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The Southern Herald OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF AMITE COUNTY SUBSCRIPTION $1.25 PER YEAR VOL. LVII NO. 10 LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922 $1.25 PER YEAR TO SETTLE COAL STRIKE SECRETARY DAVIS CALLS CONFERENCE OF OPERATORS THIS WEEK. ASKS THOSE STRIKE HITS Failure to Call in Others Gives Rise to Rumor of Break in the Ranks of Owners and Possible Settlement by Sections. -The government will Initiate a "feeling out" process to determine the possibility of ending the strike of bituminous coal miners by conciliation.

Secretary of Labor Davis has issued a call for a conference here of coal operators. The operators to confer with Secretary Davis are from the Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania regions, where the industry has been pretically paralyzed by the strike of all organized workers. No explanation is given as to why the operators from the Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania regions, where the industry has been practically parlyzed by the strike of all organized workers. No explanation is given as to why the operators from other regions affected by the strike were not called into the conference and for that reason reports are current that there has been a break in the ranks of the mine owners and that there is a possibility of a settlement of the controvercy in the three sections. WILL AUCTION MODEL AUTOMOBILE PLANT Will Sell $15.0000.000 Willys Factory To Satisfy Opened June 19.

Trenton, N. -The modern automobile plant built at Elizabeth, N. by John N. Willys at an estimated cost of more than $15,000,000, is to be sold at public auction, receivers for the Willys corporation have announced following an order issued by Federal Judge Bodine. The receivers said auction was necessary to satisfy the demands of creditors.

Auction conditions laid down by Judge Bodine in his order provide for the disposal of the property in four parcels, the first consisting of the land, buildings, appurtenances and fixtures, comprising the main plant; the second, the baseball park, with all appurtenances and fixtures; the third, the garages, its fixtures, and the fourth, all tools and machinery. The tools and machines are to be sold in rate lots. All bids will be opened at a hearIn Judge Bodine's court June 19. The Willys plant, said to have been constructed for the purpose of revolutionizing the automobile industry in light cars and displacing the Ford in selling quantity, caused many of the leading automobile engineers of the country, it is said, to join the corporation at reduced salaries and stock considerations. It was planned to create at the plant a 6-lylinder car to sell at a low fgure.

A number of the country's leading automobile manufacturers are said to te interested in the purchase of the plant. Observes Birthday of Jefferson Davis. anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis was fittingly observed here through joint sevices of the several organizations of the Sons and Daughters of the Confedracy at Mount Vernon Place odit church. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi made the principal addres and paid glowing tribute to the life and services of Jefferson Davis. characterized him as the "greatest mai whoever adorned the annals of Misissippi and the south's acknowledgd leader." Mal Coinage Exceeds Year of 1921.

-Over 300,000 more doube eagles were coined during May than n' the whole of the year 1921, accordig to the monthly coinage report made public by Director Scobey of the mint. During May the mint coined 870,000 double eagle $20 gold pieces, compared with 528,000 double eagles in the whole calendar year of 1921. Bank Deposits Show Increase. -In their quarterly statements' Ale banks of Winston County show a remarkable increase in their individul deposits. The balance of the reprt is encouraging and indicates a plendid business, MUM COAL PRICE IS FIXED RATE OF $3.50 PER TON AT MINES IS ESTABLISHED BY SECRETARY HOOVER.

APPLIES DURING STRIKE Only a Small Minority of Operators In Western Kentucky Have Refused To Co-operate With the Secretary and Demand the Higher Prices. Washington. Establishment of a maximum price of $3.50 a ton for coal at the mines in 80 per cent of the present production fields for the duration of the strike has been announced by Secretary Hoover. He regretted, he added, that a small minority of the operators-representing western Kentucky--had refused to cooperate and are demanding higher prices. Consumers can insure themselves of a square deal under the established prices by checking freight rates with the maximum price, Mr.

Hoover said, determine whether they are buying contract coal and make proper allowances for cost of retail distribution. The maximum price, he explained, applies solely to spot coal and consumers who are not treated fairly may appeal to the commerce department with assurance that inquiry into their cases will be instituted. Mr. Hoover announced he had been advised that operators of Virginia, W. Virginia, Tennessee and eastern Kentucky would accept the maximum of $3.50 a ton, while Alabama operators will accept the rate of 25 cents a ton below the Garfield scale in that district.

