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■ NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
SOUTH CAROLINA
■ GREENWOOD. Aubrey Nickels,
*■> Greenwood youth, who was given
‘ new trial by supreme court of Flori
da. following his conviction of crim
inal assault on white woman of De
"' Land, Fla., two- " - ago, will be
tried again beginning April 8, say
- advices from Florida.
‘ ANDERSON. Raul R. Earle, of
Starr, Anderson county, secures
’"passports to France, where on May
’,25 hp will he one of America’s rep
resentatives in Olympic trapshooting
. contest.
«HM STONE
TO POST OF
ATTORNEY GENERAL
; WASHINGTON. Anril 2.—Harlan
Fiske Stone, former clean of the law
school of Columbia university, has
been selected by President Coolidge
. as attorney general.
Since his retirement from Colum
bia, Mr. Stone has been associated
with the New York law firm of Sat
terlee, Canfield & Stone. He is a na
tive of New Hampshire and a grad-'
Hate of Amherst. He is 51 years old.
; Mr. Stone has served since 1910
; as dean of Columbia university law
school, and recently resigned to be-
E come an active member of the New
York law firm of Satterlee, Canfield
& Stone. He received his law edu
cation at Amherst and Columbia,
and was admitted to the New York
bar in 1898. He is a director of the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line rail
road company and other corporations
end is a Republican, although he
never has taken a leading part in
politics.
Summoned to Washington yester
day, Mr. Stone had a breakfast con
ference today with President Coolidge
and was presented by the president
/to a number of his callers, (includ
*-ihg the Republican leaders of the
K»enate.
i. In selecting Mr. Stone, White
House officials said, the president
.--believes he has been able to accom
plish the purpose he announced yes-
_ terday of finding a $75,000 or SIOO,-
1)00 man to serve in a $12,000 job.
The prospective attorney-general
etnd the president have been friends
since college day sat Amherst. Mr.
r Coolidge graduated on Q year ahead
of Mr. Stone.
The names of Mr. Stone and’Chief
Justice Arthur H. Rv.gg. of the
Massachusetts supreme judicial
court, have been the two most promi
nently considered by the preside.nt
and decision finally was made on Mr.
Stone because of the executive’s feel
' ing that Massachusetts already had
more than her share of high federal
officers.
Mr. Stone has been on leave of
absence from Columbia for the past
year and his resignation as dean of
j the law school will be made effec
| five immediately upon his confirms;
s lion by the senate. His nomination
was sent to the capital today.
| 'Selection of Mr.’ Stone doubles the
/ renresentation of New York in the
cabinet, as Secretary Hughes is
accredited to that state. ,
Coldest April Mom
• Since ’9l Recorded;
Mercury Will Go Up
’ Wednesday morning, while Atlanta
- Shivered under the coldest tempera
ture on. record for April since 1891,
the cheering news came from C F.
von Perrmann, local weather prog-
L nosticator, that fickle nature has
/ played about her last freak card and
that trom now on the sunny south
F should be blessed with some real
spring weather.
Mr. von Herrmann said the official
riding at 7 a. m. Wednesday was 29
L- degrees—three degrees below freez-
I- in£, A similarly low temperature has
not been recorded for April in 33
| years—since 1891.
It did not, however, break the rec
§ ord for the month, this having been
| t on April 2, 1881, when the mer
cury dropped to 25 degrees.
“I don't think the low tempera-
5 ture, did any damage," Mr. von Herr
mann said, "the winds kept the frost
S’ away and it was hardly cold enough,
anyway. I think the peach crop
H should he perfectly safe.
“By Wednesday night the then
| mometer ought, to rise to about 40
degrees and it should continue warm,
with the probability of light show
/ ei ' ? -
BL “However, this has been an un
usual spring and wc might get some
more surprises.” .
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THE ATLANTA TH!-WEEKLY WURNAL
COLUMBIA. —Trunk lines earned
I more money in South Carolina last
year than year before, according to
■ annual reports just filed with state
I railroad commission.
GREENWOOD. Community is
[ aroused by announcement that
I branch of Georgia and Florida rail
road will be completed from Augusta
j to Greenwood by first of 1925.
