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Atlanta Ga i-WeeKli) Wanral
VOL. XXVI. NO. 110
HftRDWICK IN RAGE
FOB SEMITE;ELDEBS
RUNS FDR GOVERNOR
Last-Minute Entries Lend
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Color and Interest to
Primary Contest
?
T*he formal opening of the 1924
political campaign in Georgia was
given an added bit of color Satur
day, just as the entries were closed
by the state Democratic executive
committee promptly as the whistles
blew at noon.
Former Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick tossed his hat into the
' zf*ing as a candidate for United States
•OsiSaator to oppose Senator William
J. Karris, and Herschel H. Elders,
of Reidsville, Ga., fired in a special
delivery letter containing his $250
check to ualify him as a candidate
for governor to oppose Governor
Clifford Walker.
There had been rumors that Chief
4 Justice Richard B. Russell, of the
state supreme court, would oppose
Senator Harris, but his candidacy
failed to materialize. In accordance
with his statement a few days ago,
that it was a “mathematical certain
ty that Senator Harris would have
a. fight on his hands,” Governor
Hardwick himself announced his can
didacy when it became apparent that
Justice Russell would not run.
B. M. Blackburn, close political
friend of Governor Hardwick,
brought the check to Mrs. Bessie
Anderson, secretary of the state
executive commitee, at the state
capitol.
Harris Among First
Senator Harris was one of the first
to qualify as a candidate, having
•ent his check to Mrs. Anderson sev
eral days ago. He defeated Gover
nor Hardwick in 1918 and is now
completing his six-year term.
Mr. Elders’ platform will center
around “economy and tax reduc
tion,” according to a statement ac
companying the announcement of
his candidacy. He declares himself
against any state bond issue until
the tax laws are remodeled by elimi
’ nating the ad.valorem tax for state
purposes, limiting the county tax
rate and city tax rate, making only
one levy for county schools, and
equalizing the state school fund ap
portionment.”
Walker Statement Awaited
Governor Walker has issued no
statement as to his platform, but his
forthcoming message to the general
assembly, which convenes on Wed
nesday, is expected to contain the
principles on which he will make his
race for re-election.
An interesting sidelight on the en I
} try of Governor Hardwick into the
senatorial race is the fact that James
K. Jordan, his law partner, already
had announced and qualified as a
candidate for the state senate from
the Thirty-fourth district when ht
f learned that Governor Hardwick had
announced for the United States sen
ate. He immediately withdrew his
name from the entry lists and Claude
Mason, secretary of the Fulton
county executive committee, return-,
ed his check.
Ten statehouse officials are unop
posed for re-election, leaving seven
races, including that for the United
States senate, to be contested in the
primaries this fall.
Hardwick’s Announcement
Former Governor Hardwick's an
nouncement follows:
“If our newspaper magnates and
erstwhile ‘political leaders’ have en
tirely finished re-electing our sena
tor, Mr. Harris, without opposition,
it is about time for the plain people
of Georgia to have an opportunity
to decide that question for them
selves, and without having any par
ticular aid from either newspapers
m or bosses. s,
“In announcing my candidacy for
■Rhe senate, I wish to assure the
■ people of Georgia that no personal
■ feeling against Mr. Harris inspires
my conduct in the slightest degree;
that I have real and substantial
grounds f>r such feeling is true
enough, but other and more im
portant considerations control my
conduct.
“There are issues between his
candidacy and the one I shall pre
sent that are as wide and deep as
the ocean.
• “At an early Mate I shall outline
these issues in a statement to the
public. I will present Mr. Harris’
record in the senate as it actually is,
and not as it nas been represented
to be by himself and others. I will
open my campaign not later than
July 4 at a place to be announced
later and will carry that carhpaign
directly to the people of Georgia to
the very limits permitted by my
health and strength.
"I have withheld this announce-
* ment until this late date for the
reason that I hoped that others who
believe in the same great principles
in which I believe might take up
this fight and carry the banner.
Since they have all failed and re
fused to do so, I regard it as my
duty', at any personal sacrifice, to
give to the thousands of people of
Georgia, who believe in the same
great principles of national and in
ternational policies that I do, some
opportunity to vote and voice their
convictions in the approaching
primary election.”
Hardman’s Card
Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Commerce,
r Ga., who several days ago stated he
was seriously considering entering
the race, declared Friday night that
he had abandoned the idea.
Dr. Hardman’s statement follows:
“To the people of Georgia: Owing
to the conditions, mental attitude
and feeling now existing among the
people, my entering the race may
not be thoroughly understood. There
fore 1 have decided not to announce
for the high office of governor of
Georgia. With profound apprecia
tion 1 wish to thank my many
friends most heartily for their kind
4 expressions and for their willingness
to support me for governor.
