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VOL. XXVI. NO. 72
TEX RICKARD LOST
ON FILM CONTRACT.
HE TELLS PROBERS
"Fixers” Failed to Make
Good, Promoter Says.
> Holdridge Recalled Briefly
5 and Brands Burns as ‘Liar’
WASHINGTON. March 20.—Aft
ter hearing Tex Rickard, fight pro
moter, tell them he “got bunked”
when he went into the “deal” with
Jap Muma, Will A. Orr and the mys
terious “Ike” Martin to show the
Carpentier-Dempsey fight pictures
and escape prosecution, the Daugh
erty investigating committee today
turned to verifying the testimony of
G. O. Holdridge, a department of
justice agent.
Holdridge, in previous testimony to
the committee, quoted Muma as hav
ing said Attorney General Daugh
erty had told him (Muma) that if
the “deal” went over he (Muma)
ought to get a big cut out of it,
at least 50 per cent.
Holdridge presented his statement
to the committee with an attest by
Thomas Spellacy, a former depart
ment of justice agent as “absolutely
true.”
When the committee got Spellacy
on the stand today he confirmed
•some of Holdridge’s testimony but
made a change in Holdridge’s ac
count of Muma’s report of the al
leged conversation with the attor
ney general.
Never Checked Up
“As I remember Muma’s state
ment,” Spellacy said, “it wasn’t that
Mr. Daugherty suggested a 50 per
cent cut, but that he thought Muma
was interceding for Tex Rickard and
that Daugherty said Muma ought to
get an interest for that. Muma said
he told Daugherty he was going to
get an interest.”
Rickard’s Testimony
Rickard told of Knowing Jap
Muma, New York representative of
Edward B. McLean, Washington
publisher, and Fred C. Quimby, film
producer, who have been connected
with the picture “deal.”
Rickard said he could not remem
ber ever meeting Jess Smith, dead
friend of Attorney General Daugher
ty, but had known Muma for ten
years.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, the committee prosecutor, was
back on the job today and examined
Rickard. He arranged with F. C.
Quimby, of New York, to film the
bout, Rickard said, and knew it was
a violation of law to transport the
pictures into states, but intended to
■how them in New Jersey.
The film contract, dated June 30,
1921, was on the stationery of the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A second contract produced by
Rickard provided for a 20 per cent
■hare to Orr and 15 per cent each
to Muma and Martin.
Rickard denied that the start of
the exhibitions the plan contemplat
ed initial showing of the films before
ex-soldiers and then to have small
fines imposed on “goats” to permit
further exhibitions.
Muma opened negotiations with
him, Rickard said, about June 15,
1921, for showing the films outside
New Jersey. Many details of the
previous accounts of the “deal”
were corroborated by Rickard, in
cluding exhibition of the pictures
at McLean’s home here. He also
';;iid there was a. man named “Mar
'tin” interested in the transaction.
' Rickard told of the contract by
which Muma and Martin, who sign
ed, were to get 50 per cent of the
proceeds. W. A. Orr’s 20 per cent.
Rickard said, was to come from the
interest of Muma and Martin.
“Muma told me he thought he
could get a law passed to distribute
the pictures.” Rickard explained.
“Get a law passed?” Senator
Wheeler exclaimed. “You know he
didn’t, and yet you agreed by con
tract to give him 50 per cent of the
Receipts from the picture?”
“Yes.”
Fined in Two States
Rickard told of knowing Alfred
R. I’rion, local lawyer identified in
the picture “deal.” and also identi
fied as a friend of Mr. Daugherty.
Illinois and New York were the
only states where he was fined,
Rickard said, adding that Quimby
“attended to” sales for exhibition in
other states.
Rickard submitted a statement of
proceeds from the pictures, show
ing that fines were included as
“expenses” of promotion. Rickard
said he paid percentages of the
profits to Muma, Orr and Martin
while knowing the pictures were be
ing shipped in violation of law.
Rickard produced a contract dated
June 3‘J between himself. Muma
and “I. N. Martin,” providing the
latter were to receive 50 per cent
of the gross receipts if a law were
passed to legalize interstate show
ing of the film. This contract, Riek
urd explained, was replaced because
they “weren't delivering the. goods.”
“When '”<l Muma first atke the
picture to Washington?” asked Sen
ator Wheeler. “Was it to promote
legislation?”
“No. he said it was for a part
“Did you make a practice of let
ting theses ovt to parties?”
“I did to soldiers in hospitals and
other places."
Senator Wheeler asked if that sort
of showing wasn't part of the
scheme by which the exhibitors in
each state were arrested and fined
once. Rickard said he didn't know
of that.
After paying his fine for showing
the picture bef'<r -ol'licrs on Staten
island, X.»dKard •'aid he was advised
by his lawver that he could "go
ahead” elsewhere in New York,
where the gross receipts, Rickard
said, were $93,000 and the expenses
$82,784.
