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CHARLES W. MORSE INDICTED AGAIN
U.S.DESWEME
OfIDEREOTOPROCEED
TO 2MEXICSN PORTS
Two AmeiTcans Are Killed
by Bandits Near Pala
yadas Carranza Still
Losing Forces, Report
WASHINGTON, May 3.—American
destroyers have been ordered to Vera ■
* Crux and Tampico to protect Ameri
cans there.
The navy department acted on the
request of the state department,
where it was explained today that
the warships would take aboard
Americans in those ports in event
that 'should become necessary.
It was said that the vessels would
not. intervene in Mexican affairs and
that their dispatch was a precau
■t -ta y measure. Only the cruiser
Sacramaento now is on the east
coast of Mexico. She was last re
ported at Tampico.
Outbreaks Reported
No reports of any disturbances in I
either Vera Cruz or Tampico have i
been received, by the state depart
ment, but revolutionary outbreaks I
have occurred near both ports.
Advices to the government today
said the line between Mexico City I
and Vera Cruz had been cut, but
they did not indicate the afttent of
damage. This line runs through the
northern part of the state of Tex
aeala the governor and military com
mander of which were reported last
week to have joined the Sonora rev
olution.
Bequest Granted
President Wilson has granted the
request of Mexican federal army of
ficers that they be allowed to pass
over States territory en route
to Mexico City from the rebellious
stafte of Sonora, it was learned today, j
The president in taking this step, ■
through the state department, how- |
ever, recognized the vigorous protest .
of Governor Hobby, of Texas, against |
the passage of the Mexican officers i
across the territory of that state.
The officers may cross Arizona and
New Mexico, whose governors agreed
to allow their passage, but may not
enter Texas in their return to Mex- j
ico City.
Mr. Wilson’s action in permitting
transit of the Carranza officers was
interpetcd here as showing that the
president does not want to be put in
the light in any way of being in
sympathy with the /Obregon rebels
and does not want to embarrass the
Carranza government in dealing with
the revolutin.
Second Action Taken
This was the second action taken
by the president in connection with
Mexican revolt. Secretary Colby re
cently ruled that firms and citizens
of United States could pay cus
toms duty to the defacto Sonora au
thorities and be free from further
obligations, although the Carranza
government contended that it event
ually would have to receive the duty.
Officials here explained that the
United States could not recognize the
closure by the Mexican government
of the Sonora ports of entry unless
they were closed in fact, and that
this policy was customary.
The Carranza officers requesting
transit over American territory were
General Jose Rios and General Man
uel Gamboa and officers of their
staffs and their families. They were
at Hermosillo, capital of Sonora,
when that state broke with the fed
eral government, and remaining loyal
to Carranza, they wanted to return
to Mexico City. The officers stated
they would travel over United States
territory without arms or uniform.
There has been no disposition at the
state department here to frown on
the request.
Storm of Protest
It Is understood that the officers
will go on the Southern Pacific and
Ei Paso and Southwestern railroads
from Nogales, Arlz., along the bor
der across Arizona and New Mexico,
to a point close to El Paso., Tex.,
which is at the junctilon of New
Mexico and Texas and at that, point
cross into Mexico.
The request of the few Mexican of
ficers over United States territory
was given out in official quarters er
roneously as being a request from
the Carranza government to dis
patch a body of combatant troops
across American soil to launch an
attack on the rebels In Sonora. This
impression caused a storm of pro
test in the senate. Mr. Ashurst, Ari
zona, declared that his state would
independently bar the Carranza
troops if need be.
Two American citizens, Eben Fran
cis Greenlaw and his minor son,
were killed by Mexican bandits yes
terday, the state department was in
formed today by the American em
bassy in Mexico City.
AMERICANS ARE ORDERED
OUT OF JUAREZ, REPORT
JUAREZ, May 3.—Authorities rep
resenting the United States govern
ment here announced last night that
Americans had been ordered out of
Juarez in view of an impending bat
tle. Saloons and gambling houses
were closed, It also was reported.