“Yours very truly,
"L. G. HARDMAN.”
List of Entries
The candidates who have qualified
by paying their entrance fees to Mrs.
Bessie Anderson, secretary of the
(Continued on Page 6, Column 4)
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ROCKWELL FIXES OBJECTIVE
AT 450 FIRST-BALLOT VOTES;
SAYS FOES BEATEN ALREADY
McAdoo Manager Publishes List of States He Counts On
As Indication of Early Strength Charges
Propaganda Effort by Enemies
NEW YORK, June 22.—A mini
mum of 450 votes for William G.
McAdoo on the first ballot in the
Democratic national convention is
the objective disclosed today by his
campaign managers.
The bulk of the first ballot vote
will come from those state delega
tions instructed for McAdoo either
through primaries or conventions.
While averting estimates in figures
or names of states, his managers as
sert that the total will swell after
favorite son votes have been cast.
David Dadd Rockwell, the Mc-
Adoo campaign manager, gave out
today a list of states which he
classed as McAdoo supporters and
which are bound either by the unit
rule or through primaries.
Those listed under the unit rule
and the vote of each, follow:
‘lowa 26. Missouri ■36, Oklahoma
20, Texas 40, Georgia 23, Tennessee
24, South Carolina 18, \Kansas 20,
Nevada 6, Washington 14, Utah 8,
Idaho 8, New Mexico 6, Kentucky
26, Canal Zone 2. Total, 282.
Six state delegations bound by
primary results were given as fol
lows:
North Dakota 10, South Dakota
10, North Carolina 24, Florida 12,
California 26, Oregon 10. Total, 92.
Twelve From Illinois
To this total of 374 were added
twelve from Illinois, three from
Wisconsin, and 30 from Pennsylva
nia, making a grand total of 419.
Interrupting his third day of con
ferences with delegates and friends
to make a statement to newspaper
correspondents, Mr. McAdoo de
clared that everything was “moving
very satisfactorily so far as we are
concerned.” He added that the out
look could not be more favorable,
comparing the spirit of his delega
tions as comparable to that which
prevailed among the Wilson sup
porters at Baltimore.
Asked concerning the Ku Klux
Klan and prohibition issues, the
main fighting points in the plat
form declaration, Mr. McAdoo said
his views on those subjects were
“so definite and well known” that
they did not require reiteration at
this time.
Pressed regarding the Ku Klux
Klan matter, the former secretary
said that, after all, was a question
for the convention to decide. Charg
ing that opponents of McAdoo are
"surcharging” the convention at
mosphere with propaganda, Mr.
Rockwell struck at them in writ
ten and oral statements.
“McAdoo Swing Is On”
“We have delegates; they have
the talk,” he said. “The campaign
now from our standpoint is the
same as it was in the\ spring. We
went out then to get the delegates
and succeeded. We will continue
the same kind of campaign right
into the balloting.”
In his written statement Mr.
Rockwell declared the “McAdoo
swing is on.”
“I can say without the slightest
hesitation that the efforts of our
foes already have fallen flat. My re
check of the situation only strength
ens my knowledge that the cause of
progressive demorracy will win, and
that McAdoo will be nominated and
elected.”
Flowers Replace Cigars
As Woman Governor
Rules in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N. M., June 21.—A
gorgeous bouquet of flowers, diffus
ing their scent over the executive
chambers of New Mexico today, took
the place of the box of high pow
ered stogies which have become a
fixture in the governor’s office.
No smoke invaded the sanctum of
Mrs. Soledad Chacon as she entered
upon her duties, forst woman gov
ernor. Officials who gathered around
the quiet dark-eyed executive were
subdued by the simplicity with which
she took over the reins of govern
ment temporarily dropped by Gov
ernor James Hinkle when he de
parted for the Democratic conven
tion in New York last night.
Mrs. Chacon’s first official act was
a gesture of recognition to the press.
Then, without ceremony, she made
a statement of appreciation of Gov
ernor Hinkle and regret at the death
of the late lieutenant governor, Baca,
whose death thrust her into her pres
ent position.
Mrs. Chacon is a full-blooded wom
an, 34 years of age. Slender and with
a beautiful head of brown hair. Her
ancestors were prominent In the ter
ritorial government of New Mexi
co. Her great grandfather took part
in the Valverde battle and her
genealogy through both sides of the
family leads directly back to the
Spanish conquistadores.
“I am anticipating no serious
problems during Governor Hinkle’s
absence,” Mrs.. Chacon said, “but
should any occur I don’t believe I
shall have any difficulty in handling
them. I shall simply carry out the
policies of Governor Hinkle and
everything will run smoothly.”
The Weather
LOUISIANA: Tuesday partly
cloudy, somewhat unsettled in east
portion.
