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VOL. XXV. NO. 177
TIL WJS FARCE,
SWS GOV. WALTON.
IN BOLTING COURT
Executive to Appeal to Fed
eral Tribunal—Senate Vote
on Impeachment Proceed
ings Likely Monday
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov.
IS. —(By the Associated Press.) —
The impeachment trial of Governor
J. C. Walton V tually collapsed Satur
day, when the executive, dropping a
bombshell into the senate court, an
nounced that he could no longer
bear up under the humiliation of an
“unfair trial,” and walked out with
his counsel from the court room.
The executive’s departure came a
few hours before' the time set for
the prosecution to rest and on the
eve of his expected presentation of
evidence in defense of charges of
moral turpitude, neglect of duty,
corruption in office and incompe
tency.
The withdrawal gave strong evi
dence that a final vote of acquittal
or conviction would be obtained late
Monday..
The governor’s unexpected leave
taking precipitated a scene unprece
dented since the trial opened. Fin
ishing a short statement, in which
he announced his intention, the ex
ecutive turned and with his wife on
his arm, walked the length of the
senate chamber to the door, the
members of his counsel following.
Court members, amazed at the
move, watched the departure in
silence, while the prosecution stared
at the empty chairs around the de- •
sense table.
The governor’s party had almost
reached the door when Senator
Charles E. McPherson, of Durant,
moved that the trial proceed.
The silence which had gripped the
chamber suddenly became a tumult.
Th- cry, “Go ahead!” yvent up on
all sides.
But before the prosecution could
continue its interrogation of Aldrich
Blake, the governor’s former confi
dential adviser, who was on the
stand, a motion was made to em
power the court to‘appoint counsel
tor the executive, but was voted
down after numerous senators had
declared that his departure gaye evi
dence that he did not wish repre
.ei'tatdon
Near Fight Brings Uproar
D’ ring th.s argument Senator
’em Anglin, of Holdenville, presi
ent pro tempore, declared that Tom
leal, a member of the governor’s
ounsel. had asked that, all defense
.•Uupocnus for witnesses be dis
missed.
1. T. Sprague, one of the govern
ut a attorneys who had tarried at
door, declared he did not believe
L.at Neal had made such a request.
Anglin sprang from his seat and
dashed madly at Sprague. Observ
ers of the i. iident declared Anglin
hurled some object at the attorney
that fell to the floor with a crash
like breaking glass, but Dick Lou
than, chairman of the senate, and
several members of the Court, assert
* bat Anglin, in his haste, had merely
knocked the object from a desk.
Senators and sergeants-at-arms
sprang between Anglin and Sprague
and the session broke up in hasty
recess, amid pandemonium.
Senators gathered in excited
groups or milled about the chamber,
and a second threatened clash "was
narrowly averted when friends in
terposed in an argument between
Senators A. E. Darnell, of Clinton,
and John Golobie, of Guthrie.
The governor’s withdrawal came
soon after his counsel had failed in
a determined effort to introduce
what appeared to be a Ku Klux
angle into the testimony dealing with
the charge that the executive had
illegally appointed a large number
of known criminals and irresponsible
persons as special state police.
Blake, under cross-examination,
was asked why the governor had
found it necessary to increase the
number of special officers just be
fore martial law was declared as a
part of his fight on the klan. Prose
cution objected and was sustained.
The defense then attempted to
read into the record of what it in
tended to reveal by the question,
but court members objected and
were also sustained.
Senator McPherren then moved
that all testimony taken in support
of the charge be quashed. He based
his suggestion on the statement that
the appointment of special state po
lice was in violation of law and that
since the defense had admitted this
all other testimony was unnecessary.
His motion, he explained, was in
tended to save time.
Both the defense and prosecution
objected, but the court voted to ex
punge the testimony and to pass to
the next charge.
As the vote was announced, Gov
ernor Walton arose and in an even
voice told the court he had decided
to leave.
