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• VOL. XXVI. NO. 94
SOUTHERN BAPTIST
' DELEGATIONS BEGIN
POURING mo CITY
f
Convention Officials Among
Early Arrivals, Preparatory
to Conferences Thou-
► sands Are Coming Later
V ' "
The early arrivals for the south
ern Baptist convention began with
Saturday’s trains and during Sunday
it is expected that all convention of
k ficials will reach the city ready for
Bp're-con vention conferences and
■bboard meetings to be held Monday
A and Tuesday.
The first session of the convention
does not open until Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock, but by Tues
day evening there probably will be
4,000 delegates here and the majority
• of them will attend the meeting held
Tuesday afternoon and evening un
der several allied agencies of the
convention. It is expected that by
the hour of the opening of the con
vention on Wednesday morning at
least 6,000 visitors will be In the
i, city. Special trains from Texas and
other western states will not arrive
until late Tuesday night.
The three leading matters to come
before this convention will be the
report of the committee on redefin
ing the work of the convention; the
report of the committee on the
Southern Baptist Theological semi
nary building program; and the re
port of the committee on future pro
grams. Around these three reports
will center the chief discussions of
' the six days and certainly the dele
gates will await with keenest in
terest the disposal of these three
matters.
There are many other major ques
tions to be settled at this session of
the convention. For example, the
five-year program, known as the
Baptist 75 Million campaign, launch
ed here in Atlanta in 1(119. comes to
a close this year and while the con
vention is considering the future
program, it will be a matter of ne
cessity to work out the clear lines
along which this campaign will be
completed during the remaining
months of the calendar year.
New Seminary Considered
Closely related to the report on
t the redefinition of the scope of the
several boards of the convention will
be a report of a special committee
to. bring a recommendation regard
ing another theological seminary for
the south. This report is expected
to favor a third seminary, according
to announcement from the chair
man. Dr. ,1. M. Shelburne, of Dan
ville, Va. It is well known that Mer
cer university is considered as one
of the most suitable sites for the
* location of this new seminary.
The preconvention meetings are
of unusual importance this year. Be
ginning Monday evening at the First
Baptist church, there will be a meet
ing of the stewardship leaders of the
several states of the convention. Dr. 1
John F. Purser, of Atlanta, is presi
dent of this conference and will pre- ■
side at the session which will con
tinue through Tuesday.
The Atlanta Baptist council has ar
ranged a mass meeting for laymen to
he held in the city auditorium Tues- -
day evening, which promises to be ,
one of the more largely attended ses- I
sions of the entire convention.
United States Senator Walter F. I
George, of Georgia, will be the first
speaker, introduced by Governor Clif- j
ford Walker. The second speaker .
will be Douglas Freeman, editor of I
the Richmond News-Leader, intro- j
duced by Dr. Ashby Jones. A special
program of music will add to the at
tractiveness of this program. Charles
A. Sheldon will play four organ solos
.ehd John D. Hoffman and Mrs.
Janies H. Whitten will sing solos.
F. J Paxon will preside at
meeting. Dr. E. Y. Mullins,
president of the Southern Baptist
convention, will conduct the opening
devotion.
Women to Be Active
On Tuesday evening the women
will hold the opening session of the
Woman’s Missionary union, auxil
iary to the convention, at the Bap
tist Tabernacle. The speakers will
( be Miss Kathleen Mallory, of Birm
ingham; Mrs. W. C. James, president
of the union and Dr. W. O. Carver,
. professor of missions in the semi
nary at Louisville.
The field workers’ conference,
composed of the secretaries of the
Sunday school and B. Y. I’. U. organi
sations of the seventeen states of the
convention, will hold an annual meet
ing on Tuesday at the First Baptist
church. Among the men who will
i bp on this program are: lx W.
Wiley, Illinois; Bryan Robinson, Ten
nessee; E. F. Campbell, Georgia; W.
D. Hudgens. Tennessee; D. S. Camp
bell. Arkansas: E. J. Wright. Vir
ginia; Perry Morgan, North Caro
lina; T. 11 Farmer. Oklahoma; W. H.
Preston. Tennessee; Emmet Moore,
Alabama: T. J| Watts, South Caro
lina; I J. tan Ness, Tennessee; G.
W Card, Tennessee, and Dr. Wallace
Bassett, Texas.
y Ou Tuesday afternoon George W.
Andrews, secretary of Sunday school
work in Georgia, will take the mem
bers of the field workers’ conference
to Stone Mountain for a pleasure
trip.
The Southern Baptist Bible con
ference holds its first session on
Tuesday night at the Central Baptist
ehurch. The speakers on Tuesdav
•Ight will be Dr. W. l, Pickard of
* CkbttauoGga. and Dr. Lincoln McCon
■•ll. of Oklahoma City This confer
• Bee will hold sessions every dav
faring the hoon recess hour of the
•onventior. in the First Baptist
church. This is the first time this
conference has been held in connec
tion with sessions of the convention.
It is announced by the leaders of
the movement that the emphasis in
tiie meetings will be upon doctrinal
• questions. Dr. Victor I. Masters of
Kentucky, and Dr, T. P. Stafford, of
Kansas C<ty are the leaders in this
> new organization.