ARKANSAS: Tuesday partly
cloudy.
OKLAHOMA, WEST TEXAS:
Tuesday generally fair, continued
warm.
EAST TEXAS: Tuesday partly
cloudy, probably scattered showers
in south portion, continued warm.
VIRGINIA: Unsettled, probably
local thundershowers Tuesday; cool
er in the interior. *
NORTH CAROLINA. SOUTH
CAROLINA. GEORGIA. FLORIDA
EXTREME NORTHWEST FLOR
IDA. ALABAMA. MISSISSIPPI:
Unsettled Tuesday with local thun
der showers.
'TENNESSEE: Tuesday partly
cloudy, possibly local showers in
east portion, not much change in
temperature.
KENTUCKY: Tuesday generally
I fair.
IT arid News.
Told in
Brief
LAREDO, Texas.—Cummins, Brit
ish charge dis archives, at Mexico
City, crossed into the United States
here Saturday and left immediately
for the north.
NEW YORK.—Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federa
tion of Labor, is in a hospital here
recuperating from a breakdown
caused by overwork.
WASHINGTON. —The presiden
tial yacht Mayflower with President
Coolidge, William M. Butler and
other Republican leaders aboard,
cruised the lower Potomac, while, it
was understood, general outlines of
the national campaign were under
discussion. There is every indica
tion that President Coolidge will
take an active part in the cam
paign. _
DUSSELDORF.—MiIitary authori
ties have conducted widespread raids
in the French and Belgian occupied
zones the last few days in search
of nationalists or militarist move
ments.
PARIS.—In denying reports that
Paris is negotiating with Washing
ton over recognition of Soviet Rus
sia, government officials declared
delivery by France to Secretary of
State Hughes of a copy of Premier
Herriot’s declaration concerning re
sumption of relations with Moscow
was merely an “act of courtesy.”
MILWAUKEE. —The state Social
ist convention went on record a~
unalterably opposed to any move at
Cleveland, July 4 conference, to in
dorse any candidate running as an
independent.
PEKlN.—Under threat that he
would bombard the city of Wanhsien,
the commander of the British gun
boat Cockchafer compelled the high
est military leaders there to walk
to the cemetery in full uniform be
hind the casket containing the body
of E. C. Hawley, the American
killed there by Japanese junkmen,
and to attend the burial service for
him.
NEW YORK.'—William G. McAdoo,
in addressing rally of delegates, as
sails New York press, saying It at
tempts to “becloud the issue and
reflect upon intelligence of the great
mass of delegates.”
ST. LOUIS, Mo. —Letters contain
ing checks on out-of-town banks,
believed by postal inspectors to have
been part of the recent $2,000,000
robbery of Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul mail train, are found in
sewer at St. Louis.
NEW YORK.—Women delegates
and alternates to Democratic conven
tion organize fight to gain chairman
ship of credentials and permanent
organization committee.
LONDON.—Prime Minister Ram
say MacDonald, of Great Britain,
and Premier Herriot, of France,
agree to invite allies to confer within
a month in London on methods of
putting experts' reparation report
into execution; premiers plan joint
visit to Geneva in September to at
tend opening session of assembly of
League of Nations.
NEW YORK. —Pre-convention Sun
day is marked by arrival at New
York of many delegations and con
vention figures including William
Jennings Bryan and Senator Under
wood, of Alabama, and by numerous
conferences in interest of aspirants
for presidential nomination.
NEW YORK.—New York’S sub
way, elevated and surface lines, op
erated by B. M. T. Co., are tied up
for three hours during peak of mid
afternoon traffic to seaside resorts,
holding up fully half million pleas
ure seekers.
NEW YORK. —Sharp contests in
Democratic convention platform com
mittee are anticipated over Ku Klux
Klan and prohibition planks and
America's foreign policy,
VERBANK, N. Y.—Body o£, Clar
ence D. Sheldon, seventy-six, wealthy
New York publisher, who has been
missing for past w’eek, is found near
his Verbank, N. Y., summer home.
Coroner sjiys death is due to expo
sure.
WASHINGTON. lnquiry into
charges by Representative Britten,
Republican, Illinois, that navy is
dominated by “ring,” will be ordered
by President Coolidge, it is said.
NEW YORK. —Plans are made for
civic dinner for delegates and alter
nates attending Democratic national
convention, with attendance of more
than 3,500 expected.
BUCHAREST.—Over protests of
foreign governments and foreign oil
companies, Rumanian senate passes
mining law under which Rumanians
are permitted to acquire control of
foreign oil properties.
.NEW YORK.—Members of execu
tive committee of Methodist Episco
pal church contribute their watches
to help pay debt of $2,225,000 and
avoid reduction of foreign mission
activities.