Officials representing Carranza
state, however, that negotiations for
the peaceful surrender of the city
still are under way. Efforts to pre
vent a battle so close to the border
are being made to preclude the pos
sibility of United States forces cross
ing to protect American interests.
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SBRS€ANTWrH R4/WAM
This is the boys’ year! So says
Sergeant Ruth Farnam, the only
American woman- soldier, who
has received word from Serbia
that the stork is leaving all boys
in that country—no girls this
season.
This is the way Providence has
of evening things up, thinks Ser
geant Farnam, who, having wit
nessed the slaying of Serbia’s
manhood in battle, declares this
is an effort on the part of nature
to restore that little kingdom's
men.
A fighter in the’ field of battle
and an officer in the cavalry de
partment of the Royal Serbian
army, Sergeant Ruth Farnam is
today doing her utmost to help
rehabilitate Serbia through her
lectures, under the management
of the Serbian Child Welfare as
sociation.
$2,500 REWARD
OFFERED IN WALL
STREET THEFTS
NEW YORK, May 3. —A reward of
$2,500 was offered today through
newspaper advertisements for infor
mation leading to arrest and extra
dition of Jules W. (Nicky) Arn
stein and Nicholas Cohen, alleged
“master minds” behind the theft of
$5,000,000 in securities from Wall
street concerns.
The reward was offered by Henry
A. Gildesleeve, trustee in bankruptcy
of Arnstein, and Saul S. Myers, coun
sel for the trustee and the National
Surety company.
Renewed activity/ in the hunt for
Arnstein, -which began several weeks
ago, followed an alleged confession
by Joseph Gluck, a messenger boy.
that he turned over to Arnstein more
than $1,000,000 worth of stolen se
curities.
Detectives were working on two
new tips today—one that Arnstein
and Cohen were hiding in Cleveland
and another that they were on a
large estate near New York City.
Automobile
Is Halted by Hostile
Parade in Panama
PANAMA, May 2.—Several thou
sand Panamanians tonight marched
through the streets in a torchlight
parade as a protest against the ac
quisition>by the United States of
the major portion of Taboga island
for the purpose of fortification as
a part of the pacific defense scheme
of the Panama canal. An automo
bile in which Pershing was
driving to a ball in his honor at
the Union club was halted by the
procession and forced to return to the
hotel.
Mobs later formed in the streets,
and irresponsible persons threw
stones at prominent Panama of
ficials, a number of whom where in
jured. Mounted policemen, acting on
orders of Mayor Boyd, charged and
dispersed the demonstrators.
Major General Chase E. Kennedy,
commander of the American troops
in the canal zone, following receipt
of reports of the stone-throwing, or
dered all American officers attending
the ball to leave immediately.
Earlier In the evening General Per
shing attended- a reception at
the Balboa administration building,
where thousands of American em
ployes shook hands with him. To
morrow he will inspect the Atlantic
canal defenses.
Wets Will Make Final
Effort to Repeal Law
WASHINGTON, May 3.—The final
effort at this session of congress to
repeal the Volstead nrohibition en
forcement law probably will be made
in the house today or tomorrow.
All the wets admit the effort will
fail, but are desirous of putting all
members on record the vote to be
used during the next campaign. The
prohibition question and particularly
the Volstead law is expected to be
as issue in-many districts.
Another vote also is desired to see
if reaction against the drastic dry
law is increasing or decreasing.
Sam Olive Enters
Race for Congress
AUGUSTA, Ga., May 3.—Sam L.
Olive, president of the Georgia sen
ate, has formally announced - his
candidacy for congress in the Tenth
district. It Is expected that Repre
sentative Carl Vinson will announce
for re-election some time soon. Mr.
Olive’s announcement caused nc
surprise here, although it had been
thought that he would not make the
race until two years hence.