COLUMBIA.—Capt. John Faw-
I cette, quartermaster and commander
I of Camp Jackson, is found guilty of
' misappropriating $4,000 of army
I funds and sentence is dismissal from
Coast Line’s Florida
Special Is Wrecked;
Engineer Is Killed
RICHMOND, Va„ April 2.—Engi
neer W. L. Snelson was killed, Fire
man J. G. Gravatt severely injured,
a dining car employe suffered a dis
located shoulder and several passen
gers were badly shaken when the
locomotive and eight coaches of the
Atlantic Coast Line “Florida Spe
cial” were»derailed early today near
Woodford, on the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac railroad.
CENTRAL ENGINEER S
DOT ACCIDENTAL.
SWBY'BHICI
MACON, Ga., April 2.—A coro
ner's jury today investigating the
death of Engnieer J. Frank Ed
wards, who died at a. local hospital
yesterday afternoon as the result of
a blow on the forehead as he was
sitting at the throttle of the Dixie
Limited, fast Central of Georgia
train going west, returned a verdict
that he came to his death from a
blow on the head that he probably
received while passing a bridge over
Rocky creek, near where he tum
bled to the deck of his engine. The
theory is that he leaned too far
out the window while passing the
bridge and was hit on the head by
timbers.
Walter White, negro fireman, was
the only witness to testify. He tes
tified that shortly after passing over
the bridge, the engineer fell from
his seat bleeding and that he went
around and climbed up to the throt
tle and stopped the fast-moving
train. He said that the engineer
was sitting at the throttle a short
time before the bridge was reached.
Mr. Edwards’ funeral was held
here this afternoon from his home
and the interment was made in Riv
erside.
Edwards, his skull fractured, was
found unconscious on the floor of
his cab as the train sped along at
55 miles an hour ten miles south
of here. He died soon after being
brought to a. local hospital without
regaining consciousness.
Mr. Edwards is survived by his
widow; two sons, Frank Edwards,
Jr., and Callahan Edwards; a daugh
ter, Miss Ruth Edwards; five broth
ers, W. G. and H. A. Edwards, of
Columbus, Ga.; T. B. Edwards, of
Mount Airy, N. C.; George L. Ed
wards, of Baldwin; Ga., and C. F.
Edwards, of Montana, and three sis
ters, Mrs .E L. Edwards, of Colum
bus, Ga.; tMrs. J. W. W. Hose, of
Gastonia, N. C., and Mrs. A. W.
Polly, of Watertown, N. Y.
Woman Drowns Pets
And Herself to loin
V
Benefactor in Death
NEW YORK, April 2.—lt matters
nothing to Grace Wakefield, 51, a
spinster, whether the man who died
of heart disease in a Bronx hospital
Monday was O. N. Orlow, doctor of
philosophy, or the Prince Johann
Salvator long and mysteriously miss
ing archduke of Austria.
It only mattered that he was gone
from her, and she joined him in death
today, drowning herself in a bath
tub, after having slashed her wrists,
With her went a pet dog, held un
til death under the same water, and
her two bright parrots, drowned in
a nearby hand basin.
Grace Wakefield was the ward of
the kindly old gentleman of distin
guished bearing and princely remi
niscences whose death was recorded
as that of the Archduke Johann Sal
vator, who disappeared from the
Vienna court in 1889 and officially
declared by the Austrian government
to have died in 1890.
He had made her his ward on his
arrival in America 26 years ago, find
ing her an orphan and friendless.
Friends of the courtly old gentle
man said she implicitly trusted in his
tale.
The tragedy was discovered last
night when a friend called to discuss
with Miss Wakefield plans for her
benefactor's funeral.
Man Who Escaped From
Deputy Marshal Here
Caught m Cincinnati
CINCINNATI. Ohio. April 2.—Roy
Wilson, Fort Worth, Tex., was held
under $5,000 bond here today after
being arraigned before United
States Commissioner Thomas M.
Gregory on a charge of being a
figitive from justice. Wilson admit
ted he was wanted in Atlanta, Ga.,
and that he escaped from a deputy
United Stages marshal while being
taken to jail to await trial on a
drug charge.
