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VOL. XXV. NO. 159
REICHSTAG RIGHTS
' TO BE CURBED IN
• • NEW GOVERNMENT
Chancellor Heckled in Pres
entation Speech New
Crisis Predicted Within
Next Week.
LONDON, Oct. 6.—Chancellor
Stresemann in his speech before the
y German reichstag today said, ac
cording to the Berlin correspondent
of the Central News, that the reich
stag would be asked to renounce its
rights for a long time and grant
powers to the cabinet much greater
4 than had ever before been given to
cabinet anywhere.
STRESEMANN PRESENTS
PLAN TO REICHSTAG
BERLIN, Oct. 6.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Plainly exhibiting
signs of physical exhaustion
wrought by five days of political par
ley and barter, and, incidentally be
traying nervousness born of appre
hension of what the immediate fu
ture holds in store for his resurrect
ed coalition cabinet, Chancellor
Stresemann this afternoon, sub
mitted to the reichstag a liberally
Improvised statement of the internal
and foreign situation. The familiar
optimism, which ordinarily is an en-
• gaging feature of the chancel'-.’s
political utterances was wholly lack
ing today, and its absence may be
taken as symptomatic of the atmos
phere of political langor which greet
ed the return to the government
bench of his laborously reassembled
coalition ministry.
While a majority of the members
of the former cabinet return to t’-.'ir
old positions, the chancellor up to
th.e time the reichstag session was
to open was still short a finance
minister, for which post he sought
the services of Dr. Schact, a well
known Berlin banker, who finally
declined. Dr. Hans Luther was t n
transferred from the food ministry to
the position vacated by Dr. Hilferd-
Ing, who was jettisoned by the so
cialists in the course of yesterday’s
political bartering.
Dr. Koeth, the new minister of
« economics, is something of a novel
-1 ty in the cabinet. He achieved f -e
fts a practical expert in wartime
economics, and was an aid to Dr.
Itathenau. He has the reputation
»f being a type of efficient but
blunt, beureaucratic executive. He
Mas a major of artillery in the war.
« Chancellor Stresemann’s speech
Was mainly a cursory review of
>vents since the abandonment of
passive resistance, and he frankly
Iscussed the crisis of the past week,
ile made no precise allusion to the
lesurrected four party government’s
nmediate program or the extent to
Which he proposed to apply the au
thorization law for which he has
been seeking parliament’s approval.
At the conclusion of his speech,
Which apparently proved a severe
physical strain on the chancellor, the
teichstag voted to adjourn until
Monday, when all the parties will
announce their individual attitude
bn the government’s proposed semi
dictatorial measures. The conspic
uously artificial termination of the
past week’s crisis leaves the parlia
f mentary situation in a complete
. state of uncertainty, especially with
• regard to joint productive activity of
the four coalition parties, each of
Which bears scars of the five days
partisan recriminations which would
hardy seem to vouchsafe harmoni
ous co-operation.
The cabinet as now announced is
ts follows:
Chancellor and minister of for-
I gn.affairs, Dr. Gustav
minister of the interior, Wilhelm
Solhnann;»minister of finance, Dr.
Hans Luther; minister of labor,
Heinrich Brauns; minister of public
economy, Dr. Koeth; minister of
Justice, Gustav Radbruch; minister
of reichswher, Dr. Otto Gessler; min
ister of posts, Herr Hoefe; minister
of communications, Rudolph Oeser;
< minister of occupied regions, Joahn
« res Fuchs; minister of reconstruc
tion, Robert Schmidt. The post of
minister of supplies remains un
filled.
Troops Withdrawn
From Spruce Pine
1 RALEIGH, N. C., Oct. B.—Gover
nor Cameron Morrison last night or
dered that all troops at Spruce Pine,
N. C., be withdrawn, it being his
©pinion that the race trouble which
has resulted in the driving away of
nearly 200 negroes is ended and that
normal conditions practically have
been restored.
Only about twoscore negroes have
returned to work at Spruce Pine.
Information received here is to
the effect that the leaders of th-;
mob which drove out the negroes
Will be arrested early this week.
