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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
BENNETT DECLINES
REQUEST To RI: TURN
NEW Commission

o. r. Bennett, of Eastman, de-
clined to surrender his commission
as a member of the Georgia public
service commission after January i,
Walker Saturday, replying TO a COM
munication from the chief executive
asking that the commission be sent
back. The request was made by the
governor upon declaration Of Colo
mel John T. Boifeuillet that his term
as public service commissioner does
not expire until December, 1925
Mr. Bennett defeated Colonel Boi-
feuillet in the November election.
The contention of Colonel Boifeu-
illet is that he was elected to two
separate terms in the general cleo
ton of 1918. First. to the uneXpired
term of Joseph Gray, which did not
end until December, 1918, and then
to full siX-year term. as the sue
cessor to Mr.. Gray. On this theory
he insists that he has one more year
to serve.
Colonel Boifeuillet Saturday de-
clared that he will sit steady in his
commissicnership after January l,
while Mr.. Bennett stated that he
would take office On thai date, un-
der the commission issuel to him by
Governor Walker, end the oath of
office already administered at the
executive department. Mr.. Bennett
was sworn in on visit tn Atlanta
on November %.
1t is expected that the case will
get INTO TIE courts through quo war.
ranto proc eedings, although it is not
kro" n which of the aspj ants will
take the initial step.
MI. Bennett and his attorneys,
Representative Herman Miner, OF
Dodge county, his coliea que in the
last legislature, and John w. Ben.
nett, of Waycross, his brother, con
fcrred with Che governor or the com
missionerShip situation Saturday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
TWO HURT IN FATAL
CRASH At HARTWE:LL.
LIKELY To RECOVER

ANDERSON, S. c., Dec. 20.-Miss
Title Stein, of Orlando, Fla, and
Jerome Hertz, of New York City,
who were injured in an automobile
accident near here yesterday, in
which Miss Stems mother lost her
life, are expected to recover from
their injuries, it was indicated today
at the local hospital where they were
t. ken.
A. Stein, the husband of Mrs. Stein,
arrived here this afternoon to take
charge of the body.
The sedan In which they were rid
ing plunged down 40-foot embank-
ment at the approach to Afford S
bridge, on the Bankhead highway,
about six miles east of Hartwell, Ga,
Friday afternoon.
They were on their way to New
York City, where Miss Stein was to
have been married to Mr.. Hertz
brother, r. Hertz, on Christmas day.
Mr.. Hertz was conscious lust after
the accident and stated that the car
crashed through the bridge railing
anu GOWN the elllOdllhnleul WHCH INC
brakes of his automobile, heavy
closed model, refused to work as they
went around q sharp curve that leads
to the bridge.
The car was demolished and ali
three occupants were pinned under
the wreckage. Mrs. Stein, who oc-
cupied the rear seat with her daugh-
ter, was almost decapitated by glass.
The Stems home is at 500 East
Church street, Orlando, it was stated,
and Hertz resides at 1885 Seventh
avenue, New York.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
SHOCKING SCANDALS
PROMISED n A ION
IN PRISON PROBES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-Sweep-
ing investigation of federal prisons;
contemplated by Attorney General
Stone, will reveal scandals long
'blinked at" by many administra-
tons but never exposed, DR.. h. Il:
budding, president of the Prisoners
Relief society, declared here today.
Forgery of pardons, even murder.
may be exposed, in the opinion OF
budding, who said he based his be-
lief on statements of eX-convicts who
have come to him from federal prls-
ons for aid
Declaring his belief that corrupt
conditions in nearly all federal pris-
ons, budding urged the country to
back Stone with a demand for
clean sweep. e
"Other attorneys general have
been unwilling to stir up a scanda
during their administrations" he
said "and consequently conditions
have gone from bad to worse for
lack of exposure. Stone is cour-
agcously /tackling a hard problem
and the country should support
him
budding said convicts had told
him of cases in which there was
reason to believe pardons and pa
roles had been secured through
forged recommendations of district
attorneys and judges, prisoners get
ting them by paying a price.
Deaths of certain convicts at At
lanta and other prisons was sur
rounded by suspicious circumstances
which investigation might disclose
to have been due to murder, Dud
ding said.
Graft Of every kind exists" he
said. The country will be shocked
by the revelations of the coming in
vestigation."
budding said it was almost hope
less to try to redeem convicts In
! S1ch environments
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
SHOALS PROBLEM
STILL HANGS FIRE
AS CONGRESS QUITS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. - The
Muscle Shoals question remained at
the head OF the senate calendar TO-
day when congress recessed for the
Christmas holidays. 1t has been pc
fore the senate SINCE the opening
day of this session under an unanl-
NOUS consent agreement, and there
it will remain until Il final vote is
taken.
Consideration Of the issue now has
reached the point where senate lead
ers hope to obtain Il final roll call
soon after the holiday recess. When
the vote is calico the senate Will be
required to decide between three
plans-gOV operation, private
operation or reference of the whole
problem to a commission.
The proposals are embraced in the
bills of Senator Norris, Republican,
Nebraska, providing for government
operation and Of Senator Underwood,
Democrat, Alabama, calling first Tor
private operation and then govern
ment operation and amendments Of
fered by Senator WadsWorth, New
York, and Jones, Washington, Re
publicans, which would refer the
question to a commission.
Exhaustive DEBATE
During the three weeks of the pres
ent session the Muscle Shoals prob
lem has been debated exclusively
and frequently speakers went far
afield into political discussions which
brought charges of filibuster.
Senate leaders had expected to
clear the calendar of Muscle Shoals
before Christmas, but in face of op-
iY1r Ind
bill they were forced to abandon their
hopes. Today was devoted to two
speeches by advocates of government
operation of the property.
Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labor
Minnesota, accused President Cool
idges friends of trying to place him
in an embarrassing situation" by
advocating the Underwood bill, which
would require the chief executive to
lease the property.
Muscle Shoals, he declared, should
be dedicated to the interests of the
farmers, but if the General Electric
company finally obtains control of
the property it will look as if a part
Of this power is to be dedicated to
fertilize the barren political fields of
the northwest"
Attacks Power Trust
Asserting that Senator Norris had
shown that the General Electric COM
pany was the head of the power
trust" Of America, the Minnesota
senator said several members of the
firm of J. p Morgan & Co. were on
the board of directors of the Gen
eral Electric company.
During the last campaign he de-
clared $4,000 was contributed to the
Republican campaign fund by mem
bers Of the board of directors of the
General Electric company. S. G.
Mitchell, of the Alabama Power
company, he said, had contributed
S., 900 to the fund; George f. Baker
of the Morgan firm, $4,000; Dwight
Morrow, $4,000; f. w. Rice, $4,000.
End J.. r. Loveioy, $1,000.
Senator Norris spoke for two hours
in favor of government operation as
provided in his measure. He read
from numerous pamphlets and quoted
many figures from reports of public
ly operated plants in Canada.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Moffett Would Send
Dirigible Across>Sea to
I, Convince Doubters

