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Evening star., 1923-10-28
SEES DEFICIT met
BY GASOLINE TAX
Maryland Road Commissioner
Notes Increased Revenue at
Cent-a-Gallon Rate.

BALTIMORE, October 27.-The wip.
ing out Of the state road commissions .
maintenance and reconstruction deficit
Of $1,179.505 by the 1-cent-a gallon
gasoline tax is now nearly a cer-
tainty. according to John N. Mackall.
state road commissioner.
From the time the tax went into
effect, June. 1899. until September 1.
the receipts were $S4S.236.3s. figures
recently compiled and presented to
Gov. Ritchfe show.
The return on the tax for the re-
naming four months Of this year will
be about enough to cancel the re-
naming Of the deficit. Mr.. Mackall
predicted.
This means a reduction in the motor
vehicle registration tax, rs the q
cent gasoline tax goes into effect
January 1, Mr.. Mackall said. He has
submitted an estimate Of the amount
Of the reduction possible to Gov.
Richie.
In the fiscal year ending September r
80 the registration tax yielded 32,-
o.260. the report of the motor We
hiele commissioners office shows.
Evening star., 1923-10-28

Hoosier association that just & few
days ago, as children were getting
out Of q hack on state road No. IL,
near MAXWELL, "a car came along at
forty miles an hour and whizzed by
SO fast as the children were getting
screamed In terror, being sure one
or more children had been hit. And
we were not assured of their safety.
either, until the cloud of dust had
settled. by which time that motorist
was nearly mile up the road and
we couldn't get his number"
Invite Drastic Laws.
"If auto drivers are deliberately
inviting the most drastic and strin-
gent sort OF legislation and the most
hard boiled enforcement thereof, just
let them continue. these and similar
practices on the highways of Indiana -
is the adjuration Of the Hoosier asso-
citation.
1--WE do not mean to infer that q
majority of drivers are such thought
less and careless potential murderers.
but II is the small per cent that
is going to tighten the structures
around us all. The small minority,
by taking too mush rope, will hang
them. 1t behooves right-thinking g
auto owners to assist our associa-
tion in every way possible to curb
ruthless driving and to make our
highways safer. and this they can
do by affiliating in, our work"
The state law on passing a school
hack stopped for passengers, says:
SIT shall be unlawful for any person
driving any automobile. motor truck
or other motor vehicle upon the
public highway. on overtaking or
meeting any school hack engaged in
transporting school children to or
from school. to pass such school
hack while the same is being loaded
or unloaded with such school chill
dren." The fine is any sum not ex-
ceeding $25. The penalty for pas
sing q street car or interurban car
which is stopped to take on or dis
charge passengers is a fine in any
sum not exceeding 500.
Evening star., 1923-10-28
Pointers From the Expert.

II your car 10 to give you un-
broken service over . good long life
you will have to give It some service
in return. By this do not mean
every week and looked over, though
this Is not bad practice II you can
afford 1t, but do mean that 1t must
be kept clean, that It must be kept
oiled and that nuts and bolts holding
parts together must be kept tight.
This takes q little time now and
then, but the average gatageman
would far sooner that you did this at
home than drive the car until 1t 10
falling to pieces. then bring It to
the shop and expect it out within
q day in perfect condition.
Keeping the car clean is the only
way In which IT is possible to dis
cover things that need attention.
Evening star., 1923-10-28
SPEEDERS MENACE
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Hoosier Auto Association
Making Statewide
Drive.

II your own child was in the act
of getting out Of or into rural
school hack. would you drive your
car past that hack at high rate Of
speed?
II you wouldn't think OF doing
this dangerous and almost criminal
act when your own child might be
endangered, why do you do such things
when the children Of other parents are
imneriled thereby?
These pertinent queries are put
forth in a safety bulletin Just issued
by the Hoosier State Auto Associa-
ton, the Indiana afiliation OF the
National Motorists Association. which
Is working for safety and protection
on the highways throughout the
state.
Based ON mplaints.
These queries are based on many
complaints that have been coming
into our main ONCE In indianapolis
and TO the score or more Of branch
Offices throughout the state" the
motor organization says. parents,
who are almost terrorized by the ac-
tion Of many auto drivers. have been
reporting gross violations of the
state law covering the passing of
school hacks" 1t is stated. 1--WE
have been appealed to DO some
thing In an effort to spread a gen.
eraI knowledge Of the law and an
of the grave risks they are taking
in falling to stop when they see a
school hack loading or unloading
One agonized parent reported to the
Evening star., 1923-10-28
Actor, Bumped" "
Inue1,ts Signal
For Car Behind