Bryan Is Only Chance,
Says Senator Brookhart |
OMAHA, Oct. 6. —U. S. Senator
Smith W. Brookhart, Republican of
lowa, here on a visit with Senator
K. B. Howell, Republican Nebraska,
expressed the opinion Saturday that
William Jenning Bryan “is the only
Democrat in sight who has any
chance of being eieetd president”
•
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia, North Carolina: Fair
with slowly rising temperature, mod
erate northeast winds.
South Carolina: Mostly cloudy,
possibly showers in south portion.
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi:
Unsettled, probably showers, little !
change in temperature.
Florida, extreme northwest Flor
ida: Showers.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Increas
ing cloudiness, possibly showers in
west portion.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy in inte
rior, unsettled on the coast with oc
casional showers.
* Arkansas: Partly cloudy.
> Oklahoma: Unsettled, probably
showers.
East Texas: Unsettled, probably '
local showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
H 7 orld News
Told In
Brief
i DENVER.—Gas explosion kills
I six men in coal mine at Palisades,
I Col.
I MEXICO ClTY.—President ‘ Obre-
I gon, who has been reported seriously
| ill, i s much improved.
LONDON.—British presses in-
I crease denunciation of feebleness in
Ruhr policy and what it calls Brit
ish surrender to Poincare. \
WASHINGTON. Severe earth-
I quake tremors are recorded at
Georgetown university seismological
observatory.
MONTRILAL.—IJoyd Ge O rg e has
to cancel some speaking engage
ments in Canadian tour because of
hoarse throat.
CHICAGO. —Greek Catholic prifest
is shot and killed by clergyman’s
wife as she kneels in church appar
ently to make a confession.
NEW YORK. —Grover Bergdol!
will return to United States and serve
sentence for draft evasion, his njoth
er declares on arrival from Germany.
PARIS. —Poincare makes passing
reference to Lloyd George as a for
mer prime minister who continues to
disparage French policy in his ar
tides and lecture tours.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oklahoma
legislature is called in special ses
sion October 17 to consider Gover
nor Walton’s impeachment proceed
ings.
NEW YORK.—Nicholas Murray
Butler says wild .platforms or wild
candidates can not win electoral vote
of pivotal states in 1924 presidential
election.
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Price McLean,
center of University of Kentucky
football team, dies of injuries receiv
ed Saturday in the game with the
University of Cincinnati.
PASlß.—Official circles give cold
reception to Stresemann’s speech in
the reichstag, and declare German
chancellor has failed to diminish
French suspicions against Germany.
WASHINGTON. Ellis Searles,
representing United Mine Workers,
asserts that non-union coal operators
have given substantial encourage
ment to “communists and other de
structive reds.”
PORTLAND, Ore.—American Fed
eration of Labor convention decides
to devote its efforts to organization
of workers rather than rely wholly
upon legislative action to correct in
dustrial evils.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge is unalterably opposed to can
cellation by the United States of
debts owed by European countries,
but believes in liberal settlement,
White House advices say,
BOSTON.—Mrs. Gladys Parrish,
widow of L. W. Parrish, former Tex
as representative, is found on Mount
Agassiz, New Hhapshire, after in
tensive search by summer residents
and villagers, Bethlehem, N. H., dis
patch says.
Youth, Mistaken for
Squirrel, Is Shot Dead
In Bulloch Swamp
STATESBORO, Ga., Oct. 5.—C. H.
Bedenbaugh shot and instantly kill
ed Ed Waters, aged twenty, last
Thursday while squirrel hunting
about two miles north of Statesboro.
The men were hunting in a dense
swamp, neither knowing the other
was in the swamp.
Bedenbaugh says he saw a squir
rel come down a tree and run into
some underbrush, and apparently
the boy who was hunting nearby,
saw the same squirrel and came up
on the opposite side. Bedenbaugh
says the young man made a slight
movement in the bushes and think
ing it was the squirrel he shot. He
says he saw at once that it was a
man he had shot and called to B.
C. Beasley, who was hunting with
him, to come and help him get him
out of the swhmp. By the time they
reached him he was dead. It was
some time before he could be identi
fied, as his head had almost been
shot away.