CINCINNATI. English district
of Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri will establish an endowment
fund of $9,000,000 to serve as basis
of a general pension system for re
tired ministers and their wives.
ATLANTA —Petition for divorce,
filed by Asa G. Candler, Sr., capital
ist, alleging cruelty on part of his
young wife, whom he married a
year ago, is made returnable at Sep
tember term of Fulton superior
court.
PARIS. —The Matin prints' a pho- I
tograph, transmitted by radio from I
Malmaison to Paris, said to be first I
successful experiment in picture |
transmission without use of wires.
PROVIDENCE. Only one of
Rhode Island's twenty-two Repub
lican senators appears at session of
senate when recess caused by explo
sion of gas bomb in chamber is ter
minated. and Democrats, after as
sailing opposition, recess util Tues
day.
CHICAGO. —Ten persons are in
dicted by federal grand jury in con
nection with hold-up and robbery of
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. p aul mail !
train at Rondout, 111., on June 12.
COURT RAISES BIN
ON STRAW-PACKED
FLORIDA MELONS
Bahnsen’s Embargo Is Void
ed Pending Arguments on
Final Injunction
The way was cleared Saturday for
the shipment of thousands of car
loads of watermelons embedded in
pinstraw from Florida through Geor
gia to northern and eastern points,
with the signing by Judge Samuel
H. Sibley, of United States district
court, of an order lifting the embar
go placed on such shipments by Dr.
Peter F. Bahnsen, state veterina
rian.
Enforcement of Dr. Bahnsen’s or
der was restrained pending a hear
ing on a permanent injunction,
which will be held before a tribune
o fthree federal judges either on
June 30 or July 1, the date depend
ing on the time that the three can
come to Atlanta.
Judge Sibley’s order, which was
issued on petition of the Atalntic
Coast Line railroad, with the Sea
board Air Line railroad as intervenor,
ordered' both of these roads to give
bonds in the sum of SIO,OOO each to
indemnify the state of Georgia
against any loss sustained by cattle
tick ieinfestation as a result of the
watermelon shipments.
In suspending Dr. Bahnsen’s or
der, the judge also directed that all
freight cars in which shipments of
watermelons were imbedded in pine
straw be lined with heavy paper and
protected by a 6-inch plank at the
doors to prevent the pinestraw from
shaking out on the roadbed in
transit.
Napier Defends Order
Judge Sibley’s order was issued
after a hearing in chambers, at
which appeared Governor Carey
Hardee, of Florida; W. J. Mayo,
Florida commissioner of agricul
ture; Attorney Robert S. Parker,
representing the Seaboard Air Line;
Attorney Robert C. Alston, repre
senting the Atlantic Coast Line, and
H. H. Preston, general agent of the
Atlantic Coast Line.
Dr. Bahnsen and Attorney Gener
al George M. Napier appeared in
support of the state veterinarian’s
order, contending that it was con
sidered absolutely necessary at the
present time to prevent the tick-in
fested pinestraw from being brought
through Georgia in freight cars be
cause of the danger of again spread
ing the cattle fever tick in sections
of Georgia that have been freed of
the pest at an expenditure by the
state of millions of dollars.
Attorneys Alston and Parker, rep
resenting the petitioners, contended
that the state veterinarian was with
out authority to issue such an em
bargo, that it involved a virtual con
fiscation of the Florida watermelon
crop, worth more than $1,000,000,
and that it represented an unreason
able interference in interstate com
merce.
Perils Called Speculative
They further contended that the
danger from possible tick reinfesta
tion was “highly speculative,” de
claring that the pinestraw used in
bedding watermelons was not gath
ered from the cattle ranges, but
from old fidkls where cattle did not
range.
In the course of the argument,
Judge Sibley inquired of Dr. Bahnsen
if the Georgia commissioner of agri
culture had approved the embargo
on watermelon shipments. It had
been contended by complainant’s
counsel that the order was issued
without the agricultural commission
er’s approvah
Dr. Bahnsen, after some delay, pro
duced an undated order signed by J.
J. Brown, commissioner of agricul
ture, approving the embargo.
Subsequent questioning by Attor
ney Alston brought from Dr. Bahn
sen the admission that the commis
sioner’s approval of the embargo had
not been signed until “either Friday
afternoon or this morning.”
FLORIDA REFUSED OFFER
TO HELP TICK CRUSADE
VALDOSTA, Ga., June 21. —In-
quiries at division office of both rail
roads, Southern and Atlantic Coasl
Line, resulted in the statement that
so far as they had been advised no
melons were moving out from Flor
ida packed in pine straw in violation
of the embargo placed on such ship
ments by State Veterinarian Peter
F. Bahnsen.
This is despite the statement of
Governor C. A. Hardee, of Florida,
that he intended to order shipments
to proceed after the refusal of Dr.
