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IIWESTIGATDRS DIG
INTO NEW CHARGES
ftGfIINST2 KILLERS
Taxi Driver Identifies Pair
as His Assailants.
Murder Hinted
CHICAGO, June 3.—A declaration
that the bullet which killed Freeman
Loujs Tracy, a student, on Novem-
J>er last, fits one f the pistols
found in the room of Nathan Leo-
Nold, who, with Richard Loeb, has
nnfessed *he kidnaping and slaying
IJRobert Franks, 11. was made by
y. Joseph Springer, coioner’s phy
||Hn today.
Coincidentally, State’s Attorney
, Crowe, in starting grand jury inves
tigation of the Franks case, offi
cially began inquiry to determine
whether they were connected with
the murder of Freeman Louis Tracy
and the mutilation of Charles Ream
last fall.
Assistant State's Attorney Joseph
N. Savage and a squad of detectives
> were assigned to investigate the
Tracy and Ream crimes as a result
of the identification late yesterday
of Leopold and Loeb by Ream as
the men who maimed him.
Leopold and Loeb were identified
yesterday as ibe attackers who
maimed Ream by an operation of
mutilation only five days after the
killing of Tracy.
Statee’s attorneys prepared today
to submit to the grand jury the boys’
confessions in the Franks case, while
Investigators pressed their efforts to
connect them further with the
Tracy and Ream cases.
When taken to the state's attor
ney’s office by newspapermen, Ream
shouted “It’s them'. It’s and
fainted when he saw the boys. Later
he was positive in his identification.
Drowning Also Hinted
He blamed the IS and 19-year-old
kidnapers for a ruined life and de
clared he would know them any
where, especially Leopold.
“I knew them when I saw their
pictures in the newspapers,” Ream
declared. “It was Leopold who pre
pared the bandage.’’
Reporters brought Ream to the
criminal court building. The state’s
atorney’s men were too busy with
preparations to start the grand
jury investigation of the Franks
murder today.
Tracy, who previously had been
a special student at the University
of Chicago, was found slain virtual
ly on the campus. He had been shot
through the head.
Tracy had an artificial foot. He
was popular in a social way among
student friends and other acquain
tances and so far as investigation
disclosed, never had an enemy.
He had left a party of friends
about midnight the night of Novem
ber 24 and was found murdered
early the next morning It appeared
to tile police that he mid been slain
and then thrwon from an automo
bile.
Melvin E. Wolf, aged 24, who dis
appeared from the home in the Hyde
Park district of his wealthy grand
father, Henry Lindenthal laht April,
was found in the lake, after he had
left the house, hatless and coatless,
to mail a letter, was supposed to
have committed suicide. That expla
nation was never accepted by his
relatives but Henry Lindenthal to
day refused to talk of the case or to
consider a possible new solution of
the mystery involving Leopold and
Loeb.
“It would not bring the boy back
If we did find out,’’ was ail he
would say.
Attacks Similar
The Wolf death attracted new at
tention when detectives began re
viewing the proceedings of the
coroner’s inquest.
It was recalled that Wolf’s body
■»yas nude when taken from the lake.
>And he knew both Leopold and
neighbors of the Lindenthal
said today.
FTThe Lindenthal residence is at
Forty-fifth street and Ellis avenue,
that of Loeb at Fiftieth street and
Ellis, and that of the Franks family
at Fifty-fifty street and Ellis ave
nue, all in the Hyde Park district of
stately mansions. The Leopold resi
• dence, also an imposing pile, iron
fence enclosed, is at Forty-eighth
street and Greenwood avenue, just
a block from Ellis avenue.
The investigators were struck by
the fact that both the bodies of
Wolf and of Robert Franks were
nude when found; that Tracy was
found mutilated in a prairie less
than two miles from the lonely spot
where the Franks body was left, and
that Tracy probably had been made
a captive in an automobile before
being killed just as the Franks lad
was.
