The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, June 24, 1920, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextM’ADOO REFUSES TO BE CANDIDATE WcADOO FOLLOWERS ARE RE PORTED TO BE TURNING TO SENATOR GLASS WON’T ACCEPT NOMINATION The Withdrawal Os McAdoo Is One Os The Great Political Surprises Os The Year New York. —In words which admit of no other interpretation William G. McAdoo has issued a statement in which hi finally and irrevocably re fuses to permit his name to go be l< >■ tin- Democratic convention at San Francisco. Mr. McAdoo reiterates that his rea-< son for leaving Washington was that he desired to "rehabilitate hia family,” and that the time has not come when t i ,-an conscientiously give his serv ice: to his party. He declares that he cannot afford a presidential cam paign. should he he nominated, and that lie would not wish his friends to furnish the necessary funds. McAdoo's decision became known when he released a telegram he sent to Jouett Shouse, at Washington. Mr. Shouse had wired the former secre tary of the treasury asking him for a definite statement as to his candidacy, and making a final request that Mc- Adoo permit hie friends to place him in nomination. After pronouncing his decision not to be a candidate, Mr. McAdoo makes a plea for the Democratic party to stand squarely "for the ratification of the league of nations wjth debilitating reservations” and for a direct and ex plicit stand on domestic questions. "Your telegram,” McAdoo says, "re quires an explicit and immediate an swer. I am profoundly grateful to you and my other generous friends who, witli such spontaneity and unselfish ness, have without my solicitation ad vocated my nomination. To cause them disappointment distresses me deeply, but I um Unable to reconsider the position I have consistently main tained. namely, that I would not seek the nomination for the presidency. I cannot, therefore, permit my name to before the convention. This decision is Irrevocable, "The considerations which compell ed me to resign as secretary of the treasury and director general of rail roads. after the armistice in 1018, in large measure, still prevail. ! must have a reasonable opportunity to reha bilitate my private affairs and to make that provision for my family which, in time of peace, is at once the sacred duty and the cherished desire of every r.gilt-thinking man." ESCAPED CONVICTS FROM UNITED STATES PRISON ARE AGAIN BACK IN JAIL Eight Men Won Their Way To Lib erty, But Five Os Them Have Ben Accounted For Atlanta, (la. John Duffy, alias Frank tYoe.d. and Richard Dodge, alias Henry Koberts. two of the eight men who mud* a sueemsful getaway on June tii si from the federal prison in South Atlanta, arc behind the bars again, ac cording to information received here troin Jacksonville, Kin. Tlic eight men secured entrance to the new wing of the federal prison during the afternoon hours recently and iHiding there some plumbers’ tools (this wing lias not yet been made ready for occupancy) sawed their way to liberty, walked unconcernedly through ihe grounds devoted to the prison farm, and disappeared. Three of them were caught within a few hotm. but nothing had been heard of the other five until lbe story was iti lived troin Jacksonville. John Unify, convict 9908, with some three aliases, was sent to Atlanta troin i idar Rapids to serve an eight year sentence fir violation of the in ti 1 slate i omnierre laws. Dodge, who matte h s escape once before, was sentenced by u military court in Roe ion t olive tears for burglary uud ab ut mi w tlumt leave. Pillowing an unsuccessful attempt to cut their way to liberty out of the iin >1 in Jackson, the local police ..... atm d that Duffy and Dodge were esc a su'd prisoners from the federal penitentiary £ Jurors Gotten To Hry Communists fhiiago Forty days ago William Ur v Lloyd and twenty three other alleged Communist laborltes were placed oil trial charged with conspir ing to overthrow the government. Fight jurors have been selected and J attorneys are still trying to find the ! «tl.er four. In the meantime the eight j are under guard in a downtown hotel. Tiny sent the following note to Judge Oscar Hebei, the trial judge: "The I compliments of the jurors already sworn. We are still alive and happy." W’. J. Bryan Bans Certain Candidates Fargo. N. D. —"No wet governor from New Jersey will ever be the Demo cratic candidate for president,” declar ed William Jennings Bryan, speaking in Fargo, recently, under tiie auspices oi a local lecture association Mr. X,r\an also MUgled out tjevernor Cox of Ohio, and Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska. as ’wets.” Mr. Bryan declar i ed he was taking a dry plank and a j "prison term for profiteers' 'plank to the San Francisco convention. FIVE BILLIONS APPROPRIATED Over Half Os This Sum Was A “Hang- Over From The War, Chair man Good Says Washington.