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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
To PUSH CQQI. |D]GE:'S
PLAN FOR D|SPO9|NG
Of MUSCLE: SHOALS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1G.-With
drawaI by Henry Ford of his offer
for Muscle Shoals clears the way,
Representative Kearns, Republican
of Ohio, declared today after visit
at the White House, for disposition
Of the plant through a commission as
suggested by President Coolidge in
his message to congress last Decem-
Der.
Mr.. kearns said he had assurance
that the presidents attitude in this
respect was unchanged and that
therefore he would seek appoint
ment of 2 commission by congress as
soon as it convenes in December.
Such a commission. Mr.. Kearns
said, should be composed preferably
of members of the house military af-
fairs committee and the senate az
riculture committee. as suggested by
the president. He discussed the
Muscle Shoals question today at the
White House with c. BascOm Slemp,
secretary to the president, who was
said to have indicated the presidents
attitude on the Muscle Shoals ques
ton had not been changed by recent
developments and that he still favor
ed appointment of the commission.
Il am gratified to notice." said
Mr.. Kearns, who was a member of
the house military affairs committee
when it investigated the Muscle
Shoals offer two years ago, that Mr..
Henry Ford has at last withdrawn
his so-caIled offer for Muscle
Shoals This is entirely in the pub
lie interest. Some of US have known
for a long time that an acceptance
of Mr.. Ford's proposals would have
involved an enormous waste of pub
lie interest. Some of us have known
great natural resource of the south
to a Millionaire, and would have
worked a great hardship upon all
the taxpayers OF the country.
"Mr. Ford's withdrawal from Mus
Gle Shoals means that the farmer
now has a real chance of getting
cheap fertilizer and that the enor-
NOUS cheap water power at Muscle
Shoals will be distributed equitably
all over the south to the people
thereof, to whom it belongs. That
prospect would have been nearer to.
day than it is, if Mr.. Ford's so-calleI
offer had not stood in the way 50
long. I happen to have been the
first man in public life to have point"
eG out these things, and it is especial
ly gratifying to note that Mr.. Ford,
in withdrawing, now supports the
recommendation in President Cool
idge's message to congress that a
small commission should be author
led to work out the future of Muscle
Shoals"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
LA Toilette SENT
MONEY BY SOVIET.
D CONVOR CHARGES

BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct. 16.-Thom-
as V. O'Connor, chairman of the
shipping board and for years head
of the Longshoremen's union, asked
an audience here last night il any
one in absolute authority" would
deny that a large amount of money
has been sent from Russia through
Mexico to strengthen the cause of
Senators La Toilette and Wheeler,
the independent national ticket.
How much money has been sent
here by soviet Russia to win this
fight and bring about uncertainty
in this country. the same as in their
own country" he asked.
Mr. O'Connor spoke on the con-
nection of union leaders with the
La Wheeler campaign and
asserted that members of labor or
CARNATIONS are not going to stand
for having their vote delivered by
national officers or local representa-.
tives."
Labor" he said, will never al
low it's vote to be delivered by that
conglomeration of union leaders, so.
cialists and l. w. WIS who have
been enrolled or conscripted in the
political army led by Robert La Fol.
lette''
The speaker, who predicted Pres
ident COolidse's election, charged
that Senator La Toilette hoped TO
throw the contest into congress,
where he expected to name and
/ crown a president and in that way
gain for himself a greater powe =
than that possessed by the man who
is crowned"
II am not worried" he continued,
'pbout the political effect of the
La Toilette vote in this campaign;
but what does worry me and should
worry you men of organized labor,
is the destructive effect of a large
La Toilette vote upon organized la.
Dor. You cannot eXaGgerate the de-
structive effect a large La Toilette
vote would have on the present
strong position of union labor; a
position we have secured after many
years of hard, patient plodding."
Quoting Samuel Gompers as hav-
/ ing previously opposed socialists
within labor unions, the speaker
said he was now wondering at the
position of GOmpers, Frank Morri-
son, Matthew Vol and other Ameri-
can Federation of Labor leaders sup
porting Senator La Toilette. He
sounded a warning" to information
al officers of labor organizations
that a day of reckoning is coming
| because the members of the union
who own union funds are going to
| demand on accounting"
They will ask" he said. why a
bunch of fake organizers have been
placed on the different international
payrolls, not for the purpose of or
ganizing members in various locals.
. but for the purpose of boosting the
political cause of Robert La Toilette
and RurtOn Whenlnr ,,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
GENTLE NEXT WAR" WARNING
IS CARRIED TO NEW WORKERS
BY ZR-3'S ACCOMPLISHMENT
Greatly Increased Range Of Aerial Operations Places
Manhattan About Where / onion Was During the Re-
cent Conflict According TO Smaifs Observations

