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«NGLO-AMERICAN
Emm PROPOSAL
IS GAINING FAVOR
Lloyd George’s Suggestion
Finds Attentive Ears in
Washington—Would Pre
vent Internatonal Conflicts
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. , 13.—Al
though President Coolidge can not
take official cognizance of the sug
gestion of former Prime Minister
Lloyd George that by an unwritten
understanding the United States and
Great Britain in combination could
prevent any big war, the fact of the
matter is no official cognizance is
needed to put into effect a plan
which for years had unsuccessfully
agitated by the champions of Anglo-
Ametican co-operation.
What the former head of the Brit
ish goverximc-i.c wants is a diplomatic
entente—a friendly partnership o’
the two great English-speaking na
tions. There has, however, been no
barrier against the formation of such
an understanding heretofore except
tn© Irish <i... . .and when that
has not been a sore spot there have
been other sources of friction be
tween the United States and Great
Britain. It is true these principals
of conflict nave arisen over commer
cial ambitions, but the records of
the department of state are full of
complaints against British diplomacy
in various parts of the world, partic
ularly South America. The Euro
pean custom of linking up govern
mental influence and power to the
exploitations by private British capi
talists of the resources of various
countries means an aggressive diplo
macy from London which has fre
quently been a disappointment to
Americans who have expected a pol
icy of equality of treatment and the
so-called “open door” in commerce.
Equality Sought
The United States l as never in
sisted upon preferential treatment in
the western hemisphere where com
mercial questions have been involved,
but it is a fact that the Washington
government had a ha - d time
arguing for equality of treatment in
regions where the influence of Great
Britain is dominant. The long-drawn
out controversy over equal oil rights
in the Near East found America
ranged against Great Britain. Even
though the Royal Dutch Shell com
pany was operating under grants
from the Netherlands government,
the British were behind much of the
opposition to Americr.» interests.
Similarly there are some chapters in
the controversy over the extension
of an American cable through Portu
guese islands in the Atlantic which
involved by British diplomatic influ
ence in Portugal.
All these instances merely make
the diplomatic side of the Washing
ton government more than ever
anxious to get a better understand
ing with the British foreign office
and the hint thrown out by Mr.
Lloyd George doesn’t need any me e
official cognizance than it alrealy nas.
On many an occasion in world as
fairs, American and British diplo
• ■ ■■• have stood sid -hv . e and the
only reason thej' have not done so
more often has been a divergence of
Interests —the American government
preferring to remain aloof from cer
tain problems in which Great Britain
and other European powers had a
more direct Interest.
If Mr. Lloyd George means a pool
ing of physical strength, he, of
course, has in mind only a great
emergency such as the late war when
the British and American navies
worked as a single unit in European
waters.
Varied Naval Policy
But even in the ordinary times the
British form of government permits
a sending of a fleet for a. naval dem
onstration which can be followed up
instantly by landing of marines and
troops while authority 1 for every ac
tion must be sought in th e case of
the United States from both houses
of congress, a circumstance which
prohibits America from making a
threat that is not likely to be sane
tioned by American opinion. Most
of the questions that lead to war in
Europe are much better known to
the British public than to America.
What Mr. Lloyd George has sug
gested is an objective to which few
In the Washington government would
take exception provided British and
American diplomacy had common in
terests in all parts of the world. But
the value of th e suggestion has not
been lost and probably will often be
referred to in diplomatic conversa
tions in the future as it has in the
past, particularly when Great Britain
and <be United States have seemed
to be opposing each other in matters
on which unity of action would be
better for both.
f,I,OYD GEORGE CALLED
GREATEST LIVING BRITON
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn . Oct. 13.
David Lloyd George, war-time pre
mier of Great Britain, who will speak
in Minneapolis Monday was charac
terized as “the greatest living Eng
lishman” by the Earl of Brikenhead,
former lord chancellor of England,
in an address at the University of
Minnesota last night.
"I cannot exaggerate before you.*
said the former lord‘chancellor, “the
service Mr. Lloyd George rendered
to his jountry and the whole allied
cause during the war.