Mercer university will hold two
debates here Tuesday evening. One
debate will be between Mercer and
XX ake Forest college and will be held
in the XX esley Memorial church. The
other will be between Mercer and
XX illiam Jewell college, and will be
£ held tn the auditorium of the Y. M.
C. A. on Luck is street.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
MISSING AVIATORS
SAVE THEMSELVES
FROM TOMB OF ICE
Major Martin and Alva Har
vey Trudge Seven Days to
Aid After Crashing Into
Mountain
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Major
Frederick L. Martin and his me
chanic, Staff Sergeant Alva L. Har
vey, will be ordered to Washington
direct from Port Moller, Alaska,
where |they arrived safely after their
airplane had been wrecked, and they
had been missing for 11 days in the
wilds of Alaska.
The two aviators will be assigned
to duty in the army air service head
.quarters temporarily, but their
names will be kept on the list of
the around-the-world flyers, in com
pliment to the men. and in recogni
tion of the hardships they have en
dured in valiantly attempting to lead
the squadron in the globe-encircling
flight.
Three Planes to Continue
Meanwhile the three other planes
will continue their way around the
world under command of Lieutenant
Lowell H. Smith, senior officer in
the absence of Major Martin.
The plans of the air service also
will permit Major Martin to keep
the designation of commanding of
ficer of the flight, Lieutenant
Smith’s title being that of acting of
ficer in charge.
It is intended to send Major Mar
tin and Sergeant Harvey across the
Atlantic in time to greet the flyers
and lead them on the way Pome
from Europe, m that way giving the
commander the post of honor which
he lost by hard luck in Alaska..
Air Service Chief Wires
With Ilie approval of Secretary
Weeks, Major General Patrick, chief
of the air service, today sent to Major
Martin a telegram outlining to him j
the plan arranged and ordering him
to return to Washington, to make
ready for it.
“We rejoice,” said the telegram,
“and thank God you are both safe
and well. Confidence in you un
abated. You have proved yourself.
Still want you to command the flight.
Cannot arrange for you to overtake
others by going on west. You and
Sergeant Harvey will report to me
here without delay. Plan to send you
east to rejoin flight at the furthest
convenient point from which you can
complete the journey with the rest
of your command."
Major Martin reported to the war
department today that he would
leave tomorrow for Bellingham en I
route to Washington.
FLIERS TO LEAVE ALASKA
TUESDAY ON RETURN TRIP
FALSE PASS, Alaska, May 12.
(Ry the Associati d Press.; —Major
Frederick L. Martin, world flight
commander, whose plane was
I smashed against a mountain on the
Alaskan peninsula. April 30, Intends
to leave Port Moller, Alaska, Tues
day for the United States.
Word came here from Port Moller
thaO Major Martin and Staff Ser
geaiit Alva L. Harvey, his mechanic,
l would be aboard the cannery tender
I Catherine D, of the Paeific-American
i Fisheries of Bellingham, Wash. The
I Catherine was to leave a cannery at
1 Pott Mailer Tuesday for Pug it
■ Sound.
The information was received here
■ today by A. W. Shields, manager of
I the Pacific-American Fisheries, from
! R. Amundson, superintendent of a
: salmon cannery of the Pacific-Amer
' icon Fisheries at Port Moller.
1 The fliers, alive and well, after
, having undergone severe hardships
' during the ten days they were miss-
■ Ing, today were w.aiting at Port Mol-
Iler, 10(1 miles west of Chignik, Alas-
I ka. on the Alaskan peninsula, tor
instructions from Washington that
will determine their next step.
The aviators were rest!' in the
quarters of the Pacific-American
Fishe company at Port Moller,
and receiving the best of care, while
the coast guard cutter Algonquin is
speeding to their assistance from
l Unaiasi’..
■ No additional information has been
receiveci here from Port Moller since
the message giving news of the ar
rival was broadcast early Sunday
morning. This message stated that
both escaped injury when their
plane. Seattle, crashed into a moun
tain peak and was‘wrecked at 12:30
o’clock the afternoon of April 30. an
■ 1 our and a half after they left Chig
nik hound for Dutch Harbor to re
join the air squadron
Frozen Waste Traversed
Making their way over frozen
wastes with the greatest difficulty
subsisting on the condensed rations
they carried, the two fliers finally
reached, on May ", a trapper’s cab
in at the most aouthernly point of
Port Moller Bay.
Exhausted by their long tramp,
they remained at this cabin three
days recovering their strength, and
then walked along the beach to Port
Moller vhere they’ flashed . o the
world the news that they were alive
; and unhurt.
Digging into the store of informa-
I tion gathered by explorers, the Na-
J tional Geographic society today pro
duced a picture of the region where
Major Frederick L. Martin the world
flight aviator, crashed into a moun
tain side. It showed that the. topog
: raphy and climatic condtiions macle
j it almost inevitable that the craft
’ should come to grief.