Youths Placed in Jail
The youthful kidnaper - slayers,
who said they killed the Franks
boy through a spirit of adventure
1 and for the SIO,OOO ransom they de
manded of his father, Jacob Franks,
spent last night in the county jail
that will house them until they are
freed, removed to the penitentiary
or asylum or executed. »
Their removal from the custody
of the state’s attorney, who Has
held them since they were first
questioned last week, came at the
end of the opening skirmish of a
legal battle with millions for the
defense, which had petitioned for a
writ of habeas corpus. Hearing on
the writ was continued to June 6.
State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe
* declared Le would have both indict
ed by tonight and arrested on the
mittimus. He said he expects to
. ask for indictments for murder and
kidnaping for ransom, each a capi
tal crime.
Loeb Moro Depressed
Leopold, it was disclosed today,
had won the commendation of the
American Ornithologists’ union by
his motion picture film of the rare
kirtland, or pine warbler, filmed
while rearing its young and first
shown to ornithologists of Michigan.
The film, later accompanied by a
paper prepared by Leopold, was pre
. sented to the ornithologists’ organi
, zation.
Loeb, perhaps the greater reader
of the two, a subscriber to a detec
tive periodical, was the more de
pressed by his night in a cell, but
he has been the more disheartened
and more talkative of the two.
called bj Leopold “lh.it weakling.'’
(Continued on Page Column 5)
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LONDON. —List of King's birth
day honors includes nomination of
T. r. O’Connor, “father of house of
commons,” as privy councillor.
NEW YORK. —Madison Square
Garden will be “dry” during Demo
cratic national convention, members
of convention committee announce.
WASHINGTON A compromise
i farm relief bill is drawn up at a con
j ference of members of the farm
■ bloc in both the house and senate.
WASHINGTON. —Taxpayers may
1 put into effect immediately provision
for 25 per cent reduction in income
taxes payable this year, it is an
nounced.
LONDON. American shipping
companies have booked 60,000 Brit
ish emigrants for passage to United
States during coming year, consular
reports say.
WASHINGTON. House passes
senate bill to make available $6,850,-
000 for completion of veterans’ bu
reau hospitalization construction
program.
ment, of business conditions.
TOKIO. —Ain' ican aviators reach
Kagoshima, Japan, from Kushimoto,
flying 425 miles through rain and
windy weather.
PA RIS. —O rga n izati on committee
of German Railway company. Insti
tuted under DaweS plan, completes
first part of its work of examining
German railway bills and statutes.
WASHINGTON. The Philippine
independence mission declares that
its appeal will be carried to the
American nation as congress is
about to adjourn with the question
unsolved.
LONDON. —Voice of William Mar
coni, wireless inventor, is transmit
ted from Pold.hu, Cornwell, to Aus
tralia, distance of 10,000 miles, by
radio telephone, London Daily Mail
says.
WASHINGTON. Republican
leaders, while accepting President
Coolidge’s criticism of the tax bill,
give litlte encouragement to his sug
gestion for an early revision of the
measure.
OTTAWA. Premier King ex
presses doubt that Japan will evade
its “gentlemen’s agreements” with
Canada and Mexico because of the
pat sage of the American exclusion
legislation.
WASHINGTON. The senate
passes a resolution contemplating
appropriation of $700,000 for Ameri
can participation in the Internation
al Exposition at Seville, Spain, in
April, 1927.
ATLANTIC CITY. Representa
tives of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin workers
agree to make no further wage de
mand affecting approximately 30,000
workers throughout the west.
DES MOlNES.—Senator Smith
W. Brookhart, according to early
returns in lawo primaries, has only
negligible lead over former Con
gressman Burton E. Sweet in Re
publican senatorial contest.
WASHINGTON.—Senator La Fol
lette, Republican, Wisconsin, offers
resolution calling for recess of con
gress for month ending July 7;
house passes concurrent resolution,
authorizing adjournment June 7.
WASHINGTON. Selection of
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon- i
tana, as permanent chairman of the j
Democratic national convention is i
urged in a statement by George '
Brennan, Illinois Democratic leader.
WASHINGTON.—Senate approves
constitutional amendment which
would empower federal government
to limit, regulate or prohibit ’-hor
of children under IS years of age,
and measure now is ready for rati
fication by states.
