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Atlanta ©rMWetW Journal
VOL. XXII. NO. 129.
■ ■■ LOSES
DECATUR CONTEST
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County Committee Rules
That Appeal Was Improp
erly Filed —Subcommittee
to Meet Here Thursday
A decision against Thomas W.
Hardwick in the Decatur county
contest was made Wednesday morn
ing by the Decatur county Demo
cratic executive committee, accord
ing to a dispatch received from The
Journal's correspondent and con
firmed by private telegrams received
in the Clifford Walker headquarters.
If the contesf had been sustained
Decatur county would have switch
y cd from the Walker column to the
» Hardwick column and given him a
majority (194) of the county unit
• votes, thereby obviating a run-over
unless the Democratic state com
mittee had over-ruled the county
committee’s decision.
The contest is said to have been based
Upon the allegation that unregistered
Voters, some forty or fifty in num
ber, were allowed to vote in the pri
mary; that the elimination of these
Votes would take away Walker’s plu
rality of fourteen votes and give the
county to Hardwick, and that the
managers had no authority to accept
unregistered votes.
Grounds for Decision '
The contest was thrown out by the
county committee, according to a
dispatch to The Journal from its
Bainbridge correspondent, on the
ground that a formal written peti
tion was not filed by or in behalf
©f Hardwick; that notice was not
served on the county chairman; that
Walker was not notified, so as to
give him a hearing in opposition to
the contest.
Hardwick headquarters were of
the opinion that the contest would
be decided in their favor and they
believed the state committee would
not reverse the county committee.
When informed that the contest had
been thrown out. Mr. Hardwick said
he would not appeal to the suoconi
mittee on rules of the state commit
tee .or to the state committee as a
Whole. He said he would go into
the run-over against Mr. Walker
with entire confidence of success.
When Mr. Walker -was asked for
B. statement, he said:
“I am glad the contest- was not
sustained. I want the people to de
cide the issue -between the policies
I represent afid the policies repre
sented by Mr. Hardwick. Their de
cision will be in my favor, of that
I feel certain. If the Decatur con
test had been sustained, we were go
ing to contest 1,000 unregistered
k votes which were put in the Hall
county boxes, according to our in
formation."
The subcommittee on rules of the
state committee will meet Thurs-
Kimball House in Atlanta to con
solidate the returns and declare the
result. With the Decatur contest
decided against Hardwick, and with
no appeal by him from the county
committee's decision, the status of
the gubernatorial race remains the
same as first announced. That is:
Hardwick, 78 counties, 190 county
unit votes.
Walker. 69 counties, 174 county
unit votes.
Holder. 8 counties, 22 county unit
votes.
Will Call Bun-over
The county unit vote of Hardwick
being four less than a majority of
194, and the law requiring a run
over primary in such an event, the
; subcommittee will proceed to call a
run-over primary to be held through
> out the state on Wednesday, October
6. as required by the law.
’ No provision is made by law for
L the expense of the primary. It must
be paid by the two candidates, so
far as anybody has been able to fig
ure The cost will likely be §20,000
to $25,000. This makes it necessary,
- according to both candidates, for
them to raise a campaign fund
among their friends.
FEDERAL RESERVE
BANK DENIES AID
TO COTTON MEN
5 WASHINGTON, /ept. 15.—Re-
£ quests of the American Cotton asso
} ciation for governmental aid in fi
nancing the marketing of the cot
ton crop of the south were denied
? today by Governor Harding, of the
’ federal reserve board.
t The representatives of the associa
« tion asked extension of credit on cat
ton loans estimated at approximate
» ly $500,000,000 in order to permit
growers to hold their cotton and pre
' vent dumping on the market at a
; lOSS.
; The solution of the problem facing
southern cotton producers, Governor
Harding said, lies with the producers
? themselves and in their home banks.
’ ‘'Go back home and tell the peo-
L pie to quit talking calamity," the
governor declared, suggesting that
the cotton men sell their high-grade
? stock to meet demands as they arise,
; which would enable them to grad
c ualiy liquidate their debts and hold
their low grade cotton for a better
market.