“He was a man. by disposition
hateful of war. There is no man in
England who would have made or
did make greater effort to avoid the
struggle He was one of the most
tenacious, resourceful, and brilliant
men. I never knew him in low
spirits. Ha radiated confidence and
gladniss. It Is for these reasons,
that. In my opinion, he is the great
est livVhg Englishman ”
PETEn B. KYNE EXPLAINS
WHY HE LEFT PREMIER
NEW YORK. Oct. 13.—Peter B.
Kyne, the American novelist and
friend of David Lloyd George, who
accomnanied the former prime min
ister to Canada as advisor in plans
for his tour of the United States and
who unexpectedly left the war-time
premier's party, today announced he
had done so because he had found
he could be of no use to Mr. Lloyd
George.
He denies there has been any dis
agreement.
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SANTA PAULA, Calif.—Two men
are killed by brush fire in hills
north of Santa Paula.
WINNIPEG.—LIoyd George com
pletes his Canadian visit and leaves
Winnipeg for Minneapolis.
WASHINGTON. Dry leaders
gather to bring prohibition law en
forcement to an issue.
INDIANAPOLIS. Nine persnos
are killed when train hits an automo
bile at Fairland, Ind., crossing.
PARIS. president Millerand
warns that France most reach a
higher birth rate if it is to survive
as a nation.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Serious
floods hit western Oklahoma and
many towns are isloated in onrush
of waters.
IRVINGTON, N. J. —Mayor com
mits suicide after being hounded by
blackmailers for misdeed of his
youth, his yrelatives admit.
INDIAPAPOLIS.—Governor Mc-
Cray of Indiana goes into seclusion
for brief rest and declines to reveal
his whereabouts to newspapermen.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge will address conference of gov
ernors at the White House, October
20, when more rigid law enforce
ment is to be discussed.
OLKAHOMA CITY. Governor
Walton, of Oklahoma, removes from
office, Aldridge Blake, executive
counsellor, and Dr. E. T. Bynum,
state bank commissioner.
SAN FRANCISCO.—CharIes Ken
drick deplores steady loss of mem
bers in American Legion and avows
something is radically wrong with
organization or things it tries to do.
CINCINNATI. —Ernest C. Morse,
former director of sales of war de
partment, is arrested charged with
conspiracy to defraud government
in the sale of surplus army goods.
DENVER. Thomas B. Glynn,
formerly of New Orleans, is found
not guilty of murder for stabbing
to death of Fred Lewis, female im
personator by jury in district court.
CHlCAGO.—Dynamite time-bomb
is exploded at entrance of Chicago
Cubs’ baseball park and authorities
attribute act to opponents of the
Landis labor award under which the
stadium was built last year.
WA SHINGTON.—Governor Pin
chot says President Coolidge alone
can meet emergency created by
floods of illegal liquor in the United
States and declares bad politics is
responsible for the evil.
WASHINGTON. William Jen
nings Bryan praises Pinchot’s efforts
to clean up Pennsylvania and says
he would like to trade a Democratic
governor of New York for a Repub
lican governor of Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON.— American gov
ernment will not recognize officially
Lloyd George’s suggestion that Unit
ed States and Great Britain reach
unwritten understanding designed to
prevent war.
, CLEVELAND. Samuel Harvey,
seventy-six, and Horace W, Upsoii,
seventy-seven, are found dead in a
hut near Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’
home. The men, Civil war veterans,
had been dead several days.
NEW YORK.—lsrael Zangwill,
Zionist leaders, addressing Ameri
can Jewish congress, said that rath
er than “throw a match into powder
factory globe has become,” Jews
must forgo political hopes in Pales
tine.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Richard
Washburn Child, ambassador to
Italy, returning from his post, says
that contrary to rumor, he intended
to resume his duties at Rome after
a short stay in this country, although
he had asked to be relieved “when
the time was opportune.”
WASHINGTON, D. C. —Secretary
Hughes tells Columbus day confer
ence of the Pan-American interna
tional women’s committee that rela
tions between United States and
Latin-American republics were never
more satisfactory, or carried better
promise of future good will.
WILMINGTON. Argument In
the government’s suit against Chem
ical Foundation to recover seized
enemy dye and chemical patents
sold to foundation by alien property
custodian is concluded and each side
is given three weeks to file addi
tional briefs, after which Judge Mor
ris will take matter under advise
ment.
