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VOL. XXVI. NO. 97
BAPTIST WARNING
SOUNDED AGAINST
■WET’ CANDIDATES
’ • I
Report Scores Political Anti-
Prohibition Campaign as
Southern Convention Ends 1
Sounding' a warning to the Demo
cratic party that the ‘‘solid south”
will be broken and many southern
states will swing into the Republi
can column in the forthcoming pres
idential election if a ‘‘wet” Demo
cratic candidate is nominated, the
Southern Baptist convention closed
its sixty-ninth annual session here
’ Saturday night with a ringing decla
ration of principle that ertcompassed
not only the national political situa
tion, but economic and civic prob
lems now confronting the American
people.
The pronouncement regarding the
political outlook was contained in
the report of the social service com
mission, presented by Dr. A. J. Bar
ton, chairman of the commission and
general superintendent of Baptist
missions in Missouri. The report
was received with applause and its
reading was punctuated by'“Amens”
from the thousands of messengers
representing eighteen southern
states. Its adoption was unanimv us.
The fdll text will be found on an
other page of this issue of The
Journal.
Amplifying the report as it related
to the presidential situation, Dr.
Barton gave out the following state
ment:
“Emphasizing the paragraph In
the report of the commission on so
cial service which deals with the
question of the presidential year, I
would give it as my mature and de
liberate judgment that the constit
uency of the Southern Baptist con
vention of ten million people and
other southern Democrats will ot
support for the presidency a wet
candidate.
“If the Democrats are at all wise,
they will not nominate a. wet. If
they nominate a wet and the Re
publicans a dry, it will inevitably
mean that the solid south will be
broken and a number of southern
states will swing into the Republican
column.
Warning to Democrats
"It haS sometimes been said that
you can always depend upon the
Democrats to play the fool. They
will certainly play the fool this time
if they nominate a wet in the ap
proaching national convention.”
The presentation of the social
service cor-imis*- was one
of the outstanding events of the
four-day session, during the course
of which nii'n-- matters of vital im
portance to the denomination were
considered. The definite major ac
cornp’ishrne. ts of the sixty-ninth
meeting of the convention may be
briefly summai-r.-J as follows:
Report Summarized
1. Decision to launch a campaign
this fall to raise $7,500 000 to finance
denominational activities in 1925.
2. Plans for an intensive effort
to conclude the 75 million campaign
by January 1. 1925 and carry out
the financial program of the five
year period now drawing to a close.
3. Approval of a religious pro
gram giving greater recognition to
rural churches, which constitute al- ,
most 90 jeer cent of the Southern |
Baptist convention.
4. PlXfing of greater emphasis on
evangelism.
5. Postponement o£ proposals to
change the jurisdiction of certain
general boards.
6. Decision to continue negotia
tions looking toward securing com
p'»te ownership and control of
G-*brge Washington university at
WMhington, D. C.
The concluding session Saturday I
night was marked by a demonstra- j
tion riven Dr. George W. McDar.iel, |
newly elected president of the con
verition. who delivered a brief ad
. dress expressing his appreciation of
k:he cordial co-operation of the m«’S
avengers in disposing of the varied
f business matters, and pledging his
best efforts to carry forward the
work of the denomination.
The presentation to the conven
tion of several veteran ministers
wbv ’nave seen fifty years’ service
f<X- the Baptist faith, was a feature
of the last hour, which developed
into a veritable ove feast o’ cord.-
alitv and fraternal expression.
Os its own volition, the resolu
tions committee, which lad stead
fastly ror.used to approve various
resolutio: J? injecting the fundamen
talist-modernist controversy into the
convention, brought in a resolution,
which was unanimously adopted,
naming a committee of seven Rap
tl«t leaders to consider the advisa
bility of formulating a statement
of Baptist faith and doctrine for
presentation at the 1925 meeting of
the convention in Memphis, lenn.
Committee Members
The members of this committee
are - Dr E. Y. Mullins, Dr. L. R-
Scarborough. Dr. C. P. Stealey. Dr.
W. J. M •Glothlin. Dr. S. M. Brown,
Dr. E. C. Dargan and Dr. R. H.
Pitt.
Singing “Blest Be the lie ‘that
Binds,” the messengers were dis
missed at the conclusion of the night
session, but most, of the big crowd
remained for a few moments to hear
the choir of the Big Bethel Metho
dist church, colored, sing some of
the well-known negro spirituals. The
same choir will render- a program at
Big Bethel church Sunday afternoon
at 4:30 for the benefit of convention
visitors, for whom 1,000 seats will
be reserved.
the Baptist denomination in America,
its growth and activities, was stress
ed at the night session by Dr. A. 1.
