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FRANKLIN LANE’S ASHES TO
BE SCATTERED TO WINDS
CHICAGO, May 19.—The body ot
Franklin K. Lane, former secretary
of the interior, who died in Roches
ter, Minn., yesterday was cremated
here today and the ashes will be
taken to the top of El Captain peak,
in the Yosemite Valley, Cal., and scat
tered to the winds, in compliance
with a reqiiest made by Mr. Lane,
prior to his death.
Relatives of Mr. explained
the unusual request by saying that
he had spent much of his life in
the Yosemite region and had grown
to love it so much that ho wished
his ashes to be taken there when he
died.
The body arrived here this morn
ing from Rochester and was imme
diately taken to Graceland cemetery
for cremation. There were no fu
neral services—another request ot
Mr. Lane's—and only the immediate
family attended the cremation. The
ashes will be taken west immediate
ly, it was said.
To some of the former secretary s
most intimate friends in Washing
ton there had come before his death
a remarkable message dictated by
him in the hospital at Rochester,
Minn., after the operation which
preceded his death by only a few
days. The message showed that the
former secretary had undergone the
operation with full consciousness
find acceptance of the fact that he
might not survive. It told in de
tail of his sensations before, during
and after the operation, of which he
was fully c.nscious as the condition
of his heart would not permit the
use of a general anesthetic. The
message follows in part:
Text of Letter
“It is Wedn day afternoon and I
fim • .’ sit' ng up in bed talking to
my good friend Cotter. Until yes
terday I did not clearly visualize
any one thing in this room and did
Hot k’ that it had a window ex
cept that there was a place that
noise came through but I did know
that it had a yellow oak door that
stared at me with its great big
•ye all day and a’l night. Last Fri
day, you see about ten m the morn
ing, I took the step that I should
have taken months, yes, years ago.
. . . Today, most tentatively, I
crawled into a chair and ate my first
mouthful of food. But four days ago
I managed to shave myself and I am
regarded as pretty spry.
“I have seen death to come to
men in various ways, some rather
novel and western. I once saw a
man hanged. And I have seen sev
eral nren shot, and came very near
going out that way myself two or
three times, but always the other
fellow aimed poorly. I was being
shot at because I was a newspaper
man, and I should have be" . shot at.
There must be public concern in
what is printed, as well as its truth,
to justify it. That is something
that newspapers should get to know
in this country. \ After the earth
quake in San Francisco I saw walls
toppled out upon a man. And T
have had more intimate glimpses
still of the picturesque and prostrat
lc ways by which men come to their
taking off.
“But never before have I been
called upon to deliberately walk into
the valley of the shadow, and say
what vou will, it is a great act. I
have said during the past months ot
endless examination, that a man
with little curiosity and little hu
mor and a little money, who was
not in too great a pain, could en
joy himself studying the ways of
doctors and nurses as he journeyed
the invalid's path. It was indeed,
made a flowery path for me, as
much as any path could be in which
a man suffered more humiliation
and distress and thwarting and
frustration, on the whole, than he
did pain.
“But there was a path, the end
of which I could not see. I was
not compelled to take it. My very
latest doctor advised me against tak
ing it. I could live some time with
out takmg it. It was a bet on the
high card with a chance to win,
and I took it.”
Prepares for Operation.
At this point occur details regard
ing the preparations for the opera
tion, with a note of the fact that
a general anaesthetic couid not be
applied on account of the patient's
heart “which had been cutting up
some didoes.” The statement con
tinues:
“For two days I had had knowl
edge that this operation was to
take place at this time and my
nerved had not been just as good
sis they should have been. Those
men who sleep twelve hours per
fectly before beipg electrocuted have
evidently led more tranquil lives
than I have, or have less concern
as to the future. Ah, now I was
to know the great secret. For 40
years, I had been wondering, won
dering. Often I had said to myself
that I should summon to my mind
When this moment came, some words
that would be somewhat a synthesis
of my philosophy. Socrates said to
those who stood by after he had
drunk the hemlock, ‘no evil can be
fall a good man, whether he be
filive or dead.’ I don’t know how far
from that we have gone in these
2,400 years.
“The apothegm, however, was not
opposite to me, because it involved a
declaration that I was a good man,
end I don’t know anyone who has
the right to so appreciate himself.