WASHINGTON. Secretary
Weeks issues statement in reply to
charges made against him in con
nection with sale of GOrgas steam
plant at Muscle Shoals by Henry
Ford, saying that Ford statement
was filled with “reckless assertions”
and that it was possible Mr. Ford
was not possessed of full facts as
to sale of property.
BERLlN.—Following issuance of
decree providing that henceforth all
taxes shall be paid according to gold
standard, it is announced that cab
inet had decided not to await reich
stag sanction of measures authoriz
ing dictatorial powers for govern
ment in economic matters, and that
other decrees looking to rehabilita
tion of national finances will be is
sued by cabinet.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Cloudy.
North Carolina and South Caro
lina: Probably fair.
Florida: Showers; little change in
temperature.
Georgia: Cloudy; probably show
ers in south portion.
Extreme northwest Florida and
Alabama: Showers; not much
change in temperature.
Mississippi: Showers; somewhat
cooler in the interior.
Tennessee: Mostly cloudy; prob
ably showers.
Kentucky: Cloudy and unsettled;
possibly showers.
Louisiana: Unsettled with local
showers.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy, warmer
In northwest portion.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy, warmer
East Texas: Partly cloudy, warm
er in north and west portions.
West Eexas; Partly cloudy.
GOVERNOR WALTON
PREPARES DEFENSE
IN OKLAHOMA CITY
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok’a.. Oct. 13.
j (By the Associated Press.) —Oklaho-
ma’s legislative situation tonight as
i sumed the' proportions of a bitter po
j litlcal controversy, .-h forces of
Governor J. C. Walton girding to
i combat an impeachment act insti
tuted by the lower house of the state
; legislature.
■ Having already thrown aside hie
most prominent administration ad
visers—Aldrich Biake, the executive
counsellor, and Dr. E. T. Bynum,
state bank commissioner—the gov
ernor now is said in official quar
ters to be building an organization
by which he hopes to split the ranks
of his legislative opponents.
While the executive himself re
fused to outline his plans, it is i
mored that his supporters have pre
pared a definite campaign and only
are awaiting the reconvening of the
legislature! Monday to launch their
defensive.
Meanwhile, Clifford W. King, an
assistant to the attorney general
whom the governor appointed today,
will act as the executive's personal
adviser.
No successor to the former bank
commissioner has been named.
Both Blake and Bynum issued
statements today attacking the gov
ernor for his recent official activi
ties. The former executive coun
sellor declared that he had been
ousted because' the governor had
been defeated in his fight against
the Ku Klux Klan, but that despite
his removal, he intended to' carry
the anti-kla’ campaign into “every
prec i the slite.”
The house committee, appointed to
investigate impeachable offenses al
leged to have been committed by va
rious state officials, continued its
session today and examined more
then a score of witnesses.
Blake’s •statement follows:
"To the people of Oklahoma:
"Early in the primary campaign
for governor of Oklahoma I cast my
fortunes with J. C. Walton. I had
never met Mayor Walton but be had
been elected as the standard bearer
of the farmers and laborers of the
state and I had always stood pri
marily for their interests.
"The fundamental issues were
economic and industrial just as they
are today in Oklahoma and through
out the world.
"Concretely, these issues resolve
themselves into this proposition:
The farmer produces a ton of cab
bage and receives therefor $7. The
laborers consume a tdn of cabbage
and pay $l9B for what the farmer
sold for $7. The problem of ex
penses is to reduce the spread be
tween $7 and $l9B. This purely eco
nomic question has been temporarily
lost sight of in a political question
which is: Who shall rule in Okla
homa, the people functioning
through a representative form of
government, or what is known as
the invisible empire functioning
through dragons and cyclops who
receive their orders from Atlanta,
Georgia?
Issue Defined
“This issue is now defined in Okla
homa and there is no middle ground.
