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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
ELECTRICITY BRINGS
COMFORT TO FARM Err
ULTIMATELY HE MAY BE SUP
Piled BY TRANSMISSION
LINES. ISOLATION PAST.

Electricity has done it. Electricity
we are told, lights cities, does the
heavy work on roads and factories,
ministers to the comfort in homes and
adds to the general happiness and
prosperity OF the nation, according to
Public Service Management.
Not content to serve the city only
it goes into the country and there
lights the farmers home, drives his
machinery, operates his tools, serves
his women folk in the home, makes
life lighter and more profitable to ev-
erybody concerned.
Ultimately, majority of the Amer
lean farmers may be supplied by
means of transmission lines which are
already traversing the country in large
numbers Even today electric light,
heat and power serve 100000 farms
in this country.
No Isolation Now.
Farm isolation is a thing of the past.
| may be aptly said that the farmer
is as near to town as he is to his radio
set.
Talented musicians, actors and en-
tertainers take part i'll radio programs
and the farmer, hguratively speaking,
occupies a front row seat Prominent
educators broadcast instructive talks
and the farmer obtains the full benefit
OF their teaching.
Crop, weather and market reports
are announced by radio in his home,
and he receives authoritative informa-
ton that is of economic advantage to
him. Broadcasting stations are being
used to warn him of the spread Of
stock disease epidemics and insect
plaques, so that he can take the neces-
sary precaution to protect his stock
or crops.
He listens to the sermon of nation
ally renowned preachers. The great
political orators of the world address
him in his living room, informing him
OF national and world affairs. At base
ball and other sport contests he occu-
pies the grandstand and follows the
progress OF the games play by play.
Heavy rains or deep SHOWS cannot
keep music in the air from the farm
house. The drab curtain Of isolation
obscuring the activities of the world
from hundreds of thousands of out
of-the way farms has been lifted for
ever by radio.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
Public Fund SendS
1000 Miles for Operation

ST. LOUIS, Mo- Jimmie
English, 11-year-old girl, after
journey OF 1000 miles from San
Antonio, Tex, for a proposed
operation to dislodge a blade OF
grass which entered her lung four
years ago, was due here today.
San Antonio surgeons feared to
operate because of an abscess near
the heart. A public subscription
raised $1,000 and the child, with
physician, started the trip in
free pullman compartment as
guest of the transporting railroad.
DR.. Evarts A. Graham, profess
sor Of surgery at Washington
University, will donate his ser
vices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03

About 10000 new laws will be pro-
posed in the various state legislatures
this year whereof 1000 to $500 will
finally be enacted, the National Indus
trial Council says in a statement
"A fair volume of ahti-business pro-
posals are to be found, although this
class OF law making is considerably
less than usual" the statement says.
The number of proposals by legis-
lators to appropriate state money for
pet projects and the proposals in
eighteen legislatures TO increase taxa
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
MANY FREAK BILLS AMONG 10000 NEW LAWS NOW PENDING

more time and get more pay by hand
painting; making it unlawful for any
employer or worker to offer or accept
employment under any individual CON
tract. not to join labor union; re-
curing corporation employers to file
proof with state banking departments
of ability to meet payrolls; requiring
motor vehicles TO come to full stop
before entering upon paved state
re ads; proNiding seni-monthly pay
dsy for al labor; limiting freight
trans to half mile in length.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
AMERICAN BUSINESS
HAS A NEW WAY OF
MAKING ITSELF FELT
REPORT OF FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION SAYS PLAN
PROFITS BUYER-SELLER.
REPRESENTS MANY MILLIONS
Organized Buyers and Sellers Engag-
ed in Every Line of Trade, With
333 Companies, Worth $15,ooo,o0o a
Year, in One League.