Holt, of Arcadia. Fla., who presented
the report of the Southern Baptist
Historical society, of Which he is
chairman.
One of the important matters dis
posed of at the afternoon session was
that relating to the development of
Mercer university into a nth wide
institution, laying special emphasis
on theological training Several
years ago the trustees of Mercer
tendered _■ university to the South
ern Baptist convention, proposing
that the institution be made the nu
cleus of a great university which
should serve the needs of southern
Baptists in an educational way. The
committee on this project reported
Saturday afternoon that it was in
advisable at this time to enter upon
such a plan, but when it was an
nounced by Dr. Rufus Weaver, presi-
(Cnnfimiod on Page fl. Column 3)
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
HILO. T. H. —Seismograph at Ki
i lauea volcano registers more than
i hundred slight earthquakes.
DERBY, Conn. —Two juniors at
’ Yale are drowned here in attempt to
rescue boys whose canoe is over
turned.
WASHINGTON. —Cyrus E. Wood.
American ambassado rto Jhp'an. has
resigned, it is learned at Washing
ton.
\ COPENHAGEN. —Dispatches say
secret mobilization of Russian army
is proceeding along Bessararbian
.border. •
R.\LEIGH. —Six persons are killed
and six injured when two passengei
trains crash in railroad yard at
Apex, N. C. *
W ASHING TON.—P resident Cool
idge is reported recovered after two
days’ confinement because of a
bronchial cold.
NEW YORK. —Injunctions re
straining three Broadway cabarets
from selling liquor are filed, in fed
eral court in New’ York.
KINGSTON, N. Y. —Marauders at
tack home of Edw’ard Payson Wes
ton, 86-year-old world famous pedes
trian, wounding him slightly.
PHILADELPHIA —Common sense,
humor and fair play will cure Eu
rope, Sir Esme Howard, British am
bassador to the United States, says
in address.
TOKIO. —Three U. S. army planes
fly from Attu island, of Aleutian
group, to Paramashiru island, Japan,
878 miles, longest leg of around
world-flight.
PEKIN.—Sun Yat Sen, south China
leader, whose death was reported,
is alive and rapidly recovering, an
official telegram to the American
legation says.
WASHINGTON. —George Harvey,
former ambassador to Great Britain,
will become editorial directo.- of
Washington Post, it is announced at
Washington.
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Catherine
Smith, mother of Governor Alfred
E. Smith, of New York, dies before
her son can reach her side following
a sudden relapse.
ROME. —Medal commemorating
outstanding event of year of his
pontificate, is awarded by Pope
Six Killed, Six Hurt
In Wreck on Seaboard )
Near Raleigh, N. C
RALEIGH, N. C., May 19.—Six
persons were killed, one probably
fatally injured and five others less
seriously hurt when Seaboard local
passenger train, No. 44, Hamlet to
Raleigh, crashed into an express
train standing in the yards at Apex.
16 miles north of Raleigh, Sunday
afternoon, driving the baggage ear
of the local through the forward pas
senger coa e b.
Dead: Henry Jones, white, news
agent: Joe Colton, negro brakeman.
George Meador, negro brakeman
Mary Mathewson, n egress. pas
senger; two unidentified negroes.
The injured: W. D. O’Danicls. Ral
eigh, white, engineer, seriously in
jured; J. W. Fletcher. Raleigh,
white, engineer; Ed Porter, white,
baggage master; George Cross, Ral
eigh white ' engineer; George Nap’er.
negro, fireman; D. E. Shell, negro,
fireman; Celia Williams, negress
passenger.
So badly smashed was the for
ward passenger coach in which all
the fatalities occurred the last of the
dead were not removed until four
hours after the smash.
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Pius to Knights of Columbus foi
their welfare work.
CAPETOWN, South Africa.—Pro
hibition is condemned as a wrong
method for combating drunkenness
by the synod of the Dutch reformed
church of South Africa.
MILAN, Italy.—Premier Thermit*
and Foreign Minister Hymans, of
Belgium, confer with Premier Mus
solini on procedure of allies in con
nection with Dawes’ report.
N E W Y O R K. —Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America in
convention at Philadelphia vote to
take definite action towards forma
tion of national labor party.
• BERLIN. —Replying to demand of
nationalists that government re
sign, it is semi-officially announced
that government has resolved not
to retire until reichstag assembles.