“On July 15, 1923, I was offered
and accepted the office of chief
counsellor to the governor of this
state. For months I had warned
the governor against the operations
of this hooded order, called the Ku
Klux Klan. Not only had I read
the hundreds of letters complaining
against mob violence but I had seen
the most sinister attack made to fill
the capitol and state institutions
with men who favor allegiance to
the ‘empire.’ I saw a legislature,
supposed to be filled with represen
tatives of sovereign people, docily
submit whenever the affairs of the
I ‘empire’ were at stake.
“This legislature gave the health
I department the greatest appropria-
I tion in its history and the klan mem-
I bers boasted that they put this over
I because the health commissioner
; was a klansmap. You had but to
! be a klansman and all was well.
I “On August 14 the battle opened
> when the governor placed Tulsa
coupty under martial law. From
the beginning I urged a straight
out fight on the klan. I had hoped
to see this fight conducted on J
I high plane with the personal issue
! eliminated, but this soon became im
j possible. A huge accumulation of
political entanglements and embar
rassments and acts of administra
tion detail which I have been pow
erless to prevent, together with a
number of extemporaneous views
given by the governor to newspa
permen, rallied his political enemies.
Side issues of every conceivable na
ture were injected into the fight
while the governor himself was sur
rounded by advisers and appointees
who differed on the fundamental
question as to who should rule.
Limitations Evident
“All men have their limitations
and in no unfriendly spirit, I must
say that the governor »also is a
man of limitations. It become rapid
ly apparent that he could not
rally the entire anti-klan forces. Re
treat for the governor was neces
sary. Others of his advisers con
vinced him that my fight against
the klan was not in the best in
terest of his administration and he
was finally prevailed on to relieve
me of my position as chief coun
sellor. This, of course, was his own
affair, and I have no criticism to
offer. 1 had tried to serve Governor
Walton intelligently, industriously
and honestly and with the utmost
loyalty, bearing always in mind
that a public official allows a high
er duty to the people of the state,
than to any single individual. In
performing the service I was obliged
to say things and give advice which
often pained me, but I was dealing
i with the personality of J. C. Wai-
I ton and had to be governed ac
cordingly.
“The jtlan fight must still go on.
With the personal issue at last
eliminated the path is clear. The
klan already stands condemned by
public opinion in Oklahoma. It now
remains to translate the public
I opinion into law and to see that
I the laws are enforced.
“I am glad to be free to con
tinue the fight unhampered and I
now promise that it will be carried
into every precinct in the state. As
a public "official 1 am proud of my
part in this vital struggle to crush
the invisible empire. As a private
citizen, I am only too eager to do
i what 1 can to rally the anti-klan
forces and io save the state from
rule by hooded mobs, and secret or
ganizations.”
STORM TOLL GROWS!
AS BATTERED SHIPS'
LIMP INTO MOBILE'
I
MOBILE. Ala., Oct. 14.—Mobile
is taking count of the toll of the
storm that ha s been raging in the
Gulf of Mexico and the waters of
the Atlantic nearby for the past
two weeks.
- Upon the, arrival of the power
' boat Bronx victims, two schooners, j
| one waterlogged and the other dis- j
masted, the C. C Wherum and i
Achorn were towed into port.
Captain Ed Brown, skipper of j
the ill-fated Bronx, of Pensacola;
his son, Thomas; his wife, who |
came to Mobile to meet the husband I
and son she long thought were j
dead, departed for their homes In ]
Pensacola Saturday. George Erain, i
the Thracian deckhand of the
wrecked tug, who had neither wife
nor mother to comfort him after
his long ordeal, also returned to
Pensacola later in the day.
Captain A. B. Butterworth, own-1
er of the Bronx, who was reunited j
with his wife here in Mobile when
the marooned tien were brought;
here from Chandeleur island by the
tug Lytle, .announced that his |
seafaring days were ended and that >
from now on he would keep on •
land.
Captain G. Baker and Mate Rich
ard Loughlin, of the Wherum, who
had their wives and children
aboard the ship, told of a desperate ■
battle with an angered ocean to >
protect their dear ones from the |
seething deep. The vessel was water- I
logged and precariously floated in ■
the gulf until rescued by the Echo. I
The children were taken off the
schooner by the Mobile pilot boat
at the entrance so the bay. The
Wherum is from Tampa and oper
ates between that port and La-
Guana, Mexico, and when caught
in the storm had a cargo of cedar
logs on board.
