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SIX CENTS MINIMUM FOR
CONNECTICUT .TRoLLEYs

BRISTOL, Conn.,, April 2.-The
last OF the New England trolley
roads to operate on scent fare
has passed. Unwilling to continue
operations at loss, the Bristol and
Plainville Traction Company will
charge 6 cents for a ride after
April !, and by SO doing expects to
gain $4,000 year and be profit
able.
All through the war the trolley
system here was able to operate at
cents a ride, but lately found its
receipts slumping. An effort to run
one.man cars was fought by the
public, which is now willing to pay
an extra cent IL the company will
continue to use two operatives on
each car.
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ment. An effort to have an anti.
khan plank inserted in the platform
will be made by r., B. Creager, ma
tional committeeman from Texas,
but it is believed this effort Il
foredoomed TO failure.
Against Senate Dominance.
Some Of President CoOlidge's
principal advisers are counselling
him to take o Stand against per.
hitting the Cleveland convention to
be dominated by Senator's and Con.
gressmen, as the Chicago conven.
ton four years ago. They believe
the country is tired of Senatorial
domination" and they are urging
President Coolidge to lend his sup.
port to a move that will place some.
one outside Of Congress in the
powerful positions Of chairman OF
the convention and chairman Of
the platform committee.
This faction would like to see a
governor OF State or some one
disasSDciated with Washington GET
into She limelight at Cleveland, and
President Coolidge lis said "a. d
ay@pathatto With thls Etam.
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COOLIDGE NJ { N
SEE CERTAIN.
VICTORY
His Managers Already Have
Turned Attention to Other
Phases of Campaign.
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News SerVlce,

President Coolidge's friends and
campaign advisers regard it as
such a mortal cinch he will be
nominated on the First ballot at
Cleveland in June that they have
already begun concentrating upon
such side issues as the platform,
the convention organization and
similar details, i was learned
today.
800 Pledged To Him.
The President already has pledged
or instructed for him at Cleveland
in excess of 900 delegates, and his
managers declare that by the end
OF this month he will have q sui
ficient number of delegates "sewed
Up" to insure his choice on the
first ballot. Five hundred and fifty
five delegates constitute a majority.
Ralph e. Williams, vice chairman
Of the Republican national commit.
tee, and chairman Of the subcommit.
| tee that was appointed here in De-
cember to draft tentative plat.
form, has just returned to The Capt.
tai from q, trip through the country
in which he has sought and received
multitude Of platform ideas. He
has reported to President Coolidge.
It Is not improbable the Repubh.
can platform for 1924 will be the
shortest and most concise document
ever laid before q national conven-
ton.
President Coolidge's penchant for
terse expression and brevity in off
cial papers is well known. and many
Of his advisers agree with him that
this years platform should contain
as few words as possible.
Contrast Is Aim.
Many Republican lieutenants an
ticipate that the Democratic plat
form this year will be a lengthy
document, containing somewhat
extensive history Of "The Scandals
of 1924" and they figure striking
contrast would be good political
The prohibition question probably
will be ignored completely, 1t was
said today. Leading officers OF the
Anti-Saloon League, the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. and
similar organizations have Informed
williams they do not particularly
desire q dry plank in the party
platform this year. They take the
position that prohibition 10 now 9
constitutional matter and dead Is
sue, and to make II the subject o.
platform treatment tends to keeT
it before the public as An issue.
A majority Of the governing
factors Of the party - similarly
| opposed to any party declaration
on 1ha- xla sxluE 1llan, Il was sail
hy William. aktss chnvasslng seuti
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RICHEST INDIAN
WOMAN TRUE
TO.TR|BE
Mrs. Lesley Hawkins Report
cd as Worth Million, Faith
full to Old Ways.
MRS. LESSEY HAWKINS,
The richest Indian woman in the