WASHINGTON^—WiIIiam M.. But
ler, pre-convention manager for
President Coolidge, asserts in state
ment that 984 delegates to Republic
an national convention are in
structed or favorable to nomination
of Mr. Coolidge.
NEW YORK.—Countess Ludwig
Salm Von Hoogstraeten, entered on
passenger list as Mrs. Millicent
Salm, returns with her father, Col
onel H. H. Rogers, from France,
and both refused to make state
ments.
W A SHI NG TO N.—S tron g o p posi
tion to Lidge world court plan is
expressed in statement, to be sub
mitted to congress, signed by repre
sentatives of more than fifty organl
zations which have supported Amer
ican participation in existing court.
WASHINGTON—M ore allega
tions against Jess Smith, friend of
former Attorney General Daugh
erty, are presented to senate inves
tigating committee when George
Remus, convicted millionaire boot
legger, testifies regarding payment
of from $250,000 to $300,0Q0 to Smith
for protection.
AJACCIO, Corsica. —A scrawled
message found in a bottle washed
up on the Corsican coast saying:
“Gasoline given out; we are adrift;
wind like a tempest; Dixmude’s
crew; adieu and vive le France” be
lieved to be the last message from
the ill-fated airship lost in the Medi
terranean last December.
The Weather
Forecast for Tuesday:
Virginia: Probably fair.
North Carolina: Fair.
South Carolina, Georgia, extreme
northwest Florida, Alabama and Mis
sippi: Fair; no change in tempera
ture.
Florida: Partly cloudy in north
and probably local showers in south
portion; no change in temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Unset
tled. followed by showers; moderate
temperature.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy.
Arkansas: Unsettled.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy to cloudy,
probably showers.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, prob
ably scattered showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy, prob
ably showers in the Pan Handle.
Man Found Dead
On Train Believed
To Be Atlantian
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 19.
A man believed to be Max Bodtke,
I of Atlanta, Ga., was found dead in
I a berth on a Great Western train
1 upon arrival here early today.
HENGLAND RULE
WILL BE WET OF
HARRISDM KEYNOTE
Mississippi Senator Chosen
as Democratic Tem
porary Chairman
AtVinta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.
The cry of “New England domina
tion” is expected to be one of the
full tone notes in the keynote speech
of Senator Pat Harrison, of Missis
sippi, who today was selected as
temporary chairman of the forth
coming Democratic national con
vention in New York. Senator Har
rison, who is one of the persistent
senate critics of the opposition party,
is expected to ring all the changes
in his general denunciation of the
opposition and its alleged deficien
cies, but “New England domination”
will be a new sound in the keynote
address, and Mr. Harrison’s Dem
ocratic friends predict that he will
emphasize it, appealing to the pro
gressive west and south, and the
hinterlands.
Senator Pat Harrison doubtless
will recite eloquently that Massa
chusetts, by adoption, and Vermont,
by birth, has a president in the
White House; that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of the Bay State, is
chairman of the powerful foreign
relations committee in the senate,
and his reservations killed the
League of Nations.
He will stress that the chairman
of the house committee on interstate
commerce, handling vital railroad
legislation, is Representative Wihs
low, of Massachusetts; that the
speaker of the house is Frederick
H. Gillett, of Massachusetts; that
the new chairman of the Republican
national committee is William M.
Butler, again of Massachusetts.
Going on with increased fervor,
the Democratic keynoter will be able
to stress that John W. Weeks, of
Massachusetts, is secretary of war;
further, that Senator George P. Mc-
Lean, of Connecticut, dominates and
is chairman of the banking and cur
rency committee; that Senator Le.-
baron Colt, of Rhode Island,heads the
immigration committee; that Senator
Frank Brandegee is chairman of the
judiciary committee; that Senator
“Freddie” Hale, of Maine, is chair
man of naval affairs; that Senator
Bert M. Fernaid, of Maine, heads
public buildings and grounds, and
tffiit Senator George H. Moses, of
New Hampshire, sits in the big chair
of the senate committee on printing.
On the house side and in addition
to Chairman Winslow, chairman
ships of other important committees
are now held as follows: Education,
Representative Dallinger, Massa
chusetts; merchant marine and fish
eries, Representative Greene, Mas
sachusetts; and, as to minor com
mittees: Library, Representative
Luce, Massachusetts; woman suf
frage, Representative White, of
Maine, and mileage. Representative
Beedy, of Maine.
