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VOL. XXVI. NO. 128
PROSECUTION HURLS
SHAFTSOFRIOICULE
IT LOEOS ALIENIST
Crowe Hints at Influence of
$250-a-Day Fee on
White's Testimony
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —The prosecution to
theory built up by the defense
through examination of its first
alienist. Dr. William A. White,
day ridiculed the "childish fantasy”
"Washington, D. C., as the explana
tion of the kidnapping and slaying
Franks by Nathan Leo
|E*a( Jr., and Richard Loeb. The
'state hinted that the youthful in
tellectual giants had hoodwinked the
distinguished psychiatrist, and final
ly it attacked the credibility of the
eminent specialist.
The defense stubbornly resisted
the effort by Robert E. Crowe, state's
attorney, to have produced the
original report made to the defense
by Dr. White. The superintendent
of the Federal Hospital for the In-j
sane sat on the witness stand flush- ■
ed and apparently angered at Mr.
Crowe's remarks to Judge Caverly i
that he wished to show that the ’
Witness first had concluded that the
boys were insane and then, for a
fee of $250 a day, had sworn that
they were only "mentally sick.” At
the end of the short session the rec
ord showed Mr. Crowe as satisfied
to let the refusal of the report speak
for itself.
Mr. Crowe, in attacking the “child
ish fantasy” theory brought from
Dr. White an “I don’t know” when
he was asked if the admittedly high
intellect., of the youthful defendants
at any time could have stopped the
planning of the crime, which the
alienist had testified, originated in
their emotions.
Believed Leopold, Not Loeb
Hinting at the possibility that
“Babe” and “Dickie” had fooled the
doctors, Mr. Crowe asked if he had
believed all that the bovs hr' told
him despite their known propensity
for falsehoods. The witness re
plied that he had not believed all of
Loeb’s "foolishness,” but he thought
that Leopold had been “frank.”
The youths, "intellectuallj 7 knew
that murder was proscribed by the
aw,” the doctor testified, “but hid
no moral attitude to give them the
eeling that they were doing wrong.”
Mr. Crowe, however, forced the ad
nission that in trying to protect the
names of girl friends and in Loeb’s
.rying to keep secret for the protec
tion of his father an admission that
he and Leopold had planned to kill
:he grandson of his father’s business
associate, Julius Rosen wald, the
youths had been actuated by a con
cern possible in a child of five.”
Again Mr. Crowe asked:
“You have called Loeb a child of
five emotionally. How do you ac
count for the fact that for a part of
this time he could lay aside this
characteristic, pursue his university
studies and appear Sj normal to
everybody that even his immediate
family was startled when this crime
was fastened upon him? Will v«.u
explain how such an emotional in
’antile character could be so normal
In all his human contacts?”
Nature Attracted Love
“Unfortunately, that is common
experience with people of this type,"
replied Dr. White. “These undevel
oped emotional youngsters enjoyed
the affections of teachers and par
ents because of their child-like char
icteristics, which attracted love. The
very nickname ‘Dickie’ would indi
cate the attitude which his parents
hud for him, that he was a lovable
youngster.
“That is the very characteristic
that blinds people to things that are
going on beneath the surface and
are not visible to the untrained eye.
We are dealing with that kind of
situation all the time, and are try
ing to show people how to look for
ganger signals underneath, rather
han be misled by what, appears to
ae a smooth and untroubled su -
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Mor. White was asked if Loeb, who
appeared normal to his university
teachers and fellow students through
out the months in which he and Leo
pold had planned their joint crime,
had the powe'r to choose whether to
carry out that plan. Mr. Crowe
wanted a “yes” or "no” answer to
this, but failed to get It, the witness
replying:
“Well, he did not avoid doing It.
and whether he could have avoided
the homicide is largely a metaphysi
cal question. The powers that were
at work within him impaired vet v
materially his capacity to choose.”
Doctor Hard to Corner
"Was he any different in this re
spect from any other criminal?”
asked Mr. Crowe.
