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BONAR LAW, NOTEO
BRITISH STM.
IS BEAD IN LONDON
Pneumonia Attack Is Fatal
to English Leader Weak
ened by Srain of Throat
Affection
LONDON, Oct. 30.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Andrew Bonar Law,
for seven months prime minister ot
Great Britain, died in his modeSt
London home at 3 o’clock this morn
ing. The official bulletin issued by
the physicians who attended the
former premier said death came fol
lowing an acute attack of septic
pneumonia. ' ,
The death of Mr. Bonar Law will
be a shock to Great Britain, for
while it was known that his condi
tion was very serious, it was not ex
pected that the end was so near.
Five months ago, on May 20, he
resigned the premiership because of
a throat malady which for a long
time had troubled him. Even then he
was reluctant to admit that his ca
reer was finished, and retained his
seat injthe house of commons where
he has made two or three appear
ances.
Ten days ago Mr. Bonar Law re
turned to London from Brighton
after a sojourn of several weeks. His
physicians Issued a statement say
ing he had contracted a severe chill,
but the public did not suspect that
the end was so near until they read
in the morning’s newspapers that he
ftad developed septic pneumonia, a
condition that gave rise to consider
able anxiety. Soon after, extras ap
peared giving the news of his death.
The ex-premier’s daughter and
his two surviving sons, Anthony and
Richard, were at the bedside when
death came. Two of his sons were
killed in the World war, a sorrow
from which Mr. Bonar Law never
recovered. ♦ , te
Bom in Canada
When the Canadian Scotsman, Mr.
Bonar Law, was born in New
Brunswick, Canada, on September
16, 1858, accepted his high office of
a year ago his friends well knew
that his health was precarious. Out
side that close circle it was known
only that he had contracted a throat
complaint which had prevented
him from speaking.
Mr. Bonar Law was aware of his
own condition and promised the
unionist party, when he accepted
its mandate, that he would resign if
■nd when he found his strength un
equal to his work. He gave place
to Stanley Baldwin, his chancellor
of the exchequer, almost before his
new government was fairly organiz
ed, retiring to the country to safe
guard his failii strength.
No official statement as to the na
ture of Mr. Bonar Law’s illness was
ever made, but the public drew an
inference from the fact that Dr.
Thomas Horder, who was attending
him when he resigned and who has
since been his physician, is one of
the foremost cancer specialists.
During the interval spent in the |
country since his retirement from
the prime ministership, Mr. Bonar
Law had been able to take outdoor
walks, and also motored consider
■bly. The reports of these activities,
which seemed to indicate that he
was holding his own, had not pre
pared the public for the news of his
comparatively rapid decline.
Prime Ministei* Stanley Baldwin,
who succeeded Andrew Bonaw Law
to the premiership, paid the follow
ing tribute to the dead statesman:
“For him, I am thankful he has
been spared further suffering: for
his friends, the loss is Irreparable.
The country will not forget that he
sacrificed his life in her service.”
A statesman with few political
enemies, Bonar Law’s career was
singular. He did not enter politics
until he was 42 years old.
A successful Glasgow iron mer
chant who had been born and edu
cated in Canada, his rise to emi
nence in the British parliament be
gan with his election in 1900 as a
unionist fom the Blackfriars divi
sion of Glasgow. Strong for tariff
reform, he became noted for his
clear reasoning on that subject and
was soon made parliamentary secre
tary of the board of trade.
Later he successively became lead
er of the unionist or opposition
party in the house of commons, sec
retary for the colonies, a member
of the Lloyd George coalition war
. cabinet, chancellor of the exchequer
and lord of the privy seal.
Primarily a business man, he em
ployed the tactics of business rather
than the strategy of politics in deal
ing with national problems. Leader
of the unionist opposition in the
house of commons in 1911 to 1915,
it was Bonar Law who, at the out
set of the war, proclaimed a party
truce. Military reverses in the field
and domestic difficulties at home led
to the retirement of the Asquith
ministry in 1916 and it was at this
time that King George called upon
the former Glasgow ironmonger to
form a cabinet. When he declined,
the honor fell to David Lloyd
George, the little Welshman who
had within a few months as minister
of munitions turned the British Isles
into ope great arms of ammunition
factory.