The federal reserve board is
[ keenly alive to the importance of
doing everything to sustain agricul
ture in all sections of the country,
the governor told the association
members, but he added that the
*« board was not authorized to deal in
£ prices, though its actions might
have an effect upon them. Recent
estimates of the value of this year’s
, Staple crops are $22,000,000,000, the
governo’- stated, and expansion of
credit to assist producers in all
parts; of the country would mean
f about $3,000 000 in loans.
Chorus Girls Come High;
; Command $ 100 a Week
NEW YORK. With the new theat
rical season about to start. Broadway,
as usual, is complaining of the dearth
bf the chorus girls and the high cost
of the young women of the ensemble
who nowadays make as much, and
in some eases more than their broth
>rs and sisters of the drama. The
* horns girl of today, if she is good
; looking and dresses veil enough to
: ttract the tired bltsine s r. an to the
t.ieiter several times to see her, de
mands and in most cases receives
» $"5 a w -ek Others draw a paltry
la'y of $.70 to sfio. while some ex
i-'-->tional show girls draw as high as
SIOO a week.
REPUBLICANS WIN
» MAINE ELECTION
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G. 0. P. Candidates for
Governor and Congress
Pile Up Greatest Plurality
in History of State
PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 14. —Maine
gave an overwhelimng plurality to
the Republican ticket in the state
election yesterday. With a total
vote larger by 5,000 than the high
est ever previously cast in the state,
Frederick H. Parkhurst, of Bangor,
was elected governor by a margin
of 65,000 over his Democratic oppo
nent, Bertradnd G. Mclntyrfi, of
Norway. The plurality was 17,000
more than thq largest obtained by
any other gubernatorial candidate in
the history of the state.
Four Republican congressmen
were elected by large pluralities—
Congresmen Wallace H. White, Jr.,
John A. Peters and Ira G. Hersey,
retained tehir seats and in the First
district, where Congressman Louis
B. Goodall, Republican, did not seek
re-election, Carroll L. Beedy, of
Portland, Republican, was chosen.
Every member of the state senate
will be a Republican, while of a
membership of 151 in the state
house of representatives the Demo
crats succeeded in electing fifteen
In the last legislature there were
two Democratic senators and forty
one Democratic representatives.
Women Vote Eagerly
The vote of the state for gov
ernor, with returns from forty
small towns and plantations in re
mote ditricts missing, was: Park
hurst (Republican), 133,817; Mcln
tire (Democrat), 69,249.
The increase in the total vote was
very largely accounted for by the
presence of women at the polls -for
the first time. All over the state
women showed themselves eager to
grasp the opportunity of exercising
their new privilege and they were
undaunted by a heavy downpour of
rain in the afternoon. The result
showed that most of them voted the
Republican ticket.
As the returns came in, showing
from- first evidences of a tremen
dous Republican sweep, Democratic
state leaders were silent as to the
possible signicance of the vote with
relation to the presidential election
in November. Colonel Parkhurst,
after being assured o fhis election,
gave the viewpoint of the Repub
licans in a statement in which he
pointed out that the campaign had
been "vigorously contested by the
Democrats on national issues,’” and
said the outcome gave "most con
clusive evidence that the voters of
Maine resent the autocratic and un-
American administration that the
Democrats have given us.” He de
clared that it was "equally an in
dorsement of Harding and Coolidge."
Matters of merely state impor
tance -were hardly touched upon in
the camtpign. The leading speak
ers were men of national promi
nence, both parties striving to ef
fect a good showing in the "barom
eter state,” the only state in the
union to hold its state election in
advance of the voting for president.
For the Republicans, addresses were
delivered by Governor Calvin Cool
idge, of Massachuett, vice preiden
tial nominee; Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, Senator Joeph S. Frelinghuy
sen and others. The Democrats sent
into the state Franklin D. Roose
velt, candidate for vice president;
Secretary Daniels, former Secretary
William G. McAdoo and Homer S.
Cummings, former chairman of the
Democratic national committee.
X>cague the Issue
The chief theme of all these
speakers was the League of Nations,
upon which they upheld their re
spective national party platforms.
The only woman who was a can
didate for public office at the elec
tion yeterday was defeated. Mrs.
Margaret Dyer, of Bar Harbor, was
the Democratic candidate for regis
ter of probate in Hancock county.
She was nominated to fill a va
cancy on the Democratic ticket, and
as her name did not appear on the
ballot it was necescary for those
voting for her to write in her name.