"I have been sitting here fighting
for my rights, for my honor and for
my home for ten days,” the execu
tive said.
“I don’t here wish to criticize any
of these honorable members. Some
of them no doubt want me to have
a fair trial, but I have reached the
conclusion that I cannot have a fair
trial in this court. Knowing that.
I am withdrawing from this room.
I don’t care to stand this humilia
tion any longer for myself, my fam
ily or my honorable attorneys. You
may proceed as you see best.”
All of the remedies afforded by
federal courts “for a fair and im
partial trial under the law of the
land” wi.2 be resorted to by Gov
ernor Walton, a statement author
ized later by the executive and his
counsel declared.
“No actual trial was in progress,' '
the statement asserted. “The im
peachment proceedipgs” of the last
17 days were characterized as “only
a thinly veiled form of a trial in
which ho was denied of all of his
legal rights.”
Brief testimony was introduced to
day in support of the charge that
the governor had attempted to block
the special state election, October 2.
In a brief statement issued after
Governor Walton had bolted the
trial, W. E. Disney, chief of the
prosecution counsel, declared the
executive had “run true to form.”
“He got in a tight place and
ducked,” Disney said. “This was
expected. He has made similar
moves in every crisis in his his-
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
ROME.—Premier Mussolini tells
senate that Italy can not give its ap
proval to any further occupation of
German territory.
-
OELS.—Few visitors get past the
castle gate of former crown prince
who gives 100,000 pounds of pota
toes to the poor of Oels.
LONDON.—Central News dispatch
from Berlin reports that former Ger
man Chancellor Joseph 'Wirth is
dying as result of stroke of ap
oplexy.
NEW YORK. —George C. Taylor,
president of American Express com
pany, and of American Railway Ex
press, dies at his home .in Pelham,
aged 54.
DUSSELDORF. Rioting of un
employed reaches such proportions
that French issued instructions for
German police to use their guns
freely against plunderers. \
PARIS. —Two French and Belgian
officers of the allied - control com
mission are arrested by the reich
swehr and only freed after insults
French Leipsic sources declare.
MUNlCH.—British members of
the Inter-allied military control com
mission have heard unofficially that
they are to be withdrawn and are
said to be awaiting formal orders
to depart.
WASHINGTON.—Spokesman for
President Coolidge states that e
ports that Will H. Hays might again
bebome chairman of Republican na
tional committee are without foun
dation.
BUENOS AIRES.—Firpo, on* his
arrival here, says he was counted
out in the Dempsey fight when he
was on the floor only eight seconds,
and that justice was denied him in
championship bout.
LONDON. British government
will not accede to demands of France
for punitive measures against Ger
many, and notifies British ambassa
dor at Paris to so inform council of
ambassadors.
BERLlN.—Germany ceases repa
ration payments in kind solely on
account of financial disability, and
holds herself bound as hitherto to
all remaining clauses of the V.r
sallies treaty, a serai-oflicial state
ment says.
PARIS. —Owner of Epinard, the
French 3-year-old champion, will sail
December 1 from France for New
York, hoping to complete plans that
will put Zev in the international
horse race at Longchamps next
May.
CLEVELAND. —Former Justice
John H. Clarke suggests that the
United States supreme court decline
to hold unconstitutional acts of con
gress whenever several justices of
that tribunal decide that such acts
are valid.
WASHlNGTON.—Prohibition bu
reau reports that 11,268.469 liquor
prescriptions were filled in the
United States and its territories dur
ing the last fiscal year and that
1,400,614 gallons of liquors was thus
sold on doctors’ orders.
NEW YORK. —A resolution of
“confidence and thanks” in work of
Bishop Edgar Blake .and his col
leagues in their mission to all-Rus
sion ch rch conclave in Moscow
last May is adopted by board of
bishops of Methodist Episcopal
church.
