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Cljc Atlanta Cvi-Wcckln waraal
VOL. XXVI. NO. 88
youth, wounded
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BY HUNGER. HE SAYS
Son of Minister, Shot in
I
Conklin Home, Denies Be
ing Robber Bore Good
Reputation
While detectives are working to
unravel the mystery surrounding
the case, Raleigh W. Wright, 22
years old, lies at the Grady hos
pital with a bullet through his right
lung, stoutly maintaining that he
is not a “gentleman burglar,” al
though he was shot at 3 o’clock Sat
urday morning after he had “jim
mied” a window in the home of
Charles A. Conklin, at 964 Peachtree
street. !
Young Wright insrets that he en
tered the Conklin home to get some
thing to eat, and that he was sur
prised by Dan Conklin, returning
home from a fraternity dance. Conk
lin opened fire and his first bullet
found its mark in Wright’s body. He
emptied his gun at the intruder,
who fired one shot and then turned
to run, making his escape, tempo
rarily, only to collapse from loss of
blood after fleeing a few hundred
yards toward Piedmont park. The
Conklin home is at the corner of
Peachtree and Fourteenth streets,
a block or two from the park en
trance.
The officers cannot reconcile his
story with the circumstances sur
rounding the case. They say they
found in Wright’s pockets a .45 cal
iber automatic pistol, a dirk and a
hammer with a “jimmy” on the butt
of the handle.
Wright Has Good Home
Wright’s friends in Atlanta —he
came here last September —say that
he did not appear to be in strained
circumstances, that he was appar
ently a model young man of ex
emplary habits, not addicted to bad
habits, and economical with his
money. At his place of employment,
a local branch of a belting manu
facturer, it was said Saturday that
he was industrious and steady in
his work, sometimes making trips
to sell the company’s product, and
always scrupulously honest in his
business dealings. . .. ■ ,
He made no request for financial
assistance from his employers, it
was said, neither did he seek aid
from friends of his father in Atlanta,
although the latter, Rev. Raleigh
Wright, of Greenville, Texas, is a
well-known evangelist in the em
ploy of the Southern Baptist con
vention.
When young Wright came to At
lanta -some months ago, he brought
letters from his father to prominent
Baptist ministers here, and they, be
cause of their friendship lor his fa
ther, recommended him at the place
where he later secured board at a
private home on Virginia avenue.
These friends of his father were
astounded Saturday when they
learned that the young man had be
come involved in so serious a pre
dicament.
“Just Hungry,” He Says
At the home where he lived, it
was said that he brought no pack
ages or bundles to his quarters, did
not keep unseasonable hours, and
was considered a quiet, steady
young man of good habits. A search
of his rooms by detectives disclosed
nothing that would le«ad to suspicion
that he had been involved in burgla
ries.
“It was the first time I had ever
thought of anything of that kind,”
said young Wright at the Grady
hospital Saturday. “I am not a
burglar. I was just hard up, flat
broke, and hungry. I went into
that house to get something to eat.”
Asked why he picked out the
Conklin home, he declared that he
.had walked about the streets trying
l\to make up his mind to break into
place, and the Conklin home,,
* which he did not know «s such, |
looked like a good chance to carry ,
out his purpose.
“I had had the gun for more than ,
two years,” he said, “and the knife
was one I had made from a piece of
sheet metal, intending to send it to
my little brother in Texas. 4 don't
know why I happened to have it in <
my pocket.
“The young man who discovered
me in the room, just after 1 had j
opened the window, began to shoot|
first. His first bullet struck me in
the right shoulder, but he kept on
shooting until he had emptied his
gun. Then he threw it at me.
“I shot one time and my gun
Jammed. I shot to make him duck
and take cover so 1 could get away.
I didn’t shoot to hurt him. He
crouched behind a door and all I
could see was tlie brim of his hat.
"As I went out across the porch
I tripped over a chair and fell; as 1
I went down my gun, still in my i
hand, hit against the floor and fired
again, but I wasn’t shooting at any
body. Then 1 ran as fast as 1 could
away from there, and the next I
remember I was in the hospital.”
Wright denies vehemently that
he had ever tried tm burglarize any
building before his'attempt Satur-j
day morning.
“I had two street car tickets and
a penny in my pocket when I went
into that house. 1 was broke and
down and out. That’s the reason.” j
Detectives Cowan and Gillespie,;
who are working on the case, have
been unable to shake the young |
man’s wory of the affair. Their in
ability to find anything at his rooms
that would arouse suspicion, and the
high opinion in which Wright’s.
friends held him. combine to throw
an air c* mystery around the entire
case.
