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Atlanta CiH-lUccKlii Souwial
OL. XXVI. NO. 83
MEATY SHD
ffIffIFTMOH.
WITNESS DECLSRES
aston Means Bares Alleged
Workings of Ring Says
Smith Wanted to Return
Part of Fund
WASHINGTON, Api;il 16. New
larges of crookedness in the de
triment of justice, this time reach
e-up to Harry M. Daugherty
rtiself, were brought before the
augherty investigating committee
day by Gaston B. Means, former
ipartment agent and man of many
nnections.
He testified that Jess W. Smith,
i the night before lie committed
icide in the Daugherty apartment
re, asked Means to “return ’ j
00,000 to a New York whisky !
“Didn't Smith tell you he had
ade a division with the attorney
neral and the attorney general
juldn't return it?” asked Senator
heeler, the committee prosecutor.
“He did,’’ replied Means.
Means also declared Smith had
Id him that Daugherty knew he
uld indict A. Mitchell Palmer, at
rney general under the Wilson ad
inistration, but decided not to, ho
use he wanted to "blackmail” him
to using influence in congress. He
scribed a meeting between Daugh
ty and Palmer from which he
id the latter emerged “scared to
ath” at the proposition Daugherty
id put up to him.
Switching to the indictment of
■nator Wheeler in Montana, the
tness asserted he had information
it heretofore disclosed regarding
e activities of the department of
stice in the case. The men sent
om A shington who really did the
ork of collecting evidence, he said,
td \ ked under cover and their
entity had not been revealed.
Took (* tiers From Smith
During the Daugherty impeach
ent proceedings in the house more
an a year ago. Means said he
new” department of justice agents
id "investigated” Representative
oodruff. of Michigan, and other
embers of congress.
"Did Daugherty tell you to take
dcis from Jess'Smith?” asked Sell
er Wheeler. *
"He told me to do anything Jess
nith ordered me to do. And he
id he liked me because I never let
y left hand know what my right
ind was doing.”
"How did Jess Smith handle
ones’?”
“In a roll—the most I ever saw
m have was SIOO,OOO- —1 brought
at to him.”
“How much did you pay him aito
sther?”
“Oh. anywhere from $225,000 to
50,000. The night before he died
nith told me he wanted me to re
irn some money to Now York
>otleggers. I wouldn’t have nnv
ling to do with it, and told him to
•e their lawyers.
*‘Ma.nington, on other deals, did
trn iback $20,000. The bootleggers
anted $200,000. Everybody knew
ianington and Smith represented
ie attorney general in the whisky
Brmits.”
Vi wish you’d be a little more par
cular,” Senator Jones, Republican.
r ashington, remonstrated.
*’l mean everybody in the whisky
in™ Will Orr, Tom Felder. John
JorJni,” said Means.
Senator Wheeler then brought up
£-jmb.iect of his own indictment
Montana.
“Mr. Daugherty says he had noth-
Vto do with my indictment,” he
tserved.
“Oh, Burns told me he had ad
ised Daugherty agviinst getting
tat indictment weeks ago,” Means
lid. "The attorney general went
lead with it •'against his advice."
Tariff Experts Trailed
“Do you knew anything of seareh
of senate offices during the tariff
'Lt?” *,
"We had the whole tariff commt.-
on under surveillance. We follow
t up all tho experts, and gave re
ais on it to the chairman of the
immission and to Mr Fordney over
the house. 1 bad four or five men
t Iping.”
"What did the department want
find out’.”’ asked Senator JoneS.
"One thing, some Japanese import
's wanted a special rate and one °f
ie commission experts was actually
.iployed by a Japanese concern. A ti
ller expert was dealing with the
igar crowd.”
"Then it wasn't the tariff com
ission, it was their experts,” Sena
r Jones said.
"That’s right,” Means replied. He
is excused for the time being and
ie committee recessed its hearing
util tomorrow.
'hild Is Killed When
Auto Runs Into Cow
On Road Near Tifton
TIFTON, Ga„ April 16. — Edna
pal Barr, ve year old daughter of
. S. Barr, yas killed, and two no
roes were injured slightly whim
ie Barr automobile, in which the
lild. her father and the two negroes
tiding, struck a eow near here
iriy today. The force of the im
;.c threw the little srl from the
her head striking a crosstie.
lair was not injured.
)ii Probe Grand Jury
Selection Is Delayed
In Washington Court
WASHINGTON. April 16—Selce
on of a grand jury before which
to he presented the criminal eases
rowing out of tin senate oti inves-
Rjition was deferred -nd-tv :n tin
iTstrlct of Columbia supreme court
mil April 25.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
IP or Id News
Told in
Brief
WAS! 11NGTON. —Wit hout record
vote senate adopts Japanese exclu
sion provisions of immigration bill.
CHICAGO. —Nearly quarter of a
million persons witness opening
games in major leagues and Ameri
can association.
NEWPORT, R. I.—Miss Alice
Leonard is elected city treasurer to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of City Treasurer John M. Taylor.
