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VOL. XXII. NO. 137.
Men and Women Perish
As Steamship Founders
In Hurricane on Gulf
Passengers Take to Life
boats When Speedwell
Sinks and Passing Vessel
Rescues Survivors
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 2.—Three
tnen and two women are known to
be dead; thirteen others are missing,
and the steamship Speedwell, of the
Speedwell Navigation company, is at
the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, as
a result of the hurricane that swept
through the gulf Wednesday night.
First word of the Speedwell's sink
ing was wirelessed here tonight bv
the City of Mobile, a Pacific and
Orient boat, which said that it had
•ight survivors aboard, and that in
the lifeboat from which they were
taken, three men and two women
Were dead. The City of Mobile re
ported it had sighted a lifeboat with
thirteen others in it and was trying
to rescue the party.
The Speedwell was bound for New
Orleans with a cargo of mahogany
and is supposed to have foundered
in the storm. She carried a crew of
twenty-nine. Four lifeboats put away
from the vessel, according to the sur
vivors, and but two have been seen
•r heard from.
Word of the wreck came to the
Office of the United States hydro
jgraphic service from the steamship
Mobile City late today. The message
•aid: /
“Picked up spur men in life boat
©f steamship Speedwell. Another boat
•drift in near vicinity with 13 per
sons in it. Kindly be on lookout for
boat. Three men and two women
4ead. Latitude, 24.15 north; longitude
S 3 south. 84.55 west.”
The ship's captain is Charles John
son, of New Orleans.
Officials of the Speedwell company
and the Otis Manufacturing company
were unable to decide whether the
five dead were on the life boat re
ported rescued, or in the boat adrift.
The position .given is in the Gulf of
Mexico, a bit to the north of the open
passage between Cuba and that
point of Mexico which juts into the
gulf with the Port of Progreso as
Its tip. It is almost directly in the
path of the hurricane which struck
the gulf coast'near Morgan City last
Week.
Captain L. Burmeister, of the
American steamship , Saramacca,
Which arrived here Thursday from
Beliz and which was in the hurricane
of last* w’eek and this week, stated
the Speedwell left Belize Saturday
•bout five hours ahead of the Sara
inacca.
"We next sighted the Speedwell
last Tuesday at noon in latitude 26,
longitude 87.40,” said Captain Bur
meister. "We wirelessed her to keep
going ahead, but her wireless ap
parently was out of order and she ap
peared to be slowing down. We were
making for the Keys, as the hurricane
was blowing strong. Within an hour
we had lost sight of the Speedwell
and were unable to locate her again.
After that we hadfconsiderable to dcu
to keep ourselves out of trouble.”
One of the women reported dead is
believed to be Mrs. E. M. Rickerson,
of New Orleans. Her father to
night said he had received a letter
stating hiS daughter had arranged
to sail for her 4 on the Speedwell.
It was thought here that the mes
■age received by the Hydrographic of
fice from the City of Mobile was be
ing relayed by that vessel at the re
quest of the tank steamer Sunoil,
on which vessel the rescued persons
are believed to be.
ELEVEN OF CREW OF
THREE MARYS PICKED VP
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 2.—Bruised
•nd 111 from fourteen hours spent
Clinging td wreckage during the re
cent tropical hurricane in the Gulf
of Mexico, Captain Paul Marshall,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and ten members
of the crew of the American schoon
er Three Marys, arrived here today
on the fruit steamer Lake Figart.
The Three Marys was wrecked last
Wednesday.
The Three Marys, loaded with
lumber and cotton goods sailed from
Mobile last Monday for Havana.
There was no sisrn of storm when
she sailed, according to Captain Mar
shall and being without wireless
there was no way to communicate
the storm warning. \
The storm was encountered Wed
nesday morning. By night the
masts had snapped off and at nine
o’clock the crew had lashed them
selves to wreckage and managed to
keep together until they were sight
ed at 3o’clock Thursday morning
by the Lake Figart. Because of
the rough water it was eight hours
before they were taken aboard.
One of the seamen suffered a
broken leg whe nstruck by a spar.
Walks Streets Unclad,
Is Held by Police
W. R. Rogers, forty years old, of
Greensboro, N. C., is being held at
the police station, following an es
capade in which he is alleged to have
paraded through the streets of At
lanta Friday night in scanty attire.