Officials of the company that cm
ployed young Wright say that Im
had abc’.tt S3O due him. and could
have secured an advance had he in
dicated siteh a d<<irc. They cannot
understand why ho considered him
self destitute and attempted to bur
glarize a, home "because he was
hungry.” They advance the belief
that he is cither mentally deranged
or is hiding something that would
throw liVht on the case.
Auto-Train Crash Fatal
DE RIDDER. La.. April 2S.—W
A. Officer, an automobile dealer who
came here recently from Nashville.
Tenn., was killed today when his
automobile was struck by a Santa
F* train.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD /A RRIEb
ROME. —Cardinal Mundelein, of
Chicago, leaves for Milan on first
stage of return journey to United
States.
NEW YORK. —A court order is
signed discontinuing suit for $9,600
brought by Geraldine Farrar against
former husband. Lou Tellegen.
HAVANA. —Sympathetic st l ike of
street car men called to aid striking
dock workers, comes to an end and
taxicab drivers will return to their
posts.
PORTLAND, Ore. —Forest fires
are. reported burning in drought
parched timber-land in several sec
tions of southwestern Washington
and Oregon.
PARIS. —Members of reparation
commission and Colonel James A.
Logan, American unofficial observer,
discusses situation at length with
J. P. Morgan here.
WASHINGTON. — Report of debt
funding commission announcing
funding of Hungary's indebtedness
to United’ States, is submitted
senate by president.
LONDON. —Plans are made for
first personal, private visit of Pre
mier MacDonald and his daughter,
Jshbel, to King George and Queen
Mary at Windsor castle.
NEW YORK. —Bodies of Robert
L. Coleman, San Francisco, and
George B. Delong, New York, killed
by bandits near Tjrania. Albania,
arrived on steamship Duilio.
EBENSBURG, Pa.—Three men
and five women, arrested in connec
tion with disturbances at Vintonball,
where miners are on strike, were
held»on charges of rioting.
PHOENIX.. Ariz. Arrangements
are completed to start fumigation
of railroad passengers from Califor
nia, to cleanse themselves of possi
ble germs of foot and mouth disease.
NEW YORK. —National Accept
ance bank announces establishment
of unlimited facilities by American
bankers for new German gold dis
count bank, and initial advance of
five million dollars.
ST. PAUL.—Goodyear HI, last of
seven balloons in national elimina
tion race, lands in southeastern Min
nesota, approximately 1,100 miles
from starting point, farthest dis
tance traveled by any contestant.
WASHINGTON?”— Opposition of
President Coolidge to any bonus leg
islation is indicated at White' House
when president’s approval of Senator
Borah’s views on the legislation is
announced.
SAN SALVA DOR. Revolution
ary chiefs in Honduras are reported
to have accepted offer of United
States of friendly mediation through
Sumner Welles to bring about peace
between discordant factions.
BUENOS AIRES?—May day is
anxiously contemplated owing to
growing number of trades unions
threatening to strike if government
fulfill.- its announced intention of
making new national pension law ef
fective then.
TOLEDO, Ohio.—Following speech
here, Senator Hiram Johnson closes
campaign for Republican presiden
tial nomination, giving run-down
physical condition as reason for can
cellation of mid-west speaking dates.
DETROIT.—Wanda Elaine Stopa,
woman lawyer, sought in connection
with shooting of caretaker of home
of Y. Kenly Smith, wealthy Chicago
advertising man. with whom she was
infatuated, commits suicide in De
troit hotel.
WAS I 11 NGTON.—President Cool
idge confers with congressional lead
ers and Secretary Hughes in effort
to reach compromise on Japahese im
migration legislation satisfactory to
advocates of exclusion and not of
fensive to Japan.
HAVANA.—FaIse Cuban passports
have been sold for S2OO each to for
eigners desiring to enter United
States, it becomes known after four
Spaniards are deported from New
Drleans to Havana because they
carried fraudulent passports.
MU. COHEN ISSUES
CARDOFTHftNKSTD
FELLOW GEORGIANS
Major John S. Cohen, president
and editor of The Atlanta Journal,
issued a statement Saturday, thank
ing his fellow Georgians for the
honor conferred upon him by his
unanimous election as Democratic
1 national committeeman, from Geor
gia, y as follows:
My fellow Georgians, to whom
I owe the honor of being made
national committeeman, have,
all and each my heart-deep ap
preciation.