Bonar Law was David Lloyd
George’s Jonathan. As a member of
.the premier’s war cabinet, as chan
cellor of the exchequer and as the
coalition government’s leader in the
house of commons, he enjoyed the
fullest confidence of his famous
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LISBON. Portuguese cabinet, I
headed by Premier Silva, resigns. I
LONDON.—King George praises
Bonar Law as capable .counsellor
and devoted friend.
MUNICH.—Two hu nd red Jewish
families have been expelled from Ba
varia by order of Dictator von Kahr.
CHICAGO.—Use of injunction Is
closing scores of rum shops in city
and its suburbs, authorities an
nounce.
DES MOINES, la.—Dr. Charles
Mayor declares glandular treatment
has not advanced beyond experimen
tal stage even in animals.
SAN FRANCISCO. —Serious earth
shocks, heaviest since 1906, are felt
in the Philippines, Manila dispatch
says.
CHICAGO. —Jimmy Ryan, one of
the few survivors of Anson’s famous
old Chicago White Stocking baseball
club, dies.
LONDON. —Ambassador Harvey,
at dinner for T. P. O’Connor’s sev
enty-fifth birthday, says he is leav
ing his successor an absolutely clean
slate.
NEW ORLEANS. —Governor Par
ker, of Louisiana, asserts that state
hopes eventually to run down mur
derers of Watt Daniel and T. F.
Richard.
PANAMA. American submarine
O-5, sunk in a collision in Limon
bay Sunday, is raised and two mem
bers of crew fourid alive. Three
others are still missing.
NEW YORK. —Organizations join
in protest against methods employed
in distribution of tickets for Lloyd
George’s farewell address at Metro
politan opera house.
LOS ANGELES.—Eighteen per
sons are injured, two probably fa
tally, when fire truck and police car
collide an dare dashed into crowd of
window shoppers.
CONSTANTINOPLE. National
assembly at Angora votes establish
ment of Turkish republic, and Mus
tapha Kemal Pasha is unanimously
elected president.
NEW YORK—Two men overpow
er Frederick Vandervoort, superin
tendent of Sheffield Farms Dairv
company, and escape with $11,265 of
firm’s money be was carrying.
JOPLIN. Mo.—Henry H. Hohen
schild, president of defunct Night and
Day Bank of St. Louis, charged with
receiving deposits in a failing insti
tution, is acquitted by jury in circuit
court.
NEW YORK.—John Hays Ham
mond, chairman of the federal coal
commissiion, urges policy of “dollar
diplomacy” for United States as best
means of assuring bright future for
world.
PlTTSßUßG.—Superintendent of
schools denies statement of chil
dren’s service bureau official that
spooning and petting parties in
Pittsburg high schools have reached
“scandalous proportions.”
PHILADELPHIA.— Lloyd George
tells Philadelphians that Indepen
dence hall recalls to men of his land
memories that are not wholly pleas
ant, but that it is good to be re
minded of those incidents.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio—Affida
vits charging nineteen persons with
rioting and six persons with illegal
voting are filed by attorneys for Ku
Klux Klan, as result of recent anti
klan demonstration here.
DRESDEN. Reichswehr troops
are on guard in all public buildings,
following ejection of Zeigler Commu
nist-Socialist ministry from official
quarters. Efforts are being made by
Communists to start general strike.
WASHINGTON. —Secretary Mel-
I lon, in reply to Governor Pinchot,
declares that treasury is invoking ev
ery available means for prohibition ;
enforcement and that any state- !
ments to contrary by Pinchot are j
not founded in fact.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Governor
Pinchot, in a letter to Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon characterizes as
a "defense of things as they are”
the secretary’s reply to the gov
ernor’s letter Sunday criticizing fed
eral prohibition enforcement system.
WIESBADEN. Provisional gov
ernment of Rhineland republic issues
proclamation to all nations, proclaim
ing its "full independence,” and urg
ing co-operation with it in settle
ment of problems growing out of
war.
NEW YORK.—Eleven and a halt
acres of wild land surrounding grave
ot Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay,
have been purchased by his cousin.
W. E. Roosevelt, New York capital
ist, and presented to Audubon so
ciety as wild bird sanctuary.
LOS ANGELES.—DougIas Fair
banks and Mary Pickford, his wife,
announce that they had instructed
attorneys in New York to file libel
proceedings against motion picture
magazine which recently printed re
port that they had qaurreled over
another woman.
BONN.—Separatist movement is
spreading to right bank of Rhine,
and republican colors are flying over
five towns there, it is announced.