Descriptive of Route
Describing the country side be
tween Chignik where the aviator took
to the air, and Port Moller, to which
place he walked with Sergeant Har
vey, his mechanician, the society
says:
“The Aleutian range, between these
points, offers frequent pit falls for
; the aviator, because it consists large
! l.v of conical peaks rising suddenly
I out of dreary tundras or marshes.
“The entire Alaska peninsula, ex
l tremie west of Alaska’s mainland is
i a mountain ridge of several hundred
' miles with spurs and sides sharply
I descending to the sea.
“Only about a dozen permanent
Eskimo settlements are left along
’ 2,000 miles of indented coast.
"Port Moller, the community to
j which the airmen made their way on
’ foott is only about 150 miles from the
. lip of the peninsula. This little set-
I tlment. consisting for the most part
i of a salmon cannery, is on the Bering
| Sea or north side of the peninsula.
“A nest of high mountains almost
surrounds the deep indentation on
i which Port Moller is situated, and the
' main ridue of the Aleutian tenge
If 7 or Id News
Told in
Brief
BOSTON.—Edwin Atkins Gvozier,
i editor and publisher of Boston Post,
1 dies at Boston, aged 65 years.
MOSCOW. —Regular : rial passen
ger and mail service between Mos
cow and Koenigsberg has been ra
; established.
PA-tIS. —Early returns from
French parliamentary elections in-
■ dictete general success of anti-Poim
care forces.
WASHINGTON.—House by close
vote refuses to accept proposal of
president to postpone Japanese ex
clusion until March 1, 1925.
WASHINGTON. Mrs. Hubert
Work, wife of secretary of interior,
dies suddenly at Washington while
riding in her automobile,
ROME.—Special reports to the
Corriere d’ltalia say clash is possi
ble between Russian and Rumanian
troops on Russo-Rumanian border.
NEW YORK.—Tiie $450,000 estate
of Charles F. Murphy, late leader
of Tammany hall, is left by his will
to widow and members of family.
Parkersburg”" xvest va.—
Samuel C. Dyke, nationally known
authority on pottery, said to be first
manufacturer of marbles in Amer
ica, dies.
BUENOS AlßES?—Fifteen hun
dred manufacturers and merchants,
assembled under auspices of Argen
tine Industrial union, resolve to dis
obey new pension law.
PHILADELPHIA. Txiw enforce
ment as means of preserving civili
zation is urged by William H.
Hughes, war-time premier of Aus
tralia. in an address.
MOSCOW. Princess Obolensky,
daughter of late governor general of
Petrograd, and one of the most beau
tiful girls in Russia, is placed on
trial charged with brigandage.
NEW YORK.—Suit brought to
dissolve merger of Midvale Steel and
Ordnance company and Cambria
Steel company is dismissed in fed
eral court.
BERLIN.—Eleven communists
are reported killed and many
wounded in clash with German fas
cist! at Boelleberg following nation
alist celebration at Halle.
NEW YORK.—Plans for renovat
ing Madison Square garden for na
tional Democratic convention call
for construction of largest platform
ever built for political convention.
NEXV YORK?—The May. said tc
be fastest rum-runner of Atlantic
coast, is wrecked in battle with City
police boat on East rivver and crew
of four captured.
ROXIE. —Italy pays highest honors
to Eleonora Duse as body of trage
dienne arrives at Rome where sol
emn mass is sung at Church of
Santa Maria Angell.
TOKIO.—As result of Saturday's
elections in Japan, hi which govern
ment was apparently defeated, resig
nation of Premier kiyout’a, is fore
cast in 'iukiu newspapers.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge was not consulted as to pro
visions of world court plan, present
ed in senate by Senator Lodge, Re
publican, Massachusetts, it Is stated
■ at White House
■ SEATTLE. Three army alr
planes seeking to fly around world
leave Atka Island for Attu Island.
j 530 miles distant, according to radio
| dispatches received at Puget Sound
(Washington) navy yard.
PARIS. —Count Salm von Hoegs
' trateten. at Vienna, emphatically de
| nied rumor of estrangement from
the countess, formerly Millicent Rog
i ers. New York heiress, who is re
: turning home to America with her
j father. 11. H. Rogers.
NEW YORK—Counsel for Wil
i liam H. Anderson, former superin
tendent of anti-saloon league of
I New York, who is serving sentence
I in Sing Sing for forgery, files ap
peal in appellate division of supreme
court.
NEXV YORK. —Announcement of
annual Pulitzer prizes
award of gold medal to New York
World for “most disinterested and
meritorious public service” in con
neclion with exposure of Florida
| peonage situ .tion.
' DUBLIN. Formation of new
j group whose policy will be complete
I independence, territorial unity and
I economic progress is announced by
< Joseph McGrath, former minister of
I commerce, and Daniel McCarthy
| former dail eireann government
whip.
I XX’ASHINGTON. Major Frodo.-
; lek L. Martin and his mechanic.
I Sergeant Alva L. Harvey, missing
world flight aviators, are >t
; Port Moller. Alaskan peninsuki ac
| cording to wireless dispatch received
lat Cordova and official messages
I from Major Martin to war depurta
i meat.