PROHIBITIONISTS
THREATENING TO
IMPEACH JUDGES
M ASHINGTON, Sept. 15. —A com
mittee was appointed today at the
Anti-Saloon league conference here
to draft a resolution warning federal
judges that unless they "sacredly
perform their sacred duties" in en
foicing prohibition laws, the league
will seek their impeachment.
Charges were made that some fed
eral judges had “coddled bootleggers
and moonshiners" and that prohibi
tion laws were being made “a force”
in some, sections by the light punish
ment.
The committee was named by the
Rev. I’. A. Baker, general superin
tendent of the league, after speakers
at the conference had vigorously
criticized federal judges for alleged
laxity in meeting out punishment to
those convicted of violating the pro
hibition amendment and enforcement
law.
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the league, declared that the
warning to the federal judiciary
should be “clean cut” and a notice
to all that official obligations must
be observed.
M. D. W omble Named
Senator in 25th
THOMASTON, Ga.. Sept. 13.
Among the state senators elected in
last Wednesday’s state primary is
M. D. Womble, well-known attorney
ot Thomaston, who will serve the
twenty-fifth district.
Feared Blindness, Suicide
LONDON. Eng.—Elizabetli Bom
ford, sixty-one, committed suicide by
throwin herself under a train. She
had recently suffered from defective
eyesight and left a letter saying she
feared she was going blind and de
cided to take her life. <
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HELD IN CONNECTION
WITH MMLROBBERY
Rufus Knight Arrested by
Sheriff at Homerville, Ga.
Is Alleged to Have Exhib
ited Securities
Dispatches from Valdosta Tuesday,
telling of the arrest in Homerville,
Ga.. Monday night of Rufus Knight
with Liberty bonds and securities,
valued at $295,397, in his possession,
led Atlanta postoffice inspectors to
the belief that Knight is the princi
pal in the sensational robbery of a
registered mail pouch from Southern
railway passenger train No. 36, At
lanta to New York, near Cornelia,
Ga., on the morning of September 9.
Information reached Ch.ief Post
office Inspector Charles Riddiford by
wire early Tuesday of the arrest of
young Knight. Inspectors Clyde
Fleming and Robert Barry were on
their way to Homerville immediately,
where they will secure details of
Knight’s arrest from the local au
thorities and bring the prisoner to
Atlanta. V,
Dscriptions of the securities and
bonds found in Knight’s possession
at the r>e of tyis arrest, while some
what vague, coincided sufficiently
with the inspectors’ record of the
bonds stolen from th/' mail pouch
last week to convince them that
Knight is, at t, one of the prin
cipals in the robbery.
Inspectors were inclined to believe
that the greater part of the securi
ties found in Knight’s possession will
prove to be non-negotiable papers.
According to reports made Tues
day to the inspectors. Knights is an
ex-soldier, having served overseas
with the American forces during the
world war. He is said to be a man
under twenty-five years of age.
The inspectors believe, from the
information received from Homer
ville, that Knight, following the
robbery of the registered pouch on
the Southern Railway northbound
train Thursday morning, remained
in seclusion for several days be
fore going anywhere in the vicinity
of Homerville, his former home.
Dispatches from Valdosta stated
that Knight was turned over to the
authorities by his uncle, H. S. Burk
halter, representative from Clinch
county, following a visit to Mr.
Burkhalter's home by KKnight im
mediately after his arrival in Homer
ville, when he told his uncle of his
possession of the securities and
sought his advice as to how he could
realize on them.
No further arrests in the case had
been made up to 1 o’clock Tuesday,
inspectors said. According to dis
patches, they said Knight has evi
dently made a partial confession of
the crime, and that he later may im
plicate others in the robbery.
Inspectors said they do not know
how one man could have entered
the baggage car of the train and
take the registered pouch without
attracting attention of one or- more
of the mail clerks on duty in the
car at the time of the robbery
This angle of the case is still be
ing investigated.
Tostoffice Inspectors Clyde Flem
ing and Robert Barry were expect
ed to return to Atlanta Wednesday
night or Thursday morning with
Rufus Knight, who was arrest
ed Monday in Homerville with
Liberty bonds and various securities
valued at $295,397 in his possession.
Inspectors hold the opinion that
Knight, if not actually the principal,
was implicated in the robbery of
registered mail pouches from South
ern Railway passenger train No. 36,
Atlanta to New York, near Cornelia,
Ga., on September 9.
