Newspaper Page Text
LOOK AT EXPIRATION DATE. IF IT READS “16 J AN. 24” YOUR TIME IS OUT/AND PAPER MUST STOP. IF “1 FEB. 24” RENEW NOW.
Atlanta ©rMffletWa So uvnal
VOL. XXV. NO. 206
MRS. HUGHES FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
AND DOOMED TO DIE
Hanging Automatically Be
< comes Penalty When Jury
y Attaches No Recommen
elation to Its Verdict
Mrs. Ida. Hughes was found guil
ty Thursday night of murder in the
first degree for slaying of her moth
er-in-law. Mrs. M. C. Hughes. The.
jury had deliberated three hours.
The verdict automatically carries
the death penalty, as the jury made
no recommendation for mercy to
the court.
Mrs. Hughes was not apprised of
the outcome of her case until Fri
day morning, when sentence was
.imposed by Judge G. H. Howard,
before -whom she had been on trial
since Wednesday morning.
Frank Hughes, her husband, who
was jointly indicted in connection
with his aged mother’s death at the
hands of his wife Sunday afternoon,
December 30, was present at the
reading, s He trembled noticeably
and his face assumed a ghastly pal
lor as he read in silence after As
sistant Solicitor E. A. Stephens the
decision that, if carried out, will
eend his wife to die on the gallows
for the murder of his mother.
According to Solicitor John A.
Boykin, Frank Hughes will be
brought to trial immediately for his
part in the slaying of Mrs. M. C.
Hughes.
Mrs. Hughes is the fifth white
woman in the history of Georgia
to receive the verdict of death on
the scaffold.
Should the sentence be carried
into execution, she will be the third
white woman in criminal annals of
the state to pay the supreme pen
alty for murder.
Os the four women who have been
condemned to death, two have been
/ convicted and sentenced in Fulton
superior courts within the past two
years. Prior to that time, no white
Woman in Georgia had incurred the
death penalty since 'days prior to the
Civil war. ,
Endless Line Passes
Lenine’s Bier for Last
Look at Red Chieftain
MOSCOW, Jan. 24.—1 n the great
banqueting hall of what was once
the Nobles’ club, rendezvous of Rus
sia’s blue blood, the body of Nikolai
Lenine reposed in a simple coffin
upon an humble couch today while
his comrades of the revolution paid
him last honors as they passed slow
ly in single file.
The face of the dead premier was
calm and waxen and in the play of
brilliant lights it seemed to wear an
expectant look.
Soldiers of the red army, with
fixed bayonets, stood at rigid atten
tion or kept order with hushed
voices.
The line of mourners seemed end
less. Scores of thousturfs stood in
the bitter cold and snow. It was 20
degrees below zero during the-pight.
The line extended six deep for fifteen
blocks from the Hall of Columns and
grew constantly as thousands more
joined in the hope of a last look at
{Lenine.
A the hall the mourners shuf
-e forward silently, many weeping.
Commissars took turns in the death
watch; that of Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin came at 3:45 a. m.
Teaching of Evolution
* Will Be Barred by Law,
Bryan Tells Kentuckians
FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 24.—The
“monkey” skeleton in Kentucky’s
legislative closet was rattled today
by echoes from a verbal attack by
William Jennings Bryan on the the
ory of organic evolution.
Mr. Bryan, in a banquet speech
here last night, digressed from a
discussion of the national political
campaign to say:
“Some day there is going to be
« legislature which will pass a law
that no teacher, paid by taxation,
ever shall rob a student of his be
lief in Christ and the Bible . . .
and teach the hypothesis of evolu
tion, linking men in blOoj relation
ship with animals.”
Many of the present legislators
, Were Mr. Bryan’s auditors.
U. S. to Withdraw
All Warships From
Waters of Tampico
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. —Orders
for the withdrawal of the American
cruiser Richmond from Tampico.
Mexico, were dispatched Thursday by
the navy department, and it was
announced that as soon as salvage
■work on the wrecked cruiser Ta
coma is completed the cruiser Omaha
ami six American destro>ers at Vera
Cruz also will be recalled from those
waters.
■ Decision to withdraw the Rich
mond was reached at the state de
partment after advices were received
from Consul Wood at Vera. Cruz say
ing that the Mexican rebel leaders
. had "definitely and absolutely” aban
doned the proposed blockade of Tam
pico.
