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VOL. XXV. NO. 156
TOTAL COLLAPSE
, SEEMS LIKELY FOR
GERMAN REPUBLIC
Rupprechj of Bavaria, Is
Hailed as King Military
Dictator Imposes Full Cen
sorship on All News
LONDON, Oct. I.—A revolution
ary movement originated by-'Nation
* alist organizations, has broken out
at Kuestrin. fifty miles from Berlin,
says a Renter’s dispatch from the
German capital.
The insurgents attempted to dis
arm the garrison and occupy the
fortress, but the commander of the
reichswehr arrested the Nationalist
leaders and drove back the attackers.
Detachments of reichswehr from
neighboring towns have been sum
moned to Kuestrin, the dispatch
adds, and the troops have been or
dered to suppress the revolt ruth
lessly.
As a result of the insurrection Dr.
Gessler, the minister of defense, has
imposed a censorship on all news of
a military character.
Kuestrin, a city of
20,000 inhabitants, is located m
Brandenburg. The chief industries
are the manufacture of copper brass
ware.
Profound anxiety and doubt as to
the maintenance of the unity of Hhe
German reich is expressed in dis
patches by British newspaper cor
respondents in Berlin.
"It appears at the moment that
nothing but a miracle can hold the
reich together mubh longer,” says
one correspondent, and his view is
supported by several others.
A break by Bavaria is written of
not, as a possibility, but almost as a
certainty; an opinion which is borne
out by the remarkable royalist dem
onstration that took place in Munich
on Sunday when Prince Rupprecht
and his wife, attending a military
memorial ceremony, are reported to
have been acclaimed with . frantic
shouts of ‘‘long live our king and
queen
The central government, the dis
patches say, is intrigued against not
only by the nationalists, but by the
socialists, and. according to some of
the writers, the cabinet shows signs
of immediate disintegration.
MILITARY CENSORSHIP
ORDERED BY BERLIN
BERLIN, Oct. 1. —A censorship
has been imposed on all military
news sent from Germany.
A parliamentary crisis is predicted
here today. Political circles say the
socialists will withdraw 1 from the
government as a protest against the
manner the party has been discrim
inated against in Bavaria that
Chancellor Stresemann will form a
purely bourgeois cabinet, retaining
the chancellorship.
“M DERATE ET 111 SIA.
IS PLEA OF L JI. D
BAR LE DUC, France, Oct. I.
‘‘Don’t let’s sing the hymn of victory
too soon and abov e all don’t let the
government get excited,” said Pre
mier Poincare today in speaking be
fore the council of the department of
the Meuse. He advocated modera
tion of the French enthusiasm oyer
the surrender of the Germans.
“eW are far from having finished
with our difficulties,” the premier
asserted. ‘‘They will be more numer
ous and graver in the future than in
the past.”
France, he added, conscious of her
own strength, should wait patiently
for Germany to show a real desire to
pay her reparations' obligation.
Obviously referring to the rioting
in Dusseldorf Sunday, M. Poincare j
said: “Fortunately our troops mount
on the Rhide. They restore order :
even when disturbed by the Ger
mans.”
ANTI-SEPARATISTS HOLD
STREET RALLY IN COLOGNE
COLOGNE, Oct. I.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —An anti-separatist
demonstration Sunday drew out a
crowd of 100,000, representing all
political parties,' labor unions and
civic societies, who were enthusi
astically determined in their resolve
to oppose by all means at their dis
posal any attempt to force the estab
. lishment of a Rhineland republic? A
resolution, which was adopted, de
nies to the secessionists the right
to speak or act ip the name of the
Rhineland people, and detnands the
right of a plebiscite in order to estab
lish the sentiments of the popula
tion.
TWENTY ARE KILLED
IN DUSSELDORF RIOTS
DUSSELDORF, Oct. I.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The German ver
sion of the outbreak at a separatist
meeting Sunday, in which twenty
persons were killed and scores
wounded, maintains that the securi
ty police, whom the French hold re
sponsible for starting the shooting,
made no move until a civilian police
man had been killed by the separa
tists.