TOKIO. —Japanese newspapers ap
prove of Japan’s protest against en
actment of exclusion legislation by
America and continued to
appointment of Jacob Gould Schur
man, American minister to China, as
ambassador to Japan.
PARlS.—American child labor
laws will be adopted by Greece, it
was announced, when the General
Federation of Women’s clubs asked
the Near East Relief organization
to formulate a code for the Greek
government.
PARIS. —Socialist congress pledges
support to M. Herriot, leader of so
cialists and indorses terms imposed
by him for his acceptance of pre
miership after prospective premier
has announced approval of Dawes
plan and a fiscal policy, founded on
a balanced budget.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge signs revenue bill, providing
general reduction of excise and in
come taxes, at the same time issuing
statement in which he declares while
bill does not represent sound per
manent tax policy, its passage af
fords temporary relief and adjust-
WASI HNGTON Lt. T.owell U.
Smith is named as permanent com
mander of army world flight squad-
I ron to succeed Major Frederick L
I Martin, who was forced to abandon
I flight when his plane crashed in
Alaska.
DES MOINES. —Senator Smith
W. Brookhart is re-nominated in
lowa Republican primray Monday
by majority of more than thirty
thousand over Burton E. Sweet,
former congressman.
LAKEHURST, N. J —Shenandoah,
navy dirigible, in 1,000-mile flight,
circles New York state, passing
; over New York, Albany, Buffalo
and way points.
CHICAGO —Cas e against Nathan
Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loe'.,
confessed kidnapers and slayers of
Robert Franks, youthful son of
Chicago millionaire, is submitted to
Cook county grand jury.
ATLANTIC ~ClTY.—Peggy Hop
kins Joyce and Count Costa Mor
mr. a Swedish nobleman and too’h
pa«;e manufacturer, are married
here.
MOUNTAIN "LAKES. N. J.—Miss
Helen Cole. 24. and her companion.
Charles Carter, for whom search
was made since Saturday when they
1 ran away from a house party, are
i found cooking greens over a camp
I fire.
BERLIN. ~The Marx ministry
is reinstated when President Ebert,
jof Germany, re-appoints Dr. Wil
| helm Marx as chancellor and con
firms the members of the govern
ment which resigned Maj 26.
M’ADOO’S MANAGER, ELATED
AT FLORIDA VICTORY, CLAIMS
632 VOTES ON EARLY BALLOT
La Follette's Decision to Enter Race Helps the Cause,
Rockwell Says, Because a Conservative Candi
date Plainly Would Have Little Chance
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1024.)
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Having
won the primaries in Florida, Judge
David Ladd Rockwell today stated
William Gibbs McAdoo would have a
total of 632 within the first six bal
lots in the Democratic National Con
vention, which is just one hundred
less than the necessary two-thirds.
Mr. Rockwell insists that the min
imum number pledged to McAdoo,
either by personal preference or state
instruction, is 552, and that he is mor
ally certain of the remaining number
to make up two-thrids.
The McAdoo manager was full of
optimism after the victory in Flori
da, where he said final results would
show a two to one triumph. He re
gards Senator Underwood as having
been virtually eliminated .from the
presidental contest and concedes that
Governor Al Smith is the most for
midable opponent McAdoo will have
at the New York convention.
“What do you think,” he was ask
ed. “of I the announcement that Sen
ator La Follette intends to run irre
spective of whether McAdoo is nom
inated by the Democrats?”
La Follette Helps Cause
“That helps our cause,” he answer
ed, “because it shows the necessity
of nominating a progressive at New'
York. For if the Democrats should
nominate a conservative to run along
side of the Republican conservative
nominated at Cleveland, the progres
sives would have a good chance to
win.”
Judge Rockwell, of course, con
siders McAdoo a true progressive and
as the antithesis of President Cool
idge. Should McAdoo be nominated,
Judge Rockwell argues that again
McAdoo would be the beneficiary of
a La Follette campaign. His idea
is that the Wisconsin senator would
take away all the Republican pro
gressive and radical votes, while the
Democrats would lose virtually no
strength.