Young Waters is a son of T. C.
Waters, a prominent citizen of Bul
loch county.
Thomas Camphor Trees
Menaced by Bugs
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Oct. 6.
That there is a very small bug that
is attacking the camphor trees in
this section is the opinion of Mr.
Boyd, of the bureau of entomology
here, who thinks that unless the
ravages of this bug are checked by
spraying, the trees will be seriously
injured. t
The first indication of the attacks
of this bug is noticed in the drop
ping of the leaves in patches over
the trees. These patches spreading
all oyer the trees very rapidly. The
first attack of the bug was seen by
C. E. Hay at his place in the south
ern suburbs of the city, and then
was discovered on the trees of
Judge Roscoe Luke’s place, adjoin
’ng Mr. Hay’s.
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THREE DESPERADOES
FOUND DEAD BEHIi
PRISON BARRICADE
WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE
PENITENTIARY, Via Paducah.
Ky„‘ Oct. 7.—(By the Associated
Press.) —Authorities invaded the
bullet-'- - mess hall stronghold of
the three convict murderers in the
prison grounds here late today and
found it a place of death.
After the barricaded covert of the
desperate trio had been flooded with
fumes from high-proof ammonia
this afternoon a storming party of
seven men entered the building. No
sign of life was found on the ground
floor Os the two-story building.
Cautiously the invaders moved to
the second floor.
There they found the bodies of
the mutineers, who died with the
blood of three prison guards, vic
tims of the gunmen’s automatic pis
tols when the break for liberty was
initiated early Wednesday morning,
on their hands.
Monte* Walters, fully dressed, ap
parently had been killed by bullets
fired during the siege. Lawrence
Griffith and Harry Ferland, his
companions, stripped to the waist,
were dead from bullet wounds
through the heart. Griffith and
Ferland, it was believed, died by
their own pistols to escape the am
monia fumes.
The storming party entered the
mess hall at 5:19 o’clock.
Authorities succeeded in investing
the disputed barricade after a spec
tacular siege of 81 hours in the
course of which prison guards re
inforced by two details of Kentucky
national guardsmen, riddled the
building with withering barrages of
steel-jacket bullets from high-pow
ered rifles and two machine guns;
swept the interior of the building
with the shrapnel formed by burst
ing rifle grenades and twice suc
ceeded in placing tear gas in the
building.
The siege wore on through suc
cessive days and nights without au
thorities apparently having pro
gressed materially in efforts to dis
lodge the desperadoes.
Today, however, three hundred
pounds of 100 proof ammonia was
obtaind from Paducah, and emerg
ency pipe lines were laid to the
beleagured building by members of
the attacking forces, working be
hind the protection of improvised
metal shields. When this work was
completed, the ammonia, held under
compression in heavy metal drums,
was released.
For an hour the ammonia was
allowed to creep into the mess hall.
Then control valves were closed and
another anxious hour passed while
besiegers whited for the wind to
sweep the fumes clear ; of the bar
ricade.
The “mopping up" party of seven
picked men then moved across the
no-man’s land about the mess hall
nerves taut an<T trigger fingers
curved ready about pistols at full
cock.
Those waiting breathlessly on the
“firing line” heard a shout from
within the building. the word
flashed out “all dead.”
The “siege of Eddyville” was
ended.
WIFE OF BESIEGED
CONVICT IS ARRESTED
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 7.—One
of the first results of efforts by the
state in investigating the manner
in which the three mutineers at
Eddyville state penitentiary re
ceived their revolvers and ammuni
tion occurred here early today
when Mrs. Lillian Walters, wife of
Monte Walters, one of the gunmen,
was taken into custody by police.
A searching fire of questions
failed to secure an admission that
she was connected with or knew
about the outbreak. She recalled
under gruelling questions, however
that she had cashed a check for
S4OO on the Prisoners’ aid fund of
the penitentiary in Paducah Sep
tember 14, and said she got the
money for Will Sparks, a former
convict. Where Sparks is at pres
ent she alleged she did not know.
Police announced she would be
continued to be held here on a
charge of aiding and abetting
prisoners to escape.