Bahnsen to modify his order pro
tecting the tick free counties of
Georgia from infestation through
Florida ticks being contained in the
pine straw.
This controversy between the offl
cials of the two states is of great
importance to the melon shippers of I
north Florida and south Georgia as
well as to cattle owners in south
Georgia, who have been fighting j
ticks at a great expense for many
years.
, It is understood here that some
time ago, when Florida was prepar
ing to begin tick eradication in a
number of counties, Dr. Bahnsen
asked that the border counties be j
worked first in order to protect the
Georgia tick free counties. It is re
ported that Florida officials replied
that they were not interested in
Georgia and selected middle counties
for the work. Dr. Bahnsen' later is
sued his quarantine order holdibg
up Florida melon shipments and this
brought a protest from the Florida
authorities to which Dr. Bahnsen is
quoted as replying that he was “not
interested in Florida melons.”
NO MELON CARS TIED UP
IN FLORIDA BY EMBARGO
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 21.1
No melon shipments were tied up
in Florida as a result of the embargo
of the state of Georgia, according
to officials of the railroads here. In i
where melon shipments were |
routed through that state, the cars
were marked subject to delay be
cause of embargo, but were routed
as usual.
It is understood that none of them
were molested.
In some cases where growers were j
cautious, other than pine straw was '
used as bedding, and in some other
cases, very isolated, melons were al
lowed to remain in storage rather
than risk delay, but such cases are
f-w, according to information. j
FIREWORKS OF CONVENTION
CRACKLE ALONG BROADWAY
AS DELEGATES REACH N. Y.
Rival Managers Begin
Lining Up Forces
for Fight on Plat
form Planks
NEW YORK, June 22.—A smash
ing denunciation of corruption,
graft and special privilege in gov
ernment and a pledge to tclean
house” will constitute the main
plank in the Democratic platform.
Taking advantage of the oil scan
dal, the Daugherty
the veterans’ bureau graft, Demo
cratic chieftains tonight were rapid
ly hammering out a platform that
will frame the issue on which they
expect to win in November.
Despite the confusion, .the claims
and counter claims of frival man
agers, there is an abiding confi
dence among the delegates that 1924
is a “Democratic year.” They are
out to win and there is a growing
feeling that the Democratic nominee
must be fitted to stand foresquare
on the main issue in platform. ■
Upon this plank there is complete
harmony among aV factions of the
party. It is, however, the only
question on which all can agree.
There are prospects of a fight on
virtually every other question which
has even a tinge of controversy in
it.
Would Declare War
George E. Brennan, Democratic
boss r” ’’inois, and Representative
Gallivan, of Massachusetts, declaring
relentless warfare on the klan have
become more insistent for a plank
to scope the klan by name, and de
clare for religious and social liberty.
The selection of Newton D. Baker
as Ohio’s representative on the plat
form committee and the probable
membership of Senator Glass and
other staunch pro-leaguers on the
committee foreshadows a fight oyer
the foreign policy plank. Although
Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, is too
ill to attend the convention, Senator
Walsh, of Massachusetts, is prepar
ed to carry on the fight against any
declaration for entrance into the
League of Nations.
The highly controversial wet and
dry issue bids fair to be settled with
out more than a sham battle. The
wets threaten to carry their fight to
the floor of convention, but their
highest estimated strength for a
modification plank is 135 delegates
out of 1,098. The drys will be satis
fied with a straightout enforcement
plank.
Bryan On Way
William Jennings Bryan, the
stormy petrel of Democratic conven
tions since 1896, is on his way here
with a portfolio of trouble, accord
ing to reports.
He is said to be prepared to battle
against any suggestion of weaken
ing on the dry law and to insist on
many of his old progressive ideas. It
has been suggested that he may in
sist upon an expression against the
teaching of the Darwinian theory in
the schools whn the educational and
sociological plank is reached.
Even the agricultural plank offers
a battleground, despite the inclination
on all hands to curry favor with the
farmers. Bernard M. Branch, who
has made a deep study of agricul
ture problems in the last three years
is drafting a plank that will indorse
the principle of the McNary-Haugen
bill, which is designed to aid the
farmers in disposing of surplus prod
ucts abroad.
Democratic leader Garrett of the
house opposed the measure, from the
start and his opposition is generally
credited with the defeat of the bill.
He is said to have stirred a number
of powerful leaders against the pro
posal.
THREE KILLED
AS AUTO FALLS
, OFF ROADWAY
MOBILE, Ala., June 22. —Crashing
wildly down an embankment over
looking the shadowy river waters be
low. while its eight occupants strug
gled frantically to escape, an auto
mobile carried three persons to death
and endangered the lives of others
when it plunged into a branch of
East Fowl river on the road between
Theodore and Delchamps Saturday.