Jap Premier To Quit
In Election Defeat
TOKIO, May 10.—(By the Asso
! crated Press.) —Early returns Satur
-5 day indicated the defeat of the gov
ernment in yesterday’s election
I The Japan >e press credits Premier
Kiyottra with the statement that
he will resign if the government is
' beaten. _
with numerous peaks runs just
|soulh.
(rash Inevitable
“Once having gotten over the land
■in the fog and struck down this
I range, it was almost inevitable that
I a crash should occur.
"Between the peaks in this region
‘ are a number of low passes from th?
Pacific, which, meeting the colder
air from the north, make this one of
the foggiest regions on the peinsula.
“A phenomenon of the Alaska
peninsula is the mirage, that optical
magician which shows headlands and
islands in the air and paints snowy
ridges where they don't exist.”
Nd word had been received early
today from Attu Island, where the
rest of the air squadron is awaiting
Isa cable weather for a hop-off
across Bering sea to Paramashiru
, Island, in the Kuriles, at the north
| end of the Japanese empire. In the
i jump the aviators will cover a dis-
I tanee of S7S miles, the longest in the
; 27.nni -mile circuit of the earth on the
tilers' schedule.
;first clash with
CONGES UPSETS
RESIDENT’S MS
Coolidge Overridden in the
housei Lawrence Points
Out—Lodge Deserts World
Court Course
Bi DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright,
WASHINGTON, May 10.—The
makeshifts of compromise legisla
tion, together with an inevitable
battle between the executive, and the
legislative branches, have forced to
a climax the whole political situa
tion this week.
President Coolidge's first expe
rience with congress has proved dis
astrous, he has failed to persuade
the house and senate, in which the
Republicans have a majority, to en
act a single one of his major pro
posals. Instead, he is engaged in an
eleventh-hour struggle to prevent
congress from damaging the pres
tige of the United States abroad as
well as its economic structure at
home. The defeat of the president
in the house on his suggestion that
legislation including the Japanese
exclusion be deferred until a treaty
governing immigration from Japan
could be negotiated, means a veto
of the immigration bill. A simple
resolution extending the provisions
of the present law for another year
could be enacted until congress re
convenes next fall.
As if to add more confusion to an
already complicated situation in con
gress, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Republican leader, has gone against
the avowed position of President
Coolidge on the world court by pro
posing an alternative scheme. Mr.
Lodge’s suggestions are not new.
They were tried out before, but
failed to win the approval of the
smaller nations of the globe, who
insisted that they would be discrim
inated against.
Lodge Plan Too Limited
Elihu Root proposed the present
world court legislation as a means
of overcoming that difficulty, and
that’s why Mr. Coolidge and Mr.
Hughes have declared the present
world court created by the League
of Nations to be the onlj, “practica
ble” plan. Mr. Lodge’s suggestion
would not be adopted by the other
countries, most of whom cannot see
why they should make any change
in a going institution simply to
oblige American politicians.
The administration's “influence in
congress suffered a vital blow when
Mr. Lodge turned from the presi
dent on the world court issue, but
Mr. Coolidge has been fighting
■ alone for several weeks. The lead-
I ership in congress has not been able
| to assist him in his legislative pro-
I gram. The tax bill passed by the
| house was a disappointment to the
! administration, and it was ednfi
, dently hoped the senate would cor-
I rect the defects nd improve the
I bill. But instead, the senate nas
i strayed even further from adminis
tration doctrine, and now the presi-
I dent and Secretary Mellin will be
; lucky if they can get the objection-
I able senate provisions removed in
, conference and the house bill
I adopted.
A veto of the tax bill is a fore
gone conclusion if the senate does
not recede from its position in von
| lerence. The Republican leaders of
. the senate have given up the fight
I m that body, hoping to rush the bill
I into conference next week for a final
I effort at compromise.
Farm Relief Is Next
| Then will come another struggle
i over the McN ry-Haugen bill, a'
[ measure d --fl to raise the price
-of wheat to about $1.60 a bushel by
i means of an agricultural corporation,
; for which an appropriation of $200,-
i 000.000 would ' acessary. There
are two schools of thought on this
bill those who think it will mean
economic disaster and those who look
upon it as economic salvation for the
farm r. Mr. Coolidge is on the fence
so far as any public indication of his
is concerned, but he prob
ably will veto the measure unless it
is materially amended.
I he idea of an international con-
T' ' i disarmac-- this summer
has been discouraged by President
C 'largely because he doesn't
think Europe is ready to talk about
I it.
XX hen the Republican situation has
cleared, he may feel differently about
it.
The political situation grows more
'"sing every ••. Air. Coolidge
i has won the Republican nomination
His record in the primaries was a
! surprise to those who did not think
I he was a But the Demo
‘ erats say the statistics will prove
l how small a vote actually was cast
! in all the Republican primaries, and
I that enough Republicans stayed at
i home, not only to defeat Mr. Coolidge
| for the nomination, but to elect a
’ Democratic president.
Clothing Costs Rise
14 Per Cent Within
The Past Two Years
NEW YORK. May 10.—Clothing
j hills of the average American fam
ily have been steadily on the in-
I crease the past two years, accord
. ing to national industrial conference
board statistics made public today.