This force, says a statement is
sued by the city authorities, attack
ed the blue policeman, took away
his sword and had begun to beat
him when the security police ap
peared. Thereupon a shot was fired,
the Germans allege, from the ranks
of the separatists. This brought
out the rest ot the green force, and
the pitched battle followed.
Kiansmen’s Roster
And Money Stolen
By Safe Crackers
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Oct. I.—A
membership roll containing IS.OOO
names and S7OO in cash were stolen
when burglars cracked a safe in the
offices Os the Ku Klu'x Klan here
early today.
The klan’s terminal building of
fices were ransacked. The safe was
taken to another part of the build
ing and blown open.
‘Her Money, a Great Story of~ JJ 'hUSUL z// iGSISi QSSLL tMLLIS. IL
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
LADY OGLETHORPE’S REMAINS
ALSO WILL BE BROUGHT HERE
TO REST ON COLLEGE CAMPUS
World News i
Told In
Brief
NEW YORK. —Giants clinch Na-
I tional league pennant.
I
MANILA. —Manuel Quezon, politi-
I cal leader, suffers physical break
i down and is taken to hospital.
I _
LONDON. —Steamships Cedric and
| Scythia collide off south of Ireland,
| but no loss of life is reported.
WASHINGTON. Severe earth-
I quake shocks are recorded on many
: seismographs in United States and
■ Europe.
NEW YORK. —Striking newspa-
I per pressmen accept terms of pub
! Ushers and vote to go back to their
I jobs. |
| NEW YORK.—Walter S Ward is
j acquitted at Whl’.s Plains, N. Y., on
i charge of having murdered Clarence
I Peters.
LONDON. —Greece authorizes im
j mediate payment of fifty million lire
I indemnity deposit to Italy, Athens
i advices say.
DETROIT. Authorities raid
I House of David at Benton Harbor,
! Mich., in futile search for Benjamin
I Purnell, missing head of cult.
WASHINGTON. Thirty-five
thousand persons attend open- : r
meeting on grounds of new national
cathedral in Washington.
NEW YORK. —Papyrus, winner
of t‘ ' English Derby, arrives on the
Aquatania fcrace with America’s
best running horses.
PARIS. —French super-Zeppelin
Dixmude flies 4,500 miles in 118
hours and 41 minutes, breaking dis
tance and endurance records.
WASHINGTON—Five more fed
eral judges are needed, conference
of senior court judges, presided ov.er
by Chief Justice Taft; declares.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Governor
Walton widens areas of strict mar
tial law in Oklahoma and orders na
tional guard troops to Payne county.
BERLIN. —Great separatist den>
onstration at Dusseldorf results in
massacre; undetermined number of
persons are killed and hundreds are
reported injured.
LONDON. —Conference of prime
ministers of British empire, now in
session, will include American
Twelve-mile limit proposal in its
program.
PARIS. —Premier Poincare, says:
"Germany’s sullen proclamation of
a truce she could not escape, is
nothing; what she does is every
thing; we await Germany’s acts.”
WASHINGTON.—NationaI Equal
Rights league, a negro organization,
announces that President Coolidge
will receive committee from that
body at White House October 6.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Governor
Walton, of Oklahoma, caljs out en
tire state guard to prevent special
election Tuesday; executive declares
he may make Oklahomans go to
hed at 6 p. m. under drastic martial
law.
WASHINGTON.—Brig. Gen. Saw
: yer retires from acting manager
! ship of Veterans’ Bureau hospital at
j Federal Park, Md., and will devote
his energies to organizing Harding
[ Memorial association.
LANCASTER, Pa.—New world’s
record for pacing mares on half
mile track is created when Grace
Direct, owned by Penny brothers, of
Greensboro, N. C., steps a mile in
2:02, lowering the former mark of
Lizzie Mack in 1918 by 3-4 second.
WASHINGTON.—Opening of gov
ernment veterans’ Hospital to former
service men regardless ot whether
their disabilities are of service or
of non-service origin likely will be
adopted as permanent policy, in
opinion of President Coolidge.
WASHINGTON. Consideration
is given by President Coolidge and
cabinet to proposal that memorial
be erected in honor of late Presi
dent Harding and it is indicated that
appropriation will have backing of
president and cabinet members.
