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Manta cvi-Uicddn Journal
VOL. XXV. NO. 174
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MEO HIS WEEK
ON TO PROBLEMS
Equalization Report and Ad
verse Recommendation on
Commission’s Income Tax
Proposal Scheduled
Although tre Georgia general as
sembly is still sailing upon unchart
ed seas, administration leaders were,
encouraged Saturday at the prospect
of avoiding the tax equalization
storm and the stand-pot reef, and
reaching calm waters before the end
of the present week.
The decks have been cleared for
consideration of the two big issues
of the extra session on Monday or
Tuesday. The ways and means com
mittee already has reported back the
Stovall bill to repeal the tax equali
zation law. with the recommenda
tion that it do not pass. Mr. Stovall
had the measure put on the calen
dar to move that the report be dis
agreed with. In the regular course
of business this measure will come
up Monday, as it stands number one
on the list.
The action of the constitutional
amendments committee Friday in
voting to report out the tax commis
sion’s income tax measure with the
recommendation that it shall be
passed places that measure in posi
tion for action Monday. The report
of the committee will be made to
the house upon that day. There are
three other income tax measures on
the calendar, differing in form from
the committee bill, and if the pr>
ponents insist upon the honors of
authorship, there wall be a fight on
the committee bill.
Equalization Is Key
The speed with which an agree
ment on tax reform is reached is be
lieved by observers to depend upon
the attitude of the supporters of
the tax equalization law, headed by
Represno ati'e Stovall, of Elbert
county, with a steering committee
consisting of Representatives Stew
art cf Atkinson county; Knight, of
Berrien reunty. and Haddock, of
Early county*
At a meeting held m the Kimball
House Thursday night more than
sis y repealists voted to adopt the
role of stand natters and insist upon
the passage ot tlie repeal bill before
considering other tax reform meas
ures. This attitude is bound to bring
the house in conflict with the senate,
which refused at the last session to
pass the repeal bill before some sub
stitute revenue measure had been
adopted, and is of the same opin
ion still.
The repealists were claiming Sat
urday that they have sixty-two iron
bound pledges for support of the tax
equalization repeal bill until it is
passed, to the exclusion of other
revenue measures. If this strength
can be mustered, it will represent
mere than one-third of the usual at
tendance at house sessions, although
the total membership is 206. The
ilaim also is made that the pledge
st will be augmented before Mon
day.
Administration leaders held con
ferences with the repealists Friday
and Saturday, and expressed en
couragement at a reported attitude
of conciliation. Governor Walker,
who made the repeal of the tax
equalization law one of his main
platform planks, declared he is as
strongly as ever in favor of the re
peal measure, but is willing for a de
lay, in consideration of the attitude
of the majority in the senate. The
governor recognizes the repeal issue
as the one upon which the tax re
form program might come to wreck
through a deadlock between the two
branches of the general assembly.
Try to Avert Breach
If the danger of a break is as im
minent Monday as it was Friday,
it is probable the leaders in the
house will make an effort to have
the general tax bill taken up for
consideration before either, the in
come tax or the repeal measure. The
general tax act has been reported
favorably by the ways and means
committee, and copies ordered
printed for the members. This meas
ure t’ed up the house for more than
a week at the last session, but only
a few changes have been made in
the original draft and its passage
can be expedited. However, it af
fords a splendid opportunity for
tactics to delay' proceedings, if any
member so desires.
Representative A. S. Russey, of
Crisp county, who was a member of
the advisory compiittee of the state
tax commission, and toured the
state with the commissioners, has
announce •) that he will introduce
one or r-<ire tax bills when the
house convenes Monday. Mr. Bus-
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North Carolina: Tuesday fair.
South Carolina and Georgia: Fair
Tuesday: moderate temperature.
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Extreme Northwest Florida and
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
MUNlCH.—Demonstrative pro-Hit
ler crowds jam Munich’s streets, but
no serious disturbances are reported.
BUFFALO.—George A. Stewart,
federal prohibition agent, is shot
dead in case.
CHICAGO. —Lieut. Benjamin R.
Mcßride is killed when plane plunges
fifteen feet to ground in Armistice
day' meet at Chicago.