WASHINGTON. —It is stated that
President Coolidge believes Ameri
can sympathy to be with any effort
of the allies to prevent restoration
of Ilohenzollerns to power in Ger
many, but in accordance with
policy, administration can take no
definite action in matter.
NEUILLY. Premier Poincare
announces that France is determined
to remain in the Ruhr and Rhine
land until every clause of the treaty
of Versailles is completely executed,
and the security of France is guar
anteed. _
BERLIN. Chancellor Strese
mann, addressing the German peo
ple’e party, declares against a dic
tatorship and announces that Ger
many will reject any demand for
surrender of former German crown
prince.
Banker Convicted on
Embezzlement Charge
LITTLE ROCK, Ark;., Nov. 16.
Riram G. Shaw, Jr., on trial here
since Tuesday on charges of embez
zling funds from the Citizens’ Na
tional Bank of Hot Springs, was
found guilty by a jury in federal
court today in nine of the eleven
counts of the indictment. Two
counts specifically charging embez
zlement were dismissed by the jury.
The verdict is practically the same
as returned at a former trial in 1922,
which was reversed by the circuit
court of appeals on error.
The maximum penalty under each
count is five years’ imprisonment
and $5,000 fine. Sentence will be
imposed by Judge Trieber at a later
date.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Fair.
North Caroli” South Carolina,
Georgia: Fair; no hagge in tem
perature.
Florida: Fair; somewhat warmer.
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi: Fair; no
change in temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair;
no change in temperature.
West Virginia: Partly cloudy and
warmer.
Louisiana: rntcyPoulldy ,
Louisiana: Partly cloudy; not
much in temperature.
Arkansas. Oklahoma and west
Texas: Generally fair.
East Texas: Generally fair.
VETERAN KIDNAPED,
CONGRESSMAN SAYS
KT BUREAU INQUIRY
Wife Who Suffered Great
Sacrifices to Aid Him Was
Robbed of Right to Share
Payments, Is Charge
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—A
charge that the veterans’ bureau
kidnaped Charles Kasavage, a World
war veteran, from an insane asylum
in the state of Washington and took
him to a hospital in Pennsylvania,
was made today before the senate
veterans’ committee by Representa
tive Johnson, Republican, Washing
ton.
Representative Johnson said offi
cials of the bureau acted in violation
of a restraining order issued by the
state courts and that he had been
asked by Director Frank T. Hines,
of the bureau, to present the facts so
that the “wrong done in this case
can be righted.”
A protest was made by Mr. John
son against testimony given before
the committee on November 5 by
Dr. D. O. Smith, one of the investi
gators for committee counsel, and
also against “the manufacturing of
testimony,” apparently to be used
later in a suit affecting the status of
the soldier in a court at Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania.
Demands Woman’s Rights
Denying that Mrs. Kasavage had
been improperly appointed guardian
for her husband in the state of Wash
ington. Representative Johnson de
clared the appointment ’ 1 been made
by the state court on the recommen
dation of the veterans’ bureau. He
also denied charges that Mrs. Ka
savage had lent her husband only $5
spending money in two years and a
half out of a total of $157.50 a month
received by her from the bureau as
his guardian.
"This woman.” he said, “has lived
in pain and misery and destitution to
help this sol Her.”
Before the committee began its
inquiry into the operations of the
several divisions of the bureau it
heard further references to charges
against former Director Charles R.
Forbes. His counsel, James S. Eashy-
Smith. expressed regret that the
committee had so. limited his time
that it was impossible for him “to
present a full and adequate defense
of Forbes,” and requested that he
tie permitted to present later a
memorandum of what he had hoped
to prove by witnesses and the list
of the witnesses that he would have
called.
Forced. O’Ryan Says
John F. O'Ryan, general counsel
for the committee, replied that he
had tried to keep Forbes’ name out
of the investigation, but that he was
“forced to bring him into it” by the
evidence which investigators had
gathered.