As for the two-thirds rule, Judge
DR. LOCI L. KNIGHT
GEORGIA HISTORIAN.
RESIGNS FROM POST
Dr. Lucian Lamar Knight, state
historian and director of the depart
ment of archives and history, ten
dered his resignation to the state
historical commission at a meeting
held Wednesday morning and rec
ommended that his first assistant,
Miss Ruth Blair, be elected to the
position. The board accepted the
resignation of Dr. Knight with ex
pressions of regret, but took no ac
tion upon his successor.
Dr. Knight submitted to the board
a letter of resignation in which he
said:
“Having served the state of Geor
! gia in official responsibility for
I nearly twelve years J. desire at the
I expiration of my present term on
I January 1, next, voluntarily and of
I my own accord, to relinquish the of
fice which I now hold. 1 have
reached this decision with some re
luctance, nevertheless with a fixed
determination which no argument
can alter. The work, though ardu
ous, has been congenial. It has been
work to which I have given the best
years of my life, and in which I
have received without stint the
warmest support, co-operation and
| sympathy of all patriotic and intel
ligent Georgians.”
Reviews Work
Dr. Knight reviewed the work of
the department, and declared that it
is now securely entrenched in the
affections of the public and its work
recognized over the country.
Knight stated that he had held his
position at a financial sacrifice be
cause it had been his ambition to
preserve the state's history. lie
added that he has gathered nearly
350,000 separate documents and
manuscripts.
In concluding his letter, Dr.
Knight recommended as his suc
cessor Miss Ruth Blair, his first as
sistant. He stated that this is a
woman's age and pointed to the
success of Mrs. Maude Barker Cobb
as the head of Georgia s great
I library. „
“Mrs. Blair has been in the de
partment's employ for three years,”
the letter stated. "She is a trained
investigator with the mastery of rou
tine and a genius for organization,
I and to her is due largely to spendid
system under which the department
is at present operated. She is famil
iar with all the records; she is a na
tive of the state and possesses a fund
j of information, to gain which it will
i take another person years of study.
I I need only to add that in filling this
j office it is far better to bestow it
upon a skilled expert with a specialize
ed equipment than upon a mere sal
ary-grabber whose only qualifica
tions are impecunious and political.”
Plans to Travel
Dr. Knight stated that following
a season of travel he expected to
continue his work for the state in
a private capacity, and to follow
his literary pursuits. He has writ
ten a number of books, perhaps the
most notable of which is his "His
tory of Georgia and Georgians.”
Ford No. 10,000.000
Completed; Million
Made in 132 Davs
DETROIT. June 4.—Ford Motor
Number 10
lat the Ford Motor company this
I morning and the ten millionth model
: “’T” Ford car will leave the assem
! bly line this afternoon, an official
I announcement says.
The first model “T” car was com
pleted October 1, 1908 and it was
j seven years later when motor num
i ber 1.000,000 was produced. The last
million cars, the company an
; nounces. were turned out complete
j in 132 working days.
I Rockwell said he was confident Mc-
Adoo could be nominated with oi
without it, but that if the commit
tee on rules should recommend that
a majority vote is sufficient to nomi
nate, then McAdoo would have such
! a majority on the very first ballot.
| The McAdoo managers, however,
| will not try to have the two-thirds
rule abolished, as they recognize
I that consideration entirely apart
from the selection of a candidate this
I year might influence the voting and
I they nave no desire to make a test
of strength on this issue when it
is not essential to final success of
their party. They feel sure that a
candidate who gets the majority will
be- given the necessary two-thirds
just as happened in San Francisco.
Seldom Has Failed
Only three times has this custom
failed, notably in 1844 when Martin
Van Buren, the original beneficiary
of the rule of 18"6, was beaten, and
in 1860, when the Charleston con
vention gave a majority to Stephen
A. Douglas, and in Baltimore in
1912, when Champ Clark had 555,
but was finally defeated by Woodrow
Wilson.