A year's supply of clothing costs 14
per cent more now than two years
ago and the average ,of clothing
prices has risen 1 per cent since last
November, the figures show.
The survey revealed that the aver
age advance in th? cost of men’s
yearly allowance for clothing was
greater than for a corresponding al
lowance for women. Men's clothing
last March was slightly more than
SO per cent higher than in 1914:
women's almost 71 per cent.
Coolidge Gets Nine
Delegates From Nevada
RENO, Nev.. May 10.—Nine dele
i gates, pledged to President Coolidge,
j were elected today by the Repub
: lican state convention. The resoht-
I tions indorsed th*’ Mellon plan of
taxing. Two women were Included
fn the delegates.
SENA TE PASSES TAX BILL;
DEMOCRATIC RATES STICK!
M'IDOO RECEPTION
CHEERS SUPPORTERS
IN WEST TENNESSEE
Enthusiastic Greeting Given
Leading Candidate on
Tour Crowds Meet
Speaker at Jackson
M’Adoo Wins Twenty-Six
Delegates In Kentucky
Louisville. Ky.. May n
Kentucky’s delegation of 26
will be sent to the Demo
cratic national convention in
structed for William G. McAdoo,
returns from 103 of the state’s
120 counties in today’s county
conventions indicated Saturday
night. Delegates to the state
convention in Lexington Wednes
day were selected and the re
turns showed 1,343 delegates for
M cAdoo.
JACKSON, Tenn., May 11.—Here
in the midst of a community that
glories in the democracy and tradi
tions of Andrew Jackson, after
whom the- city was named, XVilliam
G. McAdoo Saturday addressed
a great concourse of people, who re
ceived him with an enthusiasm in
dicative of the esteem in which he
is held as the leader of the Demo
cratic party.
Representative men and women
from two congressional districts, the
eighth and ninth, composed the
great crowd that thronged the ball
park, where Mr. McAdoo spoke.
At the conclusion of the address,
Mr. McAdoo received such assur
ances of support as to inspire the
confident belief that west Tennessee
will send McAdoo delegates to the
state convention at Nashville on
May 22.
Local leaders are convinced that
as a result of the speech, the coun
ties of Gibson, Carroll, Haywood,
Crockett, Obion, Lake, Decatur, Mc-
Nairy, Hardin, Hardeman, Fayette
and Madison will instruct for Mc-
Adoo.
Oounties Are Influential
These counties are among the
largest and most influential in west
Tennessee, excepting only Shelby,
in which Memphis is situated, and
Shelby already is counted in the
McAdoo column.
As in other sections of the coun
try where the candidacy of Senator
Oscar W. Underwood has made lit
tle or no progress, the Unerwood
forces and anti-McAdoo men todaj'
are seeking only to prevent the
state convention from instructing
its delegates to New York.
They are engaged in a gumshoe
canvass, but the realization, here
as elsewhere, that tiie contest for
emocratic nomination is really
a fight between McAdoo and Al
Smith, of New York, is operating to
crystallize sentiment around Geor
gia's native son.
After the speaking one delegation
after another from tiie dozen or
more represented in the great gath
ering sought out Mr. McAdoo and
his canwiien manager. Judne Rock
well, with the assurance that they
would see to it that their county
mass meetings next Saturday send
to Nashville only delegates who are
pledged to McAdoo.
Throng Greets Train
Arriving at Jackson at 3 o'clock
this afternoon, Mr. McAdoo was
greeted by 1,500 people as he stepped
from the train.
This city is a great community and
t k-end rendezvous for traveling
salesmen in this section of the coun
try.
There were hundreds of railroad
men in the gathering and splendid
representation of tra' '’' - salesmen.
The women, too. were well repre
sented in the throng, and were among
the most enthusiastic in welcoming
the distinguished visitor.
From the depot Mr. McAdoo was
escorted directly to the ball park,
where a platform, gaily bedecked in
bunting, had been improvised. En
inute from the station, Mr. McAdoo
drove over the highway followed by
Andrew Jackson on his march to
New Orleans, where he vanquished
the British in the XVar of 1812.
Inspired by the memory of the
immortal Andrew Jackson. Mr. Mc-
Adoo expressed appreciation of be
ing privileged to speak in a city
named for the incorruptible and out
standing leader.
“It is a century since Jackson
first ran for the presidency, and
the country again cries for Jack
sonian leadership." declared Mr
McAdoo.
, Corruption Rampant
“XX’e have had enough of lillipu
tianism at Washington. The punv
attempts at leadership which the
Republican party has made for the
past three years have brought the
nation to a humiliating pass.
“Corruption stalks through great
departments and bureaus, leaving its
foul stain and corroding effects upon
the national life, and imperilling the
very foundations of democratic in
stitutions.