“Additional evidence concerning
matters to which Elias H. Mortimer
has testified is coming in every
day,” O’Ryan said, “and just how
far the committee desires to go into
it remains for the committee to de
cide.
Through Charles F. Mulhearn, as
sistant director in charge of the
claims division, O’Ryan developed
that the civil service requirements
for employes of the bureau who
make contact with the veterans is
the lowest for any bureau employe,
although the. witness said he knew
of no individual case of incompe
tency.
Too Little Sympathy
O’Ryan read into the record a re
port of one investigator, Arthur W.
McDermitt, which said “there is too
much cynicism and too little sympa
thy among the employes of the bu
reau.”
Mulhearn said he had no official
information about McDermitt’s re
port that frequently men are passed
from one employe to another until
finally they quit in disgust.
Only one outstanding new charge
was presented by Mortimer when he
resumed the stand Saturday nighi
for further examination by counse
for the committee. He testifed thai
he, Forbes. Charles F. Cramer, for
mer general counsel of the bureau,
who committed suicide last March
and J. W. Thompson, senior mem
ber of the Chicago contracting firm
of Thompson & Black, entered into
an arrangement whereby the. Pon
tiac Construction Company of De
troit, Mich., subsidiary of the
Thompson & Black Co., was to get
the contract for construction of the
foundations for the Northampton
Mass., Veterans’ hospital.
Floyd jury Foreman
Will Not Prosecute
Game Law Violators
ROME, Ga., Nov. 19.—“1 try to bo
a good citizen and uphold the consti
tution of my country, but I refuse to
assist in bringing indictments
against my fellow citizens, who are
not criminals, for law violations of
which I am as guilty as they." said
George S. Reese, foreman of the
grand jury, at the opening of the
Rome term of federal court for north
Georgia. He was referring to charges
of violating the federal migratory
game law pending against a number
of prominent citizens of Rome.
“Then we’ll appoint another fore
man when those cases come up,”
said Judge Samuel H. Sibley, as ev
erybody in the courtroom laughed.
The situation was clarified when
the district attorney anonunced that
he would not seek indictments, but
would prosecute the alleged game
law violators an accusations rather
than indictments.
Vassar Girls’ Appeal
For Guides on Tour
Brings a Great Rush
COLUMBUS, O„ Nov. 17.—A flood
of applications today answered the
call from Vassar, eastern girls’
school, for three male students of
Ohio State university to act as
guides to Vassar girls on geological
field , trips through the Bitter- Root
mountains next summer.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BOM NOW MEO
FOB FINISHING WORK
Adjournment Possible Be
fore End of Week—Solons
Encouraged by Passage of
Important Measures
The Georgia general assembly
made such progress last week that
it is entirely possible for the legis
lature to complete their program, of
tax reform and adjourn the extra j
session by the end of the present ,
week, and certainly before Thanks
giving, in the opinion of the mem
bers of both branches. The clouds
taat gathered over the capitol dome
on Wednesday and Thursday lifted
rapidly Friday.
Governor Walker expressed great
encouragement at the situation on !
Saturday, and was especially pleased
at the “give and take spirit,” as he
expressed it.
“There is now an amicable spirit i
in both branches of the assembly
and a large majority of the legisla
tors want to accomplish something,”
the governor declared.
“Only one development can now’
prevent tax reform legislation from
being enacted, and that is for some
faction to take the position of ‘you
have not given us exactly what we
want, so we refuse to yield to any
point.’ I do not believe this situa
tion will develop.”
Important Bills Passed
The encouraging tone of legisla
tvrs who expressed themselves Sat
urday, resulted from the passage of
the general tax act and the bill to
repeal the tax equalization during
the past week in the house, and the
success of the Pace auditing bi I
and Lankford income tax measure in
the senate. These four measures
will take care of five of the big is
sues before the legislature, if final’v
adopted, since the Lankford bill also
includes a provision for reduction »
the ad valorem tax rate.
