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Brazilian federals occupy rebel ‘capital’
efense Attorneys Struggling To Save Youths
toUPLE HELD UP AND INSULTED|BY SHERIFF
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FOP KILTS
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Liss Bagget to Be
Ifendant in Action to Be Filed
| at Douglasville
Lficer struck woman
Ifficer Says Woman Abused
■Him and Denies He Used Pis
| to Cower Couple
I ATLANTA, July 28.—E. C.
Illen said today that legal ac
|cn would be taken against
lieriff Bagget, of Douglasville,
Lorn he charges struck his wife
after stopping their automobile
L search the machine for liquor
lithout a warrant. No liquor
las found in the car.
I Sheriff Bagget says that Mrs.,
Ellen abused him after the
[ had been completed and
lei. 'What he used a pistol to
Iwe i.l couple while the ma
liine was being examined.
lICDM TELLS OF
■DIGNITIES OFF&RED
■ ATLANTA, July 28. —After hav
|g his car halted by Sheriff A. S.
Baggett, of Douglas county, on the
Itskirts of Douglasville, E. C. Al
in, of this city, who returned here
Ite Sunday night, stated that the
■ficer had hcdd him up at the
lint of a revolver, conducted a.
larch for whiskey, humiliated and
lapped his wife in the face, and
Bat he was himself subjected to
pugh treatment.
When reached over long dis
pnce telephone the Douglasville
lieriff is quoted as having admir
ed that he had slapped Mrs. Alien,
k well as having “to handle Allen
Lughly,” but denied that he had
bed a revolver at any time during
lie search, and insisted that his
ttion in slapping Mrs. Allen was
[arranted by her language to him
Iter he had stopped the automo
le” ‘ |
Allen stated, according to the
lory, that he was undecided as ‘to
Beflier he or Mrs. Alien Avould
Ike action against Sheriff Bag
pt, ' Allen declared that after
e sheriff had struck Mrs. Alien
bl that J. C. Harding, who accom-
Inied the officer, “held Allen, -at
|e point of a gun, preventing him I
km leaving his car, finally fore-.
K him to start the machine.’’
INo liquor was found in the ear.
H neither of its occupants were
rested. ■ '
»!■
IIWIH
jghteen Passengners and Five
of Crew Saved Following
Ccllision at Sea
' Iul V 28.—One hundred
I'l fifty persons were drowned in
b wreck of the steamship Tairei
F u wnieft collided with the Kam
r' a Maru off Cape Notoro, north
pt ot Hokkaido, at 10:45 last
pht, say.-- a dispatch to Asahi, a
Rio paper. The vessel of 1240
F burden* was bound for Otaro,
fe'teen passengers and five of
F crc 'w were'saved.
I WILLS MB
ffl BU WLUTEO'
pNOXVILE, July 28.—A warn-
F against public bathing was is
M to da.v by the health depart-
I I l , as five new typhoid fever
r'J developed, bringing the total
L‘o with those already reported.
Phe health bureau announces
r 60 springs of the city are poi
kd and that a large part of the
r supply is infected, which caus-
Ithrcfj deaths in as
|°rded. v ,, q
THE
fefLpUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
Albert H, Loeb
I ■
I JilK
w
Albert K‘. Loeb, multimillion
aire father of Richard Loeb, who
will testify before Chief Just
ice John R. Caverly in Chicago at
a hearing to determine the men
tal responsibility of Richard
Lodb and Nathan Leopold, who
have pleaded guilty to murdering
Robert Franks. •*
VIGOROUS ffllON E
MN ■ Bl STATE
DEPT. J CISE
Assault On Widow of Murder
ed American Provokes ‘Vig
orous Action at Capitol
PERSONS ARE WARNED
Protest Lodged Against Con
ditions That Lead to Unpro
voked Attack
WASHINGTON, July 28.
Acting Secretary Crewe, of the
State Department, today an
nounced in a dispatch "vigorous
representations ’ to Minister
Kornfeld, Teheren, Persia,
would result of an assault of Mrs.
Katherine Imbrie, widow of
Vice-Consul, who was killed re
cently, by a mob at Teheran.
SECRETARY CREWE
SENDS COMMUNICATION
WASHINGTON, July 28.—Act
ing Secretary Crowe, of the state
department, today announced the
dispatch “vigorous representa
tions” to Minister Kornfeld, at Te
heran, Persia, as the result of an
assault on Mrs. Katherine Imbrie,
widow of the American vice-consul,
who was killed recently by a mob
at Teheran.
The communication protested
against the situation which resulted
in an unprovoked attack.
