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STATE'S ATTORNEY
. IN TESTIMONY BOW
Law on Mitigation Is Given
Thorough Threshing in
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Two-Day Wrangle
CHICAGO, July 31.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —-The state had
reached the final stage of its effort
to keep out of the court record the
opinions of alienists on the mental
responsibility of Nathan Leopold,
Jr., awd Richard Loeb when the aft
ernoon session started today.
Thomas Marshall, legal expert for
the state’s attorney, started at that
hour to sum up the results of the
(/tegument which he had presented to
Jjdige John R. Caverly throughout
TTday and a half of court session.
The state was maintaining that
testimony by alienists could be
heard only on the question of in
sanity, which problem, if admitted,
could be decided only by a jury on
a plea oFnot guilty.
The defense was resting on its con
tention that a condition of mental
disease, short of insanity, was prop
er for consideration in mitigation for
punishment.
The largest crowd that has yet
assembled for the trial struggled for
places in the courtroom, but only 200
or so who could be seated got past
the guards.
Darrow Answers
Clarence S. Darrow started ' the
answer of the defense after Mr. Mar
shall had summed v.p in a few sen
tences.
“I have never seen such enthusi
asm for the death penalty as in this
case,” said Mr. Darrow. ‘‘lf I
thought hanging them would stop
the crime of murder would favor
it, “but I have no such feeling.”
"Cases have been cited here 75
years old,” said Mr. Darrow. ‘‘They
were decided before people Knew
what the mind was, or, more ap
propriately, what it was not.
“These cases were read with no
purpose but to pile up law books,
and anybody can do that.
"There is no question but that in
Illinois legal insanity means such
mental disease as makes one unable
to distinguish or choose between
right and wrong,” aid Darrow. He
added that, for that matter, there
was no claim that Leopold and Loeb
were “legally insane.”
Mr. Darrow raised a snicker in
the crowded courtroom by saying
that Robert E. Crowe, state’s attor
ney, had acknowledged tjiat Mr. Dai
row’s clients are “even as sane as
today take account of
mental deficiency,” he said.
One of the cases which Mr. Crowe,
no“w state’s attorney, heard when he
was a judge and Mr. Darrow, attoi
ney for the defense, was cited today.
The citation brought a heated ex
change between Messrs. Crowe and
Darrow today, the former maintain
ing he had not heard such evidence
in mitigation of punishment.
"Oh, yes you did,” asserted Mr.
Darrow. ~
“But the defendant was hanged,
said Mr. Crowe. ti
“Yes'! 1 but you sentenced him, re
torted Mr. Darrow. /
The courtroom rang with laughter,
LeopolcTand Loeb joining. The dem
onstration faded quickly under the
frown of Judge Caverly.
State Uses All Forenoon
Just before this incident Judge
Caverly had turned a state argu
ment into a query against the pros
ecution’s own position. Thomas Mar
shall, legal scholar of the state’s at
torney’s staff, had read a decision
which held that moral depravity was
not an evidence of insanity.
“Then if it is not such evidence
and does not tend to prove it, can
it not be heard in mitigation ! ’ ask
ed the court, adding:
“It seems to me it would be com
petent for a court to hear it and
constituted reversible grounds if it
were rejected.’.
. The state continued piling up cita
tions until the luncheon recess was
■ghebed, when Mr. Marshall said he
Wotid read no more authorities but
would submit a list of others for
the court’s consideration.
Leopold and Loeb sat quietly
through the reading and argument.
Once, however, they whispered and
smiled when Darrow moved into a
chair alongside them and haifded a
newspaper clipping to Leopold. Leo
pold wrote a note on the margin
and laughed as he handed it to Loeb.
They smiled again with Dr. White,
whose appearance on the stand pre
cipitated the debate, when Mr. Mar
shall read a decision which mention
ed the “seal of medical science” in
investigating mental disorders.
Early Crowd Increases
The hearing was set for an open
ing thirty minutes later than pre
viously this morning, but the later
time seemed to serve only to in
crease the crowd clamoring for en
trance and a possible view of the
millionaire youths as they marched
in and out of the court room"guarded
by the usual three bailiffs.
