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VOL. XXVI. NO. 90
MW, CHEERFUL
IN SHADOW OF PEN.
DINES IN TERMINAL
Ex-Governor’s Train Arrives
Shortly After Noon —Com-
panion Prisoner Escapes
From Their Coach
Warren T. McCrav, as jovial as
any man cast in such a role, reach
ed Atlanta at noon Thursday and
after luncheon at the Terminal sta
kion, went to the federal peniteti
iary to begin serving a ten-year
that came as an anti-cli
max to his career as governor of
Indiana.
Twenty-six hours after his resig
nation became effective, the former
governor stepped down from the
rear coach of the “Suwanee River
Special” and walked briskly upstairs
to the Terminal station dining room
where his journey to the prison was
interrupted until he had lunched
with E. J. Fogarty, warden of the
Indiana state prison; Harry Wertz,
United States deputy marshal, and
several Indianapolis newspaper men.
His companions said McCray was
more cheerful Thursday than at
any time since his trouble began,
ending Monday with his conviction
on a charge of using the mails to
defraud and the imposition of the
ten-year sentence in federal court.
He greeted Atlanta newspaper men
cheerfully, obligingly posed for a pic
ture and then ordered a light repast.
Few Observe Arrival
The former Indiana chief executive
reached Atlanta almost as any .pri
vate citizen, without show or dem
onstration save for the flurry occa
sioned by the photographer’s shots.
This was done almost on the run.
however, so brief was the pause, and
only a few in the station knew
that probably the best-advertised
citizen of the Hoosier state was an
Atlanta visitor for some time.
His reception at the prison was as
informal as his arrival in Atlanta,
the same procedure that is carried
out almost every day except that for
mer governors are unusual guests.
The stereotyped formalities of being
photographed, finger-printed and ex
amined occupied only a short time.
It will be several days before regular
duties are assigned him.
”1 will enter upon the new situa
tion with courage and confidence,
fully conscious of my innocence of
any intentional wrong doing,” de
clared the former governor in a state
ment just before reaching Atlantijl.
Explains His I’ast
“I am facing the decree of fate
with courage and fortitude and sub
lime confidence in my individual in
tegrity of purpose. Unfortunately,
my personal fortune became in
volved through the agricultural de
pression of the past four years and
from my inability to meet the over
head expenses from the proceeds of
the 11,000 acres of my fertile land,
which I own, in order to carry on, 1
was compelled to borrow large
amounts, expecting and believing
that the vastness of the property
vyith restoration of farm values
would enable me to meet in full
every obligation made.
“I have mever speculated unless
the buying of this fertile farm and
the breeding of my blooded cattle
could be called speculation. My per
sonal habits and domestic relations
have been of the most frugal and
simple. I have devoted myself as
siduously and whole-heartedly to
my official duties without regard to
the demands of my private enter
prises. My official acts have never
been questioned. The measures I
have succeeded in putting forth for
the benefit and co-operation of the
people of Indiana in the way of im
proved highways, better schools,
better care of the dependents and
unfortunates will live long after the
present difficulty is l forgotten.”
before reaching Atlanta, the
governor said: ‘‘There were
no irregularities in the
financial accounts of any of the de
partments of the state of Indiana
and investigation will prove it.”
Once on the train, when a remark
seemed to hurt him, one of his com
panions said, ‘‘But governor, you
have all of your friends backing
you.”
“Yes,” McCray . replied, “and
there’s many of them and they are
loyal and true. I couldn't have
stood it without their support.”
■Expresses Sympathy
Sympathy for the tornado victims
in the south was expressed by Mc-
Cray while en route to Atlanta.
“My heart goes out to those who
lost their loved ones and their
homes,” he said.
The former Indiana governor
made this comment at Rome, Ga.,
during a brief stop of tho Southern
railway train on which he made the
trip from Indianapolis. When told
of press dispatches from Indianap
olis regarding his trial, McCray said:
"First, let me comment upon a
much more startling and shocking
story. I mean this tragic tornado
which has increased the death toll
in your south. My heart goes out
to those who lost their loved ones
and their homes.”