—Approximately five billion dollars was appropriated by the Sixty-sixth congress at its ses sion ending June 5, according to a statement prepared by Chairman Good of the house appropriations commit tee for the final Issue of the Congres sional Record. The exact total, as given by Mr. Good, was $4,859,81)0,327. Os this amount expenses in the fiscal year be ginning July 1, and $486,495,048 is to meet deficiencies for the fiscal year ending with this month. Chairman Good said congress had reduced estimate* of government de partment.- for next year by $1,474,422,- 602, the total appropriations in only two measures exceeding the estimates. ’ Congress added $64,120,000 to the pen sion bill and $70,861„000 to the postal bill. The latter increase is to meet advances in pay to postal employees, while the pension increase was absorb ed in part by increased pensions. The total carried by the thirteen great annual supply hills, as given by Mr. Good, was $2,212,126,298, as fol lows: Postoffice. $462,675,190; sundry civil, $437,106,806: naval, $433,279,574; army, $392,558,365; pensions, $279,150,000; executive, judicial and legislative, $104,735,726; agriculture, $31,712,784; fortifications, $18,833,442; District of Columbia, $18,373,004; rivers and har bors, $12,400,000; Indian, $10,040,655; diplomatic and consular, $9,218,537; military academy, $2,142,212. In addition to these bils, permanent appropriations, annual expenditures authorized by congress for stated pe riods, amounted to $1,363,768,980, of which $980,000,000 is for interest on the public debt and $260,800,000 for the sinking fund. Miscellaneous appropri ations included $725,000,000 by the transportation act, of which $300,000,- 000 i« to be used as loans to the rail roads for a period of 15 years. Minor miscellaneous appropriations, with the deficiencies brought the total appro priations to $4,859,890,327. Mr. Good charged off $2,558,068,400 of the appropriations as a direct war “hang over,” the sum including the ends provided for the railroads, for the interest on the public debt, the pay ment to the sinking fund and $293,168,- ■IOO appropriated for re-education, hos pital treatment and insurance pay ments for veterans of the world war. The army and navy got $855,956,962 for the next fiscal year. EMBARGO ON SUGAR NECESSARY TO MEET AMERICAN DEMANDS Sugar Export* This Year Are Reported To Have Been Greater Than All Os Last Year Washington.—An embargo on the export of sugar is included in the plans of the department of justice for relieving the nation-wide sugar short age, it is announced by A. W. Riley, special assistant to the attorney gen eral. Sugar exports so far this year have been greater than the whole of last yeur, Mr. Riley says. Exports for 1919 were 658,660 tons, of which 447,- 660 tons were British owned, leaving 211.000 tons of American owned su gar exported, while from January 1 to May 27 exports of American su gar amounted to 220,000 tons. Exports of sugar would he curtailed, Mr. Riley says, if the country Is to have a sufficient supply to take care of domestic needs. Two Killed In Storm At Cleveland, O. Cleveland, Ohio.—One man was kill ed. another was reported dead, a doz en others had narow escapes from death and thousands of doluire of damage was done during a terrific electrical, wind and rain storm of almost cloudburst proportions. Near ly an Huh of rain fell in six minutes and the wind attained a velocity of fifty-seven miles an hour, while the storm was at its height. Bolsheviki Drives Poles Out Os Kiev London. The Polish army. The Sunday Observer says it understands, evacuated Kiev owing to the contin ued menacing advance of the Bolshe vik army which threatened to cut off the Polish line of retreat. The source of this information is not given by the newspaper. Eugenie Undergoes Difficult Operation Madrid. Spain. —Former Empress Eugenie of France is able to see much better than for years, thanks to an operation for cataract performed since her arrival in Madrid, where she is the guest of her nephew. The frailty : of Eugenie permitted the use of only j la local anaesthetic. The surgeon made i a slight incision in the cataract, ap- I plied cocaine and then the delicate in strument. which acts on the suction ; principle, was used. After six days the obstruction was drawn aside with out pain. Cotton Consumption 541,080 In May Washington. Cotton consumed during May amounted to 541,080 bales of lint and 31.032 of linters, the cen sus bureau announced. During May last year 487.934 bales of lint and 13.