“That is another of your vague
terms.” retorted Dr. White. “I can’t
talk about any other or every other
criminal. I don’t know them all and
a criminal is not an entity to be
clearly defined.”
Dr. White reiterated that whether
Loeb could have avoided the crime
was “an unanswerable type of ques
tion.” that Dickie knew intellectually i
what was against the law. but had i
no adequate feeling toward its moral
error.
"But he did have sufficient capac- |
ity to refrain from killing?” persist- :
ed Mr. Crowe.
“I don’t know,” said the expert.
Mr. Crowe asked about Loeb’s I
"split personality” and tried to get ,
the doctor to say whether he is as- :
tlicted with dementia prasecox. Ob- ■
jections switched the questioning .
away from the subject and through
out the quizzing Judge Caverly up- i
held the defense in barring any men
tion of "insanity” as applied to the |
defendant c.”
Boys Won’t Take Stand
Much same line of questiening ,
develop-» similar ideas as to Lee
polds di.~.egtit'd fOr the legal and
moral wrongs involved in the homi
cide. Toward the end of the exami
nation Mr. Crowe asked the doctor
if he had ever read “Tom Sawyer”
or ‘’Huckleberry Finn.” Dr. White
smiled reminiscently as he answered.
"< 11, many, many years ago.’
“Well, do you think the childish
fantasies of 'Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huck’
and their cruel treatment of poor
old ’Jim’ indicated criminalistic ten
dencies?” asked Mr. Crowe.
The doctor was amused by the
question, finally saying that his rec
ollection of "Tom” and "Huck" was
very vague and that anyway they ;
were "lit vary fictions” who, perhaps,
had never existed.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
The Journal Will Broadcast
Davis’ Speech of Acceptance
Os Democratic Nomination
When John W. Davis, Demo
cratic candidate for president of
the United States, officially ac
cepts his nomination on Mon
day night, August 11, he. will
speak directly to every radio
listener within the range of The
Atlanta Journal’s broadcasting
station.
Through the same remarkable
amalgamation of radiophone and
telephone engineering skill that :
enabled Atlanta, the southeast
and distant parts of the court- I
try to “attend” the Madison !
Square Garden convention by
way of WSB’s transmitter, the
acceptance speech will be re
layed direct from Clarksburg,
W. \ a.
The hour will be 7 o’clock in
the evening, Monday week, At
lanta time. Senator Thomas J.
Walsh, now an intimately fa
miliar personality to the radio
world, will formally inform Mr.
Brother Slain, Father Shot;
Posse Seeks Pickens Farmer
JASPER, Ga., Aug. 2. —Levi Cape,
a well known farmer living ten miles
west of here, is being sought tonight
by a sheriff s posse on the charge
of killing his brother, Hobart Cape,
and wounding his father, W. L.
Cape, at noon Saturday at W. L.
Cape’s home. The fugitive is said
to be well armed, and is thought to
be hiding in a thickly wooded sec
tion.
According to word Received by au
thorities here, Cape, who, it is said,
was partly under the influence of
whisky, came upon his brother in
an automobile in front of his fath
er’s home. The elder Cape, who is
a county policeman, began to reason
with his son, it was said, warning
him that he was likely to get into
serious trouble. Levi Cape, accord
ing to the accounts reaching here,
USE OF "GEOO"
AS A FIRM NAME
BARRED BE SENATE
Before adjournment at 12:15 Mon
day afternoon the senate by a vote
of 26 to 1. passed the bill sponsored
by Senator Moore, of the Seventh
district, giving the secretary of state
authority to refuse to grant charters
to banks or other concerns using
the name “Georgia” so as to sug
gest that such bank or firm might
be connected with the state of Geor
gia.
A bill by the same senator pro
tecting the /names of farms was
passed by a vote of 26 to 3.
Just before adjournment, Senator
Parker, of the Third, spoke on his
bill, giving authority for counties
an ( ] municipalities to join in building
I highways. At the request of the au
| thor consideration was deferred un
til Wednesday.
A bill by Senator Adams to provide
for automatic fireboxes on locomo
tives went over until Tuesday at the
request of the author.