And I had come to the conclusion
that perhaps the best statement my
creed could be fitted into the words
*1 accept,’ which to me meant that
if in the law of nature my indi
vidual spirit was to go back into
the great spirit of oceans, my one
duty was to conform. ‘Lead kindly
light' was all the gospel I had. I
fi< cepted.”
One Trainman Killed
i And Two Injured
In Wreck on L. & N.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20. —One
man was killed, another perhaps
fatally injured and two others se
riously injured yesterday afternoon
when a Louisville and Nashville pas
senger train left the track at Solway,
sixteen miles out of Knoxville, the
result of a buckling rail.
The dead man is Thomas H. Glenn,
engineer, of Knoxville, he having
been killed almost instantly under
the wreck of the big engine.
The injured are: J. C. Burtt, Knox
ville, fireman, probably will not live
through the night; W. H. Watson,
Dovington. Ky., painfully injured and
Will be confined to the hospital sev
eral days.
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY
JOURNAL.
MALE-GARBEO GIRL
AND HUSBAND HELD
In spite of the large, round moon
that beamed graciously Wednesday
night—in spite of the honeymoon
that still adorned the matrimonial
skies of Mr. and Mrs. Davis Bon
nerd—in spite of the fact that they
two took the high road alone, not
long before midnight, and she wear
ing pants, at that—in spite of all
these concomitants of romance, It
turned out to be a most matter
of-fact and material excursion; and
it ended somewhat gloomily in the
police station.
Their trial was set for Thursday
afternoon in the recorder’s court,
and the charge was nothing more
esthetic than idling and loitering;
Mrs. Bonnerd wasn’t even censured
by the law for the pants; but she
did change into skirts as soon as
practicable, and was wearing femi
nine habilaments Thursday morning
when interviewed, nor would she
don the trousers of her sister’s
brother again, for being photo
graphed.
The story of the Bonnerd’s is a
short and simple annal, in so far
as it is conducive to their present
plight.
“My husband was out of work
here,” said Mrs. Bonnerd, “and he
had been sick and in the hospital,
and we were out of money, and he
had a job offered him at the Porter
dale mills, in Porterdale, 42 miles
away, and we had no other way of
getting there, so we started to walk.
I put on pants to make the walking
easier. It didn’t make it very easy,
at that. We had got about to Kirk
wood, and that was about far
enough. Now I don’t know what
we will do. Maybe the police do.
They arrested us. I am glad they
sent the ‘wagon’ for us. I couldn’t
have walked much farther.”
The Bonnerds were married March
19 in Porterdale. He was 30 and she
18. For a honeymoon they came to
Atlanta and he went to work for a
small paper mill out on Marietta
street. He got sick and had to go
to the Grady hospital. When he was
able to be out, his money was gone
and the job, too. They were living
with his relatives at 11 Garnett
street. The job turned up in Porter
dale, Bonnerd told the police, but
the only way to get there was to
walk.
Irving Wood, Bonnerd’s sister’s
brother, started out with the pair
Wednesday night, under a fine moon
in a cloudless sky. Mrs. Bonnerd
was more or less tastefully attired in
a pair of Mr. Wood's trousers, O. D.
shirt, a cap and a blue sweater.
They tramped along for what
seemed to Mrs. Bonnerd a long, long
time and then were hailed by Offi
cers Williams and Wills, patrolling
in a flivver along DeKalb avenue,
near Kirkwood. It then was about 3
o’clock in the morning and the offi
cers investigated. That is, thev in
vestigated the Bonnerds. Mr. Wood
took to his heels at the first alarm
and disappeared.
The Bonnerds were taken to the
police station and held under a
charge of idling and loitering.
“It’s the first time I ever wore a
man’s clothing,” said Mrs. Bonnerd.
"I don’t care much for it. I don’t
care much for walking. A little of
it goes a long ways—not as far as
Porterdale, however.”
miITOFLME,
SAYS COL HARVEY
LONDON, May 20.—The dinner of
welcome by the Pilgrims’ society to
the American ambassador, George
Harvey, last night was enveloped in
far deeper interest than usually at
tends a reception to a new ambassa
dor by this international club. Not
only was it Mr. Harvey’s first pub
lic appearance since his appointment
to the post, but there was general
expectation taht he would reveal
something of the new administra
tion s policy toward European af
fairs.