The richest Indian woman in the
United States, a study Of Uncle
Sans records discloses, is Mrs. Les.
sey Hawkins, a full blood Creek, OF
Mcintosh county, Okla. Mrs. Haw'
kins is an heiress, receiving frCm her
parents when they died a tidy for
tune in addition to the competence
standing in her own name. She ID
the wife Of Kornor Hawkins. who
-is shown also in the accompanying
photograph, and the mother Of four
children.
Mrs. HAWKINS wealth is estimated
at approximately 100000. OF
which $500, 900 is invested in bonds
and other securities, the remainder
being in real estate and other
property. She and other members
of her family made their money
in OIL when the great Gushing
fields were developed.
The Creeks are proud OF Mrs
Hawkins, not for her wealth-many
Of the tribe are wealthy-but be-
cause she typifies their idea of what
an Indian wife and mother ought
TO be. She is a. true child of the
tribe, born and reared among the
Creeks, educated in the tribal
schools, knowing no other home
than their and having no interests
outside her home, her children and
the ties of lifelong association.
Her father, Cussehta Yahola, wal
a shoemaker, Industrious, honest
and thrifty. lie lived with his wife
and two daughters on land thai
lay above a sea Of oil. When the
oil was found. wealth in undreamet
measure came to the family.
Copyright, 1924, by william Pickett
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MANY HURT
IN JUMPS;
100000
Loss
Mystery Surrounds Origin OF
Worst Conftagration in His
tory of Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, April
AT least four persons are dead,
six are unaccounted for, and a
dozen more are in hospitals today
suffering burns and bruises as a
result Of fire which destroyed
the Livingston Hotel here late
last night. Firemen, exhausted
from their all night work, were
still laboring this morning to
quench the stubborn embers. The
dead are:
Dead and Injured.
The dead are:
Unidentified girl about twenty
years old, believed to be Miss Bes:
sic Marlowe, Of Reed City
Everett F. Sargent, broker, Of
Grand Rapids.
Unidentified man about forty.
Gyles Wade. seventy, interior
decorator
The seriously injured:
Miss Irene TOman, twenty one,
Reed City, Mich, bruises and burns.
Miss Elsie Gulumbo, twenty.four,
bruised and burned.
Mrs. Jennie Evans, sixty, fractured
hip.
Mrs. Paul Barney. twenty six,
Peoria, ILL.,, both arms fractured
and badly burned.
Paul Barney, Peoria, burns.
Checking-up on Guests.
1t is probable that the exact num-
Der OF dead will not be known until
late today when the hotel manage
ment completes checking-up on
those unaccounted for.
It is believed that several guests
persisted in the flames, although
some of those not accounted for
may have been taken to homes in
the city.
The exact extent of the damage
Ia not known, being estimated be-
tween 1925, 900 and $4,000
Several other guests suffered
lesser injuries. Dozens of others
scantlly clad were rescued by fire.
men. Miss Katherine Mix and C. S
Z McClish escaped from the burning
structure by sliding down a rope
Miss Georgia Winchester was
trapped on the fifth floor and
forced 20 cling to a window ledge
Tor SeVeral minutes until an extern
sion ladder could be raised to her
rescue.
Miss Bessie Marlowe. of Reed
City, chung to the lower part of a
steel balcony for several minutes
to escape the flames which were
licking out the fifth story window
She released her hold just as a
ladder was being raised to het
rescue and fell to the street below
She died shortly after.
The cause of the fire is yet un
determined.
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crew,-Frank Walker-held con.
verse with this writer today and ad-
mitted that in 1920 he voted for
Warren Gamaliel Harding. He said:
"You see. for many years drove
a locomotive out Of Marion, Ohio.
I knew Warren. He used to ride on
the train. He was q prince. Many
Is the good game OF cards / have
had with him in Marion. Say, he
looked like a President. He was a
great fellow. He was my friend.
Now the boys try to kid me about
voting for him. don't care: !
| liked Warren. You had to like him.
ANYWAY, times have changed. Now
/ 20 about working to defeat these
regular Republicans. You watch my
iword, we'll defeat Mccormick yet"
Mccormick Optimistic.
Meanwhile, Mccormick regards
the talk of defeating him as all
Ifnoonshine and also extremely un
lust in view of the fact that while
the radicals are attacking him fQl
having voted for the Each-C ummini
| law and for the ship subsidy pro
posal the members of the Chicago
Club ana most Of the rest OF the
rich and Grand OF Chicago are heav
lily attacking him for being in favor
OF the bonus and for rSfusing to b.
in favor Of the unamended Mellof
plan OF suftaxati0Il reduction.
The sober fact II that Mccormick
IL a fniddle.0Ethe ground man, agree
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NEW JERSEY METHODISTS
CONSIDER NEW DANCE BAN

NEWARK, N. j., April 2.-Oppo-
sition to the teaching of dancing in
public schools was considered by the
Newark annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at a
session AT st. Luke's Church.
A motion asking the conference
to record its opposition was sub.
mitted by the Rev. Mr.. Tin1brell. OF
Waldwick, and after discussion re.
ferred to committee. The motion
asks opposition to the teaching OF
dancing in the schools because Of
sex features"
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Killed In Ambush.
ASHEVILLE MEETING PLACE
FOR SOUTHERN PUBLISHERS

ASHEVILLE, N. c., April a.
The 1924 convention Of the South
ern Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton will be held here June 30 and
July and 2, according to an an.
nouncement received here from
Arthur @. Newmeyer Of New
Orleans, president Of the organiza-
ton.
The 1929 convention was held at
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
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CHIEF
SHOT BY
POLICE
Taxi Driver Who Sought Re.
venge for Comrades Death
Is Himself Killed.