Two bills were lost in the senate
Monday morning through failure to
receive the. necessary constitutional
majority.
A bill by Senator Arnow, of the
Fourth district, to make the Georgia
law on hunting doves conform to the
federal statute received a vote of 24
to 3 in favor of its enactment but fell
two short of the necessary majority. '
Senator Chastian of the Forty-first, j
spoke in favor 1 of his bill to require,
vaccination against smallpox before j
children can be admitted to the ;
schools of the state. The vote was i
16 to 14 in favor of passage, ten i
short of the necessary majority.
During the vote on the Chastain
measure Senator Ficklen. of the Fif- I
tieth, suggested that absentees be [
compelled “by force of arms” to I
come into the senate chamber and I
transact the state’s business.
Senator Redwine’s motion to ad j
journ was defeated bv a vote of 14
to 12.
A resolution was adopted congrat
ulating Senator Boyce Ficklen on his I
birthday. Senator Ficklen was rec-1
oginzed to say that he took it that
this was the so-called senatorial ■
courtesy, something he had long I
sought and found it not. The sen
ator, however, was appreciative of I
the resolution and ended his brief I
address with a cheery wave of the
hand to his fellow senators. <
A resolution was introduced by
Senators Adams of the Forty-sev
enth, and Brantham of the Forty
sixth, to authorize and direct a state
j board of vocational education to use
I the sum of $13,662.72 now remain
ing on hand unexpended in the fur-
I t Iterance of the work of vocational
I rehabilitation of disabled persons.
It was referred to the committee on
I education.
| The following new bills were in
i trodueed Monday in the senate:
By Senator Little, of the Thirty-
I first —To amend the charter of the
| city of Lavonia, relative to paving ;
of streets. Referred to the commit
j tee on corporations.
By Messrs. Arnow. Miller and
I Cason —To prescribe rights, duties
i and responsibilities of the coastal
i highway district, composed of the
I counties of Chatham. Bryan. Liberty.
; Mclntosh, Glynn and Camden. Re-
I ferred to the committee on counties
and countv matters.
First Georgia Bale
Bought at Savannah
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Aug. 2.—The
first Georgia bale of the season to
I be received at Savannah was auction
ed off this morning nt the Savannah
Cotton exchange, at 40 cents, to An
■ derson. Clayton & Co. David F.
Griffin, of that firm, bought the'
bale. It was grown by J. P. Foy,
of Bulloch county, and was sold to ;
Frank Simmons at Statesboro. Mr.
: Simmons .shipped the bale to Mein
hard, J->: st, Doyle & Co. here.. |
Davis that Democracy lias chos
en him to lead the party in the
November battle of ballots.
There will be other prelimi
naries and sidelights to mark an
occasion of momentous impor
tance to the nation. Everything,
including the address that Mr.
Davis has been preparing up in
Maine, will be plainly audible
to every listener who now hears
"The Voice of the South,”
whether the receiving apparatus
be a crystal set or a multiple
tube "super.”
Numerous other high-powered
broadcasting stations will doubt
less join in the relay of the
Clarksburg- event and America
again will experience the phe
nomenon of playing an active
part in an affair hitherto link
ed with the public only by the
printed word.
The Journal’s broadcast of the
Davis acceptance speech will be
exclusive for the south.
started to his home, located a hun
dred yards or so from his father’s
place, and his father, fearing trouble,
thought of his own revolver in an
automobile nearby and started to get
it before his son could get hold of it.
As he stepped from the porch, it
was told authorities here, Levi Cape
opened fire, wounding the el ier man
in the hip. Hobart Cape stepped for
ward, apparently to stop the trouble,
and was shot twice. He walked
through the hall of the home, meet
ing his mother as she came from
the garden.
“Mama, I guess I’m killed,” he
gasped and fell into her arms.
Levi Cape, who has a wife and
several children, some years ago was
adjudged insane, but it had been
thought that he was entirely recov
ered. Whisky is blamed for his men
tal troubles.