Heart Attack Fatal
To Mr. J. L. Herring,
Tifton, Ga., Publisher
TIFTON, Ga., Oct. 6. —John Lewis
Herring, editor of the Tifton, Ga.,
Gazette, and author' of Saturday
Night Skc'.ches, died at his home
here this afternoon, at 6 o’clock. He
was stricken with acute dilation of
the heart Friday night while at
tending an entertainment of the Ki
wanis club of which he was presi
dent.
Mr. Herring a s fifty-seven years
old and had been publisher of the
Tifton Gazette f ibout thirty
years. He is survived by by his
wife and ten children.
Knights Kamelia
Won’t Wear Masks,
Simmons Declares
CHICAGO. Oct. 5. William Jos
eph Simmons, emperor of the Ku
Klux Klan, was here today to speak
tomorrow in the interest of his sec
ond organization of klansmen, the
Knights of Kamelia, who will not
wear masks.
Only “worthy klansmen”' will be
elevated to the new order. “thus
eliminating the .thoughtless, turbu
lent and irresponsible element who
slipped 'through the portals into the
probatnioary order,” Mr. Simmons
was quoted as saying.
Holston Conference
Favors Church Merger
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 6.—The
Holston conference of the Southern
Methodist church, this afternoon at
Bluefield. W. Virginia, adopted a
resolution sent from Knoxville favor
ing unification of the two Methodist
churches The conference represents
parts of Tennessee. Virginia, West
Virginia and Georgia,
FOUR ABE KILLED
WHEN TRAIN HITS
AUTO AT DULUTH
DULUTH, Ga., Oct. B.—Four men
were killed and two more were in
jured, one of them probably fatally,
as a result of an automobile accident
here Saturday night, when north
bound Southern Railway train No.
14, struck a touring car at a rail
road crossing near the center of
town.
The dead are:
Willis Strickland, twenty-six years
old.
Robert Chadwick, forty years old.
. J. G. Jones, seventeen years old
Matt Brumbaloo, eighteen years
i old.
The injured are Charles Chadwick,
driver of the car, sixteen years old,
son of Robert Chadwick; and Charles
Jackson, twenty years old. Both are
in a hospital at Gainesville, where
they were taken immediately after
the wreck. Chadwick is expected to
die from his injuries, while Jackson
will probably recover.
Jumps to Safety
Hoyt Langston, the seventh pas
senger in the death car, jumped and
escaped injury.
All the men are farmers resnding
within a few miles of Duluth, and
are well known throughout this sec
tion.
They were leaving Duluth for
Langston's home, after which they
were planning to go to Atlanta.
Charles Ohadwick, at the wheel, is
said to have been somewhat inexpe
rienced in driving an automobile and
approached the railroad crossing at
a rapid rate of speed. Seeing the
passenger train approaching, he at
tempted to stop the car, but the
brakes failed to work properly and
the machine rolled on the tracks.
Gasoline Explodes
The locomotive struck the car
broadside and carried it about 100
yards, hurling the occupants in all
directions. The gasoline tank ex
ploded and set fire to the wreckage,
burning Strickland’s body. .
The train had slowed down to stop
at the station here, and the injured
men were taken aboard, after first
aid had been given, and taken to
Gainesville. Strickland had been
killled instantly, but Robert Chad
wick, J. C. Jones and Matt Brumba
loo died id the hospital.
Robert Chadwick leaves a wife and
six children. The other victims were
unmarried.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but it is understood
that Robert Chadwick will be buried
at Marietta, his old home, and Wil
lis Strickland at Duluth.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Poss
Die Within Six Hours at
Their Marietta Home
MARIETTA, Ga., Oct. B.—Mrs.
Nancy Caroline Poss, 75 years of
age, died Sunday morning at her
residence on the Marietta and Ros
well road. John S. Dobbins & Sons,
funeral directors hardly had time to
return to Marietta after embalm
ing her when they received a mes
sage that they would have to go
back, as Mrs. Poss’ husband, David
Poss, 78 years old, had died less
than six hours after his wife.