The early part of the session prom
ised little more than that to appease
the interest of the visitors, since
Thomas Marshall. indictment and
legal research expert for State’s At
torney Cowe, left unfinished yester
day his citing of precedents font
other commonwealths to prevent
Judge Caverly hearing as a mitigat
ing circumstance the testimony of
various alienists called by the de
fense. Dr. William A. White, of
Washington, D. C., rested comfort
ably four and one halt’ hours on the
witness stand yesterday while the
state and the defense argued as to
the prosecution thought he would
the prosecution throught he would
be called upon for.
Only a few men were in the court
room or the long line that wound
down from the court room on the
sixth floor, women predominating in
a ratio of about nine to one.
Court convened at 10:33.
Judge Caverly brought several
law books into court. N Dr. \\ hite
climbed into the witness chair and
the attorneys grouped themselves in
front of the bench preparatory to
a resumption of the argument.
Judge Caverly told the prosecu
tion that all the cases cited yester
day were cases in which a plea of
not guilty had been entered and the
cases tried by jurors, and that there
fore they were not applicable to the
present instance. The court citcM a
Pennsylvania decision which he heal
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. Attorney Gen
eral Stone orders further inquiry
into the gasoline price situation.
NEW YORK. —Elkan Naumburg,
banker and patron of music, who
'gave New York a $150,000 bandstand
in Central park, dies, 89 years old.
DETROIT. —Henry’ Ford may en
ter race for Republican nomination
for United States senator, Lansing
dispatch to Detroit Free Press says.
ROME. —The Tribuna' publishes
"with reserve” a report that Vatican
contemplates sbake-up in its diplo
matic service.
LONDON. —Admiral Sir James E.
Madden, former commander-in-chief
of Atlantic fleet, is named admiral
of the fleet, chief position in Brit
ish navy.
LONDON. —Experts at interallied
conference end their night session
without full agreement on vital
phases of French proposals for rep
arations settlement.
WA SHlNGTON.—Department of
agriculture says American wheat
growers may’- get from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000 more for their wheat
this year than last.
LONDON. —Lieutenant Colonel T.
S. Beauchamp Williams, in debating
in house of commons, declares pres
ent day’ Jews are not descendants of
Biblical “children of Israel.”
TEHERAN, Persia. —Press Is gen
erally relieved at what wa s regard
ed as moderation of American Re
mands made in connection with kill
ing of Vice Consul Imbrie.
WASHlNGTON.—Assurances that
American citizens in Persia are safe,
are given Joseph S. Kornfeld, Ameri
can minister to Teheran, and for
warded to state department.
WASHINGTON. —President Cool
idge sticks to his decision against
FRENCH PROPOSALS
ACCEPTABLE. SAYS
REPARATIONS BODY
LONDON, July 31.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —The members of
the experts committee of the inter
allied conference, after examining
the proposals submitted by the
French experts yesterday as a com
promise plan to end the conference
deadlock over security for the Lawes
plan German loan, declared their be
lief today that the French proposals,
with minor alterations, probably
would be acceptable to the confer
ence.
The French proposal was accepted
unanimously by committee No. 1 of
the conference, while an amendment
put forward by the British members
this morning was withdrawn, both
the French and British delegates
congratulating each other On the
happy turn of events. One delegate
said:
“The great difficulty of the con
ference now is over.”
The British participants in the
conference view the French plan as
the greatest effort yet made to bring
about a settlement of the confer
ence difficulties so that the Dawes
plan can be put into operation, and
they are of the opinion that it will
be a great step toward a final set-'
tlement.
The plan was laid before the ex
perts at noon. After considering it
for an hour the committee adjourned
until 3 p. m. One of the points of
the French proposal provides for a
board of arbitration calculated to
make a declaration of default on the
part of Germany by the reparation
commission much more difficult to
obtairi than now. Another provides
for setting up machinery to take
care of defects which might develop
in the working of the Dawes plan
and still another establishes guaran
tees against Germany manuvering
out of payments in kind.
According to a French semi-offi
cial source the proposal also provides
for the evacuation of the Ruhr in
successive steps as the securities
issued under the plan are floated.
MINE OWNERS IN THE RUHR
EXTEND ECONOMIC ACCORD
DUSSELDORF, July 31.—The ,
German mine owners and the Fran- I
co-Belgian commissioners in the
Ruhr have agreed upon an extension
of the economic accord now in force
in that territory until the Dawes
plan becomes operative, except that
after August 15 it is stipulated that
the Germans can denounce the ar
rangement on five days notice.