It has been my privilege to
say personally to the delegates
to the forthcoming New York
convention, by whom the na
tional committeeman was elect
ed, how grateful 1 was and ever
shall be for their unanimous
I vote. There were hundreds of
others in the Atlanta conven
i tion whom it was impossible for
me to see individually at the
time, but for whom I feel un
bounded gratitude. To have
the confidence of such a body
of men and women is a boon
of which I shall be always keen
ly sensible.
From many parts of the state
have come messages of good
will, fitr all of which I wish to
express my warmest thanks,
j particularly to my confreres of
the daily and the weekly press,
whose generous consideration I
prize more, perhaps, than they
will realize and certainly more
than 1 can tell.
I shall do my best to dis
charge, the duties of national
committeeman faithfully, just
ly, liberally, and with an eye
singly to that progressive de
mocracy which is the hope of
good government and the way
of true freedom. The enthusi
asm with which Georgia Demo
crats have rallied, and still are
mustering, to the standard of
that foremost of forward-going
statesmen, the Hon. William G.
McAdoo, is of happy omen. For
it marks a submergence of fac
tioyism and cf all ungenerous
interests in a common cause
great enough to' inspire our
DULUTH, Man. • Thirty-three
ships are stalled in and near Duluth
harbor by huge ice floes.
CATAWISSA, Ra.—Clover. the
world’s oldest horse, is dead. He
was 53 years old.' - '
WASH I NGTON. —Republican sen
ate leaders decide to support tax
rates adopted by the house.
WASHINGTON. Representative
William D. Upshaw, of Georgia, says
in a statement he would accept the
Democratic vice presidential nomi
nation if offered.
CHICAGO. The Institute of
American Meat Packers announces
harps and bacon are Being sold whole
sale at the lowest prices since the
pre-war period.
LOS ANGELES.—PoIa Negri. Pol
ish motion picture actress, files ap
plication for American citizenship,
giving name as Apolinia, Countess
Domoska, age 27 years.
MEXICO ClTY.—General Juan
Alonzo and 42 subordinate officers
captured by federal troops Saturday
were given a summary court-martial
and immediately executed.
ST. LOUIS.—Juhn C. Roberts,
owner of St. Louis Star, vice presi
dent of the Interntaional Shoe com
pany, and prominent Missouri Dem
j ocrat, dies at age of 70 years.
CHICAGO. —Rev. Henry E. Rompel
i straps on three pistols and leads
I raiders at Joliet, 111., in obtaining evi-
I dence upon which it is expected to
I close twenty liquor selling places for
a year.
DUESSELDORF. Chancellor
Marx, of Germany, in address, urges
adoption of report of experts and
says Germany has intention of en-
I tering League of Nations as now
j constituted.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Mellon
I advises President Coolidge that the
I treasury department has completed
its inquiry into charges of irregular-
I ities in the bureau of engraving and
■ has found them baseless.
NEW YORK.—Robert .1. Sander
son, husband of Nina Wilcox Put
nam, author, formally declares the
alienation of affection charges with
which his wife’s name was linked
last winter were false.
BERLIN.—Former Emperor 'Wil
liam, in a new book published by
Lieutenant Colonel Niemann, a
friend, is quoted as rapping Presi
dent Wilson for his stand against
Germany in the World war.
WASHINGTON.— Warrant for ar
rest of M. S. Daugherty, brother of
the former attorney general, for
failure to respond to senate sub
poena, is issued and arrangements
are made to serve it at Washington
Courthouse, Ohio.
NEW YORK.—Body of Eleonora
Duse, Italian tragedienne, upon ar
rival in New York, is accompanied
by police guard to Church of St.
Vincent Ferrer, where it will lie
in state awaiting funeral services
and departure for Italy.
BUFFALO—Senator Walsh, Dem
ocrat, Montana, addressing conven
tion of League of Women Voters,
says American participation in world
i court is dead unless country can be
I roused to support of plan.
WASHINGTON.—Acting in ac
cordance with his new custom of
trying to get away from Washing
ton for a. period during the week
end, President Coolidge spends Sun
day afternoon and evening on the
Mayflower on a cruise down the
Potomac.
WASHINGTON.—Ma rch business
conditions show indications of a
slackening in ail basic lines except
building constructon and production
of steel ingots, the federal reserve
board says in an industrial sum
mary. The depression, in the view
of officials, is not serious.
MELS' COUNSEL
EIGHTS ADMISSION
OF HIS CONFESSION
DELAND, Fla., April 26.—The
state rested its case against Aubrey
Lee Nickels, on trial here on a
charge of criminal assault, late this
afternoon. The final witness for the
prosecution was W. E. Robinson.