Another prisoner in tho party
nade his escape as the train passed
hrough Rathburn, Tenn., early
?hursday morning. He was Robert
Rambert, convicted of theft of an
.utomobile in interstate commerce,
le dived through a window while
he guards took their eyes from
lim for a moment.
As governor of Indiana, Mr. Mc-
Cray went on trial in federal district
court at Indianapolis several weeks
ngo, and was convicted Monday on
in indictment charging fraudulent
use of the mails. Tuesday he wrote
out his resignation as governor, ef
fective at 10 ax m.. Wednesday, and
shortly‘after his successor had been
sworn in he was sentenced by the
judge to serve ten years in prison
and pay a fine of SIO,OOO.
Coolidge Expresses
Nation’s Gratitude to
Reparations Experts
WASHINGTON. May I.—Brest
dent Coolidge today expressed the
thanks of the American government
and nation to the three private ex
perts who represented the United
States m the formulation of tho
Dawes plan for a settlement of the
reparations question.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday ayd Saturday
Wor Id News
Told in
Brief
I OTTAWA —Sir Lewis Davis,
chief justice for Canada, dies, aged
79 years.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica,—Ricardo
Jimenez is elected president of Costa
Rica by congress for four years.
I GENEVA. —The convocation of
I the fifth annual assembly of the
League of Nations is officially an
nounced for September 1 in Geneva.
INDIANAPOLIS.—Former Gover
nor McCray, of Indiana, leaves for
Atlanta federal penitentiary to begin
ten-year sentence for use of mails
to defraud.
ATLANTA.—Death toll of Wed
nesday’s storm in southeastern states
is estimated as 109; many of the 500
reported as injured are in serious
condition.
WASHINGTON.—Leaders in many
fields of American life urge Ameri
can participation in world court be
fore subcommittee of senate foreign
relations committee.
NEW YORK. —Dr. Nicholas Mur
ray Butler, president of Columbia
university,* says the eighteenth
amendment will "be repealed within
five years.”
PHILADELPHIA Prostestant
Episcopal priests in convention con
sider the possibility of reunion of
Anglican and Roman Catholic
churches.
MEXICO CITY. —General Angel
Flores, former governor of Sinaloa,
announcing his presidential candida
cy, declares for legislation regulat
ing petroleum rights.
WASHINGTON.—.President Cool
idge nominates General Harry Tay
lor to be chief of army engineers,
to succeed Major General Lansing
W. Beach, retired.
NEW YORK.-Tdb Adolph Lo
renz, noted Austrian orthopedic sur
geon, sails for Vienna after perform
ing hundreds of bloodless operations
after seven months.
WASHINGTON/—Potentia 1 horse
power is eight times present de
velopment, United States Geological
Survey said in reporting on nation’s
water power resources.
SAN SA LV ADO R.'—T b e dictato
rial forces are holding the armory
in Tegucigalpa, refusing to surren
der to the revolutionary forces
which captured the city.
SAN FRANCISCO. E vara rd
Thompson, New Haven, Conn., "fa
ther’’ of the Yale Bowl and the
Sheepshead Bay Speedway, dies of
asthma and heart disease.
NEW YORK—George H. Kendall,
former head of New York Bank
Note company, in his will bequeaths
business to Miss Ethel Graham Al
len, his secretary for twenty years.
■WASHINGTON.—The house post
office committee adopts amendments
to the postal salary bill granting in
creased pay to third and fourth-class
postmasters and rural mail carriers.
HAVAN^. —Five leaders of the
Veterans and Patriots’ association,
arrested in Havana after the revolt
of soldiers at Santa Clara, are de
nied freedom on habeas corpus peti
tions.
NEW YORK—Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, draft evader, is rumored
to be aboard North German Lloyd
steamship (Zolumbus, en route to
EL PASO —Adolfo de la Huerta.
Bremen.
NEW YORK.—Curtis D. Wilbur,
secretary of navy, in address be
fore Y. W. C. A. convention, says
spectacle of battleships being
scrapped under disarmament pact is
inspiring and heroic.