A joint funeral was held this aft
ernoon at 2 olclock from Mt. Zion
Baptist church in Post Oak district,
and interment was in the church
yard, which is just across the road
from the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Poss, and on ground which Mr.
Poss had donated to the church.
The Rev. Ralph Donehoo and Dr.
Reeves, of Roswell, officiated.
Mr. and Mrs. Poss are survived by
one daughter, Mrs. J. C. Spruell,
and five sons, C. D , W. T., C. T.,
J. M. and W. N. Poss, all of near
Marietta, together with a large num
her of grandchildren and other rela
fives.
Mr. and Mrs. Poss had been resi
dents of Post Oak district in Cobb
county for many years and were
highly respected. Mr.. Poss operat
ed a store in connection with a
large farm and was well known
throughout the county.
Father, Mother and
Babe Missing; Police
Hold Suicide Theory
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Oct. B.—Po
lice today were investigating the dis
appearance of George J. Schiefel
bcin, his wife, Rebecca, and their
twenty-two-months-old boy. Their
automobile was found last night on
the bank' of the Kaw river here.
Along the bank and in the car were
found several articles of clothing be
longing to Mrs. Schiefelbein and the
baby. A note found in the car writ
ten in a feminine hand anj addressed
to the husband indicated that Mrs.
Schiefelbein contemplated suicide.
It said: “We waited for until 7
o’clock and you did not come. We
ended it all in the river. I love you
so much my heart aches. I hope
your mother is satisfied.”
Police are working on the theory
that Mrs. Schiefelbein drowned her
self and baby in the river and that
the husband, upon finding the note,
also committed suicide. The hus
band was employed in the Santa Fe
shops here.
Butcher Near Death
From Lockjaw After
Being Gored by Steer
SAY ANNAH, Ga., Oct. B.—Frank
Cleary, a butcher, is said to be’ dying
of lockjaw as the result of being
gored by a steer. Mr. Cleary went
to get the animal to slaughter'it. The
steer attacked him and gored him
through the center of the right hand. (
Tetanus has developed and he is in j
a critical condition.
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EXCAVATIONS FOB
OGLETHORPE BONES
TO START TUESDAY
CRANHAM, Eng., Oct. B.—Con-,
firming the action of the rector and*
council of the Church of All Saints
here, Chancellor Ernest Childs to
day gave Dr. Thornwell Jacobs au
thority to excavate for the body of
General James E. Oglethorpe, first
governor of Georgia, who was
buried in the midle of the chancel
of the old church. Dr. Jacobs, who
is president of Oglethorpe universi
ty, plans to have the bones of
Georgia’s founder removed to At
lanta for interment there, in a
special shrine to be erected on the
campus of th© university.
The work of excavation will be
started tomorrow under the super
vision of Dr. Leslie Wright, rector
of the church, and Dr. Jacobs.
While it is progressing a religious
ceremony will be conducted. The
disinterment will be made with the
“utmost reverence” it is stated, and
no reporters or photographers will
be allowed in the church while it is
progressing. If no obstacles are en
countered it is expected the body
will be found within two or three
days. Further permission then will
be .required for its removal to
America, but it is not anticipated
that the authorities will stand in
the way.
Only two or three residents of
Cranham filed objections to the ex- j
,cavation, and these were overruled
as being without sufficient weight
op legality.
Silent Husband Wins
BURTONON-TRENT, Eng.
Though Mrs. Ruth Tate testified her
husband had not spoken to her for
four years, the court refused her a
separation order.
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Atlanta, Ga,, Tuesday, October 9, 1923
DYSTER KING GIVEN
HEARING: MAY LOSE
OSE OF O.S. MAILS
WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Hearings
were begun today by the postoffice
department in proceedings seeking to
deny the use of the mails to William
Lee Popham, self-styled oyster king,
of Apalachicola, Fla. The hearings
will be closed to the public and may
continue over a week.
The exact charges against Pop
ham ar«? not being revealed at the
-department under the law, but he
was cited to appear under section
3929 of the revised statutes, which
authorizes the postmaster general to
prevent passage through the mails
of matter by any person or company
upon evidence satisfactory that such
person or company is engaged in any
device for obtaining money or prop
erty of any kind by means of false
or fraudulent pretenses or promises.
