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DEFENSE OPPOSES
PUNS OF BOYKIN
IN FOX SANITY TEST
Solicitor Abandons Effort to
Have Commission Appoint
ed for Examinaton Before
Trial Opens
After a day of legal maneuvering
in an effort to have a lunacy com
mission appointed to investigate the
sanity of Philip E. Fox, slayer of
Captain W. S. Coburn, in advance of
his trial for murder which is to open
in Fulton superior court Wednesday,
Solicitor General John- A. Boykin
Saturday abandoned his attempts
Saturday night to obtain consent of
defense counsel to his nroposal.
Judge G. H. Howard, of the crim
inal division of superior court, be
fore whom the case is to be tried, de
clined to sign an order naming Dr
J. B. Baird, Sr., and Dr. W. C. Jarna
gin as members of a commission to
examine Fox. declaring that the con
sent of attorneys for Fox was es
sential to such action prior to the
trial. The petition for the order was
presented Saturday to Judge How
ard by Assistant Solicitor Ed A.
Stephens.
“Since I could not get Jhe approv
al of the defense attorneys, I will be
unable at this time to secure the ap
pointment of an examining body,”
Solicitor Boykin said Saturday night
“Os course, I never considered that 1
had a legal right to have Fox ex
amined without their consent.
"I will not enter into any negotia
tions as to who shall constitute the
commission and I do not claim the
right to dictate the personnel of the
commission, but I do claim the right,
as solicitor general, to submit the
names of decent and honorable men
to the court.
To Await Trial
"If the lunacy issue is injected into
the case When it comes -up for trial,
I will then ask the appointment of a
lunacy board, the selection of which
will be left to the trial judge, without
reference to any agreement between
my office and defense counsel.”
Defense attorneys, in a statement
issued late Saturday, indicated that
they were willing to have an examin
ing commission named, but would re
fuse to submit their client to an ex
amination by a board of Solicitor
Boykin’s selection.
"We are certainly unwilling for
the solicitor general and his associ
ates to select, as indicated, such a
commission,declared the state
ment, which was issued by former
Governor Hugh Dorsey and Frank
A Hooper, Sr., counsel for the Ku
Klux Klan publicity chief. "We
would certainly be glad to have such
h commision appointed, provided we I
are permitted to agree with them
upon competent, fair and impartial
rner! to make an examination.”
Insanity Plea Seen
The statement from Fox’s at
the solicitor that a special plea of in
sanity would be filed in behalf of the
accused man, or that the insanity, ele
ment would be injected in good
measure into the trial of the case.
He first presented Judge Howard
with a petition for the appointment
of three physicians to examine into
the sanity of Fox, but this move was
held up by the judge, who was in
formed that the defense attmuieys
had not agreed to the proposition and
who ruled that Fox’s counsel must
consent before he signed the order.
Solicitor Boykin then amended his
orginal petition and the statement
from Attorneys Dorsey and Hooper
followed shortly afterward.
Statement Reviews Case
In addition to expressing opposi
tion to a Junacy commission picked
by the solicitor, the statement from
defense attorneys also reviewed sev
eral features of the case, criticising
the assistant solicitor general for
going to the jail thirty minutes after
the shooting on the afternoon of
November 6 and seeking an inter*--
view with the prisoner, protesting
against arrangements which it was
stated had been made to place Fox
on trial the Tuesday following the
shooting, and declaring that untrue
reports had been circulated to the
effect that Texas authorities were
unwilling to co-operate in the inves
tigation into the life of Fox while he
was a resident of Texas, before
moving to Atlanta to assume the
klan connection.
Gas Explosion Wrecks
Sahara, Shrine Temple
At Pine Bluff, Ark.
PINE BLUFF, Dec. B.—. Three per
sons were injured and damage esti
mated at $40,000 was caused by an
explosion which wrecked a portion
of the Sahara Temple Shrine build-
damaged the fronts of two
stores here late today.
Escaping gas is. believed to have
caused the blast.
Several persons were in the build
ing, hut none was seriously hurt.
The three injured suffered painful
bruises and shock.
The building, a three-story struc
ture, was located near the center
of the business district. Buildings
in the vicinity were rocked by the
blast but were not seriously dam
aged.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Rain: colder in extreme
western portion Tuesday.
North Carolina: Rain; not much
change in temperature.
South Carolina: Rain.; mild tem
perature. I
Georgia: Rain; colder in north
west portion by Tuesday night.
Florida: Clpudy; probably show
ers in extreme north portion.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi: Rain and
colder.
Tennessee: Rain and colder.
Kentucky: Rain; colder.
Louisiana: Probably fair in west;
rain in east portion; colder.