The machine, which had been in the
towage of aother automobile, sud
denly left its course nar the end of
a wooden bridge and a moment later
leaped downward on the grim death
dive.
Hardly had the passengers, who
included men, women and children,
realized their peril before the auto
mobile completed its violent pitch
and landed in the water.
A woman and two children perish
ed. None of the other occupants
suffered seriously in the accident.
Those who lost their lives were
Mrs. Fannie Arnett, 44 years old, of
Rolstor. station, near Coden; her son,
Stein, 10, and Marguerite Bosarge’
9, of Byou La Batre. Mrs. Arnett’s
body was recovered immediately, but
rescue parties searched hours before
the bodies of the little boy and girl <
were located.
The accident occurred while the
party was en route home from Mo
bile.
Beer Sale in Glasses
Is Opposed by Voters
Os British Columbia
A ANCOUA ER, B. C., June 22.
The cities and most of the larger I
towns of British Columbia, in the
election Friday, declared against
the sale of beer by the glass under
government control. Returns from
the rural districts were far from
complete Saturday.
The vote of the urban districts
was in effect against the sale of beet
in taverns or saloon and in favor of
its sale by the bottle under govern
ment control.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, June 24, 1924
McAdoo Leading All Candidates
On Eve of New York Convention
NEW YORK, June 22. —As the candidates for the Democratic
presidential nomination went through their paces today, pre
liminary to the opening of convention week Monday, here is how
they appeared;
WILLIAM GIBBS M’ADOO— Still numerically in the lead.
AL SMlTH— Entrenched in second position, but showing no
net gain.
JOHN W. DAVlS— Steadily gaining in importance as a com-,
promise candidate.
CARTER GLASS— Out in the open now as a candidate in event
of a Smith-McAdoo deadlock.
JAMES A. COX— An uncertain quantity and busily seeking
votes outside his own delegation.
SAMUEL M. RALSTON— Not running at all as yet, but being
kept saddled in the “dark horse” stable by Indiana.
OSCAR UNDERWOOD— Gaining no ground whatever. Head
quarters drawing very few visitors.
GOVERNOR JONATHAN DAVIS, of Kansas—A favorite son.
GOVERNOR SILZER, of New Jersey—A favorite son with some
little outside backing.
GOVERNOR GARDNER, of Missouri —Another favorite son
Who might gain some little strength in event of an early deadlock.
GOVERNOR RITCHIE, of Maryland—One more favorite son.
M'DDWELL HOPES
FDR EARLY PARDON
' FROM STATE EMM
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CLEARWATER, Fla., June 21
Frank McDowell, the murderer of
his entire family, who was convict
ed of murdering his mother yesterday
and recommended to the mercy of
the court, came before Circuit
Judge M A. McMullen this morn
ing for senetnee. He was given life
imprisonment,
J. L. Kelly, representing Mc-
Dowell, made a motion for a new
trial, claiming that the verdict was
contrary to the evidence and citing
seven reasons why a new trial
should be granted. Tj'he motion was
overruled, and McDowell was told
to stand up for sentence.
Judge McMullen asked McDowell
if he had anything to say why sen
tence should not be passed upon
him. McDowell said:
“Judge, I have lots of things to
say, but it would be useless.”
The judge then told McDowell
that he owed much to his attorneys
whose work evidently saved him
from the electric chair. “You are a
fortunate boy,” said the judge, “to
escape the chair. I am sorry for
you, Frank, and I truly hope that
you are insane, for if you are not
your conscience will curse you every
hour of your life. It is my duty to
sentence you to life imprisonment.”
When Judge McMullen told Mc
' Dowell that if sane his conscience
would curse him the rest of his life
McDowell said it would.
Going to Farm
It is expected that McDowell will
be sent to Raiford about next
Thursday.
McDowell was bright and smiling
when he entered the courtroom this
morning, where he had to wait for
an hour before court was called to
order. There were several newspa
permen present besides the deputy
sheriff, and McDowell talked freely
with all of them. He said he felt
all right, and reiterated his previous
statements that he is not crazy, and
has no praecox, that he took no
stock in what the alienists said
about him. He said he thought two
or three years in the prison may be
beneficial - , .but thought life would
become monotonous after that. He
asked many questions the
prison and the town it is near, and
expressed a preference to working
on the prison farm rather than in
the factory part of the institution.
Discussing the trial McDowell
said he hated to be called an idiot
and a fool, and declared that he is
nobody’s fool. He said the people
do not know the truth regarding
him. He said he hoped to be re
stored health and get a pardon in
a few years.
“But, Frank,” raid a reporter,
"you have told many stories but have
never told the real reason for killing
vour parents. Now, ccme clean with
it.” McDowell showed signs of an
ger and said: “There was no reason.