LONDON. —Berlin dispatches say
General Ludendorff is strictly' watch
ed on paroie. apparently discrediting
reports of his suicide.
WASHINGTON. —P res id en t Cool ■
idge lays a wreath on tomb of un
known soldier at Arlington as Armi
stice day tribute of American people.
CELS, Upper Silesia. Crowds
dressed in Sunday’ best wait all day
for return of former crown price
who cUd not return.
• OKLAHOMA ClTY—Prohibition
officers in conference two days said
sentiment favoring enforcement of
prohibition in Oklahoma is growing.
WARREN, Ohio. William D.
Packard, 62, who with his brother,
j. W. Packard, originated the Pack
ard automobile, dies.
LONG BEACH, Cal. —Contesting
with Kansas City’, Mo., men’s class
studying Scriptures gather 31.047
strong, but lose when Kansas City
reports gathering or 52,121, a record.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Mustapha
Kemal Pasha, president of’the Turk
ish republic, is confined to bed with
heart disease, his wife, Latife
Hanum, also is ill.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Senator
James A. Reed challenges Woodrow
Wilson’s declaration, that America
has played a cowardly and dishon
orable role since the war.
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Guinevere
Sinclair Gould, widow of George J.
Gould, says she will close her home
at Rye, N. Y., and hereafter will
spend most of her life abroad.
WASHINGTON.—United States
and France come to definite parting
of the ways on proposal to get Amer
ican help in solving reparations prob
lem, official advices say.
V )RK.— Mrs. Helen Elwood
Stokes wins bitter fight against W.
E. R .Stokes in the second trial of
his div ,rce suit. Jury’ repudiates
Siokes’ accusatio s connecting her
with Edgar T. Wallace.
NEW YORK. —Former Ambassa
dor George Harvey on his arrival
sticks (o his statement that he will
eat Thanksgiving dinner with bis
aunt, Hannah Martin, in Peachan,
Vermont, R his wife’s health allows.
PHILADELPi 11 A. —Federal Judge
McKeehan, rules that it is illegal for
prohibition agents to seize brewery
buildings <_.t search warrants; that
o *’ beer and appliances used in
its making can be taken by govern
ment authorities.
CHlCAGO.—Privacy radio com
munication is declared to have been
demonstrated by means of standard
’ .ine printer machine and indio
engine predict new era in wireless
com lun’i-.ition as result ■ ' experi
ment- t
WASHINGTON —Secretary Mel
lon approves revision of federal tax
es that is expected to reduce the to
tal assessment by $323,000,000 next
year. Mr.' Mellon declares soldiers'
bonus, if successful, will delay tax
reduction for many years.
WASHINGTON. —Woodrow Wil
son shows signs of great frailty and
has tears in his eyes as he talks to
friends who ’make Armistice day’ pil
grimage to his home: says he has
seen fools resist Providence before
and has seen their destruction.
New South Wales Erects Gin
To Promote Cotton Industry
SYDNEY. N. S. W.. Nov. 10.—New
South Wales, which shares with
Queensland the honor of pioneering
the cotton industry in Australia, now
has its own gin, erected at New
castle under the supervision of the
British Australian Cot'on associa
tion. .The premier and a large par
liamentary partjF with other promi
nent figures were present at the
tpening.
The cotton industry' in New South
Wales is new, but it shows promise
of a good future. Last year, sutlicient
seed was supplied to plant more
than 7,500 acres. The demand for
seed has been widespread and it is
estimated that from 20,000 to 30,000
acres will be planted in this.state.
The cotton acreage, in Queensland
is considerably larger.
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WOODROW WILSON
BREAKS SILENCE
TO PLEAD IDEALS
America Is Urged to Face
Moral Obligations of Free
dom in Armistice Day
Speech by Radio
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Wood
row Wilson, addressing the Ameri
can people directly tonight for the
first time since .he left the White
House, declared America’s attitude
after the World war was "deeply
ignoble, cowardly and dishonorable.’
France and Italy, Mr. Wilson also
declared in a discussion of world af
fairs, have made “waste paper of
the treaty' of Versailles.”
The former president said the only
way in which the United States
could .show its true appreciation of
the significance .of Armistice day
was by resolving to put self-interest
away an’d to formulate and act upon
the highest ideals of international
policy.