Both Parties to Elect
In Oklahoma Tuesday;
Walton Runs Against 4
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 2.
The Democratic and Republican
parties in Oklahoma will hold their
biennial primary election Tuesday
for the purpose of nominating can
didates for federal, state and coun
ty offices.
Outstanding features are the ~Ku
Klux Klan, avowedly an issue in
both parties, and the candidacy o!
J. C. Walton, ousted governor, who
is seeking the Democratic nomina
tion for United States senate?
against four opponents.
The presidential candidacy of
Senator Robert M. La Follette will
not figure in the primary. He is the
indorsee of the Farmer-Labor-Pro
gressive league, and as such, appears
only on the general election ballot
in November.
Besides Walton, the Democrats
seeking the senatorial seat held by
Robert L. Owen since Oklahoma be
came a state, are Charles J. Wrights
man, Tula, oil magnate; Thomas P.
Gore, former senator; S. P. Freel
ing, former state attorney general,
and E. B. Howard, congressman
from the First district. Owen is not
a candidate for re-election.
200-Pound Woman
Tries to Drown Self,
But Can’t Stay Under
SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 1. —Geor-
gianna Ray Craft, thirty-nine, St.
Paul, Minn., weight 200 pounds,
leaped from the Lamborn avenue
bridge into the bay today in an at
tempt to commit suicide, but was
too fat to sink.
She was buoyed up for. ten min
utes and then police pulled her out.
Compusory Typhoid
Inoculation in Cuba
HAVANA, Aug. 2. —Inoculation
against typhoid fever of every per
son in Cuba was ordered by presi
dential decree made public today in
the official gazette. Compulsory
inoculation of Havana residents was
started several weeks ago as a'means
of breaking up typhoid fever here.
As there are numbers of cases in
other cities and towns President
Zayas extended the order to inclu le
the whole island on recommendation
of Secretary of Health E. M. Porto.
Official figures showed 279 cases
existing in Havana today, a consider
able decrease from figures of a
week ago.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Probably local thunder
showers and warmer.
North and South Carolina: Prob
ably local thundershowers.
Georgia and Extreme Northwest
Florida: Partly cloudy; probably
scattered thundershowers.
Florida: Probably local thunder
showers in north and generally fair
in south portions.
Alabama and Mississippi: Gener
ally fair; continued warm.
Tennessee: Partly cloudy: proba
bly local thundershowers and cooler
in west portion.
Kentucky: Partly cloudy: probably
local thundershowers and cooler
Tuesday afternoon.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy to unset
tled.
Arkansas: Unsettled, probably lo
cal thundershowers, cpoler in north
west portion.
Oklahoma: Local thundershowers,
cooler.
East Texas: Partly eloudy. proba
bly scattered thundershowers, cooler
in northwest pent ion.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, cooler
in north portion.
LEGISLATURE WILL
FINISH MAJOR BILLS,
HOUSE LEADERS SAY
Limits Put on Speeches and i
Day Added in Effort
to Speed Up
The Georgia legislature convened
i Monday for the forty-first day
I of its 50-day session with a. fair pros-
■ pect of reaching a.vote on all the
, more important measures pending,
in the opinion of leaders in the i
house. There will be nine legisla
tive days remaining, including Mon
day, as the house has already voted
to remain in session next Saturday.
Strategy was necessary to save
i both the biennial sessions bill a.-d
I the resolution appropriating $250,-
j 000 to the common schools Friday, j
Not that there was any opposition
to giving the schools the $250,000,
but because several members of the
house wanted to give them more |
than $250,000. It was generally be
i lieved that the school appropriation |
! would have been defeated if it had j
\ reached a vote Friday afternoon, be- j
I cause there were only 105 members J
■ in the house at the time, if there
| were really that many, and 104 votes
I were required to pass the measure.
With the biennial session bill the
situation was different. Many of the
most active members of the house
are bitterly opposing the measure,
and they made an effort to force it ■
to a vote Friday morning, when
there were less than 150 members of I
the house present. The bill is a con- [
slitutional amendment, and requires I
138 votes for passage. After the
rules committee had called for a 15-
minute recess and held a hurried
session, the bill was carried over to
Tuesday, by a vote of 111 to 38, indi-
I eating that it would have been lost
I by many votes if a ballot had been
I reached.
