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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Miss Deryl Manning, of Alpharet-
ia, Ga, is the guest of Miss Evelyn
Black.
Miss Margaret Mcneil returned
Tuesday from a series of delightful
visits in Arkansas, Mississippi and
Texas.
Mrs. T. B. Day and daughter, and
Mr., Will Shugart, of Lakeland, Fla,
were the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. |
E. Butler for the weekend.
Mrs. Johnnie Walker was the
guest of Mrs. Joe Lindley in Atlanta
this week
Mrs. Harry Nottingham and chill |
dren, of Macon, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. r. E. Butler.
Mr. Parks Hunt, of Atlanta, and
Mr.. Sidney Briggs, of Richmond,
Va, were the guests of Mr.. Thomas
Nolan for the weekend.
Mrs. A. d. Grant left Monday for |
visit to relatives in New York and |
Rhode Island.
Miss Estelle Rice, of Atlanta, was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Morris
Maddox this week.
Miss Dorothy Stanley has returned |
to her home in Rock Hill, N. c., af-
ter visit to relatives here.
Mrs. r. K. Hasty, of Philadelphia,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and |
Mrs. r. E. Butler.
Misses Allene Gam and Lorena
Conyers will return the latter part of |
the week from a visit of two weeks
to Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Conyers in
Eau Gallie, Fla.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31
Personals

Misses Emma and Eliza Hedges
returned this week from a delight
full trip to Montreal n C.
Mrs. Grady Gray and little daugh-
ter, Marjorie, of Jacksonville, Fla.
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w
D. Crumbley for the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. England and
children Claude, Sherman, and Ju,
dell, of Triton, are the guests of Rev,
and Mrs. S. R. England.
Miss Katherin Boiler has returned
to her home in Gainesville after 6
visit to Miss Mary Crumbley.
Miss Antoinette Motley, of Toe
Goa, Ga, is the guest of of Mrs. S
r. England.
Miss Allene Fields has returned
from Asheville, N. c., where she at
tended summer school.
Misses Rachel and Frances Sim
mons and Lois Smith, of Columbus,
Ga, were the guests of Miss Helen
Griffin for the weekend.
Miss Caroline Deas returned Mon
day from Asheville, N. c. where she
attended summer school. Miss Laurie
Ford, who has also been in Asheviile
went to Washington, D. c., for two
weeks visit before coming home.
Mrs. A. Armstrong is entertaining
at her home on Whitlock Ave. this
afternoon Thursday in compliment
to Mrs. Graham Sullivan.
Miss Alvia Coleman, of Canton,
will be the guest of Mrs. J. R. Brum-
by for the weekend.
-o-
Mr.. and Mrs. Donnegin Towers
and family are expected the latter
part of the week for a visit to Misses
Mary and Tallulah Towers.
Mr.. and Mrs. David j. Maddox
and Mr.. Admission Maddox are visit
ing Mrs. Adams in Elberton this
week.
Miss Margaret Black accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Swalley to Dun.
edin, Fla, where she will spend sew.
eral months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snipes and Mrs. Geo
Peacock, of Atlanta, were the guest!
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Roberts OF
Sunday.
Messrs. T. A. Gober, Albert Bishop
Willie Dobbs. Robert Nell, Charles
Handy and Pat Bishop have returned
from a weeks camp at Willeo.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Mrs. James Watson returned to
her home in Lima, Ohio after Wis
it to her mother, Mrs. Leila D. An
derson.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Mrs. Chan Jones and three chill
dren of Albany, Ga, arrived Tues
day for visit to Misses Mary and
Tallulah Towers.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Misses Annie Louise Comfort anC
Katherine Fleming are spending thi.
week with Mrs. Roger Starr in At
lanta.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Misses Marjorie Runyan and he
guest, Miss Marguerite Battey, O.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, spent the weekend
at Camp Highland.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

DR.. and Mrs. Burwell Atkinson, of
Waverly, Ga, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Lovejoy at Spring
Hill.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Florence left
Sunday to spend a month at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
EXERCISES ARE HELD
AT MEMORIAL CROSS
Tribute Is Paid to Prince Georges
Hero Dead in BIadens-
burg Exercises.
smcial Diapatch to The Star.