REPARATIONS PAYMENTS
PUT AT 8 BILLION MARIvS
PARIS, July 31.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Germany’s total rep
aration payments in cash and mer
chandise are given as 8,405,932,000
gold marks in a revised provisional
statement of the reparation commis
sion as of June 30, made public to
day.
About one-third of this amount,
consisting for the most part of book
keeping credits for cables, ships,
submarines, etc., remains undis
tributed.
Young Coolidge to Remain
At White Holism Till Fall
■WASHINGTON, Jury 31.—Plans
made by President and Mrs. Coolidge .
to permit their son. John, to attend!
the citizens’ military training camp
this summer, at Camp Devens.
Mass., have been abandoned, and
John will remain with his parents
at the White House until fall, when
he enters Amherst college.
Senator Lodge Improves
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., July 31.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had a
comfortable night at Charlesgate>
hospital where he is recuperating
from an operation. The bulletin is
sued by Dr. John H. Cunningham
after his visit this morning said:
“Condition continues satisfactory.
Had good night’s sleep: slept seven
and a half hours.”
Three Hurt in Wreck
RALEIGH. N. C.. July 31.—Three
trainmen were injured when the en
gine on Seaboard Air Line south
bound passenger train No. 5 was de
railed at Lemon Springs, N. C.. early
today. The engine turned over. The
injured were L. O. McKeen, engineer,
Raleigh, badly scakldd: B. W. Grif
fin, tireman. llamlet. bruLel: W. L.
Veoten. express mcsscngri, Suffolk.
Va., badly bruised. .
ariy personal entrance into the po
litical phases of the Defense day
controversy, Washington advices
say. _
PEKIN.—L. M. Karakhan pre
sents credentials as first soviet am
bassador to Irhina.
' BISMARK.—North Dakota Non
Partisan league conference indorses
candidacies of La Follette and
Wheeler.-
ROME. —Unprecedented cold wave
sweeps over Italy and brings sum
mer snow in provinces of Bergamo
and Verona.
HAVERHILL, Mass.—lnvestiga
tip shows four men were shot in
klart disorders near here; 23 men, in
cluding 3 wounded, arrested.
Me.—John W. Davis,
on his way to New York, says Demo
crats and Republicans alike are
striving for honest government.
NEW YORK.—Wednesday was
New York City’s hottest day of sum
mer and second hottest. July 30 in
history of New York weather bu
reau.
ATLANTIC ClTY.—Samuel Gomp
ers announces that American Fed
eration of Labor in this campaign
will commit itself a<3 partisan to no
political party.
CONSTANTINOPLE.—Major Zan
ni, Argentine world flight aviatbr,
arrived from Saloniki, Greece, and
starts for Appelo, Syria, following
route of Stuart MacLaren, British
flier.
PARlS.—French compromise pro
posal for breaking deadlock provides
for evacuation of Hagen in Ruhr
by French and Belgian droops after
flotation of $200,000,000 German
loan, London Havas dispatch de
dared.
13 SUSPECTS HELD -
, IN SLAYING DE 1
mi OFFICERS
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WILMINGTON, N. C., July 31. —
Bullets used in the bodies of Deputy
United States Marshal Samuel Lilly
and City Prohibition Officer Leot.
George who were shot to death near
Phoenix Monday, fit empty shells
found in the automobile of Elmer
Stewart at his home in Brunswick
county, officials announced here to
day*hfter an autopsy on the bodies.
Stewart and Jack Ramsey, under
arrest as suspects, are in the South
port jail. Linwood Tindal, also held
in connection with the case, is in
jail here.
A posse of heavily-armed men left
here shortly after noon today for
Roans island, eighteen miles up the
Cape Fear river, to search for C. W.
Stewart, wanted as a suspect in con
nection with the slaying. A number
of federal officers have arrived here
to aid in the search.
The officers said . that not only
did the bullets taken from the bodies
of the slain men fit the empty
shells in Stewart’s car, but they cor
responded with unfired shells found
in the car. They also said that they
: expected to arrest two more sus
pects.
Rewards for the arrest and convic
tion of the slayers now total S9OO
with the state expected to add S4OO
to this sum.
The body of Mr. George was
buried here late today with the serv
ice under the auspices of the local
police department. The body of Mr.
Lilly was taken tp New Bern today
for burial.