CONST ANTINOPI ,E.—The grand
national assembly at Angora unani
mously ratifies the treaty of friend
ship between Turkey and Germany.
WASHINGTON. - Jail sentences
for liquor law violators are urged in
instructions prepared by Attorney
General Stone to United States at
torneys.
PITTSBURG. —Masanao Hanihara,
the Japanese ambassador, cancels an
engagement as oen of the speakers
at the Carnegie Institute Founders’
day exercises.
OTTAWA.—TotaI exclusion of Jap
aense from Canada is advocated in
the house of commons by W. W.
Neill, independent member from
Britfsh Columbia.
BERLIN. —Formal notification of
Germany’s acceptance of experts’ re
port as basis for renewed parleys is
sent to Paris for transmission to rep
arations commission.
W ASHING TON. —Appropriation o f
$2,500,000 for payment of claims tiled
under provisions of the war ininera’ i
relief act would be authorized in a
bill passed by the senate.
FT. WAYNE. Ind.—'Clara. Kimball
Young, screen and stage actress, is
taken suddenly ill during her per
formance and her condition is said
by physicians io be serious,
PHILADELPHIA.—A. J. A. De
vereau. internationally-known polo
player, suffering from injuries re
ceived in play, is judged insane and
confined to Philadelphia hospital.
PARlS.—Premier Poincare * opens
his electoral campaign with an ad
dress in which he claimed the ex
perts' reports had proved a justifica
tion for the occupation of the Ruhr.
NEW YORK.—Democratic nation
al committee rejects plan to hold na
tional-convention in 258th Field Ar
tillery armory, The Bronx, and defi
nitely decides on Madison Square
Garden.
WASHINGTON.— Senate , rejects
nomination of Samuel Knight, of
San Francisco, as special govern
ment counsel for prosecution of liti
gation, involving leases in California
naval oil reserve No. 2.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge, in speech at unveiling of Ari
zona memorial stone in Washington
monument, declares retention by
states of their sovereignty is essen
tial to preservation of the union.
WASHINGTON. Wtihout com
ment, President Coolidge transmits
to the house a suppplemental esti
mate of SIOO,OOO to cover expenses
beginning July 1 of senate investiga
tions.
WAS H1 NG TON’.—Senate rejec t s
by vote of 76 to 2, amendment to
pending immigration bill under
which "gentlemen’s agreement” with
Japan would be ratified and con
tinued.
LONDON. —Task of reconciling
past differences and of establishing
normal trade and political relations
between Great. Britain and Russia
is begun at Anglo-Russian conference
at London.
NEW YORK.—Dr. Nowell Dwight
Hillis, one of the best-known clergy
men in the United States, resigned
as pastor of the Plymouth Congrega
tional church in Brooklyn because
of ill health.
WASHINGTON. —President Cool
idge, addressing the 33d continental
congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, urges women
of America to exercise rights of
suffrage in 1924 elections.
SEWARD, Alaska. —Major Freder
ick L. Martin, commanding U. S.
army world flight, is forced to de
scend in flying from Seward to Chig
nik, Alaska, and is believed to be
safe in Kialagvik Bay.
CHICAGO. —The life of the Ameri
can Legion depends upon the passage
nt' an adjusted compensation act for
ex-service men, Aaron Sapiro, chair
man of the national legislative com
mittee of the legion, declares.
NEW YORK.—More than 2,401
members of the American Bar asso
ciation have requested reservations
for the gathering of American and
Canadian lawyers in London, July 20,
as guests of the British bar.
MEN ICO ClTY.—Capture, court
martial and execution of the rebel
generals Mario Rendon, Severn Reza
and D. Saucedo is reported by Gen
eral Pablo Marcias, military com
mander of the state of Tamaulipas.
NEW YORK.—Secretary of State
Hughes in keynote address at Re
publican state convention here calls
President Coolidge an “idea’ execu
tive.” and says parti is undismayed
by tale bearers and scandal mongers.
BERLIN. Central government
and premiers of federated states of
G.ern any in conference at Berlin
agree to accept report of experts
committee to reparation commission
as basis for negotiations for parley.
ALBANY, N. A’. —Governor Alfred
E. Smith, after receiving pledge of
support of New York state Demo
crats for presidential nomination,
tells state convention he would be
"honored” to lead forces of party in
next campaign.
MEXICO CITY Negotiations sot
> t $15,000,000 loan which the Mexi
li' in government hopes to obtain
hN • w Yoi k ink s have n<it
been completed because of inability
to agree on conditions imposed by
the bankers,
WASHINGTON M S Daug
erty. brother of former attorney gem
era] and president of Midland Na
tional hank, of Washington Court
house. Ohio, is cited for contempt of
senate tn motion adontod bv com
• mit’re inn -tia.itit s; department of
I justice.