Special Distpatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. May 31.-Ex-
ercfses at the memorial cross at
Bladensburg being erected in honor
of the fifty-four men of Prince
Georges County who gave up their
lives An the world war, preceded by a
parade and decoration of graves of
war heroes were the high spots In
the annual Memorial day observance
held yesterday morning under the
auspices of Snyder-F Farmer Post, No. ,,
American Legion, of Hyattsville and its
ladies' auxiliary.
Ihe principal feature of the exer-
cfSeS at the cross was an address by
representative Henry r. Rathbone
of Illinois. The program also in
cIuded: Invocation. Rev. Louis p
chastain, chaplain, Snyder Farmer
Post, and pastor of Memorial MethO-
dist Episcopal Church, Hyattsville:
introduction, Waldo Burnside, former
commander of Snyder-Farmer Post
and chairman of the Memorial day
observance committee: address, Mrs.
Percival X. Parlett, president of the
Ladies Auxiliary, Snyder-Farmer
Post; recitation of Lincoln's Gettys-
burgh address. Miss Margaret Wolf.
Hyattsville High School student;
benediction by the Rev. Mr.. Chastain
Evening star., 1924-05-31
LATE JOHN MITCHELL
EXTOLLED BY MINERS
Memorial Addresses Point to Ac.
complishments in Unioniz-
ing Coal Fields.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SCRANTON. Pa. May 31.-John
Mitchell, the dead hero Of coal mine
workers, and his accomplishments In
the unionizing Of the Pennsylvania
anthracite fields were eulogized here
yesterday by living representatives Of
the craft. John l.. Lewis. president
of the United Mine Workers, dedi-
Gated the monument which has been
erected to Mitchell in Scranton, the
heart of the coal area, where his
principal exploits in winning the
anthracite strike of 1903 centered.
"It was a formidable combine Of
brains and capital that John Mitchell
planned to tackle" said Mr.. Lewis. in
describing the work of his predeces-
Evening star., 1924-05-31

region. He was a philosopher,
unwilling to accept the common
viewpoint OF complaint without re-
sistance to recognized wrongs. His
analytical ability was always alert;
his methods of deduction were his
own; he cared naught for accepted
generalities. He always planned. and
he progressed firmlyS'
The union he helped to build, Mr..
Lewis said, has many times since
demonstrated its fitness and in
tegrity upon the industrial battle
feld," and it's existence bespoke the
work OF a devoted life"
Evening star., 1924-05-31

and community singing OF patriotic
airs, directed by Town Councilman
William Moore.
In the parade, which formed at the
armory, was the band from the Ma
tional Training School for Boys, Com
pany +, Hyattsville unit of the Mary
land National Guard; members Of
Snyder-Farmer Post and it's ladies'
auxiliary, school children, Boy and
Girl Scouts, fire departments Of the
vicinity and other organizations.
Flowers were laid on the graves
of the war heroes in nearby ceme-
teries by members of Snyder-F'armer
Post early yesterday morning, the
rounds being made by automobile.
There isn't much humor in de-
tective agency that mentions bobbed
hair as a mark Of Identification.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

sor in the union leadership. Firm
in his resolve to batter down the sys-
tenn that permitted the employer to
be sole arbiter of the religious,
economic and political life of his en-
ployes he sent his organizers
into the anthracite fields.
Sincere and Alert.
"MitchelPs sincerity illumined the
charm of personality heretofore
unequaled in the American labor
movement. His priestly appearance
and rare poise endeared him to the
entire population of the anthracite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
 Alabama Knitting Mills Suffer A0,000 Loss From Tornado GEORGIA SCHOOL
 IS DEMOLISHED One Death And Several Injuries Reported In
 Tennessee THREE KILLED IN MISSISSIPPI
Over Seven Inches Of Rainfall In AS Hours At Clarks-
 vile, Tenn.

SYLACAUGA, Ala, Dec. 8. - (Special.) Damage esti- mated at over $40,000 resulted at 8 o'clock last night when the Danville Knitting mills at Bon Air, Ala, were struck by a tornado. Bon Air, a village centering around the knitting mills, is eight miles from Syl- acauga, where news of the de- struction was not received until today.
 Four brick warehouses, the office, mercantile store and the machine shop of the knitting mills, were demolished. A schoolhouse was also blown down. Had the tornado struck any other time than Sunday night hundreds of persons might have been killed or injured. The tornado only hit marrow section and little. damage was done tolresidences.
 The knitting mills proper were not badly damaged but were put out of commission. Operations will not be re stunned for several days according to R. o. Roberts, manager of the concern which is operated by the Danville Knit ting mills of Danville. Va. &
 Heavy rains accompanied the wind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
AMEND DMENTS URGED BY WEEKS ARE INTRODUCED Adoption Will Assure Government Contract
 For Operation FARM FEDERATION
 APPROVES BILL Bureau Virtually Ind0rses Underwood Measure At
 Chicago Meet
(Washington Bure6u)