The McAdoo forces say they are
not sponsors of the proposal to abol
ish the two-thirds rule, that it origi
nated with the anti-McAdoo men
like George Brennan, of Illinois. It
is a safe assumption that the mat
ter will not come to a climax at this
convention and that if it ever' is
abolished it will be under circum
stances which do not affect the for
tunes of a particular candidate.
The next state in which the Mc-
Adoo management is interested is
Utah, which holds its state conven
tion tomorrow. There is a likelihood
of a direct instruction for McAdoo.
This about winds up the state con
tests, but the battle of personal per
suasion with uninstructed and un
pledged delegates has begun and will
continue with intense activity in the
next two yveeks.
ICTION 0« ffILS
OFFER IS DEM
TO DECEMBER 3
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Agree
ment was reached today by senators
interested in the Muscle Shoals fight
to postpone consideration of the
question until the next session of
congress.
Senator Underwood obtained
unanimous consent to bring up the
Muscle Shoals question Wednesday,
December 3, and then it will be made
the order of unfinished business.
Advocates of Ford’s bid, facing de
feat in their effort for an immediate
vote agreed to withdraw from the
fight if the measure would be borught
up at a fixed time at the next ses
sion.
The house appeared to be in a
much easier situation than the sen
ate as adjournment time neared. Its
chief tasks centered about farm re
lief and the reclamation bill.
The omnibus pension bill, em
bodying more than 100 private meas
ures. had right of way today in the
senate.
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MARTIN IS I FABING
FOR FLA. GOVERNOR;
MADOO MS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 4.
William G. McAdoo continued to pile
up a commanding lead for Democrat
ic presidential indorsement of Flor
ida voters over Oscar W. Underwood,
as the returns from yesterday’s state
wide primary came in today. The
vote for approximately 350 precincts
out of 1,104 in the state gave the
former cabinet member 12,868 to Un
der wood’s 6,299.
William Jennings Bryan was re
ported from different sections of the
state to be piling up a large vote as
a candidate to the Democratic na
tional convention. He was running
well ahead of any other candidate in
the race, according to reports. Hills
borough county, with the largest
number of registered voters of any
county in the state .gave him 3,500
out of a count of 6,000, while Duval,
the next largest, showed him two to
one ahead of the next highest can
didate.
John W. Martin, the three-time
former mayor of Jacksonville, retain
ed his lead for the gubernatorial
nomination, but he was being press
ed by former Governor Sidney J.
Catts, whose showing was the sen
sational feature of the returns that
came in today. Catts had passed
Frank E. Jennings, former speaker of
the lower house of the legislature,
who had dorpped to third place.
The vote for the approximately 350
precincts in the governor’s race stood
at:
Martin. 13,456; Catts, 13,100; Jen
nings, 11,156; Trammel, 839; Spencer,
433.
The governorship vote represented
some complete precincts. About six
counties were virtually complete. Re
turns from admitted Catts territory
swelled the vote of the former gov
ernor.
As the returns continued to come
through it became apparent that the
second choice vote probably would
be the deciding factor in the race.
By use of the Australian system, the
two men receiving the greatest num
ber of first choice votes remaining in
the race when that fact has been
established officially, then the candi
date left that receives the greater
number of second choice votes as ex
pressed on ballots cast for the low
men that dropped out is declared the
winner.
Tn the two congressional contests.
Judge R. A. Geren, of Starke, was
leadnig Frank Clark, the veteran rep
resentative from the second district,
by a substantial margin on the face
of rather meagre returns. Herbert
fist district, howeve. was tinning
away from James W. McCants. of
Tampa.
WALSH SEEMS SLATED FOR
('HAIRMAN OF CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Strong
indications were apparent in Demo
cratic circles here today that Sen
ator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana,
probably would be selected as per
manent chairman of the party’s na
tional convention in New "York.
Some Democratic leaders in con
gress said the question of Senator
Walsh’s selection virtually had been
settled. The Montana senator, how
ever, declined to comment on the
reports.