SATTERFIELD'S PLEA
FOR CLEMENCY IS
REJECTED 8T BOARD
Appeal to Governor Is Last
Resort Left for the Con
demned Slayer of R, H,
Hart
The Georgia prison commission I
Wednesday morning declined to
recommend clemency in the case of
J. B. Satterfield, sentenced to be
hanged April 25 for the murder of
his brother-in-law. R. H. Hart, here
in December, 1921.
An appeal to Governor Walker is
the last resort of the condemned
man.
The prison commission was asked
to recommend clemency for Satter-,
field bn the ground that he xjfiis sub
ject to hallucinations. Attorney |
Murphy Holloway, who represented >
him at the trial, presented the ap
peal before the commissioners last ;
week.
Satterfield was convicted in Ful-'
ton superior court, and his sentence
was upheld by the state supreme
court. He was iback here
and tried 'after having been at lib
erty for more than a year after slay
ing Mr. Hart.
Members of the prison commission
stated the evidence indicated that
Satterfield killed Hart because he
did not get. a small amount of
property left by Mrs. Satterfield,
and that there was nothing to prove
that Satterfield was not in his right
mind at the time of the s.aying, >
or at other times.
It was reported in state capitol
circles Wednesday that Mr. Hollo
way would ask Governor Walker
to grant a respite in the case and
appoint a lunacy commission to in
vestigate the mental state of Sat
terfield, but Mr. Holloway stated
he expected to submit the case to
the governor on the present record.
He said he would ask for a hearing
date at once.
Satterfield killed Hart during
Christmas week in 1921. after he
had chased him from the Hart home
on Trinity avenue, near Whitehall
.street. Hart ran out of the house,
followed by Satterfield, and sought
refuge in a soda dispensary at
Whitehall street and Trinity avenue,
and was killed while in the store.
Recently, soon after his sentence
was affirmed by the supreme court,
Satterfield escaped from tli<- Fulton
county towtir by sawing his way
out, but was recaptured after six
teen hours’ liberty.
Interested by Play,
Women of New York
Visit Berry School
I NEW YOJ?I<, April 16.—Interest
led in the education of southern
: mountain children through having
; seen “SunUp,” the play written by
[ Lulu Volhner, formerly cashier at
I the Piedmont hotel in Atlanta. a !
| part of wealthy New York women |
■ are in Rome today to visit thej
; Berry school. Two benefit per-1
j formant es of “Sun-Up” have been t
; given this season so rthe Berry!
| schools under the chairmanship of I
I Mrs. John Henry Hammond, whoj
J heads the party that is in Geor ;
j gin.
Among the other members are
i Mrs. John M. Franklin, Miss Adele
Is. Hammond Miss Mary C. Hebard.
I Mrs. V ern Macy and her daugh ;
! ter. Miss Edytha. Mrs. J. Noel Mac.' !
land her mother. Mrs. Martin: Miss’
Jane Bels, Mrs. Cornelius R Agnevx j
and her daughter, Alice; Miss Alice
B. Kauser, Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock.!
Mrs. Malcolm Gordon. Mrs. Eugene]
R. Cox. Mrs. "'aldo Richards. Mrs.]
Hughart Laughlin and Mr. an'd
! Mrs. Georg*' Lister Carlisle. Jr.
'Mabel Must Testify
Or Quit Los Angeles,
Prosecutor Asserts
LOS ANGELES April 16.—Mabel’
Normand, film actress, must appear ’
as a witness in the trial of Hora?e :
A. Greer, formerly her chauffeur.!
for the shooting of Courtland S.
Dines, or stay away from Los An |
geles and her moving picture work
indefinitely, if District Attorm y ’
Asa .Keyes is able to impress his I
viewpoint on the superior court
when Greer’s * ase is i ailed totnor
row.
The actress was one of the part' -
I in Dines’ apartment when he was
I shot. She left the jurisdiction of I
the court for a trip eastward before I
I Greer’s preliminary 'nearing had
I been completed.
! Keyes declares her evidence is <
’ sential and states be will ask the
| court to postpone the case from
| time to time until she appears. Miss
Normand is said be i Detroit.
I Suspected Physician
Moved Further From
Florida Killing Scene
OCALA. Fla.. A mil 16—Advices
I from Williston this morning are to
] the effect that the coroner’s jury
: investigating the death of D. T
Faircloth ami his four-\ ear-old '
'daughter reported they c.ime to
l their death “at the hands of nn un
' known person.”
Di. J. M Willis rreste
’ pi< ion. first was confined in the
Gainesville jail, but has been remov
ed to another further from Willis
ton He is supposed to be in « lack
son vdle Dr. Willis is the son of
Jesse M. Willis, foi whom the town
is named. He is about 55 yeais oid
'and has a wife, a son and a daugh
I ter.
i State Without Bank Board
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Apr!
' 15.—Oklahonw is without a state
j hanking board The terms of the old
numbers expired with rhe v.ijourn
! ment of the legislature ar.d G«*w i ror
’ Trapp has held tip the appointment
| <>f a new board pending the tier
iof a -tate banking commissi er.
