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nounced: Stanley, Democrat, for,
Ernest, Republican, against: owen,
Democrat, for, Mccormick. Repub.
lican, against, and Wheeler, Demo.
crat, for, Elkins, Republican,
against.
OF those absent it was announced
the following would have voted for
passage! La Toilette and Lenroot,
Republicans, and Copeland, Demo.
crat. No announcement was made
for other absentees, Edwards, Dem.
ocrat and Couzens and Green, Re.
publicans.
Mellon Ignored
Two of the three hours of debate
possible today under agreement en-.
tered into previously before voting
on the amendments and the bill
were consumed in fight to remove
the treasury proposal providing for
limitation on deductions in rela-
/ ton to incomes from the tax exempt
securities. 1t was rejected. As to 81.
This removed from the bill practically
the last part OF the program recon-
mended by Secretary Mellon.
In the closing minutes, Democrats
completed their income tax SEIZED
ule, obtaining an increase in the
personal exemptions so that all
heads of families will be allowed
$3.50 In the present law heads
of families with incomes OF more
than $4,000 are allowed but $4,000
exemption. Republicans made no
fight on the proposal and it was
adopted without a record vote.
AS a vote on passage approached,
various amendments offered from
both sides were turned down with A
chorus of noes and without expla-
nation of their purpose by the au-
thors, debate having been shut off.
Republicans made no further at
tempt to upset the Democratic pro.
visions. Republican insurgents hav-
ing stood firm in their coalition with
the minority yesterday on two moves
b., the organiza ton Republicans to
knock out the Simmons income rate
schedule.
Aside from the rate schedule,
which actually varies but little from
that adopted by the house on a
strict Republican vote, Republicans
were bitterly opposed to the substl-
tute corporation tax providing for a
graduated scale of rates applicable
on undistributed profils and to the
provision opening tax returns TO
public inspection and the hearings
of the proposed board of tax appeals
to the public.
Both Of the latter proposals were
adopted with Republican insurgents
Joining with solid Democratic
vote. To both of these President
Coolidge has indicated his opposi-
ton
These and the income rate SEIZED
ule will be the principal points OF
difference to be worked out in con-
ference.
Smoot Hopes for Changes
Chairman Smoot declared on the
floor today, referring to changes
made in the bill by the senate, that
he hoped the measure would be modi-
fled in conference.
Senator Caraway, Arkansas, re-
marked that as head Of the senate
conferees the finance committee
chairman would be expected TO de-
fend the senate changes in confer
ences.
Principal interest in the bill, until
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Shocked in Accident,
Eat9nton School Boy
Dies in Consequence

EATONTON Ga. May 12.-Mr
Miner s. Shivers, Jr., one of the best
known boys of the town. died Sun
DAY morning shortly after o'clock
Funeral services at the First Bap-
fist church, where the family are
members, were called off out Of sym
pathy, and the Eatonton public school
was suspended Monday for the flu
neral.
Young Shivers, who was fifteen
years old. recently attended the high
school meet at Washington, and was
in a minor automobile accident on
the way home. The nervous shock
seemed to upset him completely, and
on last Monday he was compelled to
leave school, and grew steadily worse.
despite the efforts of physicians and
specialists, some of them summoned
from Macon and Atlanta. His father,
NJ. s. Shivers, is we'll known through
out the state for his work in the
Baptist denomination. He is in the
insurance business
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WHERE MA NATURE UNAIDED
GROWS Tin. STAPLE COTTON