World War Veterans
On Boston “Gun Crew”
BOSTON.—One hundred and twen
ty policemen will receive three prac
tice sessions in machine gun and
riot gun fire in preparation for any
disturbances. All members of this
force are veterans of the World war.
KNOX RESOLUTION
ONPEIMTEISI
TOMHE
Two Courses of Action De
bated by Democrats> One
to Filibuster Other to Let
Vote Take Place
BY DAVID J7 AW HENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, May 3.—-Neither
President Wilson nor the Democrats
in the senate who follow his leader
ship are particularly pleased with the
changes made by Senator Knox in the
resolution declaring a state of peace,
which was passed by the Republican
majority in the house of representa
tives, but it is a fact that the Knox
proposal Is less objectionable than its
predecessor and makes more difficult
a veto message from the White
House
Two courses of action are being de
bated by the Democrats —whether to
center their opposition on the Knox
resolution and by continuous talk de
lay action until after the two politi
cal conventions next month have
nominated candidates for the presi
dency or to let the resolution pass—
for the Republicans probably have the
votes —and thus be able, when the |
conventions arrive, to point out that I
the joint resolution doesn’t make
peace.
.Senator Knox, who once was an at
torney general and a secretary of
state of the United States, re-wrote
•the house resolution with an eye to
future criticism. He recognized at
once that the congress could not bind
the executive branch of the govern
ment as to the kind of treaty of peace
it should negotiate and that it would
be the simplest thing in the world fo: x
President Wilson to veto the resolu
tion and cite weighty precedents to
support his action. So, after repeal
ing all the war-time legislation of a
domestic character and forbidding,
moreover, the disposition of the Ger
man property in the United States
taken by authority of the trading
with the enemy act, another congres
sional privilege, the Knox resolution
merely would “request” the president
to open peace negotiations with Ger
many. In so far as the resolution de
clares that the United States doesn’t
waive any rights in the meantime
which it might get under the treaty
of Versailles, this, too, merely would
be the expression of an opinion by
congress and would of course not a
tually bind a.foreign government un
less so notified by the executive
branch of the United States govern
ment with whom it deals exclusively
in matters of the kind.
The Veto Power
Congress cannot under our consti
tution enter into communication or
negotations with foreign govern
ments.
Thus broadly speaking President
Wilson cannot veto the Knox resolu
tion merely because it expresses an
opinion or requests him to adopt a
certain course. And before the reso
lution is ’finally passed by the sen- |
ate, the fact that congress “re
quests” rather than "orders” the
executive branch of the government
to safeguard all claims or rights
which would otherwise come to us
under the treaty of Versailles Itself
will be emphasized, and all consti
tutional or technical objections to
the Knox resolution will have been
removed.
The president would have to
choose some general ground for va
toeing the Knox resolution. And his
action would be unprecedented. He
could say that the treaty of Versail
les alread- is in operat x d that
he believes it to be the best compro
mise agreement that can be obtained
and a more advSHtageous pact to the
United States than a separate peace
with Germany. He could moreover
refuse to negotiate with Germany
separately, arguing that it would be
a violation of the terms of the
armistice agreement signed by all
the associated powers as the basis of
peace and a withdrawal of our moral
obligation to stand with the allies
with whom we fought the war.
Not So Easy
But the task of vetoing a message
whose main action merely is a repeal
of domestic legislation and a re
quest for a new treaty is not going
to be an easy one for the president
and the Democratic party. Indeed,
house Democrats themselves propos
ed a substitute resolution repealing
wartime laws. From the president’s
viewpoint, it might be more com
fortable not to sign the joint reso
lution at all but allow it to become
law after the lapse of ten days and
then to send back to the senate the
treaty of Versailles as his defiant
answer to the request for a separate
peace with Germany. This would
throw the whole matter into the
campaign as the president on the
one hand and Senator Lodge, on the
other, are eager to do. But the re
quest for a “separate peace with
Germany” was denounced by Presi
dent Wilson on his western trip and
from the statement issued by Homei
Cummings, the Deocratic national
chairman, it is apparent that the
Democrats will try to revive the
wartime hate of Germany by refus
ing to “beg the Huns to make a sep
arate peace.”