Teapot Revelations
Senator Harrison naturally will
discuss the disclosures of the con
gressional investigations as they re
late to Daugherty, Denby, Fall,
Jess Smith and other Republicans; he
will verbally chastise the Repub
licans for many alleged shortcom
ings; assail the foreign policy of the
administration; emphasize the busi
ness and agricultural depression
cite the president's veto of the bonus
bill, and maybe of the taxation bill
if it meets a veto, and so on—but
it is believed here on reliable re
ports that the Democratic keynoter
will most loudly demand to know
j whether this is to be a government
by New England and Massachusetts,
or a government in which the other
sections of the country supposedly
have a voice. And Senator “Pat”
probably will be at. his best at the
i New York convention.
GOVERNOR AL SMITH
PLEASED WITH SELECTION
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 17.
j Governor Smith, of New York to-
I night declared himself “perfectly
I satisfied” with the selection of Sena-
I tor Pat Harrison as temporary chair-
I man of the Democratic National
' convention
“I am very well acquainted with
I Senator Harrison,” said Governor
Smith “I have known him for a
long time and I regard him as a
- highly qualified man.”
, Governor Smith said he was here
i for a rest.
IIEMIICR VHP H ARMON Y
IN HARRISON S SELECTION
NEW YORK, May 17.—The na
tional Democratic subcommittee on
convention arrangements today unan
imously elected Senator Pat Harris
on. of Mississippi, temporary chair
man and keynote speaker for the con
vention. voted final approval of de
tail plans for the session and fixed
upon June 16 for a last preconven
tion meeting of the subcommittee.
Senator Harrison's election was the
work of but a minute of formal bal
loting. as he virtually had been chos
en at an unofficial session of the
subcommittee last night. Until then
his most formidable rival for the
post was understood to have been
Representative Finis J Garrett, of
Tennessee. Democratic floor leader.
Backers of Governor Smith's can
didacy for Democratic presidential
nomination were preported to be
, aligned with Senator Harrison from
the first. That he was also accepta
ble to the William G. McAdoo forces
was indicated in a statement issued
by Mr. McAdoo at his local campa.gr'
headquarters immediately the e'ec
tion of Senator Harrison was com
pleted.
“I am deeply pleased with •he
selection.” he said: “my friends al!
supported Senator Harrison."
Members of the subcommittee
spoke of Senator Harrison as “a com
promise choice" tind Cordell Hull, of
Tennessee, chairman of the natloo-t!
i committee, voiced their sentiments
when he said:
“The senator way an ideal com
promise candidate. He was ac< t >
able tn all groups. Smith. McAdo >
and Underwood, right through he
list. He is a very effective speaker
and an unexcelled parliamentarian
His election temporary chairman
and keynoter was not seriously op
posed in any quarter Asked what
was Senator Harrison’s o 'sition to
ward the prohibition. Mr. Hull said:
“J would not presume to voice th*'
senator's opinions, hut it is >« ell
known that he vote 1 for the pto
- legislation down thei' - in ran
gpcss—the eighteenth amendment.
•'De the Volsl ad t ct.”
BEJBING ON SHOALS
Will BEEXPEDITFD
BY NIGHT SESSIONS
Congress Adjournment Will
Be Opposed Until All
Bids Are Considered
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Night
sessions to expedite action on Mus
cle Shoals bids will be held by the
senate agriculture committee, mem
bers agreed today.
An executive session will be held
Wednesday morning to fix a date to
close the hearings. The first night
session is scheduled for Tuesday.
The night session agreement was
reached after the committee heard
another request from Senator Har
rison, Democrat, Mississippi, for
quick action. The Mississippi senat
or also urged some decision on term
inating the hearings. Chairman Nor
ris dcelared he thought taking of
testimony might be ended this week
if night sessions were held.
The chairman said he would op
pose adjournment of Congress until
action had been taken on the Shoals
bid, and in this he was seconded by
Senator Norbeck, republican. South
Dakota, provided farm relief legis
lation was given equal priority.
Senate Decision Wanted
Senator Harris said he wanted all
‘ of the Muscle Shoals bids brought
I to the senate floor and that if the
I Ford bid was defeated, he wanted
' some other plan adopted.
Senator Heflin, Democrat, Ala
bama, opposed the plan.
Theodore Swann, of Birmingham,
Ala., president of the Federal Phos
phorus company and Federal Ferti
lizer company, and an associate in
the fertilizer bid of the power com
panies, was the first witness called
today. He said fertilizer could be
made at Muscle Shoals at a lower
cost, but added it could be overdone
by to omuch production.