Under the practice of the postoffice
such citations or charges are not
made public unless a fraud order is
issued.
Popham appeared- at the hearing
accompanied by his counsel, Philip
D. Beall, of Pensacola, and Eugene
R. West and G. N. Brown, of Wash
ington.
T. R. Hodges, fish commissioner of
Florida, also is in Washington in
connection with the case.
Japanese Steamship
Sends S. 0. S. Call
NORFOLK, Va., Oct. B.—The coast
guard cutter Manning today was
sent to the aid of the Japanese
steamship Karachi Maru in distress
300 miles east of Cape (Henry. S. O. S.
calls came today from the Karachi
Maru, which was reported in dis
tress Saturday.
—BY RIPLEY ’
HOWARD THOMPSON,
FOUR TIMES MM
OF GAINESVILLE. DIES
GAINESVILLE, Ga„ Oct. S.—Mr.
Howard Thompson, one of the best
known figures in the public life of
Georgia, a former United States
marshal, and four times mayor of
Gainesville, died at a local hospital
at 3 o'clock Monday morning.
Mr. Thompson was seventy-one
years of age. He had oeen in ill
health for some time and underwent
an operation for appendicitis a week
ago. His death comes as a shock
to a wide circle of friends through
out this section of the state.
Funeral services will be held from
the First Baptist church of Gaines
ville, at 3 o’clock Wednesday after
noon, the Rev. E. F. Campbell and
the Rev. W. P. King officiating. In
terment will be in the Alta Vista
cemetery.
Mr. Thompson had been a practic
ing attorney in Gainesville for many
years and had completed his fourth
term mayor a shoit time before
his death. He had previously served
in the same office in 1904, 1905 and
1922, had been a member of the city
board of education or more than
20 years and ha' l served as a trustee
of the state university and the .north
Georgia Agricultural college for
about the same length of time.
In 1914 he was appointed by Pres
ident Wilson to the of United
States marshal for the northern dis
trict of Georgia and served in that
position until 1920, when he was
succeeded by Claud Bond, who held
the office until the beginning of the
term of the incumbent, Walter Aker
marshal Mr. Thompson made his
marshal Mr. Thompson made is
headquarters in Atlanta.
Prior to his appointment as mar
shal Mr. Thompson had served tor
twelve years as solicitor general for
the northeastern circuit superior
court, and had been a candidate for
congress from his me district.
He is survived by his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. J. O. 11. Walpole,
of New Holland, and Mrs. J. A.
Mershon. of Gainesville: one broth
er, E. B. Thompson, of Thomas
ville, and two sisters. Mrs. S. C.
Dunlap. Sr., and Mrs. W. I). Whel
chel, of Gainesville.
Man Charged With
Killing Prohibition
Officer m Swamp
WAYCROSS, Ga„ Oct. B.—A. D.
Crews, resident of Cowhouse Is-1
land, in the Okefenokee swamp, was |
arrested late yesterday at the close j
of the secret investigation into the '
slaying of Jack Hagins,
tion and county officer. Recently,
upon orders of the solicitor general.
Crews was arrested on a charge of
murder and lodged in the Ware coun
ty jail at Waycross.
Hagins was found dead in his
wagon with three shots in his back,
about ten .days ago by a resident of
the island Belief that he was a pro
hibition officer at the time is thought
to have furnished the motive for his
ki 11 i n g.
Tennessee Husband
Shoots Wife to Death,
Then Kills Himself t
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 6.
Shelby Trent, of Lusher, Tenn., shot
and instantly killed his wife, Nancy
Trent, at the home of Wilson Greene,
four miles east of Treadway. He then -
turned the pistol cn himself, blowing j
out his brains.
His wife ,s known to have filed a '
bill in court asking for a divorce.
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■Ki GALL
TO LEGISLATURE
3overnor Asks for Measure
Against itflask Military
Rule to Be Lifted Soon, It
Is Indicated
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 7.
(By the Associated Press.) —A call for
an extraordinary session o 2 the state
legislature on October 11 “for the
j purpose of the enactment of a law
to protect the people from masked
and lawless marauders and secret
organizations,” was issued tonight
by Governor J C. Walton.