“Why should you give up 15 per
cent to Muma and Martin and twen
ty per cent to Orr?” asked Senator
Wheeler. “You got bunked, didn't
you?”
"Yes. I was.” he answered.
Muma and Martin told him. Rick
ard. said, that they could get a
b.U through in two weeks to legalize
the film exhibitions. but Rkkard
dented that he was told Muma had
(Continued t»u rage 6, Column 3)
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
M’ADOO’S GEORGIA VICTORY
DISCUSSED BY JOHN S. COHEN
florid News
Told In
Brief
WASHINGTON. Gillard Hunt,
government historian and state, de
partment official, dies suddenly.
ROME: Archbishop Mundelein, of
Chicago, cardinal designate, is re
ceived in audience by the pope.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Captain A.
C. Dale, 83, one of last survivors
of Jefferson Davis’ bodyguard, dies.
RALEIGH, N. C.: North Carolina’s
delegation to the Republican national
convention is instructed for Presi
dent Coolidge.
WASHINGTON. Rebel forces
evacuate Puerto Mexico and feder
ate take over city, Mexico City dis
patches say.
BOSTON.—Nation pays tribute at
Cambridge to services of President-
Emeritus Eilot, of Harvard, on his
ninetieth birthday.
SAN FRANCISCO: Chief Justice
Curtis D. Wilbur, of the California
supreme court, is sworn in as secre
tary of the navy.
SEATTLE. Army aviators on
world flight reach Seattle and begin
preparations for hop-off to Japan via
Alaska and Aleutian islands.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —Nineteen per
sons were injured, none seriously,
when a Rock Island passenger’ train
is derailed at Cicalia, Ark.
TOKIO. Eighteen men are still
aliv e within Japanese 1 submarine,
sunk Tuesday off Sasebo naval base
in collision with warship Tatsuta.
MEXICO CITY: The reported
flight aboard a steamer of General
Enrique Estrada, commander-in-chief
of the unsuccessful revolt in Jalisco
and Michoacan, is confirmed.
PEKIN. Chinese government
orders soviet envoy to quit China,
because of attempts of envoy to
force Chinese recognition of soviet
government.
ST. JOHNS.—Commission investi
gating administration of Sir Richard
Squires, former premier of New
foundland, in report sustains charges
of graft.
HERRIN, Ill.—Remaining bonds
of seventy citizens in connection
with clash between Ku Klux Klan
and anti-klan factions are filed,
bringing total of bonds to $1,969,000.
NEW YORK.—Henry Ford’s rail
road, the Detroit, Toledo and Iron
ton, operated as a “plant facility,”
has lost its owner $98,207 in four
years of operation, it is reported.
NEW YORK. Last "stick” Os
type set by President Harding is
turned over to Frank B. Noyes, pres
ident of The Associated Press, bv
W. G. Thompson, publisher of Fair
banks (Alaska News-Miner.
BOSTON: Speaker Gillett, speak
ing at the Coolidge night banquet of
the Amherst Alumni association, ex
presses confidence “that our govern
ment on the whole is sound and is
not tainted with corruption.”
DUBLIN. — ~Richard Mulcahy,
Irish free state minister of defense,
resigns followingSinnouncement of
disapproval hy executive council of
military raids Tuesday in Dublin
and President Cosgrave will assum •
portfolio.
SAN SALVA DOR.—Revolutionary
forces occflyy Tegucigalpa, capital
Honduras, overthrowing dictatorship
of Generals Aria sand Bueso; Unit
ed States sailors are rushing to Hon
duran capital to protect American
Interests.
NEW YORK.—Differences of
opinion as to whether ALethodist
Episcopal church should pledge it
self to refrain from participation In
future wars develops at annual New
York East conference of church.
WASHINGTON?—What is de
scribed as “considerable sum ’ col
lected in income tax upon seized es
tate of Grover C. Bergdoll, draft
evader, is included in checks sent
from Maryland Internal revenue dis
trict.
NEW YORK.—General Carlos Gar
cia y Velez, Cuban minister to Eng
land, ho has been sought for six
months by the Cuban police in con
nection with reecntly-dismissed
charges involving revolutionary ac
tivities. arrives in Ne wYork from
Nassau. ■
TOKIO.—A high Japanese naval
officer admits Tokio government
realizes value of coming Japanese
naval strength display on Yangtse
river in view of last year’s Chinese
boycott and attacks on Japanese
shipping, but insists cruise is with
out political implication.
Memphis Banker
Returning to Clear
Name in Shortage
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Match 21.
Frank F. Hill, president of the
Union and Planters' Bank and
Trust company, said Thursday that
he had received a telegram from Rob
ert S. Polk, former senior vice pyest
dent of the bank, dated at El Paso,
Tex., stating that Mr. Polk would
return to Memphis immediately.