Mr. Wilson spoke exactly five
minutes into a radio Instrument at
his home here and his message was
broadcast to every section of the
country’.
Sacrifices Made
"The anniversary of ‘‘Armistice
day,” he sad. “should stir us to
great exaltation of spirit because of
the proud recollection that it was
our day, a day above those early’
days of that never-to-be-forgotten No
vember which lifted the world to the
high levels of vision and achievement
{upon which the great war for de
mocracy and right was fought and
won, although the stimulating mem
or.es of that happy time of triu aph
are forever marred and embittered
for us by the shameful fact that
when the victory was- won—won, be
it remembered, chiefly by' the in .o- .i
--table spirit and valiant sac-dices of
our own Unconquerable snldiers—we
turned our backs upon our associates
and refused to bear any r's onsible
part i” the administration of peace,
or the firm and permanent establish
ment of the results of the war—won
at so terrible a cost of life and treas
ure—and withdrew into a sullen and
selfish isolation which is deeply ig
noble because manifestly cowardly
and dishonorable.
“This must always be a. source' of
deep mortification to us, and we
shall inevitably' be forced by the
moral obligations of freedom and
honor to retrieve that fatal error
and assume once more the role of
courage, self-respect and helpfulness
Which every true American must
wish and believe to be our true part
in the affairs of the world.
Determination Needed
“That we should thus have dyne
a great wrong to civilization, and
at one of the most critical turning
points in the history of mankind is
tlie mqre to be deplored because ev
ery anxious year that has followed
has made the more exceeding need
for such services as we might have
rendered more and more manifest and
more pressing, as demoralizing cir
cumstances which we might have
controlled have gone from bad to
worse until now. As if to furnish
a sort of sinister climax, France and
Italy' between them have made waste
paper of the treaty of Versailles,
and the whole fields of international
relationships is in perilous confusion
“The affairs of the world can be
set straight only by the firmest and
most determined exhibition of the
will to lead and. make the rifebt pre
vail.
“Happily, the present situation ol
affairs in the world affords us an
opportunity' to retrieve the past and
to render to mankind the incompara
ble service of proving that there is
at least one great powerful nation
which can put aside programs of self
interest, -and devote itself to practic
ing Knd establishing the highest
ideals of disinterested service and
the constant maintenance’of exalted
standards of conscience and of right.
“The only way in which we can
show our true appreciation of the
significance ■of Armistice day is by
resolving to put self-interest away,
and once more formulate and act
upon the highest ideals and purposes
of international policies. Thus, and
only thus, can we return to the true
traditions of America.”
FOX ID FACE TRIAL
IN COBURN SLAYING
DN DECEMBER 12TH
Prisoner Too Nervous For
Medical Examination.
Physicians Suspect Slayer
Victim of Brain Lesion
With the trial date set for Decem
ber 12, Horneys for Philip E. Fox
began Saturday afternoon to ques
tion witnesses and to line up other
details of the defense for the Ku
Klux Klan publicity chief who is
charged with murder in connection
with the slaying of Captain W. S.
Coburn, attorney’ for the Simmons
factian 'W the 'Jan.
“I killed Coburn because God told
me to do it.”
This was the statement quoted to
Fox by Dr. Linton Smith, his family
physic.an, and Dr. N. M. Owensby.
widely known alienist, following two
attempts to examine the prisoner
Saturday. This is the second state
ment regarding the reasons for the
killing quoted to Fox, and, according
to the physicians, he would make no
further statement regarding the
case.
Attempt Abandoned
Saturday morning they abandoned
an attempt to examine him because
he was “too nervous” and also aban
doned a second attempt late in the
afternoon. They stated, however,
that his general physical condition
seemed to have improved somewhat
during the day and that he was suf
fering less from nervousness.
Dr. Smith and Dr. Owensby were
called to the law offices of former
Governor Hugh H. Dorsey Saturday
and closely’ questioned regard Fox's
condition by Mr. Dorsey and At
torney Frank Hooper, Sr., both of
whom have been retained to repre
sent Fox.
At the same ti...e, the prosecution
began shaping its case with a con
ference between Solicitor General
John A. Boykin and William Schley-
Howard, a member of the firm of
Branch & Howard, who were re
tained SVtturr’iv morning by the
friends and relatives of the slain at
torney to assist the state.