THE CROP OF COTTON IS 69.6 PER CENT Estimate By Department of Agriculture Shows Condition to Be 3.9 Per Cent Higher Than That of Last Year. condition of the cotton crop on May 25 this year was 69.6 per cent of normal, compared with 66 per cent May 25 of last year, the department of agriculture has estimated. The average condition of the past 10 years on May 25 was 74.6 per cent. Conditions by states follow: This May Last May State- Pet Pet Virginia 91 77 North Carolina 84 65 South Carolina 67 58 Georgia 71 63 Florida 85 60 Alabama 80 57 Mississippi 75 60 Louisiana 70 57 Arkansas 76 70 Tennessee 79 69 Texas 61 71 Three Steel Companies Consolidate. New York.

A triple steel merger embacing the Midvale Steel and Ordinance the Republic Iron and Steel Co. and the Inland Steel has been announced here. The consolidation will involve a stock capitalization of approximately $150,000,000 and a bonded indebtedness of 000. All three are independent companies and under the merger, will be known as the North American Steel Company. Policeman, 68, Graduates In Law, St.

Louis, T. McNamee 63 years old, and a retired police captain, has been awarded the degree of bachelor of law by a law college here. He began the study of law years ago, while teaching school, but was forced to abandon his studies, which he took up again upon leaving the police department. Says U. S.

Should Pay Claims. -The government was declared by Chief Justice Taft, in testifying before the House claims committee, to be obligated morally to pay war claims of Bethlehem Steel Company workers which amounts to more than a million dollars. Physician Is Acquitted. Cambridge, Michael M. Stevens has been acquitted of the charge of manslaughter, brought against him because of the death of Miss Grace Logue, his office assistant, Christmas morning.

Greek Leader Quits. Papalous, commanderIn-chief of the Greek forces in Asia Minor, has resigned, says a dispatch to the newspaper Chronika. Mississippi EVENTS Principal Happenings Over the State Told in Short Paragraphs The summer term of the New Albany High school was began last week and will continue six weeks. The May term of the chancery court has adjourned at Oxford after disposing of considerable business and granting 18 divorces. The Gypsy Smith revival meeting, which has been in progress at Jackson for three weeks, was closed with a farewell sermon by the evangelist.

M. C. Campbell, circuit clerk and county registrar, of Tate County has begun a two weeks' registration tour of the county. The vegetable movement from Hazlehurst has assumed big proportions, 45 cars, mostly tomatoes, leaving Hazlehurst in one day. The rural letter carriers of the fifth congressional district of the state at a meeting held at Meridian, organized a district association.

Coleman Sartain, stock dealers at Water Valley, have collected a nice herd of cows and yearlings, and have shipped one car to the East St. Louis market. The financial institutions of Oktibbeha county in their quarterly report just issued, show considerable increase in all branches of their business. An announcement has been made of the organization of a $20,000 partnership to begin business at Calhoun City. The new company is the Woodruff-Boland Lumber Co.

Malcolm Gattis, about 21 years old, was painfully injured at a sawmill six miles north of Tishomingo. In trying to fix something about the mill his arm was entangled in a belt. Prof. John E. Pearce, county superIntendent of education, in Tippah County, has arranged to co-operate with number of other counties in his territory in putting on a summer normal to be held this vacation in Pontotoc.

Dr. Goldberg, pellagra expert of the United States public health service, spoke at their regular weekly luncheon recently. He warned the planters of that section about the rations they were issuing to their tenants, saying that they would cause diseases 1 it proper thought was not given to them. Chief among which would be scurvy and pellagra. The League of Women Voters of Covington County at their last regular meeting adopted strong resolutions advocating more stringent enforcement of the prohibition laws of the state and nation and deploring the laxity of some of the courts and juries in punishing those found guilty of violation of these laws.

Mrs. Una Johnson, residing with her father, A. D. Johnson, five miles south of Carrollton, broke her arm while trying to crank her car, and as there was no one to drive her to a doctor she held the wheel with her left hand and came in town to have the arm dressed, after which someone again cranked it up, and she drove home, Quite an honor has been conferred on Miss Bessie Suttle of Louisville, who has been connected with governmental work when war was declared with Germany, During all this time she was stationed in Washington and Atlanta, Ga. Recently she was appointed director of education, one of the most important and responsible positions, with headquarters at Gulfport, connected with the government hospital for disabled ex-service men.