The ambassador did not disappoint
his audience, for he sharply brushed
aside any lingering illusion that the
Cnited States would have any rela
tions whatever with the League of
Nations. He also announced his ap
pointment to represent the president
in the supreme council in the dis
cussion over Silesia.
The British prime minister made
an eloquent speech, but rather dis
appointed those who hoped more for
international plain speaking, which
is the fashion of the moment. The
premier described t .e plight of Bju
rope, enmeshed in ancient feuds and
gave warm welcome to the new co
operation of America in world af
fairs.
The Duke of Connaught presided.
Federal and County
Officials Looking for
Former Governor Catts
PENSACOLA, Fla., May 19.—AS a
result of the indictment of Sidney J.
Catts, former governor of Florida, by
the federal grand jury here yester
uay on two counts which charged
Mr. Catts with having held two ne
groes in peonage, the former chief
executive is being sought both by
federal authorities and the au
thorities of Bradford county. He re
cently was indicted bv the Brad
ford grand jury for the alleged
acceptance of S7OO from a life
term convict for his influence in ob
taining a pardon for the convict.
The authorities do not know the
whereabouts of Mr. Catts and the
last time he was seen in Florida, so
far as is known here, was several
weeks ago when he visited his former
home in Walton county.
The specific charge against the
former governor in the peonage case
is that he held in a state of involun
tary servitude Ed Brown and John
Henry Rodgers, and forced them to
work on h's plantation in Walton
county for a period of several
months. The negroes, both former
convicts, were pardoned while Mr.
Catts was governor and chairman of
the state board of pardons. It is al
leged that when they were released
from the state prison the negroes
were taken into custody by agents
of Mr. Catts and transported to his
plantation, where they were put to
work.
There they remained until a few
weeks ago. Both appeared before tin
grand jury and Rodgers previously
had testified before the special legisl
ative committee investigating the
conduct cf Mr. Catts while in office.
Mr. Catts’ term as governor expired
January 3, last. *
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Mobile Carpenter Held
Under SI,OOO Bond on
White Slave Charge
James D. Strickland, aged fifty
five, a carpenter from Mobile, Ala.,
was under SI,OOO bond'ln white slave
charges after a preliminary hearing
Thursday before Federal Commis
sioner Colquitt Carter. Department
of justice agents, who arrested him
in Atlanta Wednesday, said he
brought pretty Cassie Holdaway, six
teen, from a small West Virginia
town to Atlanta and deserted her
after living with her several weeks.
“I am not going to make bond, but
am going to jail.” said Strickland.
“I have nothing to say about the
charges, but you can say that I am
not going to fight the case.”
Inquiry into Strickland’s status In
Mobile has developed that he has a
wife and children there, federal
agents said. They declared he rep
resented himself as a wealthy attor
ney to the Holdaway girl, and that he
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Firemen in Armor
Fight to Extinguish
Blaze at Oil Well
MONROE, La., May 20. —A score
or more of gas fire fighters in armor
were last night battling to extinguish
the St. Louis well of the Ladel Oil
Properties, Inc., which was struck
by lightning a week ago after run
ning wild for over a month.
Blazing gas at the rate of fifteen
to twenty million cubic feet a day, it
was estimated, is thundering out oi
the well and into the air for a hun
dred feet and gas is burning around
the well.
Because of the great heat it be
came necessary today for the men
trying to extinguish the blaze to
cover themselves with tin and as
bestos shields.
Experts say the well may continue
to burn for months.
went through with a wedding cere
mony after he brought her to At
lanta.
Alabama Captain,
Jailed by Bolsheviki,
Has Become Insanfe
WARSAW, May 20.—Captain Em
mett Kilpatrick, of Uniontown, Ala.,
has become msane in the tyoscow
prison where he was incarcerated,
from experiences of brutality and
terror, according to reports received
here by the Red Cross.
Harvey Will Serve
On Supreme Council
LONDON, May 20.—The American
ambassador, George Harvey, in his
speech at the Pilgrims’ dinner Thurs
day evening, announced that he had
just received- instructions designat
ing him to represent the president
on the Supreme council with regard
to SilesiA
H. C. Swearingen,
Os St. Paul, Minn.,
Heads Presbyterians
WINONA LAKE, Ind., May 20.