Other than the motive suggested
by Fox’s statement immediately aft
er the shooting- that he killed Cap
tain Coburn because the {..ttorney has
threatened “to ruin him” by the pub
lication of untrue affidavits, So
licitor Boykin said the state had
been unable to uncover any other
motive behind the shooting.
Plans Kept Secret
Nc Intimation of their trial plans
ar line of defense was given Satur
day >y Mr Dorsey and Mr. Hooper,
following their first conference with
the prisoner at the Fulton county’
vower. Mr. Dorsey said 'that fiafur-
Uy. he and his associate wished to
go further into the case before mak
ing .my kind of announcement He
was not sure whether Fox would is
sue any statement concerning the
shooting ■ before the trial.
The trial date was fixed after So
lici'or Boykin and Mr. Dorsey’ had
conferred about the matter. Mr.
Boykin had planned to place Fox on
trial c.s quickly’ as possible, but the
delay in the selection of defense coun
sel forced a change in plans, and in
deference to the wishes of defense
counsel, he consented to the Decem
ber date, which falls on the second
Wednesday’ in that month. It is
understood that the defense asked
more time but finally agreed upon
the date announced.
Captain Stephen N. Harris. Sa
vannah aiderman and a brother-in
law of Captain Coburn, conferred Sat
urday with the solicitor, but he said
his visit he-e was primarily’ to wind
up ’he personal and business affairs
of his relative and not to conduct
the prosecution of his slayer. He
was busy Saturday’ at Captain
Coburn's office in the Atlanta Trust
company’ building, goin over the pa
pers in the desk of the late attorney.
Fox Nervous
Fox continues in a highly nervous
condition and Dr. Smith said that
he would hdve left him in the hos
pital ward Saturday morning, fol
lowing Dr. Owensby’s visit, had not
the prisoner requested to be taken
back to his cell, which he shares
with B. W. Ringsdorf, a former
United States army aviator, held
for investigation by’, army authori
ties.
It is understood that Dr. Owensby
and Dr. Smith plan to make another
attempt to examine Fox some time
during the week-end- as Dr. Smith
is desirous of obtaining the alien
ist’s opinion concerning the prison
er’s mental attitude. The Fox fam
ily physician has suggested that Fox
may be suffering from “brain le
sion” and that an abnormal state of
mind may have precipitated a de
gree of nervousness which led to
the shooting.
Since his incarceration at the
jail last Monday night, Fox has corn
plained of severe headaches and he
declared Saturday morning that he
had not slept more than an hour
the preceding night. His wife, Mrs.
Gladys Fox, continues to visit the
jail once or twice daily, and a big
bunch of flowers from an unnamed
donor was received at the jail Sat
in'd a v about noon.
ADDRESS BN COBURN
FOUND IN PAPERS
A copy’ of an address delivered by
Attorney’ William S. Coburn, who
was killed last Monday by Philip E.
Fox, publicity director of the Klan,
showing Mr. Coburn's sentiments
concerning death, was discovered
Saturday afternoon by Captain
Steve H. Harris, of Savannah, Mr.
Coburn's brother-in-law, whp was
looking over Captain Coburn's pa
pe rsr.
The address was delivered by At
torney Coburn at a memorial serv
ice for members of the Loyal Order
of Moose who had died during the
year.
The passage in the address, which
indicates the attorney’s sentiment
concerning death, follows:
. "Life at best is but as a vapor
thai passeth away’. Little can the
living do for the dead. The voice
of praise can not delight the closed
ear, nor the violence of censure
vex it.”
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A WEALTH OF FLOWERS. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (left) was the lirst guest of Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace and his wife, shown with her, at the department’s chrysanthemum show in the
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PAINTING OF JESUS WINS
FREEDOM FOR OPERA STAR
FROM U. S. PRISON HERE
Max Sasanoff May- Realize
His Life-Time Ambition to
Teach Through Help of
Mystery Woman
BY CARL TAYLOR
Max Sasanoff, artist, sculptor and
opera singer, whose painting- on the
walls of the Catholic chapel of the
local federal penitentiary—“ Jesus
Ministering Unto the Helpless”—
won him a parole, was given his
freedom Saturday. He says he in
tends to stay in Atlanta and open
an art studio. ’
Sasanoff’s ambition to open this,
studio, where he can paint pictures
and perhaps teach others to paint
or sing, has been made possible by
a woman he does not know and has
never seen, but -who, seeing his pic
ture painted on the chapel walls,
became interested in his case.