ED PASO—Adolfo de la Huerta,
leader of revolution, has been traced
to Phoenix, Ariz., and is now be
lieved headed for Lower California
to revive the rebellion, Mexican
Consul General Ruiz says.
CLEVELAND—Warren S. Stone,
president of Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, answering rumors he
is being considered as running mate
of President Coolidge, says he is not
interested in partisan politics.
WASHINGTON —House post of
fice committee by one vote rejected
amendment to postal employes’
salary bill to provide for flat S4OO
annual payment increase for clerks,
carriers, supervisors and inspectors.
BERLIN —• Parties representing
Marx-Stresemann cabinet and Unit
ed Socialists are making bids for
votes in coming election on ques
tion of favoring' solution of repara
tion problem on basis of Dawes re
port.
ATLANTA. Ga. —Seventy-nine per
sons are known to be dead, many
are missing, at least 500 injured and
property damage unofficially esti
mated at ten million dollars as re
sults of storms which sweep south
eastern states.
■WASHINGTON.—WiIIiam M. But
ler, of Massachusetts, will succeed
John T. Adams, of lowa, as chair
man of republican national commit
tee, if President Coolidge is nomi
nated for the presidency, White
House announces.
LONDON. —While conservatives in
British house of commons condemn
labor government's budget and
abolition of McKenna duties on for
eign manufacturers, liberals in party
meeting indorse government’s free
trading program.
WASHINGTON. Representative
Harold Knutson, of Minnesota, is
found not guilty by jfiry in Arling
ton county, Ya., court, of serious
charges filed against him by Vir
i ginia officers last March.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge urges Chairman Jones, of sen
ate commerce conimittee, to seek
prompt action on bill to curb mo
nopolies in Alaskan fisheries and
to establish fishing reserves.
NEW YORK. —Franklin D. Roose
velt, Democratic candidate in 1920
for vice president, formally accepts
appointment as chairman of commit
tee which will work for presidential
I nomination of Governor Alfred E
; Smith, of New York. *
WASHINGTON. Senate
era's in conference approve plan of
Senator Simmons. Democrat. North
I Carolina, for substitute for Mellon
tax plan, calling for maximum sur
tax of 40 per cent and 50 per cent
cut in incomes below SB,OOO.
BI’ENOS AIRES.—The Argentin.
Syndicalist union passes a resoltl
i tion to call o strike of its members
as a result of the government’s ifen
CONGRESSEXPECTED
TO MORN EARLY.
LAWRENCE ASSERTS
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special•Lc i«ed Wite to The Journal )
(Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, May I.—The
White House expects a» early ad
journment of congress.
The legislative program in the
house of representatives has been
virutally completed and were it not
for the unfinished business in the
senate, congress could adjourn in a
week. But the delay in the senate
will mean at least 30 days more
work. Assuming that no filibusters
are attempted, congress may be able
to adjourn in time for the national
conventions so that the members may
devote their whole time and atten
tion to the presidential campaigns
and the congressional contests.
The Democrats will not block the
Republican plans for an early ad
journment. They are in no mood to
stimulate the Republicans to work
any harder than .they care to work.
They ar© getting ready to charac
terize the Republican record as a
"do nothing” session, anyhow.
There are signs that the big busi
ness interests of the country want
congress to finish its work and go
home. The long delay in handling
the tax revision bill has not helped
business. The thought is advanced
that when congress once acts on the
tax program and business knows
exactly what taxes it must pay out
of the Incomes being earned during
1924, much of the uncertainty which
has begun to envolpe industry here
and there will disappear. Also, the
present bill carries in it a flat re
duction of 25 per cent in 1923 in
comes on which the quarterly in
stallment already has been made.
Something Definite Wanted
When the public knows definitely
that sums already laid aside for tax
payments will be saved, a percepti
ble increase in the buying power of
the nation is expected to be noted.
Few differences between the house
and senate on the question of tax
revision have arisen, and none that
cannot be ironed out quickly in con
gress.