Arkansas: Probably fair, colder in
east and south portions.
Oklahoma: Fair.
East Texas: Probably fair.
West -jjexas: Probably fair. .
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
CHICAGO.—-Rose Borth, school
girl who disappeared last Sunday
night, is found by police.
LONDON.—Prince of Wales has the
mount on Lord Westmoreland's
Phaco and finishes third.
CANToSf.—Reports that marines
from/ foreign warships here had
taken over the customs are declared
unfounded.
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.—William
G. Allison, 64, former editor of Rich
ard Croker’s American, dies of
heart failure.
LONDON. —Possibility of a. liberal
labor coalition as the result of the
elections are repudiated by the Her
ald, official labor organ.
LONDON. —Prime Minister Bald
win has called meeting of British
cabinet for Monday and it is gen
erally accepted that he wall resign.
BOSTON. —Charles R. Forbes, for
mer chief of the Veterans’ bureau,
is under care' of neurologist here
and his sister says he is seriously
ill.
HOBOKEN. —Six men accused of
conspiracy to transport liquor val
ued at several hundred thousand
dollars from Georgia to New Jersey
are arrested' by federal officials.
HAZARD, Ky.—Seven miners are
k”':d and six others injured in a
mine of the Black Hawk company
at Carr’s- Fork, as the result of a
dust and gas explosion.
WASHINGTON. —Call for a meet
ing of the Democratic national com
mittee here January 15 to decide the
time and place of the national con
vention is issued by Chairman Cor
dell Hull. ■■
NEW YORK. —William Jennings
Bryan tells Baptist fundamentalists
that he prefers Christianity to
geology and that it is better to know
"The Rock o-f Ages” than “the age
of the rocks.”
NEW YORK.—Nathan Schatzky
is taken, to psycopathic ward of
Bellevue hospital after police declare
that Schatzky practically admitted
killing 4-year-old Irving Pickelny in
an east side cellar.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge is happy with the reception
given by the newspapers to his mes
sage and tells one group of callers
that some of the editorial ’comment
is almost flattery.
SALT LAKE CITY.—John Brown
ing, son of the inventor, and his cou
sin, Marriner Browning, are acquit
ted of the murder of Benjamin F.
Ballantyne, John Browning’s broth
er-in-law, last April 9.
NEW YORkT—Thomas W. La
mont announces at New York that
plan for readjustment of Mexico’s
debt has been declared operative, af
fecting $500,000,000 capital account
and about $200,000,000 past* due in
interest.
WASH INGTON.—Inq uiries as to
the possibility of negotiating a treaty
with Canada which would permit
the construction of a deep water
way from the Great Lakes to the
Atlantic byway of the St. Law
rence river are instituted by the
United States government.
DRY AGENTS PLEAD
FORPRDTECTIDNAT
TBIILSJNffIILE
MOBILE,AIa., Dec. 8. —A request
for guards to protect federal agents
and other persons who took part in,
or gave information in connection
with the recent sensational liquor
raids in this city, has been made to
the department of justice at Wash
ington, according to federal officials
here.
According to the report ten body
guards have been requested for the.
principal witnesses in the cases
here. The request is said to have
been made following’ adjournment
by the grand jury this afternoon
until Monday morning.
Izzy Einstein, accompanied by his
working partner, Peter Regan, for
mer prize fighter, both famous pro
hibition agents, noted for the various
disguises, arrived in the city today.
Th ,y stated that they are to appear
before the federal grand jury that
has been busy now for-two weeks in
vestigating the sensational prohibi
tion raids. The two noted sleuths of
Uncl e Sam’s dry forces will remain
but a brief period as they have work
to do elsewhere before the Xmas
holidays start, they declared. This
city will be honored by another visit
from these two men. it is said, this
being when they return to testify
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NASHVILLE. Tenn. Vanderbilt
university football team will play
Minnesota November 22, 1924, at
Minneapolis.
MEXICO ClTY.—Mexican revolu
tionists capture Jaapa, capital of
the state of Vera Cruz.
LONDON.—Leon Trotzky is ill
with internal complications, Moscow
dispatch says.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Lowest
hospital admission rate for disease
ever recorded for regular army was
attained durnig the last fiscal year.
AUSTIN, >Texas.—Captain E. T.
Wagner and Lieutenant L. J. Mc-
Laughlin are killed when wing of
training plane collapses at Elling
ton fi.ld, Texas.
.LUXOR, Egypt. —• Removal of
great linen pall coyering the sec
ond shrine of Tutankhamen dis
closes bewildering variety of strange
and beautiful objects.