Simultaneously a statement was
made public by Aldrich Blake, exec
utive counsellor, declaring that the
governor is “ready” and that he is
“eager to me* 1 * th,; legi.-lature,”
The governor’s action was accept
ed as a challenge for a finish fight
with members of the legislature who
have sought his impeachment, and
his advisers made no effort to hide
the fact th<at they were preparing
for the attack.
The governor’s call preceded by
less than a week a session summon
ed by a majority of the members of
the lower house for October 17, at
which a general investigation of im-,
peachable state officers would be
made.
End of Martial Law
The call indicated that evidencs
adduced by military courts of in
quil-y throughout the state would b«
placed before the legislature to sup
port the executive’s demand for anti-
Ku Klux Klar, legislation.
Counsellor Blake declared that
“the call indicates that martial law
will be lifted soon." He declared he
would indicate no details of any pro
gram that might look to that end.
Martial law throughout the state
was declared three weeks ago to
night.
Blake’s statement follows:
"The governor is ready. At last
the record of the military courts is
complete. He had at no time ex
ceeded his constitutional powers.
is not only willing but eager to
meet the legislature.
“He awaits the verdict with com
placency, satisfied that he ijuS
done no wrong and confident that
within the next 60 days the Ku
Klux Klan would be destroyed."
Governor Walton, in a statement
to the Associated Press, declared
that he “wanted to make it plain
that no effort will be made to hin
i dcr in any way any attempt by the
members of the house,” to impeach
him.
“It has been said in some quar
ters that I would 1 try to prevent
impeachment action against law,'*
the executive said. “I want I<j
deny that emphatically. I am ready
to defend my every act, and I
court the investigation of my of*
fice. I have nothing to fear and
the only fight I will make will ba
to see that the truth is told.”
The Proclamation
Governor Walton’s proclamation
calling the special legislative ses
sion:
“Whereas, a condition of lawless
ness had heretofore for some time
prevailed in several counties in the
state of Oklahoma, under which
numerous mobs have kidnaped;
beaten, mutilated and, in some in
stances raped and murdered citizer i
i of Oklahoma, and
"Whereas, by virtue of the au
thority vested in me as governor
of the state of Oklahoma and so;
the protection of the people of Ok
lahoma and the enforcement of law
i and the restoration of order and
I the detection of the perpetrators ol
I these crimes, I have heretofore de
clared martial law in the state ot
Oklahoma and through that agency
have protected the people, restored
order and investigated hundreds of
these mob whippings and murders,
and,
“Whereas, the sworn evidence art
to the existence of this system of
! lawlessness and the identity of the
| organization responsible for this
| system of operation the membership
of which is secret has been secured
by duly authorized military com
missions and is now available for
the use of proper authorities, botH
! legislative and judicial, and,
“Whereas, it is imperative that
I legislation be immediately enacted
I which will unmask the organization
responsible for the perpetration of
these crimes of violence and prevent
| thei'r recurrence.
“Now. therefore. I. J. C. Walton,
governor of the state of Oklahoma,
pursuant to the power vested in mo
by the constitution of the state of
Oklahoma, do hereby convoke tho
legislature of the said state in ex
traordinary session, at the state Cap
itol at Oklahoma City at 9 o’clock,
Thursday. October 11. A. D„ 1923,
for the purpose of the enactment of
a law to protect the people from
masked and lawless marauders and
mobs and secret organizations.”
M’BEE SAYS HE CAN
FORESEE WALTON’S END
DUNCAN. Okla., Oct. 7.—Predict
ing that he could “write on a slip of
paper the time when Walton will
cease to be governor,” W. D. Mcßee,
member of the Oklahoma house and
leader in the fight of legislators on
Governor J. C. Walton, declared
here this afternoon, the governor’s
“days are numbered.”
• Mcßee, at home for a few days
rest, will return to Oklahoma City
Sunday evening, he said:
"Governor Walton’s days are num
bered. I can write on a slip of pa
per the time when Walton will cease
to be governor and I won't miss it
an hour.” the legislator said.
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