It is believed the man is demented.
Rogers was first found wandering
about the Terminal station by Call
Officers Gresham and Fain. He told
the -police that he had drunk some
wood alcohol. He was taken to the
Georgia Baptist hospital for treat
ment. Later it is said he became
crazed and attacked tlve attendants
at the hospital and made his escape
by jumping through a window. The
police were notified and he was
cauhgt near the "Healey building.
Illness Causes Watson
To Cancel Engagements
THOMSON, Ga.. Oct. .3. —Thomas
E. Watson arrived at his home here
at 5:30 o’clock Saturday, having can
celled his speaking engagements be
cause of a hemorrhage of the throat.
He was mu in Atlanta by his sec
retary. G'*over C Edmondson, who
accompanied him to Thomson. At
the Watson home it was stated Chat
the condition of the senatorial nomi
nee is not serious.
TerTCcnt Sugar in N. 0.
NEW ORT EANS, La., Oct. 2.
White gr initiated sugar was being
retailed at one store here today for.
ten cents a pound, the lowest pric ■
since the advance Inst :">nr. T’tr "
was no great rush of buyers, it w
reported.
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WASHINGTON Miss Agnes
Hart Wilson, daughter of Secre
tary of Labor Wilson and Mrs.
William B. Wilson, may be- a can
didate for congres from the Fif
teenth Pennsylvania district.
Candy Breaks Tooth;
Finds S4OO Diamond
TUXEDO. N. Y.—Oda Utter, of
Warwick, broke a tooth the other
day while munching a piece of
molasses candy, but after visit
ing a jeweler today she decided
not to make any complaint to the
candy manufacturer who had per
mitted the obstacle her teeth en
countered to get into the candy.
The jeweler told her that the
obstacle was a diamond and worth
about 3400. It is thought that
a girl in the factory where the
candy was made must have drop
ped one of her jewels while mix
ing the candy.
MASTER YEG<T ~~
ON TOUR SOUTH,
LOOTS SAFE HERE
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Expert eastern yeggman have be
gun their annual migration south,
in the opinion of the police,* who
found Monday that the safe of the
National Straw Hat. works, at 11
Trinity avenue, has been looted dur
ing the night of about -100.
The “job” bore all the earmarks
of the master yegg. The combina
tion was broken, and the safe had
been opened by the insertion of
wires that lifted the delicate locking
bars. None but a finished cracks
man could have turned the trick, say
the police.
Officials of the straw hat works
were at the plant until 5 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, thus
that the .burglary occurred after that
hour.
Detectives Sturdivant and Camp-*
bell are investigating, together with
Finger-Print Expert M. J. Wright,
who took several photographs of
what he believes to be finger-prints
of the yeggs.
Wanderer, Slayer of
Wife and Stranger,
On Trial for Life
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Charged with
slaying his wife and a derelict whom
he hired to assist in a mimic hold
up, according to his own confession,
Carl lyandererr former army lieu
tenant,/ went on trial here today.
Wanderer’s wife and a raggedly
dressed stranger vrere shot and kill
ed in the vestibule of Wanderer's
home .lune 21 when Wanderer and
his wife returned from a movie.
Wanderer claimed the man had at
tempted to hold him up and when
he resisted his wife was shot. Wan
derer said he killed the stranger in
a pistol duel. >
Wanderer pleaded not guilty. His
attorneys announced the defense
would base its case on hereditary
insanity.
The morning was spent in ques
tioning jurors.
Thomas W. Hardwick
Files SIOO,OOO Suit
Against the Telegraph
MACON, Ga., Oct. 2.—Thomas W.
Hardwick, candidate for governor of
Georgia and former United States
senator, today filed suit for SIOO,-
000 against the Macon Telegraph in
the city court, alleging libel. In
his recent address here he declared
he would filed the x suti and in
the event he was awarded damages
would give the amount to the Macon
hospital. He charges that the Tele
graph, in a recent editorial, insitu
ated he was a party to the sending of
a bomb to his home in Atlanta, which
injured Mrs. Hardwick. The suit Was
| filed by Judge C. L. Bartlett, Ellis &
Glawson, and Wallace Miller.