Separatist leaders say they intend to
extend their government to Essen
and other Ruhr towns as soon as
Dusseldorf is taken.
RICHMOND, VaT-Former Pre
mier Lloyd George, commenting on
Premier Poincare’s views on German
reparations, declares that if French
premier meant that there was to be
no reduction under any circumstance
of total reparation, there wouldn’t be
any inducement for Germany to do
anything.
WASHINGTON.—James M. Wil
liams, Philadelphia, dairyman, tells
senate committee that Charles R.
Forbes, while director of the veter
ans’ bureau as late as September,
1922, tried secretly to remove large
stocks of narcotics and liquors from
government hospital at Perryville,
Maryland.
NEW YORK. —Presidents and oth
er executives of every coal or grain
hauling railroad in country draft
what was unofficially said to have
been an unfavorable reply to Presi
dent Coolidge’s recent proposal for
a revision of fight rates on ship
ments of two commodities which were
destined for export.
NEW ORLEANS—The Times-
Picayune quotes pathologists as de
claring it their belief that mutilated
bodies found in lake and identified
as Watt Daniel and J. F. Richard
CRISIS IN GERMAN
GOVERNMENT RISES
FROM SAXON EDICT
Protest by Socialists Against
Ultimatum Expected to
Bring Fall of the Ministry
Speedily
BERLIN, Oct. 30.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The German cabinet,
headed by Chancellor Stresemann, is
likely to fall tomorrow, it is stated
in well-informed quarters, through
the withdrawal of the socialist min
isters in protest against the govern
ment’s policy toward the former
communist-socialist cabinet in Sax- j
ony. I
SAXON MINIST. DEFIES.
BERLIN IN STRIKE ORDER
BERLIN, Oct. 30—In the teeth of
a military decree prohibiting it, a
general strike was proclaimed
throughout Saxony today as a pro
test against the use of the mailed
fist by the federal government.
Proclamation of the strike had been
forecast for more than a week if
the Stresemann cabinet carried out
its threats to oust the Zeigner cab
inet of Saxony for communist ten
dencies.
General Mueller, federal dictator
for Saxony, prohibited the strike.
Dr. Heinze as civil commissar for
Saxony, prohibited the strike. Dr.
Heinze as civil commissar for Sax
ony prohibited the meeting of the
Saxon diet and General Mueller fol
lowed this up by the arrest of some
of its communist members.
RHINELAND REPUBLIC
ADDRESSES WORLD NATIONS
WIESBADEN, Germany, Oct. 30.
(By the Associated Press.) —The pro
visional government of the Rhine
land republic has sent the following
message to all the nations of the
world:
The Rhenish people has taken
in hand the direction of its des
tinies. It has proclaimed its
full independence and definitely
rejected foreign dominion.
The provisional government
of the Rhenish government,
sends to all the nations of the
world fraternal greetings. The
Rhenish people solemnly pro
claim the will of the Rhineland
ers to live in peace and friend
ship with all the universe; it
condemns the World war loosed
by Prussia and declares itself
ready to pay its share of repara
tions.
The Rhenish people appeals to
all nations, but particularly
to those who suffered from the
war and begs them to associate
themselves loyally and frankly
with its efforts to bring about
the birth in Europe and the
whole world, of an era of peace
and concord.
May the nations understand
the greatness of the task un
dertaken by the Rhenish people
and help it toward the triumph
of its cause.
Government of the Rhenish
republic.
(Signed) DR. DORTEN.
Snow in Northwest
Reaches Depth of Two
Inches in Wisconsin
CHICAGC, Oct. 39.—Snow fell over
the northwest during the night and
today. A sharp drop in temperature
accompanied the snow.
Nebraska was blanketed with the
heaviest bi.ow-fall in the history of
the state for an October day.
lowa and Kansas also experienced
a heavy fall of snow. Madison nad
olber parts of Wisconsin were cov
ered with snow today to a depth of
two inch?®.
Minnesota also was swept by
snow, the temperature dropping
to eighteen. '
A light snow fell over Chicago and
other parts of Illonois.
Woman Shoots to Hit
Burglars and Kills
Her Aged Husband
CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—While her
husband, Samuel H. Adams, eighty
seven. struggled last night with two
young bandits apparently searching
for $15,000 in securities believed hid
den in his little grocery, his wife,
eighty-two, obtained an old-sash
ioned revolver and fired at the in
truders. Her husband fell dead and
the robbers fled.
“Davis for President”
Club Is Organized
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 30.