The Achorn w’as found disman
tled but unhurt, with a cargo of
mahogany about ten miles west of
the bay in the gulf. This vessel
was towed to Mobile for repairs.
Three Children Die
As Home Is Burned
In Alabama Town
PHOENIX CITY, Ala., Oct. 14.
Three children were burned to death
tonight when S. C. Carden’s store
was destroyed by fire.
The children were Marvin, 14;
Dorothy, 9, and Elsie, 7, of Mr. and
Mrs. I. H. Hart. ♦
The building was destroyed and
firemen say other persons were
rescued.
The charred bodies of two victims
were recovered shortly after the
fire was placed under control.
Firemen stated that the origin of
the fire was unknown, but they in
dicated that it started in a staircase
leading to the second floor of the
dwelling.
The three children occupied
rooms on this floor and all escapes
were cut off.
The Harts resided on the second
floor of a brick building, the ground
floor being occupied by a mercantile
store.
Thousands Injured
In Terrific Explosion
At Warsaw Arsenal
BERLIN, Oct. 14.—A terrific ex
plosion attributed to communistic
origin occurred today in the citadel
at Warsaw according to reports re
ceived here. The dead are estimated
at twenty, while the wounded are
said to number 2,500.
The twenty-first infantry regiment '.
which is quartered in the citadel ]
happened to be out on maneuvers so
that injuries vtfera confined to labor
ers working on the premises and per
sons injured by flying debris.
All available private automobiles
and means of rapid conveyance were
taken by the military to rush the
wounded to the hospital and bring
up medical relief. Work was com
menced immediately searching for ’
persons caught in the destroyed part j
of the building.
Hospitals are reported over-filled. |
and injured are being taken to pri- i
vate homes and public buildings.
Unoccupied Auto
Runs Into Children;
Kills 1, Injures 4
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Oct. 14.—One
child was killed and four others in
jured here today when an unoccu-j
pipd automobile plowed into a j
group of children playing on the '
sidewalk after a 75-yard dash down
a steep hill.
Lanneau S. Crawford, Jr., 5 years :
old, was the child killed.
B. R. Swygert, Jr., 11, was in a;
critical condition, while Claudius '
Crawford, eight; Harold Crawford, I
18 months, and Jacob O. Cannon,
seveny ears, are not thought to be |
fatally hurt.
The automobile was parked by D. I
A. Sandifer, its owner, on Park i
street for some time before it start- j
ed to move off down the steep hill, j
toward «here the children were i
playing. His own grandson was'
playing in the machine, and he re-:
moved him, taking him into the;
house before the uncontrolled-flight
of the car began. He could not:
explain, he said, what caused the
machine to move.
Former Governor Dies
FAIRMONT, W. Va., Oct. 13.—A
Brook Fleming, governor of West
Virginia from 1890 to 1893, died a! '
his home here today. Mr. Fleming '
at the time of his death, was a i
member of the directorate of the j
Coi-solidation Coal company of Wes’. |
Virginia. He w?.s 84 years old.
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HARVARD SAVANT QUESTIONS
THE PROPRIETY OF REMOVING
BODY OF GEN. OGLETHORPE
Dr. Rand Says Other Eng
lishmen Had Important
Part in Founding Three
Southern States
BOSTON, Oct. 12. —Dr. Benjamin
Rand, of Harvard, who discovered
in England a copy of the missing
colonial records of Georgia for the
years 1732-38, questions the pro
priety of removing to America the
body of General James E. Ogle
thorpe, who laid the foundations of
the states of Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi. General Oglethorpe’s
body has been found in a brick vault
under the floor of the parish church
of Cranham, England, where it was
buried 138 years ago.
“Oglethorpe was only one. albeit
the most prominent of a group of
trustees who founded Georgia,” 'Dr.
Rand said today. “The Earl of Eg
mont, who acted as president of the
trustees and kept their journal, had
almost as important a share as had
Oglethcrpe in the philanthropic un
Discrimination Against
Jews to Be Frowned On
By President Coolidge
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Presi
dent Coolidge, in a message given
Saturday to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
for transmission to the American
Jewish congress, meeting in New
York, declared his administration
would “refuse sanction or tolerance
to any anti-Jewish discrimination in
the matter of immigration or any
other matter.”