On the other hand the demand in
the allied countries for a revision of
the treaty of Versailles has been
taken up to some extent in the Unit
ed States and there are political
groups who would be quick to con
tend that hope of forcing a revision
of the Versailles treaty lies tn the
negotiation of a separate peace with
Germany.
Senator Knox speaks on Wednes
day in defense of his resolution. Ad
ministration Democrats led b-- Sen
ators Hitchcock and Underwood will
make reply. There will be plenty of
talk for the next month, possibly a
I repeal of some'of the war-time laws,
but no commercial agreements of
treaties with Germany or Austria
until the American people at the
polls next November have decided
whether they want the treaty of
Versailles with reservations or in
terpretations or a new treaty with
Germany altogether.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.
POLISH FORCES
SAID TO HAVE
OCCUPIED KIEV
WARSAW, May 3.—Polish forces
occupied Kiev yesterday, according to
extra editions of the newspapers here
today. General Pilsudski, president
of the Polish state, led the troops
into the city, the newspapers say.
Winnica and Zhmerinka, approx
imately 52 miles southwest of Kiev
have been retaken by the Poles and
Ukranians after three days of fight
ing. The reds have been pushed
across the Bug river.
Stubborn fighting is going on Sn
the open country along the Telrow
river in the vicinity of Melin.
Chinese mercenaries are being
used by the Bolshevik to stem the
eastern sweep of Polish and Ukrain
ian forces, said Saturday’s official
commonique. A number of Chinese
have been captured, it was announc
ed. Material taken by the Poles in
clude 100 locomotives, three armored
trains, several tanks and one entire
air squadron.
Ukrainian troops assisted the
Poles, the advices said, adding that
the’ soviets were seriously menaced
by uprisings throughout the Ukraine.
Poles were maintaining their pripet
line without serious opposition.
GEORGIANS TO FIGHT AGAINST
ENTRANCE OF BOLSHEVIKI
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.—The
seizure of Baku, on the western
coast of the Caspian sea, by the Rus
sian Bolsheviki on April 28, has
aroused the Georgians, who have
called four additional classes to
arms and announced they will not
permit the Reds to enter Gergia
t ugh Azerbaijan.
Thus fare they have been able to
prevent the Bolsheviki from enter
ing through the mountain passes in
the vicinity of Vladikavkaz.
?he capture of Baku gives the
Bolsheviki virtual control of Azer
baijan. Its seizure makes the Ar
menian situation more precarious as
the Bolsheviki doubtless will help the
Moslem Azerbaijan opposition to
Armenia. In this way Mustapha
Kemal Pasha’s Turkish nationalist
Mohammedan forces would be able
to connect with the Axerbaijans,
forming a connection with the Mos
lems in Turkestan byway of the
Caspian sea and Persia.
NEW HEARING ON
STEEL DECISION
DENIED BY COURT
WASHINGTON, May 3.—The su
preme court' refused to grant the
government’s request for a rehearing
of the anti-trust suit against the
United States Steel corporation.
The government’s motion for a re
hearing was based principally on the
contention that the couurt’s decision
in the steel case conflicted with that
of April 26 ordering the dissolution
of the Reading company and certain
of its rail and coal subsidiaries. Both
cases were decided by a four to three
decision.
Here Are Candidates
For Prohibitionists
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 3.—Dr.
P. A. Baker, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of America, today
gave out a statement In which he ad
vised that prohibitionists of the coun
try may safely support, if nominated,
Hoover, Wood, Lowden, McAdoo,
Hughes, Poindexter or William J.
Bryan.
Took Two Wills to
Make This Bequest
BOSTON.—WIien James A. Wool
son died he bequeathed a sum for
the building of a left wing to the
Cambridge hospital. The amount was
not sufficient. His widow died March
27, and her will, filed recently, pro
vided for making up the deficit. Mrs.