With the biennial sessions meas
' tire disposed of until Tuesday, the
I only measure left on the unfinished
I calendar of the house is the resolu
| tion of Representative Wimberly, of
i Toombs county, providing for a leg
| islative investigation of the Georgia
; public service commission. Mr. Wim
| berly has asked the house to allow
30 minutes for debate on his resolu
tion, and the house has approved a
i report of the rules committee fixing
I it as a special order immediately
after the disposition of the unfin
ished calendar. If the opportunity
presents itself Monday when there
is ordinarily a flood of new bills, an
effort will be made to bring this
resolution before the house, it is
I said.
; .... Calendar of 26 MfiUMAKes
Following the Wimberly resolution I
and the biennial sessions bill, there i
is a calendar of 26 measures sub- i
mitted by the rules committee and
approved by the house, for considera- I
tion at the morning sessions. The j
first of these measures are the bill I
of Representative Knight, of Berrien i
county, to repeal section 122!) of the ;
! code relative to the care of insane
i persons; the bill of Representative |
■ Barrett, of Stephens county, to aid I
I in the establishment and mainte- i
nance of consolidated schools; the bill :
j of Representative Aubrey, of Bar- |
i tow county, to amend the code rela- |
; five to recovery for homicides, and
j the resolution of Representative
; Bozeman, of Worth county, to permit
j the admission of senate and house
i journals as evidence in court cases.
For the afternoon sessions during
the week the house has 17 appropri
| ation bills that have been approved
i by the appropriations committee and
! placed on the calendar. These bills
i include many of the most important
! measures that will come before the
■ legislature at this session.
I The appropriation of $250,000 to
l the common schools is sought as an
, assurance that the schools will re
j ceive one-half of the excess of actual
revenue over estimated revenue for
I the year 1924. The schools original
i ly were given $4,250,000, and it is
now conceded that the revenue will
i reach $9,000,000, thereby entitling the
| schools to $4,500,000. The original
I bill appropriating $750,000 to the
' schools was drawn when it was be-
I lieved the excess would reach $1,500,-
■ 000, according to the explanation
made Friday afternoon by Rc-presen-
i tative Stovall, of Elbert county, one
: of the authors.
Senate Up to Date
An effort will be made to increase I
an appropriation of $66,000 agreed ;
■ upon by the committee as a deficien-
I cy fund for the state sanitarium at
! Milledgeville, to $198,500. The dis-
I ference arises from the fact that
i state auditors set up a reserve stock
of $130,000 at the state sanitarium
I as a cash asset, and figured the defi
| ciency as $66,000, while sanitarium
officials insist that it is actually
i $198,500, unless they are forced to
■ use up every supply they have on
; hand.
The senate is right up with its
; calendar, according to President
j Carswell, and is ready to pass on
all bills the house sends over. The I
J only unfinished business in the sen- ;
’ ate is the bill to substitute the elec- j
trie chair for the gallows in Georgia. >
This bill is expected to lie called up
for a vote next Tuesday.
Port Bill Near Top
The state port bill, under which .
the state would be authorized to is- ’
j sue $15,000,000 in bonds for port [
; purposes, will probably come up ear- I
,ly in the week. A vote was par
; tially had on the bill last week, but
j on motion of friends of the proposed
i legislation, the bill was tabled before
j announcement of the vote.
Laboring under the burden of an
unfavorable report from the finance
| committee, the Copeland bill provid
’ ing that all state moneys collected
■ shall pass through the hands of the !
i state treasurer, will come before I
I the senate at an early session.
Senator Grantham's bill providing
for annual reports of state officers !
receiving or disbursing funds was
given a favorable report by the spe- I
rial judiciary committee Thursday
afternoon, and probably will be re-1
ported to the senate at one of the
■ early sessions of the week.