Knight, who is under twenty-five
years of age, is said to be an ex
service man who was with the
American overseas forces. He is
said to have been turned over to the
authorities by his uncle H. S. Burk
halter, representative from Clinch
county. Knight is said to have vis
ited Mr. Burkhalter’s home and to
have displayed the securities there.
Turk Crown Prince
Tries to Flee But
Is Caught by Off icers
CONTANTINOPLE, Sept. 11.—The
Turkish crown prince has made an
unsuccessful attempt to flee from
this city to Anatola. He has been
arrested and placed under rigorous
control and his motor cars and boats
have been seized.
The action of the crown prince,
who has not concealed the fact that
his sympathies are with the Nation
alists, is said to have provoked great
dissatisfaction among the adherents
of the existing regime.
The Yildiz palace, the sultan’s
home, was surrounded by police and
a crowd of the faithful today for
the first time since the armistice,
and prevented the sultan’s participa
tion in the middam selamlik services.
The precautions were taken through
fear of a plot to assassinate the sul
tan, a possible development of an
alleged plot in connection with the
reported plans of the heir apparent,
Abdul Medjid Effendi, to escape to
Anatolia.
Abdul Medjid’s palace was sur
rounded by police Tuesday night and
British warships played searchlights
on it. Abdul Medjid protested to the
sultan against the action of the grand
vizier, Damad Ferid Pasha, who
warned the sultan of the alleged piot
involving the heir apparent. The
grand vizier defended himself, point
ing out that Abdul Medjid bad sent
an aide-de-camp to the Nationalists
at Angora, who ha returned with
sealed letters.
Quarterly Income
Tax Payments Due
' Wednesday was the last day for
the payment of the third quarterly
installment of income taxes for 1919.
Collector of Internal Revenue A. O.
Blalock was' unable to estimate the
amount the government would receive.
The fourth installment is due De
cember 15.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920.
WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT PASSED
IN CONNECTICUT
Legislature, Called Primarily
to Enact Laws Facilitating
Vote, Decides to Pass on
Act Itself
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 14.—The
Connecticut legislature this after
noon ratified the federal suffrage
amendment. 1
Within less than half an hour
after the house had adopted the
resolution the senate took similar
action.
Irrespective of the final result or
the tangle resulting from ratifica
tion by Tennessee, which was the
thirty-sixth and necessary state to
pass the amendment. equal suf
frage is now part of the constitu
tion.
The hbuse vote was 216 to 11.
The legislature was called pri
marily to enact laws contingent on
women receiving the vote. Because
of the mix-up over the ratification
by Tennessee, the thirty-sixth state,
however, proponents of suffrage de
cided to ratify the amendment to re
move all doubt of its legality.
The vote in the senate was 33 to 0.
DOUBT OF VALIDITY
IS NOW REMOVED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Con
necticut’s ratification of the federal
woman suffrage amendment re
moves an doubt as to the amend
ment’s validity as well as the pos
sibility of the fall elections being
carried through the courts into the
house of representatives, according
to the opinion of legal authorities
here to3ay.
Connecticut makes the thirty-sevj
enth stat ewhich has ratified, count
ing Tennessee, where the action of
the state legislature is under attack
in the courts. Even though Tennes
see’s ratification were knocked out,
the amendment would still have the
necessaray number of state ratifica
tions. Solicitor General Frierson said.
Officials as well as suffragists were
relieved and surprised when informed
of the rapidity with which the Con
necticut legislature had ratified.
Officials had feared that the su
preme court would be unable to act
on the Tennessee suits until after
election. A decision adverse to suf
frage at that time would have
brought the legality of women’s
votes and consequently the whole
election into question.
While some “time ago
announced they would try for Con
necticut ratification, ...ey had no in
timation today that it was coming so
quickly. They had prepared to face
stiff opposition in the state.
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 15.—The
Connecticut legislature, which yes-,
terday ratified the federal suffrage
amendment, must vote on that meas
ure again.
Governor Marcus Holcomb, believ
ing yesterday’s action was unconsti
tutional, has called another special
session of the legislature for next
Tuesday, for the specific purpose of
acting upon the amendment.