Polk promised a "full and satisfac
tory" explanation of his absence
from his desk, it was stated.
Other than this there was virtual
ly no development today in connec
tion with the discovery by bank ex
aminers of an alleged shortage of
approximately $41,000 in the cage of
one of the tellers. R. S. Scrivener,
who, according to a statement is
sued by the bank, has disclaimed re
sponsibility for the, alleged discrep
ancy.
It was stated that Mr. Polk left
his desk ill Saturday. Subsequently
an announcement was made that his
connection with the bank had ended.
Responsibility for the alleged
i shox_i*ge has not heen Ipieq.
McAdoo Will Enter Conven
tion as Leading Candidate
With Probable Majority on
First Ballot, Says Editor of
The Journal
(EDITOR'S NOTE Major
John S. Cohen, president and
editor of The Atlanta Journal,
has written his impression of the
national significance of the Geor
gia Democratic primaries for
the Consolidated Press associa
tion at its request.)
BY JOHN S. COHEN
(Copyright, 1021.)
David Lawrence some days ago
likened the McAdoo candidacy to
the life of a feline and added, in ef
fect, that unless the trend changed
McAdoo's friends would control their
party’s next national convention.
The result of the Democratic
presidential preference primary in
Georgia yesterday again confirms
Mr. Lawrence's famous prescience.
McAdop has swept the state and the
Georgia delegation to the New York
convention will be Instructed to sup
port him first, last and all the time.
What is the national significance
of the remarkable McAdoo victory
in Georgia?
In the first place, it eliminates
Senator Underwood as a serious con
tender for the nomination. Further,
it so enhances McAdoo’s prospects
that one may fairly predict that he
Will go into the convention not only
with more votes than Woodrow Wil
son received on the first ballot in
1912, but probably with as many
votes as Champ Clark mustered at
the peak of his majority.
To say that Senator Underwood is
eliminated does not imply the faint
est reflection upon his ability, his
character or his high serviceable
ness. On all these counts, he is
heartily esteemed in Georgia, whose
people are the best of neighbors to
the Alabamian.
Underwood’s Status
Tn the Baltimore convention, Air.
Underwood had 117 1-2 votes on the
first ballot. The Georgia and Florida
preferential primaries in 1912 were
held almost concurrently, and Alr.
Underwood carried both states, not
withstanding Woodrow Wilson’s
vigorous canvass of Georgia, assist
ed by his friend, William G. A4c-
Adoo, now himself a candidate. Mr.
Wilson’s loss of Georgia at that
juncture was considered a serious
reversal to his cause, while it so
raised the prestige of -Senator Under
wood as to swing him the support of
other southern states. If his victory
in Georgia in 1912 sufficed to make
his political fortunes then, just as
certainly does his defeat in Georgia
today suffice to break them in so far
as the presidential nomination is
concerned.
By the same token. Mr. McAdoo’s
sweeping victory in Georgia indicates
that he either will carry the solid
south himself, or will have the ulti
mate support of the delegates there
from, even though they be instructed
to cast a complimentary 7 ballot for
“favorite sons.”
Besides vouchsafing Mr. McAdoo 28
additional votes in that convention
and thus strengthening the probabil
ity7 of his having the entire south’s
support, Georgia’s overwhelming in
dorsement of his candidacy serves
once for all to eliminate the Doheny
matter as a campaign issue, in so
as McAdoo is concerned. His op
ponents in the Georgia contest made
the most they could of his name's
having been gratuitously lugged into
the Doheny affair, but the Democrats
of this state were neither deceived
nor misled. Nor, in my opinion, will
the American people be deceived or
misled.
Majority on First Ballot
If those interested in the outcome
of the Democratic national conven
tion and particularly those eastern
Democrats who have appeared to
deenl Air. AlcAd -> unavailable, will
take out their pencils and, omitting
the east and the middle west, add to
gether the south and the far west,
they will readily understand how Alc-
Adoo will enter the convention as the
leading candidate and how in all like
lihood he will have r, majority 7 on the
first ballot.
Representing as he does the anti
thesis cf the foregone Republican
nominee, holding a record of states
manly and historic service to his
country, and being a two-fisted tena
cious fighter, as well as a heart-win
ning personality. William G. McAdoo
will prove in the other states, as he
has proved in Georgia, that Democ
racy’s rank and file look upon him
as their foremost Progressive. If
there be party leaders who do net
realize this now, they assuredly will
realize it later.
Confesses Killing Three
And Setting House Afire
BATAVIA, N. Y.. March 19.
John Petoski. a Pole, with a long
criminal record, confessed to the
killing of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Whalley and Mrs. George Alorse
at Linden, police reported today.
