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VOL. XXVI. NO. 84
POWER INFLUENCES [
DENIED BY HOOKER
IN SHOALS BIDDING
Underwood Demands Early
Vote by Senate on Ford
Bid—Electric Backing Is
Denied at Hearing
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Elon
H. Hooker, one of the bidders behind
the Hooker-White-Atterbury proposal
for operation of Muscle Shoals, re
sumed his testimony today before
the senate agriculture committee,
which is considering all bids offered
for the property, while demand was
made, on the floor of the senate by
Oscar Underwood for an early vote
on the Ford bid.
Chairman' Norris drew from the
witnes's that the Hooker bid provides
$10,000,000 for research work at
Muscle Shoals. Hooker said he did
not contend that his company would
give the government any patents or
any prpcess that the government
could not get for itself, but, he add
ed, the company could save the gov
ernment large sums of money,
through operation on a business
basis.
Senator Ralston, Democrat, Indi
ana, asked if there was any objec
tion to amending the bid to prevent
stock transfer without consent of
the government. The senator said
provisions of the offer do not pre
vent the company from transferring
its holdings to some power company
or organization.
Hooker replied that his company
was not affiliated with any pojwer
company or organization, and as
■er ted:
“I challenge the power companies,
the Ford crowd, or the Grey-Silver
crowd to come before this committee
now and say that my company rep
resents any power company. I want
them to come now, or forever hold
their peace, and stop these rumors.”
Senator Ralston said, personally,
he did not believe the add
ing that Hooker had “the ring of an
honest man.”
Has Power Expert Partner
“If you want Muscle Shoals han
dled in a proper way you must have
a capable power man,” Hooker con
tinued. “I looked all over the coun
try and found J. G. White, who
agreed to come in with me. Mr.
White is one of the foremost build
ers of hydro-electric power and
transmission lines in America.”
Hooker stated that he and his as
sociates were “perfectly willing to
withdraw their proposal and let
Ford, or any other bidder, have Mus
cle Shoals if they can produce fer
tilizer forth/ farmer cheaper than
we can, and conserve the property
for the government.”
He said he did not see why Ford
himself does not appear before the
committee, and Chairman Norris in
terjected:
“You must remember that Mr.
Ford did come to Washington and
talk with the president, but every
little publicity was given to it.”
.The chairman then asked:
“How do you account for the fact
that Ford came to Washington, an
gry with the administration, and
after his visit he indorsed Coolidge
for president?”
Precedence for Ford
Hooker said he did not see why
Ford should have precedence, and
Senator Heflin declared he thought
the Ford bid should have precedence
because Ford offered a proposal to
take over Muscle Shoals after it had
been placed on the scrap heap and
agreed to help the millions of farm
er's by giving them cheap fertilizer
and “taking them out of the clutches
of the fertilizer trust.”
Hooker said he, personally, was
joining into the venture “for the pay
-,<>C achievement," and he felt that
his company “should have the prop
erty on their own terms.”
Going over details of the bill,
Hooker said the secretary of war was
authorized to lease Muscle Shoals for
fifty years.
Senator Kendrick, Democrat. Wy
oming, elicited testimony that funds
obtained from salvage property would
be placed in the treasury of the cor
poration. with the government own
ing 75 per cent and the corporation
25 per cent. This fund would be
used as working capital, Hooker said.
Originally the salvage was expected
to yield several million dollars, but
now the secretary of war estimates
this at only three or four hundred
thousand, he said.
Stock Ownership Restricted
Hooker said the bill restricted own
ership of 75 per cent of the stock to
American citizens.
Chairman Norris asked if Hooker
had any objection to the government
owning' 51 per cent of the stock, and
the witness replied he did object be
cause the changing administrations
would bring politics into the. enter
prise, and it would not be successful
under such conditions.
Hooker said he wanted the gov
ernment to feel it, had to build
Dam No. 3. and if the dam was not
built the life of the lease would be in
creased over 50 years. 'l'he com
pany’s interest in the whole propo
sition would be materially lessened
if Dam No. 3 was not built because
Dam No. 2 has very little power
possibilities without Dam No. 3 as
an adjunct.
Hooker said his company also
wanted No. 1 built for naviga
tion purposes as the navigation fea
tures of Dam No. 2 and Dam No. 3
would be lost without Dam No. 1.
Salvage Features Differ
Senator Capper, Republican, Kan
sas, asked in what way jhe salvage
features of the Hooker bid differed
from Ford's
Hooker said the Ford bid provid
ed for the transfer of all the sal
vage property, in fee simple. to
Ford while the Hooker bid put these
funds into operating capital.
Hooker said his company asked
to be relieved of all taxation on the
property, either federal, state or
municipal.
The corporation would receive a
profit of ten per cent on till con
struction work under his bid, Hook
er said. \
The present steam plant at ni
trate plant No. 2 would be enlarged
to afford sixty thousand kilowatts
additional capacity, the witness ex
Flamed.