Marines Kill Bandit
Chief and Rout Forces
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Another
encounter between American marines
and Haitian bandits occurred abouf
ten days ago and resulted in the
death of the bandit chief and the
complete routing of his forces, ac
cording to a report received by the
navy department from R"- 1 - Admiral
Harry S. Knanp. Admiral Knapp re
cently was sent to Haiti at the re
quest of the state department to in
vestigate conditions there.
stopped Ter fits
Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of
'Wurtsboro, writes that she stopped
■her fits with a medicine that she read
about in the paper. She says she
has not had a fit since she took the
first dose, and that she wants every
sufferer to know about this wonder
ful medicine and what it did for her.
If you, a friend, or relative suffer
fiom these dreadful attacks you are
advised to send name and address
|at once to R. P. N. Lepso, 13 Island
i Ave., Milwaukee, Wis., who is gener
lovsly offo ng to send a bottle of the
i P f , odicine he gave Mrs.
< - any sufferer who
WILSONCHAMPIDHS
LEAGUE OF IMS
IH CAMPAIGN APPEAL
In First Statement, the
President Says Article
Ten Cannot Force Amer
ica Into War
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—President
Wilson, urging indorsement at the
polls next month of the administra
tion’s stand on the League of Na
tions, declared in a communication
addressed to "my fellow country
men” and given out for publication
today, that there was nothing in
the covenant "which in the leastTn
terferes with or impairs the right
of congress to declare war or not
declare war according to its own
independent judgment, as our consti
tution provides.”
The president characterized as
"absolutely false” assertions that
other nations, under Article 10 o>f the
league covenant, would be in a posi
tion to lead the United States into
war.
In the communication, which was
the president’s first direct campaign
appeal to the public, charged that
"you have been grossly misled with
regard to the treaty and particularly
with regard to the proposed charac
ter of the League of Nations, by
those who have assumed the serious
responsibility of opposing it.”
"The whole world will wait for
your verdict in November,” the pres
dent declared/ “as it would wait for
an intimation of what its future is
to be.”
President’s Appeal
The text of the appeal fol
lows:
My Fellow Countrymen:
The issues of the present cam
paign are of such tremendous
importance and of such far
reaching significance for the in
fluence of the country and the
development of its future rela
tions, and I have necessarily had
so mtfch to do with their devel
opment, that I am sure you will
think it natural and proper that
I Should address to you a few
words concerning them. Every
one who sincerely believes in
government by the people must
rejoice at the turn affairs have
taken in regard to this campaign.
This election is to be a genuine
national referendum. The deter
mination of a great policy upon
which the influence 'and author
ity of the United States in the
world must depend is not to be
left to groups of politicians of
either party, but is to be re
ferred to the people themselves
for a sovereign mandate to their
representatives. They are to in
struct their own government
what they wish done.
The chief, question that is put
to you, is of course, this: Do
you want your country’s honor
vindicated and the treaty of
Versailles ratified? Do you in
particular approve of the League
of Nations as organized and em
powered in that treaty? And do
you wish to see the United
States play its responsible part
in it? You have been grossly
misled with regard to the treaty,
and particularly with regard to
the proposed character of the
League of Nations, by those who
have assumed the serious respon
sibility of opposing it. They
have gone so far that those who
have spent their lives, as I have
spent my life, in familiarizing
themselves with the history and
traditions and policies of the na
tion, must stand amazed at the
gross ignorance and impudent
audacity which has led them to
attempt to invent an “American
ism” of their own which has no
foundation whatever in any of
the authentic traditions of the
government.
Real Americanism
Americanism as they conceive
it reverses the whole process of
the last few tragical years. It
would substitute America for
Prussia in the policy of isola
tion and defiant segregation.
Their conception of the dignity
of the nation and its interest is
that we should stand apart and
watch for opportunities to ad
vance ot.r own interests, involve
ourselves in no responsibility
for the maintainance of the right
in the world or for the continued
vindication of any of the things
for which we entered the war to
fight. The conception of the great
creators of the government was
absolutely opposite to this. They
thought of America as the light
of the world; as created to lead
the world in the assertion of the
rights of peoples and the rights
of free nations;, as destined to
set a responsible example to all
the world of what free govern
ment is and can do for the main
tainance of right standards, both
national and international. This
light -opponents of the league
would quench. They would rele
gate the United States to a sub
ordinate role s in the affairs in the
world.