The Lankford income tax bill will
be reported out by the constitutional
amendments committee of the house
Monday morning, so that it can be
read a second time, even if it is
necessary to have it resubmitted to
the committee later, it was decided
at a conference of members of the
committee Friday afternoon. Gov
ernor Walker appeared before th°
committee members and urged that
the bill be reported Monday, even if
it were necessary for the committee
men to spend the week-end in At
Ignta to thresh out any differences
that might arise.
Lankford Bill Waits.
The Lankford bill can not be put
upon ' L passage in the house until
Tuesday, as it can not be read for
the second and third time-on th-J
same day. However, it is tjhe plan
to call up one of the house income
tax measures for discussion Mon
day, in order that a day may not be
wasted. The discussion will apply
to any form of tax, and the
debate will be that far advanced
when th j Lankford measure is taken
up for final action on Tuesday.
The constitutional amendments
committee of the house did not
muster a quorum at the meeting he'd
Friday, after the legislature had ad
journed, but the majority of the
members present expressed them
sel”~ as being opposed to the clause
in the Lankford bill giving an oppor
tunity to offset ad valorem taxes
against income taxes. It was claim
ed that this system would exempt
railroads a- ’ other corporations
from paying any income tax at a'!
because of their extensive property
interests in the state. %
Tax Reduction
There was also a strong sent!
merit among the committeemen to
go further than the senate did in
amending the Lankford bill so that
the ad valorem tax rate shall be re
duced from five mills tu three mills
It is probable that the committee
will offer an amendment exempting
property from all ad valorem taxes
for state purposes. It was the
sentiment of the committeemen pres
ent that such an amendment would
be the only satisfactory relief of the
present tax burden upon real estate
and other property in Georgia, and
that the income tax and exemption
features would aid each other, if
incorporated in the same measure.
The committee will, oppose any ef
fort to offer a substitute for the
Lankford bill, since it has already
received the required two-thirds
vote in the senate, and time will be
conserved by merely amending the
measure and appointing a conference
committee, if the senate refuses to
concur in the changes made by the
house.
The finance committee of the sen
ate will hold a hearing Monday on
the general tax act, with the inten
tion of deciding upon a report on
tnat measure by Tuesday. There
will be a. fight before the commit
tee on the additional tax imposed I
upon manufacturers of syrups used ;
in making soft drinks, put into the !
measure by the house. There is
also a possibility that insurance ,
companies will oppose the increase '
from 1 1-2 to 2 per cent in the tax i
or. the receipts of insurance com- ■
panies.
A fight also is expected on the •
amendment to the general tax act ■
introduced by Representative Stew- I
art, of Atkinson county, and adopt- :
ed by the house, taxing corporations |
$lO9 for each million dollars of their .
capitalization in excess of $2,000,- I
000. It is claimed that this clause
would tax some foreign corporations
as much as $50,000.
General Tax Act
The senate is expected to make
short work of the general tax act
when the committee reports it, as
most of the provisions in the meas
ure are the same as they were last
ye: , and they have been studied.
The house had the measure under
consideration for four days.
The majority of the members, of
the senate aie known to be antag
onistic to passing the bill repealing
tne tax equalization law before some
substitute revenue measure has
been adopted. Therefore it is con
siaered probable that the senate will
take up the classification tax meas
ure and the proposed house amend
ments to the Lankford income tax
measure before considering the
Knight repeal bill. If this program
can be followed, the danger of a
deadlock between the two houses
will be averted.
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Il CAROLINA n
FLAYS BETROITER LS
WEST GRAFTER'
GREENSBORO, N. C., Nov. 17.
“I do not believe the greatest grafter,
the greatest profiteer in America,
ought to do business that way,” da
dared P. H. Gwynn, of Spray, pres
ident of the Leakville Bank and
Trust company, testifying here today
before the joint congressional corn
mittee of inquiry on membership ir.
the federal reserve system, and
charging that a Detroit automobile
manufacturer, whose name he dd
not mention, but whom, he stated
was a candidate for the presidency,
is ’ “drawing drafts with exchange
added, and these drafts are being
cashed by the banks of this country
at par.”