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World News
Told in
Brief
WASHINGTON. Senate adopts
2 per cent, immigration quota to be
based on 1890 census.
ROME. —Brig. Gen. Charles G.
Dawes leaves for Paris after a three
day visit viewing Roman ruins.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal.—Ernst
Beckman, 71, former Swedish pub
lishe- and parliament, member, dies,
GALVESTON. Tex—Direct steam
ship service between Texas and Po
land via Danzig corridor, is in
augurated.
WASHINGTON.—Brngadier Gen
eral Horatio Gales Gibson, last sur
viving officer of Mexican war, dies,
aged 97 years.
YONKERS, N. J. —John E. Andrus,
one of nation's wealthiest men, or
ders mausoleum, costing between
$350,000 and $500,000.
MANILA. —Total contributions to
fund being raised for purpose of con
tinuing Philippine independence cam
paign reaches SBOO,OOO,
ATHENS. —Two men from yacht
•of J. P- Morgan are reported to have
been murdered at Tirana, Albania,
but report lacks confirmation.
GENEVA. —Premier Mussolini, of
Italy, invited the League of Nations
to participate in-the coming confer
ence on emigration in Rome.
NEW YORK. —Emanue Lasker, of
Germany, wins first place, and .lose
Capablanca second place in interna
tional chess masters’ tournament.
GENEVA.—WorId organization for
improvement of public health condi
tions is effected by representatives
of 21 countries, including United
States.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The 2,025,-
425 members of Southern Methodist
Sunday schools contributed average
of $1.47 each during- 1923, report an
nounces.
TOK JO. —• Japanese press reports
dissatisfaction in high official circles
with Ambassador Hanihara’s han
dling of immigration situation al
Washington.
W ASHING 'J’ O N —Senate votes
down proposal to prohibit immigra
tion for five-year period, -and re
adopts by formal vote. 71 to 4, Japa
nese exclusion amendment.
NEW ORLEANS. —Search is made
for Senora de la Huerta, wife of the (
Mexican rebel chieftain, when word
is received she had suddenly disap
peared from San Antonio, Texas.
W A SHINGTON. — I ‘ostmaster Gen
eral New, denying that department
is blinking attempt to raise postal
salaries, says advances proposed in
bills before congress ate not feasible.
NEW YORK. Negotiations be
tween Actors' Eonitv association and
Producing Managers’ association are
terminated without agreement, and
actors' strike on June 1 is predicted.
ATLANTA.—Georgia Federation
of labor indorses Major George 1.-
Berry, president of International
Pressmen’s and Assistants’ union for
Democratic nomination for president.
MEXICO ClTY.—Reports to war
department said Adolfo de la Huerta,
head of revolution, has had an at
tack of appendicitis and been forced
to go to Rochester, Minn., for treat
ment.
MOSCOW, —The council of com
missars issues new six per cent state
loan of 100,000,000 rubles to cover
the 400,000,000 rubles deficit in the
budget and to stabilize the new cur
rency.
HONOLULU.—Between one end
two thousand Chinese, who illegally
entered Hawaii during the past four
year.«, face deportation proceedings,
A. E. Burnett, new immigration
head,
NEW YORK. —David Lamar, con.
victed of conspiracy to cause strikes
and prevent munition shipments dur
ing World war. is ordered to jail to
complete serving remainder of one
year sentence.
NORFOLK, Va.—Eighteen wealthy
refugees from Yucatan, now in the
hands of Mexican revolutionists,
were landed at Norfolk last Satur
day by the British steamship Mun
erie, it is disclosed.
PORTAGE BAY. —Major Frederick
L. .Martin, commanding army’s round
the-world flight, and his mechanician.
Sergetint Harvey, are rescued at.
Cape Igvak, where their plane was
forced to descend Tuesday.
BOSTON.—Members of United
Textile Workers’ unions are in
structed by emergency board of or
ganization to fight all attempts to
reduce wages or increase working
hou rs.
WASHINGTON. —John Philip Sou
sa and other composers, in opposing
before senate committee bill for re
leasing broadcasting stations from
royalty impositions, says “niechan
leal music” has meant great mate
rial loss to composers.
WASH INGTON.— Witnesses, ap
pearing before special senate com
mittee investigating indictment of
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Demo
crat, Montana, deny knowledge of
any irregularity or illegal transac
tions on senator’s part.
CINCINNATI. Clarence Saun
ders, Memphis. Tenn., former presi
dent of the Piggly-Wiggly Chain
stores, appeals to federal court
against injunction restraining him
from operating a store in Memphis
similar to Piggly-Wiggly stores.
MEXICO CITY. —Two colonels, ar
rested in connection with an alleged
plot to stop a train on which Presi
dent Obregon was supposed to be a
passenger and assassinate him, are
shot and killed in an attempted
escape from a military barracks.