WILSON "WALKED AWAY"
FROM FULTON TOWER
Rov Wilson, who was recaptured
in Cincinnati, according to press
dispatches, is the man who mingled
with visitors one afternoon and cas
ually "walked away” from the Ful
ton county tower several weeks ago.
He was being held for federal au
thorities on a narcotic law violation
charge.
House Bribe Committee
Renews Private Hearings
WACVrxGTbN, April 2. —The
house committee which Is investi
gating charges against Representa
tives Zihlman, Maryland, and Lang
ley, Kentucky, Republicans, resum
ed its hearings today behind closed
doors. Committee members said it
had not been determined whether
open hearings would be held.
Farmer Dies in Field
MOULTRIE. Ga., April 2.—While
at work on his farm west of Moul
trie, W. Webb, aged GO. died Tues
day without warning. When he went
was apparently as well as usual. His
widow and several children survive
I I army. Findings and sentence are
| subject to approval of corps head-
• ' quarters and by president.
I COLUMBIA. Recent occupants
lof tenement house complain that
' ■ chimney does not “draw,” and tin-
i ner locates copper tank embedded in
i brick, with, pipes leading in and out.
indicating that, it had been used for
storing whisky. Apparatus is turn-1
ed over to police.
M’BEE. Thirty carloads of dew-i
'j berries and an equal amount of i
j poaches will he shipped from the!
a fruit section hereabouts this year,
IDAUGHERTY'S PLAN
WORRIES COOLIDGE
COHORTS IN MO
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1024.)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 2.
' Harry M. Daugherty's evident deter
mination to continue as a candidate
for delegate at large to the Republic
an national convention on the Cool
idge ticket In this state has created
a situation which is puzzling the
politicians more than any condition
with which they have had to deal
in a generation.
Odd as it may seem, the break be
tween the president and the former
attorney general seems to have
strengthened Mr. Daugherty s
chance of election. It was freely
predicted two weeks ago that Mr.
Daugherty would be “cut" on the
primary ballots this year just as
he was in 1920, when even as gen
eral manager of the Harding cam
paign for the nomination he was de
feated in his ambition to represent
the state at Chicago.
Since he was forced out of the
cabinet there has been a reaction
which undeniably is favorable to
Mr. Daugherty, and many of those
who had announced they W’ould vote
against him, say now they will give
him this last honor which he proba
bly will ask from the party. Mr.
Daugherty’s name appears on the
ballot and beneath it is the pledge
to vote for Mr. Coolidge when the
convention meets in this city. The
former attorney general recently
nas stated that nothing has hap
pened to mar his friendship and loy
alty to his former chief, and that
he will serve his cause in Cleveland
as faithfully as if he were still a
public servant. Ohioans evidently
believe this to be a sincere state
ment, and they will support Mr.
1 laughterty accordingly.
The Ohio primaries will be held
Tuesday, April 20, and the Coolidge
delegates are opposed by a Hiram
Johnson slate. The Johnson forces
have not made a militant campaign
m the state as yet, because Senator
Johnson, who is bearing the entire
brunt of the campaign himself, has
been too busy elsewhere. The sena
tor probably will make a whirlwind
tour of Ohio just before the pri
mary date. His followers have been
confidently predicting that they
would get at least one delegate-at
large from this state, and several dis
trict delegates. Their prediction of
one delegate-at-large was based on
their belief that Harry Daugherty
would be defeated.
The Coolidge campaign managers
are not a little worried over the
I Daugherty situation, for they have
sensed the popular reaction which
seems to be based upon the belief
that having been perntiitted to enter
the investigation, tne attorney gen
eral might have been permitted to
make some sort of. defense before
being ousted.
Yet the reaction to Daugherty does
not imply the slightest reaction
against President Coolidge as a can
didate for the nomination. As a mat
! ter of fact, there will be no way in
i which the friends of Daugherty could
show any resentment against the
president in the primary. A vote for
Daugherty will be a vote for Cool
idge. In order to vote against Cool
idge. it would be necessary for a
strictly Daugherty man to vote
against the latter.
Coolidge Faction Worried
There is no doubt but that the
Coolidge managers would feel more
comfortable if Mr. Daugherty were
off the ticket, but they do not dare
openly to express their opinion that
he should resign, even if the brief
time before, the primary permitted
such action on his part. The Cool
idge supporters were particularly
worried over the first reports from
Atlantic City that the former attor
ney general was going to deliver a
veritable broadside against his for
mer chief because of the unexpected
request for his resignation.