44 Indicted as Result
Os Rioting at Lilly, Pa.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 4—True
bills charging murder and riot, were
returned by the grand jury at
Ebensburg late last night against
44 men who were arrested in con
nection with the fight between
visiting Ku Klux Klansmen and
residents of the village of Lilly, Pa.,
two months ago.
A number of the bills charged
manslaughter and unlawful assem
blage. Twenty-five alleged members
of the klan were charged with car
rying concealed deadly weapons.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, June 5, 1924
IOWAN, M’ADOO FRIEND, SEEN
AS DARK HORSE IN EMERGENCY
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ABOVE, E. T. MEREDITH. BELOW, AT LEFT, TtlE MERE
DITH’S DAUGHTER, MRS. F. H. BOHEN. CENTER, THE FOR
MER SECRETARY’S LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER, BARBARA
BOHEN. RIGHT, E. T. MEREDITH, JR.
E. T. Meredith, of Des
Moines, Already Has
Strong Influence With
Farmers and Is Well Con
nected Financially
BY GEORGE BRITT
DES MOINES, lowa, May 31. —Ed-
win T. Meredith hasn't been men-
I tioned loudly as a Democratic presi
dential possibility, but just we'gh
these points:
If William Gibbs McAdoo should
find after a round of balloting that
he himself could not be nominated,
he yet would hold ’an imposing
strength of delegates and might be
in position to dictate the selection.
Meredith is one of his staunchest
backers, a personal friend. McAdoo
j' might point to him.
Meredith is strong with/ the farm
-1 ers. As secretary of agriculture the
last year of the Wilson administra
tion he “sold” his department to the
farmers. And for two decades he
has been forging a grip on them with
his monthly magazine, Successful
Fa rming.
His business connections are no
less strong. He is a director of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States and he formerly was director
of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank
and president of the Associated Ad
vertising Clubs of the World.
Not a Farm Bloc Man
Meredith is for McAdoo because
he believes the same creed. He is not
a “farm bloc” man, but he can ex
pound a plan to assure a market and
a fair price for farm products which
ought to appeal to both reason and
desire.
lowa, with its 13 electoral votes,
would look good to the Democrats if
it could be converted from its rock
ribbed Republicanism. Meredith cam
j paigned the state for both senate and
i governorship unsuccessfully.
Meredith is 47 years old, a broad
shouldered six-footer. His eyes are
black, his black hair has grayed a
bit at the edges. His mustache is a
narrow close-clipped bristle. He talks
with intimate frankness.
Twenty-one red-backed books, in
j creasing in bulk rapidly after a thin
start, are arrayed on his office table.
They are the complete file of Suc
cessful Farming.
Meredith started the paper under a
I debt of $7,000, secured by life insur
ance. He used to push the monthly
issue to the postoffice in a cart, and
Mrs. Meredith helped in the business
office.
Keeps Boys in College
As money has flowed in much of it
has been spent again in welfare
causae. The paper pioneered for
boys’ and girls’ farm clubs eight
years ago. It offered to lend $25 to
any boy or girl upon a note to help
buy a pig, calf or sheep. Nearly
10,000 accepted, and the great ma
jority made good on the investment.
Just now and partly through the
Masonic organization, Meredith is
lending large sums to keep boys in
college when finances would force
them to quit in the middle of the
year.
■ Two hobbies are admitted. They
are the girls’ clubs and
I making speeches on agriculture. A
I third, a granddaughter, becomes ap
parent to almost every visitor.
His greatest service as secretary
of agriculture, Meredith believes,
was in showing business how de
pendent it is upon the farmer. He
likes to trace the farmer's dollar
through various hands until it turns
up, say, in the purse of a distant
city stenographer. His speeches
avoid what he calls “Fourth of July,”
but they reach the crowds, great or
small, rural or urban.
Waited on Table
Meredith was born at Marne, Cass
county. lowa, one of numerous chil
dren of a storekeeper. They moved
onto a farm in a few years, and the
CHILD LABOR Bill
Pffl fl SfflE.