The cooperative method OF buying
and selling has made for itself a Sc
cure place in the business sphere in
the United States. Both the buyer and
seller have tested the method and
found it good, according to reports of
the federal trade commission, which
adds that the idea is proving so pop
ular that it even has been suggested
as a cure-all for some OF the biggest
troubles of the American farmer.
Represents Millions.
The biggest cooperative organiza-
ton in the United States now is the
COOPERATIVE League, with headquar
tiers in New York city, which is a
clearing house for 333 cooperative So
cieties, with an annual turnover of
more than $15,000,000 These 333 So
cieties are located in more than half
of the states in the union, with branch
es running throughout the country.
Cooperation flourishes not only
among native American business in
terests, records of the COOPERATIVE
League show, but also among many
of the foreign born Americans who
have engaged in business in this coun-
try, banding themselves together III
cooperative societies.
One OF the most f1ourishing coop
erative organizations in the country is
the Franklin COOPERATIVE Creamery
Association, at Minneapolis, MINI.
Organized four years ago by milk
dealers this group now is doing a bus
mess OF $3,500,000 year in milk and
cream, butter, cheese and ice cream.
The oldest cooperative organlza-
ton in New York is the Working
mems Fire Insurance COOPERATIVE
Company. This company was organ
lied in 1872 and now has 10000 mem
bers carrying insurance OF S32,OOO,0OO.
In Brooklyn, n. Y, is a cooperative
bakery which turns out 10000 worth
OF bread, cakes and pies every week.
Wholesale COOPERATIVE Organization.
In New York city there is a group
of co-operatives who strive to keep
rents low. One of these societies has
built more than dozen apartment
houses and other homes. In some OF
them. erected before the world war,
the rents are as low as SO a month.
There are many smaller cooperative
housing organizations scattered here
and there in the country, however.
At Superior, Wis, Finnish business
men have a cooperative organization
doing a wholesale business of more
than $4500O0 year. They carry on
retail stores OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
bakeries. and butcher shops. They also
build homes comparatively. Also, they
have a number of schools in which
thew teach their children the cooper
alive way.
In Massachusetts there are a num-
Der of thriving cooperative organlza-
tions. One, at Boston, does the most
diversified business of any co-opera-
tive organization in the country, hand
ling merchandise, groceries, household
furnishings, milk, coal and bakery
products.
In Georgia two cooperative organ
izations, the cotton growers associa-
ton and the peanut growers assocla-
ton, do business amounting to sew
eral million dollars a year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03

ton on gasoline, coal or other mineral
or natural resources will, if adopted,
cause higher retail prices and state
taxes. the statement declared
1t lists some Of the freak" bills
pending in legislatures as follows:
ITO make it unlawful for a corpora
ton to make any noise interfering
with radio broadcasting from p. m.
until midnight; requiring state exam
nation and license Of beauty doctors;
prohibiting the use of paint spraying
machines so union painters can use
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03

Uncle Sans bills from the
butcher and the baker and the cor
ner grocer and the milkman and
from everybody else who furnish
es eatables in manufactured or
prepared form for his employees
and wards amounts to nearly
$70,000,000 a year.
For the year 1922 it was a mill
lion and half less than that sum,
but the annual amount shows an
increase. This total is more than
one-fourth Of all expenses for sup
plies and equipment.
These are just the bills for gov
eminent expenditures. When it
comes to the total OF all the food
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03

YOUR UNCLE SAM IS A BIG EATER;
BILL FOR SUPPLIES $70,OOO,OOO A YEAR

bills in the country the sums are
more impressive, Ten billion dol
lars fairly represents the yearly
value of manufactured food prod
ucts, sum equal to more than
one-hfth that OF the value OF all
manufactured products OF every
description.
In view of the Importance OF
these figures government experts
and others representing the food
industries are preparing standard
specifications, which, under our
pure food law, will not have the
force of law, but which will be
used for the guidance OF manu-
facturers and OF juries which may
try cases of alleged adulteration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON
NOW SHOWS AN INCREASE
Active spindles 622,s7o More Than
In January Last Year.

Here is an interesting bit OF news
for the cotton growers.
A larger quantity of cotton was !,
states last month than in the preced-
ing month or the same month year
ago. 40 74o
Active spindles increased l/g ~
over December and 622,S7O over an
,,arv OF last year. Increased produc-
ton was reported for last month by
cotton and yarn mills:
Business and agricultural conditions
in the southeast were considerably
disturbed by weather conditions last
month. Excessive rains played havoo;
Bridges and trestles were washed
away roads made impossible and
transportation interrupted
Farm work in preparation Tor the
coming seasons crops was practically
suspended last month.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
KU KLUX BILL HAS BEEN
PASSED BY KANSAS SENATE

The bill admitting the Ku klux
Man to Kansas without a state char
Ter has been passed by the state SEN
ale by vote of % to IA. The meas
ure now goes to the house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
CLOCK SILENT 1853 YEARS
ONCE AGAIN DOING DUTY
Originally Made for His Majesty
George II About 200 Years Ago.