Now that the statement has ap
peared and has included a new pledge
of loyalty to Mr. Coolidge much of
the uneasiness has disappeared.
Harry Daugherty is a stormy petrel,
however, in Ohio politics, and the
fear that something may happen to
cause him to erupt again is an ever
living one with the Coolidge ces.
There is no doubt that Harry M.
Daugherty has become quite a. local
hero, and there is also no doubt that
if elected a delegate to the Cleveland
convention he will be even more of
a hero at. the gathring which is to be
held here in his home state. Mr.
Daugherty ordinarily might retire
from the race, but it has been his
life ambition to be elected a delegate
at-large to a national convention, and
it would seem that this time he has
his best chance, despite the fact
that he could not win the honor four
years ago when he was booming a
favorite son for the nomination.
There is a disposition to regard the
primary race as Harry Daugherty’s
swan song, and for that reason some
of his oldest enemies in state poli
tics are silent. Apparently they are
willing that he should have this
meed of comfort before passing into
political eclipse.
Bandits Get $142,288
MONTREAL, April 2.—Eight
masked men who opened fire Tues
day on a money car of the Bank of
Hocl.elaga. escaped with $142,288 aft
er one of their number and a bank
employe had been killed and another
bank employe slightly wounded.
Isn't It True?
CHICAGO —"The less women wear
•he more thev pay for it.” said Just
ice Moore in commenting on the
charges of James Davis that his
wife's extravagance had wrecked
their teosne.
according to estimate made by A. E.
Schilletter, horticulturalist for Clem
son college extension department.
GREENWOOD. Wade Hamp
ton’s birthday is celebrated by
Daughters of Confederacy here on
March 28, with principal address de
livered by Major Henry C. Tillman.
NORTH CAROLINA
CI 1A RLOTTE. —Thrift Manufac-
turing company’s plant, located near
Charlotte, which owns 400 acres of i
land, and operates 26,000 spindles j
and 600 looms, is sold to Harry B. ;
Kendall, of Boston, by W. C. Wilkin-
Here’s the First One:
Two 7-Pound Trout
Caught in One Cast
CAMILLA, Ga., April 2.—With
the coming of April also comes the
first fish story of the season, though
it was a bad day for fish.
■» Mr. Will Stevens, with a rod,
caught two trout of seven pounds
each with a single cast.
Mr. Stevens was sober. In fact al
ways no one was pushing
him. He had the fish to show for
his statement.
Mr. Stevens stated that when he
felt a nard jerk and reeled in, he
was startled to see two large trout
securely fasted to the minnow.
ARIZONA DELEGATES
TWEFOfiraO,
GOY M DECLARES
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 2.—Com
menting on the action of the con
vention of the state Democratic cen
tral committee Monday in declining
'to send an instructed delegation to
the national convention, Governor
Hunt declared today he believed
two-thirds of the 12 delegates named
will support William G. McAdoo
as the nominee of the party.
The governor voiced the opinion
that Arizona, if electing delegates
under the presidential primary sys
tem, would have returned "a greater
proportionate majority for McAdoo
than was given him in Georgia."
in political circles opinion is that
at least four members of the Ari
: zona delegation are staunch McAdoo
supporters while four others are
known to be backing the candidacy
of Senator Oscar W. Underwood, of
Alabama. Arizona has six votes at
the national convention, each dele
gate having one-half vote.
LA FOLLETTE LEADS, 2-1,
IN W ISCONSIN’S PRIMARY
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 2.
United States Senator Robert ' M.
La Follette, of Wisconsin, and Gov
ernor Al Smith, of New York, were
the leaders in yesterday's election
for delegates to the two major par
ties’ national conventions, when ad
ditional returns had been received
today.
Coolidge delegates had only a
1 slight advantage over the position
they held last night. With 543 pre
cincts out of 2,574 in the state re
ported, La Follette delegates had
60,576 votes and Coolidge 32,761.