Learning he was to be paroled this
week, she sent him a check for S3OO
o help him.
Max had served a little over a
year of a three-year sentence, im
posed upon him in the federal courts
of New York for complicity in a
counterfeiting plot. It was charged
that he had engraved a plate which
had been used in making spurious
bank notes. Max declared he did
not know what he was doing when
he .first began the plate at the re
quest of an Italian friend, and that
when he found out lie was commit
ting a crime and tried to quit, he
was forced to complete the work by
his supposed friend, whom he said
stood over him with a revolver un
til he had completed it.
• Beautifies Prison
All the time Max was in the lo
cal penitentiary, he was beautifying
the chapel. In addition to his paint
ing of the Master on the steps of
the temple, he tinted the chapel
Windows, reproducing on each some
Biblical character or passage.
His masterpiece—for it has been
viewed.by a number of art critics
and declared such —depicts the
Savior standing on the steps of the
temple, while gathered about Him
are the halt, thv lame, the blind,
the Magdalene and the prodigal son,
to all of whom He is giving com
fort and cheer. It is said to com
pare favorably with any of the
church decorations in this coun'ry
and with some of .the best in the
churches of France and Italy.
Pait ting Is Praised
His picture rebeived national pub
licity and as a. result rereceived hun
dreds of letters from people in prac
tically every part of the United
States, commissioning him to paint
pictures, and asking that he come to
their homes and paint portraits when
he was released from prison.
His painting was one of two things
that won his pardon, the other being
prominence he obtained by his
singing over WSB, the radiophone
station of The Atlanta Journal. At
the first prison concert broadcast
from The Journal, Max, who has a
fine tenor voice, was one of the art'
ist? ..ppearinj and there was a uni
versal demand that he return, whichc
he lid, giving several concerts.
Friends throughout the country,
and others who became interested in
him, became active in his behalf, and
recently his case was heard by the
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, November 13, 1923
i National Propagation
Department of Klan
To Go to Indianapolis
FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Nov. 11.—
' The national propagation headquar
i ters of the Ku Klux Klan will be
I permanently established in Indian-
I apolis, it was learned from a high
I national officer of the klan who ar-
■ rived with Imperial Wizard Evans,
i “While it will be impossible unde.
i our national charter to move ’he im
: perial palace from Atlanta ” ihe of
j fic.al said, “we have found that the
■ work, of extension and propagation
lawfully may be centered hi In
diana.”
c The Indiana realm lor some time
has been the central organization for
the klan’s activities in twelve states,
the spokesman said.
Plans to make the Indiana capital
the national headquarters of the
women’s klan organization also are
under consideration-, .t was indicated.
The women’s body, indorsed by the
Evans adherents, is regarded as an
j integral part of the klan proper and
is distinctly apart from the “Kame
iia,” sponsored by Emperor William
Joseph Simmons.
Telephone Operator
And Proprietress Are
Heroines of Hotel Fire
COVINGTON, La„ Nov. 10—Mrs.
J. C. Torrence, telephone operator,
remained at her post when the Ozon
ia, a summer hotel here, was de
stroyed by fire last night, aroused
guests who fled in their night-cloth
ing. gave the alarm and telephoned
citizens in all parts of town to come
to the rescue. All guests escaped
without injury.
Mrs. A. B. Morgan, proprietor and
I manager of the jtlaee, sped through
■ the halls assisting in the work of
awakening guests and fought her
way through a wall of snioke and
flames to arouse her deaf house
keeper, Miss Tillie Scheck. She is
credited with having saved the
housekeeper’s life. C. S. Frederick,
a citizen of the town, took out the
last person to leave the building, a
guest who was too ill to move. The
loss was placed at $50,000, partly
covered by insurance.
prison board in Washington and a
I parole ordered for him.
j It too’-' him nearly seven mftnths
• >.o complete his great picture, work-
I ing at it practically all of the time.