Why should we be afraid of
responsibilities which we are
qualified to sustain, and which
the whole of our history has
constituted a promise to the
world we would sustain? This
is the most momentous issue
that has ever been presented to
the people of the United States,
and I do not doubt that the hope
of the whole world wall be veri
fied by an absolute assertion by
the voters of the country of the
determination of the United
States to live up to all the great
expectations which they created
by entering the war and enab
ling the other great nations of
the world to bring it to a victor
ious conclusion, to the confusion
of Prussianism and everything
that arises out of Prussianism.
Surely we shall not fail to keep
the promise sealed in the death
and sacrifice of our incomparable
soldiers, sailors, and marines
who await our verdict beneath
the sod of France.
Article X Misrepresented
Those who do not care to tell
y 2 U x- th ® truth about the League
V tell you tKat Article
a. ot the covenant of the league
would make it possible for other
nations to lead us into war,
whether we willed it by our own
independent judgment or not.
This is absolutely false. There
is nothing in the covenant Which
in the least interferes with or
impairs the right of congress
to declare war or not declare
war according to its own inde
pendent judgment, as our consti
tution provides. Those who drew
the covenant of the league were
careful that it should contain
nothing which interfered with or
impaired the constitutional ar
rangements of any of the great ’
nations which are to constitute
its members. They would have
been amazed and indignant at
the things that are now being
ignorantly said about this great
and sincere document.
The whole world will wait for
your verdict in November as it
would wait for an intimation of
what its future is to be.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1920.
PONZI IN THE TOO
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HERE’S CHARLES PONZI, erstwhile “wizard of finance,” as
he appeared in court before he was indicted by the federal govern
ment last week for using the mails to defraud. The Boston ‘‘get
rich-quick” schemer obtained millions of dollars from thousands of
people on the golden promise of paying back 50 per cent profit.
Stripped- of all his wealth and glory,''Ponzi is spending his days in
jail. When Uncle Sam gets through with him, the state of Massa
chusettes wants him on a charge of larceny.
Twenfy-Six Sad Brides,
NotYeP Sweet Sixteen/ ' f
Must Return to School
Romances of' Youthful
“Newly-Weds” Shattered
in Detroit by Stern Man
date of the Law
DETROIT, Mich. Twenty-six
brides, all under sixteen years, will
have to forsake their domestic du
ties and return to the grade schools,
according to a ruling of Arthur L.
Lederle, chief attendance officer of
the Detroit board of education. Judge
Henry S. Hulbert, in probate court,
has also rulefl that, under the Mlchi
igan law all children must attend
school until they are sixteen, and he
can see no reason why marriage
should make a difference. Judge
Hulbert in a few days will give his
decision in the case of Agnes Bauer,
fifteen-year-old bride, who was mar
ried in Windsor in April and whom
the attendance officer says must go
to school.
Since the first of the year there
have been twenty-six girls attend
ing the grade schools who have been
married. Except in cases where phy
sicians hav< made affidavits to the
effect that they are not in physical
condition to attend school, the at
tendance department, has taken the
case into court, and as a result they
have been ordered back to school.
“We have gone into the matter
thoroughly, and while there is noth
ing in the school law to prevent girls
under sixteen getting married, young
brides of that age must go to school
full time the same as their unmar
ried sisters ’’ Lederle said.
The ruling of the attendance offi
cer and the probate judge may con
flict with Section 160, public acts
of 1916, wlr’ch says: “The legal
marriage of a minor shall release
such minor from parental control;
and the hirsband or wife of a minor,
so released, shall be entitled to the
same rights, benefits and privileges,
and such minor shall be subject to
the same duties, liabilities and re
sponsibilities. as such husband or
wife, as if they were of legal age
at the time of their marriage.”
Whether or not this act makes a
bride under sixteen master of her
destiny as far as going to school
is concerned is a question which the
attorney for the Bauer girl will ask
the courts to
MacSwiney Weaker on
53 d Day of Fast
But Sleeps Well
LONDON, Oct. 4.—Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney was almost com
pletely exhausted at the beginning of
his fifty-third day of hunger strik
ing, the Sinn Fein bulletin announced
today.
MacSwiney was said to have had a
fair sleep last night but his extreme
weakness was noticeable this morn
ing.
Gins Warned to Wait
For 40-Cent Cotton
HARTSELLE. Ala.. Oct. 2.—Two
ginning establishments, one at Falk
ville, and the other at Lacon, a few
miles south of this place, received
notice this morning not to gin any
more cotton until the price advanced
to forty cents.