Solicitor Woodus Kellum today
said that he believed the authorities
were on the right trail and predict
ed conclusive developments soon.
Officials were unanimous today in
expressing the belief that the two
officers, who had been active in
prohibition cases, were lured to the
Brunswick county swamps by a
false tip regarding a still and then
slain from ambush.
Tindall is said by police to have
been the spotter and Stuart and
Ramsey actual .leaders of the boot
! leg gang which conspired to get the
I two officers out of their way, ac-
I cording to evidence in their hands.
George has been a thorn in the side
of bootleggers in this territory
through his continual activity
against them.
Stuart and Ramsey when arrested,
admitted they had been engaged in
making liquor all night, but pro
tested. innocence in connection with
the murder.
Dr. W. L. Pickard,
Former Mercer Head,
Hurt in Auto Crash
FORSYTH, Ga.. July 31.—Dr. W.
L. Pickard, former president of Mer
cer university. together with a
nephew and grandson and a man
riding with them, from Milner, met
with an automobile accident
day afternoon opposite the Persons
cotton mill at Forsyth. Dr. Pickard
was driving a small sedan, and when
I the little daughter of Mr. James
Wilkes ran across the road, it was
I necessary to run the ear into a tree
I in order to avoid the child.
Dr. Pickard was rendered uncon
i scions, and his nephew was badly
cut about the face and probably oth
erwise injured. Other occupants of
the car were unhurt. Dr. Pickard
and his nephew were taken to the
were given first aid by Dr. R. C
Goolsby, and the partv was lata
' taken to Macon ]?v T. R. Talmadge
"Carolina Farmer Gets
Life Term for Killing
His Father With Rock
SPARTANBURG. S. C.. July 31.
; Clarence Blalock, 25-year-old farmer
of this county, was found guilty of
I the murder of his father. John Bla
■ lock, 51, by a jury in circuit court
here today. A recommendation to
mercy accompanying the verdict au-
I tomatically carried with it a sen
tence of life imprisonment. The de
; fendant admitted killing his father
1 on June 2 with a rock, but pleaded
I self-defense. His attorney entered a
| motion for a new trial.
LEADERS IN MAJOR
PARTIES IN EAST TO
MAP BATTLE PLANS
Davis and Shaver in “Get-
Together”—Butler Re
turns From West
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased Wire to '.’lie Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
NEW YORK, July 31.—The east
ern political battle ground was be
ing observed today by the leaders
of both Democratic and Republican
parties. The return of John W. Da
vis from his vacation enabled him
and his campaign manager, Clem
Shaver, of West Virginia, to have
their first heart to heart talk since
Mr. Shaver’s appointment. * Chair
man William M. Butler, of the Re
publicans, after a brief stay in the
central west, was onpe more east
of the Allegheneys with conferences
in Boston, New York and Washing
ton on his program.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Shaver had a
"get-together” to enable them to
speak as one in the future. Up to
'this time the Democratic campaign
chief has moved cautiously and has
been inclined to “doubt” some of the
views attributed to Mr. Davis. In
the future he hopes to be in a posi
tion to affirm or deny. The whole
plan of the Davis campaign is to
mapped out in a series of confer
ences here and at the Davis tome
in Locust Valley, Long Island, while
the candidate js perfecting his speech
of acceptance.
Mr. Davis is not averse to a long
speaking tour. He is willing to bear
any burden the Democratic leaders
may feel called upon to place on his
vigorous shoulders. But Mr. Davis
personally believes more is to be
gained by radio broadcasting than
by the attempt to visit too many
cities and towns. Every suggestion
made thus far is tentative. It is
recalled tlmt the Harding campaign
plans were shifted in the midst of
the battle and the are
goin£- to leave their program flex
ible-enough to take care of any
emergency.
G. O. P. Between Fires
Republican spokesmen denied to
day that Chairman Butler had hur
ried east because of reports from
i Washington that President Coolidge
did not appear to be in as fit physi
cal condition 'as his managers would
Hk eto have him at the beginning of
the campaign. It was admitted that
Secretary Weeks and other inti
mates of the president had urged
him recently to leave Washington
for a time, and at least to take a
ten-days’ or two-weeks’ rest f-rom
his official duties. This the presi
dent has been reluctant to do.