ATLANTIC CITY.—A. Mitchell
Palmer, former alien property cus
todian. declares Gaston B. Mean's
story of a plot by Attorney General
D.< ighe ’y “tn blackmail me into
>■= as my influence w.th congress in
his behalf, is a tissue of falsehood.”
CHARGES AGAINST
WHEELER REFUTED
LB INQUIRY OPENS
Men Who Retained Senator
Testify That He Refused to
Handle Any Cases Except
in State Courts
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Cuts
ting at once to the heart of the whole
controversy, the special senate com
mittee investigating the Montana
charges against Senator Wheeler
opened its hearings today with tes
timony bearing directly on the ex
tent of bis activities in Washington
in connection with cases in which
his Montana clients were interested.
From Gordon Campbell, a geolo
gist, who said he had employed the
senator in 1922 to represent him in
the state courts, the committee re
ceived copies of two sets of tele
grams passing between him and
Wheeler, one purporting to show
that Wheeler had ’’been advised"
the government could not intervene
in Campbell’s behalf in a land pro
ceeding .against him, and the other
indicating that the senator had ar
ranged for Campbell to confer with
Solicitor Booth, of the interior depart
ment regarding “the Lincoln per
njit.” '
Campbell, who was indicted with
Wheeler in Montana,” insisted this
did not constitute Senator Wheeler’s
“appearance” before the Interior de
partment on behalf of his client, as
charged in the indictment. On the
advice of Solicitor Booth, the wit
ness said, he had hired his own
Washington attorney to handle land
cases here. Hes insisted that Senator-
Wheeler had told him he could not
hat die such cases because of his
election to the senate.
Stout First Witness
Former Representative Tom Stout,
Montana, told the committee he
had approached Wheeler on the sub
ject of acting as counsel for Camp
bell in state litigation and that
Wheeler himself had raised the point
of his inability to handle any cases
except in the state courts.
AtTTie outset of the hearing Sen
ator Sterling, Republican, South
Dakota, suggested that it might be
well to have the witnesses waive im
munity.
“None of these witnesses are
charged with anything,” said Chair
man Dcrah.
Attention was called that Camp
li *ll had been indicted with Sen; tor
Wheeler, but Senator Borah said that
could be taken care of when Camp
bell was called.
The chairman read the statute un
der which Senator Wheeler was in
dicted on a charge of accepting a fee
to appear for Campbell before the in
terior department in the interest ot
oil land claims. Stout then was called
to the stand.
The witness said his conversation
M’ith Campbell about the employ
ment of Senator Wheeler took place
in December, 1922, a month after
Wheeler was elected to the senate.
The litigation related to an effort to
throw Campbell into receivership.
He himself. Stout said, was not in
terested “in any way” in the com
pany. He said the fee Wheeler had
asked to represent Campbell was
SIO,OOO a year.
Stout thought John M. Cooper, now
of Los Angeles, might have been
With him at the time of his conver
sation with Wheeler in Butte, but
he was not sure.
Had Large Practice
Chairman Borah told Stout that
his testimony that Wheeler had
“raised the question” of his inability
to represent Campbell except before
state courts was “a very important”
part of the committee’s record. Stout
reiterated his statement that such
was the fact.
"Do you know anything about the
extent and number of cases Camp
bell had in the courts in Montana?”
asked Senator Borah.
“No. except that he had a great
deal of litigation.”
Gordon Campbell, indicted with
Wheeler, followed Stout on the stand
and waived all immunity.
Wheeler told him, Campbell said,
that as he “had been elected United
States senator he could not attend
to any of my land cases.’ ’
“He didn’t want anything to do
with the land cases,” Campbell add
ed.
Campbell began his testimony by
saying he was a geologist and telling
of his discovery of the Kevin-Sun
burst oil field in Montana. He said
he had been involved in about 40
law suits in oil field matters, and
said the property concerned was of
"very great value. He described his
conversation with Stout, and said he
had told Stout his own lawyers were
“not standing pat with me” and that
he had thought of employing Wheel
er “because he's a fighter.”
Barred Capital Appearance
Wheeler came to his office in
Great Falls about December 20,
1922, and the agreement for his em
ployment nas reached verbally,
Campbell added.
Campbell declared Wheeler had
nexer appeared for him before the
interior department and had “repeat
edly told me he couldn’t.”
“What do you mean by land mat
ters?" asked . Senator Sterling, Re
publican, South Dakota.
“Some of our lands had to be
I cleared up. ’ Campbell said.
“Did Senator Wheeler give any
’ reason why he couldn't appear for
you in those matters?”
“He said’ he could not appear be
fore govetrment departments. Some
i of the leases were coming before the
! general land office. We had a man
I in our office who attended to that,
and I so toldl Mr. Wheeler.”
Under questioning by Senator
Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, he re
iterated that he had had no under
standing "direct or implied” with
: Wheeler in regard to any land mat
• tens.