Woolson left $70,000 to public insti
tutions.
THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS WILL BE BIG
NEWS MONTHS
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Democratic and Republican .parties will
soon be staged—
And then will come the campaign with all of its excitement
and enthusiasm —
And that will be only a part of the interesting news which
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OKLAHOMA STORM
Little Town of Peggs Swept
Away by Tornado Sun
day Not a House Left
Standing
MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3.—Fifty
persons are reported killed and more
than 150 injured in a storm that
swept the little .town of Peggs,
Okla., in Cherokee county last night.
Dispatches to the Muskogee Times-
Democrat, from Locust Grover and
Tahlequah, where the dead and in
jured are being taken, stated that
not a house was left standing in
Peggs.
Relief trains with doctors and
nurses left Muskogee and Tahlequah
early today for Peggs.
Wire communication with the town
was cut off, by the storm.
All doctors and nurses in Tahle
quah also have gone. Practically
every store in Tahlequah, which is
the county seat of Cherokee county,
has closed and several hundred peo
ple have gone to Peggs to do rescue
work.
Thirty-seven bodies have been re
covered by rescuers from wrecked
houses in the town of Peggs, swept
by a storm last night, according to a
telephone report from TaJjlequah.
This information was bropught by a
messenger who arrived at Tahle
quah today. Twenty of these bodies
are reported to have been taken from
one building.
The little village of. Peggs is on
the northern border of Cherokee
county about sixty miles east of
Tulsa. The place is off the railroad
and is situated in the foothills.
Those familiar with the roads in
the vicinity say it is practically im
possible to reach Peggs by motor car.
The Tulsa Tribune started a news
paper man by airplane to the strick
en district this morning.
John Littlefield, his wife and six
of their seven children were among
those killed in the storm, a report
to Tahlequah said.
The only physician in the town.
Dr. W. R. Hill, also was killed.
At noon today forty-four bodies
had been extricated from the debris
resulting from last night’s storm at
Peggs, Okla.
SEARCHING PARTY SEEKS
TO ASCERTAIN DAMAGE
CHELSEA, Okla., May 3. —Search-
ing parties today spread out over the
country north of here to ascertain
the' full extent of a tornado that
struck just before dusk last night,
bringing death to at least five per
sons and serious Injury to a dozen
more.
No estimate of property damage
has been made, although it was in
dicated it would be heavy.
/ The district affected is rural and
'as wire communication was para
lyzed rk was believed here the exact
loss of life and property damage
might not be kr wn for some tinie.
The storm passed near Chelsea
and many persons here watched it
twist its way out of sight. .
Reports were current here that the
storm had struck other nearby towns
but owing to wire conditions they
could not be verified.
Passengers on a Missouri, Kansas
and Texas train said they had ob
served large areas of devastated
country districts south of Vinita, but
as the train had made no stops they
could add nothing definite to the re
ports of destruction.
Many narrow escapes were report
ed. Among those who weathered the
storm were Walter Sutherland and
eight friends who were riding in a
wagon when they saw the storm ap
proaching. Sutherland hitched his
team to a telephone pole an the
party took refuge in a nearby ditch.
The storm passed overhead without
injuring any of them, but the
horses and wagon were carried
away.
New Chairman of the
I U. S. Farm Loan Board
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CHARLES E. LOBDELL
The appointment by President
Wilson of Char Les E. Lobdell as
chairman of the farm loan board
has been the cause of surprise in
political circles in Washington.
Mr. Lobdell is a Republican. He
has been a member of the board
since its organization, and had
.been acting as secretary.
WITNESS IN BOMB
PLOTS JUMPS TO
INSTANT DEATH
NEW YORK, May 3. —The fact
that the government had made sev
eral arrests in connection with the
nation-wide bomb plots of last June
became known today when Andrae
Salsedo, who confessed to having
printed \ the anarchistic circulars
found near,the scene of the outrages,
committed suicide by leaping to Park
Row from the fourteenth story of an
office housing headquarters of the
department of justice in this city.