Two reports of special commis- .
sions were received during the week. '
i one exonerating the department of j
agriculture and Commissioner J. J. ■
Brown of certain charges, and the i
i other recommending that the sum i
| of ?2o.0(»0 annual rental from the |
I state's governor's mansion be used |
|'o provide repairs to the capital, j
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WADE SMITH NELSON HARDING OGDEN ARNOLD
COTTON CO-OP PAYS
GROWERS J MILLION
US FINAL PROCEEOS
Ten Million Dollars Worth of
Staple Sold During Sea
son Just Ended
BY EDWIN CAMP
Checks aggregating $1,232,634 were
being mailed cut Saturday as final
distribution to farmers on their cot
ton sold during the season just
closed through the Georgia Cotton
Growers* Co-operative association.
The association handled 70,812
bales during the season ending June
30 and sold this cotton for a gross
amount of $10,306,942.08. In volume
of business and extent of influence
it is the highest development of co
operative merchandising in the his
tory of Georgia.
The average price obtained for the
cotton of all grades was 30.05 cents
a pound. The expense of conduct
ing all of the business, including in
surance. warehousing and interest,
was 1.55 cents a pound for the cot
ton handled. The mathematical
average net obtained for the growers
of cotton handled thus was 28.50
cents a pound.
The proceeds from the pools, how
ever, are not distributed on a mathe
matical average of all the cotton.
Cotton furnished by members is
placed into pools made up of lots
of even grade and staple. Each
member then is paid the average
price obtained for each pool into
which he contributed.
How Price Is Reached
For example, the association han
dled 1,287 bales of cotton which was
graded and classed as middling
white cotton of 1 inch to 1 1-16-inch
staple. This cotton was sold at an
average price of 33.65 cents a pound
and those who grew this cotton
were paid on that basis, less 1.55
cents a pound cost of doing busi
ness.
The largest pool handled by the
association consisted of 12,859 bales
classed as strict middling white, 7-8
to 1-inch staple. This averaged
30.90 cents a pound. The second
largest pool consisted of 9,924 bales
sold as middling, white, 7-8 to 1
inch, at an average price of 29.40.
The highest price brought by any
pool was 35.95 cents. Some cotton
of inferior quality brought as little
as 15.50 cents a pound.
The results of the year’s business
have been very encouraging, offi
cers of the association say. They
point out the large increase in mem
bership which has taken place since
last fall, a strengthening of morale
on the part of practically all the
membership, and say that with pros
pects for :t reasonable crop this fall
and the consequent handling of a
larger proportion of the crop pro
duced in Georgia, a stronger in
fluence will be exerted on the mar
ket in behalf of the members. Dur
ing the past year the' association
handled only one-tenth of the small
est crop in this state's history.
Officers say the association prob
ably will (handle about 200,000 bales
next season, with a further reduc
tion in expenses due to greater vol
ume of business and with a stronger
influence toward stabilizing the price
in the interest of the producer.
Conwell’s Statement
President J. E. Conwell sent out a
statement with each check from
which the following excerpts are as
public interest:
"Our average price is not as high
as some growers may have sold their
cotton on the outside. It is higher
than the price received by many
growers who sold early in the sea
son or who waited until after Christ
mas and sold their cotton. We only
had abo utone month of the., higher
prices for cotton during the entire
twelve months, and the association’s
books and records will show that we
have marketed our cotton each
month, orderly and according to co
operative marketing. As is tvell
known, this means not the highest
nor the lowest price, but the aver
age price, and better still, a system
for us. as growers, under which to
sell our cotton.
their cotton and could not deliver
their cotton as they got it out and
had it ginned, for various reasons.
Some of them had mortgages on
thei rcotton and- could not deliver
as early as they wanted to. Others
held their cotton in warehouses un
til late in the season. This means
that the association had considera
ble cotton to sell late in the season
and about the time that such a ter
rific fight was being made on co
operative marketing b your enemies,
because of what it means for us as
cotton growers.