Los ANGELES. October 27.--Thers
is a new fad among Los Angeles citi-
sens who drive automobiles.
The fad consists Of a sign promi-
nently displayed on. the rear OF the
car. reading: BEST temporary route"
with an arrow pointing to the left.
This is supposed to be interpreted
by the impatient autoist Immediately
behind the ca displaying the sign as
gentle hint that he should drive
around the car on the left In passing.
instead of humping into 1t from the
rear.
This fad unlike most fads. had its
origin in necessity.
The other day Warner Baxter.
screen star. was driving peaceably
slong a thoroughfare. A motorist i'm
nediately behind him. who was evil
'.ently in g.eat haste. bumped into
rar from the rear.
some hours later, on the same day.
when the actor was on his way home
rom ms work at Warner Brothers
studio. where he Is appearing In Err
aest Lu;ti sch's production, he was
jumped "a n in the same manner.
Insteai u. going home Baxter went
to the sign Inter and ordered sign
with the abo e inscription.
Evening star., 1923-10-28
Giving Someone q Lift.

Every day. all through the SUNNI er.
the eutomobile-owning commutor
goes his way to and from the big
city in his car. We see him tearing
along early in the morning; then
again after the days work. he makes
short work Of the miles between
suburban home and city office. There
are hundreds Of touring cars doing
these daily trips and the rear seat
Is always empty. while at the rail-
road station the less fortunate su-
burbanites walt for the stuffy
crowded train to take them in to
their work. There are old men to
whom a four or Ave mile ride in
the brisk morning air would be as
good as a doctors tonic and there
are tired clerks and stenographers in
hundreds who would hnd the trip
to work in the back seat Of your
touring car the very thing to tighten
the burden Of the day.
Evening star., 1923-10-28

installed, which, In conjunction with
four vertical generators. will under
normal conditions produce approxi-'
mately $4,000 horsepower.
Within q short distance Of the hy-
dro- electric plant. and on the river
bank, It also is planned to erect q
steam power house to supplement the
water power In case OF emergency.
The immense manufacturing and
imposing site on the bluf 100 feet
above the water level. 1t Will front
on the Mississippi River boulevard
and will be faced with stone on three
sides and so designed as TO present q
most attractive appearance.
Evening star., 1923-10-28

A fve-million- dollar electric power
station is soon to be built at the Will
bank coal fields in South Africa.
Evening star., 1923-10-28

The car that has thick coat Of
year-old mud may seem TO be run
ming well In spite of 1t. but day
OF reckoning is sure to come; 1t may
be in the shape OF long lay-up or
II may end in q smash.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Jim Conley Denies
Knowing Negro in
Phagan Confession

Jim Conley, negro chief witness
in the prosecution Of Leo Frank for
the murder of Mary Phagan at the
plant of the National Pencil COM
pany on Alabama street, ten. years
ago, was reticent TO discuss the
Phagen case Monday night, in con-
nection with the revelation of an
old confession that accused him of
the crime. COnley is now at the
South Bend convict camp in Fulton
county, serving a twenty-year sem
tence for burglary.
Il never knew a negro named
Freeman, and L wasn't playing
cards with anybody at the pencil
factory on the day that girl was
killed" - Conley said.
deputy Warden Clark declared
Conley has refused to discuss the
Phagan case with anybody since he
d rather stubborn prisoner, and it
has been necessary to put him in
solitary confinement several times,
the official declared.
Judge r. z. Dawson, of the Geor-
gia prison commission, who gave
out the details of the confession of
a negro federal prisoner, thought to
have been named Freeman, to the
effect that he and Conley were
playing cards" at the pencil fac
tory when the girl was slain, is not
certain that the negro referred to
cards, but might have said gam
bling"
The statement of the negro fed
eral prisoner was made to DR.. j.
Calvin Weaver, former physician at
the federal prison, who communi-
Gated it to Governor John M. Sla-
ton and Judge Dawson. None of
these remember all the details"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
'0A-1" Guarded by Soldiers
From Fort Mcpherson Is
Viewed by Throngs of
Curious
BY HUNTER BELL