I simply have periodic spells when
I do not know what I am doing; at
other times I am all right.”
| Being pinned down for a more
definite reply, McDowell was remind
ed that he planned the murder of
his parents ahead of time, admin
istered drugs to them so there would
ibe no disturbance when he shot
them, and that nobody believed his
story about not knowing what he
' was doing.
Angry With Reporters
At this McDowell became angry,
and flashing a scathing glance at bis
persecutor, said: “If you knew what
I want to call you you would shut
up. You are the first person who
ever accused me of wilfully murder
ing my parents.”
McDowell, in .alking about the
murder, said no sane man would
have left the evidence he did. He
referred to the Holy Ghost as
a fool thing and said the pistol with
blood on it would never have been
left by a sane person.
"You fooled the doctors all right,"
an attorney said to McDowell. "I
did not try to fool them,” said Mc-
Dowell. “They thought they knew
something which they did not know’,
and !• simply let them have their
way about it. I knew I had no
praecox.”
Noted South Carolinian
Dies of Pneumonia
UNION. S. C., June 21.—William
Coleman, widely-known cotton mill
executive and candidate for gover
nor in the race two years ago, died ,
today from pneumonia.
Coleman was taken to a hospital a
week ago following an automobile j
accident near Gaffney, in which he ;
suffered a broken leg.
He was the son of the builder of I
the first railroad in the state to j
Asheville. '
FOURTH JURY FAILS
TO REACH A VERDICT
INALABAMAKILLING
MOBILE, Ala., June 21.—The
case of Tom Cleveland, charged with
murder of eighty-nine-year-old
Stephen Lossing, today took another
unusual turn when the jury deliber
ating on Cleveland’s fate failed to
make any sort of report throughout
the entire day, although up to mid
night tonight the case had been in
its hands for approximately 30
hours.
This is the fourth jury that has
sought to reach a verdict in the
trial of Cleveland, and although no
intimation whatsover as to how the
jury stands reached the public today
belief was expressed In court circles
that this trial of Cleveland like the
three former ones, would end in a
mistrial.
Tom Cleveland’s case has been
on© of the most unusual and hard
est-fought in the criminal history
of Alabama. Although his father,
Captain Jack Cleveland, member of
the Mobile county board of revenue
and road commissioners, was con
victed of murdering Lossing in one
trial, and his cousin,. “Son” Cleve
land, was acquitted of the similar
charge in one trial, Tom Cleveland
has been tried four times without
any verdict being rendered as yet.
He is the first man in Alabama to
ever face trial for his life four dif
ferent times, and perhaps the only
one in the south.
The action of the jury in this
trial is declared to be unique in the
court annals of Mobile county.
Since the jurors received the case
they have made no sort of report to
the court or consulted the court
about any point in law or evidence.
They spent from 3:45 o’clock Fri
day afternoon, when they received
the case, until 10 o’clock in deliber
ation at the courthouse before retir
ing to a local hotel, and they spent,
all day today until about 8 o’clock
tonight in the courthouse when they
retired for the night.
Mrs. Mary H. Armor
To Second Nomination
Os Wm. Gibbs McAdoo
NEW YORK, June 22.—Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, of Eastman, one of
Georgia’s delegates-at-large to the
national convention, reached New
York Saturday from Vassar col
lege where she has been engaged
in series of meetings! She was warm
ly welcomed at the Vanderbi.t hotel,
and given a most cordial greeting by
William G. McAdoo, upon whom she
called only to pay her respects. Mis.
Armor has been chosen to second the
nomination of Mr. McAdoo and will
Address the convention for five min
utes when Georgia’s name is reached
upon the roll of states, fjhe has not
prepared her address, and says she
doesn’t intend to make any prepara
tion, “Because Mr. McAdoo is a per
sonality for whom she entertains
such a high admiration that she can
speak extemporaneously.”
“I am not deceived nor deluded by
the hostile publicity In New York,”
Mrs. Armor said to Mr. McAdoo. “I
don’t believe any of the delegates
will be deceived. lam familiar with
its inspiration and its object, and it
will fail.”
Subsequently, Mrs. Armor predict
ed McAdoo’s nomination “on a com
paratively early ballot” and his elec
tion to the presidency next Novem
ber.
Tragic Deaths Cause
British to Abandon
Everest Scaling Plan
LONDON, June 22. The British
attempt to conquer Mt. Everest, im
pregnable peak of the Himalayas, is
understood to have been abandoned
following the tragic deaths of two
of the climbers, Mallory find Irvine,
who died near the summit. Tributes
and messages of condolence are pour
ing in from all parts of the empire.
Macßeady and Aide
Make Flight Record
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 21—Two
’world’s records for duration flights
with heavy loads, are believed to
have been established here today by
Lieutenant John A. Macßeady and I
Lieutenant Harold R. Harris, flying
in an air carnival as part of the
Kentucky Home Coming celebration.