STATES TO RATIFY
WASHINGTON, June 3. The
child labor amendment to the. con
stitution was before the states today
for final action.
The proposal, which would em
power the federal government to
limit, regulate or prohibit the labor
of children under 18 years of age,
already adopted by the house, was
approved iast night by the senate,
61 to 23, and now awaits ratifica
tion by three-fourths of the states to
become part of the nation’s funda
mental law. Although President
Coolidge has expressed himself in
favor of the amendment, his ap
proval <?f the resolution is not re
quired.
A dozen efforts to modify the
resolution during the senate debate,
in which almost every member pres
ent participated, were voted ' wn,
and it was adopted as it came from
the house with 40 Republican, 19
Democratic and two farmer-labor
ballots supporting it and 17 Demo
cratic and six Republican votes in
opposition.
Strong Effort Made
To Avert Receivership
For Wilson & Company
CHICAGO, June 3. —There has
been no agreement for a voluntary
: receivership of Wilson & Co., the
j $121,000,000 Chicago packing cor
j poration, and hope is entertained
j for a reorganization without such
action, Frank O. Wetmore, president
of the First National bank and
chairman of the bankers’ credit com
mittee, announced today. Published
I reports were that the company
would seek a voluntary receiver
ship.
Approximately $25,000,000 of the
$30,000,000 floating indebtedness of
Wilson & Co. has been renewed,
Mr. Wetmore said, and of the re
maining $5,000,000, $1,500,000 has
been promised to be renewed. There
is some difficulty with part of the
balance of the outstanding notes,
he said, but he entertains the hope
that a reorganization will be ef
fected without a receivership and
every effort is being made to avert
■ one. ■
Two Families Held in Tulsa
For Bank Robbery in Kansas
TULSA, Okla., June 4.—Elmer
. Deere, his wife and IG-year-old son,
Roy; W. J. Elder and his wife, were
held here today by police in connec
tion with the robbery of an Arkan
sas Citv, Kansas, bank last Friday
of $12,000.
boy grew up in the orthodox atmos
phere, walking barefooted behind the
plow, rasing runt pigs to win prizes
at the fair, attending the little red
schoolhouse.
When he came to Des Moines to
college, he lived with his grandfa
ther and waited on table at a board
ing house. At 18 he left school to
work on his grandfather’s paper, the
Farmers’ Tribune. At 20, on a sal
ary of $8 a week, he got married.
After a few years mor e with the
Tribune he started Successful Farm
ing.
Meredith himself is a successful
farmer. He has a ranch in Idaho
i and the Meredith Jersey Farm, with
a blue-ribbon herd of cattle here.
: There are two children in the family,
- “Junior,” 18, at Culver Military acad
j my, and Mrs. F. O. Bohen, mother
| of the granddaughter.
5 CENT a A COPY,
Si A YEAR.
BOTH HOUSES VOTE !
TO ADJOURN SESSION
ONNEXTMTUM
Ford Shoals Supporters, Fil
ing Minority Report, Fight
To Get Roll Call
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Con
gress will adjourn next Saturday un
der a house resolution adopted today
by the senate, by a vote of 53 to 36.
Republican and Democratic party
leaders joined in getting final approv
al for the adjournment plan, despite
the protests of the La Follette group
of insurgents and others who want
ed to delay action until there was
definite assurance that farm relief,
railroad and reclamation legislation
could be passed.
Just before final action Senator
La Follette’s proposal for a recess
of a month instead of final adjourn
ment was voted down, 36 to 52, and
a proposal by Senator Frazier, Re
publican, North Dakota, to delay
the adjournment date until June 21,
was defeated. 35 to 53.
Senator La Follette, Immediately
after the vote, gave notice that as
a representative of one of the states
in the area of agricultural depression
he felt it his duty “to object from
this time to any legislation which
does not have as its purposes ths
relief of the farmer.”
Thirty-four Republicans and nine
teen democrats, including the titular
leaders of both parties, voted for ad
journment. The opposition was com
posed of 14 Republicans, 20 Demo
crats and two Farmer-Labor sena
tors.