- 715 of linters were consumed. Cotton on hand May 31 in consuming estab lishments was 1.695,501 bales of lint and 282,187 of linters. compared with ‘ 1,391,321 of lint and 272.614 of linters i a year ago: on hand in public storage ! and at compresses. 2.554.754 bales of j lint and 392.568 of linters. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. LEAGUE COUNCIL DELAYS ACTION DECISION IN CASE OF PERSIA VS RUSSIA, FIRST BEFORE THE COUNCIL, DELAYED INVESTIGATION BY NANSEN Russian Soviet Government Says II Is Necessary To Protect Ship ping In Caspian Sea London. —The case of Persia versus Soviet Russia, the first bit of inter national adjudication undertaken by the council of the league of nations has been remanded pending the re sult of the Bolshevik promise to cease aggression in Persia and with draw the landing party operating in the neighborhood of Enzell. The supporters of the league antiei pated action by the council of the Per sian appeal for intervention as the first practical test of its power to set tle international disputes, but the council after a few days’ deliberation, concluded that it was desirable, in or dor to give every opportunity for sue cess of the exchanges now going on between Teheran and Moscow, to await the fulfillment of Moscow's de clared intentions before determining the manner of bringing the league’s machinery into play. Sir Eric Drummond, dealing with the subject of the council sending an investigation commission to Rus sia, announced that the council could do no more than note Moscow’s refus al of May 26 to receive such a com mission. Reporting his investigation of the problems connected with the repatri ation of prisoners of war who had been unable to return home, especial ly those in captivity in Siberia, Dr, Fridtjof Nansen, special commission er in this work, estimated the pris oners in the territories of the late Russian empire at approximately a quarter of a million and the number of Russian and other prisoners still in Germany and other European coun tries at not less. Teheran. Persia.—The Russian So viet government, in reply to a note from Persia, says that there is no question of an enterprise against Per sian independence, but says it is nec essary to protect Russian shipping in the Caspian sea. ESCAPED SOLDIERS ARE BEING SOUGHT IN MURDER CASE New Development In Camp Grant Mystery Implicates Four Troop ers Who Escaped Camp Grant. 111.—Investigation ot the fatal shooting of Mrs. Maude Lu cile Moss, wife of Capt. Leroy 11. Moss, at Camp Grant, took a new turn when camp and civil authorities, armed with rifles, began a hunt for four soldiers who escaped from the guard house. One of the four has faced a court martial three times on charges pre ferred by Baptaln Moss, intelligence officers said. Indications that an escape had been pre-arranged came to light when the authorities learned a car had been stol en at Davis Junction, just south of the camp, not far from where the shooting occurred. According to report from Mount Morris, Ogle county, four soldiers drove into that village early in the day, tried to buy gasoline and when the garage men declined to sell it aban doned their machine. Taht Mrs. Moss had been shot was not known until the automobile in which she was riding with her husband and four friends had gone a half mile. The party had just passed the small group of soldiers, it was said, when a sharp report was heard. The mo tor party later recalled that they had thought it was a misfire of the motor. Striking a bump in the road, Mrs. Moss, who had been alseep on the rear seat, wedged between Mr. and Mrs. William V. McCreight, slumped for ward. Mr. and Mrs. McCreight, be lieving Mrs. Moss still was asleep when she failed to recover her posi tion, put out their arms to aid her. and it was found only then that she had been wounded. Honors Won By Woman With Baby Chicago.