Bride Is Arrested
At Columbus, Ga., on
Bad Check Charges
COLUMBUS, Ga.. Jan. 24.—Mrs.
Catherine race, recent bride of ait
* enlisted Benning soldier, arrested
here on charges of passing worth
less checks at an Atlanta store, left
for Atlanta Wednesday afternoon to
face the charges Thursday.
Detectives say three checks were
given, amounting to S3OO, all being
Ji twn on the Fust National Bank
of Columbus, at which place it is re
ported there are “n otunds” to the*
* credit ex’ Mrs, Face.
Published Every Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
NEW YORK. —Frank A. Munsey
has bought the New York Evening
Mail and will consolidate it with the
Evening Telegram.
MOSCOW. —Immense crowds in
bitter cold pay tribute to Lenine on
arrival of body at Moscow, where it
lies in state.
NEW YORK. —Preliminary prepar
ations are made to greet and enter
tain delegates to Democratic na
tional convention.
PARlS.—Harry F. Sinclair, Amer
ican oil promoter, arrives in Paris
and states he had not changed plans
for bis European trip.
FRANKFORT, Ky.—William Jen
nings Bryan in a speech declares
Democratic party enters campaign
with proixrse of victory.
EL PASO. —Obregon is cut off
from Mexico City by flanking move
ment of rebel cavalry, dispatch quot
ing insurgent authority declares.
MOSCOW. Petrograd, renamed
from St. Petersburg during World
war, has been renamed Leninegrad,
in honor of dead premier, Nicolai
Lenine.
ST. LOUlS.—Cletus Moore, infant
from whose lung tack was removed
in Philadelphia four days previous,
is returned, fully recovered, to par
ents.
NEW YORK. —President and Mrs.
Coolidge will attend Lincoln birth
day celebration dinner of National
Republican club on February 12, it
is announced.
MARION, C).—Mrs. Warren G.
Harding is to be associate editor of
the Marion Star and will -write over
her own signature for that news
paper.
SANTIAGO, CHILE,—The cabi
net recently formed by Pedro
Aguirre Cerda, former attache of
the Chilean embassy at Washington,
resigns.
MONTGOMERY. Relations be
tween races in Alabama improved in
1923 which had no lynchings in the
state, an inter-racial conference
says.
NEW YORK.—Edward L. Doheny,
on his way to Washington to appear
before senate committee investigat
ing oil leases, said; “I will have noth
ing to do with Sinclair.”
LONDON. —Prince of Wales re
veals keen interest in Great Britain's
first labor government; Prime Minis
ter MacDonald expects his associates
to report for duty jm time.
COLON. —Panama Canal is at
present open to aircraft bombard
ment and enemy naval raids, accord
ing to report of umpires of recent
maneuvers of American navy.
PARKERSBURG.—FederaI court
directs verdict of not guilty in har
ness conspiracy case against E. C.
Morse and four officers of the
United States Harness company.
NASHVILLE.—WiIIiam Jennings
Bryan asserts that pilots of Re
publican party, including President
Coolidge and Secretary Mellon, are
sympathetic with wealthier classes.
MO SCO W.—Fren ch communists
ask that Lenine’s funeral be post
poned until Paris delegation reaches
.Moscow and the Petrograd Soviet
suggests that city be renamed
Leninegrad.
WASHINGTON—Edward L. Do
heny, in further explanation of his
SIOO,OOO loan in cash to Albert B.
Fall, asserts: "He was an old friend;
I advanced him the money out of
my plenty.”
LONDON. —Full diplomatic rela
tions with soviet Russia will be in
stituted by new labor government
and James O'Grady, former member
of parliament, has accepted ambas
sadorship to Russia.
Washington. President
Coolidge, at conference with Attor
ney General Daugherty, agrees
ttpon Franklin E. Kennamer as ad
ditional federal judge for the dis
trict of Oklahoma.
INDIANAPOLIS. —Insurgent dele
gates at United Mine Workers’ con
vention in Indianapolis leave conven
tion hall as protest against their
failure to reinstate deposed district
official in Nova. Scotia’.
NEW YORK.—Secretary Hughes
declares policy of Coolidge adminis
tration iu dealing with Mexican revo
lution is “greatest contribution di
rectly within our power to cause of
world peace.”
BTRMINGH.AAL~ATa.-M illiam G.