Fl, G. Jacobs, formerly an engineer
stationed in Atlanta, sends from
Ceara, a state in Brazil, the follow
ing interesting article on cotton
growing in that region:
The business of raising cotton and
marketing his all-imporrant product
to us of the southland remains our
principal business and endeavor, for.
without question, this product is the
life blood of Dixie.
Let me take you for g. few mo-
ments to a small northeastern state
in the republic of Brazil, South Amer.
ica, where cotton is grown and grown
in the extreme primitive, practically
without cultivation and grown to-
gether with two or three other crops
in the same field. This in Ceara, the
state spoken Of above and one of the
most fertile spots in the world
Look at map of South America
and on the eaSterly side, but O. very
short distance below the equator, you
will see the city of Fortaleza, the
capital of this very important state
in the republic of Brazil, important
by reason of the fact that here is
grown fine grade of long staple
cotton and grown by methods that
are at least to stranger in the
land quite unique. L will quote you
an extract from a paper presented TO
the Eleventh international Cotton
congress, of Stockholm, June, 1922,
by the president of the state of Ceara
lldefonso Albano, a keen student of
cotton and who by his untiring eff
fort has perhaps done more to pro-
mote the cotton industry in Brazil
than any other agent
THE method of cultivating cotton
IN Ceara is the most primitive. Be-
fore the rain begins, the shrub is cut
down and burnt; with the first rains
holes are dug with hoes at a distance
Of two PAGES from one another and
on the same field are planted, in one
row, corn and beans, in the next. cot
ton and manico. During the whole
rainy season the weed is rooted up
with hoes, until the crops are ready
to be gathered
In spite of all this, the cotton from
northeast Brazil has in the world s
cotton market always maintained the
third place, inferior only to the best
Americans and Egyptians.
Sea Island and Egyptian cottor $
are products Of many years selec-
ton. are cultivated under scientific
methods, grown with utmost care and
attention, defended with energy
against their pests and diseases,
Sinned in special roller gins
Cotton from northeast Brazil is
product of nature, cultivated under
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SUNDAY ACCIDENTS
TAKE TWO LIVES;
FIFTEEN INJURED

Two Atlantians met death and
fifteen suffered injuries in automo-
bile accidents in and near Atlanta
over the weekend and on Monday,
according to consolidated reports of
the police and hospitals.
Those dead are:
JAMES Upton, we'll known local
attorney, residing at Is Fairview
road.
VICTOR P. MORGAN, of 419 East
Georgia avenue.
The injured are: T. r. Johnson, of
SS1 PEBBLES street; Mrs. w. c. Eng
fish, of $50 Gordon street; Miss
Evelyn Brazell, of 101 Peachtree
place; II. c. Hood, southern mana
ger of the Pittsburg Transformer
company; w. j. Griffin, 2S3 IL Cen
trail avenue; W. G.. Bassett, of 54S
Washington street; w. j. Potter, of
SO Woodson street: Darrah z. Lee,
of AZ East Harris street; D. A Stod-
dard. of S4S State street; Charlie
Holt, of "a York avenue; Mrs. f. G.
Hoover, of 54 East Baker street: Ed
Smith, of Isl Logan street; Mrs. Ed
Pierce, of 105 Hurt street; Mrs.
George Price, of 212 Waverly way:
Mary Elsby, negress.
Plunge Down Bank
Mr.. Upton was killed and Miss
| BraZel and Mr.. Hood were injured
Sunday afternoon when the automo-
bile in which they were riding near
Granville, Ca. struck a sand bed,
skidded and plunged down an en-
| oankment. Mr.. Upton was pinne |
under the steering wheel.
Miss Brazell was at a hospital in
Newman, Ga, Monday. and accord
| ing to reports to her friends here,
| was in an unconscious condition.
| However, it was not believed she is
critically injured, surgeons attribut-
| ing her condition to shock.
Mr.. Hood. suffering bruises and
| cuts, returned to Atlanta Sunday
| night. and Monday was at his bust.
| ness.
Mr.. Upton, who was 50 years OF
age, had been engaged in the prac-
tice of law in Atlanta five years,
having begun Immediately following
his discharge from the United States
navy.
He was a graduate of Emory uni
versity, a first lieutenant in the
naval reserve corps, a member of the
Druid Hills Golf club, and a past
president of the Joseph S. Greenfield
class of Scottish Rite Masons
The body Of Mr.. Upton was re
| moved Monday to Andalusia, Ala,
where funeral services and inter.
ment will be held Tuesday after
noon.
Mr.. Morgan died Monday mornins
iat clock at Davis Fischer sanatori-
um, as the result of fractured Skull
suffered Saturday night at Fairburn
Ga, when the automobile in which
he was riding down the main street
of that city crashed into a parked
machine and overturned.
He was given emergency treatment
at Fairburn and brought to Atlanta
in the private ambulance of Barclay
& Brand IN.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
Imother. Mrs. Cornelia Cannon, and
his widow.
Funeral arran gements had not been
completes Monday.
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STRANGER DIGS FOR
BURIED GOLD UNDER
OAK NEAR FA|RbURN