NEW YORIC—-‘‘Wild Bill” Dpno
van former noted baseball player, is
among nine persons killed in wreck
of the Twentieth Century Limited
train at Forsyth, N, Y.
WASHINGTON'. — Engagements of
president on Tuesday and Fridays,
cabinet days, will be limited to those
having official business, to conserve
executive’s time and energy.
MOSCOW.—Largest group, esti
mated at approximately 200, exiled
from Moscow since days of czar is
being sent to Siberia for living bj
gambling or profiteering.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge believes that any aid given Ger
many by the United States should
be furnished on a business basis,
rather than a charity, it is an
nounced.
PARlS.—Dorothy May Jordon Rob
inson, daughter of Eben S. Jordan,
Boston merchant, in Paris courts
wins separation from Monroe Doug
las Robinson, of New York, a nephew
of the late President Roosevelt.
NEW YORK.—Executive commit
tee of the Woodrow Wilson democ
racy makes public telegram to Presi
dent Coolidge protesting statement
in his message to congress that
League of Nations “is a closed inci
dent so far as we are concerned ”
WASHINGTON. Frank W.
Stearns, of Boston, announces Pres
ident Coolidge’s candidacy for the
Republican nomination. William M.
Butler, Republican committeeman
for Massachusetts, will act as Mr.
Coolidge’s personal representative in
the campaign.
NEW YORK.—League of Nations
Non-partisan association protests to
President Coolidge against statement
in his address to congress that “our
country has definitely refused to
adopt and ratify covenant of League
of Nations” and th set “the incident,
so far as we are concerned, is
closed.”
LONDON.—Great Britain agrees
that Prime Minister Baldwin will re
sign, but other reports of what will
happen after his resignation are
purely speculative, London advices
say; the Daily Herald (Labor news
paper) suggests that J. Ramsay Mac-
Donald accept the premiership.
Nitrate Plant Guard
Is Shot to Death
At Sheffield, Ala.
SHEFFIELD, Ala.. Dec. 9.—Har
ry S. White, 38, a government
guard at United States nitrate plant
No. 1, here, was slain on the reser
vation Saturday. He was .-hot while
riding his horse On his beat, his
body dragged fifty feet and thrown
into an unused cistern, where it was
found in two feet of water. Mystery
surrounds the slaying of the guard
He had no enemies in so far as offi
cers at the plant are advised. The
slayer vanished as if the earth had
swallowed him.
3 Children Suffocate
While at Play in Room
As Guardian Shops
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 9.—. Three
children lost their lives by suffoca
tion last night when fire of unknown
origin damaged a room In which they
were playing.
The dead are: |
Eleanor Zalesky, 2; Dorothy, 4, a
sister; Francis Jordan, 5.
The children were found, huddled
in th? corner of the room surround
ed b ytheir toys, by Mrs. Zalesky
who returned to her apartment aft
er an all-day Christmas shopping
tour, .
against the defendants they caught
selling the forbidden extracts of rye,
corn and other well known cereals.
14 INVESTIGATIONS
OF WRECK BEGUN;
TOLL IS NINE DEAD
FORSYTH. N. Y„ Dec. 10.—Four
investigations were launched today
into the wreck of the New York
Central “Twentieth Century Lim
ited” near here yesterday, when nine
persons were killed and a number of
paseeng.-rs injured, five seriously.
The inquiries were instituted by the
authorities of Chautauqua county,
New York, and representatives of
the Now York public -service com
mission and Interstate commerce
commission and the railroad com
pany.
Physicians attending the five per
sons who were seriously hurt, and
who were taken to a hospital at
Erie, Pa., said there was no change
in their condition. The bodies of the
victims also were taken to Erie.
Among the dead was William E.
“Wild Bill” Donovan, veteran base
ball player, now manager of the New
Haven baseball club, who, with a
number of other baseball, notables,
including President John A. Heyd
ler, of the National league, were en
route to Chicago to attend the base
ball conferences opening there to
day.
The dead:
Ralph Parnell, New York City,
Pullman porter.
William E. (Wild Bill) Donovan
2031 Arch street, Philadelphia, man
ager of ’the New Haven baseball
club.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Sullivan,
Springfield, Hl.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sweet. 50a
Windsor Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. R- B. Stureman. 214
East Washington street, Springfield.
Illinois. „ - .
Mrs. Carl D. Kinsey, 5649 W in
throp place, Chicago.
Auto Cause of Trouble
At Albany, the first of the three
sections of the train experienced en
gine trouble and. the second section
was ordered to go on. The first a<nc.
the third pulled out fifteen minutes
late, train crews said.
Near Forsyth, the second section,
then leading, struck an automobile
vhich had stalled on a grade cross
ing whose occupants, three Pitts
burg men,'W. S- Strattford, C. H.