Prefacing his denunciation of the
Detroit manufacturer with the state
ment that ‘‘this gentleman was go
ing to run Wall street out of busi
ness,” and his many agents through
out the nation are now demanding
that his drafts be cashed at par,
when the drafts, President Gwynn
asserted, include the exchange.
President Gwynn also flayed the
Veterans’ Bureau of the United
States government, declaring that
“I do not believe that there is any
department of the government that
is more inefficient.” However, upon
an interjection by Chairman Louis
T. McFadden, of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Gwynn declared that he did not
judge the government by that de
partment, saying, “No, sir; if we did,
we would overturn creation,” get
ting things changed.
Mr. Gwynn announced that his
bank was a non-member of the fed
eral reserve system, although he
admitted that “the system, as orig
inally intended, was the finest thing
in the world, and, if properly con
trolled, would do good.”
Cold Winds Braved
By Local Swimmers
For Sake of Sport
Miss Virginia Ashe and Joe Per
son, expert swimmers on the Atlan
ta Athletic club team, have planned
a program for themselves for the
winter months that probably will not
win many followers, even among the
lovers of aquatic sports.
They plan to swim each Sunday
in East Lake, the weather man to
the contrary, and they hope their
enthusiasm will be a degree warmer
than the chilly blasts which chase
across the lake during the winter
months. They dived in Sunday morn
ing and swam vigorously for several
minutes before a group of admiring
onlookers.
Miss Ashe holds several champion
ships in the women’s field and she
has been invited to try out for the
next Olympic games, while Mr. Per
son is an expert diver and swim
mer. Both figured prominently last
summer in the rescue of several per
son!? who fell into East Lake from a
carnival raft, when two persons
were drowned.
Cotton Prices Soar
Sixty Points to New
Record for Season
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Cotton
made new high prices for the sea
son today on renewed trade buying
and rebuying by recent sellers, who
evidently were influenced by the
better European political news and
the rally in foreign exchange.
December advanced to 34.75 and
May to 34.70. or 60 to 66 points
above Saturday’s closing quota
tions. Contracts for delivery next
August, in which there has been
very little interest, sold up to 31.50
or 150 points above the closing price
of last week.
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, November 20,1923
OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS
BOY TEARFULLY RECOUNTS
DREAM IN WHICH HE SHOT
FATHER TO TEST REVOLVER
Young Whipple Also Fired at
Sister as She Ran to Awake
and Disarm Him No
Prosecution Planned
LAKELAND, Fia., Nbv. 16.—Fu
neral services over the body of Mr.
C. S. Whipple, -37, the victom of a
bullet fired early yesterday morning
by his 16-year-old son, Dana, will
be held tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. The lad, who says he shot
his father while having a dream, was
first taken into custody, but after
questioning by the local authorities
was released, they being satisfied,
they said today, that th e fatal shot
was fired accidentally.
It developed today that the sister
of Dana came near being another
victim of the tragedy, only quick
action by his mother preventing an
other tragedy. In his story, Dana
tearfully explained that he was
dreaming he was employed in an
arms factory, and to him had been
entrusted the duty of seeing th-.t the
guns were in perfect- 'ondition.
Testing C
His dream, he said, carried him
to the point where a gun was being
tested. He took the gun, he ex
piained, and s'arted she ting at a
target. This target proved to be his
father, although the lad did not
know it until later.
The remainder of the story was
supplied by his sister. Miss Willie,
and his mother. They say the boy
apparently arose from his bed. took
his father’s revolver from a closet
in the room in which he was sleep
ing, and then made his way to the
room where his father, mother and
younger brother slept. Dana stood
by the bed occupied by Mr. Whipple
and shot him in the center of lha
forehead, killi.ng him instantly. He
fired again, but this shot —ent wild.