LONDON.-iAn old clock that
stopped working in l767-15S years
ago-recently was restarted after a
years effort by member of the adj
miralty staff. The clock is about 200
years old and contains more than 900
parts, which weigh about 100 pounds.
It is made,of brass of such fine quail
ty that an ingot of it could be beaten
almost like gold leaf.
The clock was made by a carpenter
named John Harrison for his Majesty
George II, by order OF the Board OF
Longitude. which appears to have
been an admiralty commission APP
pointed to superintend the installation
of chronometers and navigation ap-
paratus on the ships of the British
navy. The board gave Harrison 81 $50
for the job and he took two years TO
make it.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
NEW ECONOMY
PLANNED BY
COOLIDGE
Co-ordinator of Purchases to
Be Named to Buy All
Federal Supplies

Economy won another round in
It's fight with Federal red tape
today, when President Coolidge and
Director Of the Budget Lord de-
cided to install in their budget
pairing organization another treas
ury Watchdog" Within a few
days, an executive order will be
issued creating a co-ordinator OF
purchase, whose principal job will
be to contract for Federal supplies
and equipment
Last year, under the old system
of purchase by the individual de-
partments, $16S, 900 900 was spent
for supplies and equipment. Under
the new program, with one man
doing the bargaining for all of the
Federal agencies, Lord expects a
saving Of many thousands Of dol
lars.
His schedule calls for the adop-
tion of uniform specifications for
equipment. buying in bulk, and dis
counting bills for cash.
Coordination Of purchase already
has been given a tentative try-Out
and has proved a tremendous
money-saver, he said. For in
stance, last year, $4,000 was saved
in pneumatic tires and tubes by
buying through a single agency.
The War Department Topped 81
100000 off it's annual bill by TAX
ing advantage of the usual business
practice which allows per cent
off for cash within ten days after
delivery.
Lord gave Vice President Dawes
credit for conceiving the idea while
serving as Director Of the Budget.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
SLAYER
GIVEN LIFE
TERM
Charles Stokes Is Convicted
of Second Degree Killing.
Others jailed

Charles Stokes. colored, convicted
Of murder in connection with the
death March 5. last. of Thomas
Pappas, a Greek restaurant keeper
at 1907 Seventh street northwest,
was today sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by Chief Justice Nc
Coy, in Criminal Court No. 2.
When asked why he should not
be sentenced, Stokes said he had
received a raw deal in the court
and that everybody was against
him
The Judge replied that it was the
worst case that was ever tried in
his court.
Stokes broke into Pappas' place
early in the morning of the day of
the crime and lay in wait for the
Greek to come down stairs. Stokes
claimed that Pappas owed him SO.
A dispute arose in which Stokes
hit Pappas over the head with a
monkey wrench.
others sentenced were: Harry A.
Brady, forgery and uttering; six
months in Jail; Anton G. Dumbris,
violation OF the National Prohibi-
ton Act, a fine of $50; Lee Look,
alias Lee Dog, violation Of the Har-
rison anti-narcotic act, fine OF
$3.50: Eugene Nickens. colored, as
sault with a dangerous weapon,
one year in Jail and placed on pro-
baton; Thomas Aloysius Quill and
Elzear J. Howder. joyriding, seven
days in Jail and paroled; Raymond
Dozens, grand larceny. one year in
Jail and probation; Cornelia Brown,
colored, assault with a dangerous
weapon. one month in jail; Dennis
Harris, colored, assault with dan.
gerous weapon, thirty days in jail
and placed on probation.
William Dudley. colored. convict
ed Of housebreaking and larceny on
two counts, will spend three years
in the penitentiary, and James n
Williams. co-defendant. received a
one.year jail sentence.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
FOUND
CH()KED TO
DEATH .
Detective Sent Out on Strang-
ling Case Discovers Victim
Is His Sister

NEW YORK, May 29 Brutaiiy
attacked and murdered, the body
of Miss Florence Kane, twenty
four, of Brooklyn, was found
bound and gagged in a vacant lot
within a stones throw of her
brother, who ironically enough
home this morning.
Police and detectives, among
them Detective James Kane, her
was sent to the scene at the first
call when her identity had not
vet been established, are search
ing for an unidentified moral
weakling as her slayer.
In Theater Party
Miss Kane attended theater
performance in Manhattan with
Continued on Page 2. Column 2)
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
CONDUCTOR
A|0VNTSHE
KILLED.
Lured Children to Lonely
Creek and There Crushed
Them to Death

y PITTsBURGH. HA.. May 3s.---.
confessing. according 70 authori-
ties. to one of the most deliberate
and brutal double murders on rec
ord here, Raymond Winters. thirty,
an interurban conductor. was today
formally charged with staying Helen
Sabel, eight, and her brother, Alex
ander, six.
The children's bodies were recov.
cred from a creek near their home,
with both skulls crushed. Assistant
District Attorney Harry Estep de-
clared Winters, under q three-hour
grilling, broke down tand confessed
that he lured the children to the
creek with candies and ice cream,
and then murdered them.
II don't know why did it,"
detectives quoted Winters as say
ing. Il hit one of them on the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 49,
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
Great Britain Wants
To Buy Ethyl Fluid
Gasoline
lNTERliATio,iAL NEWS REEl