—The highest honors among the 878 persons graduated from the Northwestern university were award ed to Mrs. Howard Van S. Tracy of Evanston, who took her baby daugh ter to’college with her and completed I the four-year course in three years. Mrs. Tracy was graduated with a de gree of bachelor of arte. She said she planned to return for her mas ter's degree. The baby was born four months after the mother entered col lege in the fall of 1917. Bolshevik Forces Are Driving Poles London. —The Bolshevik forces in j the Kiev region are still pressing back i the Poles, following the capture ol the city by the Soviet army, the of ficial statement from Moscow an nounces. Flurries Os Snow At Omaha, Neb. Omaha. Neb. —Fiuries of snow melt ing before they had reached tht ground ended a heat wave which had extended for eight days. The tern peruturi dropped 22 degrees. JOHNSON IS URGED TO BOLT Kenyon And Lenroot Say Bosses Nam ed The Ticket, But Say The Tick et Should Be Supported Portland, Ore. —More than fiv6 thousand signatures were obtained to a petition circulated in Oregon asking United States Senator Hiram W. John son to repudiate the platform adopt ed by the Republican national con vention in Chicago, and to announce himself as an independent candidate for the presidency, according to a tel egram sent to Senator Johnson by W. P. Adams, Portland attorney. Mr. Adams said that he did not rep resent any Johnson organization that had heretofore existed, but that his telegram was sent in behalf of many supporters of Senator Johnson in the recent Oregon primary election. "We heard that similar petitions were being circulated in New York,’ Mr. Adams said, “so we started them here in Portland. So far the petitions have been circulated only in Portland, but we plan to send them throughout the state.'” Adams said that he and the group with which he is connected will con tinue to circulate the petitions until Senator Johnson declares positively that he will not be a candidate for the presidency on an independent ticket. The coalition of Liberal forces at work to form a third party at conven tions to be held in Chicago on July 10, is eagerly awaiting some word from Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, who is most prominently mentioned as the organization’s pres idential candidate. LaFollette, who is recovering from an operation at Rochester, Minn., has given no sign as to his attitude to wards the proposed party. 3 NEGROES PAY PENALTY FOR ASSAULTING A GIRL AT DULUTH, MINNESOTA Mock Trial Held By Mob In Police Station And Three Negroes Found “Guilty” Duluth, Minn. —Three negroes were lynched here by a mob estimated at five thousand persons, which overpow ered the police, took possession of po lice headquarters and seized six ne groes, who were held in connection with an attack on a young white girl. A mock trial was held by the mob in the police station, and three ne groes were found guilty and three oth ers, also held in connection with the assault, were acquitted and turned back to the police. Not a shot was fired in the attack on the police station, the members of the mob using bricks and other mis siles, and in the final stages of the fight, streams of water from fire hose taken from the police themselves. Shortly after midnight the mob still surrounded the police station, but there was no indication of further trou ble. The police believed the mob would disperse in a few hours with out other disorder. Four lines of hose were taken away from firemen by the mob and turn ed on the police. Stones and sticks w»ere used to break windows and mem bers of the mob crawled into the jail. One of the negroes hanged was taken about two blocks from the po lice station to the corner of First street and Second avenue, east, where a rope was thrown over a telephone pole. As he was pulled into the air the rope broke and he tumbled to the ground. He was held until another rope was procured, and the hanging proceeded. The attack on the girl is alleged to have occurred at night at the cir cus grounds here. The negroes, em ployed with the circus, were rounded up by the police after the girl’s story had been told. Four other negroes, it is said, were arrested several miles from here and were being brought to Duluth. Believes Ex-Wife Kidnaped Children Washington.—Three small children of Dennis E. McQueary, treasury de partment employee, have disappeared McQueary believes they have been kidnaped by his former wife, he said. The children. Catherine, 11, Smith, 9. and James, 7. were in a public school here when a woman called. She asked to see them. After the lunch hour they did not reappear. Anony mous telephone messages have been received by the police saying the chil dren are safe. Allies To Modify Turk Peace Treaty Paris. —The London correspondent of The Temps says that he has re ceived confirmation of reports that the supreme council of the allies will consider certain important modifica tions in the Turkish peace treaty. The peaceful intentions of