The first move to put John W.
Davis, a native son of West Virginia
and former ambassador to Great
Britain, in the front rank of presi
dential possibilities in 1924, was
made here last night, when leading
Democrats formed the “John W.
Davis for Presidential Club of Mar
shall County.” Plans for organizing
similar clubs throughout the coun
try were discussed.
Peddy to Continue Fight
On Mayfield in Senate
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 30
George E. B. Peddy today declared
he will wage his fight to have Earle
B. Mayfield, elected to the UnPed
States senate in last year’s election
on an alleged Ku Klux Klan ticket,
unseated on three charges of fraud
and conspiracy. Peddy, at present
acting as special assistant United
States district attorney in the prose
cution of oil fraud case here, said
I he will present evidence to the sen-
I ate committee on elections.
I were not in the water more than
i forty-eight hours, but that patholo
; gists had no doubt that bodies were
those of Daniel and Richard.
DENVER,—lndictments are re
turned against the Rev. Walter A.
Grace former Catholic priest. John
Walsh, his brother-in-law and E. H.
McClenahan, former federal prohibi
tion director for Colorado and a for
mer enforcement agent, on charges
growing out of the issuance of fraud
ulent liquor permits.
ENGLAND ACCEPTS |
FRENCH TERMS FDR
H GOWER
Belgium, Italy and United;
States Likely to Be Other;
Nations at Reparations :
Parley
LONDON, Oct. 30.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Great Britain has ac- ■
cepted the terms specified by Pre- |
mier Poincare, of France, for a con- j
ference of experts to consider the |
reparation question.
The American government will ne .
acquainted with the willingness of I
all the countries corcerned in the i
reparation problem to participate in '
the conference and will be asked im- j
mediately to designate its members i
of the committee of experts.
An understanding has been reach
ed in the reparation commission
whereby that body will postpone a<:
tion cn the request of the Berlin
government that German represent?
tives be heard regarding the capac
ity of the Reich to pay reparation
until the question of the appoint
ment of an international committe.
of experts is settled.
The understanding here is that
the committee will be made up of
representatives of Great Britain
the United States. France, Belgium
and Italy.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Willis 11.
Booth, president of the Internationa.
Chamber of Commerce and vice pres
ident of the Guaranty Trust com
pany, sailed today on the Maureta
nia for Paris to arrange for a con
ference of delegates from thirty
eight nations to make recommenda
tions regarding the proposed repa
rations discussion advocated by Sec
retary of State Hughes.
AMERICA TO APPOINT
REPRESENTATIVE AT ONCE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(8y the
Associated Press) —The request that j
the United States government desig
nate Americans to sit on the expert
commission to study the reparations
problem will be complied with
promptly under the limitations set 1
out by Secretary Hughes in his cor- ;
respondence with Foreign Secretary
Curzon.
Although no official notice of the
agreement on the plan has reached
Washington, it was made known to
day that President Coolidge believes
the attitude of Premier Poincare of
France, has not served to prevent
the carrying out of the project. It
has been the understanding of the
Washington government all along
that only an advisory study of the
situation was proposed.
In the recent correspondence with
Lord Curzon, Secretary Hughes also
made it clear that in approving the
se-lectiton of American experts for
membership on the commission the
United States government was not
accepting official, representation in
that body. Until the state depart
ment has received official advices as
to the detailed form of the plan, as
now approved in London and Paris
process by which the American
membership will be selected cannot
be outlined.
LEAGUE FOE ADVOCATED
FOR U. S. REPRESENTATIVE
■WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Ameri
can membership on the proposed
commission of experts to examine
into Germany’s capacity to pay rep
arations "must include a majority
who were against the League of
Nations and foreign entanglements, ’
if it is to command The "confidence’
of the American public. Senator Mc-
Cormick, Republican, Illinois, de
dared in a statement today.
“If the American taxpayer,” Sen
ator McCormick said, “it not to pay
through the nose for the privilege
of being represented at the confer
ence, we must have as our repre
sentatives Americans, realists, who
know European politics. Othervzise
we shall only lose cash, credit, pres
tige and self-respect.”
Unknown Hurls Rock
Which Strikes Wife
Os Former Kaiser
DOORN, Holland, Oct. 50—(By
the Associated Press.) —A stone
thrown by an unknown hand inflict
ed a serious wound In the ear of
Princess Hermine while she was
walking with her children last eve
ning in a wood near the ex-kaiser’s
chateau.