Petoski was arrested last night on
suspicion of being the fiend who
perpetrated the triple killing last
week and then sought to cover his
crime by 7 setting fire to the farm
house.
The Weather
Virginia: Fair; no change in tem
perature.
North Carolina! Fair:
South Carolina: Fair with rising
tempera tu re.
Georgia: Fair iwth rising tempera
ture.
Florida: aFir:
Alabaam ami Mississippi: Warmer.
Tennessee: Fair; warmer in west
portion.
Extreem Northwest Florida:
Warmer:
Louisian. ; Unsettled, probably
showers.
Arkansas: Unsettled. probably
rain .colder in west portion.
Oklahoma: Colder.
East Texas: Partly cloudy to
cloudy: showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy, prob
ably in in south and rain or sno«
>in net th portion.
WILL HAYS CALLED
TO WITNESS STAND
IN THE OIL PROBE
Al Jennings, Once Notorious
Bandit in the West, Sub
poenaed to Tell of Hamon’s
Connections
WASHINGTON, March 20.—The
senate oil committee suffered a tem
porary setback today when it under
took to inquire into a story that
Harry F. Sinclair had turned over
a large batch of securities to Attor
ney General Daugherty and Will H.
Hays, former chairman of the Re
publican national committee, to help
wipe out the heavy 7 deficit incurred
by the party treasury in the cam
paign of 1920.
Process servers reported that so
far they had been unable to locate
G. D. Wahlberg, former private sec
retary to Sinclair, who was to have
taken the stand today as the first
witness in the new line of investiga
tion. Air. Hays has been subpoenaed
to appear later, and Sinclair prob
ably will be questioned tomorrow.
When he was before the commit
tee some weeks ago, Wahlberg testi
fied that Sinclair turned over $25,-
000 in Liberty 7 bonds to “Mr. Hays.”
He did not identify 7 the man named
and the committee did not follow up
his statement.
While the search for Wahlberg
continued, the committee turned its
attention to other ramifications of
its inquiry 7 .
Al Jennings, once notorious train
robber of Oklahoma, is to be sum
moned to Washington by 7 the oil
committee.
In also announcing a subpoena
for Jennings, Senator Walsh said he
would be “questioned in connection
with the rumor that Jake Hamon,
former Republican national commit
teeman from Oklahoma, undertook
to put through “an oil deal” at the
Chicago Republican convention in
1920.
Ryan Denies Stock Deals
Former Representative Thomas J.
Ryan, of New York, voluntarily took
the witness stand to deny that he
was the man referred to in records
of oil stock transactions laid before
the committee and Louis F. Bond,
the committee’s investigator, fol
lowed him to explain how the identi
f'.cation had been made and to fur
ther expand his report on the stock
transactions.of others.
Questioned again about Attorney 7
General Daugherty’s stock account,
Bund said the first transaction was
the sale of 500 shares of Sinclair
Consolidation and the next was an
outright purchase of the same num
ber of shares.
Details of the oil stock transac
tions of Jess W. Smith, confidant
of the attorney general, as given by
Bond, showed a net profit of $1,531
in 1922. The Smith account, Bond
said, was listed as “W. W. Spaid
No. 3,” while Attorney General
Daugherty had an account as “W.
W. Spaid No. 4.” Spaid is a mem
ber of the Hibbs firm.
Smith’s oil stock transactions
were read into the record as follows:
July 24, 1922, bought 200 shares
Mexican Seaboard for $6,430. July
25, bought 100 shares Mexican
Petroleum for $16,420. July 27,
bought 200 shares Mexican Seaboard
for $4,580. August 4, sold 100 shares
Mexican Petroleum for $16,976. Au
gust 9, bought 200 shares Sinclair
Consolidated for $6,130. September
| 26. bought 300 shares Sinclair Con
| solidated for $10,282. September 29,
I bought 200 shares Sinclair Censoli
j dated for 6,640. October 4, cold 700
shares Sinclair Consolidated for $24,-
017. October 20, bought 300 shares
Sinclair Consolidated for $10,245.
October 27, bought 200 shares Sin
clair Consolidated for $6,630.
O.i December 7 there was left in
j the account in oil shares 400 Mexi-
J can Seaboard and 500 Sinclair Con-
I solidated.
j “What explanation did Hibbs <fc
j Co., make of carrying an account in
; .'he name oL some one other than
i the actual dealer?” asked Senator
• Walsh.
"They gave no explanation.” re-
I plied Bond, “I was informed that I
' must ask Air. Spaid. I saw there
i were a number of actual deliveries
'of stock and I called for the re
| ceipts. On the receipts appeared the
I name of Jess W. Smith.”