Have Cut Expenses
“We want to call your attention
to the fact that we have been able
to reduce our expenses in many je
spects. By shipping our cotton to
concentration points this year, our
books show that storage charges
this year are 89 cents per bale less
than they were on last year's busi
ness. Our insurance and interest
carried a fixed rate and the amount
of interest and insurance is deter
mined by the value of cotton and
the amount advanced to the mem-
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, August 5, 1924
IP or Id News
Told in
| Brief
ROME- —Bakeries prepare again
Io bake war bread as result of in
crease in price of wheat.
TORONTO.—Sir Edmund . Osler,
president of Dominion Bank of Can
ada, is dead.
BERLIN. —Secretary Hughes ar
rives in Berlin and is luncheon guest
of President Ebert.
JACKSON, Mich.—Former U. S.
Senator Charles E. Townsend, of
Michigan, 68 years old, drops dead
here.
MARION, O.—People' of ' Marion,
in special exercises, observe first
anniversary of death of President
Harding.
LONDON. —Joseph Conrad, emi
nent author of sea stories, dies at
his Bishopsborurne, England, home,
aged 67 years.
NEWPORT "NEWS, Va.—Hamil
ton Busbey, editor, author and pub;
lisher, dies at the National Soldiers’
Home, aged 84 years,,
NEW YORK. —Two persons die
and two are injured as result of
fires here, believed by police to have
been set by firebugs.
MEXICO CITY?—Two casualties
result from clash between paraders,
protesting against a municipal mar
ket stand tax, and police.
NEW YORKT”— John W. Davis
and Governor Smith fail to meet and
it is announced that no appointment
was made between them.
MANAGUA. Nicaragua. Many
are killed and injured when insur
rectionists attack San Marcos de
Colen, Honduras, dispatch says.
CHICAGO. —Miss Lucy Page Gas
ton, founder of the National Anti-
Cigarette league, is reported serious
ly ill with cancer of the throat.
NEW YORK. —Prohibition agents
seize likuor in home of Hugo Gil
bert de Fritch, whose wife is niece
by marriage of Chief Justice Taft.
ATLANTIC CITY. —Endorsement
of La Follette-Wheeler candidacies
by executive council of Ihe Ameri
can Federation of Labor appears
certain.
MADRID. —Group of Americans
from St. Augustine, Fla., arrives in
Spam to participate in celebration
of birth of Don Pedro Menendez,
founder of St. zlugustine.
BRUSSELS.—Secretary Hughes
dines with King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth, of Belgium, and is given
honorary degree by Louvain univer
sity, conferred by Cardinal Mercier.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Congressma n
John W. Langley, of Kentucky, now
under conviction of conspiracy to
violate the Volstead act, is renomi?
nated for congress on face of incom
plete returns from Saturday’s pri
maries.
ABOARD CRUISER RICHMOND.
Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, Ameri
can world flier, hops from Scotland
to Iceland, but Lieutenant Wade’s
plane is forced down, and is wrecked
in attempt of crew of cruiser Rich
mond to salvage it.
MEXICO CITY.—Mrs. Rosalie
Evans, English woman, whose Mexi
can estates have provoked contro
versy between Great Britain and
Mexico, is shot dead near Texaelu
can, Pueblo, by men believed to have
been incited by anti-foreign agita
tors.
NEW E. D. Met
calfe, equerry to Prince of Wales,
arrives to complete arrangements
for prince’s reception at polo meet
and deplores that the several falls
of heir to British throne had cre
ated an impression he is a poor
horseman.
ATLANTIC CITY. Executive
council of American Federation of
Labor, in text of its indorsement of
candidates and platform of Senators
La Follette and Wheeler, made pub
lie here, declares that "Republican
and Democratic parties are in a con
dition of moral bankruptcy.”
bers. As is known, the association
advanced 15 and 20 cents per pound
on practically all of the cotton at
the time of delivery, as against only
12 cents per pound the first year.
This means that the amount of in
surance and interest will necessarily
be greater per bale than was the
case during our first year.