William J. Flynn, chief of the de
partment’s bureau of investigation,
admitted that several other men had
been arrested in connection with the
plots, that they had confessed to par
ticipation and that they had agreed
to turn government witnesses.
He declined, however, to give their
names or to explain what part they
had played.
Salsedo, also known as “Tony
Lazio,” was sleeing with another
government witness. Awakening, he
stole into the wash room in his un
derclothes and hurled himself from
a window without awakening his
companion. It is believed he took his
life rather than appear in court
against the other plotters.
From Chief Flynn and N. C. Do
nato, Salsedo’s lawyer, it was learn
ed that the circulars found at the
time of the explosions, when attempts
were made on the lives of many pub
lic men, had been printed in an
Italian printing establishment in
Brooklyn, where Salsedo was em
ployed!
According to Donato, his client’s
employer asserts he knew nothing
of the job, and that Salsedo must
have done it in his spare time with
out his knowledge. He admitted,
however that the circulars headed
"Plain Words” and signed “Anar
chist Fighters,” had been turned out
on his presses.
According to Flynn, the suicide
of Salsedo, an Italian anarchist who
lived in this city with his wife and
two children will not affect the
government’s case, and through in
formation supplied by him and other
witnesses, important arrests may be
expected.
According to Donato, Salsedo, who
came to this country about five years
ago. did not know English and was
not "a man of action.” His attor
neys said that when anarchists ask
ed him to print the pink circulars
he did not appreciate the gravity of
his act.
Immigration officials at Ellis Is
land said a warrant for Salsedo’s
deportation had been granted on
March 10 on representation by the
department of justice that he was
an anarchist. The prisoner was not
surrendered, however, to the Ellis
Island authorities, nor was his war
rant returned.
Salsedo was held by the depart
ment of justice in the hope that a
dozen Italians who had fled to Italy
or Switzerland would return to the
United States. Federal agents did
not give reasons for expecting this
return.
At police headquarters it was ad
mitted today that two other arrests
had been made here before Salsedo
was taken into custody.
. The man arrested was Roberto Ei
lia, of Brooklyn. The police assert
ed he had a loaded revolver, that he
had admitted he was an anarchist
and that he was editor of a publica
tion known as Domani. Arraigned
on a charge of violating the Sulli
van law by carrying a loaded weapon,
he was placed under suspended sen
tence and turned over to the depart
ment of justice.
On information said to have been
supplied by Ellia, Vito Marriani, an
Italian laborer, was taken into cus
tody. The police say he admitted he
was an anarchist and supplied infor
mation on whicii Salsedo was ar
rested.
Chief Flynn said Salsedo and oth
er government witnesses had ex
pressed fear of being murdered by
the anarchist plotters if it became
known they had confessed.
At their own suggestion quarters
were arranged for tnem in the Park
Row building. There they slept and
had their meals, and did not leave
the building except for exercise.
Salsedo s wife was allowed to visit
him frequently.
Salsedo’s wife was allowed to vis
it him frequently. She is said to
have spent much of yesterday with
him.
News of Salsedo’s death will, give
the first information to some of his
former confederates, Chief Flynn
said, that some of the conspirators
had been for a l/>ng time in custody,
and might cause them to go into
hiding or take especial pains to
elude the government who
have been watching them. Enough is
known, however, according to Flynn,
so that none of the principals can
long escape.
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VIOLATION OF SHIP
ACT IS CHARGED TO
FORMER BANKER
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Bill Returned by New York,
Federal Grand Jury-Two
Other Indictments Are Also
Returned
NEW YORK,M ay 3.—An Indict
ment charging Charles W. Morse with,
violating the shipping board act,
which prohibits sale of American
registered vessels to foreigners, was
returned by the federal grand jury
here today.
With Morse were Indicted Captain
W. S. Mitchell, the- United States
Steamship company and the J. G.