KU Kfi MIE
IS WINNER IN I®
Felix Robertson Nominated for
Governor, With Lynch Da
vison in Second Place
DALLAS, July 28.—Revised fig
ures of Saturday’s democratic pri
maries put Lynch Davidson, of
Houston, as second place over Mrs.
Miriam Ferguson in the race for
gubernatorial nomination. Judge
Felix Robertson, avowed Ku Klux
Klan candidate, gets first place.
S'eventteen democratic congressmen,
eight of whom had opponents, ap
parently are renominated.
SMALL FIRE LAST
NIGHT ON STRIFE ST.
A small fire last night damaged
two houses belonging to Mrs. E.
Pearlman on Strufe street. The
damage was placed today at S7OO
to SBOO by Fire Chief McArthur.
The smallest things on earth may
be the parts of an atom, but the ( too
’fenrallest'fftlhgS are electric fans,
t-110l
WMH BIBS BOTH
HfPPIS MO POITOU
WILLIAMS IK RFPLY
Candidate for Senator Puts Per
tinent Questions to Georgia’s
Senior Senator
CHARGES ARE' DENIED
‘Deliberate and Wilful Mis-state
ment’ Charged to Senator
Harris By Opponent
ATLANTA, July 28.—(Special.)
—Replying to the publication of an
editorial from the Greensboro, Ga.,
Journal in the daily papers of the
state last Sunday, this editorial hav
ing, been given out by the head
quarters of Senator William J. Har
ris, Thomas W. Hardwick, candi
date to succeed Harris, has prepar
ed the following:
In the papers of Sunday, July 20,
a libelous attack on me was pub-.
Jished in a guise of an ‘editorial
from the Greensboro Herald-Journ
al. In the interest of fair play, I
shall ask such of the papers as print
ed this attack to be fair enough to
print my reply:
1. The jharge is made that I air.
a ‘republican” because I held office
under a republican president and
attorney general. This statement
is viciously untrue and its authors
knew it to.be such when they 1 made
it. What are facts?
When I left the' governor’s of
fice on June 30, 1923, I became
and remained for about ten months
a member of the advisory council
of the JJnited States department of
justice, in charge of-war fraud in
vestigations. At the time of my ap
pointment I was not even acquaint
ed with Attorney General Daugherty
(Continued on Page Two.)
JNO. H. MS WOH'T
UICTATE PH.TFDRMS
Democratic Nominee Declares
He Has No Desire to Inter
fere With State’s Affairs
DARK HARBOR, Isleb'oro,, Me.,
July 28.—John W. Davis, democra
tic presidential nominee declares
that he had no desire to dictate
state democratic platforms.
His statement was in response to
inquiries concerning published re
ports that he had been urged to re
turn to New York early next week
with a view to preventing a threat
ened clash with Governor Alfred E.
Smith, over the question of the
adoption of a strong anti-Klux Klan
plank by the New York state con
vention in September.
‘I naturally am interested in the
state platforms,” Mr. Davis said,
‘but my observation has been that
state conventions reserve the right
to write their town plats. rms.”
Reports that he had been urged
to return to New York before the
scheduled time of ending his vaca
tion next Thursday were character
ized by the nominee as “pure ima
gination.”
“Would you object to Governor
Smith as a candidate to succeed
himself as governor of New York?”
Mr. Davis was asked.
‘I would be Very glad to see him
run,” was the reply.
The democratic candidate varied
in his routine today by abandoning
his golf game to watch v. boat race
in Penobscot Bay. He spent sev
eral hours in his study, completing
the first rough draft of his speech
accepting the democratic presiden
tial nomination and later conferred
with Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of
the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who is
spending a vacation in Maine.
The nominee will attend church
services here tomorrow and will
have as visitors during the day
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia,
and New York publisher, and Wil
liam A,, .8 df mp&ratim leader
iot ncr* _
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 28, 1924
Its a\Good Show for Them!
n _ | —in ■■iirary'ißM- n» V >k. JOT 1» X •
W’ ' nm:
•Y
m I
he noose is dangling before
th. r eyes. Yet to see Nathan F.
Leopold, Jr., (right) and Richard
Lc b sitting there in Chief Just
ice John R. Caverly’s court, one
would think they were at a vaude
vil e show. They gigle at the
embarrassment of witnesses,
Judge Crisp 7 o Speak
for National Ticket
Americus Congressman and
Senator George Among First
to Be Selected by Committee
Information was received here
today of the selection of Judge
Charles R. Crisp, as one of a num
ber of able Georgians who will be
to take the stump for the na
tional ticket in the coming cam
paign. The national committee is
eng, ged now in the compilation of
a list of speakers from whom
John W. Davis, the party nominee,
and Chairman Shaver, will select
campaign speakers at an early date
It is understood that among oth
ers who have offered their services
to the national committee are form
er Senator Hoke Smith, who is
known as an effective campaigner,
and it is believed that he will ne
given a number of important as
signments during the campaign.