Governor Holcomb, holding a spe
cial session of the legislature may
act only upon such legislation as
is contained in the call, is withhold
ing certification of yesterday’s vote.
Miss Catherine M. Flanagan, for
the suffrage association, last nignt
secured a certified copy of the reso
lutio nos ratification and left for
Washington to file it with Secretary
of State Colby.
The legislature next Tuesday
will receive from Governor Holcomb
the rescript of the nineteenth
amendment and proclamation which
Secretary Colby cent him, and on
which he expects the legislature to
act. The governor has said that
the action of the legislature yester
day did not concern him. He added
that he has outlined how ratifica
tion can be rightly accomplished by
Connecticut and that he would not
certify action until it was done in a
legal way.
Governor to Decide
On Bibb Judgeships
On Next Wednesday
Governor Dorsey will probably
wait until next Wednesday before
appointing an additional judge of
the Bibb superior court, to fill the
place created by ac r . of the last leg
islature, and to appoint a judge of
the Macon city court to succeed
Judge DuPont Guerry, who was kill
ed by a motor truck last Saturday
afternoon in front of his home in
Vineville.
The governor said that he would
be in Macon next Wednesday to
make a spech for the Advertise
Georgia Enterprise, that he would
then confer with friends concern
the two judgeships, and that his ap
pointments would probably ne an
nounced that day or the day follow
ing.
Applicants for the superior court
judgeship are Charles Hall, Mal
colm D. Jones, R. C. Jordan, Will
Gunn, Joseph Hill Hall and John P.
Ross, all of whom are prominent
Macon lawyers.
The Macon city court judgeship
carries a salary of seventy-five hun
dred dollars a year and is consider
ed a most desirable office.
Nation Puffing Up,
Smoking Increases
WASHINGTON.— Figures made
public here indicate that the growth
and consumption of tobacco in the
United States are on the increase.
The producHon from the 1918 crop
was 1,439,971,000 pounds. The com
bined production of cigars was 7,-
629.000,000, of cigarettes approxi
mately 55,000,000,090, and of chew
ing and smoking tobacco and snuff
427,000,000 pounds. There were 16.-
211,769.000 cigarettes exported dur
ing the year, leaving 39,0.0,000,000
factory made cigarettes for home
consumption.
THE GREASED PIG!
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Association Sounds Call
For ‘Cotton Day ! Rallies
On Monday, September 10
Movement Is Planned to
Mobilize All Interests in
Effort to Insure Minimum
Price of 40 Cents a Pound
Announcement is made by officials
of the Georgia division of the Amer
ican Cotton association that Sep
tember 20th will be observed in all
the cotton growing states and coun
ties of -the south as "Cotton day.”
Farmers and interested business
men of each county are called to
assemble at their county seats at
a. m. on the morning of tbe
20th~to join farmers and business
men from all other parts of the
cotton belt in a southwide campaign
for forty-cent ’cotton, basis mid
dling, and a prosperous people.
At each county meeting ,the fol
lowing three subjects will consti
tute the outstanding features of
the program:
1. Plans for holding the cotton of
the county until fair and just
prices can be obtained, together with
plans for co-operative marketing.
2. Plans for fully utilizing exist
ing warehouses and warehouse fa
cilities of the county and for erect
ing- additional warehouses with spe
cial emphasis in this connection on
practicable plans for financing the
crop.
3. Plans for immediately increas
ing the acreage in fall sown small
grains, also other crops, as the one
wise and certain plan of effecting
a reduction in cotton acreage,
pledges to this effect being taken.
Following these discussions plans
for fully organizing the county to
effect these results will be agreed
upon.
Governor Dorsey and the gover
nor of every southern state has
been requested to issue his procla
mation calling on the people in
cotton producing counties to as
semble on September 20th for the
purpose previously stated, and the
cotton association has also asked
for the fullest co-operation of all
agricultural departments, colleges,
stations and extension workers, es
pecially county agents, local and
county farmers unions and farm
bureaus, the generous and united
efforts of all agencies interested in
the farmers’ welfare being neces
sary, it is stated, if the cotton pro
ducers are to accomplish the nec
essary results.
“The importance of providing
proper financial relief to growers
holding cotton makes the southern
banker almost the keynote of our
structure,” says the cotton asso
ciation announcement, “and we
therefore mention with special em
phasis the necessity of enlisting tne
interest of bankers in the fight for
better cotton prices and in the
‘Cotton day’ meetings to be held
in each county on September 2cth,
1920.”