• Rabbi Wise said the president
asked that the congress be informed
that he sympathized with its gen
eral aims ai d purposes and earnest
ly wished it Godspeed.
Mr. Coolidge also declared himse.lf,
according to Rabbi Wise, to be par
ticularlv interested in the efforts of
American Jews to aid in the building
up of Palestine under British man
date as a Jewish homeland.
The' president’s statement relative
to anti-Jewish discrimination was
:ade. Rabbi Wise said, when told
that it was f in Jewish circles that
the immigration restriction bore
especially hard upon the Jews, and
that, in some east European coun
tries prospective Jewish emigrants
to America were not fairly dealt
with by American consular repre
sentatives. Mr. Coolidge was quot
ed as saying that he felt sure that a
careful investigation would reveal
that these' alleged discriminations
were unreal.
$250,000 Loss Suffered
In Nashville, Tenn., Fire
In Business District
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 14.
Fire which broke out early Sunday
morning in the business district of
Nashville threatened, for a time, to
grow beyond control of the city’s
fire forces, which were rushed to
the scene.
The factory of the Eagle Candy
company and plant of the Davis
Sash and Door company both were
completely destroyed, at an estimat
ed loss of nearly $250,000.
judgment Obtained
Against N. Y. Klan
ALBANY, N. Y.. Oct. 12.—The at
torney general’s office has secured
a judgment against the Ku Klux
Klan and Kamelia, the woman’s aux
iliary, on charges of altering their in
corporation papers after a supreme
court justice had approved them.
This bars these organizations from
enjoying any benefits accorded to un
hooded fraternal organizations in
New York stat*.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, October 16,1923
GETTING ACQU' INTED
dertakihg. Oglethorpe’s activity dis
sered mainly from that of the others,
inasmuch as he was the representa
tive of the enterprise in America,
whereas the others supported it in
Ergland. All alike were Englishmen
and Oglethorpe sat in the British
parliament for 32 years.
"Moreover, after Oglethorpe re
turned from Georgia to England he
Jived for 42 years at Cranham, where
he died and was buried. Os the pro
posed removal therefore, the words
of the inscription over Shakespear’s
tomb might justly be quoted:
“ ’Good friend, for Jesus’ sake
forbear
“ ‘To dig the dust enclosed here.
“ ‘Blest be the man that spares
these stones,
“ ‘And curs’t be he that moves my
bopes.’ ”
“If it is desired in the state of
Georgia to honor its founders, would
it not be better if the legislature or
some leading institution had a copy
made of the splendid painting of
that philanthropic bodj r in treaty
with the Indians which 1 found on
the walls of a historic mansion, the
property of an English nobleman?”
Two Men Are Pinned
Beneath Automobile
When Struck by Taxi
Pinned under an automobile, when
it w r as struck by a taxicab and over
turned Saturday night, A. W. Leake,
of 159 East Fair street, the driver
and A. A. Jamerson, of 195 East
Pine street, miraculously escaped se
rious injury.
Their automobile was proceeding
across Courtland street, at its in
tersection with Pine, when it collid
ed with a taxicab owned by the At
lanta Baggage and Cab company, ac
cording to information furnished the
police. The driver stopped for a few
minutes and then drove off, it was
stated. Police were given his name
as Ed Seagers, and they were seek
ing him in connection with the acci
dent.
Brothers Sentenced
To Serve 25 Years
On Murder Charge
CULLMAN, Ala., Oct. 14.—Two
brothers, Elbert and James Rake
straw, were sentenced Saturday to
twenty-five years jr. me penitentiary
on conviction of second degree mur
der for tne killing of Jesse Nelson,
seventeen years old, youth. Grady
Rakestraw, a third brother, was ac
quitted.
The killing on August 31 was the
result of a farmer’s family quarrel.
The trials of the three were held
concurrently, the jury bringing in
a verdict Saturday morning after
fifteen hours’j deliberation.
Veteran Executioner
Condemned; to Build
Own Death Machine
PARIS, Oct. 12. —Isidore Hespe’,
familiarly known as “the Jacaal, ’
official executioner of the Frencn
penal settlement at Cayenne F.eneh
Guinana. soon is to be guillotined
himself.