President Coolidge will probably
i have several district delegates
i pledged to him when the final
count is made, for the first district
showed a majority for his candi
dates. He was also showing strength
in the Sixth district and had over
j come an early lead taken by the La
i Follette candidates there.
In the Democratic contest 487
I precincts out of 2,574 gave: Smith.
14,109; McAdoo, 9,7 5. Smith dele
gates were leading in a majority of
the districts but Insufficient re
turns had been received to venture
a guess as to the ultimate result
in any one district.
The former secretary of the treas
ury was leading in the presidential
i preference primary where Senator
James A. Reed, of Missouri, was his
I only opponent. Little interest was
shown in this race, and the vote was
light. In 154 precincts heard from
j McAdoo .had 2,082 Reed’s 925.
I Wet organizations have been active
. the last few days working for Gov
ernor Smith's delegates.
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Georgia Girl Mother
Still in Jail Pending
Autopsy Over Child
CLEVELAND, Tenn., April 2.
Mrs. Wesley Davis, who was held
to court yesterday on a charge of
causing the, death of her 13 months
i old child by poison, is still in jail •
here, not having succeeded in mak
ing bond which was placed at
$5,000.
Sheriff J. L. Boyd and County
Physician R. P. Sullivan planned
to leave for Ellijay. Ga., today to
have the body of the child disinter
red for a post mortem examination. •
Mr. Davis has agreed to the post !
mortem examination.
The accused, an uneducated moun
tain girl of 17 years, is rapidly los
ing her courage under the strain
of the charge. A small blue-eyed
girl, dressed in a blue silk dress,
with her hair combed straight back
and arranged in a single knot, she
presented a pathetic appearance at
■the hearing.
Fire Razes Half Block
BISBEE, Ariz., April 2. —Fire
which early last night threatened to
i destroy the town of Benson, 50 miles I
from here, was checked shortly after
'lO o’clock after it had razed half
a block, causing property damage
1 estimated at $25,000.
Colquitt Poultry Sale
MOULTRIE. Ga., April 2.—The
first co-operative poultry sale «taged
in Colquitt county this year will be '
held April 10, it is announced by the i
secretary of the recently organized
County Poultry association.
son, Charlotte banker, president of
mill company. Purchase price is sl,-
500,000. Kendall recently purchased
other important Carolina textile
plants.
RALEIGH. —John G. Dawson,
of Kinston, chairman of Democratic
executive committee, says state may
send delegation of eight delegates-at
large to national convention at New
York, instead of usual four, each of
eight to have one-half vote, to make
places for women.
RALEIGH. Taxable property
of state increased $60,2,58,000 to
$2,576,380,000 in 1923, according to
MH. RUSSELL OK
PROMINENT
IS DEAD IN OIIITMSH
QUITMAN, Ga., April I.—The sud
den death of Mr. J. Russell Davis
early Tuesday morning removed one
of the outstanding figures In bank
i ing and business circles in south
I Georgia. His death was totally un
expected. He played a game of golf
with friends on the local course Mon
day afternoon and was in his usual
good spirits. He was about fifty
three years old and was one of the
best known nten in Quitman.
When the family physician ar
rived Mr. Davis told him that he
was dying and passed out in a few
moments.
The funeral was held here this
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the
late residence by the Rev. Roger L.
Clark, his pastor. The interment
was in Oaklawn cemetery.
Mr. Davis was in his fifty-third
year. He is survived by his widow;
1 two sons, Donald and Russell, Jr.,
I and two daughters, Mrs. J. W. Pate,
| of Monticello, Fla., and Mrs. Harn
miter Graves, of Eufaula, Ala.
His death was coincident with the
! close of his term as president of the
1 Rotary club. The Rotarians met and
i adopted resolutions of sorrow at his
; passing and to present to his widow
: the past president’s jewel which was
to have been presented to him.
Mr. Davis had a long and honor
! able business career here. He was
the son of the late Dr. T. J. Davis,
who was local agent of the old At
lantic and Gulf railroad, later the
Plant system. Mr. Davis, his oldest
son, succeeded him upon his death.