Prior to the action, the presiding
officer, Judge J. J. Dickinson, ruled
to admit into the evidence the al
leged confession made by Nickels
soon after his arrest in Jacksonville
in December, 1921. Admission of
this evidence was made «kfr the
protest of defense counsel who en
tered several objections. The de
fense was sustained in an objection
to admission of an additional state
ment by Nickels on the ground that
he had not been given sufficient
warning before it was made.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Showers, cooler.
North Carolina: Showers; little
change in temperature.
South Carolina: Mostly clouds
probably showers.
Georgia: Probably rain; warmer.
Florida: Mostly cloudy.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Mostly cloudy
probably scattered thundershowers.
Kentucky, Tennessee: Partly
cloudy. •
Louisiana: Generally fair.
Arkansas: Generally fair, warmer.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy, warmer.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, some
what unsettled.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
highest faith and worthy of
heart-whole devotion.
If I shall be able to render
any service to that cause, I
shall have but the greater rea
son for gratitude io my fellow
Georgians for the trust they so
generously ha'e committed to
me.
CHILD LABOR BAN
FOR CONSTITUTION
PASSED 81. HOUSE
. All Efforts to Modify Measure'
by Amendments Fail—Tur
i bulent Scene Marks Final
Vote on Bill
; WASHINGTON, April 27.—A reso
lution proposing a child labor amend
ment to the constitution was passed
late Saturday by the house.
Every effort to modify the meas
ure, which now goes to the senate,
; I failed. It would empower congress
to limit, regulate or prohibit the la
bor of children under IS years of
age.
Opposition was based chiefly on
the ground that the proposed amend
ment, made necessary if congress
is to have authority to deal with
the problem, by the action of the
supreme court in twice declaring
federal child labor laws unconstitu
tional, would constitute an invasion
of state rights.
Proponents of the resolution con
tended that a federal standard must
be set up to Tiring certain states
which have been backward in the
■ enactment of child labor legislation
to a more rigid requirement. The
resolution would enable congress to
set a minimum standard beyond
which states would be free to go in
i controlling the problem.
Anieiidment Fails
An amendment to make a resolu
tion apply to children under 16, in
stead of IS years of age, as origi
nally provided for, was proposed by
Representative MacLafferty, Re
publican, California, and was adopt
ed by a tellers’ vote of 148 to 136.
Later, a roll call was demanded, and
the amendment eliminated by a
vote of 199 to 169.
Determined efforts were made to
exempt child employes on farms. A
series of amendments to this eno
were rejected in rapid order by '
votes of more than two to one.
Mr. Garrett lost a fight to require
state conventions, rather than legis
latures, to ratify the proposed
amendment, while Representative
Linthicum, Democrat, Maryland.
' sought unsuccessfully to require
' ratification within seven years.
A last-minute attempt was made
by Mr. Montague to exempt farm
and home labor, and to require rat
ification within seven years by state
conventions, but the amendment
was lost on a viva voce vote.
As the house approached a final
vote, the session grew turbulent,
) and before debate closed, Mr. Fos
ter charged that Chairman Graham
I had attempted to block report of the
j amendment by the judiciary com
mittee. The latter declared the
charge was “utterly untrue.” The
.'amendment, he said, was treated
■ ; “without any obstructive acts on
I my part.”
Mr. Longworth declared that what
Mr. Graham had said was "abso
lutely true,” and that he knew Mr.
Graham had “expedited the matter
in all possible ways.”
Details of Vote
Thirteen Republicans and fifty six
Democrats voted against the reso
; lution.
The Republicans were: Andrew.
Bixler, Brand of Ohio, Connolly of
Pennsylvania, Darrow, Free, Gra
ham of Pennsylvania, Hill of Mary
land, Merritt, Moores of Indiana,
Tinkhant, Underhill and Watsbn.
’Die Democrats were: Abernathy,
Allgood, Aswell, Bankhead, Bland, >
i Blanton, Bowling, Brand of Georgia, ;
I Browning, Bulwinkle, Busby, Con- i
I nally of Texas, Crisp, Deal, Domi- j
j nick, Doughton, Drewry, Driver, Fill- ;
|mer, Garner, Garrett of Tennessee,
Gilbert, Goldsborough, Hawes, Hill]
of Alabama, Hooker, Hudspeth, Jes-
■ fers, Kerr, Lanham, Larsen of Geor
gia. Linthicum, Lowrey, McDuffie,
I McSwain, Mansfield, Martin, Monta-
) gue, Moore of Georgia, Moore of Vir
| gTnia, Oliver of Alabama, Park of
' Georgia, Peery, Pou. Rayburn, Sand
; lin. Smithwick, Steagall, Summers
| of Texas, Tucker, Tidings, Vinson of
Georgia; Williams of Texas, Wilson
of Louisiana, Wingo and Wright.