R. W. Mattox, president of the
Georgia division of the cotton as
sociation, left Atlanta Monday night
for Washington, D. C., where on
Wednesday he will meet with «
special committee of bankers and
officials of the cotton association
in conferring with the federal re
serve board. The conference is for
the purpose of securing ample funrcs
through local member banks
throughout the cotton belt to fi
nance cotton in storage and there
by secure a slow movement of the
crop to market.
Pen Days Were Her
Happy Days, She Says
MARIETTA. O. - The days her
husband spent in the state peniten
tiary were the happiest of her life,
declares Mrs. Etta Crowe, who ias
filed petition for divorce from Pat
Crowe, who served thirteen months
in prison. Mrs. Crowe in he peti
tion says her husband made life
miserable for her upon his release
from prison, throwing everything
from his fists to china at her.
GRAND JURY TO
CONSIDER KELLOY
CASE THURSDAY
The case of Jack L. Kelloy,
charged with the murder of Leroy
Trexler, an Atlanta taxicab driver,
near Griffin last Friday, will prob
ably be aired before the Spalding
county grand jury on Thursday, ac
cording to information received from
Griffin We'ftiesday.
Kelloy, who is now confined in the
Bibb county jail in Macon, is expect
ed to be transferred to the Spalding
county jail Wednesday night.
In the event Kelloy is indicted by
the grand jury—and this is regarded
as highly probably—the case will
hardly go to trial before the Jan
uary, 1921, term of the Spalding su
perior court, it was stated by court
officials.
Solicitor General E. M. Owen, of
the Flint circuit, has announced that
he is readv to go to trial at any
time, but John R. Cooper, of Ma
con, and Allen & Crawford, of At
lanta# attornevs for Kelloy, have in
dicated that they will not be ready
to try the case at the September term
of court. „ . _
Change of Venue Wanted
Meanwhile Kelloy’s attorneys are
engaged in a lively tilt as to the ad
visability of asking the Spalding
county superior court to grant their
client a change of venue, in view of
the reported feeling against Kelloy
that exists in and near Griffin.
It '-.-as stated Tuesday that Attor
ney Cooper, in Macon, had prepared
a motion for a change of venue which
he expected to present to the court at
a hearing in Griffin following action
by the grand jury. A1
H. A. Allen, of the law firm of Al
len & Crawford, declared with em
phasis that he and his partner would
not be parties to a motion for a
eJnSer'that such . motion
would be an affront to the people of
Spalding county, said Mr. Allen, for
we know many of them, and are sure
we can get a fair and impartial trial
in that county.” been
A statement said to Vr ? av^ ra n®ls
made Tuesday by Mrs. Frances
Roche of 225 Ivv street, said to ne
a friend of Kelloy, added consider
able interest to the case.
Woman Defends Kelloy
Mrs. Roche, who is a rather Pret
tv blonde, declared that in her opin
ion Kellov was innocent oi tne
crime, and admitted that she vt i
him in Macon, following his inca.-
ceration in the Bibb county jail, and
that she later employed counsel to
protect intersts.
XttornTv I. Leonard Crawford, of
Kelloy.’s Atlanta counsel, returned
Wednesday morning from Macon
v. here he conferred with the accused
on Tuesday. ...
Mr. Crawford said Kelloy still
reiterates his innocence, and con
tinues to assert that the murder was
committed by a third man who ac
companied him and Trexler on the
automobile trip.
“We are still standing on thi
theory that a third party figured
prominently in the case,” raid Mr.
Crawford, ‘“and are daily gathering
information which wil enable us to
spring more than one sensation
when the case finally comes up for
trial.’ ’
Census of Reno, Nev.,
And Southern Places
Announced by Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The
census bureau todav ai.nounced the
following 1920 po'ulation results:
Modesto, Cal., 9.241; Visalia, Cal.,
5,753; Reno Nev., 12,016.
Increases since 1910: Modesto. 5,*
207 or 129.1; Visalia 1,203 or 26.4:
Reno 1,148 or 10.6.
Grenada, Miss.. 13.025; Holmes,
Miss., 34,513: Lafayette. La., 30.841;
Tontoloc. Miss,, 19,962; Wayne.