He became cashier of the Merchants
and Farmers bank. When the Citi
zens bank was organized, he was
cashier, and when this bank was
merged with the First National
bank, Mr. Davis became vice presi
dent and executive officer.,
Mr. Davis served more than twen
ty years either as member of the
city council or as mayor. He also
served as jury commissioner and in
similar public capacities. In recent
years, he had developed conspicu
ously in civic services. He had been
a leader in the Rotary club and was
a member of Porter Pierpont’s com
mittee from the Thirty-ninth district
to arrange for the international con
vention in Toronto in June. He was
1 of the class of ’92 at Mercer uni
! versity and a member of the Kappa
! Alpha fraternity.
He married Miss Constance Mc
! Call, of Quitman, and their children
j are Mrs. J. W. Pate, of Monticello,
Fla.; Mrs. Hammiter Graves, of
I Eufaula. Ala., and Donald and Rus
j sell Davis. Jr., of Quitman.
Georgian Deserts Wife
| And 4 Children; Elopes
With Sister-in-Law
THOMASTON. Ga., April 2.—W.
H. Dean. Thomaston business man
| who recently sold his mercantile in
terests here, eloped Saturday night
; with the wife of Jake Daugherty, a
! taxicab driver and Dean’s brother
! in-law, according to information be-
I coming public today.
Dean, who left a. wife and four
; children, is said to have drawn $5,000
i from the bank. The couple went to
; Barnesville in an automobile and
there caught a train. Mrs. Dean,
confirming the reports, said that she
had heard nothing from her husband.
Daugherty was ~bot last year by
a taxi driver named Smith in a quar
rel involving a woman. Smith never
has been apprehended.
Several Earth Tremors
Felt in Tennessee
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., April 2
Several distinct earth tremors were
felt here at 5:30 o’clock this morn
i n g.
SHARP TREMOR ALSO FELT
IN STATE OF’ ILLINOIS
CAIRO. 111, April 2—A sharp
earthquake was felt here about 5:15
o’clock this morning There was no
damage It was reported as far
north as Carbondale
40,000 Miners Idle
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 2.
Forty thousand coal miners in Mis
souri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Ar
kansas are idle today as a result of ■
the failure of representatives of the |
Southwestern Interstate Operators’ I
association and miners to reach an i
agreement on a new wage scale be- :
fore their conference ended last |
night. •
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
YOU DOM’ HAVE T' Txo |
SUMPN LOW DOWN T'
LOSE all yo' ole FRIENDS ■
HEAP O' TIMES T>EYLL .
YOU EF YOU RE-FORMS’
iSOs?
3-J/
(Copyright, 1924. by The Belt Syndicate, TacO
Revenue Commissioner Doughton.
Thirty-six counties of state reported
decreases.
ASHEVlLLE.—Possibility of seri
ous curtailment of important build
ing operations develops when bripk
layers present demand for $1 per
day increase to basis of sll per day.
Painters also demand increases
averaging about $1.40 per day to $B
- $1 per day to $9. Negotia
tions indicate crisis may be averted
until May 1.
RALEIGH.—More than 95,000
members are called by Co-operative
Tobacco Growers’ association to meet
in respective counties in North Caro
. lina, South Carolina and Virginia,
April 5.
ALABAMA
FLORENCE.—Confident that the
Ford bid for Muscle Shoals will be
j accepted by government at early
jdate, thousands of investors from all
COL. HOUSE “EYES AND EARS”
FOR WILSON; PICKED MANY
MEN FOR HIGHEST OFFICES
Friendship of Texan and
President Unique in His
tory—Took Heavy Load
From Shoulders of Chief
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1D24, by the George H. Doran
i company in the United Statej, Canada, Soutn
America. World publication rights reserved
by Current News Features, Incorporated.)
CHAPTER XVI
SELECTION of the cabinet of
President Wilson was a unique
process probably without parallel
in American history. It is doubtful
whether anyone played a greater
I part in the making of the cabinet
than Colonel House.
The development of the friendship
between the quiet man from Texas
and Woodrow Wilson was as remark
able as their subsequent separation
under circumstances all the more
amazing to relate when the full story
of their association is told.
Colonel House was first of all a
man of independent means, a liberal
in politics and of influential personal
ity. His tact and diplomacy, his
progressiveness and unselfishness
captured Mr. Wilson's imagination.