WOODSTOCK, C,a., Oct. 2.-Tug-
ging lazily at it's improvised moor
ings in a patch of velvet beans
three miles north of here. theruna-
way United States army blimp, the
OA-1, continued to furnish a thrill
today for Cherokee and surrounding
counties, although detachment Of
soldiers from Fort Mcpherson, in
Atlanta, prevented the close, init
mate inspection of the big ship that
was made by approximately one
thousand curious persons Monday
afternoon.
After sailing sluggishly over
Woodstock, its huge form outlined
against the sky like a monster
silver capsule, the blimp settled to
earth in a pine scrub thicket on the
farm of D. J. McCurley about II
o'clock Monday morning. A group
who had been trailing the balloon
in automobiles assisted Mr. McCur-
ley in pulling the balloon out of the
thicket into the field, where it was
anchored by three ropes and by sew
eral brick-fiIedxsacks hooked to the
fuselage.
In the cockpit were an aViator's
cap and gloves. together with an
army belt, two parachutes, several
cross country maps and a mass of
mimeograph report blanks. Pen
cilled on the inside Of the cap.
which appeared to be one issued TO
an enlisted man, were the initials
"a. NJ" Otherwise, there was no
clue to the crew Of the ship, and
there was considerable speculation
concerning its home field and
whether any one nad fallen from
Reporters and photographers. ar
irving from Atlanta, however,
brought the Information that the
balloon was believed to be the one
that had escaped from a crew from
Chanute field, in Illinois, Sunday aft
ernoon, after its occupants had made
a forced landing.
The clock in the cockpit was still
running, despite the crash to earth.
Inflated to capacity, the halloon
would be approximately 100 feet
long, but a large hol, torn in the
gas bag had debated several rea-
compartments and the rudder was
hanging only by a loose bolt. The
gasoline tank just back of the me-
chanic's seat was half-flled. a flag,
taken from the ship, was flown
from the NTcCI11.IOU rOTch
Mr.. McCurley was forced to keep
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Gasoline at IA Cents
In Twin Cities; Price
Cut War Is Revived

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Oct. 3.-Another
shot in the gasoline price war that
delighted the northwest motorists
the past two months, was fired today
when the Standard Oil company I'm
diana announced further reduc.
ton OF two cents a gallon in Min.
neapolis and st. Paul. effective at
once.
The announcement OF the reduc.
ton, which places low test gasoline
at l4.9 cents and high test. at 17.9,
declared it was to inject certain com.
petition here" independent dealers,
as rule, when apprised of the
change, said they would meet the re.
duction
Today's reduction raises to sc
cents the total cut gasoline dealers
In the twin cities have made since
Governor w. II. McMaster,. of South
Dakota, started the price war bv nut.
ting the state in the gasoline selling
business after declaring regular deal
erS were getting excessive profits.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Iowa Physician Makes
Startling Offer to
Catarrh Sufferers
Found Treatment Which Heal
ed His Own Catarrh and
Now Offers to Send 1t
Free to Sufferers
Anywhere

Davenport, Iowa.-Dr. w O.
Coffee, Suite 7S4, st. James Hotel
Bldg. this city, one of the most
widely known physicians and sur
geons in the central west, an,
nounces that he found a treatment
which completely healed him o.
catarrh in the head and nose, deaf
ness and head noises after many
years of suffering. He then gave
the treatment to a number Of other
sufferers and they state that they
also were completely healed. TIE
doctor is so proud of his achieve
ment and so confident that his
treatment will bring other suffer
ers the same freedom it gave him.
that he is offering TO send a 10
days supply absolutely free to any
reader of this paper who writes
him. DR.. Coffee has specialized ~
eye, ear, nose and throat diseases
for more than thirty-five years, and
is honored and respected by count
less thousands. If you suffer from
nose, head or throat catarrh, ca
tarrhal deafness or head noises,
send him your name and address
Observation-Disclosures
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04

his wife had been first to go to bed.
He said he went to sleep quicker
than usual but was walked up about
1 O'Clock to find himself the victim
of a gunshot wound that injured
his hands and singed his hair, set
ting fire to the pillow under his
head.
The witness testified that he
found his wife partly in the bed on
the left side, with her feet on the
floor. He said that she made a
light and that when he got up he
found single-barreled shotgun mid
way in the floor. He declared that
this gun; which had been fired,
belonged to Edwards, and had been
left at his house some six weeks
before. 1t had been in his dairy
loft, he said. He declared Edwards
was the only person besides himself
who knew where the gun was.
Back Door Opened
The back door of the house was
open, although he said that he had
closed and locked it before retiring.
Solicitor Wood developed by eX-
animation that the empty shell
found in the gun was the same shell
: Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
FOUR YEAR CHASE BY TEXAN
RESULTS in ARREST OF LAST
OF GANG WHO FLEECED HIM
Avenger Follows Trail Into
Canada, Cuba, Mexico and
All Parts of u, S, Until
Six Are Taken