Ryan Error Explained
In his explanation of the appear
; ance of the name of former Repre
sentative Ryan in his report, Bond
i said that the brokerage books showed
■ only “T. J. Ryan” but that the clerk
: at Hibbs & Co., said it was “Thomas
Jefferson Ryan,” a “man of means
I who traveled around.” A man at the
[ federal trade commission, he said,
had told him Thomas Jefferson
Ryan at one time lived on 16th street,
at another time at the Wardman
hotel and then for a time at the
Willard.
“I looked in the 1922 city direc
tory and saw there Thomas Jeffer-
I son Ryan, who lived on 16th street,”
the witness continued. “We looked
■ into a congressional directory and
[there was a Thomas Jefferson Ryan,
i An examination of Mr. Ryan’s bank
i account stowed ne had dealings with
New York bankers and brokers.
j “The primary fault was with
Hibbs & Co., who knew who T. J.
Ryan was and did not disclose it.”
Without hearing any other wit
' nesses. the committee adjourned un
' til 10 a. m , tomorrow.
Wahlberg Reported in Cuba
I Senator Walsh said today he had
information that Wahlberg was in
i Havana. Cuba. If this is the case
the committee is without power to
■ compel his attendance, and since
Mr. Hays has been subpoenaed for
Saturday, it is probable no further
effort will be made to find Wahl-
| berg.
There will be further inquiry.
Senator Walsh said, into the stock
transactions of Attorney General
Daugherty. The senator regards it
as significant that the first recorded
I transaction of the attorney general
was a sale of 500 shares of Sinclair
t consolidated in 1922, about the time
of the lease of Teapot Dome.
Whether Mr. Daughetry will be
called before the committee ha* not
■ yet been determined.
I Georgia’s Choice
LiKI
G- MCADOO
INQUIRY DEMANDED
TO BARE ENEMIES
OE COTTON CO-OP
WASHINGTON, March 20.—In
vestigation by the agriculture de
partment of conditions in the cot
ton trade to determine whether there
is a "concerted movement by per
sons or associations to destroy co
operative marketing associations”
was proposed Wednesday in a reso
lution introduced by Representative
Aswell, Democrat, Louisiana.
The secretary of agriculture would
be directed under the resolution, if
he has reasons to believe that such
a movement exists, to transmit evi
dence to the department of justice
■yvith a view to prosecution for con
spiracy in restraint of trade.
The resolution also would direct
the federal reserve system to “lend
every possible aid to the end that
no cooperative marketing associa
tion shall be forced to sell its cot
ton upon a manipulated market.”
The charge has been publicly and
reliably made, said the resolution,
of a deliberate attempt by specula
tive interests tp compel co-operative
cotton marketing associations to
sell the cotton they 7 are holding “at
ruinous prices.”
“This plot, if successful,” con
tinued the resolution, “will result in
the loss of hundreds of millions of
dollars to the productive wealth of
the United States and affect disas
trously every branch of industrial
life.” ‘
“The secretary of agriculture is
. authorized under section two of the
act of February 18, 1922, to make
investigations under certain condi-
I tions and proceed against persons or
associations seeking unduly to en
hance the price of any agricultural
product. But that act does not au
' thorize the secretary to institute
1 proceedings against persons or as
! sociations seeking unduly 7 to depress
I the price of any agricultural prod
uct.”
J The resolution was referred to the
I agricultural committee of which Mr.
' Aswell is a member.
Mrs. Bullard Absent
When Case Is Called;
Bonds Are Forfeited
MARIETTA, Ga., March 20.
When the case of Airs. Ruth Bul-
I lard, charged with conspiring last
I summer with Sim Edwards to kill
I her husband, D. D. Bullard, a young
I planter living near Powder Springs,
i was called for trial in Cobb superior
court yesterday, Mrs. Bullard was
missing and bonds of $2,000 were or
dered forfeited.
She also had an indictment
against her on a statutory charge in
connection with Edwards that was
also forfeited and the trial of Ed
wards on a similar charge was con
tinued on account of Mrs. Bullard
j not being present as a witness.
Airs. Bullard’s case will come up
■ for trial again in July. It was re-
I ported that Airs. Bullard was at her
I home near Powder Springs anti that
I she would make new bonds imme
' diately.
i Airs. Bullard was tried on the con
i spiracy charge last fall, but it re-
I suited in a mistrial. Edwards was
j tried and convicted, receiving a
sentence of two to four years. He
i is free on bond pending hearing on
I his appeal. /
Mother Kills Child
With Tobacco ‘Dose’
Given as Medicine
I GLENFALLS, N. Y.. March 20.
Tobacco in water, administered by
I the child's mother as medicine, calls
' ed the death of three-year-old Anna
Esther Alkeris. The child died half
,an hour after she had taken the
I preparation.
The death certificate indicated the
; dose was administered through ig
norance of the parents, to whom the
tobacco treatment had been recom
' mended by a neighbor.
Tom Ammons Convicted
In Florida Murder Case
FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla..