Congress has not adopted an agri,
cultural bill, and tb ere are indica
tions that labor v~i press for pas
sage of the Howell bill, which elim
inates the public from the railroad
labor board and substitutes repre
sentatives of capital and labor alone.
The lat e President Harding
thought the trouble with the rail
road labor board was exactly the
opposite, that the interested parties
ought to be eliminated and the whole
board made up of disinterested rep
resentatives of the public. Mr.
Coolidge probably will share that
view, though the chief basis for a
veto, if the bill comes to him for
action, will be his objection to the
expenditure of $500,000 as provided I
for in the proposed legislation. No !
provision for that sum has been !
made in the budget.
The railroads are fighting the I
Howell bill on the ground that the
present transportation act has not
had a chance to demonstrate its
value. A fight on railroad legisla
tion may precipitate a controversy
over the suggested repeal of the so
called guarantee clause. Investors
have been worried about the possi
bility for some time. Should con
gress dispose of the question by fail
ing to change the transportation act,
the holders of securities will be con
siderably cheered. This is another
important factor in the demand for
an early adjournment of congress,
for the less the house and senate
tinker with the business structure,
the better the interested parties like
it. and the more chance, they say.
for a business revival in the remain
der of 1924.
Chance for a Delay
The McNary-Haugen bill will
cause a real fight. It may even de
lay adjournment. The champions
of the measure are-in dead earnest,
and the opponents are insistent that
no such piece of legislation will pass.
The differences are irreconcilable.
They represent two 'schools of
thought on agricultural economies.
The president is preserving an atti
tude of apparent neutrality, but his ■
message to congress would seem to
be a guide to his future attitude and
there prevails at this time confidence
that he will not sign the measure.
The fact that the Norbeck bill was
beaten is taken nowadays as a prece
dent, for in that fight the farm bloc
was shattered. A combination of
southern Democrats and eastern Re-
I publicans beat the bill. A similar
I alignment would kill the McNary
, Haugen bill and save the president
I the problem of acting on it at all.
; Some of his friends are sure he will
not have to act on it. They want
i some agricultural legislation, how
' ever, and just now the Curtis-Aswell
I bill seems to have administration fa
vor. It would attempt to co-ordinate
i farm co-operative organizations un
: der a federal marketing board.
There are enough things on the
j calendar to delay adjournment. The
, regular Democrats and Republicans
will not block an early adjournment
but maybe the radicals will.
;
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia—Fair; moderate tempera
l j re.
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia. Florida. Extreme North
west Florida, Alabama and Missis
sippi—Fair; mild temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky—Fair:
rising temperature.
, Louisiana —Partly cloudy to
cloudy. „
Arkansas—Cloudy and unsettled.
Oklahoma —Showers.
East Texas —Cloud v and unset
tied.
West Texas —Partly cloudy: prob
ably showers in the Panhandle.
pension law. under which 5 per cent
from workers' wages and
. 4bplied toward the pension fund.
BREMERTON. Wash. Active
search is begun for Major Frederick
I*. Martin, commanding U. S. aerial
squadron, seeking to fly around the
world, and Sergeant Harvey, mecha
nician. who left Chignik. Alaska, for
, Dutch hailx.'r. Wednesday, and of
whom no word has been received.
FORD BID ADVOCATE
SAYS TENNESSEE IS
MISREPRESENTED'
i e
WASHINGTON, May I.—Majoi
E. B. Stahlman, publisher of the
Nashville (Tenn.) Banner resuming
his testimony today before the sen
ate agriculture committee on Muscle
Shoals, said testimony given by oth
er Tennessee witnesses did not rep
resent the true sentiment in the
state. He said one of them, Dan
McGugin, had conducted propaganda
against the Ford bid. McGugin, he
said, did not state "fairly” the Ten- |
nessee attitude on the Ford bid.
"The arguments made before the
house committee by Mr. McGugin
and his associate, Mr. Wilkins, of
Tullahoma, Tenn., went uncontra
dicted by anyone from our section,
but regardless of that the house
committee ignored their testimony
and voted favorably on the Ford
proposition,” Stahlman observed.