Harney and B.,Maier, had jumped to
safety.' As the next section pulled
past the scene of the smash-up, its
crew noticed the flaming automobile
and brought the train to a stop to
see if help could be rendered any or
the occupants of the autotaiobile.
While the train was stopped, the
third section come thundering mt
through the blinding rain and heavy
fog. .
Signals Seen Too Late
The red warning flares and a
brakeman frantically waving his
lantern, a train-length away, were
seen too late by Engineer Charles
Patterson, of Cleveland, who was
piloting the onrushing engine.
The brakes were applied and the
track sanded, but the terrific mo
mentum carried the limited on the
rear car of the standing train with
such force that it overturned two
other Pullman sleepers. Their steel
construction saved the lives of their
occupants, railroad officials said.
Jolted out of their berths by -the
impact, passengers of both trains
bent to the work of extricating the
dead and injured from the fated
sleeper. Soon these forces weye
aided by farmers from the country
side, who for a time, with their lan
terns, supplied the only light.
Cross bars and axes were used to
chop through the debris of the
wrecked car in an effort to reach
the stricken. A relief train sped on
from Erie, Ta., 35 miles west, fol
lowed by a wrecking train.
Donovan Among Last Found
Before all the dead or home of
the more seriously injured could be
removed, it was necessary to hack
away the top of the telescoped car.
Wild Bill Donovan was among the
last taken from the debris. His
body was discovered by Mr. Heydler.
The more seriously injured were
taken to Erie hospitals and the
| dead io the Erie morgue, while
those less seriously hurt were car
ried on to their destinations.
In a statement to newspapermen,
Engineer Patterson said he had no
ticed the yellow warning signals
along the block and accordingly had
cut his speed to/55 to 60 miles. The
red flares, discernible a limited dis
tance away because of the fog, did
not give him time to avert the col
lision, he- said. He estimated his
train was making 20 miles an hour
when it crashed.
BURIAL IN PHILADELPHIA
FOR "WILD BILL” DONOVAN
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10.—The
body of William E. Donovan (Wild
Bill) will be brought here for burial.
He made his home with hi ssister,
Mrs. Elizabeth Murtagh, and his
father, Jeremiah Donovan, 80 years
old, a veteran the Civil war.
Two Held on Charges
Os Attempt to Wreck
Train, Barely Averted
SAVANNAH, Ga.. Dec. B.—London
: Jackson, 17, and Alto Glenn, 19, ne
! groes, have been arrested, charged
I with attempting to wreck the At
| lantic Coast Line "shuttle train” this
i morning near Southover Junction.
Some one opened a siding switch
I near the junction, and the shuttle
i train, with 100 persons aboard, went
into the siding, which previously had
been closed to traffic’because of a
broken rail. The engineer saw the
switch had been thrown before the
engine reached it, and succeeded in
checking the speed of the train, and
thus averted a serious accident. The
train went on to -the siding and the
engine was derailed.
When the train stopped, the ne
groes were seen running through the
woods. A. C. L. policemen who were
’ on the train gave chase and caught
; them. Jackson said Glenn, who re
j cently was dismissed from the serv-
I ice of the road, threw the switch to
| wreck the train, he having a key to
I the swituh. /
Sweden Hears Radio
Concert in America
ROTHENBERG, Sweden, Dec. B.
American music, carried by radio
across* the sea, a distance of 3,700
miles, was clearly heard by an au
dience in the hall of music here at
12:30 o’clock last night.
BUDGET MESSAGE
BYCOOLIDGE URGES
BIG EXPENSE CUT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—President
Coolidge specifically recommended to
congress today a reduction of more
than $300,000,000 in th© national tax
bill, and at tjie same time presented
views in opposition to a soldiers’
bonus.
The executive, in a message trans
mitting the annual budget, said
frankly that “any program of new
expenditure on a large scale would
make tax reduction impossible for
years to come.” He added that tax
reduction “would certainly tend to
align the whole people in support of
economical administration of govern
ment,” which he declared is becom
ing “every day more and more nec
essary.”
“I recommend a revision of tax
■ laws,” Mr. Coolidge said, “along lines
j which will effect a reduction of in
come taxes by taxing earned income
more lightly than income from busi-
i ness or from investments; by reduc-
I .
Img the percentages of the normal
tax, and by reducing the surtax
rates, with commencement of their
application at SIO,OOO instead of $6,-
000. I also recommend repeal of the
tax on telegrams, telephones and
leased wires, and of the tax on ad
missions, and revision of the miscel
laneous taxes which are a source of
inconvenience to taxpayers, and dif
ficult to collect. On the other hand,
amendments which would cause
some increase of revenue should also
be to) existing income tax laws
relative to deductions of capital
looses; deductions from gross income
for interest paid and non-business
losses sustained, wherein income
from tax-exempt securities is in
volved, and the manner of taxing
community incomes. The/se changes
would reduce taxes by more than
$.300,000,000, which is safely within
the probable surplus.