France in Asia Minor as evidenced by the conclusion of an armistice -oetween General Gou raud and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish Nationalist leader, have evok ed favorable comment in England. British Wireless Operators On Strike London. —A strike of marine wire i less operators that wil laffeet all ports and shipping has been declared. The men demand an increase in wages of approximately 100 per cent over the pre-war rates, and also better con ditions of employment. Under the strike order, operators on ships are instructed to cease work when their voyages end. and not to sign for fur ther trips. This is the first general strike of its kind, and. according to union men, may take on international aspects. FRIENDSHIP OF All NATIONS IS ASKED '■ SPECIAL EFFORT TO BE MADt FOR GOOD RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES POLICY OF MEXICO OUTLINED Petroleum Laws Based Upon Article; Os Constitution Nationalizing Oil Deposits I Mexico City.—Mexican petroleum > laws based upon article 27 of the con j 1 stitution nationalizinf deposits of oil i which article will be interpreted lib ! eraly, will not be retroactive, declared j s Adolfo de la Huerta, provisional pres-j ident, to foreign correspondents. Senoi j i de la Huerta spoke freely in discuss > ing problems before the country, be • ing host at a luncheon to the newspa per men. The policy- of friendship toward for -1 eign nations, especially the United States, together with the assumption ‘ of all legally contracted debts of the Mexican republic, is a part of the pro -1 visional president’s program. During the two hours the president talked wit hthe correspondents he an swered questions with amazing frank ness. Once he had a sudden attack of illness and was forced to cease speaking for several moments. This attack, which alarmed the guests, came when the provision president was talking of the uprising against Presi dent Carranza and had said orders had been given Gen. John S. Torres at Hermosillo to arrest de la Huerta, but that when the general arrived in So nora he refused to obey orders. The provisional president» refused to leave the table because of his ill -1 ness, and in a few minutes resumed his narration of events. He did not throw any new light upon events at tending the Sonora revolt, which spread to all parts of the republic and finally resulted in the flight and death i of Carranza. With regard to a Mexican foreign loan, he evaded the issue by declar ing “These conversations with for eign journalists are the first steps which have been taken in this direc tion.” “Mexico faces two problems at pres ent,” he continued. “These are the economic and military problems. Mex i ico is more completely pacified now i than during the time of Porfirio Diaz. Villa, whose status is that of a mere bandit, is not a military problem. Air -1 planes are being sent to locate Villa, who, pursued relentlessly, will soon be eliminated. TWO MEN KILLED; SEVERAL WOUNDED, IN RIOT OVER FLAG Negroes In “Black Belt” Os Chicago Set Fire To American Flag And Outbreak Follows Chicago.—Two white men were kill i ed and several negroes, including a ■ negro policeman, were wounded in a • riot in the heart of the south side 1 “black belt,” following the reported ■ burning of an American flag by a • band of negroes who were said to 1 have paraded in the interests of a 1 “back-to-Africa” movement. The trouble occurred at Thirty > fifth street and Indiana avenue, near * the scene of last year’s race riot, in ' which more than thirty whites and ’ blacks were killed and hundreds in jured. Several hundred policemen I were rushed to the district and suc ■ ceeded in restoring order before the • disturbance spread. More than a thou- I eand negroes gathered, but no gene ’ ral riot occurred. . Several negroes who witnessed the 1 flag burning ran to a pool room at Thirty-sixth street and Indiana ave nue and asked aid of persons in the place in preventing the act. * Rose, who was in the pool room, 1 and a number of negroes, proceeded ‘ toward the gathering of blacks. They I were joined by Policeman Owens, who 1 attempted to arrest one of the group. Owens started to search the man > for a weapon, when other negroes in : the crowd were reported to have * drawn pistols. 1 It was not known who fired the first ' shot. Owens was wounded in the back 1 and Rose, who had just left Hoyt’s cigar shop after enlisitng the latter's aid. was shot through the heart. < \ Garden Os Eden Is Located In China [ j Washington.