Two Dead, 25 11l
Os Ptomaine Poison
In Georgia Town
| LEESBURG, Ga., April 15. —Three!
’ negroes are chad and it is estimated
j that between twenty-five and thirty;
I persons, including members of sev- ,
: oral write families, are seriously ill
from ptomaine poisoning, said to
have been caused by eating spoiled
"souse,” or hogshead cheese, bought
from a local meat market Saturday.
Several of the cases developed
Sunday and others yesterday. The
negroes who died are Reuben Da
vis, who lived about one mile from
Leesburg: Viirtoria Down and Mary
Allen, who lived on C. S. Pryor’s
plantation, in the Chokee district,
about six miles front Leesburg.
Among the white persons who are
seriously ill are members of three
families in Leesburg'. They are Wil 1
Bulloch, wife and three children:
Mrs. Susie Spillers and two sons,
Lawrence Manning and one small
child.
Physicians and nurses were sum
moned from Albany.
DELEGUi FROM ~
MISSOURI FWORS
WM. G. M'IODO
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 15.—1
Delegates from twelve districts fa-;
vorable to the candidacy of William .
G. McAdoo for the Democratic presi- i
dential nomination were chpsen to- !
day at the Missouri state conven-|
tion.
They will be uninstructed, how-;
ever. In the other four districts
delegates favorable to James Reed, I
United States senator from Mis- ’
souri, were chosen.
M’ADOO HITS BACK ROOM
BOSSING AT CONVENTIONS
CHICAGO, April 15.—1 f the
Democrats nominate for president ;
"a reactionarj* or colorless candi- ‘
date who can be easily influenced I
or Fontroled there will be another |
victory for the Republicans, and in j
that case we shall have four more i
years of inefficiency, special priv i
ilege and corruption at Washing- I
ton,” William G. McAdoo, Demo- j
crat presidential candidate, said in |
a statement here last night.
Mr. McAdoo arrived here after a ’
trip through Utah, Oklahoma, Colo ]
ratio and Texas, where, he declared. I
he found further evidence of the I
determination of the people to see ;
nominated a progressive Democrat
running on a progressive platform.
He is on his way t-o the northwest.
“I have been following the only
genuinely democratic course.” he
said, “namely, going to the people
direct, stating my position on pub
lic questions and giving them a
chance to ‘decide for themselves who
the nominee of the party shall be.
1 am opposed to manipulated party '
conventions, controlled from a back
room or any other secret recess by j
any small group or sinister influ- I
ence. My opponents do not seem ?
to be any too eager for a fight in i
the open or to have the people pass >
upon i heir case. They prefer ‘unin
structed delegations’ and similar
subterfuges' to enable them to I
manipulate the on vention.”
Most of the states that have act- |
ed, he declared, show that (he peo- i
pie expect to have a hand in select- I
ing the democratic nominee and ’
framing the platform. If the states i
still to act show the same “progres
sive tendency,” he said. he ex- !
peeted a "great victory” for pro
gressive democracy in November.
FAVORING SENATOR WHEELER,
MO.NIANIAN FILES . -,illlON
HELENA, Mont., April 15.—Fa
voting the nomination of Senatoi |
B. K. Wheeler for president on the j
democratic ticket. 11. P. Cope, of I
Sunburst, one of the new towns in
I the Toole county oil fields-, yester ’
i day filed his petition as a delegate !
j to the democratic national conven 1
1 tion.
I Free Children Burned
When Stove Explodes
And Fires Their Bed
HIGH POINT >N. C.. April 15.
Fire caused by an exploding oil .
I stove that set fire to their bed to .
j day seriously burned Beatrice Over-1
I cash, six ' ears old. ami her sisters. !
i Helen, four, and Nellie, aged two
I months. The infant was so badly
j burned she is not expected to re
j coVer.
Odeil Overcash, a grocer, father
I of the children, was away from home.
] The mother this morning opened the
I store, located on the first floor of
! the building in which the family
! lives. Returning she discovered the
; fire and gave the alarm. Firemen
I rescued the children.
Violent Earth Shocks
Recorded Overseas
ROME, April 15. —The observatory
at Faenza registered a violent,c irth
quake beginning nt 6:35 o’clock last
■ evening. 'Die seismographic instru
' ments vibrated nearly four hours.
Ireland Feels Shock
DUBLIN. April 15.—The seismo
graph instrument at Rathfarnham
’ Castle was agitated for one and one
half hours, beginning at 5 41 o'clock
yesterday afternoon
London reported last night that*
the West Bromwich observatory at
5:39 p m yesterday recorded an
eruth shock' /nore s- vr-re than that
in Japan last year. The distu
was estimated at about 7.000 miles
distant, supposedly in the Pacifh
ocean bed.
Record Number Take
Florida Bar Exam
TA LLAHASSEE F 15.
The courtroom of th*, state supreme
c*mrt Today took on the appearance
of i colleg*- study hall with the court
holding its semi annual examination
of appl’cants for admission io the
bar in this state Nearly sixtj" were
: taking the examinations, represent
ing the largest class in the history
of the court.