DALLAS, Tex, Oct. q. Frank
lin Norfleet, of Hale Center, Tex,
has at last got his man.
F'leeced out of $4,000 in Fort
Worth, Tex, in November, 1919, for
four years Norfleet has covered this
country and others, tracking down
and causing arrests and convictions
of seventy fiVe confidence men
Finally in Salt Lake City yesterday
he arrested the last fugitive Of the
gang which fleeced him,
Caught my man today in Salt
Lake City" was the brief message
to Charles Cunning, chief of police
here, with whom Norfleet has con.
ferred from time 10 time.
Norfleet has at times taken as
sumed names and Travelled in dis
guise when nearing neighborhoods
where he believ> sone of his quar-
ry were hiding He has been on
their trail far into Mex, IL many
parts of Canada, in every state in
the United G-ates save one, and in
Cuba.
OF the original six who were &C,
cused of staging he fake stock
game, by which he was fleeced, the
Hale county ranchman says that
two are no in the penitent.Iry.
one was acquitted, one committed
suicide, one died Of an illness, and
the sixth is now in prison awaiting
trial.
Norfleet has considerable land
holdings in Hale county. on the
south plains Of Texas. He has at
various times served as a deputy
sheriff in that that region.
Veteran detectives here declare
the south Texas ranchman has done
more to break up operations Of con-
fidence men in the United States
than any other man in the country.
CONFESSION BY LAST MAN
TO NORFLEET CLAIMED
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 2.
Identification here last night of M
P. Hunt, a Salt Lake City sales
man, as w. B. Spencer, of Texas
ended for j.. Frank Norfleet, Texas
ranchman, a. four-year search for
six men who fleeccd aim out of $45..
600 in Fort Worth, Texas. Hunt is
in Jail on three federal narcotic
charges, and the government re-
fuses to surrender him for trial in
Texas on Norfleet's charge until
after his trial here.
George Chase, superintendent of
the Identification bureau here, rec
ognized Hun, as one of the seXtette
who V!ctimized Norfleet after he had
seen a picture sent out by the Texas
rancher. He informed Norfleet and
the Texan arrived here yesterday.
Norfleet chad quite a chat with
Spencer" who readily admitted his
participation in tno Fleeing, accord
in5 to Chase.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Last Call on Our
Bargain Clubs

For many years have made liberal clubbing offers
with other publications Thousands of readers have
taken advantage of these offers We will have to raise
the price these offers October 49, if you desire
to take any of them or to renew them you must act
quickly.
Below is list of the clubbing combinations which we
can recommend as values which in all human probability
will never be equaed after October IS. We list those
which have proved satisfactory in delivery to our read
Some of the papers have dubbed with IN the
past have been slow in putting on and so I'M
satisfactory in service that can no longer recommend
them. Here is the cream of our list:
Tri-Weekly Journal, Southern RuraIst and Weekly
Commercial Appeal year each all three for $1OO
Tri-Weekly Journal and Southern CuItvator year
Tri-Weekly Journal and McCalPs Magazine, year
Tri-Weekly Journal and The Pathfinder, year
Tri-Weekly Journal and Pictorial Review, year
each .Sl.|o
Tri-Weekly Journal and Woman's Home Companion,
year each. ................ .........$ 175
Tri-Wee<ly Journal and Good Housekeeping, year
each ................ .......... .SSUo
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
The Weather

FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Louisiana: Generally fair, little
change in temperature.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy.
East Texas and West Texas: Part
Iy cloudy. probably scattered thun-
dershowers.
Virginia, North Carolina: Fair. not
much change in temperature.
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Generally fair; lit
tie change in temperature.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Fair; little
change in temperature.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
WOrM NezUS
Told In
Brief.