The Rev. Henry C. Swearingen, "of.
St. Paul, Minn., was elected moder
ator of the 133 d general conference
of the Presbyterian church in the
United States of America here late
yesterday. He defeated the Rev.
John B. Laird, of Philadelphia, bv a
vote of 560 to 312. The Dev. Mr.
Swearingen succeeds the Rov. SamOel
S. Palmer, of Columbus. Ohio.
Philadelphia Adopts
Daylight Saving Plan
PHILADELPHIA, May 20.—The
Philadelphia city council Thursday
passed an ordinance providing for
daylight saving beginning June 5 and
ending the last Sunday in September.
SILESIAN ROW DEADLOCKS
GREATBRITAIN AND FRANCE
DEATH TAKES WHITE, i
DE SDPHEME COURT
I
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The ma
chinery of the federal government
will be halted during the funeral Sat
urday of Edward Douglas White,
chief justice of the United States,
under an executive order issued to
day by President Ha/ding.
The president directed that all ex
ecutive departments and government
establishments in Washington be
closed that day; that the usual mil
itary and naval honors be rendered
and that on all legations and consu
lates of the United States in foreign
countries, the American flag be dis
played at half mast for thirty days.
The president paid hlgn tribute to
Mr. White in his executive order,
saying: ,
“In his death, the United States
has lost one of its most distinguished
citizens and public servants, whose
legal training and profound knowl
edge of the law made him eminently
fitted for the highest judicial office
of the country.
“He had served well and faithfully
as a senator of the United States, as
an associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States and as
chief justice of the United States.
His judicial opinions, based always
on the principles of right and justice,
and unbiased by personal influences
and considerations, will hold high
rank among the decisions of tfce
country’s highest court of justice.
“His private Ujie was simple and
unaffected and was characterized by
virtues which might well serve as
examples for the people of America.’
President Harding turned today
from the world-wide problems that
crowd upon him, long enough to carry
in person to the sorrowing family,
word of his own and the nation’s grief
in the death of Edward Douglas
White, chief justice of the United
States.
Accompanied by Mrs. Harding, the
president drove to the White resi
dence on Rhode Island avenue and his
military aide, Colcnel Sherrill, car
ried their cards to the door to be re
ceived by Justice White’s niece, who
went out to the While House car and
talked briefly with the distinguish
ed visitors.
In accordance with an official ex
pressed wish, the body of Chief Jus
tice Edward Douglass White, whose
death came at 2 o’clock this morning,
will be laid to rest without the state
ly ceremony usually accorded a high
government official.
Private funeral services, which
will be attended by President Har
ding, mem’icrs of the cabinet, con
gress and < 'her officials, will be held
in St. Matthew’s Catholic church at
10 o’clock Saturday morning. The
burial which also will be private, will
be in a cemetery here.
Associate justices of the supreme
court wil lact as honorary pallbear
ers and the services will be in charge
of the marshal of the court. Mon
signor Lee, pastor of St. Matthew’s,
a close friend of Justice White for
many years, will officiate at the final
rites.
The body will not lie in statp at
the capitol but will remain at/ the
White home until shortly before the
services in the church,
The White home and the supreme
court office was flooded with mes
sages of sympathy and condolence,
all of which were testimonials of
the high esteem in which the aged
jurist was held throughout the na
tion. Many high officials and mem
bers of congress called at .the White
Home during the day.
Eighth Chief Justcle
The high place which a chief jus
tice occupies is revealed by the fact
that Justice White ivas the eighth
man to hold this office in the history
of the country.
His death is not expected to inter
fere with the court closing up its
work for this session. Nearly all or
the cases were deaided before the
chief justice agreed to submit to the
operation and the work between now
apd adjournment on June 6 mainly
consists of writing opinions.
The senate adjourned on motion
of Senator Lodge, out of respect to
the dead jurist’s jmmory. Lodge
asked appointment of a committee
of six to represent th« senate at the
funeral, and Senators Lodge, Under
wood, Broussard, Ransdell, Overman
and Nelson were named. Senators
Broussard and Ransdell represent
Louisiana, Justice White’s home
In moving the adjournment for the
day, Senator Lodge paid tribute to
Justice White’s high character as a
man and his place among the great
jurists of the nation.