’L'l.e t x.aminations will last thi**-
days, after which the justices will
’ f- i se\< ial di? s grading ’he
papers.
DEPDTY SHERIFF'S
HOME LIMITED
INFLOTDCDim
Automobile Reported to Havel
Stopped Short Time Near!
Officer Bobo’s Residence at
11:30 Monday Night
ROME, Ga.. April 15.—The f'ont
portion of the home of Deputy Sher
iff John Bobo, at Silver Creek, six
miles from here, was wrecked by a i
dynamite explosion at 1 o’clock this
morning. The blast was attributed
to bootleggers or moonshiners
against whom Eobo has been active.
No lone was injured.
. Officers today were informed that
. an automobile passed the Bobo resi
' cence on the Rockmart road at Sib
I ver creek about 11:30 o’clock last
I night, and stopped a short distance
I from the house.
Bloodhounds soon after the explo
; s:on trailed across a field to a spot
a quarter.of a mile from the ” ’*o
I home. The dynamiters are believed
I to have set a two-hohr fuse on the
t'ropt porch. A pillar was blasted
I away a.nd windows on both florrs of
! the house were shattered.
Bobo is a special officer employed
I by the Massachusetts mills, at Lin;
i dale, and had been working closely
I with Grover. C. Williams, recently
I deposed county policeman, in run
! ning down bootleggers and moon-
I shiners. Williams’ office was abol
' ished. by the county board of roads
and revenue commissioners over the
' protest of judges of two courts here
] and other officials and citizens.
Former Slave Leaves
Estate to Descendants * :
Os One-Time Master
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 16. j
j Loyalty and devotion for his old ;
i "massa” and "missus that lived in i
j the heart of a negro slave for years |
I after their death found expression in
I a will bequeathing property, acctim
! ulated during his freedom, to the
I grandchildren of his former owners
] in preference to his own offspring. :
: it was revealed in probate court here
! Tuesday.
Dan Freeman, a familiar charac- '
' ter here during the years after his
emancipation, left property valued
at approximately $3,000 to the five
children of Mr??- C. W. Garrett, of
this City, who was a daughter of the
aged negro’s former owners, under
provisions of a second will, evidence
showed. Freeman’s three children
are contesting the award.
! Jack Dempsey Beaten
To Theater’s Cash Box
By Unfeeling Robbers
T./CS A NX. FILES. CaL, April 16.
Burglars beat Jack Dempsey to the
cash box at Alexander Pantages’ the-
I ater in Kansas City, Mo., according
I to Pantages’ answer and cross-com
, pl,tint to a suit brought against him
here by the worldi? heavyweight box
’ ing champion ana his manager.
Dempsey’s complaint says $2.3->6
duo for performances in Kansas City
I never was paid. The answer says
that sum represented excess profit >
kept in a separate cash bpx from th*
i $4,000 a week minimum guaranteed
under the fighter’s contract, ami th u
when burglars snatched the cash box
I there no longer were any excess
I profits. ’
Five U. S. Soldiers Die
When Truck Overturns
i In Hawaiian Islands
HONOLULU, April 15— (By the
I Associated Press.)—Five enlist' d
I men of the United States army Je
! tachment a: Schofield barracks w -re
: killed and five others injured Mon-
I day afternoon when an army truck
; carrying 15 men overturned on the
road between Schofield anrF Haleiw a
The ad Corporal Giles
| Parker, Privates Anthony Urinis
i Lawrence Kennea’y, Harry Kimes
•.ml < h< ster \ ' illiiee.
Th*' accident, said to have bFen
the worst in the history of the
1 Hawaran lepartment occurred at
“Hairpin Turn,” a particularly
treacherous snot in the Si hcfield bar
I ra< Its road. Survivors said " id
was wet and the truck skidded at
' tain going completely over be
fore thed river could regain con
trol. ’ *
Wealthy Man Slam
In Scuffle With Wife
CANON CITY, Colo., April 16. —
James Allen Dicke', formerly of Win
field. Kan., and wealthy, was found
'dead in his automobile last night on
I the Canon City-lhieblo road near
here. A revolver with three cham
bers empty was found beside the car.
His wife surrendered to the police
tola? ami declared Dickey shot him
self during a scuffle in the car.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TH! RSDAY
Virginia: Unsettled.
North Carolina. South Cai >in
and Georgia: Local showers.
FLORIDA: I’robabix a thun
dershower
Exit--me Northwest Florida a d
Alabama: Unsettled-, probably ic ■
hundeishowers-. ,
Mississippi: SI - i t i ■
s’orms; cooler Thursday afternoon
or nicht.
Tenm-sc-e: Thunde: storms. fol
’ lowed by eooita in west portion.
Kentucky : Showers and thunder
storms, followed by cooler Thursday
afternoon or night.
Louisiana: Pi bl s vers
coMer.
Arkansas-: Unsettled. probably
rain in east portion.
Oklahoma: Fair rising tempera
•e:<' in northwes’ pertarr
I East Texas: Partly cloudy.