; Voting in the affirmative were
i one hundred and .«ixty-sevcn Repub
. ! licans and one hundred and twenty-
I eight Democrats.
The vote was 297 to 69. or 53 more !
I than the two-thirds required for pas- ■
i Thirteen Republicans and 56 Dem
ocrats voted against the resolution.
The Republicans were: Andrew,
Bixler. Brand, of Ohio; Connelly, of
Pennsylvania; Darrow, Free, Gra
ham, of Pennsylvania; Hill, of |
; Maryland; Merritt, Moores, Indi-|
ana; Tinkham. Underhill, Watson. '
The Democrats were: Abernethy, I
Allgood, .swell, Bankhead, Bland,
Blanton, Bowling, Brand, of Geor
gia; Browning, Bulwinkle, Busby; '
Connally, of Texas; Crisp. Deal, i
Dominick, Doughton. Drewry, Driv
er, Fulmer Garner, Garrett, of Ten- |
nessee; Gilbert, Goldsborough. :
Hawes, Hill, of Alabama, Hooker, j
Hudspeth. Jeffers. Kerr, Lanham, I
Larsen, of Georgia; Linthicum,;
Lowery. 'li-Duffie, McSwain, Mans-)
field, Martin, Montague, Moore, of
Georgia; Moore, of Virginia; Oliver,
of Alabama; Park, of Georgia: Peery,
Pou, Rayburn, Sandlin. Smithwick,
Steagall, Sumners, of Texas. Tuck
er. Tydings, Vinc">n, of Georgia,
• Williams, of Texas, Wilson, of Lou
isiana. Wingo, Wright.
Voting in the affirmative were
167 Republicans, 128 Democrats,
on Q socialist and *one independent.
Paired against the amendment ■
were: Representatives Fairchild. I
McLeod, Snyder. Vare and Welsh.'
Republicans, and ’ JI. Buchanan.
Humphreys, Lop. of Georgia; Stev
nson and Ward, North Carolina,
• Democrats.
Representative Longworth, of
Ohio, the Republican leader, aided
Representative Foster, Republican, !
Ohio, author of the resolution in
conducting the fight for the meas- ;
ure.
The opposition was directed by i
Chairman Graham, of the judiciary '
; committee, Representative Garrett, )
of Tennessee, the Democratic lead- |
• er, and Representatives Sumner, of
Texas, and Montague, of Virginia,
• Democrats.
EXPLOSION MINE
TRAPS 115 MEN IN
DEADLY GAS CLOUD
Rescuers Unable to Pene
trate West Virginia Shaft
and Fear for Fives of All,
Prisoners Is Expressed
WHEELING, W. Va., April 28-
One hundred and fifteen miners were
believed lost in an explosion in the
Benwood mine of the Wheeling Steel i
I corporation at Benwood, near here, a |
few minutes after they went to work;
this morning. All entries to the mine
were ' ’ ick® 1 ’■■ falls of rock and
dirt. Four hours after the blast
volunteer •”rs, hurri' "y assem
bled, had been unable to gain, en- i
trance to the underground passage
ways. ’ ’->ope was entertained 1
for the trapped miners, for the mine!
was on fire and choked with deadly )
fumes.
combined mine rescue power
of the United States govr -nent and
the state of West "Virginia was rush
ed to the aid of the stricken commu
nity in the hope that some of the
miners would be brought out alive.
The United States bit • of mines
sent the car Holmes from Pittsburg',
and was prepared to order a car from
Maryland and another from southern
West Virginia. The state's rescue
car, stationed at Fairmont, also was
sent to the scene.
The explosion occurred about three
miles back from the drift mouth.
Scores of men, women and children
soon massed on a slope facing the
entry. They stood in a drizzle of
rain, spurring on the rescuers, who
were digging frantically at the mass
ofziock which blocked the way into
the mine.
A ray of hope for the entombed
men was given this afternoon when
rescue workers found two miners ,
near an airshaft. They were suf- ,
"tering from burns and gas, and the ’
rescuers redoubled their efforts :’a
the hope that others would be found
alive. The shaft was sunk only re
cently to afford better circulation of
air in the mine. It is located far
back from the main entry. Rescue
experts pointed out that if any of
the entombed men reached the vi
cinity of the shaft and put up brat
tices to keep out afterdamp there
was a possibility thej' would be
brought out alive.
The two men found at the foot of
the airshaft died before they could
•be brought to the surface. Two
bodies, badly charred, were found
in a mine motor, 2,500 feet from the
entry, bringing the number of
known dead to four.