“Propaganda, instead of being in
augurated by Mr. Ford, was or
ganized by the power companies and'
Mr. McGugin acted as their agent,”
he said.
Would Ignore Act
"On or about the first of Janu
ary, the president of the Tennessee
Manufacturers’ association, of which
Mr. McGugin is general counsel, ap
pointed a committee to go into the
Muscle Shoals situation. A meeting
was called by the association and I
learned that Mr. Edgerton, presi
dent of the association, had been on
an eastern trip and returned with
the notion that it would be danger
ous to have Ford’s bid accepted,
feeling it would hamstring the
south.”
The meeting of the Tennessee
Manufacturers’ association did not
give opposition to the Ford bid, but
favored bringing Muscle Shoals un
der the federal water power act, he
asserted.
Stahlman said he did not favor
placing - Muscle Shoals under the
federal water power act, as this
would limit Ford’s bid to fifty years
and Ford would turn it down.
He said the Tennessee Manufac
turers’ association did not indorse
the power companies’ bid.
“I am trying to impress upon you ■
the adroit methods these gentlemen
—McGugin and his associates —used I
in trying to impress the public that :
they represent the Tennessee Manu
facturers’ association,” he declared.
He said they uhed “elaborate
means in an attempt to convert the
Tennessee Manufacturers’ associa
tion to their way of thinking, but
they had not succeeded."
Propaganda Pamphlets
Stahlman exhibited numerous
pamphlets which he described as
"propaganda of the power compa- ■
nies which were trying to kill thp '
Ford bid,” and said they were dis- i
tributed by "my altruistic friend :
McGugin.”
“Yet when McGugin was on the
stand here he accused us of shock
ing propaganda when he was:
spreading it all the time,” he said,
and added “McGugin says he is not
in any way in any power company I
or fertilizer trust, but represents the ;
president of the Tennessee Manu
facturers’ association.
“The power companies, several of
them, not only Tennessee compa- j
nies, but Alabama companies as |
well, have become members of the .
Tennessee Manufacturers’ asnocia-!
tion and paid in enough money to
keep this propaganda going, and
that money was passed over to Mr. I
McGugin to make use of as he saw ,
fit to carry on this propaganda.”
Would Defer Inquiry
Stahlman read a. letter from the
Tennessee farm bureau federation,
dated March 1. 1924, addressed to
Representative Davis, of Tennessee,
saying the farmers favorede the Ford
bid and that McGugin had offered
to have the Tennessee Manufac
turers’ association pay the railroad
fare to Washington of a delegation
of farmers belonging to the fai'm
bureau.
Stahlman said he presented the
letter "to show the 1 widespread pro
paganda spread by McGugin.”
He said McGugin had gone to Ala
bama and "acted like one inspired
from above to save the country.”
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis- |
sissippi, said he was very anxious ,
to have the bill voted on in the sen- I
ate before adjournment of congress ,
and suggested the propaganda in
vestigation be deferred.
Relieves Ford’s Word
“The Muscle Shoals association
created for development of Muscle
Shoals was organized in 1916 as a
result of a meeting at Nashville of
people from Tennessee. Kentucky
and Alabama, and we raised about
SIO,OOO to cover the costs if employ
ing an engineer to go to Muscle
Shoals and make a survey,” the wit
ness said. “Contributions were made
year after year to cover operating
expenses and not for propoganda.”
The expenditures were made to ob
tain information for the members of
the association and not to influence
anybody on Muscle Shoals, he said,
and added "nobody can buy an edi
torial in my newspaper. I wish there
were more newspapers in the country
that could say the same. I believe
in Henry Ford. I believe he will
give the government the best return.
"I am hostile to the nastj’ fingers
of the power companies in this
thing,” Stahlman said. "Where
does all this opposition to Ford
come from? From the power com
panies and the fertilizer trusts. If
Ford did not live up to his contract
I would lash him as I would the
scoundrels who try to bribe m<-
"But Ford is an honest man. He ‘
will live up to his promises."