CLEVELAND. Reports filed
with interstate commerce commis
sion covering operation of Nickel
Plate road for month of August
show net operating income of sl,- ,
007,992, an increase of $178,5-37 over
the same month last year.
CANTON.—lmports and exports
through port of Canton have been
suspended as, a result of strike of
customs brokers, followed by cargo
boatmen. Strike is outgrowth of im
position of fine of SIOO,OOO on port
by government for alleged loss of
revenue.
| The Weather
i FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
I North and South Carolina and
Georgia: Fair, not much change in
i temperature.
Florida: Generally fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida and j
| Alabama: Generally fair, little)
, I change in temperature.
| Mississippi: Generally fair, little
| cha*nge in temperature.
I Tennessee: Generally fair, mod- I
i erate temperattire.
Kentucky: Generally fair, not I
much change in temperature.
Louisiana: Fair.
Arkansas, Oklahoma: Generally
i fair.
East and West Texas: Partly)
cloudy. I
| Solemn Religious Services
| Will Mark Disinterment of
■
; First Georgia Governor
From English Grave
LONDON, Sept. 9.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —When the bones of
General Sir James Edward Ogle
thorpe, first governor of the statei
of Georgia, is disinterred from its |
resting place in the Church of All-|
Saints in the little town of Cranham
for removal to Atlanta, it is the plan ■
of those in charge of the excavation
to take the body of Lady Oglethorpe
to America with that of her hus- j
band.
Solemn religious services will I
mark the disinterment and a bronze
tablet will be placed over the graves ,
in the Cranham church to commem
orate the event. Prime Minister i
Stanley Baldwin, American ambas- !
' sador, George Harvey; the Archbish- I
op of Canterbury, and other distin
guished personages will be asked to
participate it/ the embarkation cere
monies at Tilbury, where an Ameri
can battleship will receive the bodies
for conveyance to Savannah.
It was from Tilbury, near Grave
send, that Oglethorpe and his ven
turesome colonists set sail nearly 200
yeais ago for the promised land of
America. The battleship will fol
low the same course as the quaint
three-masted schooner in which
Oglethorpe and his companions
crossed the ocean.
Answering the adverse criticism .
which arose in England over the dis- ,
turbance of the graves, Dr. Thorn
well Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe
university, who will take the bodies
to America, said:
“The proposal is neither a private
enterprise nor is it one involving the
indiscriminate disinterment of the
remans of others, but it is a digni
fied request of one great people of
anpther, with ( the most reverent and
solemn purpose. In seeking to have
his body returned to the state which
he founded, planned and nourished
single-hearted and single-handed, the
people of Georgia are re-emphasizing
the essential unity of tradition, law/
literature, religion, blood and inter
ests of the two great branches of
the English-speaking w'orld.
“Oglethorpe made Georgia. The
record of his life is. the light of the
state. It was here that he planted
the very flower of all that was best
in life of England. His influence will
be more surely felt today if his re
mains are fittingly enshrined, as
proposed, in the capital city of his
state, on the campus of the univer
sity which bears his name.
“It is - the first time that any
American commonwealth has claim
ed the ashes of its founder from
overseas, and I am confident that
the British ecclesiastical and govern
mental authorities will heartily in
dorse the idea when they see that
the American government and the
whole state of Georgia are behind
the project.”
Only Debt-Free Are
Invited to Barbecue
To Be Held in Greene
They’re going to have a barbecue
in Greene county on October 15 ex
clusively for men in a contented
state of mind.
Maybe the host, A. J. Boswell,
prominent farmer and business man
of Penfield, will not have to prepare
many carcasses. Probably it won’t
be the biggest barbecue of the year
But solid contentment ought to reign
supreme among the fortunates who
attend, if any.
To qualify for this party, one must
be te-totally free of debt. He must
be clear with his grocer and banker,
his church and his washwoman, and )
everybody and everything else. It |
will be a “feast for the free.”
“Uncle Jim” Williams, announcing [
the bar.becue in his paper, the
Greensboro Herald-Journal, sends
bis regrets to Mr. Boswell thus:
“That barbecue should be great.