McAdoo. Democratic presidential
nomination candidate, defines him
self in favor of acceptance of Henyy
Ford's offer so- Muscle Shoals, in
[ letter to Birmingham editor. i
NEW YORK.—William H. Ander
son testifies that’ a comparative
stranger, whom he only knew as
John T. King, gave him about $25.-
000 which he declares he loaned to
the Anti-Saloon league of New York.
IVAS H TNGTON —Albert B. F ill
reaches Washington from New Or
leans, goes to the home of J. W.
Zevely. counsel to Harry F. Sin
clair; Fall declines to make any
statement and says: “I am a sick
man."
WASHINGTON. —Granting a loan
ito Germany from funds heid by
alien property custodian accruing
from German property seized during
war is proposed at a meeting of
southern senators and representa
tives.
WAS HIN G TON. —S ena to r Walsh.
Montana, asserts that he believes At
[ torney General Daugherty will be
glad to have his department relieved
[of Teapot Dome prosecution because
i <>f his long friendship for Albert E
I Fall.
GflS PRICE INQUIRY
OPENED BL NAPIER
Illi WAKE OF RAISE
\
Attorney General Also to In
vestigate Charges of Dis
crimination by Local Fuel
Distributors
/
Attorney General George M.
Napier, Thursday started an invest!
gation into the two recent increases
of two cents each in the retail price
per gallon of gasoline in Atlanta and
other cities of Georgia. He was also
investigating complaints of dis
crimination in the prices made to
filling stations by certain local dis
tributors of gas.
“I am making an investigation of
the price of crude oil, to ascertain
whether the fluctuations in that
commodity authorize the advances
in the charge for gasoline, as the
distributors claim,” the attorney
general stated. “At the present time
I have no definite information along
that line, but I expect to know with
in the next few days if there is
foundation for the rapid raises.”
Attorney General Napier started
an investigation of gasoline prices
several months ago, and his activity
was followed by two reductions in
the price of gasoline in Georgia. He
later attended a national conference
of attorneys general on the gasoline
s ibject, and has taken part in a
ration-wide crusade to prevent ex
cessive charges for the product so
generally used at the present time.
“A delegation of Cobb county citi
zens visited me Wednesday and com
plained that Atlanta distributors
raise the price of gasoline four cents
per gallon when they cross the Ros
well bridge,” Attorney General Na
pier declared.
“In other words, the people of
Cobb county pay four cents more for
gasoline in Roswell, at the other end
of the bridge, th„n the people of
Fulton county pay at the nearest
filling station to this end of the
bridge. I can not understand the
justice of such an increase in price’
for so short an additional haul, by
the same truck that supplies Ful
ton county stations, and I am look
ing into the complaint very care
fully.”
The attorney general added that
he has not yet verified the complaint,
but it came from reputable citizens
and the indications are that it is
well founded.
Tacoma Klan Official,
Formerly of Atlanta,
Mysteriously Missing
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 24.—Mys
tery surrounds the supposed disap
pearance of B. W. Butler, thirty-two
years old, reported to be the secre
tary of the Tacoma organization of
the Ku Klux Klan, who has been
missing for about a week, accord
ing to members of the organization.
Detectives in the employ of the Ku
Klux Klan’s northwest organization
are said to have been in Tacoma for
the past week investigating the case.
Butler is said to have come to
Tacoma from Atlanta.
H. K. Ramsey, imperial kligrapp
of the Ku Klux Klan, stated Thurs
day that there was no record at the
imperial palace of B. W. Butler.
3-Inch Nail Taken
From Child’s Lung
MACON, Ga.. Jan. 24.—A wire
nail nearly three inches long after
being in the lungs of Johnny Frank
Singletary, S years old, for nine
months, was removed by doctors at
a local hospital Wednesday. The X
ray picture showed that the nail laid
head downward, from the fourth to
the seventh rib, in the lower right
lobe. The operation required two and
a half minutes.
The child is the litlte son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Singletary, of Cairo,
Ga. According to the father, who
was at the bedside of the boy, they
were riding in a wagon nine months
ago, when the child sucked a nail
that he had in his mouth into the
windpipe. The boy had been having
fever, at intervals, the parents re
ported.