Mfs. Whipple beg. screaming,
thinking, she iJaid, that a robber had
entered the house.
Fires on Sister
Miss Willie rushed i'.to the room
and the boy fired again, the third
shot going in her di -tion. It f~’led
to find a human mark, however, as
sh e jumped to one side. and. grab
bing Dana, shook him until he
awoke and then disarmed him. The
boy rushed to his room and then
to the home of neighbors, to whom
he told the details of the accident as
recounted to him by his s'ster.
Today young Whipple recounted
rhe story as he recalls it. with tears
in his eyes. He maintained that he
did not kill his f her purposely. “I
did not kill my father. There isn’t
enough money in all the world to
have made me do it —I didn’t do it.”
Mr. Whipple was superintendent of
th e Southside Baptist Sunday school
and had recently retired from busi
ness. Prior to coming to Lakeland
three and a half years ago from Fort
Pierce, Mr. Whipple resided in Geor
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E. Y. Clarke’s Trial
On Mann Act Charges
Postponed in Texas
HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 19.—The
case of Edward Young Clarke, of At
lanta, former acting imperial wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan, and at one
time head of the propagation depart
ment of the organization, was post
poned until December 17, when it
was called this morning in federal
court.
Clarke is charged with violation of
the Mann act.
He entered a plea of not guilty,
and then advanced reasons for a
delay, which were sustained by the
court.
The defense announced that the
law firm of Henry & Clark, of Hous
ton, had just entered the case and
desired to familiarize themselves
with the defense. They asked for
one month’s delay and, without ar
gument, Judge J. C. Hutcheson
granted the application.
Clark is no relation to the defend
ant. v.
The defendant's chief counsel is
Sidney Smith, of Atlanta.
The allegation against Clarke
names a Houston woman and a date
m 1921.
Clarke has been on bond, given in
Atlanta.
Augusta Woman. Given
Party to Celebrate
Hundredth Birthday
AUGUSTA, Ga.. Nov. 17.—Cele
brating the 100th milestone in the
life of Mrs. Nancy Bohler Heckle,
Community Service entertained at
an interesting and unique party Fri
day night. The party was held at
the Women’s Club house.
A cake, decorated with 100 can
dies, was placed in the center of
the table. On th© table also was a
loving cup presented to Mrs. Heckle
by Henry Hammond.
The three oldest guests at the
party were Mrs. John Brunson. 82;
Mi’s. A. M. Evans, 80, Mrs.
Susie Evey, 80.
Mrs. Heckle was the recipient of
a large basket of flowers from
Camp 435, United Confederate
'Veterans. ______
gia, He was born in Phoenix, Ariz.
Dana Whipple was a chum of his
father and they ha*’ planned a hunt
ing expedition in the Everglades
when the hunting season opened
later this month. The fact that Mr.
Whipple went to Tampa Wednesday
and purchase I a new gun for Dana
is thought to have brought about the
dream that resulted fatally for the
father.
Mr. Whipple is survived by his
widow, two sons and a daughter.
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FRENCH TO MODIFY
DEMAND ON BERLIN
IN NOTE ON RHINE
Envoy’s Council Finds Tem
porary Solution for Dilem
ma of Triple Entente—Po
sition Still Held Precarious
PARIS, Nov. 19.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —An agreement in
principle was reached by the repre
sentatives of the allies assembled in
the council of ambassadors here to
day, and a break between France
and Great Britain on the question
of the attitude to be adopted toward
Germany was averted, at least tem
porarily.
It was announced after the con
ference that the ambassadors had
agreed in principle on the measures
to be taken toward the resumption
of allied military control in Ger
many.
The French cabinet approved the
formula decided upon by the ambas
sadors. The Belgian ambassador got
into communication with Brussels
and was understood to be asking for
his government’s decision on the new
agreement.