Urging the use of concentrated
fertilizer, Swann said if it was used
universally, 1,500,000 tons would
take the place of the 6,000,000 to
7,500,000 tons of ordinary mixed fer
tilizer used each year during the
past decade, representing a saving
in freight to the farmer of approxi
mately 5,000,000 tons.
“The use of the nation's water
ways is another step in cheapening
i the cost of plant food to the farm
er,” he said. “Tank barges,could be
used to carry concentrated fertilizer
from Muscle Shoals to the entire
Mississippi valley via the Tennessee
and Ohio rivers, and, as a return
cargo bring to. Muscle Shoals liquid
ammonia from the by-product coke
ovens at St. J.ouis. Chicago, Pitts
burg and other points along the
river.
“This would save the cost of buy
ing one ton of sulphuric acid to fix
each ton of sulphate ammonia,
which contains only j 25 per cent
I plant food, phosphoric acid being
used to fix the ammonia instead.
“By utilizing the present and fu
ture inter-connected power systems
of the asosciated power companies,
operating costs could be balanced be
tween locations of phosphate rock
deposits in Tennessee and in Florida.
Power to be Required
Swann said he believed Muscle
Shoals power would be required for
industrial purposes in a few years.
Dr. J. W. Tornetine, of the Bu
reau of Soils of the department of
agriculture, followed Swann on the
stand with a technical discussion on
fertilizer production.
Tornetine said it was conceded,
that nitrate plant number one had
to be rebuilt and that the great cost
involved inclined him to the belief
that the government was misled in
building it at all.
Replying to Chairman Norris,
Torentine said be approved the
ris bill for government operation,
• and in answer to Senator Heflin, he
■ said he did not think the govern
j merit should go in business except
“as i nthe case of fertilizer produc
tion. where private enterprise had
fallen down.”
Senator Heflin said seven fertlizer
concerns controlled the price of ferti
lizer, and had formed a powerful
trust, and Torentine declared ex
istence of such trust would prove
i that private producers h;ql failed.
I and could not operate except through
• a combine.
Native Georgia Woman
Discovers She Is Not
An American Citizen
Mrs. Pedro Bertram, born and
reared in Elberton and a resident-oi
Georgia all her life, discovered Moti
i day’ that she is not an American
i citizen. The discovery came when
she and her husband, now residing
in Jefferson, asked for passports to
I visit Mr. Bertram’s old home in
Spain.
Mrs. Bertram was a Miss Bell, of
Elberton, and a cousin of Congress
man Bell according to Mr. Bert
ram's statement to officials at the
state capital. At the time of their
marriage Mr. Bertram had not taken
out naturalization papers, and con
i sequently ’ Mrs. Bertram lost her
' citizenship in the United States, as
j the result of marrying a foreigner.
However. Mr. Bertram took out
naturalization papers several years
ago and Supposed that his wife had
been restored to her citizenship, as
automatical!j- as she had been de
j p.rivcd of it.
When Mr. and Mrs. Bertram asked
for passports to Spain, Mr. Bertram,
who was foreign born, had no
trouble in securing them, but ho
was informed that Mrs. Bertram,
born 'v Georgia, would have to be
conn naturalized before the pass
! port« were granted. The process of
restoring her citizenship was started
Monday, with Congressman Bell aid
ing in the effort to have the papers
issued before their sailing date on
June 1.
Death Held Accidental
ALBANY. Ga.. May 19.—Aucilla
Harris. 17-year-old negro girl, whose
body was found in a cattle-dipping
vat on the Cox place, near Putney
Saturday came to death by acci
dent. according to the verdict of a
I coroner's jury. Her nock was brok
j <=n. and the jury concluded she had
i fallen into the vat.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, May 20, 1924
Bonus Bill Is Repassed 1
Over Veto of Coolidge
COLD CONFINES PRESIDENT
TO ROOM IN WHITE HOUSE:
ENGAGEMENTS CANCELLED
Condition of Chief Executive Is Not Serious, and Short
Rest Is Proving Beneficial Pressing Legislative
Business Is Postponed Temporarily
WASHINGTON, May 18. —Presi-
dent Coolidge, after a day of almost
complete rest, had gained imastery
last night over slight bronchial cold
which had compelled him to cancel
the day’s engagements and remain
away from the executive offices.
The president still was suffering
Saturday night from the cold, con
tracted two days ago, but White
House officials said he probably
would be back at his desk Monday.
He spent the day Sunday in
much the same manner as he did
Saturday, lounging about his room,
reading and sleeping, although in
doing so he broke a record of
never having missed church at
tendance on Sunday since he came
to Washington as vice president.