CICERO, ILL.,, April 2.-One man
was shot and killed and another
was sIugged in fresh outbreak Of
violence here today following tl1e
election riots Of yesterday.
Philip Smith, taxi cab driver off
duty and driving his own machine
was slain when, according to police,
he accompanied three taxi loads OF
gunner who came here to avenge
the shooting of another driver.
Smith is the second man killed
in the election violence. Police late
yesterday shot and killed Frank
Caponi, member Of the notorious
Torrio gang.
Three Men Arrested.
Morris Friedman, twenty one, said
to have been driving one OF the
three cabs was slugged in the melee.
In which Smith was killed.
ThEee men were held after the
outbreak David Sage, Lloyd So
wash and Francis Murray, the lat.
ter a taxi driver and the other two
inspectors for the taxi company.
ALI three arrived after the shoot
ing. police said, but were believed
to be able to throw some light on It.
County Judge Jarecki has ordered
an investigation into circumstances
resulting in the two killings.
Killed In Ambush.
County and Federal grand turies
will be asked to look into the shoot.
ings, sluggings and intimidations OF
citizens in connection with the vii
lage elections here yesterday, out
breaks said to have resulted from
fractional trouble in the village poll
teal organization.
Eddie Tanel, owner Of the Hav.
thorne Inn, in front Of which to-
days shooting took place, told policA
that the killing followed an argu-
ment betwee cab driver and his
fare.
Friedman, however. said Smith
and the taxi fleet were ambushed in
front Of the inn.
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ing with the so.called conservatives
in some things and agreeing with the
so.called prOgressives In others, and
~ tta.;nu Nv r,;;,els as
to the Eastward spread OF the La
Toilette dominion.
The Jenkins attack 10 conferred
.,pon Mccormick and gives little at
tention to Deneen, although Deneen's
record is more conservative than
that Of Mccormick. The fight in
the Jenkins view Is against Nc
Cormick.
Attorney ,tcseneral Ekern or Wis.
consin, whdfih La Follette's political
chief Of staff, is coming into Illinois
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this week for three or more days Of
speaking against Mccormick. Mag
nus Johnson, of Minnesota, will
speak against him here in Illinois
next Friday and Saturday. Gov
ernor Blaine of Wisconsin, a La Fol-
lette governor, has already spoken
against him here. So has Philip La
Toilette, Senator La iFollette's son.
Backed by Labor Chiefs.
This effort in Illinois from Wiscon-
Sin and the Northwest is backed
locally by John Walker, head of the
Illinois Federation of Labor, and by
Frank Harrington, chief leader in
illinois of the United Mine Workers.
1t Ia also backed by the insurgert
element In the Farm Bureau Fedora
ton and in the Farmers Livestock
Association, for both Of which or
CARNATIONS Jenkins is attorney.
In other words, the Jenkins can.
didacy is the regular typical
"F'armer.Lahor" Northwestern bloc
combination seething UP in the Re.
publican party of Illinois and en-.
deavoring to repeat in a central
State the successes which the
Northwest has given 1t,
Copyright, Washington Press Service.)
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THE WEATHER

Fair tonight; lowest temperature about
70 degrees. Thursday fair and warmer !:
diminishing northwest winds.
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ARE
IN DEMAND
BY US.
Civil Service Appeals To
Institutions of Learning
Which Offer This Course