No bill collectors will be there. We
are sorry this paper will not be rep
resented, but we hope that all three
of your guests will have a big time.” I
Mr. Boswell decrees that men who '
owe a dollar, or even a copper cent,
will be barred. Debt-free men of I
Greene county will be cordially wel- |
corned. It ought to be a great ’cue, |
if Mr. Boswell locates any guests, j
And it would be a good news story, i
too —but where’s the newspaper man ;
who'd be eligible to cover it?
lowa Physician Makes
Startling Offer to
Catarrh Sufferers
Found Treatment Which Heal
ed His Own Catarrh and
Now Offers to Send It
Free to Sufferers
Anywhere ‘
Davenport, lowa.—Dr. W. O.)
Coffee, Suite 784, St. James Hotel
Bldg., this city, one of the most |
widely known physicians and sur
geons in the central west, an
nounces that he found a treatment
which completely healed him of
catarrh in the head and nose, deaf
ness and head noises after many i
years of suffering. He then gave I
the treatment to a number of other I
sufferers and they state that they |
also were completely healed. Tii t |
doctor is so proud of his achieve- ;
ment and so confident that his j
I treatment will bring other suffer- |
era the same freedom it gave him. !
that he is offering to send a JO )
' days’ supply absolutely free to any j
reader of this paper who writes j
I him. Dr. Coffee has specialized on
eye, ear, nose and throat disease
for more than thirty-five years, and
is honored and respected by count
less thousands. If you suffer from
nose, head or throat catarrh, ca
tarrhal deafness or head noises,
send him your name and address
today.—(Advertisement.)
OLD CONFESSION
IN PHAGAN MURDER
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
An unpublished confession in the
famous case ten years ago involving .
the slaying of Mary Phagan, four- i
) teen year-old girl employed by the ,
I National Pencil company, and the i
[ conviction of Leo Frank, manager j
of the company, who had been con- I
vkted of the crime, came to light i
i Monday through the investigation of j
! a report that there had been new
I developments in the case.
The confession was made during
! the term of office of former Gover
i nor John' M. Slaton by a convict in
j th© federal prison here, and was re- i
I ported to the state prison cominis- )
I sion, but was never thoroughly in- )
; vestigated because of the numerous <
I false statements and fake rumors ■
: prevalent at that time, it was said. I
j The confession is attributed to a )
* negro named Freeman, although the I
! name is the only part that can not.
■be verified. It was made at the fed- )
| eral penitentiary by a negro who ,
thought he was dying, and was taker. |
down in writing by Dr. J. Calvin ,
Weaker, prominent Atlanta doctor,
then the prison physician. Dr.
Weaver says he reported the case to
both Governor Slaton and the prison
commission, and investigated the
matter to some extent himself, at the
request of the state officials, but did
not run it down thoroughly. Former
Governor Slaton,.Chairman R. E. Da
vison. of the prison commission, and
i Dr. Weaver all verified these facts
j Monday,
Judge Davison recalled many of
the details of the alleged confession
when he wfrs asked about it Mon
day. The negro Freeman, flatly
charged Jim Conley, a negro porter
for the National Pencil factory, with
the murder of Mary Phagan, accord
ing to Judge Davison.
Freeman claimed that he had
played cards with Conley all morn
ing on Memoriay day, in 1913, when
the factory was closed, and that
Conley left the basement in disgust
and climbed a ladder to the first
floor shortly before noon. The ele
vator had not run all morn nig, Free
I man said.
Soon after Conley had gone up the
ladder, Freeman heard a muffled
scream, he is said to have declared,
and a struggle. He also said he had
climbed the ladder and peeped
through the trap door, seeing Con
ley struggling with some one under
some steps. Freeman claimed that
he became frightened and ran out
the back of the basement, breaking
a rear door in his haste. This broken
door proved to be one of the mys
teries of the trial.
Offered to Pawn Bag
That afternoon at about 3 o’clock,
Freeman said, Conley came to Free
man’s house and declared that he
had to have three dollars, and needed
SI.BO to make it. He said Conley
offered to pawn a mesh bag to Free
man, who advanced the SI.BO and
took the bag. The next morning, ac
cording to Freeman, he heard about
the Phagan girl being killed at the
pencil factory, and that she had $1.20
) in her mesh bag, the amount due her
for work at the factory. Both the
$1.20 and the mesh bag had disap
peared.