In fact, so keen was his desire to
complete it that he often went with
out his meais, and according to
Father Hayden, rector-of the chapel,
I often would be at work on the pic
ture late a* night.
He painted several other pictures
while in prison, a fine portrait of
Father Hayden and a painting of
pirates forcing a captured enemy to
walk the plank, being among the
most notable. He will have several
of them on exhibit all of this week
J at the Walker art store on North
i Pryor street.
Max is of Russian-Italian descent.
> He was educated in the schools of
I Moscow, later studying art and
I music in the principal art centers of
i France, Germany and
Before coming to the United
, States he sang with Feodor Chalia
' pin, the great Russian basso, who
j created a tremendous sensation here
last spring and also with the late
i Enrico Caruso in the Opera-Comique
I in Paris.
U. S. HIGH COURT
UPHOLDS GEDHGIi
EQUALIZATION LAW
I
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The tax
equalization act of Georgia was de
clared valid by the supreme court
today' in a case brought by Charles
E. McGregor against the sheriff and
pther officers of Warren county, that
state.
The attack upon the statute was
based on the contention that it made
no provision for a hearing by the
taxpayer by' the county tax assessors
before taxes were made effective.
The court held that taxpayers are
guaranteed a hearing before- an ar
bitrator and that it was not neces
sary for the county tax assessors to
give taxpayers a hearing before as
sessing the tax, provided they had an
opportunity as afforded by the law to
be heard before the tax was imposed.
ALIEN LAND LAWS
AKE DECIAKED VALID
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The
alien land laws of California and
Washington, prohibiting aliens ineli
gible to citizenship from owning or
leasing land, were declared valid
constitutional today by the supreme
i court. . .... . ...
Justice Butter delivered the opin
' ion which held that the question
was one entitled to be considered
under the equity power of the su
preme court and be disposed of on
its merits.
Justices Mcßeynolds and Brandeis
took the position that the cases re
garding the leasing of land to Jap
j anese should have been dismissed
on ground that no justiciable question
was presented. Justice Sutherland
I took no part in any of the four
cases covered by the decision.
Justice Butler asserted it was
■ clearly' within the power of a state
to prohibit aliens who had not de
clared their purpose to become citi
zens, or who cannot become citizens,
from owning land. He held also
that such legislation was not repug
nant to the agreemnet made by this
government with Japan.
Mrs. Fred Ward,
Aged Carrollton
Woman, Dies of Burns
CARROLLTON, Ga., Nov. 12.
Mrs. Fred Ward, an elderly woman,
died at her home on West avenue
this morning from burns sustained
Sunday morning.
M- Ward was dressing in front
of an open grate when her dress
caught fire, and before members of
the family could extinguish the
fiames. she was severely' burned.
Funeral services will be held at
the residence Tuesday morning,
a r which the lemains will be car
ried t Plai- " buried in
the old family tfurial grounds. Mrs.
Ward was the widow of Mr. Fred
Ward, me of the lar; ?st land .own
ers in the county’.
Aged Man Shoots
Two Policemen Who
Tried to Arrest Him
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Nov. 12
Dr. Robert Pate was held in jad
here today pending the outcome of
the condition of two policemen se
riously injured in a, revolver duel
wtih the aged physician.
Patrolmen William Garrett and
William Wheat were shot after an
exchange of bullets with Dr. Pate
when they attempted to arrest him
on a disturbance charge. Pate haa
taken refuge in his room on the sec
ond floor of his home here and re
fused to surrender.
The physician was arrested by’ an
other officer after he had emptied
his revolver at Pate.
Fifteen Firemen Hurt
When Trucks Crash
In Answering Alarm
DALLAS, Tex.. Nov. 12.—Fifteen
firemen were injured, four seriously,
when two fire trucks crashed at a
downtown street intersection here
today'. Three of the injured are not
expected to live.
Both trucks were traveling at high
speed in response to an alarm when
they
Grain Sprouts in Ear of
Girl; Operation Required
HILLSBORO. Ohio, Nov. 12.
Helen Jean Turner is recovering ;
from an operation made necessary I
by the sprouting of a grain of wheat
In her ear. The root of the wheat
grain penetrated along a. bone in
the inner ear. A segment of bone
had to be removed.