West Texas: Fair, rising tern:ma
ture in the Pan -Handle.
Atlanta, (fa., Thursday, Apr t il 17, 1924
\ Senate Votes to Close
U. S. Doors to Japanese
EASY VICTORY FOR COOLIDGE!
IN CONVENTION AT CLEVELAND
INDICATED BY PARTY FIGURES
494 of 556 Votes Necessary
for Nomination Already
Assured) With Many ‘Fa
vorable’ States Yet to Elect
CHICAGO. April 15.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —With approximate
ly’ half of the delegates to the Re
publican national convention al
ready’ selecetd and a large majority
instructed or pledged, managers of
the pre-convention campaign in be
half of President Coolidge lay claim
today to 494 instructed and favor
able delegates out of 556 necessary
to nominate.
According to former Congressman
James W. Good-, of lowa, western
manager of the Coolidge forces, sup
porters of the president to be elected
during the present month will as
sure his nomination by’ a safe ma
jority.
Approximately’ 200 additional dele
gates will be selected in four impor
tant eastern states during the re
imainder of April, New Jersey and
- nnsylvania selecting 31 and 79.
respectively, on April 22, Aid Massa
.•'iuset.ts and Ohio adding 39 and 51
a week later. In all of these states,
Mr. Good said, the Coolidge candi
dacy’ is expected to fare so well that
before May 1, forty days before the
| opening of the national convention,
’ the Coolidge delegations will total
| well over 651) ■'’'■finitely instructed or
I avowedly favorable.
458 Delegates Instructed
To date, 28 states and territories
i have selectc 514 of the 1.109 dele
! gates who will sit in the Cleveland
! sessions beginning June 10. Os this
■ number, according to Mr. Good. 458
' are instructed, either by state con-
■ ions ’ initial
'to support the president for the
I nominal' and 36 others are limn
j struct&d but publicly on record as
■■ favorable to the Coolidge candidacy.
Thirty-four delegates are bound to
; the candidacy of Senator Robert’M.
Follette, Wisco" ' fourteen
are instrm ted for Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California, and two are
lin the free lance class. neither
T>ound. instructed, pledged nor open
ly inclined to any particular candi-
I dacy.
The following table indicates the
GASOLINE REVENUE
OF OVER J3.M.M
FOR STATE PROBABLE
The now three-cent gasoline tax
will bring more than three million
dollars into the state treasTiry dur
ing 1924, in the opinion of W. B.
Harrison, chief clerk to the comp
troller geiterlil, who bases cis esti
mate on the collecticn of $708,441.18
for the firs! quarter. Mr. Harrison
expects at least $30,000 more, as sev
oral companies have not paid the
tax.
January, February and March are
the lightest months in the year in
the consumption of gasoline, because
many persons uo not use their auto
mobiles during Nie winter, and tin
collections for the second and third
quarters .ji* j expected to pass the
SBOO,OOO mark.
The largest contributors to the tax
payments during the recent quartOi
wer e as follows:
Standard Oil company, $264.753.54.
Gulf Refining company, $215,645.04:
Texas Oil company. .$90.6 18 27; Reed
Oil corporation, $19,947.75; Pan
America ti Southern oil company,
i $20,217.18; Wofford Oil company.
$26,839.83.
State Trias’urer W. A. Spcet prf ,
pared Wedncsda' to mail out to
the various counties in Georgia,
r heck-• aggregating $260,473 and rep
ie« nting one-third of the state gaso
line tax for the first quarter of
1924. Ti. e state highway department
will get a check f' the same total
'amount. While a third üb*.;-'-: for a
lik' -urn will go towSrd retirement
of the Western and Atlantic
notes. / *
The throe 'checks aggregate ap
» prox $8 »(), of vyhich sum
$!iO,00o should have been (laid dur
ing the last quarter of 1923, out
•hecks from the oil companies did
not reaeli the comp: roller general
! until after the distribution had
been ma dr*. .
Th. mon«'.v is apportoined to the
counties on the basis of highway
mdeagt. Fulton county will receive
if cherk lor $1,752 ill. ami DeKalb
county will get $1,243.93.
Emanuel will get tlir largest
•' i-ck. $4.667.93. whil-' Ro< kdale gets
the sniallest. >31'3.27. Bibb county
gets 81,722.119: Chatham. $1,795.36.
Carroll. $3,171.80; Muscogee. SL
-718.41; Richmond. $2,479.30; Glynn-
I rapped m
Five Children Perish
As House Burns
BRH GEPORT Conn.. April 16.
Trapped in their l»*iro‘>ms by
flan s that quickly des ro.'*d their
home fv •’ children the bodies of
two of whom have been recovered,
in believed to have been burned to
il.-ath last night
The children, ranging in ag.- om
e ght to fourteen years, did not have
a chance to escape and were caught
by th- flames as they fougnt to get
f thei ■ Their father
tried to g*?t to the aid of the four
n o.]j: le on* ■ but finally was
f. od '■'co f r pjs Hfe He wa
i badly burned.