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-A trip
to England next summer by the
navy dirigible Los Angeles with a
batch of mail aboard would dem
onstrate to the world the prac-
ticability of establishing long dis
lance transatlantic air mail routes,
members Of the University club were
told in a lecture Saturday night
by Rear Admiral Moffett, chief Of
the naval air service.
While the navy does not intend to
so into the mail carrying business,
such trip, Admiral Moffett said.
would emphasize the ACCESSIBILITY of
building =, $500, 000-cubic feet air.
ship capable of carrying 100 pas
Sensers and a million letters.
Recommendations for future per-
formanCes of the Los Angeles have
been drawn up by a special board
land are now before Secretary Viii
bur for study.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Tobacco Bed Planting
Already Is Begun by
Growers In Colouitt

MOULTRIE, Ga, Dec. 81. - The
planting of tobacco beds has been
started throughout the south Geor.
gia tobacco belt, according to demon
strators in MoIltrie. This, th.,se
experts state, is an enccuraei;.g
sign. They declare thai List year
many inexperienced gr1wers waited
too late to do this necessary work
in connection with the growing OF
tobacco. Tobacco beds sh6Cld all
be planted not later than 5-.nuary 10,
according to men experienced in the
culture of the weed.
There are indications on I'll sides
that the acreaE sc in tobacco in 1928
will be twice as large as it was this
year. Colquitt county growers alone
are expected to give at. least 1000
acres to the CROP
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Five Persons Killed
When Tree Crushes
Automobile Bus

TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 20.-Five
persons were killed and two injured
today when a tree fell across an
automobile bus near Chehalis,
Washington.
The bus was on the Norton to
Chehalis run, and the accident hap
pened % miles east of Chehalis.
The dead: Dean Shuler. an I'M
identified boy, seven years old;
man named Chapman, w. M. Kiser
and Buck Belcher. The injured are
Mrs. Osborne, Of Centralia, and Eny
Belcher, and were taken to a Che
halls hospital.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
George Asks Reserve
To Accept Farm Notes
Secured by Arsenate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. - The
governor of the federal reserve
board was asked today by Senator
George, Democrat, Georgia, to- &C.
cept notes secured by calcium arse
nate.
The Georgia senator pointed out
that calcium arsenate was nonper-
ishable, and if stored in federal
warehouses would furnish sufficient
security for federal reserve notes.
Senator George declared that If
this is accomplished farmers would
be enabled to purchase this commod.
ity in the fall and winter, and not
be compelled to go into the market
in the spring when the product is
in heavy demand and pay specula-
tive prices
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
new LAMP BD rms
94% AIR
Beats Electric or Gas

A new oil lamp that gives an
amazingly brilliant. soft, white light,
even better than gas or electricity,
has been tested by the U. S. Gov
ernmsnt and So leading universities
and found to be superior to 10 ordi-
nary oil lamps. 1t burns without
odor. smoke or noise-no pumping
up, is simple, clean. safe. Turns
949o air and go common kerosene
(coal oiD.
The inventor, A. n. Johnson. 642
n. Broad St. Philadelphia. is offer
ing to send n lamp on 10 days
FREE trial. or even to give one
FREE to the first user in each To-
cality who will help him, introduce
it. Write him today for VII partic-
ulars. Also ask him to exrlain how
you Can set the agency. and with
out experience or money make $3.50
to $500 per month.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

trouble that whisl1ey has cause me
TO bring about
Pleads for Mercy
SO now, Dear gov. will you please
reconsider this case and read my
few umble lines and see if you can't
find some way to let me spend the
rest Of my life in prison. Then [ will
have chance to spred God word to
the ones who don't know Him. God
needs me to help bring the lost souls
to the light of the lamb which taketh
away the sin. Just think Of the souls
which may be lost that I could save
If l was given another chance. And
If you will let me stay in prison for
the rest of my life the souls that I
save you Will be greatly rewarded by
God for because YOU will be giving
me the chance to win them. When l
was - pears old I was married to
girl who was y years old but what
made me marie this girl is a mynes-
try TO me for I never went to see
her but twice before We was mar
rted Me and my brother married
sisters he married some years be-
fore l did and he told me to go to
see this girl that he would arrange
for me to set her then we could live
on a farm together with him. And
l ges he did arrange it for we got
married and I never knew no more
about what 1 was doing than a kid
would. Her name was Matte Bell
plymate. She lived with me 5 weeks
then she left me then in the later
part of 1922 me and Gervis came ac-
qualnted and from then on me ana
him has ben togather, and I was
always coming into contack with
drink and God in haven Inc wiskey
was the cause of us doing this crime
And II You Will give me another
chance l VII prove TO our country
what wishey will do and 7 believe
l can put my case before them SC
strong until there will be many IL
Quor dealers who will quit. We need
ones to work in this maner who
knows what wiskey will do and il
there has ever been one who knows
what wiskey viii do, it is US 1t will
make a man do what he wouldn't
do for nothing on earth if he just
knew what he was doing. So I am
only begging you to please let me
stay in prison the rest of my life, not
as I mine dieing, but for the sake
of some poor soul. So 7 am going TO
pray that when WI receive this you
you Will receive the holy ghost sell
down from heaven 10 understand it
with.
As Ever.
WILLIE JONES"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Fire at Tupelo, Miss,
Destroys Half Block
OfBusiness Buildings

TUPELO, Miss, Dec. 20.-F'ire in
the Masonic club rooms on the third
floor of the Professional building
ragged for four hours Friday after
noon. Half block in the business
portion O fthe town was destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $500. 900.
Calls were sent to neighboring
towns but before help could arrive
a half dozen of the largest business
BUILDINGS in the town including the
Masonic temple and Stautonville tele-
phone exchange had been burned.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Gould and Bride
Will Visit Miami

BRUNSWICK, Ga, Dec. 90
Gould, wealthy New Yorker, and his
bride, left for Miami this morning.
They expect to return shortly after
Christmas with a party of about
York social set. On their way back
north they plan stopping off in Sa-
Vannah for day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
JOURNAL RADIO
CALENDAR
WSB, The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta,
Ga.-429 Meters, Central Standard