During the civil war and for some time afterward the "Sacred Harp" was the most popular song book in South Mississippi. Many of the old people who learned to sing from that book often get together and spend the day singing from the old book. This is pecially the case in Jones county. Such an occasion will be the third Sunday in June at the First Baptist church in Laurel. People who came from adjourning counties to the Jersey cattle show at Starkville were suprised to see such a beautiful display of cattle, Directly to the west of the courthouse a lot fenced with plank was the space devoted to the exhibition of the stock.

The type and conformation of the cattie was the best seen here in many years. NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL By F. R. Birdsall Governor Russell and Mrs. Russell attended the commencement exercises at the State University, the Woman's College at Columbus and the Agricultural and Mechanical College.

The appointment by Governor Russell of Miss Gertrude Draper Circuit Clerk of Grenada County, to fill a vacancy, makes Miss Draper the first woman in Mississippi to be appointed to a county office. She will hold it until her successor is elected, for which purpose the board of supervisors will call an election. Adams county has a woman superintendent of education, who was last year to fill a vacancy. A large number of delegates to the State Hardware Convention, which had a fine meeting in Jackson, were from the Delta, and some of them from overflowed districts. They are very optimistic, notwithstanding the delay incident to the flood, they state that if planters will follow up the water as it falls, and "smear in the they will have a good chance yet to make a fine crop.

This was done very successfully some years ago after a severe overflow. EMING MISS ALICE HARDING Miss Alice Moore Harding, daughter of William P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, whose engagement to Robert Thompson Pell of New York has been announced. Miss Harding is a sister of Mrs.

Frederick H. Prince, and also of Miss Margaret Harding, who resides in Washington with father. The wedding will take place in June of next year, after Mr. Pell has finished his course at Harvarb. 30 COAL COMPANIES PROPOSE MERGER CONSOLIDATION WOULD BRING UNDER ONE CORPORATION 000 ACRES OF COAL LAND.

CAPITAL OF $35,000.000 Merger Only In Infancy and Announce ment of Companies Involved Not Yet Made-Announcement May Came in Month, Pittsburgh. Contemplated merger of 30 independent coal companies in the region from Pittsburgh to Wheeling, W. along the line of the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, became known here through John A. Bell, Pittsburgh banker, and chairman of the board of directors of the Carnegie Coal company. The merger may take place in "a month or two," Mr.

Bell said. The consolidation would bring under one corporation approximately 50,000 acres of coal land, most of which is under development, he stated. The company would have a capitalization of about $35,000,000. Mr. Bell stated that the deal had been under consideration for about six months, but that the time was not yet suitable for announcement of the names of the companies involved.

J. H. Sanford, president of the Carnegie Coal company, and Wm. N. Henderson, president of the Henderson Coal company, are also mentioned in connection with the proposed consolidation.

Train Kills Man and Baby, New Castle, Ind. Brozzell, 42, and Barbara Lond, aged one, of Terre Haute, members of a party en route from Terre Haute to visit the Home for Aged Ministers near Dayton, Ohio, were killed and three other members of the party seriously injured when a Lake Erie Western train struck an automobile in which they were riding at Dun Reith, near here. Auto Racer Killed. Toledo, Porter, Detroit race driver, was killed here when his machine crashed through a fence at the Fort Miami track during an automoblie race. Porter apparently lost control of the car and was crushed to death when it turned over after leaving the track.

Will Join Allies In Turkish Probe Washington. -The American government has accepted the invitation of Great Britain to be represented on the commission which is to investigate alleged Turkish atrocities in Anatolia. JUDGE ADAM C. CLIFFE Judge Adam C. Cliffe of Sycamore, it is said, will be appointed to suc.

ceed Kenesaw M. Landis as federal judge of the northern district of Illinois. FAVORABLE REPORT ON FORD'S PLAN ACCEPTANCE OF LATEST AGREE, I MENT URGED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE. ONLY EXCEPTION IS GORGAS Ford Agents See Victory in Decision and Hold Hope Final Inclusion of Gorgas Plant. -Vote Twelve To Nine.