“A Journey With Aunt Julia”
A big surprise—one of the biggest, finest, most welcome sur- »
prises you could imagine—is coming to Tri-Weekly Journal readers!
Everybody who reads The Tri-Weekly Journal knows "Aunt
Julia.” That means not only her legions of “nieces and nephews,” but
her many thousands admirers among the grown-ups.
It’s safe to say there”s not one of Aunt Julia’s army of friends
who wouldn’t like to know her better. And it’s even safer to say that
not one, single solitary soul among you would be disappointed if your
wish ever came true. For she’s one of the realest, humanest people
who ever loved everything in the world that’s good and beautiful and
true.
But if you can’t meet Aunt Julia face-to-face, you can have the
next best thing. In an early issue, The Tri-Weekly will begin publish- w
ing “A Journey With Aunt Julia.” The story is actually a personal
trip with her to a wonderful place. In her story she’ll tell you what
she saw and what she felt just as if you and she were chatting together
at arms’ length. It’s a wonderful narrative with a wonderful message.
Remember, that it’s coming! And watch for more news about “A Jour
ney With Aunt Julia.” x
Members Wanted for
Teague Thousand Club’
An appeal sent out Satui'day
night by George White, manager
of the Democratic campaign fund,
asks for more members for the
“League Thousand club.” This
club is composed of men who wish
to match President Wilson in his
gift of SSOO to a fund for the dis
semination of the truth about the
, League of Nations. . x
Those who wish to become con-''-
tributors to the League Thousand
club should send a check for SSOO
to W. W. Marsh, treasurer of the
Democratic national committee,
Grand Central Palace, New York,
N. Y.
TEXAS, N. Y., AND
OTHER STATES IN
CENSUS DATA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—The cen
sus bureau today announced the fol
lowing population figures:
New York, 10,384,144; increase 1,-
270,530, or 13.9 per cent.
New Jersey, 3,155,374; 'increase
618,207, . or 24.4 per cent.
Texas, 4,661,027; increase 764,485,
or 19.6 per cent.
Idaho, 431,826; increase 106,232, or
32.6 per bent.
New York City (revised) 5,620,048;
increase 853,165, or 17.9 per cent.
The population as previously an
nounces was 5,621,151. '
Houston, Texas, (revised), 138,276,
increase 59,476, or 75.5 per cent.
Ossining, N. Y., 10,739, decrease
741, or 6.5 per cent.
New York’s growth was the sec
ond largest in its history, but was
574,90 below that of the decac.- end
ing in 1910.
Revised- statistics on New York
city’s population, also announced to
day,* show the city to have absorb
ed practically two-thirds of the en
tire state’s g’rowth. The revised pop
ulation of the city was announced
as 5,620,048,- an Increase of 853,165,
or 17.9 per cent. This -»was 1,103,
less than the population previously
announced.
Texas is expected to Tetain its
present rank of fifth most populous
state. Although its numerical growth
was large, the state showed its low
est* relat4ve increase.
New Jersey, which ranked elev
enth in 1910, passed Indiana and
Georgia in 1920 census rank. The
state showed its second largest
numerical growth on record.
Idahp passed New Mexico and Ver
mont in the 192) rank of s-tates. It
showed its second greatest numeri
cal growth, but its relative increase
was the lowest in its history.
Populations of the states of North
Carolina, Arizona and Kansas will be
announced at 10:30 a. m. tomoxfow.
$329,925 Inheritance Tax
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. 2.
Executors of the Henry C. Frick es
tate paid $329,925 into the state
treasury today as an inheritance tax
on coal holdings owned by the Fara
day Coal and Coke company, of
Pittsburg This was said to be the
largest inheritance tax ever received
by the state.
rax WILL AGREE
OR RESERVATIONS
TO CLARIFV TREATY
Declares He Would “Sit
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Down With Senate” and
Discuss Pact —Great Re-,
ception in Kansas City
PITTSBURG, Kan., Oct. 2.—Governor
Cox told an audience that met his
train in Pittsburg this afternoon
that if he were elected president he
would “sit down with the senate and
discuss the treaty of peace and agree
upon any reservations that would
clarify or would reassure the treaty,”
COX SBEAKS IN MISSOURI
ON “SENATE OLIGARCHY”
JOPLIN, Mo., Oct. 2.—Governor
CoK began the last day of his
month’s western tour here today
with two addresses in which he con
tinued discussion of the League of
Nations and farming subjects and
also criticized the "senate oligarchy.”