'VSB, The Atlanta journal, Atlanta
Ga.-129 Meters, Central Standard
Tuesday
Noon--Rev Andrew Jenkins and
family; cotton markets, weather.
to P. M.-Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
Burgess bedtime story: news.
to =. M.-"Song Echoes of Yester-
day" with the Win-One quartet.
1915 2. M.-Radiowl entertainment
Wednesday
NoOn-Rrtling orchestra
< to p. M.-Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
bedtime story; news.
to p. M.-Silcnt.
1915 r. M.-Special Christmas Eve
Celebation
Thursday
Noon-Christmas music by Dr.. Charles
A. Sheldon, Organst.
to 6 7. M.--Mss Bonnie Barnhardt's
Burgess bedtime story: news.
TO T. M.-Specal Christmas day
entertainment.
1915 2. M.-Silent.
Friday
oon-Entertainment; cotton market,
weather.
2:3O p. M-Markets.
j to 8 p. M.-Miss Bonnie Barnhardts
Burgess bedtime story: news.
s to 0 p. M.-Griffith Aeolian quin
tet, presenting Bill Chase, violin; Bern
ard Siegert cello; Mrs. w. b. Crit
fifth, harp: W. B. Griffith, violin, and
Bill Matthiesson. bass, supported by w.
G. Hughts, baritone, and Miss Martha
Smith. accOmpanist.
1915 p. M.-Kimo Kalohi's Hawaiian
musicians.
Saturday
Noon-Brtling orchestra; cotton mar
kets; weather.
! to +. M-Miss Bonnie Barnhardts
Burgess bedtime story; news, markets.
to 7. Md and Grace Neon
nell.
lark
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Two Miners Killed
When Earth Falls

HOUGHTON, Mich, Dec. 81. -
John Oswald, so, of Allouez, and
John Johnson. so, of Laurieum, were
killed and four others injured, two
of them badly by a fall of ground
ate the sixteenth level of number
four shaft of the Wolverine mine
late TODAY
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
Gold Pieces Selling
At Premium; So Paid
For Quarter Eagles

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The $3.50
gold piece has become so scarce and
is in such demand among Christmas
givers that it is selling for $3.50 and
IS at banks here.
The federal reserve bank has only
small supply of the quarter eagles
on hand, because these coins have
not been miQted since 1915, and are
fast disappearing from circulation.
Other gold coins which commanded
Il premium here were the 81 gold
piece selling at SO and the SO gold
piece selling at So. One firm said
the premium on the $3.50 gold coin
would mount the coming week to
$3.50.
Unusual features in the foreign
demand for this little coin has had
much to do with it's scarcity and pre-
ium at Christmas time. Last week
1000 of these gold pieces were sold
for shipment to Africa, where it was
understood they would find ready
buyers among native chiefs and head
men. who in turn would present
them to their wives for necklaces.
Darkest Africa had pulled" the mar
ket in some degree against even Wall
street, it was observed.
The quarter eagle long has been
in demand in Central and some parts
of South America for use in move
ments of the fruit crops. Annually
this coin would move southwark for
harvest time and as regularly re-
turn.
The banks report no shortage in
other gold pieces such as the five,
ten and twenty.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

drink because our companions did.
One day We found in a swamp near
where we were staying barrel with
about six gallons of whisky in it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23

As Ever.
WILLIE JONES. "
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17

bers of people are beginning to leave
California-the greater portion of
them being those who evidently went
there with the intention of getting in
on the ground floor and remaining
there permanently. I drove to Cali
fornia nearly two months ago and at
that time / met many families east
ward bound who had decided to not
depend upon employment in Los An
geles during the winter.
GAS a regular thing, an advertise
ment for SO men this winter in Los
Angeles will bring 1000 applications
certainly evidence enough THAT
there is a large labor surplus. Under
these conditions, difficulties have
been encountered by many families
who went there with what they
thought was enough money to keep
them until the head of the house
found employment. Rentals are high
and living costs are above the aver
age existing in other portions of the
country.
"I think it is a safe prediction that
within the near future communities
the country " which yielded a por-
ton of their populations to Califor-
MIA will reclaim their own. If there
now is in the Los Angeles area a
means of supporting or making
homes for a substantial portion of its
present population of 100000, OF of
sustaining the values that have been
built up, it is not apparent to the
observer who uses the old accepted
standards as the basis of his calcula-
tons"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17
FROID BOY WINNER IN sow
AND LITTER CLUB CONTEST