Freeman said he immediately saw
the possibility that Conlev would
“frame” him, and his first care was
to get rid of the mesh bag, in which
he had found Mary Phagan’s card,
after hearing of the murder. He
said he took the bag to a woman
named Stella Williams, who lived at
an address that was given in the
confession, and warned her to put
it in the bottom of her trunk and
leave it there forever, he declared.
Then he said he caught a train for
j New Orleans, where he got in trou- I
I ble and from which place be had I
I been sent to the federal prison in (
j Atlanta, the last place in the world
I he wanted to spend his time in.
Judge Davison declared that an in
quiry in Atlanta revealed that a
Stella Williams had lived at the ad
dress giveh by Freeman, but she
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each $3.00
VILLI RIGA FARMER
IS SHOT AND KILLED
BY YOUNG NEIGHBOR
VILLA RICA, Ga.. Oct. I.—J. E.
| Coogler, a young farmer living near
) Villa Rica, in Paulding county, was
, shot and killed instantly Su Aay by
I Roy Ivey, a seven teen-year-old neigh-
I bor.
i The body of Coogler was discov-
I ered in a patch of woods near the
I home of Ivey by a, friend of the dead
: man. When found, an open knife D/|
I said to have been clasped in the
. hand of Coogler.
; Ivey, immediately after the shoot
ing, came to A’illa Rica and surren
dered to the sheriff.
He declined to make any statement
concerning the shooting, other than
j the fact that he fired twice at Coo
! gler in self-defense, both revolver
I bullets taking effect, ohe in the chest
i and one in the shoulder.
i There were no witnesses to the
| tragedy.
i Ivey is being held pending the find
■ ing of.a coroner’s inquest called for
) MondaV afternoon.
Big Dirigible Crashes
Down Near Marietta:
7
Craft Reported Empty
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. I.—A
big dirigible which passed over Chat
tanooga shortly after 7:30 o'clock
this morning created considerable in
terest and later at noon the railroad
operator at Marietta, Ga., reported
to the operator of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad
in Chattanooga, that a similar air
craft had fallen near that city, but
that no one was in the balloon.
It is supposed this was the diri
gible which passed over Chattanooga,
and is believed to have been running
wild. There were no marks of identi
fication on the machine which fell
at Marietta.
Three Bibb County
Officers Discharged
For “Joining Klan”
MACON, Ga., Oct. I.—Two deputy
sheriffs and a Bibb county police
man were discharged from service
today because of alleged affiliation
with the Ku Klux Klan.
The action of Sheriff J. R. Hicks,
Jr., in discharging the men, followed
a reign of terror here by masked
men who flogged a number of citi
zens for alleged wrongs, and a vig
orous campaign by officials in
which nine persons were arrested
charged with responsibility for the
all a c ks,
Shotguns Weapons
In Battle to Death
On Mississippi Isle
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. I.—ln a
battle with shotguns on an island
in the Mississippi river near here
late Sunday, Luther Wood, age 42,
was killed by E. Bunfill, age 41,
who surrendered later at police
headquarters. Bunfill declared, ac
cording to police, that Wood had
ordered him to leave the island on
which the two had been hunting
and fishing. When they met later
in the day, police quote Bunfill as
saying, Wood opened fire and was
killed in the battle which followed.
had died subsequent to the time
Freeman claimed to have given her
the mesh bag. Two of her some still
lived at the address, but claimed to
know nothing about the case.
Telegraphed New Orleans
Dr. Weaver telegraphed to the
chief of police at New Orleans to
verify an address in that city given
by Freeman, and states that he was
informed that there was no such ad
dress. Upon receiving this informa-1
tion he decided that the confession
I was a fake, and thought little more )
I about it, he declared Monday.