Congressman Crisp, who is now
at his home in Americus, is
garbed as one of the best posted
among democrats in congress, es
peci Jly on the tariff, which will bp
one of big issues of the campaign
jn certan sectins. He will be de
pended upon, it is stated, to show
the oulk of the voters of the coun
try hat'their taxation is not direct,
but indirect, and that because of
this fact the Fordney-McCumber
tariff act imposes a cost of $4.-
000,000,000 on those least able to
pay.
LA FOLLETTE TO HAVE
REGIONAL HEADQUART’RS
V. ASHINGTON, July 28.—The
establishment of six regional cam
paign headquarters is planned by
the managers of Senator LaFol
left ’s campaign for the oresideney
whi h, they believe, will enable
them to perfect a nation-wide or
gan, zation quickly and carry on a
drive for votes.
LITTLE JOE
OUE PIECE- .
BE*F\NE EATIHM
COR>4 -ON 4HE
whose testimony may send them.
to the gallows, and laugh even
when the state’s gruesome ex
hibits—such as the chisel with
which they killed Robert Franks,
Chicago schoolboy— are paraded
before the court.
BIG COTTON MILLS TO
RESUME ON FULL TIME
NASHUA",
. Nashua Manufacturing com
pany, manufacturing cotton
goods, announced today full time
schedule will be in effect at
Nashua and Jackson mills Sep
tember 2. The present sched
ule is for four days a week.
LABOR TROUBLES
CAUSE AMP
RIOTS IN CALIF.
San Francisco Consul-General
Informs Tokio Foreign Office
Concerning Agitation
KLAN NOTMENTIONED
Demonstration Held At Two Big
Fruit Packing Plans With
Many Shots Fired
By Associated Press
TOKIO, July 28.—Recent
anti-Japanese activities in Cali
fornia, reports of which were
printed in Japanese newspapers,
causing a sensation here, were
apparently due to labor troubles,
San Franci.sco consul general
reports to the foreign office, after
a thorough -investigation.
The Ku Klux Klan, to which the
first report attributed the disorder
was not mentioned.
Inquiry by the consul general dis
closed a demonstration was held
at the plants of two fruit packing
complies in Hopeland, California,
when the shots were fired.
INDICT BOYS FOR
EXTORTION LETTER
CHICAGO, July 28.—True bills
have been returned by the Cook
county grand jury, charging two
19-year-old boys with attempting
■to extort SB,OOO from Jacob Franks,
father of the 14-year-old boy mur
dered by Nathan Leopold and Rich
ard Loeb.
The two boys—Walter Borycka
and Ignatius Ciombras—sent a let
ter to Franks on June 21, one
month after the murder of Rojbert,
threatening to kidnap Josephine,
Robert’s 16-year-old sister.’
They demanded SB,OOO. Borycka
and Ciombras admitted sending the
letter because of the publicity given
the Franks murder case, believing
the elder Franks was so terror
stricken by his earlier loss that he
would pay.
EXPERTS CALLED BY
CROWE TO IDENTIFY
BOYS' HANDWRITING
Second Week of Hearing at Chi
cago Featured by Introduc
tion of Expert Testimony
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Defense Attorneys Busy With
Details of Battle to Save Boys,
May Change Plea
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 28. Be
ginning the second week of the
trial of Richard Loeb and Na
than Leopold, Jr., for the kid
naping and slaying of 14-year
old Robert Franks, State’s At
torney Crowe called handwrit
ing experts in furtherance of
what he termed "his perfect
hanging case.”
DEFENSE LAWYERS
IN CONFERENCE
CHICAGO, July 28.—Attorneys
representing Leopold and Loeb held
an important conference Sunday at
which the decision was reached to
launch an aggressive counter at
tack against the prosecution in a
last and desperate effort to save the
two 19-year-old intellectuals, sons
of multimillionaires, from hanging
for the crime which th?y have ad
mitted committing was reached at
a conference Sunday presided over
by Clarence S. Darrow. This gath
ering was attended by Benjamin
Bachrach, Darrow’s associate, sever
al alienists and other physicians re
tained by the defendants. Among
those who conferred with Darrow
were Dr. William F. Healy, of
New York; Dr. Bernard Glueck, of
New York, and Dr . William A.
White, of Washington. They are
among the most eminent specialists
in mental and psychical abnormal
ities in the United States.