CALGARY.-The Prince OF Wales
departs for home from his Canadian
ranch.
NEW YORk.-Luis Angel Firpo.
heavyweight boxer, files application
for United States citizenship.
BosToN.-Boston Masons will
join knights of Columbus in observ-
ing Columbus Day, October u.
WESTINGHOUSE Former service
women are to be admitted to sol
diers' homes. the war department
announces.
SEATTLE -Four bandits hold up
main office of Western Union Tele-
graph company here and escape
with $4,000.
LONDON.-Premier Won knitting,
of Bavaria, resigns and will be sue
ceeded by Military Dictator Won
Kahr, according to Central News
dispatch.
WASHINGTON. = Senator Elect
Magnus Johnson, of Minnesota,
visits his offices in capitol and
makes arrangements for calling on
president.
ST. LOUIS.-Fred w. Patterson,
of Dayton, O., is elected president of
National Aeronautical association
following resignation of Howard COT
fin, Detroit.
MADRID directorate
has threatened to close all centers
from which unfavorable news af-
fecting quotations in bourse
emanates.
+ OKLAHOMA CITY.-Oklahomans
in special election by immense ma
jority give mandate to their legis-
lature to review official acts of Gov
ernor Walton.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Governor.
Pinchot. starts drastic campaign to
close doors of 1900 Philadelphia
saloons under paddock section OF
prohibition law
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz.-All of
the Colorado river surveyors emerge
unframed from Grand Canyon
where they have been isolated by
recent flood since September IA.
WASHINGTON Wright Butler,
third assistant secretary of state, is
chosen to welcome former Premier
Lloyd George on behalf of president
on arrival in this country Friday.
-Wurtemburg govern
ment enters into negotiations with
Bavaria for joint separatist action
against Berlin government, accord
ing to Exchange telegraph dispatch.
BERLIN. = stresemann cabinet
confers all night over crisis growing
out of communist demand for re-
peal of state of emergency, and it is
thought that it may be forced to
resign.
SIX SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Resi-
dents in suit filed at Indianapolis
declare that Ku Klux Khan is seek
ing to supplaf constitution of
United States with it's own super
government.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Re-
publican politics are in turmoil as
result of charges growing out of
meeting to consider McCray's finan-
cial troubles.
CHICAGO.-State Senator Thurlow
G. Essington, of Streator, is chosen
by representatives. of six potential
candidates for Republican guber-
Material nomination to oppose Gov
ernor Len Small for nomination.
WASHINGTON Agricl1ltlIre
showed continued improvement dur
ing September except in the wheat
belt, department of agriculture an
nounces in monthly agricultural re-
view.
BERLIN.-Commu issued by
ministry of defense says that reYo-
lutionary movement originated by
nationalist organizations at Kuestrin
has been put down md requested re-
Inducements will not be required.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Lee Curry Murder
Case Nearing Jury;
Insanity Is Defense

LYONS. Ga. Oct 3.-The fifth
trial of Lee Curry for murder was
expected to go to the jury this aft
ernoon.
Curry, three times sentenced to
be hanged is making an effort to
show that he was insane at the
time of the alleged murder Burleigh
Phillips. taXicab driver, who was
buried alive, the state charges, aft
er he had been knocked unconscious
by Curry in an argument over
whisky.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Young West Point Boy
Killed While Playing

WEST POINT. Ga, Oct. 3.-Little
Grover o. CrenAhaw, seven-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Crenshaw,
Of Lanett, is dead of injuries recciv-
ed while playing with a cart loaded
with sand and stones. The boy fell
under the wheels and the cart rolled
over his chest, infiicting -.tal in
I'm.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Asthma Treated Free

new trea tment which is said to bring
almost instant relief from the terrible suf-
fering Of asthma is being offered free this
month to any sufferer who writes for it
by the Congeen Labora tories. Suite 107 53S
s. Clark ST., Chicago. Ill: Just send them
your name and address and they will send
the free treatment by return mail prepaid
ADVERTISEMENT
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Goodyear Raincoat Free

Goodyear Mfg. Co.. 602S-R Goodyear
Bldg, Kansas City, Mo-, is making an
offer to send a handsome raincoat free
to one person in each locality who will
snow and recommend it TO friends. If
YOU want one, write today.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-04
Citizens OF Oklahoma OvertuheLn1
Governor Walton With Ballots


Woodyo fmts
I'll broid o ln