Universities and colleges having
engineering schools are being APP
pealed to by the Civil Service Com
mission in an effort to recruit the
corps Of junior engineers, many Of
whom are required to fill vacancies
in Government departments.
Examinations for positions in this
branch Of the service will be held
May Z. At present the Department
OF Agriculture Is planning to add
twenty or more junior engineers to
the force employed by the bureau
Of public roads. The appointments
will be made July /. The initial
pay is $1,S60 a year, with prospects
Tor promotion to a pay base Of
~ 400 a year. Other vacancies
will have to be filled in the various
departmnets.
Admitted to Tests.
In connection with the application
made to engineering schools, the
commission points out that senior
students are admitted to the ex
aminations, but cannot be appointed
until graduated.
III ConneCLlOn Win the appoint
ments there. is q provision, however
for the substitution Of practical en-
perience, for not exceeding two
years Of the required four years col
lege course
Where Vacancies Are.
Among the engineering divisions
where vacancies exist, or will short
ly develop, are the aeronautical
ceramic, chemical, civil, electrical
electro.chemical, fisheries, materials
industrial, irrigation and drainage
mechanical, mining, petroleum, radio
and structional units.
1t y pointed out by the comxnis
sion that advancement to the high
er-salaried positions usually depends
on promotion from the lower posi-
tons
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12

SPARTANBURG. Salvation
Army national staff band gives four
concerts IN this city in one day,
Governor Mcleod being among
guests at evening program. Band
plays Dixie" at depot, az governor
alights from train.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Pow.
err company makes additional pur.
chase OF land, buying 81 acres near
Duncan, where it proposes erection
Of power plant.
URG.-F'raulein Katch-
en- Riemann, Of the Rhineland, Ger
to her soldier sweetheart, Earl Lee,
of the local army recruiting post.
SPARTANBURG. Committee
headed by Rev. II. w. DuBose calls
on DR.. j. S. Watkins, pastor emeri-
tus of the First Presbyterian church,
on eightieth birthday and presents
him with flowers and a purse con-
tanning $50 in gold, one dollar for
each year, gift from people of town.
DR.. Watkins is in rolling chair,
as a result Of fall several months
ago, when limb was broken,
GAFFNEY.- or contin
uation of Cherokee county highway
commission will be one Of important
matters before county delegation
during session legislature.
MANNING. - C. r. Harvin, rs
dies at home Of daughter, Mrs. Dan
Hydrick. in Spartanburg, and is sur
ViVed by several sons and daughters
all prominent South Carolinians.
NEWBERRY. Enrolment al
| Newberry college, since beginning
of 1924 session, is $40, according tC
announcement made by President S
J. Derrick.
ROCK HILL.-Winthrop college
celebrates Founders day, January
TO- with exercises featured by adj
dresses by Hon. j. f. Mcdonald, OF
Winnsboro, S. c.. and DR.. A. E. Win
ship, of Boston.
SUMTER Federal Officer w. G
Quite, Deputy Sheriff Fl. G. McI&ag
en- and Police Chief David Jenkin
son, of Pinewood, locate large still
in Santee swamp near Pinewood anG
460 gallons of mash and ten gallons
of corn whisky, arresting two
negroes.
COLUMBIA.-E. S. Price, electri
clan for Southern railway, kills him
self with pistol, financial troubles
and drink said by Coroner Scott tC
be at bottom Of trouble.
COLUMBIA Right of mem
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Der OF the cooperative cotton mar
keting association to change his bal
lot, after he has mailed it in but
before it has been counted, in cleo.
ton of director, will be determined
be argued January Is. w. c.. Davis,
of Manning, contests election of
l.. D, Jennings, of Sumter.
AlKEN.-Mayor Julian Smith, of
Augusta, is elected chairman of or
ganiZationfrom Aiken county, S. c.,
and Richmond county, Ga, to plan
celebration, with all organizations
of two counties cooperating, for
opening of new Sand Bar Ferry
bridge, now nearing completion.
which forms connection between
counties.
CHARLESTON Announcement is
made here that Gulf Refining com
pany will locate here a large indus
| try, exact nature of which has not
been disclosed, but which will have
facilities for loading and unloading
ocean steamers.
CLINTON.-Kappa Alpha frater-
nifty will install chapter at Presby-
! terrain college of South Carolina,
here, according to announceemnt
from e. P. Hodges, of Columbia,
chief alumnus of fraternity for
South Carolina.
LEXINGTON.-Sh E. A. Roof
and Deputy Sheriff H. c. Oswald
chase rum-runner in auto twenty
miles. finally capturing him, man
giving name of r. E. Wallace, of
Columbia. When chase started there
were two men in whisky car but
one jumped out while car was go.
| ing at full speed. The car contained
SIS gallons of Georgia moonshine,
which was seized, while driver was
released on $500 cash bond.
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No Arrests Yet Made
For Death Of Man
Shot Through Window