Twice today Senator Underwood,
Democrat, Alabama, failed to obtain
unanimous consent to bring up the
Muscle Shoals bill and there is dan
ger of the bill being crowded out in
the legislative jam before adjourn
ment.
Advocates of farm legislation each
time blocked the attempt, Senator
Brookhart, Republican, lowa, and
Senator La Follette, Republican,
Wisconsin, objecting.
Senator Underwood is expected,
probably today, to force a vote on
the question whether the Muscle
Shoals bill will be taken up.
The public interest would be served
best by acceptance of Ford’s of
fer for Muscle Shoals, and oppoJ
nents huve exaggerated objections]
to the manufacturer’s bid, the mi 4
nority report of the senate agriculJ
ture committee, presented today, de
clared.
The report was signed by Sena*
tors Ladd, Republican, North Da*
kota; Smith, South Carolina; Cara‘
way, Arkansas; Harrison, Mississip*
pi; Heflin, Alabama, Democrats.
“The Ford offeF,” the report said*
“has been made the subject of ths
most savage attacks we have evet
seen in any legislation. These at!
tacks'have not been of a characteif
calculated to lead to a calm and log*
ical decision. They have been ,ex(
aggerated statements as to thg
amount of power involved, while thA
power necessary for the manufac*
ture of fertilizer has been grossly
underestimated.
“Statements which grotesquely
distort the picture have been
without fear of contradiction be(
cause of the technical differences in(
volved in stating th£ real factsl
These impassioned exaggerations
have tended to lead up away fronj
the actual facts and to appeal tq
our prejudices rather than to sug<
gest constructively as to how thd
great benefits admittedly possible ai
Muscle Shoals can be best mads
available to this nation.”
Fledges to Fanners
“The government owes it to thd
fanners to produce cheap fertilized
at Muscle Shoals,” the report de*
dared, adding that when congress
authorized the construction of Musj
de Shoals it was made clear that
the peace-time purpose of the cnterl
prise was the production of fer(
tilizers. “It was due to the farm*
ers that the original legislation wad
passed. It was a pledge to ths
farmers that Muscle Shoals should
be operated primarily for the proj
duction of cheaper and better feri
tilizers.
“Have the farmers hoped in vainl
The experts before the committed
unanimously declared that they
have not, for all agree that undel)
a business-like management such ad
may be reasonably expected witli
competent private operation at lusj
cle Shoals such as is to be had
under the Ford plan, the cost oi
fertilizers to the farmers can be rel
duced by one.-half.”
“Os all the bidders for Muscld
Shoals,” the report asserted, “onljj
one, Ford, has undertaken to carry
out the purposes of congress at hid
own expense. It was his bid which
originally redeemed Muscle Shoals
from the program of dismantlement
and destruction which had already
beg-un when bids were requested bj|
the government on April 2, 1921.
“It was his bid that gave the lid
to the representations of the groujj
of pqwer companies dominated bjf
Wall street who, when asked to bid*
declared that the project was with*
out merit and should be abandoned
!by the government and that the
great Wilson dam should not bd
completed—that neither private noi
government capital should be im
vested in its completion.
Ran Trusts to Cover
“It was his bid that carried con*
sternation to the group of fertilized
companies who, with one accord, de*
dined to make an offer when ear*
nestly besought by Dr. A. G.
gow to undertake the operation et
the nitrate plants, rent free, until
they should earn 9 per cent on
whatever investment was necessary
for their operation, thereafter di)
viding additional profits evenly witn
the government.
“These are the ' interests whicty
like the power corhpanies, now heart)
ily indorse Chairman Norris’ bill*
They see real danger in Ford
petition, but in the cahirman’s povt
I erty-stricken government corpora*
tion, they see nothing to fear.”
The report declared it would be
“folly” for the government to gd
into the fertilizer business at Mus«
de Shoals. Those favoring jovern.
ment operation do a “grave Injus
tice to the cause when they urgd
that this course be followed at Mus
cle Shoals,” the report added.
“If they were proposing that thd
government should go into the shoe
manufacturing business, for exam-
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