will have to trade dresses. as it
were, after the Shenandoah returns
from her Pacific tour but in the
meantime the Americanbu built craft
will have nothing to do with the
German until the all-consuming gas
has been cast to the New Jersey
breeZes and all danger of explosion
is past.
Recalls Wartime Tcrrors
Zeppelin day in New York recalled
to many persons now in this city
the Zeppelin nights in London. And
here is another secret. The Amer
lean colony in London, to a man,
all wished that a Zeppelin might
reach New York before the war was
over, to drop it's eggs on the tow
ering piles of Manhattan and bring
home at last realization of what
! the war was like
In the earlier raids the Zeppelins
came over London painted in silver
precisely as the ZR3s appeared il
the pale blue sky this morning. The
ZR-3 in her journey across the At
lantic chose the time of the full
moon to light her nightly way. Dur
| ing the war the Zeps dared not ven
! ture forth by moonlight They came
on the wings of darkness and by
| stealth they crept upon the sleeping
| city. London was as dark as the
! River StyX, presumably, but in
some manner the marauders always,
! or nearly always, found their way.
! Then the city devised a means of
| finding the marauders. Powerful
searchlights began to pierce the sky
i when the first hum of hostile mo-
! tor was heard.
The silver cigars as they APP
peared at the great heights they
maintained, soon became a prey to
| the defending airmen. Five Or six
Of them were brought down in
flames. their crews roasted to cinder.
| The silver paint was discarded. The
newer Zeppelins, built for the nights,
appeared in dull mourning black,
and were as elusive as the dark
! spaces between the stars.
Thrill Never Forgotten
The thrill of those Zeppelin nights
| in London can never be forgotten.
| First would come the ominous warn
| ing that II or IS of the hostile craft
| had crossed the coast and were
| headed for the British capital. These
warnings only reached the police
and the newspaper offices and for
eign correspondents. The waiting
moments, occasionally heightened
! into an hour or more, were filled
with imaginings and the knowledge
that within a very short time many
e innocent souls were to be sent into
the great beyond. There was a doom
in the warnings for these who were
compelled to go unwarned. Occa
sionally a Bobby would stroll along
the street calling to the late pedes
TRANS:
"Air raid pending, please; air raid
pending, please"
And most of the time his warnings
were met with grin. There was
sport to those raids as we'll as blood
red terror
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Loeb-Leopold Verdict
Scored by President
OF Tennessee Synod

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 16.
Dr. John Royal Harris, president OF
Cumberland university, LebanoN'
Tenn, who is attending the annual
conference Of the Tennessee Synod
Presbyterian church, u. S. A, in
session here, declared last night at
a fellowship dinner that the verdict
in the Leopold-Loeb murder trial AZ
Chicago was a miscarriage of JUS
tice and that the slayers or young
Franks should have been hanged
as high as Haaman." DR.. Harris
also paid his respects to the ku
Klux Khan, saying it was attempt
ing to do things in the wrong way,
and pleaded for law enforcement by
constituted authority.
DR.. Harris scored the modernists,
who, he declared. are attempting to
change the Lords prayer, the ten
commandments and many other
parts of the Bible. He also lambast-
ed dancing and drinking and said
that a grace compound was needed
to cure the social diseases of to-
day. Dr. Harris declared that it is
a time when all men should spea k
out for truth and righteousness.
Report of the foreign missions
committee of the synod at Wed
nesday's business session showed
that more than $242, 900 had been
expended on various phases of the
work.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Georgia Gas Tax
Receipts Will Total
s., 100000 for Year