Lord Crewe got into communica
tion with the London government by
telephone immediately after his re
turn to the British embassy and this,
with the similar action of the Belgian
envoy in communicating with Brus
sels, was taken as indicating that all
the governments still had to approve
the decision before it became final.
If the approval is accorded the am
bassadors planned to meet again at
6 o’clock and put the finishing
touches upon the text of the commu
nication to Germany and forward it
at once to Berlin.
Protection Demanded
The sense of the note proposed by
the council of ambassadors to be
sent to Germany was said this aft
ernoon to be a demand that Ger
many provide protection for the in
terallied military control mission
wherever the reich control.
“An agreement remains possible,”
the semi-official Temps states in its
editorial on the ambassadors’ meet
ing this morning. Texts were drawn
up, it says, which France’s repre- 1
sentative was not empowered to ac
cept definitely and. which the cabi
net was discussing this afternoon.
The feeling in some allied quar
ters was that no entirely satisfac
tory text for the note to Germany
had been adopted, the decision reach,
ed being considered as a make-shift,
taken to prevent the breaking up
of the entente and give the’ allies
more time to find a solution.
Position Still Precarious
The impression in allied political
circles is that the entente is saved
for the moment, but still is in a pre
carious situation at the mercy of
the first incident in Germany hostile
to the mission of control. France, it
is believed, will not hesitate to take
action in such a case, overriding all
allied objections. Consequently it is
feared the equivocal situation of the
allies has not been definitely reme
died and that the crisis which might
lead to a break hass only been post
poned.
The result is regarded as a diplo
matic success for Great Britain, but
with such strings to it that its recep
tion in London is regarded as doubt
ful.
Meeting Is Secret
Exceptional measures were taken
to protect the secrecy of the meet- j
ing, and the foreign press repre' f
sentatives who are usually allowed
to enter with the French newspaper*
men the lobby leading to the confer*
ence room were banished to a re*
mote part of the foreign ministry.
The foreign journalists,
were the only ones to learn the Be
cret that it had been arranged sos
the ambassadors to enter by the sida
door so as to avoid the photogra
phers and reporters assembled at the
main entrance. The foreign corre«
spondents were the only ones, there
fore, to be at the side door when the
ambassadors began to arrive.
Most of the ambassadors were
grave and silent. The marquis oi
Crewe, the British ambassador, wore
a particularly worried look. Baron
De Gassier D’Hestroy, the Belgian
ambassador, and Myron T. Herrick,
ambassador of the United States,
were the only ones who did not seem
to regard the council meeting as a
solemn occasion. Baron D’Hestroy
posed flor the photographers and ex*
changed pleasantries with the news*
papermbn, while Ambassador Her*
rick, seeing the crowd of American
reporters and photographers, in
quired:
“What’s this, a strike or a lock*
out?”
“A lockout, Mr, Ambassador/* thn
newspapermen cried in response.
The French cabinet, called to con*
aider the agreement in principle
reached today by the allied council
of ambassadors regarding the atti*
tude to be adopted toward Germany,
issued a laconic communique at thtf
close of its session this afternoon,
to the effect that “the cabinet uani*
mously approved the attitude taker)
by M. Poincare in the
STRESEMANN REFUSES
TO SURRENDER PRINCB
BERLIN, Nov. 19. —(By the Asso*
ciated Press.) —Stresemann, address*
ing a meeting of the German peo*
pie’s party, announced that Ger
many would reject any demand sos
the surrender* of the former crown
prince. X,.
The chancellor asserted • that the
political and diplomatic steps taken
by Germany had contributed to pla«-
ing France in a position she had
never before occupied, with both An-*
glo-Saxon powers co-operating to
ward the same ideals, with Ita.lv;
parting from her, and Belgium weak
ening. The importance of these de*
velopments for Germany was that
they were ushering in a new era,
even if France indulged in further
acts of violence.
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