The police arrested several per
sons but said they did not get the
culprit.
Wilhelm’s entourage and the en
tire village of Doorn have been
greatly excited by the incident.
Death of Aged Couple
Probed by Officials
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Oct. 30.
Pending a postmortem examination
to determine-the cause of the deaths
of Willis O. Robinson, 72 years old,
loan broker, and his wife. Lillian, 70,
police today inclined to the belief
that the wife had died of natural
causes and that the husbana naq
taken his cwn life rather than be
left alone.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia: Fair.
North Carolina and South Caro
lina: Fair.
Georgia: Fair.
Florida: Mostly cloudy, cooler.
Extreme northwest Florida and
■ Alabama: Fair.
Mississippi: Generally fair; warm
er in north portion.
Tennessee: Fair; rising tempera
ture.
Kentucky: Fair, with rising tem
perature.
j Louisiana: Fair .continued cool.
Arkansas: Fair, warmer.
Oklahoma Generally fair, rising
temperature.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, warm
er in north portion.
West Texas: Partly cloudy, rising
temperature.
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MOT OFFICERS
Ode Caven. an employe of the M.
S. Sulunias company, produce mer
chants of 59 East Alabama street,
who was grilled Tuesday morning
regarding the mysterious disappear
ance of P. R. Baggett, a truck farm
er, of Douglasville, Ga., missing
since Friday night, was released
Tuesday afternoon when officers de
clared their questioning had failed
to throw any light on the case and
they were satisfied Caven knew
nothing about it.
Durin gthe close questioning by
county policemen and Sheriff A. S.
Baggett, of Douglasville, a orother
of the missing man, Caven denied
any knowledge of Mr. Baggett’s dis
appearance and stated he could ac
count for his whereabouts the night
Baggett disappeared. Sheriff Baggett
took Caven to the Mayspn-Turner
bridge, over the<Chattahoochee river,
where his brother’s car was left, and
continued the girlling but Caven fail
ed to enlighten him.
Sheriff Baggett was in Atlanta
Tuesday, leaving a party dragging
the Chattahoochee river near the
Mayson-Turner bridge for the body
of his brother.
Sheriff Baggett is of the opinion
that his brother was killed and the
bodv thrown into the river. Efforts
to mcate the body have as yet proved
unavailing.
A number of witnesses, Sheriff
Baggett said, have told him of seeing
a big roadster near the scene of the
aheged murder and this is believed
to have furnished the fresh clue on
which he and a detail of Fulton
county policemen, under the direc
tion of lieutenant Carroll, are
working.
"I am convinced my brother was
murdered,” Sheriff Baggett said
Tuesday. “Alt evidence in hand
points in that direction although I
did not know he had an enemy in
tha world. He was a quiet, temper
ate man and why he should have
been slain I cannot imagine. That
is my belief, I hope to
run the guilty person, or persons, to
earth during the day.”
An iron rod beside the abandoned
automobile of P. R. Baggett and
his felt hat, slightly blood-stained,
have been taken as evidence that
violence befell the Douglasville man.
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FABULOUS SUMS ARE PAID
TO STARS OF FILMS WHILE
PRODUCERS GET NOTHING
That Is Charge of Big Com
panies! Who Demand Sal
ary Deflation—Norma Tal
madge Highest Paid
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Jonrnal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Moving
picture salaries must be deflated.
Thisjukase has gone out from the
torn and tattered producers of screen
plays who are trying to make both
ends meet.
The recent announcement of a big
producing company that it 'would
make no more pictures until costs of
production came down, has been fol
lowed by a storm of controversy as
to where the blame for the high cost
should be placed. The producers say
they are not getting their proper
share of the profits being made in
the industry. In many cases, it is
declared, the producers have fai.ed
to make expenses on what were sup
posed by the public to be immense
financial successes.
Now it is said that the salaries of
the stars are the roots of all evil in
the moving picture business. The
salaries are plenty high enough in
realty, but of course the press agents
have added to them. The effect of
this has been to increase costs all
along the line, the argument being
that if plain “ham” actors can be
paid fabulous sums for "strutting
their stuff” before the cameras, the
industry could pay big sums for lots
and studios and the various accesso
ries that go into the making of a
picture.
Salaries Double Other Costs
Directors and camera men have
been affected by the high salaries
of the stars. They claim to be stars
in their particular line, and have
demanded star pay. It has been
found that in the larger productions
the salaries of stars, directors and
supporting casts have more than
doubled all other costs.