“There is neither courage nor de
cision nor capacity to govern in
the domihant Republican group at
Washington. Drift, inaction and
demoralization characterize the ad
ministration in the executive and
legislative branches. a clear
majority in both houses, the presi
dent is unable to command the sup
port of his own party. The minor
ity Democratic leaders, with the aid
of progressive Republicans, have
taken legislative leadership from
the Republicans and, fortunately for
the country, have prevented the en
actment of laws advocated by the
president which would benefit pred
atory privilege, and have substituted
for them legislation which will ben
efit the people.
“Republican leadership presents a
pitiful spectacle of graft, corruption
and incompetence. It must be driv
en from power by th® party of Jef
ferson. Jackson and Wilson, restored
under a leadership which will bring
(Cnntieued on Page 6, Column 4)
Atlanta, Ga,, Tuesday, May 13, 1924
M’ADOO TO GET 625 1-2 VOTES
SOON AFTER BALLOTING OPENS
IN DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Will Lack Only 108 Votes
of Required Two-Thirds
by Fifth Roll Call) Latest
Survey Shows
BY (’. E. GREGORY
William Gibbs McAdoo, son of i
Georgia, will receive in the early
balloting of the Democratic national
convention in New York on June 24,
625 1-2 votes, or only 108 votes less
than are required to nominate him
for president, according to the re
turns from states that have held their
presidential primaries and the indi
cations in those with primaries ap
proaching. This situation is espe
cially encouraging to Mr. McAdoo’s
supporters, in view of the fact that
the late President Woodrow Wilson
had only 324 1-2 votes on the first
ballot at the Baltimore convention
that nominated him.
Thirty-three states and territories,
with 920 of the 1,098 delegate votes
in the convention, have already ex
pressed their preference for presi
dential nominees. In these thirty
three states, Mr. McAddo won or di
vided the delegations from twenty
seven, losing only six states complete
ly to the entire field of opponents,
who were “favorite sons" in most in
stances. The states that have voted
gave Mr. McAdoo 445 1-2 instructed
delegates, to 374 1-2 for all his oppo
nents combined. Governor Al Smith,
of New York, heads the opposition,
with slightly more than 125 in
structed votes, 90 of which are from
his own state.
Sixteen of the remaining states
and territories are known to be
favorable to Mr. McAdoo, and a>e
confidently expected to cast their
votes for him by the fifth ballot.
These states have a total conven
tion vote of 180. With these 180
votes added to the 415 1-2 already in
the McAdoo column, tiie total vote
practically conceded to Mr. McAdoo
reaches 625 1-2, or 75 1-2 votes more
than a majority in the convention.
This leaves five states which are
decidedly in the doubtful column,
with a convention vote of 98. These
states are Louisiana, Rhode Island,
Virginia, West Virginia and New
Jersey. Mr. McAdoo has consider
able strength in all these states, but
his more conservative friends arc
claiming only a portion of the dele
gations in three states. They expect
him to receive twelve of the twenty
votes in Louisiana, half of the Vir
ginia. delegation of 24 votes, and half
of West Virginia’s sixteen votes,
making 32 in all. This system of
estimating gives 66 votes to the en
tire field of opponents, with New
Jersey's 28 votes counted as prob
ably for Governor Smith.
In the event Mr. McAdoo docs re
ceive the 32 votes claimed for him in
the five doubtful states, his total
convention vote would reach 657 1-2
to 440 1-2 votes for all his opponents
combined. A two-thirds majority,
required for nomination, is 733. Mr.
McAdoo would, therefore, lack onlv
75 1-2 votes of being nominated in the.
. early balloting, and he is certain to
; attract the support of many dele
gates who go to the convention in
structed to honor a “favorite son”
with a complimentary vote on the
first ballot, or until the case of the
favorite son is seen to be hopeless.
There are very few “favorite sons”
whose eases will not appear “hope
less” before the convention is called
to order.
Archie and T. R.,’ Jr.,
Aid Arabian Sheik Past
Immigration Barrier
NEW YORK. May 10.—Sherif Mou
hiuddin, an Arabian sheik, was ad
mitted into this country today after
’’ ! o and '--•nit R sevelt, sons
of the late president, appeared before
immigration officials at Ellis island
in his bein '". The Arabian is a ’cellist
and plans to give concerts in this
country.
Arriving yesterday on the steamei
• yron, Sherif Mouhiuddin was taken
to Ellis island to await the action of
a ’-npcirq hoard o f inquiry.
He produced a letter of introduc
tion to the Roosevelt brothers who
v ' -> Ell’s islo"’’ v.hen they learn
ed of the Arabian's plight
25 Years for Second
Degree Murder Is Given
Former Carolina Chief
LEXINGTON N C.. May 10
L C. Jenkins, former chief of po
lice of Thomasville. N. C.. this aft
ernoon wa* - nd guilty of murder
in the secon. degree, in connection
with the doath at Thomasville, (ate
in March, of Mrs. Elizabeth Jo is
of Appalachia. X 7 a.
He was sentenced to frnm 25 to 30
years in the state prison at hard
labor.
Counsel gave notice nf appeal.
Secretary of Labor
Uses Plane to Keep
Dinner Engagement
PHILADELPHIA. May 10. —ln
order that he might arrive here in
time to attend a dinner given Con
gressman XVilliam S Vare tonight.