“What I like about Colonel House,”
explained Governor Wilson, one day
to a group of newspapermen who dis
played curiosity about the growing
friendship, “is that he holds things
at arm’s length objectively. He
seems able to penetrate a proposi
jnon und get to its very essence quick
ly. He wants nothing for himself.
He will not hold office, and is a
truly disinterested friend—the most
valuable possession a man could
have.”
In those weeks preceding the in
auguration of Mr. Wilson, Colonel
House did an extraordinary thing
which, from that day to this, has not
been disclosed in print, but it shows
the remarkable influence he pos
sessed. As will be remembered by
those who follow the stock market,
the uncertainty over what the new
Democratic administration might do
had an unsettling effect in the finan
cial district —at least so claimed the
' leading financiers, some of whom
kept hinting that unless the uncer
tainty was allayed a panic even
I might follow the inauguration of the
I president. Wall Street professed to
; be alarmed over the radicalism of the
! newly elected chief executive, arid
what he might do to business gen
erally.
Allayed Financiers’ Fears
Some of the bankers asked Colonel
House to attend a dinner and ex
plain what was likely to happen un
der the new administration. He did
not consent until he had Mr. Wil
son’s sanction. According to some
of those who were present, the
amount of money represented at that
gathering was at least five billions
of dollars in actual wealth, and many
billions more in potential credit. All
the important financiers in America
were there or sent representatives.
The colonel erased the notion that
Wood row Wilson was a "wild radi
cal,” who would turn things upside
down and instead gave a general
sketch of what Mr. Wilson hoped to
accomplish byway of currency re
form. What the bankers wanted was
something straight from headquar
ters about the Wilson intentions —
not the details, but his general atti
tude toward business and finance.
Whether the talk Colonel House gave
that night to all the important finan
! ciers of the country had any sequel
in the confidence thereafter display
! ed by the markets is too intangible to
' prove, but there was a noticeable let
up in the predictions of disaster and
calamity which had been spread
about the metropolitan district.
Again and again Governor Wil
son went to the apartments of
Colonel House In New York, seeing
many important visitors there. Later
on, after Mr. Wilson was inaugurat
ed, the home of Colonel House was
a. sort of New York branch of the
White House.
There were frequent conversa
tions over the long distance tele
phone and a regular series of letters
day by day. These communications
were private in every sense and
were not opened by any intervening
officials. Naturally there was often
a disposition on the part of other
advisers of the president to wonder
what subject? were being discussed
or taken up between Colonel House
and Mr. Wilson. The colonel was
reticent—he earned a reputation of
“silent partner" and he kept Mr.
Wilson’s confidence faithfully.
Had Page Appointed
Many of the matters which
Colonel House dealt related to ap
pointments to office. If the presi
dent wished to conduct an investiga- .
tion as to the fitness of an individual
for an important place, he would
ask Colonel House to make such an
investigation tactfully. $t was
Colonel House who suggested the
name of Walter Hines Page to be
American ambassador to Great Brit
ain: I rode from New York to Wash
ton w’ith him on the day before he ,
took this matter up with Mr. Wil- ’
son and he told me of the pros- !
pective appointment feeling abso
lutely sure he could persuad-s M%
Wilson to make it. And he did. It
was w’ith considerable amusement,
therefore, that the colonel read later
on of reports that friction had de
veloped between Ambassador Page
and President Wilson because
Colonel House had been sent to Eu
rope as an unofficial envoy.
In the weeks immediately preced
ing the inauguration Colonel House
was especially valuable to Mr. Wil
son in deciding political questions re
lating to the personnel of the cabi- ‘
net. After the inauguration the i
co’oney kept on dealing with patron
age matters for Mr. Wilson and
keeping the latter informed on the !
impressions the administration was
making in the large centers of thi
east. But the colonel brought most
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CLANTON.—By using steel traps,
M. D. Wyatt, farmer, living near
here, catches 14 hawks and 11 owls.
MONTGOMERY. Camp Lomax,
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Montgomery, launches campaign to
raise money to place portraits of Lee
and “Stonewall" Jackson in state
capital here.
SELMA. —Over SIOO worth of new
non-edible citrus, known as tri-foli
oge orange, considered worthless,
are sold by M. F. C. Riggs and W.