Mr. Butler has come east because
the Republicans admit their cam
paign is developing into a two-sides
battle. They are con/pelled to fight
’ the third party, or La Follette move
ment in the Grancer states of the
west and northwest, and to try to
hold the Democrats in check in the
east. ,
It is no secret that the Republi
cans' hoped the Democrats would
nominate a western or southern man
so that they could concentrate their
fire virtually in one section of the
country. The nomination of Mr.
, Davis, hailing from West Virginia
but living in New York, unquestion
ably put an added burden on the
Republican machine. There is much
political significance under the sim
ple statement of Republican chief
tains that in certain states of the
west thej’ are to make their real
fight against the La Follette outfit
and ignore the Democrats to all in
tents and purposes. On the surface
this would seem to be a gesture be
: littling the importance of the Dem
i ocrats, but the latter claim it is a
| recognition on the part of the G. O. ;
I P. that La Follette reaMy is aiming :
I his blows at the Republicans, and j
is far more likely to carry normally
Republican states than to take any
which might even be considered
doubtful from the Democratic stand
point.
.Montana in Doubtful Column
Democratic managers say they
have never entertained any hopes
of carrying the states where the La
Follette threat is greatest. Os
course, if La Follette should fall
short of his expected strength in
these states, and instead of carry
ing them, should merely split the I
Republican vote, the Democrats feel i
they- may have as good a chance as !
Wilson did during the campaign of'
1912.
The Democrats contend th:U only
one state which they expect to carry i
is threatened by the La Follette
ticket. That state is Montana,
where Senator Wheeler, the La Fol
l lette vice presidential candidate,
hail%> from. The Wheeler influence
in the state will be offset largely,
however, by the fact that Senator
Walsh is up for re-election this year.
He is said to have a personal fol
lowing larger than that of his junior
colleague, and furthermore Mr.
i Wheeler has announced his inten
j tion of giving active support to Mr.
I Walsh.
From Republican general head
quarters in Chicago has come con
firmation of the statement made in
, these dispatches that the G. O. P.
j is to center its eastern fire on the
state of New York. It is felt that
■ the firty-five votes of this state in
; either the Davis or Coolidge column
j will go far toward swinging the elec
tion. even if La Follette should
I carry some of the western states.
Republican plans in the state depend
largely upon the decision of Gover
: nor Al Srnhh as to whether or not
|he will run again. That decision
forms one of the principal subjects
to lie discussed by the Democratic
leaders, including during
the next few days.
Woman Holds Second Place
In Texas Gubernatorial Race
DALLAS. Texas. July 31.—With
I ij54,196 ballots tabulated out of a
possible 700.000 cast in last Satur
day’s state Democratic primary, Mrs.
Miriam A. Fergqson continued in
second place today with approxi
mately 4.500 lead over Lynch David
son in the gubernatorial race.
Only six counties of the 252 in the
state havb failed to report. About
2.500 votes were believed polled in
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U. S. GLOBE FLIERS
HELD ON ORKNEYS
BY BAIN ANO FOG
KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands,
Scotland, July 31.—(8y the Associ
ated Press.)—The United States army
world fliers, who arrived here yes
terday from Brough, England, have
postponed their departure for Ice
land until tomorrow because of ad
verse weather reports received from
the patrol boats.
The hop-off set for this morning
Was called off when the patrolling de
stroyers reported a heavy fog and
rain along the 500-mile course.
Fog banks floated about the Ork
neys in the early hours this morn
ing and half hourly messages from
the destroyer Billingsley, at Faroe
Island, and the Reid, of fthe Iceland
coast, reported the same conditions
in their waters. The destroyers re
ported the visibility as low as a half
mile.
The fog seemed to spread over the
entire route, and then a spasmodic
rain set in. Lieutenant Lowell H.
Smith, the flight commander, wait
ed until the last minute before de
ciding to abandon today’s get-away.
The hop is such a long one that :t
would require an early morning start
to insure the arrival of the airplanes
in time for them to fill their tanks
in fair daylight.
BRITISH FLIER IS MISSING
AGAIN IN ARCTIC CIRCLES
ABOARD UNITED STATES!
COAST GUARD CUTTER ALGON
QUIN, AT ATKA ISLAND, July 31.
(By the Associated Press). —Repeated
efforts by wireless in all directions
i have failed Ito obtain any word of
■ Major A. Stuart MacLaren since a
party under his command arrived at
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, last
Thursday on a circumnavigation of
the earth.