I The witness insisted there never
was any “question of government
' permits” involved in his dealings
: with Wheeler. He confirmed that the
, fee agreed on w is SIO,OOO, and said
| he paid Wheeler $2,000 “to represent
I me in this litigation In Great Falls.
Deposed Banker Dies
Without Statement
On $600,000 Shortage
KANSAS CITY. April 17.—John
M. Moore, deposed president of the
Fidelity National B;mk and Trust
company, died at his fashionable
apartment home today without mak
ing a statement as to a discrepancy
of $600,000 which had been found
in his accounts.
Mr Moore left the bank com
plaining of illness shortly after the
shortage was discovered last Fri
day. Later that day Mrs. Moore
found him lying unconscious- on
bathroom floor at their home.
Moore rallied only slightly Monday
noon and was unconscious from
then until his death.
Physicians said the banker was
suffering from a recurrence of a
diabetic condition that became criti
cal Friday.
Moore was removed as president
of the bank Monday at a meeting
of directors at which time the short
age in the accounts was made up.
The board of directors in a state
ment said the bank was sound and
that the deficit had been made up
in part with more than a quarter
million dollars of securities owned
by Mr. Moor.e and his bond of SIOO.-
000. The remainder of the short
age was charged out of the surplus
and undivided profits of the insti
tution.
Moore had been president of the
bank since its reorganization in
1916. He was born in Shelby coun
ty. Kentucky, in 1859.
MACDONALD READY
TO-TALK ’JUNKING’
OF ALL ARMAMENT
LONDON, April 17.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) Prime Minister
MacDonald, responding today to a
speech in the house of commons by
Major General J. E. B. Seely, for
mer president of the air council.
1 who advocated that the premier call
an international conference for air
disarmament, declared he would wel
come an invitation by any other
power to take up the whole ques
tion of armaments.
The premier said he had “at the
back of my mind and not very far
at the back —the intention that as
soon as we have cleared away some
of the present difficulties in Europe
we must face quite seriously this
question of armaments, not only in
the air. but all other forms of arma
ments.” *
i ———————————
Baby, Recorded Dead
Through Mistake, Is
Restored to Parents
NEW YORK, April 17.—Mr. and
Mrs. Charles L. Shoemart got their
baby back today and Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent Fiorella mourned the death
of a son. as the result of a mix-up
at St. Barnabas House, City Mission,
which District Attorney Banton said
was one of the strangest cases of
mist ken identity he had ever invest!-
'gated.
The head of City Mission and the
, nurses |at St. Barnabas were report
ed to have admitted there had been
lan error in recording the death of
22-months-old Charles C. Shoemart
last March 6. Instead, Joseph Fiorel
la was the child who died on that
date, but Shoignart, informed that
the baby w,as his son, paid for the
funeral.
The Fiorella child had been sent
to St. Barna’ *s House, a charitable
institution, to be cared for pending
the impending arrival of another
baby at the Fiorella home. Mrs. Fio
i rella wouldn’t accept the child re
j turned to her some days later. It
iwas not her Joseph, she said.
The fate of the little fellow was
' learned after an investigation in
! which the body buried was exhumed
land identified as Joseph’s.
Suitcase Is Crib
For Baby Born on
Tour of Europe
NEW YORK. April 17.—Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Lewis, of Los An
geles, arrived from \ ienna today on
‘he Albania with hteir four-months
old son, Charles, Jr., in a suitcase
crip devised by the doctor, whtf ex
plained he became weary leaping
from train to train in Europe with
an armful of baby.
The suitcase, 12 by 36 inches, is
well ventilated, and contains all the
comforts of an ordinary crib. Dr.
I Lewis said it was the best possible
I jerambulator for travelers and that
I his son. who was born in Vienna,
had thrived in it.
Busey Ate Eye-Glass
In Suicide Attempt,
Texas Police Assert
LITTLE ROCK. April 17.—Dr. E
C. Busey. who disappeared from
the Atlanta federal penitentiary re
' cently and who was taken into cus
' tody by department of justice agents
at Harlingen, Texas, yesterday, was
I arrested here in May. 1920, on *
I charge of passing worthless checks.
[ police declared today. While being
I held here he attempted suicide by
• crushing the lenses of his eye
i glasses and swallowing some of the
| glass, the police said. He was re
j leased after being in custody for
, several days.
Bench Warrant Asked
For Arrest of Forbes
On Sale Fraud Charge
BALTIMORE. April 17.—Applies
tion for a bench warrant for the
arrest of Charles R. Forbes, former
director of the veterans bureau, was
made in United States court here
i today by District Attorney Wood
I cock and it was expected to be is-
I sued later in the day.
The action followed the indict
ment of Forbes yesterday on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government in the sale of- govern
ment supplies worth $3 188,000 to
i the Thomson-Kelly company, of New
I York and Boston, for a price report
ed to be less than $600.°00.