WASHINGTON Dee. B. Liberalization" of the Under wood bill as effected by the introduction of amendments to meet the objections of the secretary of war, means, in the opinion of the secretary, that it will be quite possible for the government to enter into a private contract for the operation of all Muscle Shoals plants.
 Secretary Weeks frankly informed Senator Underwood in conference this morning that he was most anxious that the government be relieved of the necessity of carrying out the terms of the bill, and Senator Underwood declared to the secretary that those views were his views.
 Might Make Fertilizer
 To which of several possible compa- nies, as lessee, the secretary indirectly referred is not known, but there is discussion today to the effect that the Alabama Power company is so anxious to acquire control of Muscle Shoals, that it might bind itself to make fer tilizer for 50 years if assured of the right to distribute surplus water pow CT. Thomas W. Martin, president of that company, is still in Washington.
 Senator w. J. Harris of Georgia strongly opposed to the, control of Muscle Shoals by the Alabama Pow CT company, introduced amendments to the Underwood bill today providing that surplus power when distributed might be retailed at rates cheaper than those charged in the southeastern territory at present, and that the secre- tary shall be denied the right to enter into a contract for distribution of pow CT with the Alabama Power company or it's associates.
 It is pointed out that Senator Harris stands for the distribution of surplus power but against every existing agency for such distribution.
 Rejection Likely
 Senator Underwood declined to dis cuss, the Harris amendments. The amendments proposed by the Secretary of War extend from July to Septem- Der, the period in which the govern ment might make contract with private parties, and from four to six years the period in which the maximum output of nitrogen must be produced. They were not regarded as highly ob- jectionable by Senator Underwood, es- pecially in view of the fact that their incorporation removes all doubt that the bill will pass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
AMERICA ARMS FOR A NEW WAR,
 SAYS GOV. SWEET
Attacks Defense Day Be- fore Federal Council
 Of Churches
Ueased Wire To The Age.Herald)

ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. S.-"Recent events strongly indicate that America is preparing for the next war, and that the smoke screen of preparedness is being used to lul the people into acquiescence in the most extensive military program the country has ever adopted"
 Gov. William F. Sweet of Colorado made this declaration Monday night in an address to the Federal Council of Churches in quadrennial session in At lanta.
 Governor Sweet attacked Defense Day" which he declared was designed to fix the nations attention on war. He praised the principles of Woodrow Wilson and declared the responsibility for continuing the crusade for a war less world" rests upon the churches.
 Churches Indignant
 "The churches" the speaker declared, "are rightfully indignant at the atti- tude of congress concerning America S relation to international peace.
 "The world court resolution intro duced in the United States senate was promptly pigeon-holed, and President Coolidge did not think the matter of sufficient importance to press it upon the attention of congress. Senator Borah's resolution in the outlawry of war still reposes in the hands of acom- mittee.
 F'Now what have the peace-lOv-
 ing people of America secured since
 the war? They have been handed
 mobilization day. Later it was
 re-christened Defense Day. But
 whatever the term used, the pur-
 pose of the day is the same, name-
 Iy, to fix the attention of the na-
 tion on war and 50 to inventory
 our resources as to show how ut
 terly unprepared for conflict
 America really is.
 The churches objected to the plan vigorously and courageously opposed it. For doing SO they have been called un- patriotic and pacificsic. Many indi- viduals, myself among the number, be- cause I refused to mobilize the Colorado National guard, were sharply criticized by the press.
 Christian people must be convinced that the settlement of international dis putes by force is inherently wrong, that it is sinful, that 1t Is unchristian.
 Lauds Wilson
 "The movement to outlaw war is comparable to the abolition of slavery and to the prohibition of the liquor traffic in it's appeal to the Christian conscience. Christianity is opposed to compromising wrong, therefore the churches should unitedly advocate the outawry of war as being the only method by which war can be abolished. "
 Governor Sweet said it was a mat
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
EASTMAN GIFTS
 INCLUDE $1,OOO,OOO
 FOR TUSKEGEE
$12,500,00O Presented To Educational Institutions
 By Kodak King
(By Associated Press.)