Praises Patriotism
The executive declared the Ameri-
I can people have given a “truly mag
) nificent demonstration of patience,
I and patriotism” during the years in
I which they have borne the great
burden of war expenses.
“In less than seven years, to put
the matter very briefly,” he said,
“we have Spent forty billions of dol
lars and we have paid off from cur
rent revenues eight billion dollars,
or nearly half of the amount. Cer
tainly the nation which has thus pa
j tiently persisted in meeting the enor
j mous burden of governmental costs
,is entitled at the earliest possible
moment to the largest measure of re-
I lief from these burdens that can
I possibly be accorded. I am convinc
ed that the time has now come to
extend this relief through a sub
stantial reduction of taxation.”
Calling attention that in the next
five years $7,400,000,000 of treasury
notes and Liberty Bonds will mature,
the president said the ordinr.ry sink
ing fund will take care of only sl,-
600,000,000 of this amount, leaving
between five billions and six billions
i to be refunded. k
! While the debt agreement with
! Great Britain involves a payment of
! approximately $160,000,000, principal
■ and interest each year, the president
said this was not likely to affect the
| early maturing debt as Great Brit-
I ain is permitted to pay in bonds t>f
the United States,and the bonds it
• will tender probably will be those of
longer term, which are now lower
in price.
“If future adjustments 'are made
with other foreign governments,”
he added, “the iThited States debt
may be affected, but for some years
to comp the principal reliance on
debt reduction must he the sinking
' fund and' the specific receipts re-
I for red to above.”
Man and Girl’s Bodies
Discovered as Result
Os Repeated Dreams
SPRING LAKE, Mich., Dec. 10.—
The dream twice repeated, of George
Snyder, local contractor, led late
yesterday to the discovery of the
bodies of Harry B. Proctor, 33, a
Muskegon real estate dealer and 14-
Edna Fullager, buried in
the mud of Grand river, three blocks
from the Proctor home here. The
man and girl had been missing since
October 30.
Impressed by his dream Snyder
communicated with officials and
1 made a sketch of the place where
the automobile in which the two
were last seen might be found.
Thirty minutes after officers began
to drag the river the car was found
and the bodies of the two for whom
a nation-wide search had been made
were recovered shortly afterward.
Proctor, according to reports to of
ficials, called at the Fullager home
the night of October 30. He had sold
a home to Mrs. Fullager. He .*aid
he had been drinking and wa- afraid
to drive his car and the Fullager girl
I finally consented to drive him home.
That was the last seen of them.
Later a warrant charging abduction
was obtained by Mrs. Fullager
against Proctor.
Two Army Officers
Die in Plane Crash
HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 10.—Lieu
tenant L. J. McLaughlin, 26, and
Captain E. T. Wagner, 29, were kill
jed Sunday at Ellington field when
I the wing of a training plane in which
thej 7 were flying collapsed and the
I machine plunged 500 feet to the
• ground.
Hundreds of persons, who had
gathered to watch gunnery practice
of the Forty-third pursuit squadron.
! here from. Kelly field, witnessed the
; accident.
Revolver Taken From
Aubrey Lee Nickels
DELAND. Fla., Dec. 10.—The re
| volver found on Aubrey Lee Nickles,
i Saturday, the prisoner said, was
l searched at the Bartow county jail
Saturday, the prisoner said was
given him by a friend in Jacksonville
according to information reaching
here today. Nickels was taken from
1 the Deland jail Saturday to Bartow,
i His case is now before the supreme
I court. . j
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, December 11, 1923.
NEW YORK GIVEN A SETBACK
WHEN DEMOCRATS DECLINE
TO SEND CONVENTION THERE
Victory Considered a Cer
tainty Until Party’s Lead
ers Demanded Surplus En
tertainment Fund
BY ROBERT T. sMALL
(Leased Wire Service to 'Lite Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—The Re
publican national committee meets
in Washington the coming week to
ratify Fred Upham’s selection of.
for the Republican national con
vention city for 1924.
The Democratic national commit
tee meets January 15, in Washing
ton, to turn down New York’s confi
dent bid for the Democratic national
’ convention. The chances are that
the Democratic conclave will go to
the. Mississippi river or beyond. It is
understood that St. Louis quietly is
gathering in the pledged votes of
national committeemen and commit
tee women.