To Missouri farmers he advocated
farmer representation on the .fed
eral reserve board and several other
commissions. He also ‘ advocated
federal regulations of cold storage
and packing plants.
As in Oklahoma yesterday, the
governor was given a warm welcome
here.
Governor Gardner, of Missouri, in
troduced him to his second Joplin
audience, which crowded every avail
able space in a large pavilion at a
public park.
The candidate reiterated his
charge that a conspiracy had been
formed by Republican leaders to
keep campaign expenditures from the
public. The governor said it had
been an uphill fight, but now the
tide had turned and he was “just go
ing to coast the rest of the way."
Asked |f he would send soldiers
to Europe without the consent of
congress. Governor Cox answered,
"No, I would not, because I would
not have the right to do it.”
He gave his indorsement to the
fourfold bonus plan for ex-service
men.
The governor began work on the
last day of his western trip with
his Miami platform speech at 7:30,
after being awakened, upon arriving
from Tulsa, by steam sirens and a
brass bans’. ,H ere also he was wel
comed by a band and paraded
through the city, speaking to and
shaking hands with depot and street
crowds hugtnented by visitors from
Carthage and other/ nearby cities.
COX IS CHEERED BY
KANSAS CITY THRONG
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 2.-—Gov-i
ernor Cox closed his month’s western
campaign trip here tonight with ft
mass meeting at Convention hall at
which thousands of ’.persons from
Missouri and Kansas heard and
cheered the League of Nations and
other battle standards of the Demo
cratic presidential candidate.
In all ten speeches of today’s finale
of his “swing” through the west,
which began September 2, and has
traversed every state west of the
Mississippi river except three, tIA
league was preached by Governor
Cox, the Irish phase being empha
sized, and especially tonight. He re
iterated arguments that it ’ was a
‘pledge” to Americans in the war, a
bond of honor with the allies, and a
medium for moral and material bet
terment for America and the world.
His speech tonight made a total
of one hundred and ninety for the
governor during his western trip, ex
clusive of many minor greetings tn
the twenty-one states visited, and a
total of 220 speeches since his notifi
cation last August. Upon tin arriv
ing home at Dayton, Ohio, tomorrow
evening to rest and prepare for an
other trip into Kentucky and Ten
nessee late next week, the candi
date will have traveled about 11,300
miles on his western tour, or an
average of 364 miles daily.
Cox Is Confident
Great satisfaction with the results
of his western trip and utmost con
fidence of the result of the elections
a month hence was expressed by the
governor. He repeated confident
claims of election and said that from
now on the fight would be like
"coasting.” He said he was extremely
tired, but with a few days’ rest next
week, expressed assurance of a
strong finish fight.
A rousing reception here was given
Governor Cox. Arriving about 5
o’clock, he was met by a band and
escort drawn from the Legion ot
Honor and Women’s club. Motoring
to a park on the Kansas side of the
Kaw river he addressed a working
men’s meeting, discussing labor
questions, and before his auditorium
address tonight was the dinner guesr
of the women’s clubs. Earlier in
the, day he made addresses at Miami.
Oklahoma: Pittsburg, Kansas, and a»
Joplin, Mulberry, Richards and
Hume, Missouri-.
National Meeting Called >
In Washington Next Week
To Protect Farm Credits
Cox Car Is Saved
By Kansas Rooster
WICHITA, Kans., Oct. 3. —A
Kansas rooster is being given
credit by members us Governor
Lox’s party for preventing what
might have been a serious wreck
of the candidate’s private car.
The ballot emblem of the Dem
ocrats, perched on bumpers of the
governor’s private car “Federal”
attracted attention of trainmen
here yesterday by.its lusty crow
ing. When an inspector went to
pick the rooster off, he noticed
. that the wheel flanges were badly
worn. He refused to accept the
car for travel over his lines un
til new wheels were placed on it.
