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Atlanta ©rMWetW Journal VOL. XXII. NO. 129. ■ ■■ LOSES DECATUR CONTEST ' mmw 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 nr wjiw 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. < fflMli™ 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! ~ :r —r dL- 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.