Uoolidge strength today aS claimed
by Mr. Good:
Tn the first column of figures is the total
number of delegates; the second shows those
■ilntidy selected; in the third column are
in-liucled delegates for Coolidge, and those
listed in the fourth ate favorable to Cool
idge. v
Ciinneeticut ” 1
Colorado I- 1 ' L”> )-•
Georgia I*’, -I -I -.
Hawaii > - -
Idaho 1’ 11 11
Illinois '•! •>’ ''O
lowa j;'* "J "
Kansas ; *2
Kentucky ’-’ ,l ‘-’J 1 “[J
Louisiana D - ~ "
. .Maine D ""l
.Michigan "J
.Minnesota 27 27 23 4 .
Mississippi 12 12 12 '
.Missouri >’’>'•) 1*
Nebraska I '' 3 ” •• !
North Carolina -- 22 22
North Dakota '•’> 14 ~ ••
New York I*' Fl
New Mexico '• •• 11
New Hampshire, D JI H
Philippine Islands 2 2 2
Sotiilt Carolina 11 11 11
•South Dakota 13 J.'l
Tennessee 27 •• o ••
Virginia 17 17 17
Washington 17 17 17 ..
Wisconsin .211 21. 1 ..
Totals J G 22 544 458 36
In Nm-th Dakota, President Cool
idge won the majority presidential
preference vote, but six of the thir
■ teen delegates went to La Follette.
; One delegate pledged to Senator
Hiram Johnson was elected in the
’ Illinois primary. He also carried
the South Dakota primary, entitling
him t" the' state delegation.
Solid N. Y. Vote Seen «
i The balance of the New York dele
gation, seven delegates at large to
: be selected by’ the Republican state
, convention today, are expected by
Mr. Good to be instructed, which
will make the Empire State a solid
I Coolidge delegation.
Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee
thus far have selected only’ portions
of the state delegations.
Two factions have selected full
slates in Mississippi, but both are
pledged to President Coolidge.
The state convention in Missouri
' is scheduled for April '29.
' Additional strength for the presi
; dent is^ anticipated by’ his managers'
to come from Maryland, Indiana and
California presidential primaries
early in May. Maryland will indi-
• cate her preference on May 5, In
diana and California on the sixth,
’ Oregon on the sixteenth, and West
Virginia and Montana on the twen
> ty-seventlb
Ten days“ago William M. Butler,
i Republican national committeeman
i from Massachusetts and national
1 manager of the Coolidge campaign
indicated in Washington that with
! 620 delegates assured by April 22,
- ! the president’s friends already were
! turning to consideration of the post- |
- , convention campaign."
ISTIIELMH
PROPOSES MGES
N GEORGIII LB
I
Important changes in certain state
laws governing labor, garnishment;
and the sale of goods on the in
stallment plan were recommended at
the twenty-sixth annual convention
of the Georgia Federation of Labor
at its first session Wednesday
morning in the Labor Temple on
Trinity avenue by Charles B. Gram
ling. president, and Emmett L.
Quinn, vice president. The recom-1
mendations ware referred to coin- j
mi t tees.
The most important recommenda-1
tions of President Gramling had to
do with the so-called “woman in
| industry” law and the child labor
law. With regard to the “women in
industry” bill, which now provide*
that no woman shall work more
■ than 60 hours weekly, he recom
mended that this limit be still re
duced further, and with regard to
the child labor law. which now pro
! vides that children under 14 years
of age shall not be employed in in
• dustry he recommended that this
’ age limit be increased to 16 years.
Opposes R. R. Police Bill
. , He also expressed opposition to
’ the railroad police bill, which gives)
special officers of railroads power
to make arrests anywhere within
the limits ot the state. With ref-,
erence to the routine business of
the federation, he recommended that
a weekly news letter be printed by)
the federation and broadcast to la-;
1 bor organizations throughout the
state. i
A change in the present law ot
1 .garnishment, whereby the present:
1 statute would be amended so as to
! piovide that no salary or wage could
be garnisheed without a previous)
judgment from the court, was among j
Mr. Quinn’s recommendations. The ■
present garnishment law allows for
the holding up a specified portion- Os
a salary of wage each week pending |
a court Judgment.
Mr. Quinn also recommended that)
r the la'v which empowers merchants
to retain the fitle on goods sold un-)
der the installment plan be stricken
from the statute books
Homestead Law Protested
Fb also recommended that the
prf -ent ‘pony homestead law,”
wlueli provides for the reservation
of homestead rights on the payment'
of a $3 fee. be stricken from the
statute books and that a law be en
■ acted in its place which would oper
ate to preserve homestead rights
without the payment of this fee.
All of the first session Wednesday
morning was devoted to the reading
of reports from the various officers
of the federation and addresses of
welcome to the convention by Go\- j
ernor Walwer. Mayor Sims and C.