Miss., 15,467.
Farmville. Va.. 2,586.
Mississippi places: Pontotoc, 1.-
274; Grenada. 1,253; Durant, 1,870;
Lexington, 1,792.
North Carolina places: Plymouth,
1.847; Roper, 1,043; Franklinton, 1,-
058; Louisville. 1,954; Enfield, 1,648;
Roanoke Rapids, 3,369, increase 1,-
699 or 101.0 per cent; Weldon. 1,-
861; Siler City, 1,253; East Lumber
ton, 1,011; Fairmont, 1,000.
I, GEORGIANS
WILL FACE TRIAL
UNDER DRAFT LAW
Approximately 1,500 youths resid
ing in the northern district of Geor
gia are soon to face trial in federal
court for alleged evasion of the se
lective draft law during the world
War.
Federal warrants were being drawn
Wednesday and will be served as rap
idly as United States deputies can
locate the defendants.
Gordon Combs, assistant district
attorney, who is supervising the is
sue of the warrants, said it was prob
able that a number of the men for
whom warrants are being drawn will
be able to establish their innocence
of any attempt to evade military
service, while still others, he said,
would probably be able to prove that
they actually served with the Ameri
can forces during the war.
Mr. Combs explained that the war
rants were being prepared according
to the records of the men as shown
on the official registration lists,
which may not be accurate in every
instance.
“In where we get the wrong
man, or a man who can establish his
innoncence,” said Mr. Combs, "he, of
course, will be released immediately,
but the policy of the government is
to wage a relentless warfare against
those men who wilfully evaded duty
during the war, or who intentionally
failed to return their questionnaires
within the required time.”
United States /Attorney Hooper
Alexander said the Cases will be tried
as rapidly as the defendants are in
dicted. Each case will have to be
decided by a jury in the usual man
ner, he said.
Where men are found guilty of
failing to comply with the selective
service law, they will be sentenced
to imprisonment from one day to
one year, as the law prohibits trial
courts from imposing fines in such
cases, Mr. Alexander said.
The first alleged offenders of the
draft laws will probably be taken
into custody before the end of the
present week, it was announced.
J. W. Estes to Be
Manson’s Opponent
In State Senate Race
JONESBORO, Ga., Sept. 15.—As a
result of the recount of the votes
cast in this county in last Wed
nesday’s primary, the runover face
for state senator from the Thirty
fifth district, embracing the counties
of Clayton, Cobb and Fulton, will
be between Frank Manson, of Jones
boro, and J. Walter Estes, of Rex,
instead of between Mr. Manson and
Davis Melson, of Jonesboro.
The county committee ordered the
recount on request of Mr. Estes and
after the other two candidates had
agreed to abide by the result of the
revision. In the first count,. Mr.
Estes was credited -with 347 votes
as against 351 in the recount; Mr.
Manson retained his 352 votes, but
Mr. Melson was cut down from 349
to 345.
The second primary -will be held
October 6.
Preparing to Return
Bodies of Americans
CHERBOURG, France. Sept 15.
Preparations for shipping to the
United States of American soldiers
who fell on the battlefield or died
on French soil are going forward
here. Hundreds of carpenters are
building coffins, while scores of
seamstresses are making the funeral
ornaments which w’ill be placed upon
the coffins when they are sent back
to the United States.
Great warehouses have been trans
formed into mortuary chapels, and
tapers are kept burning, around a
huge catafalque, which is in readi
ness to receive the bodies as they
reach Cherbourg from the front.
The American transport Antigone,
with a cargo of lumber for coffins,
arrived here today.
5 CENTS A COPI,
$1.50 A YEAR.
BLOOD IS SPILLED
IT fIALLOT BOXES
IN CMO. ILL.
Feeling Runs High All Over
State Between Lowden
and Thompson Followers
of Republican Party
CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—Bloodshed
occurred in the state primary here
today, when Michael Fennessey, a
worker for a Democratic candidate
for state senator, was shot and fill
ed by Thomas Powers, a policeman.
The shooting followed an argument
near a ‘voting booth. Powers was
put under arrest.
Illinois voters went to closely
guarded and carefully watched polls
today to chcose their state tickets.
The Republicans were to express
their choice between the leadership of
Frank O. Lowden, present governor,
and William Hale Thompson, mayor
of Chicago.