FAIRBURN, Ca. May IA
good portion of the population OF
Campbell county today is visiting
or planning to visit the old Me-
Larin PLACE, three miles below
Fairburn, where a mysterious
stranger has a force of hands dig
Ging for buried treasure. A large
oak which has stood undisturbed
for scores Of years is the victim
of the pick and AK maneuvers for
chart in the strangers posses
sion is said to Indicate that some
100000 in gold and silver is hid.
den beneath the tree. Confederate
money in the hoard is said to bring
the total to around 100000. No
exact information is available as
both the chart and the strangers
name are being kept secret.
The goldseeker, who is accom-
panied by blind man, came to
this section a few days ago and
tried to buy the land from Sam Phil
lips, who would not sell. and so
they made a bargain that the
stranger was to conduct the dig
ging operations and share the find
with the landowner, fifty-fifty. The
man dug a deep hole under the
tree Saturday night, working to
near midnight. when he became
suspicious, so it seems, of the
taunts of q number Of young men
watching him, decided that he
might lose his gold in case hy
| found it, quit work and hired d
man to guard the place until Mon
day. This morning, he contracted
with a force Of laborers to con-
tinue the digging. 1t is learned
that the man, who is about 40
years old, tried to buy this land
some six or eight years ago, but
failed.
Conversation Of the populace con.
Germs chiefly vague rumors that
Mr.. Harris McLarin. who owned
the land before the War Between
the States, was possessed Of con.
siderable wealth. and, fearing that
he would have to go to war, went
bankrupt and hid his money. Just
how the stranger came into pos
session of the chart purporting to
reveal the hiding place Of the coin
is not known, although it is whis-
pered about that he has had IL
since his boyhood.
Folks hereabout are not inclined
to take the matter seriously, and
the digging operations are looked
upon as in the nature of q huge
joke, despite the earnest mien OF
the mysterious stranger.
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commercial and Industrial position.
says A. H. Williams, president of
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods AS
ISOLATION. at annual convention.
CHARLOTTE. Lions club
adopts resolution, offered by Colonel
7. L. kirkpatrick. district governor
urging rejection by congress of pro
posal to submit to states constitution
al amendment authorizing fedora,
regulation of child labor.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is eX-
tended, through Senator Simmons,
at Washington, to former Senator
John Sharp Williams, now farming
in Mississippi, to deliver Memorial
day address.
ASHEVILLE.-Tw forest fires
in Henderson county burn over to-
tai of $500 acres of timber lands,
according to report to District
State Forest Warden Peterson.
CHARLOTTE. - Charged with
non-support and abandonment of
wife, S. L. Williams, held in jail,
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sends wife word to bring him
something to eat"
wILMINGTON.-Cargo of 1,4OO,-
900 pounds of cotton ties, first Of
kind ever received here, arrives on
British steamer Median. Cargo is
consigned to Carolina Bagging Co.,
Henderson, n. c.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of fer
tilizer materials, imported and man.
ufactured from here to interior
points will exceed 1923 movement by
40 per cent.
HICKORY Feature of ceremonial
here of Oasis temple of the Shrine,
expected to be attended by 5000
members, will be parade on Friday,
June 1S, headed by - black boys
leading 13 black cats tied by 13
black strings this combination Of
10 to cross ahead of parade 13
times as mobiles march from Thir-
teenth street to Thirteenth avenue,
according to Potentate J. D. Elliott,
of Hickory.
WINSTON SALEM. - Old stove
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Promises to Be Model Pris-
oner While Serving Out
FiVe-Year Sentence for
Burglary of Atlanta Home