The rescue crew of the United
States bureau of mines made a hastv
inspection of the workings as soon
as they reached Benwood from Pitts
burg. They expressed the opinion
that few, if kny of the miners would
be brought out alive. Those who es- |
caped the explosion an dfire proba- j
bly fell victim of the deadly gases,
the experts declared.
Leading Citizen Shoots
Spalding County Man
To Death Near Griffin
GRIFFIN. Ga., April 28.—W. B.
Crowder, substantial and highly re
‘ spected citizen of Spalding county,
■ shot and killed John Huckaby, 24
! years of age, at Zetella, near Gris- i
| fin. Saturday evening.
1 The difficulty arose over remarks
alleged to have been made by Mr. ;
I Crowder about Huckaby in connec-I
tion with the destruction of some
stills in the Mt. Zion district. The>*
fought with bare hands for fifteen I
or twenty minutes when it is said '
Huckaby attempted to strike Crow
der with a plank. Mr. Crowder drew
his pistol and fired at Huckaby three
times, two of the shots taking effect.
Huckaby was carried to the Grif
fin hospital where he died Sunday
morning 31300? 6 o'clock. Crowder
surrendered to the sheriff and is in )
the county jail.
Funeral services for Mr. Huckaby
I were held today at Fairview church
; in County Line district, conducted )
; by Rev. James A. Drewry.
A commitment trial has been ar
ranged by Mr. Crowder's attorneys. '
Judge J. A. Darsey and Messrs. 1
Cleveland & Goodrich, for Wednes- •
day ’’morning at 10 o’clock, before |
Justice Taylor.
Mr. W. 1.. Nicholls? • ,
Os LaGrange, Ga.,
Shoots Self to Death
LAGRANGE. Ga., April 28.—Ap
; patently despondent over continued
; ill health. W. 1,. Nicholls, of this'
■city, for a number of years employ
i ed by the Atlanta and West Point;
1 railway, sent a bullet from a re
j volver through his head Sunday
afternoon at his home here. He I
died within 20 minutes.
Mr. Nicholls, it is said, had ap
peared to be nervous and ill at
ease. He had been lying down dur- ■
ing the greater part of the day. I
When assistance reached him after
the shot was heard he was found
lying on the floor of the bathroom.
In the bathroom were found three I
letters, one to his daughter and I
two to his sons. The letters dis-
| closed no motive for his act and it ‘
' is believed ill health was responsible i
• for the action. Mr. Nicholls "as
50 yf.’irs nf
Bomb Thrown at Home
Os Minister Director I
Os Law Enforcement
CHICAGO, April 28.—The home of
■ the Rev. Elmer L. Williams, direc
) tor of law enforcement of the Bet
ter Government association, of Chi
cago. was bombed early this morn
ing. The front of the house was
damned, but the inmates were un-
j harmed.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, April 29, 1924
“BLOOD ATONEMENT” IS BOY’S
DEFENSE IN KILLING WOMAN
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ABOVE, MOLLIE DUDLEY. LOWER LEFT, “BOB” ROBIN
SON. LOWER RIGHT, BOB’S MOTHER.
Texas Youth Says He Feared
Father Would Elope With
Divorcee—Bad Feeling Be
tween Families Results
HOLSTON, Texas, April 26. —May
a son make blood atonement for his
mother’s sufferings?
A jury here will have to decide
that question at the trial of “Bob”
Robinson, youthful slayer of Mollie
Dudley, for “The Unwritten Law by
Proxy” is his sole defense.
Bob insists he shot and killed the
attractive divorcee because he feared
she had won his father’s love from
his mother.
The friendship between his father,
UNDERWOOD WON’T
OPPOSE TON
WHEEL PRIMARY
RALEIGH, N. C., April 26. Wil
liam G. McAdoo likely will receive the
vote of North Carolina’s delegates
to the Democratic convention. An
nouncement made this afternoon at
Salisbury by Waiter Murphy, mana
ger for Senator Oscar W. Underwood,
that the senator would not contest
North Carolina, was believed by of
ficials here to mean that the former
secretary of the treasury will be
unopposed.
The time for filing of candidacies
for the primary, at which preferences
for president will be expressed on
June 7 and candidates for congress
and state’s office named, expires at
midnight tonight. Insofar as elec
tion officials here knew this after
noon it was stated, no other men
mentioned for the presidency had
been expected to enter the race.
Yhe North Carolina law provides
that whenever a candidate is unop
posed in the primary he shall be the
choice of the party in the state.