A bronfhoscope was used in the
removal of the nail. In the after
noon the child took nourishment as
though nothing had happened.
lowa Physician Makes
Startling Offer to
Catarrh Sufferers
Found Treatment Which Heal
ed His Own Catarrh and
Now Offers to Send It
Free to Sufferers
Anywhere
Davenport, lowa. Dr. W. O.
Coffee, Suite 784, St. James Hotel
Zldg., this city, one of the most
widely known physicians and sur
geons in the central west, announces
That he found a treatment which
completely healed him of catarrh in
the head and nose, deafness and
head noises after many years of
suffering. He then gave the treat
ment to a number of other sufferers
and they state that they also were
completely healed. The doctor is so
proud of his achievement and so
confident that his treatment will
bring other sufferers the same free
dom it gave him, that he is offering
to send a 10 days’ supply absolutely
free to reader of this paper who
writes him. Dr. Coffee has special
ized on eye, ear. nose and throat
diseases for mere than thirty-five
years, and is honored and respected
by countless thousands. If you suf
fer from nose, head or throat ca
tarrh. catarrhal deafness or head
noises. send h'.m your n im» yivl ad
dress today.—(Advertisement.) _
- ■ •*
ITOLBERT BRANDED I
! PATRONAGE SELLER
I ON HOUSE FLOOR
Congressman Stevenson Re- i
news Attack on S. C. Com-!
' mitteeman —Says He Was
Convicted of Stamp Theft
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Renew
ing his attack on Joseph W. Tolbert,
Republican national committeeman
for South Carolina, Representative
Stevenson, Democrat, South Caro
lina, charged Thursday in the house
that Tolbert resigned recently as
marshal for the Western Southern
Carolina district, after he had been
informed certain federal appoint
ments, favored by him, would be
made.
The house also was told by Repre
sentative Stevenson tU a t Tolbert suc
ceeded in having the size of the Re
publican delegation increased to
eleven members and in return pledg
ed his support to President Coolidge.
As proof of his charge that Tol
bert at one time had been convicted |
of crime, the South Carolina repre-,
sentative produced what he said was [
a copy of an indictment which show- ,
ed that in 1894 Tolbert, while post- i
master at Ninety-Six, had been
charged with paying an sll debt |
with stamped envelopes. He_wasl
tried, found guilty and fined SSO in I
federal court, Stevenson said.
Representative Stevenson reiter
ated his charges that Tolbert was a
patronage seller and read from a
dozen or more affidavits proving, he
said, “defiance of the civil service
law that is comparable only to Tea
pot Dome.” I
“You can talk about SIOO,OOO
bribes in the Teapot Dome, deal,”
said Mr. Stevenson. “If this man
had been secretary of the interior
that SIOO,OOO wouAd be invested in
South Carolina.” _
Crisp County Sheriff
Denies Ku Klux Angle
In Shooting Affray
CORDELE, Ga., Jan. 24.—Negroes
living in the vicinity of where a
posse is now in search of Oscar
Clark, negro, who killed one man;
and wounded four others when they
attempted to arrest him yesterday
at his home, today were appealing
for protection, and their safety was
assured by Crisp county officers.
Spirited -denial that the Ku Klux
i Klan had anything to do with es- (
forts to arrests Clark was made to-1
I day by Sheriff Noble and friends of
the dead and wounded men here.
There is no klan organization in this
county and never has been, Sheriff
Noble stated.
The five white men had gone to
I the negro’s home'to arrest him after
| he was charged with having made
I threats against the life of a white
man. who was said to have repri
manded Clark’s son.
Edward Barber, a farmer, was in
stantly killed when the negro open
ed fire with a shotgun. " Carl Wil
liams, a dentist, is now in a critical
condition at a local hospital froml
wounds he received. The three other
men m party were wounded slightly.
There was no evidence of any out
break against other negroes as the
result of the battle, county authori
| ties declared.
Sound of Heart Beat
Transmitted Across
Continent by Radio
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—A heart [
I beat, almost inaudible at close range, |
i has been transmitted 2,500 miles I
across the continent and heard dis- -
tinctly.
Morgan L. Eastman, director of
radio station KYW, Chicago, placed
the micraphone of the transmitting
set to his chest, sending the record
of his heart beat over the ether. At
the same time he broadcast a re
quest that all who heard it write
him a letter. That was more than
one week ago.
Today Eastman announced he had
received letters from all parts of i
the country, telling of hearing his
heart throb.