Great Britain is negotiating
for the purchase of ethyl fluid
gasoline for use in her high
compression airplane engines,
it was announced today by
Commander E. E. Wilson. bu-
reau Of aeronautics, Navy De-
partment.
Tetra-ethyl gasoline now Is
being investigated by a COM
mittee of representative scien-
lists called together by the
United States Public Health
Service, to determine if its gem
efaI use is dangerous to the
public health.
Navy aviators now are using
successfully the new "anti-
knock fuel in endurance
flights, according to Conman-
der Wilson, who declared ''no
danger can result from ethyl
gasoline in aircraft"
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
CONDUIT ROAD CITIZENS
U ELECT THEIR OFFICERS

Election of r. E. Adams as presi.
dent of the Conduit Road Citizens
Association was announced today.
Other new officers are w. F..
Dement,, first vice president; Mrs.
F.. d. Nugent, second vice presi-
dent; Miss Mary f. Lavendy, secre-
tary, and r. H. Merrill. treasurer.
Charles A Baker and J. D. Smoot
were reelected delegates to the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
The association endorsed Charles
A. Baker for District Commissioner.
Frank II. Lore. Mrs. II. l.. Ed.
munds and Miss Gene Cole were
admitted to membership.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
BROKEN BOLT BLAMED
FOR WRECKING OF TRAIN

broken bolt was responsible fo-
the derailment of a passenger train
on the Missouri Pacific railroad at
Nearman, Kan, February Z, 1925,
according TO reports made to the
interstate Commerce Commission to-
Gay by W. c. Borland, director OF
the bureau of safety.
The derailed train coIlided with a
freight train standing on a nearby
track. The accident resulted in the
death Of six persons and the injury
of thirty others.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
[lG'E GE I
ELOPN|
PAIR
Alice Young and Henry NJ.
Brown, Jr, Caught on Way
for license Here

Z
While on their way to the court
house, where they intended to pro-
cure q marriage license, Miss
Alice Young, daughter of a
wealthy Grand Rapids Mich }
furniture manufacturer, and Henry
Martin Brown, jr., of Asheville,
N. c., who eloped yesterday from
the girls summer home, were ar
rested today by Policeman Paul
E. Ambrose, of the First precinct,
and detained until the arrival of
the father.
After conference at the First
precinct with his daughter and
her prospective husband, Mr..
Young declared that there was
no hard feeling against either Of
the eloping pair and that his tenn
porary ire had been subdued.
Her Father Explains.
MY daughter, In company with
Mr.. Brown. who was a guest at
my home while attending a con-
Vention. left Pearson yesterday aft
ernoon for the purpose Of coming
to this city to be married" Young
said.
They came directly from my
hcme in st. Mary's county," con-
tinued Young, Ito the home of a
friend of both families, Mrs. Julia c.
Martin, of the Presidential Apart
ments, where they remained over
night.
''They left the friends home this
morning and were on their way to
procure a marriage license when
arprehended.
Il have no objection to my daugh-
ter marrying Brown except that she
Is only eighteen years old and has
rot completed her educa tion She
will sail in the early part Of Octo
ber for Europe TO pursue her
studies
Former Student Here.
II was ascertained that Miss
Young was formerly student at
the Mount Vernon Seminary in this
city. Brown claims that he will
return to Asheville. ". c.. where
he is employed as vice president
and sales manager Of the Brown.
Baird Cherry Co.. wholesale grocers.
Neither of the disappointed couple
acknowledged defeat nor did they
say what their plans are when
conditions are more favorable.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
SAFETY GATES TRAP
AUTO ON TRAIN TRACK

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 29.--
One man was killed and four 9th ers
were seriously injured at Sharps'
burg, near here today when their
automobile, trapped between safety
gates, was struck by Pennsyl-
vania passenger train.
Frank Bruno. a landscape ga"d-
ener, was killed.
Police Immediately arrested the
crossing watchman, who, according
to survivors of the crash, lowered
the safety gate on the far side of
the tracks after their car passed
the first gate, which had not been
lowered.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
COOLIDGE TO ADDRESS
NAVAL ACADEMY CLASS