ROCHESTER,, N. Y., Dec. S.-Bring- ing his total known benefactions 10 $5S,6O2 900, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak company, today an nounced new gifts of $12,500,000 to in- stitutions of higher education, after re- gently announcing a gift of $2,500,OOO in the greater University of Rochester campaign. Those to benefit under the latest gifts of MT. Eastman are:
 Massachusetts Institute of Technic- ology $4,500,000. which is added to, previous gift of $11, 100000; University of Rochester $6,OO0,000; Hampton in stitute $1,0OO,OO0, and Tuskegee insti- tute $1,000,000.
 Of. Mir. Eastman's total $5S, ,602, 300, the sum of $23.57S500 has been given to the University of Rochester.
 Despite the fact that today's gifts mark the disposal of the last large block of his personal stock holdings in the Eastman Kodak company. MT. Eastman makes it clear that he will continue to direct the affairs of the company and hopes to do so as long as he lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
SUNDAY UPHOLDS
 DRY LAW IN TALK AT AUDITORIUM
5000 Persons Pleased With Typical Billy
 Sunday Lecture

Without manuscript, without text, but with the assurance that he carried a definite message to his audience, Billy Sunday, world-known evangelist. preached his first sermon in Birming- ham and in the state of Alabama at the new municipal auditorium Monday night to nearly 5000 persons.
 Sunday made no attempt to carry out any one line of thought, but discoursed on the Bible, lip sticks, prohibition, bebbed hair, baseball, education and insanity. Tells Life's Incidents
 During the entire sermon, MT. Sun day carried theme of autobiography and in the latter part of the lecture, his illustrations were taken from incl dents in his own life, starting at the time he was converted in Chicago mission 36 years ago. And the slang phrases and forceful speech, for which he is noted, seemed to meet with approval
 Those wno expected to see MT. Sun day chamber on to the pulpit may have been disappointed, but his "footwork'' carried him into the fo0tlights and from one side of the stage to the other. He also showed the audience how he used to slide headfirst into second base during his career in the National league and he illustrated the difference in wind-ups between pitchers in the day of Gap" Mason and the present time.
 Fashioned Preacher
 "I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion" Mir. Sunday said at the beginning of his sermon, after declaring that the Boys Industrial School band, which furnished music for the meeting, was the best he ever heard. A short time later he declared:
 America is the corncrib of the world. It's mission is to save the rest of the world from war. And all that God asks of us is to. make the world better" he continued. In discussing insanity, Mir. Sunday asserted that if the increase of insanity keeps pace with the increase in population, every man, woman and child in the world will be crazy in 210 years.
 Life's Purpose
 The real Purpose of life was illus trated by a story of two Wall street brokers on the morning after Col. John Jacob Astor died, leaving a fortune of over $20O,OO0,000.
 ''HOw much did he leaveF one NDrok- CT asked the other.
 "He left it all," the other answered.
 Tt isn't a question now of right or wrong" the evangelist said as regards prohibition. Tt is now a question of respect or disrespect of the law. l will never live to see the day when wine and beer returns, but I'm going to live long enough to see America so dry, you'll have to prime a man every time he spits."
 Need Airplane
 Two characteristic Sunday sayings were uttered in referring to so-called high life. One was when Mir. Sunday referred to society women dressed so as to make the milky way look like, a secondhand store" In the other he asserted some "were so low down they need an airplane to reach he'll"
 The Mother Hubbard" dress was ridicuIed and Mir. Sunday advised girls
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Stfanggling Of Waterways
 By Railroads Is Result
 Of Years Subtle Effort
Will Irwin Points Out How Economic Law Is De- feated And Cites Tennessee River As Exam pie Of Methods Used To Put River Boats Out Of Business Panama Canal Next Victim