81 intend to be as good a prisoner
as possible and on my release l in
tend to lead an honorable and up
right life" declared Raleigh w.
Wright, Jr., Saturday night in the
Fulton county Jail, where he was
taken following sentence of from
five to ten years for burglary Sat
urday afternoon by Judge G. H.
Howard in Fulton superior court.
when L was brought to trial. "
the youth declared, my resolve was
to tell the truth, take my medicine
and come out and live right. [ have
no one but myself to blame"
Il am grateful to Judge Howard
for his leniency," he said. "And /
will go straight always. Prior to
this afternoon / had never been be-
fore judge, but know Judge How
ard exercised extreme 1eniency in
my case"
Questioned for q reason for enter
ing the home of Charles A. Conklin,
at 964 Peachtree street, to which
offense he pleaded guilty. he said
it was because he was living beyond
his means and was unable, through
his employment, to maintain the
mode of life to which he was ac-
customed.
Acted On Impulse
81 did the regrettable deco on i'm.
pulse" he replied to a question ask
ing when he planned entrance to
the Conklin home where he was
severely wounded in a pistol duel
with Dan Conklin, an OgIethorpe
student and son of Charles A. Conk-
lin
when I found I was discovered
in the Conklin home my first wish
was to be out of the whole bust
ness" he replied to another ques-
ton. When 1 was arrested -ly
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the publicity and corporation tax
changes, has centered in the income
rate schedule, where party lines again
were drawn. Both the house and
senate decisively rejected Secretary
Melons proposal for a change in
these rates, both going farther in the
cuts on the lower incomes and limit
ing somewhat the proposed reduc,
tons on the higher brackets.
Calling attention to the expense
which might have to be met by the
government next year and which
would not be provided for by the rev.
enue bill passed today, Senator Smoot
listed the following extra appropria-
ton bills either passed or pending:
Bonus bill, $135, 900, 900; Bursum
pension bill, S5S, 1000 900: rec!assifica.
ton, $4,000. 900; deficiency appropria.
ton, $40, 100000: veterans bureau re-
codification, $4,000 900; postal clerk
salary increases, SIS, 900 900.
The following additional cuts were
ordered by the senate, Senator Smoot
said, over that proposed in the COM
mlttee bill: Telephone and Telegram phi
message tax repeal, $34. 000,0 cor.
poration tax modification, 10000, 900
further reduction in automobile parts.
$5,0OO,0 900; repeal Of tax on drafts and
checks, S2,150000; increased exemp-
tons, SIS, 100000
Should the bill be vetoed by this
president, Republican leaders said
they would attempt to pass a special
resolution calling for the 20 per cent
reduction in income taxes payab le
TINS year, now carried in the bill II.
self.
Conference Next Step
Inc scope Of tax reductions nro.
vided in the bill differs slightly from,
that proposed in the bill as nassed
by the house
The vital sections of the measure
however, were transformed in the
senate to conform to the proera m
or the Democra tic Republica in.
surgent coalition, as compared with
compromises effected bv orea niza-
tIoh republican leaders in the
house.
All sections on which difference
prevails between the house and sen.
ate must be worked out in confer.
ence. Provisions which were adopt.
ed by both chambers automatically
stand.
The main sections which must go
10 conference for final adjustment
are the income tax schedule, the
corporation tax, publicity of returns
and estate taxes.
Important provisions on which the
house and senate are in practical
agreement are:
A cut of % per cent on all income
taxes payable this year.
Reduction Of 25 per cent on earn
ed incomes. The house set $4,000
as the maximum to which this cut
could be applied, and the senate re
duced it to $4,000.
Repealed Excise Taxes
Reductions in many of the misceI-
laneous and excise taxes and repeal
of number. with the excise rates
changes effective thirty days after
enactment of the bill.
Those excise taxes ordered re.
pealed by both the house and SEN
ate and the amount Of revenue in
yolved are:
Telegraph and telephone mes
sages, $4,000, 900; candy, $4,000
900; knives dirks and daggers, $50
900: liyeries. 900; hunting
shooting and riding garments, $780,.
600; yachts and motor boats (sale)
1913, 900; carpets, rugs. ETC.. $780,
900; theaters. circuses, shows floor
taxi. $1,000 900: drafts and promis-
sorry notes, S2,150, 900.
Both the senate and house agreed
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"TLL co STRAIGHT ALWAYS"
SAYS GENTLEMAN BURGLAR"

first thought was to accept my pun
ishment and then live straight. |
have never lied about this affair,
and at no time had any intention
to lie about it.
II would have done anything in
the world to have saved my mother
and father from this humiliation.
That's what hurts"
Young Wright declared that the
pistol he had on the night Of April
26 had been his property for two
years.
Il had friends when I arrived in
the city, he said, 'but [ did not
find it out until later. When |
found that there were friends of my
fathers in Atlanta + visited them,
but cultivated few friends myself. -
Father With Son
The Rev Raleigh w. Wright, Of
GreenVille, Texas, was with his son
when sentence was passed and
burglar to from five to ten years on
stood to receive the sentence and
was weeping IS the boy was taken
from the courtroom.
For several days the father has
been with his son, and maintained
a stole front, but when the hour for
sentence came he gave way to emo
ton.
When Wright stood before Judge
Howard the effects of the wound in
fiicted by Mr.. Conklin still were in
evidence. He confessed his guilt and
told of his determination Of going
straight" at the termination Of his
sentence.
Sentence was imposed two weeks
after Wright was trapped by Dan
Conklin, as the latter was returning
from party, in a dark hallway in
the Conklin home. The pair engaged
in a pistol duel in which Wright re-
ceived a wound in his chest. He ran
several blocks and fell. When taken
in custo6~ he young man was found
to have, besides a pistol, a hammer
with jimmy fastened to the han
die.
According to Jail attaches, Wright
is taking his fate with marked forti-
tude and to all who question him
makes the reply:
when l get out I'm going
straishtP
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ence The house and senate finance
committee voted to open tax res
turns for inspection only by certain
congressional committees.
The senate finance COMMITTEES
turned down the house proposal to
increase estate taxes from a maxi.
mum Of IS per cent to forty per-
cent, but the senate then substi-
tuted an inheritance tax for the
state tax.
This was done last session and re-
jected in conference. The rates on
the inheritance taxes, start at one
per cent on amounts not in excess of
$4,000, and graduates up to a
maximum of SO per cent on $4,000
900.
Similar rates were voted for the
new gift tax. This tax was written
into the bill by the house with rates
voted therefor the estate tax.
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SILENT
N JAP BAN DATE
BET BY CONGRESS