ALLIES ANO BERLIN
AGREE BN EXPERTS’
DEBT SETTLEMENT
Reparations Commission to.
Transmit Report to Powers!
at Once to Speed Action
on the Problem
PARIS, April 17. —(By The Asso
ciated Press.) —The reparation com
mission at a. plenary session this
afternoon decided unanimously to
take note of the reply ot the Ger
man government adhering to the
conclusions reached in the experts’
reports and to approve, within the
limits of the commission’s at
tributes, the conclusions and to
adopt the methods proposed therein.
At the conclusion of the session
Louis Barthou, president of the]
commission, said:
“Solution of the reparation prob
lem appears to be in a fairway of
realization. There are excellent rea-1
sons to be optimistic.
The commission also decided to i
transmit officially the experts’ re- [
port to the governments interested, I
at the same time recommending |
adoption of their conclusions in or-'
der that the plans proposed may pro
duce their full effect in the quickest
possible rime.
The government of the reich will
be asked to submit to the commis
sion in the shortest possible time
acts and decrees destined to insure
the complete execution of the plans I
outlined in the reports, such acts I
and decrees being based on the con- j
elusions and texts of the reports.
The commission at a forthcoming I
meeting will proceed to the nomina- [
tion of the different commissions of;
organization provided for by the re
port of the first experts’ committee
] and to the preparation of measures
which the report of the first com
| mittee leaves to the commission for
the working out of details.
Bessie Tift Sophomore
Critically Injured by
Dive m Shallow Pool
MACON. Ga’., April 17.—Miss!
I Myrtice Johnson, sophomore, at Bes- I
sie* Tift college, Forsyth, Ga., is in
: a critical condition at a private hos- I
; pital here, from injuries sustained I
in a dive in a shallow pool at the ]
] college Tuesday. She is paralyzed j
from the shoulders down. She is a I
daughter of J. W. Johnson, of Mil !
i len, Ga»
Doctors reported later that the]
condition of Miss Johnson was!
slightly improved. Her father is 1
at her bedside.
The pool was being cleaned and er- I
] filled, and the students had been I
j warned that the water was not deep
enough for diving. It is not known |
whether Miss Johnson thought abe
] could safely take the plunge or lost
‘ her balance and went headlong into ■
! the shallow water, striking heavily i
the cement bottom. Other students
; noticing that she was injured, res- |
cued her and summoned aid. Miss ,
1 Johnson was taken to the college in
firmary, but when the extent of her
injuries could not be determined she
was sent here for an X-ray examina
tion.
Woman and Four
Others Are Jailed
In Child Kidnaping
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 17.
Mrs. Ida Lou Lane, divorced wife
of Rev. D. B. Coooer. and four other
persons are in jail in. Salem. Va., on
charges of assault with intent to I
murder and kidnaping as a. result,
jof the abduction of the 4-year-old |
daughter of Mrs. Lane and Rev. Mr. ■
I Cooper at Roanoke last night, and!
lan assault upon the minister, ac-I
i cording to G. M. Edmonds, attorney j
! for Rev. Mr. Cooper here.
The couple came prominently into I
the public eve here several months 1
ago when the minister sued B. M.
j Holcombe, a dairyman and member;
jof he,- congregation, at Union Hill. |
Inear here, on charges of alienating]
I the affections of his wife. Rev. Mr. I
| Cooper Jost his suit. A suit over j
custody of the child is pending. The
' minister had custody of the daughter .
I pending settlement of that case.
Persia Looking to U. S.
For Financial Succor;
Seeks Sinclair Loan
LONDON. April 17.—The Persian
premier. Sirdar Sipah, who has been
recalled to office since he repudiated I
republicanism, now is placing all his I
! hope for a successful administration, j
] especially financial, in American
capital, says the diplomatic corre- !
■ spondent of the Daily Telegraph. s
The premier, he adds, would like ]
to have an American government
j loan, but as this is out of the ques
: tion he has turned to the American
' oil companies, offering a concession i
in northern Persia to Harry F. Sin-■
I clair on condition that the Sinclair '
I interests grant Persia a loan of $lO,-
j 000,000.
Pershing Can’t Attend
Legion Convention, He
Tells Georgia Solons
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Gener
al Pershing has notified Senators
Harris and George that he was una
ble to arrange hig engagements for]
June so that he could attend the
state convention of the American
Legion in Savannah on June 5. He
was personally invited by the Geor-
I gia senators.
Senators Harris and George will
continue to press the invitation for
General Pershing tn visit Fort Ben
ning. Ga.. when h» is able to get
! away from Washington.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, April 19, 1924
Senate Backs House in
Drastic Immigration Cut
DANIELS TO BACK
CHOICE IN PRIMARY:
FIGHT IS AVERTED
RALEIGH, N. C., April 17. —Jose-
phus Daniels himself today averted
a fight in the Democratic state con-1
vention over the question of indors
ing him for the Democratic nomina
tion for president. He informed the
executive committee of the Raleigh
Daniels-for-President club that he
could not accede to the desire of I
those who wanted him to be a candi- I
date.