I Former Governor Slaton declared I
that he was impressed with the de-1
tails in the alleged confession at the
time, but did not investigate it per
sonally, and cannot now recall the
negro’s name ass told to him at the
time.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, October 2,1923
Armed Factions Line Up at Polls
As New Crisis Looms in Oklahoma
CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING
FAVORED BY GOVERNMENT
AS CURE FOR FARMERS’ ILLS
Bankers of Northwestern
States Are Advised to This
Effect by Administration
Spokesmen
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—More
orderly methods of marketing and
the greater use of co-operative mar
keting associations would in the
opinion of the War Finance corpora
tion do more good at the present
time- inr relieving the wheat situa
tion than anything else the govern
ment could suggest.
This advice was given the com
mittee of bankers from the ninth
federal reserve district at the con
clusion of their visit here. Presi
dent Coolidge has let it be known,
that he will rely on the solutions
proposed by the War Finance cor
poration as well as the department
of agriculture. The issuance of a
statement by the War Finance cor
poration outlining how extended had
been its financial help to the states
of North Dakota, South Dakota,
Minnesota and Montana from
whence the visiting bankers came
was calculated to offset the impres
sion that the government hasn’t
been doing its utmost to help the
farmers of the northwest.
War Loans
More than fifty-four per cent of
the total loans made by the War
Finance corporation to the whole na
tion are outstanding at present in
the four states above mentioned.
And the loans of the War Finance
corporation exceed by $1,000,000 the
loans of the federal reserve system
in these same four states. North
Dakota alone —seat of the Non-Par
tisan league’s radicalism —has re
ceived more money from the War
Finance corporation in proportion to
its population and the volume of its
production than any other in
the union.
Eugene Meyer, head of the War
TRIAL OF BULLARD
CONSPIRACY CASE
BEGINS WEDNESDAY
MARIETTA, Ga., Oct. I.—Mrs
Ruth Bullard and Simeon Edwards,
jointly charged with conspiracy to
murder D. D. Bullard, the woman's
husband, at Powder Springs several
months ago, will be placed on trial
in superior court here Wednesday
morning at 8 o’clock, Judge W. G.
Blair, of the Blue Ridge circuit, an
nounced from the bench when the
fall term of court was opened Mon
day morning.
Solicitor General John Wood an
nounced that the state would be
ready to proceed with the case..
Judge Newt Morris, representing
Edwards, and Fred Morris, attorney
| for Mrs. Bullard, announced that
■ both defendants would be in court
Wednesday ready for trial.
) Neither of the defendants was
| present Monday morning and a
j large crowd, assembled to hear this
case, quickly dispersed when Judge
Blair announced the delay.
The case is one of the last listed
or. the docket, but Judge Blair said
it ■would be taken up at the time set
even if other business had to be
deferred.
Both Mrs. Bullard and Edwards
have been at liberty under $5,000
bonds since the shooting of Mr. Bul
lard late in July. The state, ac
cording to Solicitor Wood, will in
troduce testimony intended to show
that Edwards and Mrs. Bullard con
spired to kill Mr. Bullard because
of their affection for each other. Mr.
Bullard, who has recovered partilally
from his wounds, will be in the
court room throughout the trial, the
solicitor said.
Attorneys for the defense declared
they would offer witnesses in an ef
fort to show that neither Mrs. Bui
lard nor Edwards had any connec- i
tion with the shooting, but that 't |
was done by an unidentified person
intent on robbing the Bullard home.
Tentative Trial Date
For Mrs. Justiss Set
As October 17 th
While no date has been set for
the trial of Mrs. Ollie Justice on a 1
charge of murdering her sweetheart,
DeWitt Turner, while the latter was
seated at the wheel of his automo
bile on South Pryor street Septem- I
ber 22, Solicitor General John A.
Boykin said Monday that he was
making an effort to place the case
on the calendar for October 17.
Plennie Miner and Marvin Baker,
investigators in the solicitor gener
al’s office, have been at work since
the shooting, preparing the case for
trial.
C. M. Combs, of Moreland, Ga.. fa
ther of the accused woman, came to
Atlanta Monday to confer with his
daughter.
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Goodyear Mfg. Co., 6028-R Goodyear .
Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., is making an
offer to send a handsome raincoat free
to one person in each locality who will )
show and recommend it to friends. If j
you want one, write today. i
Finance corporation, called the at
tention of the visiting committee to
“the experience of the corporation
in arranging advances totaling more
than $190,000,000 to co-operative
marketing associations, principally
to organizations handling cotton, to
associations have proved most help
bacco and rice.” He added that the
ful ‘‘in improving the methods of
orderly marketing of American
agricultural products and that the
loans proved to be safe.” The opin
ion was expressed by the directors
ot the War Finance croporation,
also that “it would Ite of great
benefit to the wheat growers of the
entire country if the relatively
small operations of the co-operative
wheat associations could be extend
ed and developed at the present
time.”
Mr. Meyer, who has been Investi
gating the European wheat situa
tion at first hand, explained “why
under present conditions of fluctu
ating exchanges the European buy
ers do not contract for wheat ahead,
but buy from hand-to-mouth and do
not carry the normal pre-war stocks
of wheat in elevators and mill ware
houses.”
Subsidy Plans
This situation, he thinks, cannot
change for the present “and the
producing countries must carry the
stocks which formerly were carried
by the consuming countries; this
means for America slower market
ing, with warehousing and financ
ing adjusted to slower distribution
and emphasizes the importance of
developing the co-operative market
ing associations.”
Most of the proposals thus far
made for the financing of the Amer
ican wheat export trade contem
plates a scheme whereby the United
States government would buy from
the American farmers at a fixed
price and take the risk of loss due
to changing conditions in foreign
exchange. There is no sj’mpathy
with that line of thought in the
executive branch of government
and there will be no acceptance of
it in congress unless the radicals
gain control in which case they
might have to reckon with a presi
dential veto.
O'KEEFE RETURNS
TO FACE COTTON
LARCENY CHARGES
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. I.—William
1 P. O'Keefe, who fled from Augusta
the night of August 17, just a few
hours before a warrant had been
sworn out for him charging the
larceny of 190 bales of cotton from
the Allied Compress company, of
which he was warehouseman, re
turned to Augusta late last pight,
and early today surrendered to Sher
iff J. T. Plunkett.
Bond in the sum of SIO,OOO as
fixed by Solicitor George Hains, was
immediately posted by O’Keefe and
; ho was released. No formal arrest
was made, O’Keefe going first to
- the offices of C. Vernon Elliott and
A. R. Williamson, his attorneys, and
from there to the sheriff’s office to
arrange bond.
Leaving Augusta in an automo
bile which he hired, O'Keefe went
' to Columbia, S. C., caught a train
I to Greenville, went from there to
Hendersonville and Charlotte, N. C-,
by bus, caught a train from Char
htte to Texas, arriving at El Paso
on Tuesday morning, August 21.
I From El Paso, O’Keefe went to
Juarez, Mexico, crossing the river
there on a trolley car. From El Paso
he telegraphed Mrs. O’Keefe as fol
lows:
“Am well and safe in Mexico. Will
write long letter.”
After remaining in Juarez about
ten days, O’Keefe went to Tampico,
Mexico, sailing from there to
Havana, Cuba. From Havana he re
turned to Augusta byway of Flor
ida, leaving CubU last Friday morn
ing and arriving here late last night.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Havana several days ago reported
that the consul there had been
asked by the sheriff of Richmond
county to apprehend O’Keefe.
A reporter found O’Keefe at the
offices of his attorneys Monday
morning. He appeared in the best
of health and was in his usual good
humor, declaring that he was glad
to get back to Augusta.
O’Keefe and his attorneys had no
statement to make as to the
larceny charges against him, as
their i mmediate concern is the pend
ing bankruptcy case. A petition in
bankruptcy was filed against
O’Keefe a few days after he left,
the principal creditor of the three
petitioners beii ~ Barrett & Co.,
which firm alleged that O’Keefe
was indebted to them for 400 bales
of cotton he had misappropriated at
the warehouse and for $4,000 in
overdrawn salary. The other two
claims were for small amounts.
Messrs. Elliott and Williamson, in
their reply to the petition admitted
insolvency, but Judge Joseph Gan
all, referee in bankruptcy, declined
to adjudicate OlKeefe a bankrupt be
cause of the absence of the alleged
bankrupt.
The warrant against O’Keefe was
sworn out by Roy Elliston, receiver
for Barrett & Co., and at the same
time warrants were issued for G.