March 20.—Tom Ammons was found
guilty of second degree murder of
W. T. Williams, a commission mer
chant. by a jury here which return
ed its verdict at 1 o’clock this morn
ing after a trial lasting less than
two days. Sentence will be pro
nounced by Judge C. E. Chilling
worth Fiiday morning. The slaying'
occurred in this city on December 20.
The defense was represented by
State Senator J. P. Stokes, who ecn
i ducted the famous “whipping boss”
trials, and he made an eloquent plea
for a verdict of acquittal in which
; he described Ammons as an “under
dog who wag hounded and tramped
[ upon.” The defense asserted that
I Ammons fired after Williams made
a motion toward his hip pocket.
1 »
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, March 22, 1924
M’Adoo Sweeps Georgia;
Majority Exceeds 42,000
M’ADOO’S GEORGIA MANAGER
THANKS LOYAL FRIENDS FOR
AID IN SWEEPING VICTORY
Mr. Bell Praises Newspapers’
for Their Courageous Sup- j
port Women’s Vote Is
Declared a Big Factor
Miller S. Bell, state campaign
manager for William G. McAdoo,
has. issued the following statement
on the result of Wednesday’s pref
erential primary in Georgia:
“Mr. AlcAdpo has swept the state
in one .of the greatest victories in
Georgia history. Every prediction
issued from our headquarters is
more than fulfilled. We are gratified
beyond expression.
“From start to finish we made a
clean fight and ran a clean cam
paign in keeping with the dignity
of the high office of president. We
raised no question as to Senator
Underwood’s ability or integrity. On
the contrary, in every piece of liter
ature emanating from our head
quarters we spoke of Senator Under
wood as a clean and able man. We
did not send a dollar to a county
in Georgia to help carry the coun
ty. We hope and believe the day is
past in Georgia when hired political
bush beaters can influence the re
sult of an election.
“We are grateful to the friends
of Air. AlcAdoo for the fine, cour
ageous, sportsmanlike manner in
which they made their fight all
down the line.
“We are grateful to the newspa
pers which had the courage to come
out and support him on principle
regardless of the outcome. In this
connection, as manager of the cam
paign headquarters of Air. McAdoo,
I wish to make special mention of
The Atlanta Journal and its prince
ly editor, Major John S. Cohen. The
Journal has always been found fight
ing on the side of progress, and in
this campaign its banner floated in
the vanguard of the battle.
“Georgia has given her native son,
whose public service is a credit to
his state, a magnificent vote of con
fidence. Georgia women have given
a splendid vindication of their right
to the ballot. I believe at least ninety
per cent of the votes of women were
cast for Mr. McAdoo, because of
his record of support of prohibition,
of woman suffrage, of child labor
legislation, and of other great moral
reform measures.
Mud-Slingers Rebuked
“Georgia has given her answer to
the attempt by a discredited Re
publican administration to besmirch
the good name of a clean man and
a great Democrat whose private life
and public service are above re
proach. She has given it in tones
that will ring throughout the na
tion. We predicted that Georgians
would not be influenced against him
by the discreditable attempts to em
ploy this Republican propaganda in
his native state.. As we expected, the
Democratic scandal mongers in
Georgia have been completely re
pudiated.
“Georgia’s verdict today elimi
nates Senator Underwood as a so
called southern candidate. We have
said all along that his candidacy
was confined to Alabama. We pre
dict that other southern states will
follow Georgia’s lead and send to
the New York convention in June
a solid southern phalanx which will
join with the west and nominate
McAdoo as democracy’s standard
bearer.
“A Georgia Democrat is destined
for the White House for the first
time in the history of the republic,
and every loyal Georgian has a
right to feel proud.”
UNDERWOOD MANAGERS’
STATEMENT ON RESULTS
The following statement was given
out from the hadquarters of Senator
Oscar W. Underwood:
“We are compelled to admit that
Georgia has been lost to Senator Un
derwood by the clever intriguing of
Mr. AlcAdoo’s forces with the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Im
mediately aftei’ Mr. AlcAdoo’s state
ment of his position on the klan at
Macon, Ga., four days bfore the pri
mary, Mr. M. O. Dunning, chief of
rtaff of the Realm of Georgia of
the Invisible Empire of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, issued an offi
cial statement declaring that Air. Mc-
Adoo’s position was perfectly ac
ceptable to the klan. Whereupon
the klan in Georgia, in which state it
orginated and where its national
headquarters is now located, threw
its complete strength and its entire
organization to the support of Air.
McAdoo, and succeeded in defeating
Senator Underwood in Georgia.
“The male membership of the klan
in Georgia is estimated to be 40,000:
add to that th© voting strength of
their families and th© result in Geor
gia is easilv understood.
"(Signed) C. C. CARLIN.