-Henry Ford's proposal to develop the government's vast power and nitrate projects at Muscle Shoals, has been given additional "approval by the house military committee" and reported to the house with a recommendation that it be accepted in the form agreed to in committee. The action taken was 12 to 9, in executive session, and was interpreted by committee men generally as being in effect but the preliminary skirmish to what promises to become a bitterly contested battle between the proponents of the Ford offer in the house. In arriving at its final decision the committee decided to eliminate from the properties covered in the Ford offer the steam plant at Gorgas, and agreed with W. B. Mayo and J.

W. Worthington, representatives of the Detroit manufacturer, upon new language regulating the manufacture of fertilizers. In all other respects, the Ford offer was fully approved. Mr. Mayo declared when advised of the committee action that despite elim.

ination of the Gorgas plant he regarded the results announced as a decisive victory for Mr. Ford and that a more determined effort than ever before now would be made to obtain the properties. To agree upon every detail involved in the negotiations, except one, was a distinct achievement, Mr. Mayo added, particularly since the discussions had been extended over SO long a period of time, more than a year since they were first begun at the war department. He expressed warm appreciation for the courteous and conscientious work done by the committee from the time it began consideration of the subject.

Two other developments in congress affecting Muscle Shoals occurred while the committee was in session. The house instructed its conferees on the army appropriation bill to report back to it what decision they reached with the senate on the amendment providing $7,500,000 for continuation of work on the Wilson dam, so that a separate vote might be had. In the senate agricultural committee, Oscar C. Merrill, executive officer of the federal power commission, testified that the Muscle Shoals projects should be completed and put in operation preferably by private enterprise. If the government decided to operate the properties, Mr.

Merrill said he believed the bill by Senator Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the committee, probably offered the best method of dealing with the projects. Will Seek Treaty. German ambassador to Washington has been instructed to negotiate a German-American mercial treaty, it was reported here. Governor Russell has authorized the statement that he expects to spend the summer on the coast, and that he will open executive offices at Gulfport, as he did last year, on July 1. Governor Russell has appointed Macey Dinking his private secretary, effective July 1, and Mr.

Dinking will be in charge of the executive offices in Jackson, during the governor's absence. The governor will also have a corps of clerks with him, and will maintain offices at Gulfport. The Gypsy Smith meeting at Jackson which lasted nearly four weeks, having been extended on account of the wonderful interest in the same, has closed. It is estimated that at some of these meetings approximately 10,000 people were present from Jackson and the surrounding country some of them coming by automobiles for fifty miles. It was not an unusual thing for four to five hundred to go forward to ask for prayer nightly, and there were several hundred conversions, The statement is made of these editors that there is a disposition to have more newspaper men in the legislature than heretofore, and that the 1924 session will perhaps contain from 6 to 12 well-known editors in house and senate.

Publishers point out that an effort was made from outside sources at the recent session of the legislature to pass laws discriminating against Mississippi publishers, and they want representatives in that body, not only to see that newspapers of Mississippi are fairly treated, but men of breadth and imagination, who will make valuable legislators, State Superintendent of Education Bond says that between now and the middle of July, a meeting of trustees of rural schools will be held in every county in the state for the purpose of planning the next school year, and. that a Association is to be organized in every school in Mississippi. What is known as Better School Week will be observed in 0c- tober. Meetings will be held in all the counties and over a hundred leading men and women of the state are to be engaged in a speaking campaign. No money is to be asked for anything, but the campaign is to enlist the wholehearted co-operation of all the people of every school district for their school children who attend.

Boards of supervisors and mayors and alderman throughout the state are becoming actively interested in the law which requires the making up and publishing of county and city budgets, covering all expenses, and showing every source of revenue, and from what source derived. Almost every day inquiry is made here at the capital for this law. Failure to comply with the provisions of the law. shall make members of boards of and aldermen and mayors liable on their official bonds for the ful amount of any claim allowed, contract entered into, or public work provided for, and the district and county attorneys are directed to prosecute them for a violation of the law. While the publication of this budget, which must be done after the September meeting, brings in considerable money to newspapers, it is estimated that many more dollars will be saved the taxpayers.

corps of surveyors are at work in the Quiver River drainage district, operating from a camp between Tutwiler and Sumner, and the work of surveying most of the northern area of the district has been completed,.