California Passengers
Alighting in Arizona to
Have Feet Disinfected
PHOENIX. Ariz., April 26. —After
kicking the dust from their shoes on
two “disinfection mats,” when they
detrain ,in Arizona, railroad passen
gers from California and lower Cali
fornia will be required after Monday
to walk throi gh a shallow
trough blanketed with saw'dust and
disinfecting fluid to cleanse them
selves of possible germs of the foot
and mouth disease. '
Trains will not be materially de
layed, as it is estimated about 50 pas
sengers can finish the process in ten
minutes.
When the passenger alights, he
will leave his hand baggage at the
foot of the train steps for fuminga
tion and then proceed to the
troughs.
If an;, through passengers leave
'rains in Arizona, they also must go
through 'he trough
Richmond, Va., Student
Is Drowned m Paris
PARIS, April 27. —Robert Virvin
Blanton, of Richmond, Va., a stu
dent at the Sorbonne, was drowned
Saturday at Brunov Sue Verre while
trying to save four boys who had
tipped over their canoe. Hugh Han
ger. son of a Washington, D. C.,
man of that name, was drowned
when he clung to Blanton, wt?o was
acting as tutor to the
Dr. C. H. Robinson, well-to-do phy
sician, and Mollie began with the
divorcee’s illness. The doctor re
stored her to health.
Then, he was injured in an acci
dent. Mollie nursed him.
Mrs. Robinson soon began to hear
disconcerting stories. Her boy. Bob,
just 22. heard these, tod. He
thought his father and Mollie would
elope.
So he got a revolver, went to the
“other woman's” home and killed
her.
And now Dr. Robinson’s life se
crets are about to be bared to save
his son from the electric chair.
11l feeling already has broken out
between two prominent Texas fami
lies. For the Robinsons are the Rob
insons of Harris county, and Mollie
was one of the Rushes of Trinity
county. Each family blames the
other for the tragedy.
UPSHAW. OF GEORGIA.
■HINGES DESIRE
FOR (ICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, April 28.—Rep
: resentative W. D. Upshaw, of Geor
i gia, has consented to become a can
didate for the nomination of vice
j president on the Democratic ticket,
I it was announced here Sunday in
a. statement from the New York Up
shaw club.
The statement contains Indorse
ments from Senator George, of
Georgia; Representative Lowrey, of
Mississippi, and Clarence J. Owens,
■ president of the Southern Commer
i cial congress. It also contains a
; statement by Upshaw.
“Moved by a commanding sense
of loyalty to the great moral issues
before the people of America,’.’ Up
shaw says, “and with deep gratitude
I to friends and ftuxes all over the
) nation, whose generous initiative for
) many months has linked my name
: with the Democratic nomination for
vice president. I feel that I ought
to go far enough to say that I
would accept the nomination if it
; were tendered me and would regard
I this high honor supremely in terms
' of service.”
Senator George said: “From a
life-long and intimate acquaintance
with William David Upshaw, of
Georgia, I am pleased to say that I
indorse his aspirations.”
) Young Harriman Weds
Former Dress Model,
I Sails on Honeymoon
NEW YORK, April 26.—The mar-'
riage of Oliver Carley Harriman,l
broker an<l polo player, end Missi
Harriet Hewitt, former Horowitz, one;
tune model in a Fifth avenue dress
making house, was revealed today!
when they sailed on the Majestic on I
their honeymoon.
Friends said they were married re
cently tn a city near New York.
Harriman, the son of Oliver Harri
man. banker, was divorced in Jan
uary by Mrs. Lois Bisbee Harriman.
The decree gave the first Mrs.
Harriman alimony of SSOO a month!
and custody of their two minor chll-i
dren. A short time later Mr. Han>
man sold his seat on the New York,
stock exchange and^».resigned his
. membership m a brokerage firm.
Great secrecy surrounded the de-!
parture of the Harrimans today.
20,000 in Free State Army
DUBLIN, April 26. —It has been de '
; cided that the permanent establish-1 .
ment of the Free State army shall ) ,
consist of 27 battalions, nine brigades (
and three commands. In addition ■
there will be various separte serv ! ,
ices, an army school of instruction, .
' a schoc. >f army music, and a train- , ]
in cramp at Curragh. The army will
j total almost 20,009 men. |
5 CENIo a COPT,
SI A YEAR.
COOLIDGE OUOTED
JS TRYING TO GIVE
MLS TO FORD
Is Stated in Telegram From
Auto Manufacturer's Rep
resentative Sent After
White. House Interview
WASHINGTON, April 28.—PresV
dent Coolidge was quoted, in a tele
gram produced today at the senate
Muscle Shoals hearing t as having
stated that he was Wying tb “deliv
er” Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford.