—There is a Garden of . - Eden in China, according to the de- I scription given by Julean Arnold, a ! commercial attache to China. The gar ' j den is an economic one known as • ! West China. It is without modern * ! transportation connections and the k 70,000.000 inhabitants are only slight ly influenced by the outside world. Here you can buy four or five fresh eggs for a cent; a bushel of wheat * brings 15 or 20 cents and a ton of an thracite coal is worth 50 cents. Wages average 15 to 20 cents a day. ! Waters Os Missisisppi Run Up Stream Hickman. Ky.—An unexplained phe , nomenon occurred here in the Missis ' near shore became suddenly agitated. r sippi river. The water of the stream swirling and boiling and running up ; stream in a wave 10 feet high. There ’ was no wind, earthquake or any vis r fble explanation of the occurrence. which was witnessed by many here. I The disturbance lasted about three , minute*, but in that time a large fish I dock was sunk, a barge was filled with water by the towering waves break ing over it How to Treat A Torpid Liver The liver is the largest and most im portant organ in the body, and when the liver refuses to act, it causes constipa tion, biliousness, headaches, indigestion, gas, sour stomach, bad breath, dysen tery, diarrhoea, pains in back and under shoulder blades ahd under ribs on right side. These symptoms lead to colds, in fluenza or other serious troubles unless corrected immediately. | An Inactive liver places an extra bur- I den on the kidneys, which overtaxes j them and causes the blood to absorb and ! carry into the system the impurities that I the liver and kidneys have failed to elim- I lnate. •» When you treat the liver alone, you treat only a third of your trouble, and that is why you have to take purgatives | every few nights. Calomel or other ordi | nary laxatives do not go far enough. If | you would treat your kidneys and blood I while treating the liver you would put j your entire system in order and frequent I purgatives would then be unnecessary. Dr. W. L. Hitchcock many years ago . recognized these important facts, and aft er much study and research, compounded what is now known as Dr. Hitchcock’s Liver. Kidney and Blood Powders, uiree medicines combined in one. This w-as the Doctor’s favorite prescription for many fears, being used by his patients with marked success. It is a harmless vege table remedy that will not make you sick, and you may eat anything you like while taking it. Get a large tin box from your druggist or dealer for 25c, under his personal guar antee that it will give relief, tone up the liver, stimulate the kidneys to healthy action and thereby purify the blood, if your dealer will not supply you, it will be mailed direct by the Hitchcock Medi cine Co., Atlanta, Ga., upon receipt of price.—Adv. The End Young Bride —Mother, dear, how long does the honeymoon last? Mother —Until you ask your husband for money, my child. LONG LIST OF SYMPTOMS North Carolina Lady Was Nervous, Weak and Suffered Greatly, but Relief Soon Came After She Took Cardui. Asheville, N. C.—Mrs. J. A. Sluder, of 45 Woodrow avefrue, this city, re cently made the following statement: "I was in a very run-down condition after ... I wasn’t able to go. “I was nervous, weak • and couldn't do my work. “I felt like, at times, no matter what happened, I couldn’t get up a spark of Interest. “I was depressed, blue, and continu ally on the lookout for something to happen. “I couldn’t sleep to do any good, and had to force myself to eat when meal time came. “I suffered some pain fn my hack and sides, but the worst trouble was weakness and depression. “I decided to try a tonic. “My sister had gotten such fine re sults from Cardui, I began using it. “Soon I noticed I would get hungry, and sleep at night, and this, of course, was a great help. "I grew less nervous. “The depression left me and soon I was well and strong. “I enjoy good health, thanks to Cardui.” Ask your druggist about it. —Adv. Facilitating Parcel Post Service. An automatic weighing machine for parcel post packages releases the cor rect stamps when a package is laid on a plate and a key for its zone is pressed. MOTHER! “California Syrup of Figs’' Child’s Best Laxative Accept "California” Syrup of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its fruity taste. Full directions on each bottle. You must say “California."— Adv. * Very little outside sympathy is wast ed on a widow and a widower who marry. Some men find it easier to open a jackpot than a can of beans. _ MP ** Morning ''il&BS&n Keep Your Eyes Clean - Clear Healthy i»t« for froo Cl* Caro Book Muriat Co,Chicago.