The letters came from Portland, i
Maine; Santa Monica, Cal.; Saska- :
toon and Quebec.
Train Halts as Crew
Rescues Bov Skater
Who Fell Through Ice
LEBANON JUNCTION. Ky.. Jan.
24.—W. R. Stark, Lousiville and
Nashville railroad engineer, stopped
his train at Pottinger creek, near
Gethsemane and led members of the
crew to the rescue of Jesse Brown,
12. who was in danger of drowning
after ice on which he had been skat
ing had broken. The trainmen .
brought the boy to safety and then I
made a 20-mile run to this place in
their icy-wet clothes.
The Weather
WEATHER WEEKLY
Forecast for Saturday:
Virginia: Generally fair, much
' colder.
North and South Carolina: Gen
: erally fair, colder; much colder Sat
, u.d.iy night.
Georgia: Generally fair; mu~h
colder by Saturday night.
Florida: Colder in north portion.
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala-
. bama: Fair, much colder,
j Mississippi: Fair, much colder.
! Tennessee: Fair, much colder; cold
j wave in west portion.
Kentucky: Generally fair; much
i colder.
Louisiana: Fair, colder.
Arkansas: Fair, colder except in
,; northwest portion.
Oklahoma and west Texas; Fair,
i colder.
East Texas; Fair, c i Dr in scuta
east portion.
... i
BY GOLLY! THIS IS GETTING EXCITING |
/ looks
I • CAL BAP him )
/ WHdse'Move )
I IS it HOW ? ) 'fiL-A
\
N \ \ \ \ /
’■ N .\ \\A\
I Fgou. H.N v- \ \\\
w\- p?;/® A
Bib
nV//- p-WT
Hr /’/ I
i tJ / / /
PRIVATE SHIP SALE
TO OBREGON PARTY
fflomoms.
>
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. -Al
though no legal barrier exists against
- the sale to Mexico by private citi
zens of war vessels disposed of by
’ the United States government prior
1 to the Washington arms conference,
the Obregon representatives in this
: country are expected to drop nego
( tiations for such purchases because
I of the feeling of administration of
ficials that the transactions would
violate the spirit if not the letter
of American treaty obligations.
One of the most troublesome points
in the Mexican situation was cleared
away yesterday when Consul Wood,
at Vera Cruz, reported that the
rebel leader, Adolfo de la Huerta
had ordered the removal of all mines
and obstructions from the harbors
of Frontera, Puerta Mexico and
Vera Cruz as a result of the Ameri
can protest. Withdrawal of Ameri
can naval craft from the vicinity of
Tampico is expected shortly if the
lifting of the rebel blockade there
is found to be permanent.
SALINA CRUZ CAPTURE
GIVES REBELS COAST
VERA CRUZ, Jan. 22.—(8y Radio
via Dallas, by the Associated Press.)
The capture of Salina Cruz has
given the rebels complete control of
the Pacific coast from the state of
Jalisco southward. The forces which
attacked Salina Cruz have com
menced a movement against Santa
Lucrecia and have been reinforced
between this town and Sangeronino
[and will attack Santa Lucrecia, an
■ important railway trunk line station
| yet in the hands of an Obregon gar
rison.
LSO REVOLUTIONISTS DIE
IN OIL FIELD FIGHTING
TAMPICO, Jan. 24.—Federal
forces engaged in driving rebel
bands out of the oil district have
taken the town of Ozuluama, in the
Huasteca region. Rebels yesterday
took possession of Linares, between
Monterrey and Ciudad Victoria, but
the federal column sent from Monter
rey regained the town. More than
fifty revolutionists were killed in
I the engagement.
REBELS CLAIM CAPTURE
OF TOWNS ON RAILROAD
• DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 24.—An of
ficial communication broadcast from
IDe La Huerta rebel headquarters
I at Vera Cruz and x>ieked up by the
[ radio station of the Dallas News
last night asserted that a rebel en
velopment movement had resulted in
[ occupation of a number of towns
straddling the main lines of com
munication from Mexico City to the
north and had resulted in President |
Obregon ordering suspension of train ;
service from Laredo and El Paso,
Tex., to Mexico Citv.