McCollough company. Judge A. N.
Hand issued bench warrants upon
request of Assistant Federal Dis
trict Attorney Simmons, who has
been conducting an Investigation
lasting four months.
The indictments charge that in
August, 1917, the steamship John G.
McCollough was sold for $500,001 to
the government of Tunis, a French
protectorate.
MORSE SERVED PART
» OF SENTENCE HERE
Charles W. Morse more than ten
years ago was convicted in New (
York of a violation of Vhe national
banking act and sentenced to a term
of fifteen years in the Atlanta fed
eral prison. ,
He was received in that institu
tion on January 3, 1910, and shortly
thereafter he commenced a fight for
his release. His wife came here aqd
conferred with him as often as sne
was allowed to see him . The then
law firm of Anderson, Felder, Roun
tree & Wilson was engaged to rep
resent him. On a showing of evi
dence regarding his physical condi
tion, President Taft commuted his
sentence to present service in Jan
uary, 1912, two years after he enter
ed the prison, and he was released.
The examining doctors testified
that Morse had brighVs disease in
an incurable form. Immediately on
being released from the prison he
went to Carlsbad, the famous Euro
pean health resort, and took the wa
ters there for several months.
DELEGATES FROM
INDIANA MAY
GO UNINSTRUCTED 1
INDIANAPOLIS, May B.—lndiana
will send an uninstructed delegation
to the Republican and Democratic
national conventions, it appeared to
day.
Politicians conceded that none of
the four Republican presidential
aspirants entered in the primary
elections tomorrow will obtain the
majority necessary to swing the
solid support of Indiana’s thirty-six
delegates.
The fight for a plurality was gen
erally thought to lie between Senator
Hiram Johnson and Major General
Wood, with Governor Frank Lowden
running strong for third place. Sen
ator Warren Harding wound up his
sneaking tour today. Wood made a
whirlwind wind-up today. Senator’
Johnson also closed his campaign.
He has spent several days In Indiana
making a personal appeal.
The Democrats have asked an un
instructed delegation from this state
and as a result, the names of Gover
nor Edwards of New Jersey, and
Vice-President Marshall were with
drawn early in the campaign. No
name is listed for the presidency on
the Democratic ballot, but it is ex
pected that Herbert Hoover will re
ceive quite a number of written-in
votes on both tickets. His name was
not entered on the Republican ballo I '.
Excessive Rainfall |
Jeopardizing Crops,
Says Commissioner
Unprecedented rains have placed
the farmers of Georgia in a despe
rate' situation, according to J. J.
Brown, commissioner of agriculture,
who has been in fifty counties in the
past two weeks.
“Recently I noticed a statement in
the public prints to the effect that
1,500,000 more acres would be planted
in cotton this year than were planted
last year,” said Commissioner Brown
Monday. ‘‘That statement was ab
surd on its face. Even if the farm
ers wanted to plant more cotton,
which is not their desire, they could
not do it. The farm labor shortage
is acute and desperate throughout
the belt. The unprecedented rains
have thrown the farmers at least
forty days behind their schedule.
How are they going to plant more
cotton when they are forty days late
and haven’t the labor to Cultivate
as much as they cultivated last year?
The cotton acreage will be substan
tially reduced.
“I do not wish to seem pessimistic,
but I look for a severe food short
age next winter. I believe it will
be the worst in the history of the
country. The south not only will be
short in cotton production, but short
in food production. The western
wheat farmers have the same labor
problem that exists in the south.
They look for a heavy curtailment
of production, x
"Thousands of Georgia farmers
have not planted cotton and have not
planted corn. The rains today and
yesterday will throw them back
another ten days or two weeks. Cot
ton planted late might make a crop
if it weren’t for the boll weevil, but
late cotton planted under boll weevil
conditions is almost doomed in ad
vance. Corn planted late might make
a crop if it had a good season, but
I look for a long drought to follow
the rains, and that will ruin the late
corn crop.”
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