ITALY’S WORLD FLIER OFF
ON HIS WAY TO ARCTIC
BASEL, Switzerland, July 31. —
Lieutenant Locatelli, the Italian
aviator, who is flying to the north |
polar regions, intending to follow
in the tracks of the American j
round-the-world fliers, left Geneva
at 7:45 o’clock this morning for
: Strasbourg.
SEATTLE PLANNING GREAT
WELCOMING CELEBRATION .
SEATTLE. Wash., July 31. —When
I Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and his
j companions officially end their 27,- j
I 000-mile globe encircling trip here I
I some time between August 15 and j
j 19, they will receive the greatest I
■ welcome ever staged in the Pacific |
; noi th west.
Scientists Winning
Fight With Japanese
Beetle in New Jersey
RIVERTON. N. J., July 31.
Meeting the Japanese beetle over a
| battle ground seven hundred square
I miles in area, entomologists of the
i northeastern section of the coun
try, in annual convention here, der
I clare that they are making
I ress.
The scientists spent yesterday on
i a tour of inspection of the fields an^ :
I orchards in this section, where the
pest made its first appearance in
: this country about nine years ago.
Farmers, they declare, are being
taught to spray their fruit trees and
| gardens with arsenate of lead, a
chemical deadly to insects but harm-'
J less to humans in the weak solution !
; employed.
j The hansoine marauers iri
descent green and g f d —are also
' meeting an imported insect enemy
\ and losing on the field of battle, the
scientists report. Parasitical flies;
imported from Japan last fall, sur- '
vived the winter months and have ‘
I been found flourishing on a diet of
Japanese beetle/, larvae and pupae.
An embargo was placed yesterday
) on shipments of vegetables and fruit
from the infected area.
It was inspired by the invasion of
Philadelphia Tuesday by swarms
of the beetles, blown across the
Delaware river by a strong '-east
wind.
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Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, August 2, 1924
ID PERSONS JAILED
JS'DOPE'PEDDLERS
ATVETS'HOSPITAL
ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 31.—Ten
persons, including 'our orderlies at
the Oteen Veterans’ Bureau hospital,
and three local physician:, were ar
rested here today by United States
officers ‘bn charges of trafficking in
narcotics. The arrests followed an
extended investigation by federal of
ficers.
Warrants were issued for eight
other persons, including several oth
er physicians, the officer said.
All of those arrested were released
on bonds ranging from SI,OOO to
$3,000 each.
I Those arrested were Mr. and Mrs.
Jabe Huntley, Charles Holt, Dr. G.
D. Gardner, Dr. J. F. Brewer and
T. W. Summer, all white, and James
Smith, Waddell "Wright, John Clink
scales and Walter Jeter, negroes.
The negroes were orderlies at the
Oteen hospital.
Federal authorities allege that
large quantities of illicit drugs were
peddled to addicts at the hospital
through the negro orderliqs.
The arrests followed an extended
investigation by federal officers who
assert that they posed as addicts and
purchased drugs from the defend
ants. One purchase, it is charged,
was made from an automobile in the
i business district of the city.
Bishopric of Florida
Church Is Accepted
By Rev. F. A. Juhan'
The Rev. F. A. Juhan, pastor of
Christ church of Greenville, S. C.,
for the last eight years, Wednesday I
afternoon formally accepted the
bishopric of the Episcopal Church
of Florida, it was announced by a
committee representing the Florida
dioceses, following a conference with
Mr. Juhan at the Piedmont hotel.
Mr. Juhan was elected to the bish
opric at the recent diocesan conven
tion held at Jacksonville. He will
--not enter upon his new duties for
about two months, because details
inlident to his‘consecration are yet
1 to be arranged.
Prominent members of the Geor- I
[ gia and Florida Episcopal churches
were in attendance at the confer- I
I ence.
One Bandit Is Killed
And Another Routed
By Plucky Mail Clerk
EAST ORANGE, N. J., July 31. ;
One bandit was killed; one escaped,
and a mail clerk was wounded twice,
when he frustrated an attempted
mail robbery at the Lackawanna.
railroad station at 5 o’clock today.
The clerk’s pluck saved $50,000.