The telegram was sent by James
Martin Miller to the Dearborn Inde
pendent, Ford’s newspaper, on Oc
tober 12, 1923. In offering the tele
gram, Chariman Norris said the
White House records showed that
Miller had an interview with the
president that day. ) ,
The telegram read:
“Washington, October 12, 1923.
“To William J. Cameron or Er
nest G. Liebold,
Dearborn Independent.
“Dearborn, Mich.
“In private interview had with
President Coolidge this morning he
said incidentally: ‘ ‘I am friendly to
Mr. Ford, but wish some one would
convey to him that it is my hope
that Mr. Ford will not do oti say
anything that will make it difficult
for me to deliver Muscle Shoals to
him, which I am trying to do.’
“While president didn’t say so, am \
sure Weeks has been in consultation
with president this morning in view
Mr. Ford’s reported interview to
day’s papers.
“JAMES MARTIN MILLER
“National Press C*ttrk>
“Washington, D. C.”
The message was one of thv»»»-
subpoenaed by the committee Satutf*'
day. Secretary Weeks was on th
stand when it was offered, but de
clared he did not know Miller.
Later Chairman Norris explained
that Miller was employed by Ford’a
Dearborn Independent.
Decision to put the telegram into
the record was made at an execu
tive session of the committee be
fore the public hearings were opened.
Weeks On Stand •
When Secretary Weeks took the
stand Chairman Norris, of the senate
agriculture committee, asked the sec
retary if he could explain Ao the
committee why Ford “got over his
anger toward President Coolidge and
the administration after an inter
view in the White House.”
“That is evidence that he is a
sensible man,” Secretary Weeks re
plied.
“That is also evidence that he
had some reason for changing,”
countered Chairman Norris.
“I am oppossed to the Ford offer
because 1 do not believe it is the
best offer. I have not. been familiar
with it for a year, because it has
no! been in my hands,’ ’said Weeks.
Weeks expressed surprise at learn
ing of the Miller telegram and said
he did not believe the president made
any such statement. He disclaimed
any knowledge of the president's
present stand on Muscle Shoals.
Weeks said he conferred with tha
president before he issued his state
ment replying to Ford’s letter.
“Before Ford interviewed the pres
ident he called at my office with his
secretary and said he had come to
pay his respects, and did not. at that
time talk business in connection
with Muscle Shoals,” the secretary
declared.
“Ford's was aimed at me
because of the sale of the Gorges
plant,” Mr. Weeks continued. “I
take the responsibility for the state
ment issued after Ford made his
statement to the press.
“I am interested in Muscle Shoals
only from the standpoint of my offi
cial capacity. Naturally I felt griev
ed that any insinuations had been
made that I was interested because
of special interests,” Weeks said.
In reply to a question by Senator
McNary, Republican, Oregon, Weeks
said he had studied the Hooker-
White-Atterbury proposal in a. gen
era Nway, and he would be glad to
have the chief of engineers study
the offer and make recommenda
tions. A'
The chief of engineers will be
heard Wednesday, Chairman Norris
said.
Believes Better Terms Possible
“I think the government can dis
pose of Muscle Shoals under better
teVms than any of the present con'
tracts,” Weeks said.
“I am opposed to government
operation and think we could enter
into a limited partnership with some
private enterprise.”
He said he doubted the wisdom of
entering any binding contract for
fifty years.
“In three years you will be abls
to carry power anywhere east or
west of the Mississippi river by
means of an inter-connecting trans
mission linos,” he said. “If, by rea
son of drouth, some section needed
power, a telephone call would bring
it.
1 his whole question revolven
around nitrates, and It will taka four
or five years to find out what
process is best because this whole in
dustry is in its infancy/ ’
Morris 1.. Cook, director of the
Pennsylvania general power serv
ice, followed the war secretary on
the stand and said “it is a great
mistake to look upon Muscle Shoals
as simply a power plant.”
“Muscle Shoals, Instead of being
legai ded simply as a site for power,
can be ma<re a, social influence by
radiating power ovrr great dis
tances,’’ he added.
Chairman Norris said W. B. Mayo. *
Ford's chief engineer, was in the
city and would testify this week.
Governor Pinchot. of Pennsylva
nia, wil] testify tomorrow.
Secretary Weeks after concluding
his testimony went to the White
House to discuss with President
Coolidge the Miller telegram.
L. W. Wallace, representing a
committee appointed by th e Amer
•can engineers’ council, read a report
by .the committee recommending a
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