SUSPECT ARRESTED
BVFEOEUGENTS
WEMCISE
Russian Radical, With Suit
case Containing Dynamite)
Held by Probers of New
York Blast
PITTSBURG, Oct. 4.—lnformation
obtained from Fiorean Zelenaka, of
Brooklyn, arrested here last night
with a quantity of dynamite in his
possession, may lead to a solution of
the Wall street explosion, according
to local police and government
agents. The nature of the informa
tion was not divulged, but it has
been forwarded to William J. Flynn,
of the department of justice, the po
lice said.
Questioning of Zelenaka, who was
taken at a hotel after a fight with
the police, conynued until early
this morning. He had been en route
from Cincinnati to New York, and
his remarks on the train to an uni
dentified man who called the police,
brought about his arrest.
Authorities were reticent as to the
result of their questioning, but, it
was claimed clues Zelenaka furnish
ed may lead to scores of arrests in
Brooklyn and New York, He could
furnish no good reason, police said,
for having the explosives in his pos
session, and is alleged to have re
marked to a companion on the train:
“Tell them I will have the stuff
there tomorrow.”
Another remark attributed to him
as he was being placed in his cell
was :
"See whajt we did in Wall street. I
Next tim ■ it will be bigger and more
terrible. The last was only a start.”
POLICE INFORMANT
REACHES NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Leon Kon
kel, a steam fitter, the man who
gave the Pittsburg authorities the in
formation which led to the arrest
there last night of Fiorean Zelenaka,
of Brooklyn, in connection with the
Wall street explosion, arrived here
today from Pittsburg to tell his story
to the federal authorities.
Konkel told agents of the depart
ment of justice that while he was
traveling from Cincinnati to Pitts
burg with the suspect, the latter
had informed him that he had ex
plosives in his suit* case, and gloated
over the Wall street explosion. Kon
kel said he had him arrested after
he had seen dynamite in his travel
ing companion’s suit case at a hotel
in the Pennsylvania city.
If Konkel’s information leads to
solution of the New York disaster,
he is eligible for the $20,500 rewards
offered for tips leading to arrest of
the guilty parties.
After questioning Konkel, a New
Yorker, at length, officials of the
department of justice declared ht
had been able to give them no in
formation that tended directly to
connect Zelenaka the all
street explosion.
Renewed vigor was instilled today
in the investigation of the origin of
the mysterious Wall street explosion
on September 16, as a result of the
arrest at Pittsburg yesterday of Flo
reen Zalenaka. Department of jus
tice agents said they attached special
significance to the arrest.
learning of Zelepaka’s arrest
in Pittsburg, where a suitcase filled
with dynamite was found in his
room, federal agents visited the
Brooklyn address he gave when ar
rested and established these facts:
That Zelenaka left his room at 470
Cleveland street, in the foreign sec
tion, an hour or more before the dis
aster.
That he carried a reddish-yellow
bag.
That he was formerly employed by
the Hercules Powder company.
That he left in his room a large
quantity of alleged radical Russian
literature.
Michael Terkasky, a tailor at the
Brooklyn address, told government ,
agents he had rented a room to Ze- (
lenaka and gave other information
concerning him. In a foreign-made
trunk, left by Zelenaka was a Rus- ;
sian passport issued 1918. ’
The possibility: that there may be :
some connection with the: arrest of ,
Zelenaka and that of Joscpa Grenes
pan, in Brooklyn, last Friday, was
advanced here today, but official i
comment was lacking. 1 ]
Greenspan, when arrested for loit- .
eringin the building, declared he knew
who placed the bojnb in Wall street. 1
His room, like Zelenaka’s, was said
by the police to hvae contained rad- j
ical literature. Both men are natives
of Russia. •
Greenspan is under observation in i
a Brooklyn hospital. ;
EXPLOSION DAMAGES ,
HOME OF LABORER
CLIFTON, N. J., Oct. 4.—Explo- <
sion of a bomb at the home of Sal- ,
vator Taibi, a laborer, here, early to
day after receipt by Taibi recently 1
of threatening letters demanding <
money and signed “black hand.” ,
caused property damage of SI,OOO,
but injured none of the occupants of
the house. Taibi told the police he i
had litTO money and had ignored the
threats.
Scents a copy.