What is termed the "approximate
low down” on the salaries of screen
stars was made public here today at
a luncheon in which the dilemma of
the picture industry was under dis
cussion. The list did not include the
names of Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pick
ford or Douglas Fairbanks, for they
really are included in the category
of producers and independents. The
same is true of Jackie Coogan. The
list purports to give the salaries of
the run-of-the-mine stars who work
regularly. It is silent, however, on
the pay of one Harold Lloyd.
The list is headed by Norma Tal
madge, who is put down at SIO,OOO
a week; and it may surprise some
movie fans to learn that Lillian
Gish is put down at just one-half
that amount, a paltry $5,000 a week.
Second place is held by Dorothy
Dalton, at $7,500 a week, and Gloria
Swanson comes third, at $6,500.
With Lillian Gish in the $5,000 class
are Pauline Frederick, "Connie”
Talmadge and Larry Semon, the
long-nosed comedian being at the
head of the men on the payroll.
Tom Mix gets $4,000, Conray
Tearle $2,750; Lewis Stone and Mil
ton Sills, Richard Barthelmess,
James Kirkwood, Wallace Beery
and House Peters, $2,500 each. El
liot Dexter rakes down around
$2,000; Lon Chaney gets $1,750, while
J. Warren Kerrigan, veteran of the
studios and the speaking stage, js
placed in the $1,500 class, as is also
Jack Holt. Conrad Nagle gets a
mere pittance of $1,250, slightly less
than the president of the United
States.
May McAvoy Rising
Returning to the ladies of the
screen, it is found that Barbara La
mare and Betty Compson are listed
at $3,500, with Mabel Normand still
in demand at $3,000 and May Mc-
Avoy rising fast in the scale at the
same figure. May has just been
starred in a big production, and this,
according to the producers, will
mean a demand from her for higher
salary next time she goes on loca
tion.
Betty Blythe and'Elaine Hammer
stein are “paired” at $2,500.’ Pris
cilla Dean is rated at $3,000 a week,
while Viola Dana is in the $2,000
class. Shirley Mason tops quite a
number of feminine stars at $1,500
The list of SI,OOO beauties is a
long one, and so it is claimed that
the only people in the entire in
dustry that are getting the money
today are the actors and actresses.
It is asserted in behalf of the pro
ducers that an immediate readjust
ment must come or there soon will'
be some new faces on the screen.
The producers are ready to go that
far in the deflation of the industry.
Quarrel Blamed for
Double Tragedy in
Greenville Suburb
GREENVILLE, S. C., Oct. 30.
Miss Kate Cleveland, 20, and A. J.
Carroll, 42 were found shot to death
in a room of the Carroll home at
Dunean Mill village here this morn
ing. Officials advanced the theory
that Miss Cleveland, after being fa
tally wounded by Carroll, following
a quarrel, wrested a pistol from his
hand, and shot him dead. There were
no eye-witnesses.
Carroll, who is survived by a wife
and six children, came her e a year
ago from Franklin county, Georgia,
and Miss Cleveland had been living
with the family since that time. She
is said to have relatives in Georgia,
but no information could be had as
to their names or place of residence.
Members of Carroll’s family ac
cepted the theory that the man was
shot by the woman after the latter
had been wounded. He died in
stantly, but Miss Cleveland lived un
til shortly after sh« was taken to
.a local hospital,
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$1 A YEAR.
DR. EVANS ADMITS
KIIKLIIX PLMINEII
OKLA. CAMPAIGN
Strove to Build Sentiment
for Law Enforcement After
Walton Complained es
Floggings*, Wizard Says
Sensational statements charging
alleged activities of the Ku Klux
Klan in the recent trouble in Okla
homa and in seeking to prevent in
dictments of klansmen in the Mer
Rouge murder cases last January
were made in affidavits read Tues
day before Judge John D. Hum
phries in the course of the hearing
on a petition for a receiver for the
klan filed in June by David M. Rit
tenhouse, of Philadelphia, and oth
ers.
A sensation was caused by Judge
Walter T. Colquitt when he read a
deposition by Imperial Wizard
Hiram W. Evans, in which Dr. Ev
ans admitted the Oklahoma trouble
had been “discussed and a speaking
campaign planned” at a four-day
meeting in Asheville, N. C., on July
16, 17, 18 and 19
The deposition stated Imperial
Wizard Evans, Judge C. J. Oberson,
of Indiana; General N. B. Forrest,
of Atlanta, and Judge H. A. Comer,
of Little Rock, were present at the
meeting as an executive committee
to handle the Oklahoma situation.