Mr. Daniels was elected a delegate
at-large to the national convention
I in New York.
I O. Max Gardener, former lieuten
ant governor; Governor Cameron
I Morrison and John G. Dawson, state
[chairman, also were eelcted delegates-
I at-large.
] Plans had been under way by ad
; mirers ot’ the former secretary of
I the navy to attempt to have the eon-
I vention indorse him despite the taet
I that the delegates to the national
Lconvention are instructed by the pri
fmarj, and that William G. McAdoo
I already-has entered his name on the
primary lists.
Air. Daniels' decision was made
known to the convention immediate
ly after the resolution had been pre
sented designed to prevent indorse
ment by the convention. The motion
; was tabled immediately.
! A letter from Air. niels, address
ed to R. N. Sims, R. A. Doughton
anil Wilalrd Dowell, executive com-
I mittee of the local club, was read.
The letter said th: t he “recognized
I the sanctity of North Carolina’s pri
mary,” and therefore, could not sanc
tion any movement to secure his in
dorsement in the state convention.
The convention by practically unan
imous vote approved a. resolution
which gave one-half of the delegates
at-large to women.
Late in getting under way, the con
vention was called to order by State
Chairman John G. Dawson, of Kint
ton, at 12:15 '’’ lock. An invocation
was pronounced by the Rev. W. A.
Stansbury, of ,the Edenton Street
Methodist church.
j The first business of the conven
tion of the reports of the district
conventions by Mark Squires, sec
| retary. -I
Following reading of reports, Chair- j
man Dawson presented temporary
■ chairman and the keynote .speaker,!
!W. N. Everett, secretary of state. ]
I Mr. Everett reviewed the work of the
' Democratic party, and told of its
| leadership in the senate.
I "I believe the Democratic national
[convention will name the next presi
dent of the United States,” Air. Ever-
I ett went on to say. t
He declared that the Republican
I party, through its agents at Wash
ington. had “prostituted high office
;to selfish ends." and asserted that
[all the administration had to
i its credit was a ecord of “graft and I
corruption unparalleled in’ the na- j
. lion’s history.” ,
Mention of the -••'ie‘of Woodrow
Wilson and the accomplishments of
his administration brought from the
convention thundering applause.
i Mother of 3 Children
Ends Life With Shot at
Home Near Greenville
GREENVILLE, Ga.. April 17.
Mrs. J. B. McGraw, Jr., leaving the
| room where her husband and three
[children were sleeping/ fired a bullet
I through her heart about 5 o'clock
[ this morning at her home, five miles .
1 north of Greenville. Her husband,
■rushing to her side, found her dying 1
on a bed, the revolver lying near her
hand. He could give no reason for
■ her ending, her life, except continued
ill health." She was 32 years old.
| Her children are from three to eight
! years of age. .
The revolver did not berong either
>to Air. or Airs. McGraw, and it is |
! supposed that she secretly obtained
it on a visit Wednesday to the home
of her parents, Mr. and Airs. M. AL
I Maffett, who live about two miles
' away.
Mr. AlcGraw is a brother of R. A. ;
(McGraw. Greenville attorney. Mrs.!
McGraw’s family also is prominent
■ in this county.
Senator Harris’ Wife
Said to Have Sold
Estate for $2,200,000
FLORENCE. Al>.. April 17.—1 t
was reported in business circles in
■ Florence Wednesday that the Misses
' Wheeler and Mrs. William J. Harris,
wife of Senator Harris, of Georgia,
all daughters of the late General )
I "Fighting Joe" Wheeler. Confederate
: cavalry leader, have sold to an un
; named eastern cotton syndicate 24,-
j 000 acres of their estate in Lawrence
! county for a consideration of $2,200,-
| 000.
i None of the Misses Wheeler are in
Alabama at this time and comniuni-
: cation with Courtland, the nearest
town to Wheeler station of.uny size,
reveals the fact that none of the
nei-.hi ors of the Whe> lers krnfcv any
thing about the reported transaction.
[ N. C. Elting, president of the First
j National bank, ot’ Florence, said that [
! he had heard of the reported sale, i
hut that he knew nothing of the de- '
; Lails and was not sure that the re- ;
port was true.
Methodists Report
Sdndav School Gain
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 17.
An average of $1.47 from each of
the 2,<»25.427 members of the South
ern Alethodist Sunday schools was
made during the year 1923.’ accord-
■ ing to the report of Dr. John W.
Shackford, general secretary to the
general Sunday school board meet
ing here Wednesday.
Total contributions for all pur
poses. the report said, were $2,-
988,637, an
the 1922 totals. Enrollment increased
18.679 over the preceding year and;
Xt.JSn Sunday school pupils joined
■ the church, the report said.