Back of the sudden slump in New
York’s once rosy prospects of cap
turing the big Democratic pow-wow
is an interesting political story. Up
to two or three weeks ago it ap
peared to be almost a certainty that
the metropolis would break its life
long record and become the meeting
place of a national political conven
tion. So confident were the pro
moters of the plan they announced
that after capturing the Democrats
for 1924. the city would very kindly
take in the Republicans in 11)28. The
i thing was all threshed out. cut and
dried.
Vast Change Ensues
But now a vast change has come
over the
the Democratic convention, New
York said it was willing to raise the
necessary guarantee of $125,000 for
convention expenses, or even to raise
the ante to $200,000, if need be. The
Democrat said fine and dandy. They
also said that of course, you under
* stand, you New Yorkers, that al:
moneys left over after convention
expenses are paid go into the war
chest of the Democracy. We Demo
crats have a hard enough time as? it
is to r' ! -e the necessary coin for a
campaign and we always insist upon
having the convention leftover as •
nucleus for the national purse.
But, we can't do that, you know,
said the New Yorkers, and we will
tell you the reason why. We lidn’t
undertake to go after the conven
tion simply because New York is the
greatest Democratic city in the
world. We want the convention not
for any political advance or signifi
cance, but as a matter of civic pride.
We want the people of the country
to come to New York and like our
city. We will show them a grand
time. So we made the convention
committee strictly a non-partisan af
fair. We put Will Hays on it and
he has been a fine worker. Now,
Will was the chairman of the Re
publican national - committee four
years ago. Do you think that Will
and the other distinguished Repub
lican members of the committee
wo'dd agree to turn over any of the
funds they raised to the war chest
of the' Democracy: to finance its
fight on the G. O. t*.? Do you think
so? We think not. As a matter ©i
fact, we think nay. You must re
j member, you Democrats that Will
i left quite a little deficit when he
left the Republican national commit
tee. We don’t mean merely a deficit
of personality, but a deficit of spon
dulacs as well. So if there should
be any leftover in the New York
fund, Will might feel peeved if the
.Democrats got it all and the G- O. P.
got left.
Money Is Needed
Well, say the Democratic leaders,
we didn’t want to go to New York,
anyhow. If you birds of the metrop
olis really want a Democratic con
vention you had better organize a
I Democratic committee next time
i And put practical men on it, not
I idealists. Remember the Republican
! slogan of 1920: “Boys, get the
money.” That’s what we’ve gotta
get this year and the city that hangs
up the best purse will be our selec
tion. You New Yorkers are too
close to Tammany hall. It looks oad
to the rest cf the country. You let
Charley Murphy and Tommy Tag
gart and Georgie Brennan go out to
French Springs and hold the
1924 convention all in advance.
That’s the impression the country
got, anyway. So, to send the big
convention into the lair of Tammany
would be bad politics. AVe will one*
more take the advice of Horace
Greeley and go west.
"What do you mean, we held a
convention in French Lick.” says the
Hon. Thomas Taggart. ‘ That is the
worst drivel ever written in the
newspapers. Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bren
nan and I meet at French Lick at
least once a year, often twice. Mr.
Brennan could be with us but a few
days this fall. He had to hurry back
to Chicago to attend a funeral.
“We talked politics, of course.
Who doesn’t? But politics was in
cidental. Golt was supreme. The
stories that we vetoed certain candi
dates and wrote the Democratic plat
form is the purest rot.
“In the first place, there are niany
points of disagreement among K the
three of us. This is particularly true
as between Mr. Murphy and myself.
Mr. Murphy is I am a dry.
Mr. Murphy thinks there should be
a, Volstead modification plank in the
Democratic platform. I do not
think so, and 1 do not believe there
will be one. The country.is dry. In
diana is dry—was dry before Mr.
Volstead’s act was ever written on
the statute books, and so far as I
can see, Indiana is going to staj' dry
until doom’s day.
“The story that we discussed Mr.
McAdoo and entered into a league to
defeat him is not true. We did noi
mention Mr. McAdoo’s name, or the
name of any other candidate. We
i Democrats are out to win next year
! and we are going to try to pick a
candidate we can win with. It is
ridiculous to say at this time who
that man shall or shall not be.
“Personally, I am for Senator
j Ralston for the nomination,” con
tinued Mr. Taggart. “The Indiana
delegation will be for Mr. Ralston,
and I will be with the delegation. We
will stick with the senator so long
as we believe he has a chance, and
I think that chance is growing day
by day.
'’Now.” concluded Mr. Taggart. "1
have told you more politics than was
talked by the three of us at French
Lick.”
So that’s that. -. ...