Law Enforcement Efforts
"Governor Jack Walton,” Dr.
Evans’ deposition said, "had just is
sued a statement to the effect that
there had been 2,500 whippings in
the state and that homes were not
safe there and had urged the pas
sage of a law making flogging or
conspiracy to Ilog a penitentiary of
fense.
“At the Asheville meeting the sit
uation was discussed and a speaking
campaign was planned to build up
a sentiment in Oklahoma for law en
forcement.
“Did you {hen issue propaganda
against Governor Walton?” Attorney
Colquitt asked.
“We did not start a fight against
Governor Walton any more than we
started a fight against the governor ■
of Georgia for urging that the Macon
flogging cases be prosecuted,” was
the reply.
Big Expanse Fund
Imperial Wizard Evang said he
did not know how much money had
been sent to Oklahoma, but that it
had been supplied “as needed,” and
that h® supposed "a good deal had
been spent since the July meeting ’
He said he could not even estimate
the amount..
Asked if Governor Walton was a
member of the klan, he replied that
the governor had "applied for admis
sion, been obligated and htid sent in
his fees but that the klansmen where
he lived did not want him and ha
was not taken in.”
Asked if the taking of the kla»
obigation did not carry with it actual
•membership, he replied that “if Gov
ernor Walton was obligated be was
a klansman at large until properly
gotten out of the order,” adding that
if Governor Walton was a klansman
: "he was taken in at the back door
and ought to be removed before the
eyes of America through the front
door.”
Not a Political Fund
The deposition declared the klan
had not sent money to Oklahoma to
support any one candidate for pub
lic office, “because the klan did not
back men, but principles.” He said
the only fight in Oklahoma that the
klan had participated in had been a
campaign to build up a sentiment
for law enforcement.
The deposition declared Dr. Evans
”had never had a word of difference,
a cross word or dispute” with Colo
nel Simmons. Asked about the suit
brought against him byb Colonel
Simmons iaat April he declared
"there was -lever any dispute about
that.”
Dr. Evans said he got $15,000 a
year salary as imperial wizard of
the klan and that all other klan
monies handled by him had been
disbursed properly through the vari
ous states. He admitted having de- 1
posited about SIO,OOO a month to his ,
bank account, but said it was money
to be used ’n Propagation work under
111. Y. Clarke.
An affidavit was introduced from
F. N. Littlejohn, who claimed to
i have been a special investigator for
the klan during the probe of the
Mer Rouge murders last January.
The affidavit further declared that
J. J. Bracewell, a'Ku Klux Klan
investigator, had told him when he
went to Bastrop, La., to investigat-*
the disappearance of two men, that
"there was no use for him to go to
Mer Rouge; that the two bodies
found in the lake had been tied or
‘spread eagled’ •on logging cart
wheels and rolled down the hill
and that that was what crushed the
heads off the two bodies.”
Under Skipwith
Littlejohn said that Captain Skip
with, at Mer Rouge, urged Imperial
Wizard Evans to keep him (Little
john) on the job there. Littlejohn
said that he was detailed to work
under the direction of Captain Skip
with and that all ether investigators
were sent away.
Littlejohn also said that a ‘‘strong
; arm squad or wrecking crew” had
j been formed and organized for work
■ around Bastrop and Mer Rouge He
; said that these men were picked
. from other districts, none of them
j being located around Bastrop or Mer
! Rouge so that their identity might
, be concealed.
Littlejohn’s affidavit declared ha
I worked under the name of George
I K. Lawrence and that the other in
' vestigators were: Jim Hamilton, of
Houston: J. A. Bracewell, of At-
I lanta; Lloyd (“Chicken”) Ingel, of
Atlanta; H. L. Taliaferro, of Atlan
ta; C. C. Mclllwain, of Atlanta: Jim
Murray, of Shreveport; O. D. Jack
son. of New Orleans, and Jim Mann,
of New Orleans.
Sent Code Telegram
Littlejohn declared each of these
men were working ynder specific in
structions #. om the imperial palace
of the klan in Atlanta, to keep down
indictments, and that when the
grand jury of Morehouse parish ad
journed without returning Jt>ill.«, he
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