McAdoo’s Supporters
All Over Florida Are
Summoned to Caucus
SANFORD, Fla., April 17.—A
state wide call for all supporters and
friends of William G. McAdoo, can
didate for the Democratic nomina
tion for president, to gather in San
ford, on Alay 2, for a two-day meet
ing, was sent out today by
■ Forrest Lake, personal friend and
i staunch supporter of the former
treasury head.
The purpose of the meeting will
be to lay plans for organization of
the forces of McAdoo in an effort
to carry the state of Florida -for -him
in the coming primary. Those be
[ hiiyd the movement are Mayor W.
[ A./AlcKenzie, of Leesburg; J. F. C.
Griggs, former collector of customs
of Florida during the Wilson ad
ministration, and F. Al. Williams, of
Tampa.
A personal invitation has been ex
tended to Mr. McAdoo and Senator
Carter Glass, of Virginia.
TFUWTAKESS™
TD PROVE TD JURY
HIS MIND IS CLEAR
PHILADELPHIA, April 17—Harry
K. Thaw, flushed and confident, tes
tified for a brief period today in his
own behalf in his sanity trial. Then
his lawyers turned him over to the
other side for cross-examination.
Thaw Seemed seif-possessed. For
mer Judge John Al. Patterson, his
counsel, allied Thaw only five ques
tions. Seemingly, the attorneys for
the opposition were greatly surprised
when he was turned over to them so
quickly. Arthur G. Dickson, counsel
for the trustees of the Thaw estate,
and William A. Gray, representing
Evelyn Nesbit. Tha -’s divorced wife,
whose 13-year-old son has intervened
in his own behalf, discussed the case
with teh alienists supporting their
side in low tones and with great ear
! nestness. \
At the end of five minutes, Air.
I Dickson said:
"We. have no questions to ask.”
Thaw smiled and left the witness
stand.
Another brief conference followed
among the attorneys for Thaw. They
were not prepared for the immunity
, granted their client, and asked fora
recess until this afternoon, which
was granted.
Realization by Thaw that he had
escaped exhaustive cross-examina
tion caused him to tremble. He
[ looked appealingly at Air. Patterson
[ when the cross examiners said
■ they had no questions. Air. Patter
son escorted him from the stain,
and Thaw mopped his face as he
started back to his seat, lie seemea
t<> lose his strength and was helped
to his chair.
“It’s all right, Haruy,” were Air.
Patterson’s soothing words.
The lawyer then turned to Judge
Monaghan and said.
| “We rest our ease. Airs. Thaw
is ill at her hotel but we ask to
reserve the right to call her later.”
Counsel opposed to Thaw’s re
lease announced they \voiihl open
their side of the -c.ase after recess.
The failure of Dickson and Gray
to take advantage of his offer ap
peared to puzzle Air. Patterson at
| the moment. It had been freely
j predicted that Gray, a noted cross
examiner, had been brought into the
case for the purpose of breaking
down Thaw's claim to sanity.
Chance of Grilling Later
Lawyers, however, explained that
Gray’s opportunity is not yet lost,
because counsel opposed to Thaw
have the right during the presenta
| lion of their case to recall him.
"Why should we have examined
Thaw?” Gray asked after the re
cess. “We had nothing to meet.
Judge Patterson boasted how Thaw
| Mani Id take the stated and tell his
srbry, but instead he asked him only
I perfunctory -questions. We will
! prove Tha w's insanity in our own
.way and by our own witpsses, in
cluding Evelyn Nesbit.”
Immediately after the recess,
[ Thaw, accompanied by Air. Patter
] son, hurried through the surging
] crowd to his mother's suite at the
[ Ritz-Carlton hotel to be at her side
I and comfor t her. ’
Miss Nesbit arrived from Atlantic
City during the mpruing but had
purposely kept away from the'court
room.
It was decided finally that Miss
Nesbit should not testify and She-
I returned to Atlantic City.
Mrs. Alary Copley Thaw, his 82-
vear-old mother, probably will fol
low him on the stand.
Full Investigation
Os Dry Enforcement
Is Urged Upon House
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Inves
tigation by the house judiciary com-
I mittee into all phases of prohibition
j enforcement was proposed today in a
j resolution introduced by Representa
tive Dyer, of Missouri, the ranking
Republican on the committee.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY"
Virginia. North Carolina and South
Carolina: Probably showers.
Georgia; Partly cloudy, possibly
showers in east portion.
Florida: Local showers.
Extreme Northwest Florida and
[Alabama: Generally fair.
Mississippi: Generally fair.
Tennessee: Generally fair.
Kentucky: Generally fair.
Louisiana: Fair.
Arkansas and Oklahoma: Fair,)
i slowly rising temperature.
East Texas: Fair.
West Texas; Fair.
a UEN lo A COPT,
SI A YEAR.