The cold was described as entirely
of a bronchial nature and such as
Mr. Coolidge had suffered from at
times for several years. It never
has developed into anything alarm
ing, always having been dissipated
by a short rest. The president has
a slight bronchial weakness, and
frequently goes to a specialist here
for treatments, particularly before
he makes an address that gives in
dication of involving a strain on his
throat.
Washington Weather* Bad
Weather conditions in Washington
the past week, and unusually hard
work for several days, are consid
ered as having led to the president’s
indisposition.
The weather has been cold and
rainy and on Thursday' Mr. Cool
idge stood in the open air, bare
headed, for two hours greeting
gunests at a garden party at which
THREE U. S. WORLD AVIATORS
MAKE LONG JUMP ACROSS
JAPANESE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Special Landing Buoys Are Placed to Care for Planes on
Next Dangerous Hop Across Stormy Bay.
Prince Regent to Greet Airmen
YETOROFU ISLAND, Kuriles,
May 19.—(8y the Associated I’ress.)
—Three American army air
planes fl. ing around the world, land
ed here this afternoon at 2:50 o’clock,
having made the 500 mile flight
from I’aramishiru island in a little
over seven hours.
The landing was made on Lake
Toshimoye. This is in the rear of
Hitokappu bay, an indentation on
the southeast shore of this island.
A landing place on the lake was
prepared by Japanese and American
sailors from the destroyers Pope and
Amatsukaze several days ago, when
it was determined that Hitokappu
bay was too rough for the planes
to be brought down safely on its
waters.
Buoys were placed in the lake and
arrangements made for the fliers
to reach the shore. 'This was the
third landing place chosen for the
fliers at the end of this stage of
their journey, the first, Bettobu An
chorage, on the northwestern coast
of this island, having been aban
doned in favor of Hitokappu bay
some weeks since because of ice
there.
Early dawn—in this lattitude it
comes before 2 o’clock —found the
fliers astir at Paramisharu island.
The low-hanging fog threatened an
other postponement, but from the
U. S. S. Pope at Hitokappu bay,
Yetorofu island, and from the Japa
nese destroyer Hamakaze, half way
between the two stops, came re
ports of excellent flyin# conditions.
The air crusier New Orleans took
the air at 7:35 a.m., quickly fol
lowed by the Boston and the Chicago
in order.
The take off was easy. The air
planes circled once overhead, and,
the flag plane Chicago taking the
lead, all three disappeared in the
morning haze.
ONLY BRIEF REST AFTER
JUMP ACROSS PACIFIC
PARAMASHIRU, Kurile Islands,
May 18. —Rested* from their grinding
flight through the cold Arctic skies.
Lieutenants Lowell Smith, Erik Nel
son and Leigh Wade today were
planning the next jump on their
flight from California, through Asia.
Europe and back across the Ameri
can continent to their starting point.
The daring pilots arrived here
soon after 11 a. m. yesterday. May
17. They had flown 878 miles across
the open Pacific with no land in
sight. The hop carried them from
the western to the eastern hemi
sphere, from the American to the
Asiatic continent, from possessions
of the United States to those of
J a na n.
It brought them across the 180th
meridian, where they set their
watches ahead an even twenty-four
hours.
All three arrived tired out. Their
planes had functioned satisfactorily,
although considerable adjustmen!
will be necessary because of the
driving flight from the Islands of
Attn without stop.
Tlie arrival of the fliers here was
a great occasion.
Probably 1 .Out) native Kamchar
kaus and Ainus—Asiatic aborigines
—inhabit the islands. Scores of them
waited on the beach to see the great
birds from another continent arrive
“with men on their backs.” The
sight to them was the most won
drous thej’ had seen.
But it was no less welcome to the
crews of the American destroyer
Ford, and the Japanese destroyers
waiting to welcome them.
All day they had waited on the
decks of their ships, bundled in
he and Mrs. Coolidge were hosts.
Late that evening he and Mrs.
Coolidge, despite a* pouring rain,
motored to the navy yard to Allfill
a promise attend a navy ball.
The cold also was superinduced
by a heavy drain on the president’s
vitality, brought about by long
hours at his office.
With legislation pouring into the
White House from the capitol, he
has been spending about nine 1 ours
a day in his office, and also spent
several evenings at work on his.
bonus veto message and other mat
ters.
Engagements Canceled
Mr. Coolidge suffered from the
cold all during Friday, and news
paper men who conferred with him
late in the day noticed a huskiness
in his voice. Immediately after his
conference with the correspondents
he went to see the throat special
ist he often visits, and expected the
cold to pass away during the night.