James Davis, secretary of labor,
flew from Cleveland to Pine Valley.
N. J., this afternoon and motored
here.
The secretary left Chicago late Fri
d. . but. upon learning he would not
arrive here at the t .sired hour, left
the train at Cleveland nd completed
the journey bv -"-tilane.
Commits Suicide at 72,
Using High Explosive
NEW BURGH. N Y . May 10
Peter X’an Nest. 72 years old, com
mitted suicide today- by blowing him
self to pieces with blasting powder
in a bedroom of his home here. The
expolsion rocked bouse? and shatter
ed windows in the vicinity.
How McAdoo Stands
In Convention Vote
STATES THAT HAVE ACTED
McAdoo Opposi
tion
Alabama - 24 I
Arizona - I’li |
California. 26
Connecticut 7 ~
Delaware 6
Georgia • 28 ....
Illinois - IS 40
Indiana 30
lowa - 26 ....
Kansas 26 ....
Kentucky 26 ....
Maine 6 6
Maryland 16
Massachusetts 8 28
Michigan 26 4
Missouri 36 ....
Nebraska •••-
New Hampshire 4 4
New York 90
North Carolina 24 ....
North Dakota 10 • • • •
Ohio • 48
Oklahoma 20 ....
Pennsylvania 36 40
South Carolina ••••
South Dakota
Texas 40 ....
Vermont - 4 4
Washington . 1.4 • •••
Wisconsin 8 18
Canal Zone 9 •• • •
Porto Rico 8 •• • •
Hawaii .... - ••••
445’i 374’i
STATES THAT HAVE NOT YET
ACTED BUT ARE FAVORABLE
TO M’ADOO ON FIRST OR SEC
OND B YLLOT:
Arkansas *8
Colorado ... 12
Florida 12
Idaho o 8
Minnesota ”1
Mississippi 20
Montana 8
Nevada 6
New Mexico
Oregon 10
Tennessee (.... 24
Utah 8
Wyoming 6
Alaska 6
Dist. of Columbia 6
Philippines 6
Total ' •• 180
THIS I.FAXES FIVE STATES
WHICH HAVE NOT YET ACTED
OR BEHN CLASSIFIED ABOVE,
BUT WHICH IT IS BELIEVED
WILL LINE UP AS FOLLOWS:
McAdoo Opposition
Louisiana 12 8
Rhode Island .... lO
X'irginia 12 12
West X'irginia 8 8
New Jersey 2B
Total 32 66
Too Nervous to Shoot,
Mother-in-Law Avers
At Son-m-Law’s Trial
A. J. Kline, of Hapeville, was ac
quitted of the charge of beating his
: wife, Mrs. Bessie Kline, after a trial
Monday before Judge John D. Hum
phries, in Fulton superior court,
which was featured by the testimony
of the defendant's mother-in-law, Mrs.
S. T. Mauldin, who declared that she
attempted to shoot Kline while he
i is alleged to have been beating her
daughter, but that she was "too
nervous" to pull the trigger.
Mrs. Mauldin said she heard her
daughter screaming in another room,
and going in to investigate, alleged
' t hat Kline was holding his wife by
the hair and punching her in the
side. When she protested, she as
serted. be reached for a shotgun. As
he did, she said she reached for a
pistol and "beat him to it.” She said
jshe attempted to shoot him, but was
! “too nervous.”
Kline denied the occurrence, and
said the trouble was "too much
! mother-in-law." The jury found him
j not guilty. He was lepresented by
Attorney R. B. Fortune.
Benning Forest Bill,
Sponsored by Harris,
Favorably Reported
XVASHINGTON. May 12.—Estab
lishment of Benning national forest
at Fort Benning, Ga., was approved
today by the senate public lands com
mittee in reporting favorably a bill
by Senator Harris, Democrcat, Geor
gia.
The forest, comprising the military
reservation proper, would be under
the secretary of agriculture, but its
use by the war department for mili
tary purpose would be authorized.
Heavy Snow Fails
On Mountain Ranges
Near Asheville Sunday
ASHEVILLE, N. C., May 12
Snow fell in large quantities on the
mountains near Asheville yesterday.
Persons at Mount Mitchell reported
i that the summit of the range was
covered with two inches of snow,
and on Craggy a fall of two to four
inches was reported. The weather in
Asheville was cold and rainy.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Fair and warmer.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia: Fair, rising tempera
ture. |
Fiori 7a: Fair, warmer in north j
portion
Extreme 2' t.hwest Florida, Ala
bama and oojppi. Fair; rising i
temp ture.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair |
rising temperature.
Louisiana: Genera.,y fair.
Arkansas —C-enerally fair.
Oklahoma: Increasing cloudiness.
Eaxt Texas; Partly cloudy, show-
t 1 '. i’ll th<» west ccv’st.
Xregt Texas: Partly cloudy.
