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Atlanta Sri -Wcckbi Wurttal \ • I 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. She May Run For Congress // / * /oF ilix w■ \ ' WL * \hart IV/£JO/V AGNES HART WILSON 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 *■ ; i 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 1 JGZT ■••ihii ! " 1 '•''' < •• ••••• • v •.;:•••• —..w./-: -" •••: • v. f.’7 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 i 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. si.sO A TBAtt. — s 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 (Continued on Fars 7, Column