The winners of the boys sow and
litter club contest started about a
year ago have been announced as
follows:
First, Donald Nordham, Froid,
prize one years scholarship to the
University of Montana; second,
Ralph Bjorge, Culbertson, prize reg
istered Duroc boar given by R. H.
Stewart of Poplar; third, Grant
Treune of Poplar, medal; fourth,
Frank Teavs, Wolf Point, medal;
fifth, Ronald Scourey, Volt, medal.
Thirty boys competed in the con-
test and practically all of them raised
filters of pigs of the highest type,
most of which are being kept in their
respective communities for founda-
ton breeding stock.
The boy who won first prize, al
though he did not have as large gain
per day as some of the other boys,
succeeded in raising a litter of 10
pigs which weighed 95 pounds the
first 115 days.
Ralph Bjorge of Culbertson, who
won second, showed the best weight
gain. His pigs weighed los pounds
apiece at 105 days.
Grant Trenne of Poplar was handi-
capped by feed but succeeded in rails
ing a litter of nine pigs that weighed
95 pounds the first 115 days. Frank
Teavs and Ronald Securely each rails
ed filters of seven pigs.
1t is intended to continue the pro-
ject another year with competition
between pigs of the same age.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17
STATE PIONEER
CROSSES DIVIDE
ANDREW BILLMAN OF BIG TIM
BIER BLAZED TRAILS INTO
TERRITORIAL MONTANA
Was Hunting Gold in the Pixies Peak
Country in 1859, and Came to
Montana a Year or Two Later;
EARNED in the Early Days.

Andrew Billman, who died in Big
Timber recently, was a pioneer OF
Bannack, Virginia City, and other
early day placer gold mining camps,
and before gold was discovered in
Montana, worked in the mined OF
Colorado. He was born in Fostoria,
Ohio, in 1898, where he lived until
Is years of age. From there he went
to Michigan. In 1856 he left Michi-
gan for Iowa City, Iowa, where he
resided for three years. In the fall
of 1859 he Joined the excursion of
gold hunters to Pixies Peak, with two
companions. Buying into gold claims
he worked them for two years, but
made little more than good wages.
In 1868 he started to Bannack with
bull wagons, a party of four starting
from Denver with the owner of the
teams. Each paid the owner $25 for
hauling bedding and grub.
Three of the outfit ont at Fort
Bridger and wintered at Salt Lake
City, but Mr.. Billman journeyed on
to Alder Gulch, Mont, where the
biggest placer mines known at that
time had been struck. Mr.. Billman
acquired a small piece of ground and
made a good stake, but lost it in
another camp known as Avalanche
gulch, about 80 miles northeast of
Helena. Then he went to Blackfoot
City, in Ophil gulch, in 1865, gold
having been discovered there, but
everything was filed on. He return
ed to Diamond City and worked in
the mines until 1866, when he started
for the Gallatin valley with a party
of five.
On the 18th of April, 1866, they
arrived at Bozeman. He was riding
in the lead of the party and ran onto
an old man chopping wood in front
of a cabin. He asked to be directed
to Bozeman City and was told he was
in the center of the city right then.
Thinking he was being joked he ask
ed to be told the truth, and the old
man answered by pointing to three
other cabins that formed the princi-
pal street orners There were two
or three more cabins at a distance,
one being a full fledged saloon run
by Jack Mendenhall.
Mr.. Billman and two other COM
panions got work at a saw mill 10
Bridger creek canyon on Sour Dough
creek, as it was later named, for the
summer. Mr.. Billman filed on a
ranch claim about a mile and a half
west of Sour Dough, borrowing a
team and plow to break IS acres. He
built a cabin and cut enough poles
for a fence, then went to work in
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-17
PATHETIC END OF OLD TIME
RESIDENT OF BUTTE

Explaining his act in a letter to a
close friend, Ernest Braunlich, 65,
an old time butcher of Butte, who
only recently returned to Butte from
Seattle apparently for the purpose,
carried out a desire to "die in the
Montana I love-" when he sent a bull
let through his brain beside an old
Stag dump, near the Milwaukee tres
tie. Braunlich, who asked forgive
ness in a note scrubbed to Gus Nickel
and wrote that troubles we're in his
head as he was getting too old to
work." was found in a sitting posture
in a followed portion of the dump
by railroad men passing on a train
which ran within several yards of
the spot. A 3S caliber revolver with
one of five shells exploded lay a few
inches from his right hand. The
body was partially frozen.