“With a deep sense of public sor
row, mingled with a most unfeigned
feeling of personal grief, I rise,” said
Senator Lodge, “to make the formal
motion of recognition by the senate
of the loss which has befallen the
country in the death of Chief Jus
tice of the United States. He filled
one of the greatest offices which it
is permitted to a man to hold. None,
I think, among civilized men sur
passes it in dignity and power. The
late chief justice honored his great
place quite as much as the office hon
ored him.”
Senator Ransdell, senior senator
from Louisiana, also paid a tribute
to the late chtef justice, and pre
sented resolutions of regret adopted
today by the Louisiana congressional
delegation.
Senator Ransdell said Louisiana
was in deep sorrow today over the
death of "her most distinguished
son.”
Although all hope for the chiet
justice’s recovery following an opera
tion last Friday had been abandoned
since he took a critical turn for the
worse two days ago, the news of
his death came as a shock to friends
and associates. The chief justice,
who was seventy-six years old, had
enjoyed rugged health up to the time
he was forced to submit to the recent
operation for bladder trouble and his
record of attendance on the supreme
bench was traditional.
At His Bedside
At the bedside when death came
were the wife of the chief justice;
his two nieces, Miss Ann Montgom
ery and Miss Mary Lee Broussard,
and the Rev. Father S. J. Creeden.
of Georgetown university, who had
administered the last sacrament dur
ing the early evening.
Chief Justice White administered
the oath of offibe three times to
presidents. Twice he inducted Wood
row Wilson into office and offiicated
at the recent inauguration of Presi
dent Harding.
Justice McKenna, as senior asso
ciate member of the supreme court,
formally notified President Harding,
Vice President Coolidge and Speaker
Gillett today of the death of Chief
Justice White. Following the court’s
custom in such cases, the news was
sent in a letter inscribed upon black
bordered parchment and inclosed in
an envelope deeply edged in black.
'“I am directed by the supreme
court of the United States to noti
fy the senate through you that the
chief iustice of the United States
died this morning at 2 o’clock,’’ Jus
tice McKenna’s note to Vice Presi
dent Coolidge said.
The eight members of the court Will
act as honorary pallbearers if the
fam??* - agrees to the suggestion that
an o.jcial funeral be Helu.
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LONDON, May 19.—The Franco-
British war of words continued to
day.
Each backed by regiments of
newspapers, the premiers of the two
nations directed a heavy fire of state
ments and opinions on the proper die
vision of upper Silesia between Ger
many and Poland.
Premier Lloyd George’s offensive
of yesterday when he reiterated his
assertion that Germany had as much,
right as Poland to invade Silesia was
met by a prompt counter attack.
“It’s a fit of ill temper.” preml®*
Briand declared caustically.
France practically snatched the Si
lesian situation out of Btipain’a
hands today with & note to Berlin
demanding that unorganized German
bands be kept out of Silesia. Brit
ain which has protested at France’#
“benevolent neutrality” when Polish
isurgents invaded Silesia, was not
consulted.
French leaders frankly desired Po
land to acquire the richest section#
of Upper Silesia. The British declare
they want the region partitioned ac
cording to the recent plebiscite re
turns. They feared that Polish pos
session would hurt the Industrie#
there and would rob Germany of one
of her greatest assets in paying her
indemnity to the allies.
Upper Silesia meanwhile iay starv
ing. Germans, controlling the rail
ways, refused to send in supplies to
support the invading Po’es. Sporadic
fighting occurred but the region for
the most part was quiet with the
Polish insurgents holding a line
which included the richest portions
of the district.
Declarations of Lloyd George yes
terday caused considerable irritation
to French newspapers. There was
little comment on the premier’s
words this morning but what there
was seemed severe.
BRIAND THROWS DOWN
GAUNTLET TO GEORG®
PARIS, May 19.—Premier BriantL
of France, today reiterated his
statement of Saturday. flinging
down the gauntlet to Great Britain.