The factional fight in the Repub
lican party was so bitter that both
sides assigned private watchers to
seek possible trickery or fraud.
The situation in Chicago (Cook
county) was tense and officials were
ready for violence. Police officials
were assigned to all polling places
in the city. Lowden backers con
tended police were under control of
the Thompson faction, and Sheriff
Peters, a Lovi-den supporter, assign
ed deputy sheriffs to watch the poll
ing places—and the police. District
Attorney Hoyne’s force of deputies,
augmented by 100 men sworn in for
the occasion, also was on constant
guard.
While neither Lowden nor Thomp
son we. ? candidates for office at the
the factions which the)
head had complete tickets jn the .
field.
The Lowden ticket was headed by
William B. McKinley, candidate fui
United States senator, and John G.
Oglesby for governor The Thomp
son slate was led by Frank I. Smit.,
for senator and Len Small for gov
ernor.
The Democrats showed little bit
terness in their senatorial, congres
sional and state fights, although
-many hot battles were to be set
tled.
Four men were arrested by depu
ties from the state attorney’s of’
flee early today on charges of solic
iting votes inside polling places. The,
were released on habeas corpus pro
ceedings.
1 olitical leaders said early reports
indicated a record vote. Balloting
in Cook county was exceptionally
heavy. A total vote of 500,000 was
predicted in the county and more
than 1.000,000 in the state.
INSURGENTS LOSE ALL
CONTESTS IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Republican
and Democratic candidates, who re
ceived the indorsement of the unof
ficial state convention at Saratoga,
won decisive victories in all state
wide contests in yesterdays New
York state primary.
With 2,549 districts missing out of
a total of 7,274 in the state, Nathan
L. Miller, of Syracuse, former judge
of the state court of appeals, Repub
lican organization designee, for gov
ernor, led State Senator George F.
Thompson, of Niagara, by 77,782
votes. Senator Thompson’s name,
however, will appear on the ballot
in November as the prohibition can
didate for governor.
Governor Alfred E. Smith was re
nominated without opposition by the
Democrats.
United States Senator James W.
Wadswortn, Jr., backed by the Re
publican state organization, won an
easy victory over Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
president of the state branch of
the Women’s Christian Temperance
union, and George H. Payne, New
York City tax commissioner. The
vote in 4,654 out of 7,274 districts
was: Wadsworth 170,745; Boole, 48,-
652; Payne, 28,997.
Lieutenant Governor Harry C.
Walker, organization candidate for
the Democratic nomination for United
States senator, apparently defeated
Mayor George R. Lunn, of Schenecta
dy, by a vote of more than 2 to 1.
With 3,155 districts missing, the
vote was: Walker, 76,634; Lunn, 30,-
123.
Harriet May Mills, unopposed Dem
ocratic candidate for secretary of
state, was the only woman nominated
Irene B. Taylor for secretary of
state and Socialists named Hattie F,
Krueger for state treasurer.
Two Republican and two Socialist
women were defeated for congres
sional nomination.
SENATOR JONES LEADS
IN WASHINGTON PRIMARY
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 15. —United
States Senator Wesley L. Jones,
early today continued to lead three
others seeking the Republican nom
ination for senator in yesterday’s
primaries, when 204 precincts out of
2,366 in the state had reported. The
vote showed: Jones 10,024, _Erickson
1,433, Hudson 2,486, Inglis 5,216.
For the Republican nomination for
governor Roland H. Hartley was
leading when 229 precincts reported.
The vote for Democratic nomina
tion foe governor in 229 precincts
showed: Mathes 74, O’Hara 22, Judd
56, Black 98.
Baby Daughter Helps
Dad, 80. Celebrate
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —James N.
Ham, 80, celebrated his birthday an
niversary here a few days ago and
the merriest attendant of the birth
day party was his eleven-months
old daughter, Josephine, ami her
sister, Thelma, three years old.
Ham's wife is forty-one. Ham has
fourteen children ranging in age
from eleven months to fifty years.
He was twice married.
Bad News for Horses;
Price of Shoes Up
CINCINNATI.—Horses, attention!
The price of shces may go higher.
Journeymen horseshoers are on
“vacation” here asking $8 a day in
st id of $6. If their demands are
granted the cost of shoeing will
rise.