C. Smbh and J. B Johnson. Smith,
a Twelfth street merchant, and
Johnson, a saw mill man of this
county, are at liberty here on bond.
Smith and Johnson were charged
with being involved with O’Keefe in
the shortage.
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GOVERNOR NAMES
NEW BOARD. WHICH
FORBIDS ELECTION
State's Officialdom Divided
as Zero Hour for Voting
Draws Near —Guardsmen
Enjoined
TULSA, Okla., Oct. I.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —Armed forces faced
each other at noon today at th*
Tulsa county courthouse as the hour
approached for the distribution of
election supplies to precinct polling
places for tomorrow’s special elec
tion.
An Injunction directed against
the entire national guard of the
state and all officers operating
under the authority of special
state police commission restraining
them from interferring with the
election tomorrow was issued here
today by Judge A. C. Hunt, in
state district court. Several hun
dred men have been sworn in
by Sheriff Bob Sanford, who has
declared the court’s order will
be enforced, and every ma* thrown
in jail who attempts to hinder the
opening of the polls.
Sheriff Sanford declared “there
will be at least twenty armed depu
ties sworn in to permit the election
to every one of s Governor WaltonL
gunmen ordered to break it up.”
Thirty-five thousand ballots, print
> ed last night, were under guard ot
more than a hundred special depu
ties at the courthouse today. They
will be taken to precinct polling
places tonight and will be guarded
every minute until' the election J'
over, according to county election
officials.
Just before 1 o’clock it was an
nounced by the sheriff's forces tha
preparation to open the supply vaul
would not be completed before 2
p. m.
When the vault door was opened
at 12:15 by a precinct officer, in
quest of a new registry book, mora
than 200 armed deputy sheriffs
blocked the stairway leading to tha
election headquarters, until the door
was closed again.
At 1:10 p. m. Sheriff Sanford,
backed by a body of 200 armed spe
cial deputies, surrounded the twelve
“citizen volunteers” and ordered
them from the building. They left
in a hotly.
GOVERNOR’S NEW ELECTION
BOARD ORDERS VOTING OFF
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct 1.
(By the Associated Press.) —Playing
his trump card, Governor J. C.
Walton today re-constituted tha
state election board, and orders, is
sued by the new board, went out
at once by telegraph to all county
boards to halt the special state elec
tion for tomorrow.
The governor filed an executive
order with the secretary of state re
moving John P. Logan, chairman
■of the board, and C. W. Kelly, Re-
I publican member. Logan is a Dem
| ocrat. He named in their places Ira
i Mitchel), Deomcrat, and Claude
Baker, Republican.
W. C. McAlister, secretary of the
board, is the only Jective member.
The other two are appointive, and '
give the governor control over its
actions.
Secretary Rejects Order
The rcnoval order was dated
April 25, 1923, and for this reason
R. A. Sneed, secretary of state, re
fused tj accept it, until he had ob
tained an official opinion as to its
validity from George F. Short, state
attorney general.
The new board members, how
ever, did not wait for the opinioh
before calling off the election.
An hour after the governor’s or
tier revising the personnel of the
board had been delivered to the sec
retary of state, and the orders from
the new members instructing county
election boards to postpone the elec
tion had been placed on the wire,
old members of the board declared
at the board’s headquarters that they
knew nothing of the executive’s ac
tion.
Continue InstruclL •.»
They said they were continuing to
instruct county boards to hold the
election.
Simultaneous with the action of
the reconstituted board in ordering
the election eff. Attorney General
Short sent this telegram to all coun
ts' attorneys:
“Th e election on October 2 is a
legal election. Observe section 7,
article 3. constitution of Oklahoma.
Advise your sheriff that it is his duty
as well as yours to obey the constitu
tion of the state.”
J. K. Wright, county attorney of
Oklahoma county, holding in his
hand a telegram from the governor
instructing him to prevent the elec
tion. said;
“I car/ not obey this under my
oath.”
The county attorney declared that
he would prosecute any one interfer
ing with the election. Blank infor
mations were being prepared in his
office to be held in readiness for filing
immediately if election officials or
voters are hampered in any way, he
said.
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