HANIHARA’S RECALL
MAY BE ECHO DF
WASHINGTON ROW
Foreign Minister at Tokio
Also to Resign, Is Report.
Fiery Resentment Sweep
ing Empire
WASHINGTON. ’ pril 17. Two
per cent upon the basis of the 1890
census was approved by the senate
today as the plan for quota compu
tation under the new immigration
bill. The same provisions are in the
bill passed by the house last week.
The census of 1890 was adopted, 4|
to 32, and the 2 per cent quota by a
substantial majority, but zithout *
record vote.
The senate first voted a 1 per cent
quota, but reconsidered when it was
learned the 1890 census was to be the
basis for computation.
Senator Sheppard. Democrat, Tex
as, .spoke in favor of the amendmerit
of Senator Harris, Democrat, Geor
gia, to shut off immigration for five
.sears. He declared the “great hordes
of immigrants pouring into this
country from the crowded nations of
Europe is hastening our standard
of living to the point of strain."
The fate of the. bill, with its
Japanese exclusion provision, was
involved in another conference to
day between President Coolidge and
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, re
publican senate leader, prior to re
sumption of senate debate on the
measure.
Senator Lodge said the immigra
tion question had been discussed but
would not say whether he had ob
tained any information as to the
probable action of the president
when the measure reaches the
White House.
Senator Willis, Republican, Ohio,
also conferred with the president.
Secretary Hughes todav f spent
half an hour withlthe president, the
| first conference he has held with
ihe executive since the Japanese ex
| elusion provision was approted by
1 the senate.
TOKIO REPORT SAYS
HANIIIARA WILL RESIGN
TOKIO, April 17.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) Ambassador Hani
hara, at Washington, is to be re
called by the Japanese government,
the neyspaper Yomiuri declared to
day. The publication added thAt
Foreign Minister Matsui will resign
in order to appease the storm ex
pected at the coming session of the
imperial diet over the immigration
problem. Both reports were, denied
officially.
HOT BED OF RESENTMENT
ALL OVER ISLAND EMPIRE
By E. R. Egger
(Copyrijtlil, Hr.’l, by Hie (onsolidale<j Pres*
A-soeiation—Spe>':il Leased Wire
TOKIO, April 17.—The Anitcry of
a. people whose national pride has
been wounded through abrogation qf
the gentlemen’s agreement and
whose fine sensibilities have been
.strung through enactment by the
American congress of legislation re
garded a.s unfair and discriminatory
against a world power and a signa
tory of the Washington pacts, rever
berates throughout Japan.
Both the printed and spoken
words reveal that the public mind
will he stirred to greater depths
than was anticipated should the
American immigration law bearing
the hateful exclusion clause pass.
Radical sections of the press and
public even mention the possibility
of war, while an “insult of discrimi
nation in retaliation” is heard on
many sides.
Although the government remain*
calm and refuses to act precipitate
ly, realizing the fact that the immi
gration issue is purely an internal
problem with America and that-con
gress is wholly within its .preroga
tives, the general outcry clearly in
dicates the deep resentment of the
Japanese people. This is a phase
of the situation over which the gov
ernment has no coptrol and is real
ly the “grave consequence” which
Ambassador Hanihara meant to
point out in his recent protest.
Japanese Labor Angered
The attitude of the Japanese la
bor organizations was stated bluntly
when Bunji Suzuki, president of tho
Japanese federation, declared tho
decision of American labor to sup
port the measure was “an insult
hurled in the face of organized labor
of Japan.”
Stating the belief the immigration
bill is an economic instead of racial
issue. Suzaki suggested a conference
of American and Japanese labor
leaders, insuring full support in solv»
ing the American problems.
Racial Clash “.Inevitable”
The Chauvaute Yoroozu Chohn
says Japan will find more profit in
opposing. America at the risk of her
existence' than in being the subject
of further dishonor and torment.
The newspaper quotes further:
“The clash between races was
sooner or later inevitable and Amer
ica evidently wants it now. Hence,
all races opposing the whites should
rise up now. There is no longer any
necessity of Japan remaining patient
when America has done her such
great injustice."
The Ilchiro Tokutorni editor, Koku
min Shimbun, signed an article in
which he reviews the history of ths
gentlemen s agreement and declares
Japan has faithftxjly carried out all
the provisions.
'‘Americans should seek an imme
diate happy solution of this knotty
problem for America’s sake, not for
Japan's," Shimbun writes.
The Tokio Nichinichi declares:
“The honor of Japan has been
mercilessly destroyed. Americans
pride themselves on insistence of Jib
i rty and equality, but it is false pre
tense.” ,
EXCLUSION IS UN CHRISTIAN,
BAPTIST MISSION SAYS
TOKIO, April k.— (By The
'iated Press.)—The American Bap
tist mission of Japan today adopt* d
a resoluton condemning the pro
posed exclusion of Japanese from
the United States as "unnecessary
and un-Christian.” 4 _