FOUR YESSELS PURCHASED
IN AMEKH A, SAYS PAPER
NEW ORLEANS, Ua., Jan. 24
’ Four units of war have been ac-!
quired by the Obregon government j
in the L’nited States, according to ■
[an article printed in the Excelsior.]
a Spanish language newspaper of,
Mexico Cijy under date of January !
IS, which reached here today.
OBREGON IS FORCED BACK
ON JOURNEY TO CELAYA
EL PASO, Texas., Jan. 24.—Presi- I
dent Aivaro Obregon was forced to ■
return to Aguas Calientes yesterday ;
wnen he attempted a trip to Celaya i
and now is gathering his forces in !
an attempt to cut through rebel!
troops holding Celaya, an important ‘
laiiway junction, advices received
in Juarez today state.
Joint Congressional
Session Will Honor
Memory of Harding
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—A joint
congressional session is planned for
Wednesday. February 27, as a me
morial service for President Harding.
A resolution adopted by the house
provides That Secretary Hughes be
required to deliver th® princiii.il ad
that former Presidents Taft
iand l\4Lspn, the supreme court ju,s
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, January 26, 1924
1
Rochester Home Brew
Is Losing Its Kick as
City Medicates Water
ROCHESTER. N. Y., Jan. 24.
j The home brew industry in Roches
; ter is imperilled by the wholesale
| dosing with iodine of the city water
j supply in an attempt to prevent goi
ter, according to statements of many
householders who say they find it
: impossible to obtain a satisfactory
. “head” on the product of their la
bors.
A proper "head” on beer is said
to be indicative of “lively” quality.
Effect of the iodine' upon yeast in
i process of fermentation is cited as
‘ the couse of the situation.
Inasmuch as the health authori
ties are convinced that dosing the
water with iodine is an effective
method of stamping out goiter, home
brewers are seeking ways to over
come the difficulty.
Lancaster, on Stand,
Denies All Charges
In Lynching Case
HAMILTON, Ala., Jan. 24.—Denial
of all accusations by the state and
witnesses for the state was today
made by Robert J. Lancaster on
trial here on a charge of participat
ing, with seven other formal na
tional guardsmen, in the lynching
of William Baird, a miner, near Jas
per, in 1921, during a strike in the
Alabama coal fields.
Lancaster was on the witness
stand for nearly two hours. He an
swered questions without hesitation.
Embraced in bis statement was a '
sweeping denial of the testimony of j
B. Hartley, mechanic of Lancaster’s i
company, that members of the com- [
mand plotted to make a trip to Jas
per. The defendant also denied the
testimony of witnesses who said that
Lancaster had talked of the lynch
ing.
Searching questions by the state
did not shake Lancaster’s statement j
in the main. He admitted, however, [
that with others he visited the Jas- I
per jail, where Baird was in prison ’
“a week or ten days” before the |
lynching. He said lhe guardsmen ■
visited the jail on that occasion !
merely through curiosity. The state I
previously had attempted to prove ;
that a group of guardsmen visited [
the jail a few days before the lynch- 1
ing.
It is expected that the case will
reach the jury late today or early
t o m o r row.
Mr. W. Banks Dove,
Secretary of State
In S. Carolina, Dead
COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 24.—Mr. ]
W. Banks Dove, 54, secretary of i
[ state for South. Carolina since 1916, i
j died at his home here late last night I
; after a lingering illness covering
i several months.
• He was a member of the First [
[ Presbyterian church and affiliated ;
: with the Masonic order, Knights of i ;
I Pythias, Junior Order of United
i American Mechanics and St. An- .
I drews society. Surviving him are '
i his widow, two sons, one daughter,
I a sister and four brothers.
Sheriff Found Dead;
Suicide Indicated
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jan. 24.
John A. Lyerly, sheriff of Buncombe
i county, died at a local hospital ;
i early today from effects of a pistol '
bullet fired into hi- brain yesterday ,
afternoon, alleged by police to have
been self-inflicted.
The sheriff had been despondent
over ill health and because of the
death of l.is wife last August. Mo
torcycle policemen found him lying
in the county garage at the rear of
the courthouse, a pistol in his hand
. and bleedinsr from his right temple
tices, memfiers of the cabinet and I
governors of the various states be !
invited to attend,
- .. .4’
GARNER POKES FUN
IT 'CAL' ANO ‘ANDY'
IN DEBATE ON TAX
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24—The Mel
lon. tax plan for the first time was
debated today on the floor of both
the senate and house.