MILWAUKEE MAN
SLAYS BIS WIFE
AMO JUDES CORPSE
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. B—E.
Ray Tompkins, White Fish Bay Real
Estate man, and former member of
the faculty of the Malwaukee Normal
school for twelve years, tonight was
in the county jail formally charged
with first degree murder in connec
tion with the death of his wife.
Mrs. Tompkins aisappea/ed Thurs
day, after sending their two children,
Dorothy, ten years old and Robert,
seven years old, to school in the
tporning.
Shortly after 9 a. m., today, Tomp
kins, accompanied officials to a wood
ed glen known as “Lion’s Den” near
Dongas Bay eleven miles from Mil
waukee, where the nude headless
body of a woman, later identified as
his wife, was found. Aiding the
sheriff’s men in uncovering the body,
which was covered by muck, leaves,
and stones, in a well-hidden spot,
Tompkins turned to Sheriff Phil
Westfhal and said in a choking
voice: “Who could have done this
thing? Find the guilty one.”
Three hours later, according to an
announcement by George A. Shaugh
nessy, Tompkins’ iron nerve broke
and he confessed to strangling his
wife into unconsciousness, placing
her body in a bath tub, where he re
moved her head under a tap of run-,
ning water.
Details leading up to the slaying
of the woman, according to the coun
ty attorney dates back considerable
time, beginning about three years
ago, when an apartment house,
which Tompkins owned and in which
he made his home, was under con
struction.
He suffered a breakdown and was
'.ken by his wife to pis home in
Bloomington. 111., and later visited
his wife’s parents at Clinton, Ind.
Wpile there he showed indications of
mental disorder, and returning here,
was placed under the observation of
Dr. F. C. Studley, who declared him
a paranoia.-..
Woman in Case
Another woman, whose name the
authorities have not revaled. is said
to have brought about conditions in
his pome which resulted in the at
tack on Mrs. Tompkins.
Recently the home life of the Tomp
kins had been such that Tompkins
lived in a room in a garage at the
rear of his apartment house. Mrs.
Tompkins came into possession of in
formation involving her husband
with another woman, and pre-divorce
settlement wag to have been arrang
ed the day she disappeared. She
was, to have received $175 a month
and a share in income derived from
the apartment house.
In her distress over the condition
of affairs at her home. Mrs Tomp
kins addressed a letter to h«
father, in which she detailed her.
troubles and told of her husband’s
infidelity, declaring she would place
charges' against him unless he di
vided his property- with her and con
rented to a separation.
In his confession, as related by
the district attorney, Tompkins said
he came into possession of the letter
before his wife posted it. He went
to the apartment Thursday morning
after the children had left for school
and confronted her with it. After a
"stromy few moments, he declared
his wife said: “You are only good
for tending furnaces.” •
This taunt enraged him;, and he
caught her by the throat, chokihg
her into unconsciousness. He car
ried her to the bathroom! where he
placed hor in the tub, turned on the
water and went to the kitchen,
where he procured a. large butcher
knife, with which he removed her
head. This .he carried to the base
ment and placed in the furnace.
Body Found
Later in the day he placed the
body in a trunk, carried the trunk
and its contents to the garage,
where he loaded it into his machine,
and at his convenience drove to the
spot where he hid the evidence of
his act.
The first intimation which came
to the authorities that Mrs. Tomp
kins was not at her home, was the
result of a telephone message from
her daughter to an aunt, inquiring
where her mother might be found,
explaining that' she had not been
home since! Thursday morning and
that her father had not said where
she had gone. The child added that
with her brother she had taken
lunch with her father on'Thursday
and that they had dinner away from
tome that evening. The child re
fused to go to school when her
mother did not come home Friday
morning.
This information- conveyed to tho
police, started the search for Mrs.
Tompkins, which was fruitless, un
til J. F. Danges, owner of an estate
on which the body was found, called
and advised that Tompkins had
talked with him regarding the loca
tion of the home of his caretaker
end that later an automobile an
swering the description of one
owned by Tompkins had been driven
to Lion’s Den. The marks in the
soft earth were the imprints of a
tire carrying the same tread as
those on Tompkins’ machine.
Pioneer University
Athlete Will Marry
At Age of 77 Years
ATHENS, 'Ga., De<;. 8. —Captain
J. H. Rucker, head of the Univer
sity of Georgia’s first baseball team
after twenty-seven single
ness, is going to marry Mrs. Vir
ginia Phela n, of Waycross, next
Tuesday.
Captain Rucker is a unique figure.
He is a former mayor and repre
sents the Third ward in council now.
Captain Rucker’s friends have
honored him by establishing a schol
arship at the university known as
the "Jeptha H. Rucker scholarship.”