During the first twelve months of
the operation of the three-cent per
gallon tax on gasoline, the state OF
Georgia has received $685., 964.1S,
according to statistics compiled in
the office of Comptroller General
William A. Wright. This covers re-
ceipts from October /, 1923, when
the tax became operative, to October
/, 1924. 1t is estimated that an adj
ditional $4,000 will be received from
Oil companies that have not yet set
tied in full for the quarter ending
September 80.
If these figures are accurate. the
total revenues from the gasoline tax
during the first twelve months of
it's operation will be approximately
$3,400,000. N
OF this sum one-third goes to the
state highway department., one
third to the counties for highway
purposes, and one-third to the state
treasury to offset the rentals from
the Western and Atlantic railroad
which were discounted during Gov
ernor Hardwick's administration for
five-year period.
The sum of $4,000 is requil ed
to offset these rentals, and as the
treasury will receive approximately
81 100, 900 from the gasoline tax for
the first twelve months Of it's oper-~
alton there will be a residue Of APP
proximately 100000 after the rem
tails are taken care Of. This balance
is used to pay general appropria-
tons.
When the tax was imposed, it was
estimated that the total revenue
would approximate $2,500,00O, al
though officials in the comptroller
generals office stated at the time
that the total would undoubtedly
reach So 600 900
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Florida Highways
Conditions Improved

ORLANDO. Fla, Oct IA road
condition bulletin issued by the
Florida Automobile association this
morning says:
"All generally travelled highways
are again open, although little
rough in some sections, with The
exception of the route between Pa
latka and Jacksonville, which is still
impossible via Green Cove Springs
but by very careful driving motor
lists can travel from Palatka to Jack
sonville via st. Augustine.
The railroad ferry conveying au-
tomobiles between Deer Park and
Melbourne on the kissimmee- del
bourne route is expected to be in
operation again by Saturday of this
week.
Traffic is passing Shingle creek
on the Orlando-Tampa highway over
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF

NEW YORK. - Henry Robinson
Towne, aged So founder of the Yale
ana Towne Manufacturing company,
lock makers, dies here.
WASHINGTON. - In presence of
President Coolidge and leaders of
Methodist church equestrine statue
of Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer
churchman, is unveiled.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. - This
city celebrates arrival of ZR-3 in
America by firing 126 salvos from
ancient cannot, one shot for each
Zeppelin constructed there.
SHANGHAI. - American consul
ate is called on for protection by for
eign missionaries and hospitals
against Chinese reds" who fire city
of Canton and loot property.
STOCKHOLM. = DR.. Hjalmar
Branting, former premier of Sweden,
and leader Of Socialist-Democrat
party. undertakes, at request Of King
Gustav, to form new cabinet.
CHARLOTTE, n. c. Ernie Ans
terberg, noted automobile driver, IS
killed when he loses control of his
car while trying out the new speed
way track here.
FREDERICK. Md. = Arthur Rice,
convicted of aiding in tarring and
feathering Miss Dorothy Grandon,
faces sentence of from Is months to
ten years for offense.
CANTON. = Casualties in fighting
between local factions in Canton
and from incendiary fires are esti-
mated at 900; looting of houses and
shops continues on large scale.
SAN FRANCISCO. = Shenandoah,
flying north from San Diego. bucks
heavy winds, ranging from so to 20
miles an hour velocity near Surf,
Cal, according to early reports here.
CORORADO BEACH, Cal. = En-
sign M. j. Flanders and Chief Ma
chinists Mate Robert H. Kerr, are
killed when two naval airplanes col
Tide in air. William Cole, gunner es-
capes death IN parachute.
READING, Pa.-Philip A. Hart
man, of Annville, Pa, surrenderS
here and confesses, police say, that
he held up State Bank at Abbotts-
town, Pa, Tuesday, and when pur-
l.. Haley.
CHICAGO. = Published state
mentS attributed to Emil Yde. Pitts
burg pitcher, and emphatically de-
MED by him, that more sensations
in baseball scandal were forthcom-
ing has led Commissioner Lands to
summon Yde before him.
BOISE. = u. S. Senator Borah,
nominee of Republican and Pro
gressive parties for reelection, will
seek office as a Republican, he ad-
vises secretary of state of Idaho
when court rules candidate can be
represented upon but one ballot.
NEW YORK Federal Judge
Augustus n. Hand, at New York, in
dismissinc libel proceedings against
Orduna Of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet company, holds steamship
cannot be libeled by government
when members of crew smuggle IL
quor or narcotics into United States
without knowledge of ship owners.
QUINCY, Ill. - John w Davis
renews his charge, and offers evil
dence to sustain assertion, that de-
Dartment of justice officials and
George Is. Lockwood, former secre-
tary of Republican national commit
tee, conspired to effect indictment
of Senator Wheeler during his prose
cution of Dauoherty investigation.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
SHENANDOAH OFF,
ON COAST FLIGHT
FROM SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Oct. 16.-(By
the Associated Press.)-America' 8
first transcontinental dirigible, the
Shenandoah, left her mOoring mast
at North Island at 9:12 a. M, and,
after a short flight over the extreme
southern portion or the city. turnel
her nose northward over the ocean
en- route to Camp Lewis, Washing
ton.
The giant airship, sailing in a Sc
rene and unhurried fashion headed
for San Pedro. there to fly over the
ships of the United States fleet. The
course then was to lie inland to Los
Angeles city and to Pasadena.
A sc picked up by the ra-
do station here stated that the
Shenandoah would maneuver above
the battle fleet at practice on the
San Clemente island drill grounds
before putting inland to fly over Los
Angeles.
Present plans, taking into consid
Grafton the probable late arrival OF
the Shenandoah at Seattle. call for
n flight over that city on the return
trip.
The diriglble probably will go dir
rectly to the mOoring mast at Camp
Lewis.
Weather reports from the north
Wednesday night indicated to Rear.
Admiral W. A. Moffet, chief of the
naval bureau of aeronautics, and
Lieutenant Commander Zachary
Lansdowne, the Shenandoah's com
handing officer, that the weather
along the dirigibles proposed route
was clearing.
The battle fleet at San Pedro is to
get its first look at the most recent
addition to the fighting forces in the
Pacific under tentative plans of the
Shenandoah's officers. After cir
cling over San Pedro, Pasadena and
Los Angeles, the airship will head
north, flying over Santa Barbara
en- route TO San Francisco, which
city should be reached by sunset Fri
day.
Fifteen Rockwell army planes are
flying with the Shenandoah as far
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
The Weather

FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Nirginia-Fair and cooler.
North Carolina-F'aiI: little change
IL temperature.
South Carolina, Alabama. NIissis-
sippi, Georgia, Extreme Northwest
Florida-Fair; little change in tenn
perature.
F'lorida-Probably fair except
showers in extreme south portion.
Tennessee and kentuCiy-Fair.
little chanse in temperature.
Louisiana and Arkansas-Fair.
Oklahoma-Partly cloudy.
East TeNa s-Partly cloudy.
West Texas-PartIy cloudy,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Virginia Ports Oppose
Proposed Rate Hearing

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The
ports of Norfolk. Portmouth and
Newport News today petitioned the
interstate commerce commission to
dismiss the appeal Of the port of New
York authorities and New England
ports for joint hearing by the in
terstate commerce commission ard
the shipping board on equalization
of ocean and rail freight rates. The
three cities, iutervenors in the case.
contend the commission has no jGliS-
diction over ocean rates and there
fore cannon participate in any de u.s.
ion affecting thhn1
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Seeing Bandits Coming,
Mine Official Takes
PAYROLL Down Shaft

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 10
Quick action of John Stamper, the
superintendent. who, when he saw
bandits approaching in two autos
at Tovey, Christian county. rushed
to the mine cage and sunk to the
depths of the shaft, saved a payroll
of $4,000 this morning.
The mine is one of the few Of the
Peabody Coal company which pays
in cash ard this was TO have been
the last cash pay day. All othe-
mines in the district paw in checks.
The miners were paid off Go
in the mine. ------.-.---.------..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
BY ROBERT 7. SMALL
(COpyIig ht, ly2I, ny the LOnsoiTdated Pie
Associa: ion---sspecial Leased Wire
IN The Atlanta JOurDaIO