Representative Garner, Democrat,
of Texas, who is endeavoring to sub
stitute a measure for the treasury
bill, engaged in an exchange in the
house with Representative Mills, a
Republican member of the house
ways and means committee, who
made a 40-minute prepared speech
for the Mellon plan.
In the senate the Garner plan
was presented by Senator Jones,
] Democrat, of New Mexico, who fur
; niched tables to show its effects
I upon various classes of taxpayers.
"The great secretary says the Gar
ner plan is insincere,” said Senator
Jones, “apparently because of the im
portance given to small incomes. Mr.
Mellon probably has so long dealt
with large incomes that he cannot
see the other.”
Representative Mills declared the
reduction of surtax was vital to pros
perity of the naticn, and asserted
the Democratic plan on surtaxes
would limit tax reduction to the
small income taxpayers at the ex
pense of the entire population.
Mr. Garner poked fun at President
Coolidge, Secretary Mellon and va
rious Republican leaders.
“Uncle Andy sent a bill to the
house,” he declared, “with word ,0
| the Republican leaders ‘here’s lhe
bill. You mustn’t touch it.’ And
I Cal said: ‘Me, too.’
“You’ve got what the presi
dent tells you to do in this congress,”
continued Mr. Garner, addressing his
remarks to the Republicans. "If you
don’t stand by Uncle Andy you won’t
have enough money to run the cam
paign in one county in l’ n nsylvania.
He’s boss now.”
i.' Mr. Garner predicted that Presi
l dent Coolidge would sign any tax
I reduction bill passed by congress, r®-
: gardless of his ; tand against basic
‘ changes In the Mellon draft.
Doug’s First Spouse
Quits Second Hubby
For Sake of Doug, Jr.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 24.
Hollywood gossipers had two busted
romances to discuss today. •
Mrs. Beth Sully Evans, first wife
of Douglas Fairbanks, announced
she was leaving her husband, James
Evans, Jr., to devote her life to the
screen future of her son, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr.
Evelyn Kenyon at the same time,
file suit for divorce from her hus
band, Albert G. Kenyon, scenario
writer, naming Rose Marie Cooper,
film ac‘: s as the other woman.
Mrs. Kenyon accused her husband
of lavishing his money and affections
on Miss Oboper. He kissed the
screen sKr in the presence of others,
she complained.
R. H. Sissons Acquitted
In Willingham Failure
MACON, Ga.. Jan. 24.—Robert H.
Sissons, cotton broker, indicted 1
some months ago, by a Bibb county j
grand jury on charges of embezzle- i
ment in connection with the failure [
of the Willingham warehouse, was
found not guilty today in Bibb su- ;
perior court. Judge H. A. Mathews I
directed the verdict at the instance
of attorneys for both sides.
At the time of the failure of the
Willingham warehouse. Mr. Sissons
was secretary and treasurer of the
company. The indictment against
Mr. Sissons w r as returned after a ‘
number of indictments had been re- i
turned against Richard F. Willing-1
ham. president of the company, on
charges of larceny after trust. These
indictments are still pending against [
Wifcngham. _ . i
ii-? '■■■• T 4
d CENTS A COPT,
$1 A YEAR.
FALL GOT SIOO.ODO
LOi FROM HIM. 1 ’ I
DDHENY TESTIFIES
Personal Matter Only, No
Oil Company Concerned,
Witness Tells Senate In
vestigatmg Committee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. E. D.
Doheny, the California oil magnate,
whose interests leased a naval oil re*
serve while Albert B. Fall was sec
retary of the interior, told the sen
ate public lands committee Thursday
that he loaned Mr. Fall SIOO,OOO in
cash in 1921.
The transaction, Mn. Doheny said,
.was “a personal matter,” and had ■
nothing to do with oil leases. v
All the negotiations leading up to |
the contracts were conducted for him • ,1
with subordinates of the interior and
navy departments by J. J. Cotter,
his Washington attorney, and J. C.
Anderson, head of a subordinate com
pany, Mr. Doheny said. He added
that if there were any charges of
collusion, they would involve seven
subordinates in the two departments ,
as well as two of Jiis own employes.
When the negotiations were con\ |
eluded, he said, he brought the mat- .
ter to the attention of Secretaries
Denby and Fall, and the contracts
were signed.