Stahlman urged the committee
not to cripple the Ford bid by mak
ing changes in the contract. He j
said Ford would not cripple the
farmer Tn the south: "he wants to i
go on with this work and make a
success of it.”
Stalhman declared the government ‘
could not operate Muscle Shoals
without getting into politics.
Ex-Prisoner on Stand
W. J. Cummins, president of the
Bon A r Coal and Iron company fol
lowed Major Stalhman on the stand
and identified himself as the man ,
‘wh was s Sing Sing
District Attorney Whitman" on the
charge of wrecking the Carnegie
Trust company. He said he lost $3.- ■
100.000 of his own money and "had
never done a dishonest act in his i
ife.” He said Whitman later gave
i:m an unconditional pardon.
He said was now the operating
of one of the largest industries
in Tennessee and be stood un- '
quivocqbl} m favor of Ford's bid as I
a unit.
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MOBILE ADMITS HE
DESERTED THE NAVY
MOBILE, Ala., May I. Former
Police Lieutenant Cliff Adams, wit
ness for the government at the trial
of 69 persons charged with con
spiracy, admitted on cross-examina
tipn that he deserted from the United
States navy in 1910, and that former
chief of police, P. J. O’Shaughnessy,
whom he worked under, knew it.
Adams denied that he met City
Commissioner Harry T. Hartwell for
conferences. He said went to
Crawford once and complained about
O'Shaughnessy, but made no other
report on the case. He said he was
demoted from lieutenant of police
immediately after Crawford was re
elected. He resigned in February
after Chief Hogan went into office.
He said he never accepted any graft
from “blind tigers.”
During the examination of the wit
nesses by the defense attorney, Mr.
Smith, Adams was asked if he de
serted from the navy in 1910. He
said lie had. Later when he was
questioned by Solicitor Biack he said
that O'Shaughnessy knew he had de
serted from the navy.
Solicitor Black said that he expect
ed to prove that the recent contest
for city commissioner between Craw
ford and Dr. Ward was not a con
test, hut that Ward was "put up" by
Crawford to prevent other opposi
tion. Judge Ervin ruled this out,
however, stating he was not trying
politics.
Detective Bennington, on the stand
throughout the greater part of Wed
nesday. was called back to the stand
with the original note book which
he was told to bring into court. He
was cross-examined briefly and an
nouncement made that he Would be
called back I*ter.
State Prohibition Officer Rufus
Cannon testified that he arrested
Sam Powe for prohibition violations,
and Dicey Harrison for operating a
gambling house. reported a con
versation with William H. Holcombe.
Jr., who. he said, told him that he
-hould quit raiding on information of
Farmer and Tom Cleveland and that
if “T ever spoke to them again he
would have the governor remove me
from Mobile. I told him Tom Cleve
land may have been a bootlegger,
but that he was giving me good in
formation and so was Farmer. He
said Caznlas told him to get them all.
and if he needed assistance to call
on him.
Cannon w.a= cross-examined by At
torney Webb. arFd answering ques
tions. said William Holcombe told
him h« was to work our of rhe sher
iff's office, and that he told him he'd
resign before he would do so.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, May 3, 1924
SMHLMGHED
FOR LOST AVIATOR
ON FROZEN COAST
CORDOVA, Alaska, May I.
• t Starch of the icy, windswept Un
[ alaskan coast for Major Frederick
•| u Martin, commander of the
American round-the-world airplane
1 flight, began today.
At 7 a. m., when no word had been
’ ; received from the aviator since he
hopped off from Chignik for Dutch
Harbor, Unalaska, at 11 a. m., yes
terday, the search was ordered.
The coast guard cutter Algonquin,
patrolling the route between Chignik
: and Dutch Harbor along which
’ I Martin was to sty, radioed a request
| to Chignik for all boats of the Sal
mon Cannery fleet making head-
there, to take up the
'search.
They will cover the coast as far
•! as Shumagin island.
■I The navy radio this morning
’ I broadcast a call for all ships in the
• j vicinity to watch for the missing
i ' flyers.