"Chairman of the national Oscar
Underwood committee.
“R. C. GORDON,
“Georgia. Underwood campaign
manager.”
E. Y. Clarke Pays Last
Os His $5,000 Fine
HOUSTON, Toxas, March 20.
Edward Young Clarko, former act
ing imperial wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, has settled his account with
tho federal government.
The final SI,OOO of the $5,000 fine
imposed upon him in federal dis
trict court several days ago when
he pleaded guilty to violating the
Mann act, has been paid. Judge J
C. Hut '• announced today.
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POPULAR
VOTE
County. AlcAdoo Under-
wood.
Appling 11l 54
Atkinson 157 101
Baldwin 497 825
Barrow 956 1,045
♦Bartow 892 695
Ben Hill 1,509 796
Bibb 1,653 795
Bleckly 406 545
Brantley 104 16
Bryan 100 88
Bulloch 315 84
Butts ? 991 537
Calhoun 165 53
Camden 103 15
Campbell 884 408
Candler 103 25
Carroll 2,935 1,620
Catoosa 274 13
Charlton 359 220
Chatham 3,908 1,887
♦Chattahoochee .... 19 30
Chattooga 2,911 493
Cherpkee 1,508 744
Clarke 2,453 500
Clay 112 27
Clayton 471 459
Cobb 1,230 473
Colquitt 382 562
Columbia 490 262
Coweta 314 67
Crawford 195 657
Crisp 2U 121
Dade 112 3
Decatur 171 152
DeKalb 795 261
♦Dodge 336 59
Dooley 169 107
Dougherty 1,835 1,046
Douglas 599 649
♦Early 264 44
Effingham 205 65
Elbert 1,756 762
Emanuel 523 184
Evans 292 88
♦Fayette 450 550
Fayette 1,111 437
Floyd 2,156 1,251
♦Forsyth 125 75
Franklin 1,477 1,356
♦Fulton 14,703 4,327
Gilmer 91 7
Glascock 225 425
Glynn ± 381 139
Gordon 7 1,492 762
Grady 220 72
Gwinnett 1,988 1,840
Habersham 1,731 847
Hail 1,752 722
Hancock 133 85
Harris 221 425
Hart 1,332 1,090
Heard 659 702
Henry 943 640
♦Houston 150 248
Irwin ~ 55 150
Jasper no 62
Jefferson 411 165
Jenkins 141 29
♦Johnson 161 86
Laurens .'. 436 19.1
Lee 54 67
Liberty 423 207
Lumpkin 95 133
Alacon 125 225
Madison 1,253 854
Marion 209 654
Alclntosh 94 32
Miller 68 48
Milton . 596 643
♦Mitchell 292 168
♦Monroe 390 280
Montgomery 669 668
Muscogee 37,8 654
Newton 1,315 472
Oconee 602 4 82
Oglethorpe 1,422 345
Paulding 1,200 800
Polk 1,177 497
Pickens 235 10
Fike 1,104 449
Putnam 626 290
♦Quitman 48 43
Rabun 1,109 33
♦Spalding 679 355
Stephens 271 108
♦Stewart ~ 497 401
♦Sumter 126 433
Talbot 620 414
Tattnall ....7 285 329
Telfair 272 123
Terrell 532 393
Thomas 435 129
Tift 234 138
Towns 79 9
Treutlen 131 34
♦Trodp . 314 149
Union 168 1 80
*Upson 409 J 36
Walker 0,135 267
Walton 854 4 0 22
Ware 457 02
Webster 52 433
White 803 502
Whitfield 7.. 2,383 802
Wilkes 96i g 0 2
♦Wilkinson 94 79
Totals 91,465 49,347
♦lncom plete.
Florida’s Growers
Adopt California’s
Fruit Exchange Plan
TAMPA, F] a „ Alarch 20.—Adop-!
tion of the California, Fruit Growers* |
exchange plan of having sub*ex- I
change managers function as a dis
tributing committee with weekly ■
meetings; subdivision of sub-ex-!
change territory into smaller units ;
where the unit represents more than '
500,000 boxes of fruit and selection |
of Dr. J. H. Ross, president, and C. '
E. Stewart, business manager, as
representatives to attend the Or- :
land© Citrus convention April 9, ;
were among business transact'd by
the Florida Citrus exchange, at the
monthly meeting here yesterday.
George A. Scott, general sales
manager, in his report, indicated
the market situation for citrus fruit
was better than at any time in the
past several months.
The so-called “Lake Wales” plan 1
to select a date upon which all I
growers would be Invited to sign an I
agreement to market their fruit I
through the exchange, was explained
by a committee appointed at the ;
Bartow conference several days ago. I
Under the agreement growers I
withdraw after next season if the !
exchange did not control 60 per cent
of the crop.
5 CENTS A COPY,
Si A YEAR.