He has missed but few of th© ath
letic gfames at the university.
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FAILURE ID RECEIVE
COMMITTEE PLACES
AROUSES LEADERS
Open Threats Made.to Block
Appointments on Floor of
House Minority Revolt
Looms in G. 0, P,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—An open
threat of a fight on the floor of the
house against what was character,
ized as the "stacking” of hquse com- /
mittees by the Republican? commit
tee' on committees wts made
by Representative Nelson, of Wis
consin, leader of the Republican in
surgents, who for two days blocked
the election of Speaker Gillett.
Failure of the insurgents to obtain
more places on the important com
mittees led to a forecast of another
revolt against majority organization
leaders. Mr. Nelson expressed sur
prise and indignation over the treat
ment which he said had been ac
corded his group in the makeup of
the Republican committee slates,
and said the pght would be taken
to the house when the selections
made by .the Republicans were pre
sented for ratification, perhaps next
week.
Republican insurgents in the sen
ate reiterated today that the extent
to which they would press a re
organization row in the senate
would be determined largely by how
they fared hi committee assign
ments. Their course of action still
is undecided pending announcement
of the results of th© work of the
ther sessions will be held tomorrow
majority committee on committees
This committee had two more ses
sions today, but members said its
work was far from completed. Fur
with the hope of having the
whole slate completed in time
for action by ' the Republican
party conference called for Monday
-forenoon. The Democratic steering
committee also will continue its
meetings tomorrow with a view to
having its committee assignments
ready for senate action Monday.
Conciliation Fails
Efforts to composed differences
with respect to assignments to the
three vacancies on the foreign rela
tions committee were unavailing
again today and the committee
turned to assignments for other
committees with tentative agree
ments reached in several cases.
While there was no formal an
nouncement, some committeemen
said Senators Gooding, of Idaho’
Couzens, of Michigan; Howell, df
i Nebraska and Fess, of Ohio, hid
j been selected tentatively to fill the
| vacancies on the interstate com
merce-committee, which deals with
railroad legislation. The insurgent?
are interested particularly in the
makeup of this committee and some
of today’s selections were regarded
by some Republican leaders as in
the nature of concessions to them.
For the four vacancies on the Fi
nance committee these tentative se
lections were reported to have been
made: Elkins, West Virginia;, Mc-
Cormick, Illinois; Stanfield, Oregon,
and Ernst, Kentucky.
There were reports, which were
unconfirmed, that the Democrats
had decided to place Senators Rob
inson, of Arkansas;, Walsh, of Mon
tana, and Underwood, of Alabama.,
three of the four Democratic vacan
cies on the Foreign Relations com
mittee.
None Selected
Mr. Nelson, discussing the house
committee situation, declared hi”
group had been particularly anxious
to have places given Woodruff, of
Michigan, on the ways and means
committee; Beck, of Wisconsin, on
commerce committee, and, LaGuar
dia, of New York, on the judiciary
committee. None wa-s selected. All
three have been active in the in
surgent mbvament.
Members of the insurgent group
Who were members of the last con-,
gress have retained the committee
assignments they held then. Little
recognition thus far, however, ha”
been accorded new members allied
with the insurgent bloc although
Peavey, of Wisconsin, was placed
on the rivers and harbors com- l
mittee.
The Republican committee on
committees continued its work of
making house committee assign
ments today, but failed to take ac
tion on the rules committee or to z
designate the seven members of the
steering committee seats, Repre
sentatives Tinker, of Kansas, and
Dickerman, of lowa, both being
urged for the place that will go to a
member from the western farmipg
region. . '
The Democratic members of the
ways and means committee who will
assign Democrats to various house «
committees, held a meeting today,
but did not complete their work. It
was doubtful tonight whether either
the Republicans or Democrats would
be ready when the house reconvene*
Monday to present their committee
slates for approval.
Republican leaders, in view of this
situation, plan to suggest another
recess,
Anti-Ku Klux Leaders
Meet m Oklahoma to •
. Plan Political Fight
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Dec. 8.
More than 100 anti-Ku Klux Klan
delegates from all parts of the state
are here ;today., for a meeting at
which it is planned to complete amal
gamation of th© organizations they
represent for a. concerted political
campaign against the klan in Okla
homa.
The i ’ove was initiated last week
at Durant in a two-day convention
of five subdivisions of the Oklafioma
Anti-Klan association. At that time
officers were chosen and a board of
trustees, composed of’one representa
tive from each of the nine judicial
districts in the state, was named.
After organization arrangements
have been perfected, a program of
education will be promulgated, and
plans will .be made to launch a state
wide membership campaign, one of
the trustees said. Political action
then is expected to follow.