C. Harrell, of Pleasant Hill, to sat
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BIRMINGHAM.—CoI. Tom O.
Smith, president of Birmingham
Trust company, scores proposed $5,-
000,000 school bond issue, at meet
ing of Birmingham real estate board.
ly to Mr. Wilson later an intimate
knowledge of foreign affairs and a
personnel acquaintance with many
of the most important figures in
world diplomacy. Mr. Wilson’s read
iness to entrust Colonel House with
his confidence on missions relating
to foreign policy was due to his be
lief that the colonel was tactful and
diplomatic and would not be restrict
ed by the same forms and conven
tions that surrounded a full-fledged
ambassador. Many people never
could understand Avhy President Wil
son made use of unofficial envoys.
The truth of the matter is that Mr.
Wilson felt more could be accom
plished by an unattached envoy than
by one who was officially accredited
to a government and therefore un
able to reach into the heart of a
problem and make personal investi
gation, or say thifigs as bluntly as
could a casual envoy who had no
official status.
Mr. Wilson used to refer to Colo
nel House as his “eyes and ears.”
He was more than that. He was Mr.
Wilson’s personal representative in
making a first-hand investigation of
the facts ?and opinions conveyed to
the. White House by ambassadors
and ministers in long-winded official
reports.
Wilson’s “Star Reporter”
Colonel House was really analo
ous to the star reporter who is oc
casionally sent by his newspaper to
make a general survey of a situa
ti< n. Local correspondents are main
tained in nearly every important
center, but large newspapers, every
now and then, send a man to visit
gous to the star reported who is oc
follow a particular line of investiga
tion. He is often able to pry into
matters which the local correspond
ent for one reason and another is
embarrassed in attempting to un
tangle. Colonel House, moreover,
had the facu’ty of digesting situa
tions and putting them into brief re
ports. He was adroit in his conver
sations—he never committed the
government of the United States to
any policy. He -worked in close har-
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Charges made by Captain H. L.
Scaife, former department of jus
tice agent, that the American relief
administration in 1919, on orders of
Herbert Hoover, now secretary of
commerce, diverted $1,000,000 -worth
of supplies intended for starving
Russian civilians to the counter
revolutionary leader, Admiral Kol
chak, at Archangel, may be aired by
the senate Daugherty committee.
Scaife, in his testimony before the
committee Saturday, made passing
reference to a "diversion of funds
by the administration to finance a
revolution in Russia” and later
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Hoover, Scaife said, ordered a
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most complete bunk.”
mony with the ambassadors and
ministers, and he did take a larga
burden off Mr. Wilson’s mind.
But before the inauguration Colo
nel House can be said to have been
responsible for the. selection of at
least half of Mr. Wilson’s cabinet
He knew David F. Houston, who be
came secretary of agriculture. Mr.
Houston bad been president of the
University of Texas. The friendship
of Mr. Wilson and Secretary Hous
ton was the admirxtion of one in
tellectual for another. Indeed when
it became apparent to Mr. Wilson in
1920 that on account of his ill-health
he could not expect the Democratic
convention at San Francisco to nomi
nate him, he wished that the con
vention might turn to a man like
Houston. He never made pubic an
nouncement of that fact, but among
the president’s intimate friends this
was an open secret.
Charles R. Crane, who became
minister to China and who exerted
a great deal of influence on Mr. Wil
son in connection with the Russian
affairs, was one of the inner circle
who favored Mr. Houston’s candi
dacy in 1920. An index of how Mr.
Wilson felt toward Secretary Hous
ton was given when Secretary Glass
resigned as head of the treasury de
partment, to become United States
senator from Virginia, Mr. Wilson
transferred Secretary Houston to the
treasury portfolio without a mo
ment's hesitation. Mr. Houston had
always shown a practical knowledge
of economies. At that time Mr. Wil
son leaned heavily in the cabinet on
Mr. Houston’s advice —he was one
of the strong men of the administra
tion. Many of the communications
to congress, particularly on fiscal
matters, signed bv President Wilson
d .ring his illness, were word for
word written ty Secretary Houston.
(Saturday’s chapter tells how
Woodrow Wilson picked his cabinet
—one member he never met till in
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