Eugene Stack, 23, mail clerk, em
ployed at the local .postoffice, is in
a hospital with bullet wounds in
I the right thumb and the right leg as
a result of his repulse of the ban
dits.
John Sharp Williams
Observes 70th Birthday
YAZOO CITY, Miss., July 31.
John Sharp Williams, former sena
tor and for more than 30 years a >
leader in state and national polities.;
celebrated his sevepP.eth birthday)
quietly Wednesday at Bis plants
; tion home near here.
There was no ceremony. A few
neighbors called to extend congratu
lations, while friends in many sec
tions of the country sent messages
expressing their good wishes.
As for Mr. Williams, he seemed
content to pass the day in his flower )
garden with his swans and other
pets.
.Many cases of smallpox have been
reported throughout England in re
cent months.
FIGHT CHALLENGE
HURLED IN HOUSE
DURING DEBATE
The afternoon session of the house
of representatives Thursday was en
livened by a challenge of Represent
ative Ennis, of Baldwin county, to
Representative Culpepper, of Fay
ette county, to go outside the house
if he desired to state that an asser
tion of the gentleman from Baldwin
was untrue. The challenge was not
accepted.
The house at the time had under
consideration a bill to appropriate
$29,905 for the erection of an ice
plant at the state sanitarium at Mil
ledgeville. Mr. Ennis declared that
the inmates at the sanitarium are
compelled to eat food that is not
properly preserved because of the
lack of refrigerating facilities.
Representative Culpepper, Repre
sentative Barrett, of Stevens; Rep
resentative Boswell, of Green, and
Representative Covington, of Col
quitt, spoke against the bill, claim
ing that the state did not have the
money to build a plant at the pres
ent time. Mr. Barrett made the as
sertion that the bill should not be
considered because it had not been
submitted to the appropriations com
mittee during the present session.
Invites Him Out
“This bilk was unanimously ap
proved by the appropriations com
mittee at the last session and the
chairman of the committee told me
that it would'•not be necessary to
have it passed on again this year,”
Mr. Ennis said.
Representative Culpepper, who is
chairman of the appropriation com
mittee, leaped to his feet and de
manded , recognition, but Mr. Ennis
declined’ to yield the floor.
“I am making a statement that
is the absolute truth, and if the
chairman of the committee wants
to say that it is untrue I will go out
of the house with him and give him
that opportunity,” Mr. Ennis said.
On a roll caff there were 93 votes
for the bill and 53 against it. It
was lost by reason of the fact that
an appropriation bill requires 104
votes.
Twelve Millions in
Gifts Paid by Estate
Os Mrs. Russell Sage
NEW YORK, July 31.—The trus
tees of the estate of Mrs- Russell
Sage have distributed gifts aggre
gating $12,544,407 since December,
1920, an.account filed in surrogate’s
court shows. A balance of $3,517,861
remains, subject to order of the
court.
Among the larger bequests paid
w’ere the following: Russell Sage
I Foundation, $1,630,000; American
: Bible society, $609,000; Troy Female
■ seminary, 8300,000; Syracuse univer
sity, $474,000 and $472,000 each to
the American Museum of Natural
History, the Metropolitan Museum
of Natural History, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Charity Organiza
tion Society of New York, Presby
terian Board of Relief for Disabled
Clergymen, New York City’s Mission
society, Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions and the Presbyterian Worn
i en’s Board of Foreign Missions.
, The Weather |
Forecast for Saturday:
Virginia: Fair. *
Nprth Carolina: Fair.
South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
-1 ma, Mississippi, extreme north-
I west Florjda: Probably fair.
Florida: TnuadS-—probably
Saturday.
Tennessee: Unsettled; not much
change in temperature.
Kentucky: Unsettled.
Louisiana: Generally fair except
' scattered thundershowers in south
east portion.
Arkansas: Generally fair.
Oklahoma: Generally fair.
East and west Texas: Generally
fair. <
d ILMo A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
DAVIS BACKS BRYAN I ;
ON STB AGAINST * '
‘MOBILIZATION DAT
No Necessity for Military
Show, He Says, on Re-
■ l
turn to New York
NEW YORK, July 31.—John W.
Davis, Democratic presidential, can- f
didate, announced today after his
return from Maine that lie was in
entire accord with his running mate,
Bryan, of Nebraska, re
garding “Mobilization day.”