M’ADOO WINS 328
COUNTY UNIT VOTES
TO UNDERWOOD'S 74
:State Convention, Composed
of 412 Members, to Meet
Here April to Name 28
National. Delegates
Ry the Associated Press
With reports in from 159 of the
160 counties in Georgia, the lead of
William G. McAdoo over Oscar W.
Undr-iwood in the presidential pref
erence primary, Wednesday, mount
ed to more than 42,000. The total
popular vote for Air. AlcAdoo was
91,465 and that for Mr. Underwood
49,347, according to complete returns
from 137 counties and incomplete re
turns from 17. The county from
which no report has been received
Is Echols.
According to the present returns,
McAdoo carried 122 counties, with a
convention unit vote of 326, and Un
derwood carried 32 counties, with a
convention unit vote of 74. Four
counties, with eight unit votes, held
no primaries, and the vote in Quit
man county is a tie, with two pre
cincts reported out of four.
Primaries were not held in four
counties, with a delegate Vote of
two each, a..d the result is unknown
in two other counties, with two
votes each.
Four counties, Banks, Dawson.
Murray and Toombs did not hold
primaries. Quitman county report
ed the vote tied, 48 to 48, with two
precincts missing.
McAdoo, Georgia’s native son, car
ried Cobb, th© county in which he
was born, by a large majority, but
lost Baldwin, the county in which
he spent his boyhood, to his opponent
by a vote of 825 to 497.
Big Counties for McAdoo
Muscogee was the single six-vote
county to give a majority to Under
wood, the other seven large counties,
Fulton, DeKalb, Bibb, Floyd, Chat
ham, Richmond and Laurens, all go- •
ing for McAdoo.
The majority of the four-vote
counties are also to be found in the
McAdoo column, there being but
four exceptions reported.
State Convention
The state primary regulations
call for the selection of 412 dele
gates by the county executive com
mittees. These delegates will assem- •
ble here on April 23 at a state con
vention and select twenty-eight
delegates to represent Georgia at
the national Democratic convention
to be held in New York In June.
AlcAdoo’s victory means that his
friends will name delegates from
■ every county in Georgia to the state
I convention. G. E. Maddox, of Rome.
. Ga., chairman of the Democratic
I state executive committee, early to- $
day sent telegrams to the various
' county committees calling attention
1 to the executive committee’s ruling
i asking that no steps be taken to-
ward the appointment of delegates 3
! to the state convention until Mr.
AlcAdoo or his friends have acted
I in the matter.
Prohibition Officer
Held for Killing Man ’
Claims Self-Defense
THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 20
j A warrant has been served on Coun
i t.v Prohibition Agent Stewart, charg
i ing him with murder In connection
with the shooting of Wiliam Steph-
I ens, who died here at the city hos
pital Tuesday night. Jack Gordy,
federal officer, is also charged with
a misdemeanor in pointing a pis- j
tol. Stephens was shot by Officer
Stewart Tuesday afternoon while
coming to town in his buggy on the
Cairo road.
Stewart, it is said, claims that
Stephens threatened to kill him if he
ever attempted to stop him while
running liquor. He said that he shot
only after Stephens had pulled a
gun from his overcoat pocket and
pointed it at him, and also at C. E.
Hibbard, of Albany, federal deputy.
Stephens was shot in the shoulder
and abdomen and was brought by ’
Stewart to the hospital.
The warrant against Stewart was
sworn out by Mrs. Stephens, who |
was with her husband when he was i
shot. Seven gallons of liquor were |
found in the buggy, with a Win
chester rifle and pistol. .
Ton Load of Dynamite
Fails to Explode When
Train Hits Wagon
DURANGO, Col., March 20.—A.
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Itassenger train, bound here from |
Telluride, last night struck a wagon
containing one ton of dynamite m
Fort Lewis Crossing, near here. Th»,
dynamite did not explode and no on«
was nurt.
The wagon was demolished ami
the dynamite destroyed. H. C. Carey, |
the driver, jumped to safety when he ;
saw the train. The team of horsed
escaped unscratched.
There were about 20 passenger."i «
on the train. Several became sick i
with fright when they learned the
train had struck a load of explosives, i
members of the crew said.
Train officiate said the dynamite
failed to explode because of the col'l
weather and because it contained •
low percentage of nitroglycerine.
Bo McMillin Is Cleared
Os Oil Case Connection
SHREVEPORT, La., March 19.
“Bo” McMillin, formerly all-American
quarter of Centre college football
team, and now coach at Centenary
colleeg here, was exonerated today |
of any connection with the affairs of
the Harry Morris Guaranteed Gusher
Syndicate fraud ease by Judge J. .
Grimmett, federal referee in burn- 1
ruptcy. Harry Morris, the principa;, J
said McMillin had no connection with
it.