W. t’unningham. president of the
Atlanta Federation of Trades. All
of the speakers stressed the idea that
the principles of arbitration and a,
spirit of under.-tanding and friendly
cooperation between capital and'la
,-bor was the basis for the remarkable
= *owth of the labor movement in
| Georgia.
a CEN’LS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
PRESIDENT SILENT
AS SENATORS GALL
HANIHABA’S THREAT
Exclusion Provision Put Into
Immigration Bill Without
f
Record Vote—Lodge Con
fens With Coolidge
WASHINGTON, April 15.— A
Japanese exclusion provision was
voted into the immigration bill to
day by the senate.
The proviskm, bitterly protested
by -Japan, is similar to one already
adopted by the house. It was adopt
ed without a record vote.
About twenty-five senators were
on the floor when the amendment
came to a vote, the request for its
consideration coming unexpectedly
after the senate had devoted prac
tically’ the entire day’ to a discussion
of President Coolidge's protest against
further investigation of the internal
revenue bureau.
With the senate committed to pas
sage of an exclusion law. Senator
Lodge, c-f Massachusetts, went to the
White House today to inform Presi
dent Coolidge of the sentiment of his
colleagues and to advise him. to con
sider the overwhelming votes on the
question when the measure reaches
him fur action.
No other inkling came from the
White House or the state department
as to the position to be taken by the
executive branches of the govern- ‘
ment.
Equally silent was the Japanese
embassy, from which no expression
has en anated since tlie storm on the
Smale floor raised by the protest of
Ambassador Hanihara. ' ■
When debate opened today, Sena
tor Walsh, Democrat, 'Masschusetts,
leaving aside altogether the Japan
ese provisions of the bill, leveled an
attack on tLe quota policy.
Text of Amendment
Th r - text of the “exclusion amend
ment’ which, according to its author.
Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl
vania. will "definitely and effective
ly" bar Japanese from entry into
the United States, follows:
■ “No alien ineligible to citizenship
shall be admitted to the United
I States unless such alien (1) is admis
sible as a non-immigrant under tiia
provision of Section 3; or (2) unless
such alien is an .minigrant who con
tinuously Lor at least two years im
mediately preceding the time of Ina
application for admission to the
United States has been and seeks to
enter the United States solely tor
the purpose of carrying on tl/e voca-'
tion us minister of any religious de
nomination, or professor us a college,
academy, seminary or university; or
(3) unless such alien is un iinmigrint
who is a buna fide student over eight
een years of age and who seeks Lo
enter tire United Slates solely for
the purpose of study at an accredited
school, college, academy, seminary or
university, particularly designated
by him <jnd approved by the secre
tary el labor; oi (4) unless such alien
is the-wife or the unmarried child
under eighteen years of age of an
immigrant admissible under sub
division (2i of this paragraph and is
accompanying or following Lo join
him.”
Further Leniency Unjustified
Industrial conditions do not justify
; a further departure from the irmni
! gratiuii policy adopted in 1921, Sen-
I ator Walsh said in opposing reduc
: tion of the quota from three to two
per cent as provided in the bill.
"If the congress, state govern
ments and religious and social or- •
guiiiza lions would spend more time
considering the many problems tlist
concern not -only the aliens in our
midst, but all the great working
classes of our people,” he said, "it is
fair to assume the problem of assimi
lat.ng the newconi.Ts would cease to
exist.’’ ~
Senator Walsh opposed also the
proposal that the basis of quotas be
m tdeXlje census of 1890 instead of
1910 as a "violation of a great Amer
ican principle.”
I he whole theory of “superior race
'■•'hie” was declared by Senator
Walsh to Ie humiliating and insult
ing to the nations prominently identi
fied in American population. ’While
proponents of the bill denied that
i Uns trtory was ad vailed, he said,
the popular propaganda for the bill
is not so scrupulous.”
The senate late yesterday gave its
“’"Phatic, answer to Ambassador
uaniharas vigorous protest by vot
ing, 76 to 2, to reject a proposal that
would have recognized the “gentle
men s agreement.”
Hanihara to Blame
Manx* st nate leaders had predicted
that an exclusion provision would
■x: adopted despite the administra
. lion stand and that sufficient votes
would be available to over-ride a
possible veto, but the overwhelming
count against the amendment yes
terday was clearly a result of the
Hanihara protest. Among the votes
changed from support of the amend
ment by the protest, which was de
scribed as a “veiled threat,” were.
i4io-e of Senator Lodge, of Massa
’ chusetts, Republican leader and
chairman of the foreign relations
committee, and Senator Reed, Re
publican, Pennsylvania, who has
charge of the immigration bill on
the floor.
With conclusion of the Japanese
exclusion discussion a number of
amendments proposing changes in
the quota basis must be considered.
Senator Reed plans, however, to
move Wednesday to limit debate if
that appears necessary to assure a
vote on the whole bill before the end
of the we*k.
FOREIGN MINISTER ISSUES
M’I’EYL A4.AINST EXCLUSION
TOK JO. April 15.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press).— Foreign Minister Mat-
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