0 CENTS A COPY,
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MEASURE CARRIES I
25 PER CENT SI.JSM
IN 1924 PHin
President Coolidge Is fl|
peeled to Veto Measurß|||
Conference Retains
jcctionable Features
Proposed Income Ta)B||||
Compared With
Under the Present
XVASHINGTON, May IL—
income rates
framed by the house and
and mein'' 1 in the present HHH
f o How: KHMiajMHHB
Senate; Normal— Two per
on inclines of $4,00 n and
four per cent, on incomes
$4,000 and $8,000; six per
above SB,OOO.
Surtaxes: Start at one-ut
000, graduating up to fortXjMHHI
cent, ■ nlicable to
$500,000 and over. SiBSpI
Exemptions: SI,OOO for
persons, $2,300 for heads of
lies.
House: Normal—Two per
'Hi incomes of $4,000 and
five per cent on incomes
$l,00i) and $8,000; six per
.hove SB,OOO.
Surtaxes: Start at 112 per
at SIO,OOO, graduating up to
per cent, applicable on incomes^t f
of $200,000 and over. mH
Exemptions: Same ns present
Present law: Normal—Four per
cent on incomes of $4,000 and 14n-, f Ml
der: eig l ’* nor cent above. WH
Surtaxes: Start at one per cerijtj'
at $6,000, graduating up to a iW
r.e ”ef v p er cen t on incomes'; ?■
of $200,000. ' * c I. B
KTm-nptions: SI,OOO for single i ■
persons. S2.L for heads of famif. ■
lies with incomes of $5,000 ami 1 1
less; $2,000 for others. f i 1
WASHINGTON. May 10. r-
Stripped of almost every cestlge
of the Mellon plan, and clothed
the Democratic program, the ta®.
reduction bill was passed today by-'
the senate b 9 to 15.
As a result it goes to conferenqq.
for adjustment of differences wifft T
the house, with its life at stake.
publican organization leaders in tha'-
senate today frankly admitted thejif
would recommend veto of tLj.meas?
tire by President Coolidge if it wa4
not transformed by the
The president had asked congress
for the Mellon plan. Although his'
views were not made known on th#-
bill passed by the house which car<
ried only the remnants of the Mel?',
lon scheme he has voiced spec.fioj
opposition to some of the provisions
j inserted in the senate.
The senate bill goes practically as
far in general tax revision as that
j passed by the house. It provides
generally for: |
25 per cent reduction in Income
taxes payable this year.
! Repeal or reduction of most of the
special excise and miscellaneous
1 taxes. • p
A fifty per cent permanent cut
in the taxes on incomes below $8,000(
and a general reduction in the taxe*
on higher incomes. The maximum
surtax rate would be cut from 50
to 40 per cent.
A 25 per cent reduction on earned
incomes up to SIO,OOO.
Administration leaders opened
their attack on tiie bill today just!
before passage, and fif f ’?n R
licans voted against it while three
others were paired against it.
Chairman Smoot of the financsi
committee declared the senate ,ini
remodeling the bill, had cut taxesrf
by $111,150,000 beyond the reducj
tions recommended by the commits
tee. and that as a result “instead of
a $50,000,000 treasury deficit next
year under its operation, the govJ
ernment faces a $161,000,000 defclt
which will be increased to
000 if the pending extra app; ''ria*
tion bills become law."
Senator Moses. New
and Brandegeo, Connecticut. Repub
licans, served notice that "in view
of'the total destruction of the Mel
lon plan,” they wouF ci support
the measure finally unless it was
transformed in conference.
How They Voted
The measure probably will not be
taken up by the senate and house)
conferees for final adjustment of
differences before Tuesday, and
Chairman Smoot expects it to take
two weeks to reach a settlement.
The vote today on the ; assage
was: j -
Those voting for the bill were:
Democrats: Adams, Ashurst, Bay
ard, Broussard, Bruce, Caraway,
Dial, Dill, Ferris, Fletcher. George,
Gerry, Glass, Harris, Harrison, Hef
lin, Jones, of New Mexico; Kendrick,
King, McKellar, Mayfield, Neely,
Overman, Pittman, Ralston, Rans
dall. Recd. of Missouri; Robinson,
Sheppard, Shields, Simmons. Smith.
Stephens, Swanson, Trammell, Un
derwood, Walsh, of Massachusetts;
Walsh, of Montana—3B.
Republicans: Borah, Erandegee,
Brookhart, Eursum, Capper, Curtis,
Dale, Fernaid, Frazier. Gooding,
Hale, Harreld, Howell, Johnson, of
California; Jones, of Washington;
Keyes, Dadd. McLean. McNary, Nor
ris, Oddie, Shortridge. Smoot, Spen
cer. Stanfield, Sterling, XVarren,
Weller and Willis—29.
Farmer-Labor: Johnson, of Min
nesota, and Shipstead.
Total. 69.
The opposing votes were cast by
Senators Ball. Delaware: Cameron,
Arizona; Colt. Rhode Island; Cum
ming, Iowa; Edge. New Jersey: Fess,
Ohio: Lodge, Massachusetts: McKin
ley. Illinois; Moses. New Hampshire;
Norbeck, South Dakota; Pepper and
Reed, Pennsylvania; Phipps, Colo
rado; Wadsworth. New York, and
Watson. Indiana, all Republicans
The foilowing pairs were an-
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