The cannery station at King
Cove, between Chignik and Dutch
Harbor reported that no sign of
Martin had been seen in that vi
cinity, adding to the mystery of
. where he might be.
Weather conditions were exceed
ingly unfavorable. Ail day yester
day and during the early part of
today a gale-ehilled and snow-laden
wind was blowing off the snow
capped mountains which skirt the
coast line.
WORST FIVE YS EVER
SEEN AKE JUST PASSED
FALSE PASS, Unimak Island,
i May I.—(By Wireless to the Asso
j elated Press, via Bremerton, Wash.)
Fears are expressed here for the
safety of Major Frederick L. Martin,
commanding a United States army
squadron encircling the globe who
left Chignik. Alaska, at 11:10 a. m.
Wednesday for Dutch Harbor. Una
laska Island, and who was not re
' ported passing any points up to 6
o’clock Wednesday night.
Residents at the small cannery
. station here, located on the south
eastern point of Unimak Island, near
Ikakan bay. have just passed
through the worst five days ever
known for this period of the year.
Herd of Prize Holstems
Shot Because Sick
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FACTIONS AGREEON
SH-50MPH0MI5E
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May I.
: Fourteen delegates from the state
Jut large, giving to R. R. Church,
: j Memphis negro, and John Farley,
! leader of the "Lily White" Memphis
faction, a half vote each in the Re
i publican national convention, rppear
s ed to be the settlement of the cele
i brated Shelby row in the Republican
state convention this afternoon. Far
j ley, who had announced he would
J bolt the convention if Church was
I seated, has agreed to this arrange
| ment.
This was the compromise plan ar-
I ranged and agreed upon in the con
vention committee delegation. The
.committee fought for an hour and
.a half over the proposition before an
agreement was reached, with Riley
S. Hopkins, middle Tennessee leader,
espousing the cause of Farley and
his associates, thus bringing middle
i Tennessee Republicans into the range
; I of the warfare of'Shelby county Re
publicans for white leadership in the
Republican party of Tennessee.
i Former Governor Alf A. Taylor
was defeated for delegate-at-large,
in the caucus of the First district
delegation this morning, Judge H. T.
Campbell being chosen ,o be pre
sented to the convention, as the dis
trict candidate. The vote was 127
to 87.
Ex-Governor B. W. Hooper, chair
man of th Uenited States railroad la
bor board, was defeated for the First
district member of the resolutions
committee by Judge Dana Harmon,
of Greneville, by practically the same
, vote.
Party leaders in advance of the
opening of the convention had deter
mined to leave the nomination of a
' candidate for governor td the Repub
lican state primary in August. It
was expected, however, that the con
vention would indorse former Chan
cery Court Judge H. B. Lindsay, of
Knoxville, for United States senator.
There are three avowed candidates
for the gubernatorial nomination.
Captain T. F. Peck, of Etowah, for
mer state commissioner of agricul
ture: Walter White, of Dayton, and
P. H. Thach, of Chattanooga.
firing squad today—sacrificed to the
hoof and mouth disease.
The Fred Hartzok herd of 366 ani
' mals, valued at $426,000, all Hol-
I steins which last year won 93 p'W
cent of all the Holstein cattle awards
i in California and included the for
mer world's champion milch cow.
Tillie Alcartra. was driven into a
trench, shot down, covered with
: quick lime and buried.
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HOSPITALS FILLED
Casualty Lists May Grow
Longer as News Comes in
From Sections Isolated by
Wire Trouble ,
RY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
With 110 persons known dead, mors
than a score missing, approximate
'ly 500 injured, some perhaps fatal
ly, and hundreds homeless, the
southeast set about today to relieve
its regions stricken yesterday and
Tuesday by the worst storms In. its
history.
Tornadoes, descending with devas
tating violence upon widely sepa
rated sections, caused damage esti
mated at $10,000,000 in South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, North Caro
lina, Virginia, Louisiana and Arkan- '
sas. I
Early today incomplete reports, (
delayed by crippled wire facilities. .
distributed the total list of dead as
follows:
South Carolina, 81.
Georgia, 13,
Alabama, 11.