BARLEY, Ca, Jan. 10.-No arrests
have yet been made in connection
with the killing of Andrew Byrd at
the home of Ream Dixon early Tues
day morning. Young Byrd, who Vi s
in Georgia for the first the in many
years, was sitting in the lap OF a
companion named Smith when he
was shot through the window. a
coroner's jury impaneled by Justice
of the Peace Milton Arnold held that
he came to his death at the hands
Of unknown parties. A rifle ball
killed him.
Shel I 60. Quoting an in
vestication. The theory advanced
is that Byrd ----.4self had killed one
or mo4~ ----.l ard t44e,- sons u..c shot
him out of a spirit Of vengeance
The shooting occurred 20 miles from
here
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12
Tennessean Kills
Brother at Quarry

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. TO-
Pointing a shotgun at his brother.
William Breeder, So, shot and
killed jim Breeder, at Asbury, sew
en- miles east of here, Thursday.
The shooting occurred while Jim
Breeder was working on a section
gang building a switch into a mar
BILE quarry.
William Breeder was brought here
and lodged in Jail charged with
murder. 1t is said that before shoot
ing his brother, William notified
the victims wife of his intention to
kill. Mrs. Jim Breeder is said 10
have tried to reach her husband to
warn him, but was too late.
Disag reement between the broth
ers over labor union matters is
said to have caused the shooting.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12
GIRLS! LOTS Of
BEAUTIFUL HAIR
35-Cent "Danderine" Does
Wonders for LifeIeSs,
Neglected Hair

a g ! e d m Y
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me toning up
0 t neglected
scalps with de-
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Falling hair.
itching scalp
and the dan
druff is cor
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rected Immediately. Thin, dry. wispy
or fading hair is quickly invigorated.
taking on new strength, color and
youthful beauty. "Danderine" is de.
lightful on the hair; a refreshing.
stimulating tonic-not sticky or
greasy. Any drug store.
advertisement. }
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12
CHILDREN CRY FOR "CASTOR|A"
Harmless Substitute for Castor OIL Paregorc, Drops
and Soothing Syrups - No Narcotics!

Mother! Fletcher's Castoria has
been in use. for over so years to re.
3eve babies and children OF Constipa
Eon, Flatulency, Wind Collie ant
piarrhea; allaying Feverishness arts
hg therefrom, and, by regulating tn,
stomach and Bowels aids the assin
E'ation OF Food; giving natural sleep
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12
Four Pedigreed Grape Vines

Selected yearod Concord vines from the famous South
Michigan grape belt where variety has been
perfected for the last half century and where the vines
been bred to yield Of bushel OF the
table vne The Concord Is hardy and
will thrive locations where other varieties cannot be
grown. The vines will send you selected mailing
stock with plenty Of start off with vigorous
growth They fruit the third and reach full size In
five after which, with proper care you depend upon
bushel of choicest from vne and
make cuttings which will give vineyard OF any size
desire.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-12

Healthy vigorous "baby trees" that rapidly
large. heavycroppng trees. They produced by
grating branch from fruit tree to healthy one-year
root tying the union with waxed twine Though
length they take root shortly after being
planted and wonderfully rapid growth when given the
they We will send: Two Genuine Delicious
Apple and the best Two Jonathans
apples be and of delightful
flavor Two Weathys-popular and profitable; splendid
keeper.
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9 \
tered on January s, thermometer
ranging down to 10 degrees in Pied
mont section.
GAFFNEY.-Webb Lewis. return
ing at night from fox hunt, sees two
thieves in John J. Moore's store and
notifies sheriff. Before officers ar.
rive thieves leave after running Mr.
Lewis away with q gun
CLEMSON COLLEGE.-John "
Cocker, OF Rock Hill. IS appon ted
s,ructor OF English, succeeding p
lessor L. A. Sease, who dided fl
before Christmas.
DRAM EBJ Blame fa.
wreck OF last week which cause.i
death Of Engineer \. I. Brown, En-
2!neer 1. X. Dantzler. Conductor c.
H. Wright, Conductor c. }. Young.
and Fireman Oliver Hopkins, Is
placed by coroner's jury on disre
gard OF passing orders.
ORANGEBURG Preston Kenne.
dy negro fireman al the Hamilton
Veneer company pant here. : shot
and instantly killed. end Henry
Louis, negro night Waterman for
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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS

engineer. and J. P. White, brakeman,
members of crew Of Seaboard work
train, which crashed into string Of
freight cars left standing on main
line in Charlotte yards, are held re-
sponsible by coroner's jury for
wreck in which six negro laborers
were killed and ten men, including
two white men, were more or less
seriously injured.