to The Atlanta Journal.)
NEW YORK, Oct. f5.-The Yep
pelin ZR-3 sailed across New York
city today as q reminder or as a
warning of wha. the next world
war" may bring. She sailed the en-
tire length of Manhattan Island,
then calmly turned and sailed back
again. Theoretically the city was
destroyed. Army and navy folk like
to play at the game of destroying"
cities.
But this time it was a German
crew and German captain, sailing
in a super-Zep, direct from the Yep
pelin sheds, that demonstrated to the
metropolis of the new world that 1t
is not so all-fired immune as it
sometimes has supposed. The Amer
ican-built Shenandoah has often
been seen in the New York skies
but she is a home-bred and only
dropped in from New Jersey, S"
there was not the thrill connected
with her visits that New York felt
as it rubbed it's eight o'clock eyes
this morning and saw the big silver
whale, with throbbing engines, flash
by at express train speed.
An old world visitor, craft born
of dreams of a military greatness
which might reach eventually to all
the corners of the earth, she sailed
majesticaly along as a harbinger this
time of a new day in commercial
Transportation. She differs little in
general contour from the wartime
'Zeps," only the big commercial
cabin up forward seeming to offer a
new exterior note. German-like, the
ZR-3 is much wider of girth and
not so graceful as the trim Shenan-
doah, which, despite her Teutonic
origin, was vastly AmericaniZed in
her upbuilding.
Vulnerable to Planes
Despite the potential threat she
carried, the ZR-3 appeared a vastly
vulnerable thing as she circled above
the city, with a silvery airplane or
two darling about her, like srarrows
about a hawk. One shot of a phos-
phorous rocket from one of the
planes could have sent the giant OF
the skies tumbling to earth like a
flaming meteor.
For the Zeppelin came ballooned
with hydrogen gas-the same sort
of gas which scared the soul OF
many a German sailor during the
Zeppelin disasters and defeats OF the
great war.
The secret may as well be told
Just here that the Shenandoah
which is to share her palatial hon
at Lakehurst with the stranger
from across the seas, ran away
from the ZR-3 and will not coma
back until the Zeppelin has been
Debated of her highly dangerous
content. The Shenandoah sails or
helium wings, the gas that America
made, and will not explode. Al
present there is not enough OF
helium in existence to keep both
the Shenandoah and her burly sis
ter going at the same time. They
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Municipal Electricians
Meeting at Augusta

Goth annual convention of the IN
ternational Association of Munich
pal Electricians opened here Tues
day with several hundred delegates
from all parts of the United States
and Canada in attendance. Presi-
dent j. l.. Caldwell, of Colorado
Springs, Col. is presiding.
Mayor Julian NJ. Smith delivered
the address of welcome at the open
ing session, and the response was
made by Clark Diehl of Harrisburg
Pennsylvania.
The convention will last through
Friday The entertainment program
includes q big barbecue.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
100 Avoid Jury Duty
In Trial of Memphis
Roadside SLAYER y

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Oct. 15.-Trial
of Charles Barr, negro, alleged road
side slayer, -, was halted today when
the regular and a special panel of
veniremen were exhausted with
only two jurors accepted. Additional
veniremen will be summoned to re-
port Monday when the trial will be
resumed.
More than a hundred summoned
to appear for questioning, as pros
pective jurors, failed to report and
were fined $25 each.
Barr is on trial for the killing
OF ODE Spencer, a chain store man
ager. He is also charged with the
killing of Mrs. Ruth McElwain
Tucker and Duncan Waller, a travel
ing salesman of Mayfield, Ky.
All We're killed when the auto
mobiles in which they were riding
were fired on from roadwaYs near
Memphis Barr is alleged to have
made a confession to the police.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Slayer Who Hid Heads
OF Victims in Concrete
Found Sane by Jury

GENEVA, ILL.,, Oct. 16.-The jury
which has been hearing evidence as
to the mental condition of Warren
]. Lincoln, who killed his wife and
her brother and sealed their heads
in concrete block, Tuesday night
returned a verdict finding Lincoln
to be sane Eat this time"
The verdict means that Lincoln,
the Aurora, H., horticulturist and
lawyer, must stand trial for the
Sayings.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
Dog Raiser Gets Three
Years for Mail Fraud

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 10
Members of the United States circuit
court of appeals here today, were en-
tertained with a discourse of dogs
during the argument of an appeal
from Memphis, Tenn, of I. +. Nc
Tendon, dog raiser and fancier. Nc
Lendon claimed there was error in
the federal district court trial, which
found him guilty of using the mails
to sell dogs which the government
claimed were not as represented.
McLendon, who lives in German
town, near Memphis, was sentenced
to serve five years in the Atlanta
penitentiarY following his conviction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-18
investigator Who Solved
100000 Robbery Dies

BALTIMORE, Oct 16.-John S.
Lemon, fifty-eisht. special investiga-
tor of the postoffice department.
who is credited with having cleared
up the $2,000.00 mai; robbery. at
Rondout, H.. last June u. and land
ed Postoffice Inspector William f.
C'BilID Fahy behind the bars. died
yesterday at a hospital here after
an operation for goiter.