Mr. Doheny gave the’ date of the
loan, as November 30, 1921, or sev
eral months before the interior sec
retary signed the contract leasing
the California reserve to the Doheny
interests.
Mr. Fall had told him, Mr. Doheny
said, that he iioped to raise a loan,
and- that he had expected to get the
money from “Mr. McLean.” This the
witness said, he took as a hint to
him, and he replied that he would
be glad to loan the money.
’ Meant Little to Him
“I felt that I was Fall’s only friend
who had money which could be
spared.” Doheny said.
The loaning of SIOO,OuO to Fall
was, with him, he added, nothing
mdre than loaning S2O or SSO by an
ordinary man. But he added he was
aware that “.Mr:. Fall, because of his
friendly feeling, may have favored
me.”
The oil operator went on to say
that he intended to require Mr. Fall
to repay the loan. Unde rrepeated
questioning, he insisted that the only
thought he had when he made the
loan was a desire to help an old
friend, who had met with many bfflji ■■■■■
ness setbacks.
Fall gave a note, he continued,
which is in the Doheny offices ei
ther in New York or Los Angeles.
The. note will be located, he said, and
also presented to the committee.
Regrets Reticence
“I have been following, the re
ports of the proceedings before your
committee,” said Mr. Doheney’s
statement, “and have concluded that
notwithstanding my authorization to
ex-Secretary Fall early in December
to state lhe full and complete facts
in connection with a personal trans
action had in 1921 between Mr. Fall
and myself, Mr. Fall has been mak
ing an effort to keep my name out
of the discussion for the reason that
i a full statement might be misunder
!stood.
“Whether there is a possibility of
' such misunderstanding or not I wish
to state to the committee and to the
public the full facts, and I may say
here that I regret that when I was
before your committee I did not tell
i you what I am now telling you.
i “I did not do so for the reason that
I such statement was not pertinent in
[answer to any of the questions ask-
I cd me by members of the cominit
: tee, and to have done, so would have
I been volunteering something in no
j way connected with the contracts -J
made with lhe Ban-American Petro
leum and Transport company.
| "When asked by your chairman
whether Mr. Fall has profited by the
contract, directly or indicrctly, I an
swered in the negative. That answer
I now reiterate.
“I wish first to Inform the com
mittee that on the 30th day of No--
vember, 1921, I loaned Albert B. Fall
SIOO,OOO on his promissory note to
enable him to purchase a ranch in
New Mexico. This sum was loaned
;to Mr. Fall hy me personally. It
was my own money, and did not be
long in whole or in part to any oil
company with which I am or have
been connected. In connection with
this loan, there was no discussion
between Mr. Fall and myself as to
any contract whatever.
Friends, for Thirty Years
"The reason for my making and
Mr. Fall accepting the loan was that
we had been friend# for more than
30 years. He had invested his sav
ings for those yeears in his home
ranch in New Mexico, which I un
derstood was all that remained to
him after the failure of mining In
vesternnts in Mexico and nine years
of public service in Washington, dur
ing which he could not properly at
tend to the management of his ranch.
“His troubles had been increased
in 1918 by the death of his daughter
and his son, who, up to then, had
taken his place in lhe management
of his ranch.”
“The lease on naval reserve num
ber one was the direct outgrowth of
the contract which the Pan-Ameri
can Petroleum and Transport com
pany made with the navy as a re
sult of competitive bids, in which
that company was the lowest bidder,
for the construction of certain stor
[ age facilities and the furnishing of
fuel oil at Pearl Harbor, T. H., and
in the absence of that contract, the
! lease would never have been exe
cnifd. The navy department, through Jam
Its representative, took up with us
the question of constructing the im
provements and facilities at P-earl
H iibr.r arid of paying fr>r them with
tlie royalty oil which the navy was
then obtaining from the various
leases in naval reserves numbers
one and two, and of filling the taiiK
age constructed with a large quanti* B
ty of fuel oil. H
“I was ent.rely in sympathy wrrfi ■
the purpose of the navy, the reasons
for which have perhaps been better
explained to your committee by
nnvy’.-: r- yr*'->-nta>ivc. Admiral
son, than 1 could hope to do.”
IP -ponding to questions by
to- W.ilr-ii, Democrat, Montana,
lx.honr soid ho had conferred only ■■
tji b-s < onus' members of his
(Continued an ragfi 6 t tohin» WH