“I stand on what I said Satur
day,” h 6 declared after reading
Premier Lloyd George’s warning of
yesterday. (This was that France
cannot be neutral if Germany in
vades Silesia.)
“There’s nothing in the Versatile*
treaty Saying the Germans shall get
the rich mining district of Upper
Silesia while the Poles get the re
mainder.”
The premier made his statement
prior to entering the Palais Bourbon
to make a defense of his foreign
policies.
While Premier Briand showed that
he realized Lloyd George’s state
ment was levelled at France, he
smiled when asked for comment.
“It’s only a little flurry of bad
humor on the premier’s part,” he
said with a smile.
“It will pass soon—there’s no
harm in it. I don’t care to enter
into a controversy with Lloyd
George but I too, scand on what I
said Saturday—that France cannot
remain neutral if Germany is per
mitted to invade Upper Silesia.
“I will further on than sulk*
ject in the chamber."
GERMANY IS WARNED
AGAINST RECRUITING
BERLIN, May 19. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The German govern
ment has received a note from the al
lied military control commission pro
testing against the recruiting in va
‘rious parts of Germany of volunteer#
for Silesia and demandnig that meas
ures be taken immediately to prevent
such infringement of the peace
treaty. The disbandment of the de
tachments already formed in Upper
Silesia also is demanded.
The government has issued a warn
ing against attempts to help “hard
pressed Silesia ’ by the raising of
volunteers. It emphasizes that such
recruiting and the assembling of mil
itary bodies is contrary to existii’C?
proscriptions and liable to punish
ment.
POLES ARE REPORTED
MOVING ON DANZIG
AMSTERDAM May 19. —Acco . k
to the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung there ha#
been a large movement of Poimu
troops in the direction of Danzig In
the last few days. The newspaper
adds that a numb.er of bridges over
the Vistula river have been blown up
and the Germans believe a Polish
raid on Dahzig is intended.
COUNTESS SAYS FRENCH
CANNOT RESTORE ORDER
BERLIN, May 19. — (By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Order cannot be re
stored in Upper Silesia while Gen
eral Lerond, or any other French
man, commands the inter-alliOd
forces to whom is entrugted the exe
cution of the Versailles treaty, said
Countess Scherr-Thoss,. who arrived
here yesterday with other refugee#
who had escaped from the area af
fected by the Polish insurrection in
the plebiscite area. The countess ia
a daughter ' Henry White, member
of the American delegation at the
Versailles peace conference.
“When an Englishman or an Ital
ian is given command there,” she de
clared, “Germans will have confi
dence, and . will be possible to re
store order and disband the volun
teer forces organized to protect tha
rig’- ’ granted by the Versailles
treaty.
“Promises made by Adalbert Kor
fanty and the French mean nothing
to Upper Silesia, who regard Kor
fanty’s offers to withdraw as a ruse
to get the German volunteers to dis
band.” X
LONDON PRESS SQUARELY
BEHIND LLOYD GEORGE
LONDON, May 19.—Newspapers
of this city today showed greater
unanimity in indorsing Premier
Lloyd George’s declaration of the
British attitude toward Poland and
Silesia, made yesterday, than they
did his almost sensational state
ments before the house of commons
last Friday. There were in some in
stances references to the judicious
ness of reiterating Great Britain’s
viewpoint a> this moment regarding
a point already made sufficiently
clear.
The manner in which the prime
minister’s statement of last Friday
was received by the French press
was generallv criticized.
HARVEY WILL MEET
WITH SUPREME COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Colonel
George Harvey, American ambassa
dor to Lond»n will attend the meet-,
ing of the supreme council which,
is to take up tne Silesian boundary
dispute, it was definitely stated at
the state department today.
Mr. Harvey’s instructions, while
directing him to attend the council’s
meetings, specify that he is not to
take an active part an
opinion in the deliberations on the
Silesian question, regarded by this
government as a matter of purely
European concern.
Drive Automobile
Over 60-Foot Cliff
To Escaoe Capture
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., May 20.—1 n
an effort to evade capture by federal
prohibition officers. William Hudson,
of Shelby, and John Dominie, of
Jemison, ran the automobile in which
they were riding over a sixty foot
precipice on the Montgomery high
way early yesterday, but although
the car crashed through trees in its
plunge, neither of the occupants was
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