As he has a very poor opinion oi
the skill of the executioner who
succeeded him, he asked to be a,
lowed to erect the guillotine himsei:
for his execution.
Hespel was appointed executioner
after serving a long term of penal
servitude. Recently he quarreled
with a convict and killed him.
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STOKES BID MO
FORHISTESTIMONY.
MISSOURIftNSTATES
BOONEVILLE, Mo.. Oct. 13.—(8y
the Associated Press). —Assertion
that he was offered SI,OOO to go to
New York as a witness for W. E. D.
Stokes, millionaire hotel owner, In
the! Stokes divorce case was made
in a deposition here today by Hay
den Moor*, a grocer; of Bunceton,
Maine.
Moore declared he received a let
ter last J uly from a representative
of Stokes making this offer, adding
he had been'told Stokes would pay
him $125 a month to “look after the
Stokes’ case in Bunceton.”
Wilbur and Arthur Wallace,
brothers of Edgar T. Wallace, a co
respondent in the case, deposed that
Stokes himself visited here in 1920
and engaged Paul Wagner “to get
evidence.”
“I met Wagner on the street
later” Wilbur Wallace asserted,
“and he boasted to me, “Well, 1
guess the old man’s put me on the
salary list to watch you, Wallace.’ ”
Stokes alleges Mrs. Stokes visited
Bunceton in 1904, before her mar
riage, in company with Wallace,
who at present resides in New York
Wilbur and Arthur Wallace, and
Dr. Porter E. Williams, of St
Joseph, Mo., who resided in Bunce
ton in 1904, were among those who
deposed they never had seen Mrs.
Stokes in Bunceton.
Fourteen witnesses were examined
here today and positively denied
that Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes had ever
been at Bunceton, or Boonville, Mo.,
nineteen years ago, as alleged by
her husband, wealthy New York
capitalist and sportsman. Mr. Stokes,
in his suit for divorce brought
against his wife, charges her with
indiscretions in Bunceton, when she
was a girl known as Helen Elwood.
With completion of the question
ing of the witnesses, the case shifted
once more to New York, when Mrs.
Stokes, Isadore Shapiro, her coun
sel, and Mrs. C. A. Meservey, friend
of Mrs. Stokes, departed for the
east tonight.
Nielson Leonard, owner of a tally
ho in 1904, when, it is alleged by
witnesses for Stokes, Mrs. Stokes,
then Helen Elwood, was the leader
of several gay tallyho parties near
Bunceton, denied that Mrs. Stokes
had ever been in Bunceton or on the
tallyho. His mother, Mrs Charles
Leonard, who said she had lived near
Bunceton for years, also denied that
Mrs. Stokes had ever visited there.
Immigration Is Seen
As Growing Menace
By Congressman Oliver
ANNISTON, Ala., Oct. 13.—Declar
ing that the United States has be
come the greatest receiving station
for aliens of any nation of which his
tory gives record and that this coun
try is now receiving more immi
grants than any other nation on the
globe, Congressman W. B. Oliver Jof
Alabama, in an address at the ban
quet of th e Junior Chamber of Com
merce here last night, sounded a
warning note against what he says
has become a menace while outlining
the history of legislation aimed at j
the restriction of foreign immigra
tion and the plans of leaders for the
coming session of congress-
The congressman was introduce!
by former Governor Thomas E. Kil
by, who had been presented by Pres
dent E. D. Banks, of the junior cham
ber, as a guest of the club.
Father of Dead Airman
Kills Self in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 13.
Clarence Cook, 48, a farmer, and fa
ther of Sergeant Cleo Cook, killed
recently when a Tennessee state
guard airplane crashed at Birming
ham, ended his life this morning at I
hts home near Franklin by hanging
himself with a trace chain.
It is said that the. son’s death j
preyed upon his mind, and he als9 j
was worried by financial matters.