President Coolidge will deliver an
address Wednesday to the gradual.
ing class of the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, it
was announced at the White
House today. 1t will be the first
time that a President has at
tended the graduation exercises at
the Naval Academy since 1921.
Mr.. Coolidge will also personally
deliver the diplomas to the gradu-
ates.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
FLETCHER NAMED
"VET" OFFICE MANAGER

General Frank r. Hines, director
of the Veterans Bureau, today ap-
pointed Allen Fletcher as man
ager Of the Burlington, VT, regional
office Fletcher is native of
Johnstown VT. and enlisted in the
army. June 26. 1915 and was dis
charged in 1919.
He was previously assigned with
the bureau as sub district manager
of the Burlington office.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
FRANCO-SPANISH UNION
FOR MOROCCO IS URGED

PARIS, May 29.-"There will be
no peace against the Riffs until we
are assured both a permanent basis
and complete agreement with Spain.
said Foreign Minister BRAND in the
chamber of deputies today.
The majority parties in the cham
ber had previously approved Pre-
mier Painleve's policy of pushing
the war in Morocco.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
RE VISIONS
VIA[)E: ON
PARKING
RULES
Banned il Front Of Apart
n1ents in Which More Than
Thirty Families Live

Fifty-five changes in the traf-
fic code, affecting principally
parking, were made by the conf
missioners today on the recon-
mendation of M. o. Eldridge, dl-
rector of traffic.
The changes were made. Ed
ridge said, after a survey of the
operation Of present parking rules.
He said the inquiry showed the
need of adjustment and amend
nents to regulations now enforced.
The most important addition TO
the code is a rule forbidding
parking in the front of apartments
where more than thirty families
reside.
Longtime Parking Cut.
Another change is the cutting
down, from forty-eight to eighteen
hours. of the length Of time an auto
mobile may park on any street In
washington.
On many streets downtown angle
parking is substituted for parallel
parking.
This is to provide for increased
parking space downtown.
Restrictions on parking between
3 and 9:15 a. m. and to s p. m.
were extended outside of the con-
sested section, including more than
q dozen streets.
Among the additional restricted
streets are:
Twenty-second, Florida avenue to
Virginia avenue, no parking west
side 8 to 9:15 a. M; east side. to
6 p. -, vsN&!e-B
6 street. twenty-second to Wis
consin avenue. south side, to 9:lo
a M: north side, to s p. m.
Union Station Plaza, no parking
at any time between the west curb
of the west fountain to a p"int
on this curb opposite the south
end of the granite railing around
the west fountain.
Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
Third street to bridge over Anacos.
tia River, no parking at any time
on north side of the south roadway
or on the south side of the north
roadway; parking at an angle on
the curb line of The Avenue be-
tween Third and Eleventh.
No parking at any time on
Dupont Circle, p street to New
avenue.
On Kalorama Road.
Connecticut avenue, Kalorama
road to south end of bridge-no
parking at the curb at any time;
center parking permitted in spaces
marked by white line between cen
ter parkway and circle parkway.
No parking at any time in kalo-
rama road between roadways of
avenue just north OF
Circle park.
No parking on west side at any
time on Columbia road between
Calvert and Biltmore streets.
Among the changes in present
are:
/ street northwest, Massachusetts,
avenue to Fourteenth--No parking
on north side at any time south
side, one hour, s .. m. to p. mi.
/. street northwest, Massachusetts
Avenue to ThiFteenth Ne
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
LORD ASTOR'S ENTRIES
ARE ONE-TWO IN CLASSIC

LONDON May 29.--Iord Astor's
horses finished one. two in the
classic Oaks stakes at Epson
Downs today.
Saucy Sue. a heavily backed IA.
Vorite, won the event and the
other Astor entry, Miss Gadbout.
finished second. Third place went
to Riding Light.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
ALL MINERS DIE
IN CAROLINA
EXPLOSION
BY international News Service.

COAL GLEN, n. c., May %
With thirtytwo bodies removed from
the Carolina Coal Company's mine
today, this towns weary populace
staggered into the third day, with
all hope for the lives of the entomb-
Continued on Page ,. Column g.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
THE WEATHER

official Weather Bureau Forecast
Unsettled tonight and to-
morrow; possibly showers;
no change in temperature;
southerly winds. Tempera-
ture yesterday Highest. 70;
lowest, 81.