SHINGTON, May 10.-Faced
10 apparently unalterable op-
N of the house to any delay
eration of the, Japanese ex-
d provisions or the immigra-
ill, conferees upon the meas
oday again agreed to make
Eclusion section effective July
agreement has the effect of
kting completely the proposal
sident Coolidge that this gov
mt endeavor to negotiate the
ltion of the gentlemen's agree
prior to the effective date of
Hon. sNs@
approved by the conference
littee, the section prohibiting
Bsion of "aliens ineligible to
bnship" stands as it came from
house. The senate version would
the section applicable upon en-.
4lent of the bill.
HE report Of the conferees, which
The third to which they have af-
ed their signatures since the com.
Etee received the house and sen.
abills. probably will be laid be-
6 the house Monday. 1t will lie
sr a day, under the rules, and
ii will come up adoption. Aft
yard it will go to the senate.
There was no indication from the
fite House today that the presi-
1t would take any further step
Influence the sen. re ind house
fferees. Neither Would White
use officials forecast whether the
would be approved by Presi-
# Coolidge when finally submitted
HIN.
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ALABAMA

CHEROKEE-Che Rock AS
phalt company is constructing as
phalt mill near here to cost 100000
I he pay roll OF this company now is
about $4,000 weekly.
MONTGOMERY X. McA.
dory, chief of state law enforcement,
reports 172 stills, 1905 gallons of
\ beer, 1,415 gallons whisky and 1856
BOTTLES home brew destroyed in April.
ALBANY-When home of III. B.
Beard is destroyed by fire, mother
bigeon remains on nest attached to
Auilding, but her young are killed
" heat and mother bird is badly
lrned.
MONTGOMERY. Edward A.
Neal, president of Alabama farm
reau, calls upon farmers of Ala.
pna to assist in pushing Henry
tds bid for Muscle Shoals.
RIDGEPORT.-Roy Maroney and
nard Maroney, brothers, are kill
by Joe Stone in fight over base
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TIRES WITH 500 NAIL
HOLES LEAK NO AIR

A new puncture-proof inner tube has
been invented by Mr.. L. X. Milburn,
of Chicago. In actual test 1t was punc-
tured 500 times without the loss of air.
This wonderful new tube increases mile
age from 10000 to 1000 miles. elimi-
mates changing tires, and makes riding
a. real pleasure. 1t costs no more than
the ordinary tube. Mr.. Mlburn, 33l
West 47th st., Chicago, wants them In
troduced everywhere and Is making
special offer to agents. Write him today.
IAdvertsen1
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Tried for Killing
Man 43 Years AGO

QUITMAN, Ga, May 12.-Protest.
ing his innocence and declaring the
authorities have made a mistake in
identity. Green Foster, aged colored
man. went on trial here today for
murder committed 43 years ago.
Foster was arrested short time
ago in Florida and brought bacA here
for trial,
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ball game. Stone claims self.defense.
HEFLIN.-Federal Officer b. H.
Crumpton and Sheriff II. A. Jack
son find fine bird dow on watch at
still they raid near here. Dcg is
taken to Jail.
MONTGOMERY. Alabama
rural mail carriers will be used this
fall in gathering harvest figures for
United States agricultural depart.
ment.
MONTGOMERY.-Alabama con-
gressmen did not have to spend
much money to succeed themselves
this year, according TO returns from
six of them. William 3. Bankhead
spent only u cents for postage.
While others spend only few dollars
each
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ID Girls in Death Pyre

TURIN.--After a fire in a wooden
match factory the bodies of fourteen
girls were found piled in heap u1.
derneath the debris.
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BURGLARS Spurn Silver

CHICAGO.-Burglars stole $1,000
worth of gold from iewelry shop.
but left $4,000 worth of 'jewelry
untouched