It still was troubling him Saturday
morning, however, and after C. Bas
com Slemp, his secretary, had con
ferred with him, it was announced
that all engagements had been can
celed for the day.
Several pressing matters in the
form of letters and three nomina
tions were taken over to him by
Secretaries Slemp and Clark, and
late in the day he signed a bill.
Secretary Weeks saw the presi
dent during the afternoon and said
he found him feeling much better
than early in the day. Brigadier Gen
eral Sawyer, the White House phy
sician. called at the executive man
sion twice, but said he did not con
sider the president’s indisposition
sufficiently serious to warrant is
suance of a formal statement.
, Arctic clothes, watching the skies
) for the three planes.
When the three planes, Lieutenan.
Smith ahead, Nelson behind him to
the left, and Wade to the right, were
sighted in the eastern sky, sirens
so ’nded, bells rang, and there was
:i demonstration such as these far
away islands never before saw.
Tonight the three fliers were the
guests of the Japanese officers
dinner aboard a destroyer.
AUTRALIAN AIRMEN
COMPLETLY GIRDEE ISLAND
MELBOURNE, May 1 9.—Aviators
1 Mclntyre and Goble today completed
. an 8,500-mile flight around Australia,
accomplishing the feat in ninety fly
ing hours.
. Escorted by a fleet of welcoming
airplanes they- alighted on the sum
mit of Saint Kikla, to the accom
, paniment of cheers from crowds lin
• ing the foreshore. The voyagers
were greeted by federal and state
ministers and army and navy rep
resentatives and later were guests
at a. civic reception.
The flight was undertaken to sur-
I vey the coast for defense purposes,
' to seek possible aviation bases and
to collect data concerning the effect
of tropical conditions oh airplanes.
JAPA X' ESE PRINUE-REGEXT
TO RECEIVE U. S. AIRMEN
TOKIO, May 19. —(By the Asso
cited Press) —The flight of the Amer
ican round-the-world aviators from
j Paramashiru bay to Lake Toshimoye
was made under ideal conditions,
said dispatches received here from
lhe American destroyer Pope and
( the Japanese destroyer Amatsuka.
The navy department issued an of
ficial announcement of the fliers’
arrival on Petorofu island.
The fliers will be receive in audi
ence by the prince-regent soon after
their arrival at Kasumigaura, the
Japanese naval base, it was an
, nounced today.
American Ambassador Woods con
’Merced today with cabinet officers
this morning on arrangements for
the audience.)
FREXI H AVIATOR REACHES
CANTON FROM INDO CHINA
PARIS, May 19.—Captain Pelle
tier D'Oisy, French flyer, has arrived
at Canton, China, on his flight from
Indo-China, which he reached last
week.
‘Moon Wants a Coon,’
Alabama’s Humorous
Sheriff Says in Letter
Under the caption "Moon Wants
■< Coon.” Sheriff John L. Moone. of
L e county. Alabama, announced to
the local police in one of his charac
teristic notices that he is desirous of
learning the whereabouts of one John
Wesley P?terson alias “Coon" Mills,
a. negro, against whom he says he
has one case of grand larceny, six
for highway robbery and one for
bigamy.
“He has a very appropriate name.
Coon.” Sheriff Moon says, “and he
is sly as a coon, he is just like a flea;
you go to put your finger on him and
he ain’t there. When you got him
you ‘ain't’ got him. He will get away
\ from you and be a block away before
you miss him.”
In speaking also of bigamy charges
against the negro the sheriff says “he
has a wife everywhere he goes and
be never stops.”
j A cryptic "P. S.” to the notice
! cautions: "‘Be sure you have him in
the lock up before you w;ire me.”
5 (. EMo A COPI.
SI A YEAR.
EMOTE WED
ON INSDHJNCE PLJN
FOREX-SERVICEMED!
Small Majority in Upper
House Makes Law of
Compensation Act
WASHING']" , Mas 19.—The sen
ate today overrpde President Cool*
idge's veto of the soldier bonus bill.
The rote was 59 to 26 to over
. throw the veto.
? The measure now
c becomes law, the house having tak<
I en similar action.
Several Republican organization
leaders joined with a strong Dem
ocratic line-un in upsetting the vete
on a vote which was in doubt until
the last minute.
This was two more than the neces
sary two-thirds’ majority.
Last Minute Rally
President Coolidge himself mads
an eleventh hour effort to stem tM
tide of support for the bill. He sum
moned seven Republicans favoring
it to the White House, but was un‘
able to sw.ng over enough votes t<
accomplish its defeat.