One result of the conference, it
become known today ii that the
defense is seriously . considering
withdrawing the guilty pleas of the
prisoners and demanding a trial by
jury. It also is considering ma
neuvering so that an insanity hear
ing may be ordered before a com
mission of experts.
It was the testimony of Detec
tive Sergeant James J. Gortland,
that Leopold, the day after his con
fession had told him the program
of his family to save his life would
be a guilty plea and “a friendly
judge,” that aroused Darrow. Got
land’s testimony admittedly created
an unexpected dilemma for the de
fense and placed Justice Caverly in
a somewhat embarrassing position.
Darrow was shaken from the lethar
gic attitude which he had maintain
ed almost from the time s he hearing
to determine mitigating circum
stances started, and no sooner hud
Saturday’s session ended than a se
ries of conferences were convened
by members of the defense staff.
Darrow said that the continued
effort of Crowe to convince Justice
Caverly that Leopold • and Loeb
should hang had both surprised and
(Continued on Page 7.)
DEPORTED MANICURIST
ARRIVES AT HAVANA
HAVANA, July 28. Blance
Lourdes, former manicurist, wbc
was refused permission to land in
New York last week when she ar
rived on the same steamer with
Luis Firpo, from South America,
reached here today. She is a
Spanish subject, and a native of tl.e
Canary Islands.
CONDITION OF SENATOR
LODGE IS ‘EXCELLENT
BOSTON, July 28.—The condi
tion of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
was declared to be ‘excellent” this
morning by the attending surgeon.
Senator Lodge, the senior sena
tor of Massachusetts, .aged 74, is in
a Cambridge hospital recovering
from an operation for a serious re
currence of a former ailment. Tie
has beeh fonder the rare of a physi
cian for th# plikt month.
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1 PAULO REBELS
DESERT CITY: NOW
HELD BUEDERRLS
State Department Advised of
Fall of Stronghold Held son
Weeks By Insurrectors
SEE END OF REBELLION
Civilians Given Opportunity by
Federal to Escape Before
Final Assault * -
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 28.
Withdrawal of revolutionary
forces from Sao Paulo and the
occupation of that city by Bra
zilian sfovernmen-t forces, was
announced today on advices of
the State Department.
Occupation of Sao Paulo by
government troops, it is believ
ed in Brazil, means the end of
the rebellion.
s
FEDERALS ATTACKED
SETTLED SECTIONS
BEUNOS AIRES, July 28.—A1l
civilians have been notified by tlm
Brazilian government to leave Sao
Paulo where federal troops plan to
launch a decisive attack and crush
the revolutionists, according to au
thoritative reports from Rio de Ja
neiro, today.
The attack js to be launched!
against the rebel stronghold through
thickly settled sections of the cUy.
President Bernardes, of Brazil,
is keeping a launch ready day and
night, prepared to flee, should the
occasion warrant, aecoriiing to re
ports brought by steamers from
Rio de Janeiro.
Official Brazilion government re
ports, however, show nothing to in
dicate such extreme gravity ai
this. They declare the fighting
around Sao Paulo is continuing
virtually without change.
Censorship still prevents accu
rate information from the battle
zones.
Border reports from rebel
sources say that disaffection is
spreading to government taoops
who are restive and do not desire
to be dfafted t(> put down the rev
olutionaries.
MCE ST''
PUT ON TRIAL
Jenkins County Man Faces Third
Jury for Slaying of Watson
Allen Two Years Ago
STATESBORO, July 28.—R. H.
Chance, charged with the murder
of Watson Allen, in Jenkins coun
ty, two years ago, is on trial for
the third time for his life here to
day. The case comes here on a
change of venure. Chance has
been twice convicted, one of the
sentences being for life, while tha
other was a mistrial.
SOCUUSTWRTY '
DENOUNCES KLUXERS
Klan Named in PJatform As
Pernicious Champion of Into!'
erance and Terrorism
NEW YORK, July 28—The de
nunication of the Ku Klux Klan was
contained in the following plank of
the platform of the Socialist party
here:
“We denounce all attempts at di
viding the people along racial and
religious lines and as the most cou
spicious offenders in this respect,
though not the only one we poiift
to the Ku Klux Klan and condemn
it especially because of its pernici
ous campaign of intolerance and
terrorism against large sections of
the people, and as the handmaiden
of reaction, the servant of exploit
ing influences and as a grave men
ace to the integrity of domestic in
stitutions and orderly progress.”
The formation of a labor party;
in which the socialist will proba
bly join was forecast in the follow
ing excerpt from the platform
which followed the endorsement of
the indeeendent nominees:
“Confident that this must lead to
the early organization of a power
ful labor party, the. socialist party
pledges its fullest support.”