North Carolina, 3.
Louisiana, 1.
Arkansas, 1. , , .
With many points in the path of '
the storms yet isolated, reports of
additional casualties were antici- ,
pated.
Relief Work Proceeds
Relief work is proceeding rapidly.
Hundreds of survivors of the storms
have thrown open their homes to
the sufferers, while in virtually ev
ery locality in the affected districts,
temporary kitchens have been set up
to dispense food to the hungry.
A picture of desolation and wreck
age was left in the wake of the
storm, which traversed a path rough
ly estimated at more than a thou
sand miles long. Its destructive
-force, however, 'seemed partly to /
have been spent as it spread east
ward through Virginia last eve
ning, no deaths having occurred
there so far as known, and but
slight property damage caused com
pared with other sections in which
it struck. i
Dead and injured and many of
those unhurt were picked up by th©
fierce winds and hurled through the
air some hundreds of feet. Miles
of telephone and telegraph lines
were torn down, hundreds of dwell
ings and other buildings were rip
ped from their foundations and de
molished, trees were uprooted and
number of live stock were killed;
while bridges were washed away and
roads flooded in many sections by i
torrential rains which accompanied ,
the storm.
Women and children made up a I
large part of the known dead. .
Entire communities were destroy
ed in some sections and there was 1
not a place in Hie storm’ path ,
which escaped wholly unscathed. !
Carolina Hard Hit
In Soutli Carolina, where the tor- I
nadoes were most disastrous, Horrell (
Hill, 12 miles from Columbia, was '
wrecked, 17 being killed and num- |
bers of others more or less seriously
hurt. Among the dead were four I
school boys who with 75 other pupils |
were buried beneath the wreckage
of the school house when it was de- I
moiished. <, <
Eight persons, five or them chll- '
dren, were killed and more than a 1
score injured when they were trap- |
ped in their houses at Anderson. '
Nearly 50 residences were razed lit 1
the Riverside Mill village, near there, ,
while numbers of dwellings in the city
proper were demolished.
Early today, 50 members of tho ,
local American legion post, armed. I
with rifles, were patrolling the |
stricken mill village. Property dam- ,
age in that section alone was placed
at $1,500,000. |
As Florence 15 persons met death,
50 were injured and 30 houses were
destroyed by tlie storm which en- |
tered the county from the west and
cut a swath 300 yards wide to she N
Atlantic coast, 30 miles away. An i
undetermined number of negroes
were reported missing. I
Other fatalities were: Twelve in |
Sumter county, si., in Lee county,
six in Lexington county, one in I
Darlington county and one in Co- ,
lumbia. Many of the dead and in
jured are negroes.
Ficklen, Ga., Wiped Out
The village of Ficklen, Ga., near
Augusta, virtually was wiped off the
map, when the storm struck there,
killing the postmaster, injuring
many and destroying nearly 1
building. ,
At Chipley, near Columbus, nine
persons, two of them white women,
were killed, 30 injured and unde
termined property damage caused.
Due to disrupted wire facilities
there, as in many sections of Geor
gia, only the barest details could
be obtained.
Near Macon, a white woman, her
infant child and a negro man were
killed when the houses in which
they had taken refuge were demol
ished.
Many other points in Georgia
were struck by the storm, including
Lawrenceville, where several per
sons were injured, but available re
ports chronicle no further loss ot
life.
In Alabama, a white child and
four.negroes were killed at Union
Springs; four negroes were killed
at Opelika; 10 negroes were killed
near Clio; a white woman was
killed near Roanoke and many suf
fered injuries in these and other lo
calities. Heavy rains flooded
streams in various parts of the
state to overflowing, washing away
bridges and damaging highways.
North Carolina Gets Touch
As the storm spread with undl
minished fury into North Carolina,
a white man. his wife and son were
killed near Bynum and eight per
sons injured. Two children were
slightly hurt at Charlotte. At Rob
e-sonville, near Rocky Mount, near
ly two score were hurt, several
buildings, including two churches,
were destroyed, while word of pos
sible other casualties in localities
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