Thirty Republicans. 27 Democratt
and two Farmer-laboi; senators voted
to override'the veto. Seventeen Re*
publicans and nine Democrats vot
ed to sustain the president.
The Roll Call
The roll call follows:
To over ride the veto:
Republicans: Brandegee, Brook
hart, Bursum, Cameron, Capper.
Cummins, Curtis, Dale, Elkins, Fess*
Frazier, Gooding, Hale, Harreldj
Howell, Johnson, of California; Jones,
of Washington; Ladd, Lenrott*
Lodge, McLean, McNary, Norbeckj
Norris, Oddie, Shortridge, Spencer,
Stanfield, Warren and Willis—3o.
Democrats: Adams, Ashurst.
Broussard, Caraway, Copeland, Dill,
Ferris, Fletcher. Gerry, Har*
ris, Heflin, Jones, of New Mexico)
Kendrick, McKellar, Mayfield, Neely,
Overman, Pittman, Ralston, Robin*
son, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith,
Trammel, Walsh, of Montana; and
Wheeler—27.
Farmer-Labor: Johnson, of Min
nesota; Chipstead—2.
Total 59. "
Against ovrriding the veto:
Republicans: Ball, Borah, Colt,
Edge, Ernst. Fernaid, Greene, Keyes,
McKinley, Moses, Pepper, Phipps,
Reed of Pennslivanla, Smoot, Sterl
ing, Wadsworth and Weller —17.
Democrats: Bayard, Bruce, Dial,
Edwards, Glass, King, Shields, Swan
son and Underwood—9.
Total 26.
By unanimous consent, the bill
was taken up a few minutes after 2
o'clock on motion of Senator Curtis,
Republicain, Kansas.
Senator Reed, Republican,'Pennsyl
vania, asked unanimous consent that
a vote be postponed until Saturday
by Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Ariz
ona, blocked the proposal with s
i formal objection.
Less than a dozen senators were
absent when actual consideration of
the bill began with the reading oi
the president’s veto message.
Opponents rallied and fought for
time today as the measure approach
ed its final test.
Seven Republican senators who
have been numbered as friends of
the bill were called to the White
House and exhorted by President
Coolidge to vote to sustain his veto.
Afterward Senator Reed, of Penn
sylvania, in charge of the anti-bonus
forces, declared the situation "cer
tainly is looking brighter” and made
overtures to delay for a week the
final vole.
Nevertheless, the supporters of
the bill remained steadfast Ifi their
denurnd of a roll call which would
override the president and make tha
bonus insurance plan law.
Those attending the White Hous*
conference were Senators Harreld,
Oklahoma; Phipps, Colorado; Ster«
ling. South Dakota; McKinley, ll*
linois; Cameron, Arizona; Dale, Ver*
mont, and Keyes, New Hampshire.
The flood of messages to senators
on the bill continued unabated. A
letter from the World War Veterans,
with headquarters in Chicago, in*
dorsing the veto of President Cool
idge, was made public here. Ths
letter termed the proposed bonus an
“insult to the veterans which should
be more properly labeled the Loan
Shark’s Emergency Act.”
Chairman Smoot, of the senats
finance committee, conferred with
the president later and Senator Ken
drick, Democrat, Wyoming, whfl
called at the executive offices, wts
taken by Secretary. Slemp to ths
White House to see the president.
The bill automatically become*
law. It provides for paid-up 20-year
endowment insurance policies for
veterans and cash payments to those
not entitled to more than SSO in ad-
I justed service credit.
The senate upheld President Har
ding's veto of the soldier bonus bill
in 1922 by a vote of 44 to 28, four
less than the required two-thirds ma
jority. Twenty-four of the, senators
s who then voted against the bill or
were paired against it are present
j in congress now.
The present bill passed the senate
recently by a vote of 67 to 17. The
veto of President Coolidge was over
ridden by the house Saturday, 318
I to 78, or 52 votes more than the re
i quhed majority.
Billy Sunday Shows
Improvement in M&yo
Clinic at Rochester
ROCHESTER, ?|linn.. May 18.—
W. A. (Billy) Sunday, the evangelist,
who js under observation of exam
ining physicians at the Mayo clinic
here following an attack of kidney
trouble at Memphis, is holding his
own and the doctors have not decid
ed whether an operation is neces
sary, according to a statement is
sued tonight.
The statements/ signed by Dr.
W. F. Braasch, said:
“Mr. Sunday continues tn make
satisfactory, improvement. No de
cision has yet bn»n reached in re
] gard to an operation."