S CENTS A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
McAdoo-Smith Fight
Dims Other Features
as Rivalry Warms
to White Heat
NEW YORK, June 22.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —The fight for
the Democratic presidential nomi
nation has become a resolute tug of
war between the supporters of Mc-
Adoo and Smith, with partisans of a
dozen favorite sons looking on with
an apparent air of grim satisfac
tion over the prospect.
Two days before the national
convention begins in Madison Square
Garden the McAdoo and Smith
camps both are making unqualified
claims of a victory already won; but
none the less, the groups of un
pledged delegates who hold the whip
hand are besieged by scouts and
outrunners from the two contesting
groups as they arrive in increasing
numbers to swell the convention
crowds already here.
The activities of the field forces
of the two leading candidates today
cast into shadow every other fea
ture of the big quadrennial show of
the Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan
issue, which is promising the most
bitter and spectacular of the con
tests to be waged over platform pol
icies, was thrown for the moment
into the background and all the
other jealousies and disputes that al
ways characterize the final pre
convention period were all but ob-'
literated from the picture. McAdoo l
and Smith and their political lieu-i
tenants not only hold the center of
the stage, but almost may be said
to constitute the show itself.
Issues Quiet Now
There is a complete realization, of
course, that the problems before the
convention are submerged only tem
porarily. They are expected later on
to kindle into flame the rivalries
they have created, and to add many
a colorful moment to the convention
before it is over. But for today, '
and probably for two or three days
or a week to come, the delegates
and their leaders are engrossed in,
the much more personal and hu
man grapple of two now outstand
ing Democrats for the greatest hon
or the party can bestow.
In its nature the scrap must pro
ceed up to a certain point without!
much outward manifestation. In tbe
present stage, most of the issues are'
under cover, to be discussed quietlj’i
but none -he less gravely by party, \
counsellors in the seclusion of their;
conference rooms. When time and
consultations have crystallized opin
ions, th j fireworks are expected to
begin.
With the McAdoo-Smith fight it is
different. The time for tho fire
works already is here), and the po
litical sky over Manhattan is .Il
lumined tonight with a display of
pyrotechnics that long has been inj
the process of careful preparation.
The contest has become a struggle
matching in its intensity the most
celebrated in party history and withi
the added modern qualities of fevert
ish haste and perfect organization. l
Distributed everywhere, the mis
sionaries for Smith and McAdoo are!
carrying their gospels into every (
nook and corner where delegatee are
to be found.
Atmosphere of Battle
There are handshakes and wel
coming smiles for the uninstructed <
as they step from their trains; can
didatorial literature, badges and
souvenirs are thrust into their
hands as they pass through the
lobbies of their hotels, and are slip-,
ped under their doors; their ears are
assailed with an unceasing paean of
praise for the qualities of the fa«|
vorite candidate. And they are as
sured solemnly by the Smith men
that Smith is certain to be nomh
nated and by the McAdoo men that
McAdoo is the only possible winner.
At the McAdoo headquarters high
in an uptown hotel, a private ele
vator is provided to carry callers to
the easy-chaired conference rooms
where the inner circle of the Mc-
Adoo managers use their best per
suasive powers on possible converts.
Negro doorkeepers go to and fro
with flying messages from one lieu
tenant to another, with reports from
listening posts out before the enemy
and with orders and advice from
those in command to those on th*
firing line. The air of driving en
thusiasm, and of organized deter
mination is inescapable.
The Smith forces are quite as
busy, and their convention ma
chinery is far-flung across the ho
tel section of New York. YThe gov
ernor is Jiving at one hotel where
many delegates and party leaders
are congregated for the convention,
and in his suite receives a constant
stream of visitors.
Dark Horses Hope
tn another hotel, where the Dem
ocratic national committee is housed,
there are two Smith headquarters,
one on the street level, just adja
cent to the lobby and one in a quiet
er and more secluded spot several
floors above. In addition, the of
fices of the Smith campaign man
ager, Franklin D. Roosevelt, occupy
a suite in an uptown office build
ing and hold open house. His scouts
are everywhere, girls are distribut
ing "Smith for president” badges
by the thousands and women are
preparing to pass around Smith
souvenir lavalliers and vanity cases
to women delegates.
If this campaign has done more
than to close up the gaps in the
opposing ranks there is no outward
evidence of it, except the directly '
conflicting claims of the rival man
agers. No favorite son has been
abandoned, and no delegation has
announced any change of allegi
ance since it reached New York. On
the contrary, those who have the
keys to the jiaddock of dark horses
profess to be gaining hope hourly
as the McAdoo and Smith support
ers tighten their grip on one an
other’s throats.