Mr. Davis declared that the view
expressed by Governor Bryan that
there was no necessity at this time
for encouraging civilians to leave
theil occupations “for the purpose
of engaging in what would be only
a military demonstration without
any practical educational effect,” 13
entirely sound/
Mr. Davis’ announcement was con
tained in a formal statement issued
after he had conferred with his
campaign manager, Clem L. Shaver.
It said: “Since my return from the
state of Maine I have taken the oc- '
casion to inform myself fully con
cerning the views expressed by the
governor of Nebraska in regard to
'Mobilization day.’
In Full Accord
“I am surprised at the state
ments which I see in the press to
the effect that I am in disagreemeht ■
witji him or that his action has in
any way proven an embarrassment
to me. On the, contrary, I think that
the view expressed by the governor
of Nebraska to the effect that thero
is no necessity at this time to en- ;
courage civilians to leave their oc
cupations for the purpose of engag- 1
ing in what would only foe a military ,
demonstration without any practical /
educational effects, is entirely
sound. j
“It is one keep the mill- y
tary organizations of the country
in adequate practice; it is quite an
other to encourage demonstrations, .
which can be nothing else, at a
time when every energy should be ,
bent getting the world back to peace
and to work, calming the prejudices
and passions growing out of the
World war, and encouraging fruit
ful trade and commerce. In all
these America should take the lead.”
Thomas J. Spelkicy, of Hartford, •
Conn., will have charge of the Deriio
cratic eastern campaign headquar
ters. it was announced today. 1
Former Congressman Lincoln Dix
on, of Indiana, will be in charge of
the organization bureau in Wash
ington. Associated with him will
be William B. Wilson, former secre
tary of labor. , .
Those who called on Mr. Davis at
this headquarters his morning, in
cluded Governor Albert C. Ritchie,
of Maryland; Lieutenant Governor
George R. Lunn, of New York;
James W. Gerard, George White
and Daniel C. Roper.
Confers With Shaver
.Reaching Ids personal headquar
ters after an all-night journey from
Rocklahd, Me., Mr. Davis went Into
conference with his field marshal,
Clem C. Shaver. Questions of orga?»- i
ization were discussed chiefly, but
several developments in the world
of politics since Mr. Davis left for •
Maine were taken up.
Greeted by several friends as he
stepped from his private car Mr.
Davis /told them in response to in
quiries that he felt “one hundred
per cent fit.”
Before starting for home Mr. Da
vis completed all of his acceptance
addresses? with the exception of one y
paragraph, the nature of which ,he
has not dlsclosd. With this excep
tion, the text now is in the hands of
the printer and the candidate will
devote part of his time during the
remainder of this week to revising
the proofs and in completing the
final section which he desires to talk
over with Mr. Shaver and other cam
paign leaders.
From Rockland to Dover, H.,
seething crowds gathered to meet
Mr. Davis’ train last night. He
spoke briefly at both Rockland and
Bath and shook hands with a num
ber of persons at several other sta
tions. A crowd of several hundred
gathered at Dover at midnight but
did not see the nominee as he had
retired an hour earlier.
Dr. Work Improved 7^'
After Illness; Joins
Park Body Again
ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 31.
Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the
interior, who was unable to accom
pany the national park committee
here Tuesday from Highlands, ow
ing to a,slight illness, arrived in the
city Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Work
said that his condition is greatly
improved but that he will rest here
for a day or two before continuing
his trip to Washington.
Other members of the committee
and local citizens and a delegation
from ville, Tenn., yesterday
visited Mount Mitchell and then
went to Blowing Rock. From Blow
ing Rock the party will go to Lake
James, near Marlon, and thence to
.either Johnson City or Knoxville,
Tenn.
Radio Wedding Music
Every Day Proposed
By Atlanta Organist
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 31.
Brides in isolated farm houses, and
in distant rural communities, will
be able to march to the altar to the
strains of wedding music played by
the country’s greatest artists if a
scheme proposed by Charles A.
Sheldon, Jr., of Atlanta, to the con
vention of the National Association
of Organists Is carried out.
It is suggested by Mr. Sheldon
that a program of wedding music
played on the finest organs of the
country be radiocast at regular In
tel vals. The hours probably will be
between noon and 6 o’clock in the
evenin'.?, as these times seem to be
the most popular with brides.
It Is expected that action on the
plan will be taken by the convention
before adjournment.