings are mem
bers of the khan. There also is evil
dence of organized activity on the
part Of member of this body. This
is apparently well understood by the
people of the community"
Mr.. Garrett said that in connec-
ton with the seven persons under
arrest, against each of whom there
are two or more cases, "the evidence
overwhelming indicates member
ship in the Ku Klux Khan"
Khan headquarters, Mr.. Garrett
stated, is denying that the local acts
were authorized by the khan as an
organization. He expressed the be-
lief that khan headquarters lis
spending money with appar- 1T sin
certify in connection with the local
investigation and appears to be es-
pecially DESTROYS ot posing its own
members who have been trapped as
participants in floggings."
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
Goodyear Raincoat Free

Goodyear Mfg Co.. 6O27-R Goodyear Bldg.
Kansas City, Mo-, is making an offer to send
a handsome raincoat free to one person in each
locality who will show and recommend it to
friends If you want one. write today Adyt.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
Don't Fail to Read

Rex Beach's great story of the oil boom
in Texas, which begins in this issue and
which will be published in generous in
stallments until the climax is reached.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08
SbeCiaL Notice

To the thousands of our readers who we're held
enthralled by "k Woman ObSeSsed' and to the
many who failed to read the story at the begin
ming but who later took it up and sought in pain
to obtain back issues, NE take pleasure in an
nouncing that ne will shortly begin publication
of another and even better story by the same
author.
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FLOWING Gold"

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BREAK WITH ITALY
AVERTED At MEET
Of LEAGUE COUNCIL
Ambassadors Body in Paris
Is Asked to Find Some Ba-
sis for Settlement of Greek
Dispute

GENEVA, Sept. 6.-The League OF
Nations council avoided break with
. Italy late today.
After deciding at a private ses-
sion to reaffirm the councils COM
potency to adjudicate the Greco.
Italian dispute, the only action the
council took at a public meeting
later was to recommend that the
council of ambassadors at Paris
find a basis for settlement of Italy's
demand for reparations for the
death of their commissioners at
Janina.
The league council, despite pres
sure by majority of its members
and of delegates to the assembly
which had adjourned pending &C
ton by the smaller body, did not
enter into the question of whether
Italy's occupation of Corfu was a
violation of the celebrated Article
X.
Answering Mussolini's challenge
of incompetency, the council still
reserved for the league the right
to act in this matter, but took no
action
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08

OSAKA, Sept. 6.-By the Assoc
ciated Press.)-All money in the
from destruction in the fire which
followed the earthquake and tidal
wave if became known here TODAY
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Oldest Flag.

Our royal standard, in which some
changes will possibly be made as re-
suit of Ireland's new status, is not so
venerable as the Danish royal stand
ard-the oldest national flag in exist
ence. The white cross on red ground
of the Danebrog is additionally traced
to vision seen in the sky by Danish
king, Vlademar the Victorious, when
leading his army against the Esthoni-
ans near Reval in 1919. According to
one version of the legend, the blood
red flag fell from heaven into the
Danish ranks There is no doubt that
about the date of this battle it was
adopted as the Danish flag and that
1t had the religious associations which
belonged to most national standards
In medieval times.-Montreal Family
Herald