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Heads of Sixteen Leading
Farm Organizations Ar
range Huge Protest
Against Houston’s Policy
A call signed by representatives
of sixteen farm organizations for a
nation-wide mass meeting of the
heads of all farm organizations of
the United States to meet in Wash
ington October 12 and 13 to inaugu
rate a protest against curtailment of
farm credits, with particular refer
ence to recent public statements by
Secretary Houston, of the United
States treasury, indicating a deter
mination on his part that the federal
reserve banks should curtail farm ’
credits, was issued Saturday after
noon in Atlanta, as the outgrowth of
the Georgia cotton mass meeting held
last Thursday in the senate chamber
in the state capitol.
The meeting appointed a special
committee of to communicate
with the heads of all farm organiza
tions concerning the advisability of
a nation-wide meeting of protest in
Washington. The committee at once
opened telegraphis communications
with those leaders and obtained a
most encouraging response. The call
for the meeting then was drawn up
and issued Saturday afternoon.
It is addressed to the representa- .
tdves of organized agricultural as
sociations, to state CQmmissioners of
agriculture and to all others interest- «
ed in the welfare of the farmers. It
Is signed by Charles S. Barrett, on
behalf of the National Farmers’
union; J. S. Wannamaker, on behalf
of the American Cotton association:
J. J. Brown, on behalf of the cotton
states advisory marketing board:
Charles A. Lyman, secretary of the
national board of farm organizations
representing the Farmers’ Education
al and Co-operative Union of Amer
ica, the Farmers’ National Congres?,
the National Agricultural Organiza
tion society, the National Conference
on Marketing and Farm Credits, tho
Pennsylvania State Grange, the Na
tional Milk Producers’ Federation,
the Farmers’ Society of Equity, th®
American Association of Agricultural
Legislation, the Inter-Mountain Farm
ers’ association, the Corn Belt Meat
Producers’ association, the Farmers*
Equity union, the National Dairy
union, and the Pennsylvania Rural
Progress association.
' Text of Call
The text of the call for the mas®
meeting in Washington is as fol
lows:
"Owing to the present demoralized
condition both of export and domestic
marketing of farm products, and to
I the policy of artificial deflation an
! nounced by Secretary Houston, of th®
United States treasury department,
contrary to the law of supply and de
mand, which have forced the market
prices of many farm products be
low the cost of production,
"We, the undersigned official repre
sentatives of the agricultural asso
ciations below named, do hereby call '
a national convention of these asso
ciations, to include the commission
ers of agriculture of the various
states and all other interested agri
cultural producers, to meet in Wash
ington. D. C.,, October 12 and 13 in
the. home of the national board of
farm organizations, 1731 Eye street,
N. W„ for the purpose of taking
definite action regarding market con
ditions which, if maintained, will
mean the loss of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars to the farmers of the
United States. ;
“This call is issued in response to
requests from thousands of agricul
tural producers in all parts of the
United States, who say that—
" The United States should seize
the opportunity for world trade.
“It is the duty of government to
promote in every way possible • peri
od of Intense world-wide commercial
activity.
“It is the duty of government to
assist agricultural producers in the
orderly handling and marketing of
their products in unrestricted mar
kets, on a basis of the law of supply
and demand.
“On staple products, the sale must
be carried ove/ 1 a period sufficient to
provide a legitimate demand based
upon that natural law.
“The price of farm products must
not be below, and should be above
the cost of production.
“There should be no statement is
sued by government officials in any
department tending to affect prices of
agricultural products, except regular
statements issued by the department
of agriculture on crop conditions and
indicated yield. ‘ ,
“Enormous X>osses to Farmers”
requires a set period be
tween seeding and harvesting; and, to
deflate under existing conditions,
would bring to the producer enor
mous losses, would mean decreased
production and, in the end, penalize
the consumer.
"Secretary Houston has moved di
rectly contrary to’ the policy of con
gress in refusing to re-establish the
war finance corporation, which was
specifically empowered to use up to
$1,000,000,000 to facilitate exports. No
part of this sum has, as yet, been
utilized.
"It is absolutely necessary to
agricultural an dcommercial life, be
fore proceeding further with produc
tion, to be assured as to what extent
the policy of deflation will be carried.
"Agricultural producers are now
forced to shoulder enormously in
creased transportation charges, heav
ier taxes and larger wages for la
bor. all granted through govern
mental sources
"The federal reserve system was
organized largely to care for the or
derly marketing of agricultural
products, and we believe that, in ac
cordance with law, it shoiild now
serve that end.
"There is no surplus production to
day, and stagnation has come only
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