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GERMANYISSEEN
ON VERGE DE NEW
MONARCHIST HUIE
Return of Crown Prince From
Exile Brings Vision of Res
toration to' Politicians of
Berlin
BERLIN, Nov. 11.—Visions of a
restored monarchy are floating un
cei tainly before Germany’s eyes.
The return of the former crow’n
prince, the negotiations
Chancellor Stresemann and the na
tionalist party for reconstruction of
the cabinet, the sorrow felt in many
maces that the Munich coup failed,
and the growing firmness in face of
France’s demands made many per
sons think Germany might be on the
eve of a great revival.
Whether the visions of a restora
tion of the Imperial throne would
rrove real or only a mirage, no one
jn Germany tonight could say.
The country was in suspense fol
lowing the defeat’of the Hitler coup
!• Munich.
The crown prince had crossed the
border from Holland at Benheim and
his whereabouts in Germany was
being kept secret.
He was reported to have promised
the government not to take part in
politics or to appear in Berlin and
was supposed to be on his way to
his castle in Oels to join his family.
His trip to Oels. which he was sup
posed to be making by automobile,
would take him clear across the
country. He was said to be accom
panied by his adjutant, Major von
Muehlin, in a second car, carrying
most of bis belongings.
Hitler Is Sought
The whereabouts of Adolph Hit
ler, leader of the abortive mqn
archist coup in Munich, was un
known tonight. Though wounded,
he had fled in an automobile, taking
with him tlie socialist vice burgo
master, Hei’r Schmidt, and some
other socialist city officials, as host
ago 3. j ’
General Eric Ludendorff, Hitler's
principal accomplice, was reported
to have returned following his re
lease by Bavarian dictator V'bn
Kahr, to his home in Ludwigshoehe,
a suburb of Munich.
The casualties resulting from the
coup were announced as twelve
dead, including Hitler’s aide de
camp. Turner, and sixteen wounded.
The first feeling nf sorrow by ita
tionallsts all over Germany that th>-
coup had failed gave way tonight to
a hope that it might be only the
prelude of a greater one in the no l lb
of Germa nay that would .restore the
monarchy.
The youths ot today who got- thei>
first impressions of life as children
in the stirring days of the war, have
grown up amid the humiliation and
despair of the last five years, and
are now ready to carry rifles.
For them, as for their -elders, the
first five years of the German re
public have been a nightmare
Youngsters who were barely eleven
when the end of the war started
Germany toward still greater disas
ter would now shoulder muskets.
The Stresemann cabinet itself was
seen to be turning more and more
“to the right.” Instead of giving
up the ghost when the socialist
members withdrew out of protest
against the feeble action toward Ba
varia before the coup, Chancellor
Stresemann was reported to have
commenced negotiations to bring in
some nationalists.
Talk of the restoration of «
monarchy is being heard in Berlin
streets, together with speculation
concerning the probable stand to be
taken by the allies in the matter of
the return of the crown prince tc
Germany.
This, it is thought, foreshadows
additional complications for the
Stheseman cabinet, already sorely
beset with the, rising tide of the
Fascist movement in Bavaria.
Stresemann Determined
The government’s action in per
mitting the crown prince to return
in the face of Premier Poincare’s
note pointing out this would create
a “deplorable impression” in France,
was taken to mean that Stresemann
was becoming more and more
sympathetic to the nationalist de
mand for tearing up the Versailles
treaty.
Its note to the council of ambas
sadors declining to accede to their
demand that Germany facilitate re
newal of allied control of German
armament, was considered, another
indication of Stresemann’s determi
nation not to see the country placed
in danger by too close adherence to
the terms of the treaty.
The defeat of the Hitler coup wae
not interpreted as a deteat of mon
archists, because Von Kahr and Von
Lossow who directed the attacks
against the Hitlerites are known to
be monarohistic. .
Whether they will be able to con
tinue in power was considered doubt
ful here.
Britain Gives Up
Proposed Plan for
World Debt Meet
LONDON. Nov. 12.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —In consequence of
the failure of the Frapco-American
negotiations at Washington over the
scope of the proposed expert com
mittee of inquiry Great Britain has
abandoned all thought of an imme
diate reparations inquiry, either
■with or without the participation of
Franc e.
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