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IT REICHSTAG MEET
French Make Little Effort to
Quell Food Rioting in
Towns of Rhineland and
Ruhr X
DUSSELDORF. Oct. 14.-t(By the
Associated Press.) —Fifty or more
stores were sacked of food and
clothing in Dusseldorf during the
day by unemployed and lawless
elements, and the looting continued
tonight, almost unhindered, except by
a few resolute but quickly van
quished store owners and shop
keepers. Pillaging likewise is re
ported from many other parts of
the Ruhr. '
The French troops at the request
of the city authorities took over
protection of the public buildings,
because since the French disbanded
the security police there i-emafn
only 200 blue police, who are able
to do little against the plunderers.
French, armored cars and cavalry
frequently cleared the streets today,
but the crowds scattered only to
gather again when the troops
passed.
The French have also placed
tachments to guard the building
where the allied personnel is em
ployed, but otherwise have adopted
a strict “hands-off” policy. The
German population in general
showed an apathetic attitude or
found the scenes amusing, no one t
even trying to dissuade the looters
from breaking open the stores and
emptying them of merchandise.
Many of the half hundred Stores
entered were stripped completely.
Pillagers this afternoon broke into
one department store in the heart
of the city and carried off about
three hundred suit 3 of clothes and
a large amount of other merchan
dise.
As the succes- of the plundering
movement became certain, the loot
ers were well reinforced, and by
afternoon the pillaging became xnorfc
widespread and systematic.
Plundering is reported from Duis
burg, Buer, Bpchum, Essen, Co
logne and a number of small towns,
like Neustadt in ■ the French area,
where German police fired, wound
ing 11. The situation at Duisburg
became more menacing with
complete shutdown of thirteen
Urge factories employing about
109,000 operatives.
The city officials asked General
Simon, commanding the Duesseldorf
bridgehead, to send troops to dis
perse the plunderers, but the French
only increased the size of the regu
lar patrols, send\pg no extra detach
ments. General Simon told the city
authorities the French troops would
not interfere unless the interests ,of
the forces of occupation were me
naced. A few detachments of cav
alry and armored car§ were sent out
this morning, but up to noon they
did not use arms for the dispersal of
the rioters.
Whenever the troops appeared the*
plundering crowds scattered, only to*
reassemble before another promising
store. In few cases did the crowd
meet with resistance. /
Great throngs of onlookers, man?
of them well dressed, gathered to gee
the pillaging, quietly watching the
plunderers carry out sacks of flour,
sides of beef and other meats, hags
of beans and cases of shoes without
interfering.
Whenever some of the pillagers
captured what they considered a
good prize, they worked their way
through the crowd of spectators and
disappeared. The rule obtaining
seemed to be that anything in the)
store belonged to him who could
it, and the instant a pillager got ms
loot safely o.i his shoulder it became
inviolate from the other pillagers.
The plundering was continuing
unabated this afternoon.
REICHSTAG GIVES
EMERGENCY AUTHORITY
BERLIN, Oct. 14.—(8y the A*
sociated Press). —The reichstag to
day adopted the emergency bill giv
ing Chancellor Stresemann extra
constitutional authority to deal with
the grave economic and fimtficial
situation of Germany as he see* fit.
The vote was 316 to 24, with seven
abstaining, among the latter Hugo
Stinnes, the industrial magnate.
It was uncertain until the last
moment which way the voting wohld *
go, although the coalition parties
turned out in full strength and the
chancellor held over the house the
alternative of dissolution if it did
not vote the measure.
The debate began with the usual
denunciation of the government by
the communists.
The Bavarian people’s party
spokesman then announced that the
party could not withdraw from the
house. This settled the fate of the
bill, which the demonstrative with
drawal of the nationalists was un
able to alter, and the result of the
vote was received with applause
from all parts of the house except
the communists, who booed and
hissed.
POLICE FIRE INTO CROWD
AT COLOGNE FOOD RIOTS
COLOGNE, Oct. 14.—One man
died today from wounds alleged to
have been inflicted by the police,
who fired into a crowd of food
rioters. The police say factory
workers pelted them with hot coals
and they were forced to use their
firearms.
AUTHORITIES CIASH
WITH MOB ON STREETS
FRANKFORT, Oct., 14.—Ope
worker was killed and three seri
ously injured today at Hoecht, near
here, in a clash between the police
and demonstrators against the high
food prices.
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