trucked to the wharf from the river towns. To prosper, your river steam CTS must be fed from the interior regions by railroads or canals. The primitive method, before any kind of state or natiinal supervision in- tervened, (was the embargo-as quietly as possible to refuse to haul freight for steamboat transmission. When the growth of the regulation idea made that impossible or impracticable, there were other tricks.
 Some of them are going yet. At Sims of Tennessee gave two instances.
 T have seen water transportation on the Tennessee river wiped out" he tes- tified, "by the railroads putting boats on it and putting a rate on those boats under which no other boat line could live"
 Roads Buy Up Cargoes
 Then MT. Sims described an exper- rience of his own with another device of the railroads. Shippers on the Ten nessee rfver-lumbermen, produce mer- chants and the ike-decided to start an independent line in competition with these railroad steamers; and Mir. Sims 
 boats had long ago served their pur- pose; and competition being removed, were charging what the shippers re- garded as ruinous rate. Whereupon the railroads sent buyers of produce such as lumber, peanuts and cotton up and down the river; purchased virtually the years supply. This, they sent to market by their own steamers or by rail. The independents were starved out. Six months later, director of the line said sadly to MT. Sims, We shall have to sell our stock for what we can get.'' It realized finally fifty cents on the dollar.
 "The railroads-oh they are smart !" remarked Mir. Sims pensively to the senate committee, they have some of the smartest men on earth in their em. ploy."
 These, however, are only minor tac-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
JURY IS SELECTED
 FOR WALKER CASE
Great Array Of Legal Talent
 Here For Trial

Striking of names from the jury list by attorneys in the case against four officials of the Walker Consolidated Petroleum company in federal court re. tarded the progress of the case and resulted in the examination of only one witness late Monday afternoon.
 The jury chosen consists of Thomas J. Hankins, o. P. Spencer, W. J. Fay Tor, Willie Frederick, G. H. Vaughn, l.. A. Mcdonald, W. B.. Franklin, Franklin Miles, Henry Karge, Charley Miller, John C. Henly, Jr., and J. B. McCarty.
 One of the greatest arrays of legal talent possibly that has ever been gath cred in Birmingham for any case, Bor- den Burr, Erie Pettus, o. D. Street, l.. B. Rainey and Cullen F. Thomas spent Monday afternoon examining T. H. Aldridge, Jr. Although the case suf- fered late start Monday, it is expected to reach a higher momentum Tuesday in the examining of witnesses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Dr. Edwards Is Brought To Jefferson County Jail;
 Attorney Is Indignant
Physician Brought To Birmingham For Safe Keeping, Henry Hill Declares Asserts Transfer Was Deliberate And Outrageous At- tempt to Block Conferences With Client

the defendant, against me, and against the state, the prosecutors are alleged to be representing
 Given Raw Deal'
 "Dr. Edwards Ross asserted. "has been given a raw deal. He has been handled more unjustly than any other white man in Alabama
 Throughout the days developments, Dr. Edwards maintained his composure and flatly refused to talk until I see my lawyer"
 Prior to Edwards transfer to Bir. mingham. prosecuting officials, repre- senting five offices of the law-enforce- ment branch of the county, were closeted for hours in secret conferences.
 Gun Reported Found.
 These conferences followed the re- ported finding of a second pistol-a .45 caliber revolver, with one cartridge ex- ploded and with blood stains on the butt, in the attic of the Edwards home Monday morning. The prosecutors now believe the butt end of this revolver was used in striking the blow that killed Mrs. Edwards as she slep in her home last Tuesday morning.
 Once during the day, the investigators held a prolonged conference with ne- gro man, said to be former servant in the Edwards home. This caused the be- lief that the state is still working on the theory that domestic troubles led up to the staying.
 Despite continued conferences and in- terviews with various persons who may be used as witnesses, the statement came from sources close to Circuit Court Solicitor Ben Perry that the states case against Edwards is not complete.
 Following their various conferences, the investigating officers rushed to their automobiles and sped away, shouting back to reporters that i've don't know anything" One of the investigators even answered, II don't know" when a reporter asked him his name. =. One Statement.
 Only one statement regarding the in- vestigation into the case was made to reporters Monday. This was by Depu- ty Reeder, who said the case was just getting started' and that it would be a Hong time before the state is ready to hold a preliminary hearing"
 Dr. Lloyd Noland, chief of the T. c. l. medical service, continued to take a hand in the investigation> He con ferred Monday with Solicitor Perry, but their conference, like all the rest, was carefully guarded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
ELECTRIC FIRM
 FILES PETITION
Would Abolish Certain Deposits
 On Extensions

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. B. Especial. IA petition was filed with the public service commission today by the Birmingham Electric company seek ing authority to amend it's service reg ulations relative to extensions of its electric distribution system. Heretofore customers have been required to make a deposit of $34 to secure one span of extension while the proposed change would do away with the making of de- pOsit for extension where the cost is not over $30.
 The proposed amendment would apply to all except commercial consumers. It was stated that the change has been approXed by the city authorities of Bir- mingham.