“Despite the fact that Georgia
made almost a cotton crop failure
last year, the association handled
several thousand bales more than it
did the first year, and although our
interest and insurance was more per
bale, due to a higher valuation on
cotton, the expenses per pound are
slightly under what they were for
the first year.
"We have signed several thousand
good members this year and we have
a better prospect for a crop.
"We feel that co-operative mar
keting in the cotton belt has made
wonderful progress during th- past
twelve months. We shou d all re
member that the more cotton th- as
sociation handles, the more ..•'.fluence
we will exercise on prices and the
easier- u is to reduce our expenses
ir. ba.;«u-j>g
BOSSISM SCORED
JS ELDERS QUITS
GOIM'SW
Tax-Dodging Politicians Con
trol State’s Destinies,
He Declares
"Trading politicians and tax dodg
ers control the destinies of Georgia,
and the people are not aroused to
their situation,” Representative Her
schel H. Elders, of Tattnall county,
declared in a statement issued Satur
day, withdrawing from the race for
the governorship this year, and an
nouncing his candidacy two years
hence. The withdrawal of Mr. El
ders leaves Governor Clifford Walk
er unopposed.
"In withdrawing from the race for
governor I propose to tell the truth,
and I now declare that my only rea
son is that I have learned I can not
be elected,” Mr. Elders declared. "I
learned this from a little more than
! 10,000 letters I have received from
' every section of Georgia, in which 1
I was told that I had the best platform
; ever offered the people, but I could
not be elected. If my supporters
have no hope, then in sorrow I quit.”
Mr. Elders states that be expects
to make at least one speech in every
county in Georgia during the next
two years, and will be a candidate
for governor in 1926, unless the legis
lature reforms tax measures. He ap
peals to the people to elect a house
and senate that will redeem Georgia
from “bossism,” and offers to furn
ish- the record of any public man in
Georgia, upon request.
Few Contests For Primary
The retirement of Mr. Elders re
duces the contests for the primary
on September 10 to those of Sena
tor William J. Harris and former
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick for
the United States senate; J. J.
Brown, the incumbent, and G. F.
Hunnicutt fogr commissioner of agri
culture; Dr. N. H. Ballard, the in
cumbent, and Fort E. Land for state
school superintendent; Major C. E.
McGregor, the incumbent, and Col
onel John W. Clark, former commis
sioner, for pension commissioner;
James D. Price, the incumbent, and
Representative Albert J. Woodruff,
of DeKalb county, for the public
service commission; Colonel John T.
Boifeuillet, the incumbent, and Rep
resentative O. R. Bennett, of Dodge
county, for the public service com
mission.
The other state officials, including
judges of the supreme court and
court of appeals, have no opposition.
Following the primary on Septem
ber 10, the state convention will be
held in Macon on Wednesday, Oc
tober 8. Mrs. Bessie-Anderson, sec
retary of the Democratic state exec
utive committee, received notice Sat
urday from Mayor Luther, Williams,
of Macon, that the city auditorium
had been secured for the conven
tion.
Two Children Killed,
Mother, Father and
2 Others Hurt in Crash
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 2.
Two children, members of the fam
ily of Newt Bradford, a Dickson
county farmer, were killed and
Bradford and his wife and two oth
er children were seriously injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding today was struck by a
Louisville and Nashville railroad
train at a crossing near Van Lee,
Tenn.
The injured were wrought ta a
hospital here.
Mrs. Ferguson Keeps
Lead Over Davidson
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 2.—Mrs.
! Miriam A. Ferguson, of Temple, to
night still led Lynch Davidson, of
Houston; for second place in the
gubernatorial race on the face of re
turns announced from last Satur
day's Democratic primary election.
The final report of the bureau when
it closed for the night gave the fol
lowing standing of the leaders:
Robertson, 192,663; Ferguson, 144,-
148; Lynch Davidson, 138,113; Whit
Davidson, 122,223.
Os the 252 counties in the state,
122 have reported complete returns.
The total vote listed is 692.947.
William H. Anderson
Is Made Prison Trusty
i OSSINNING, N. Y„ Aug. 2.—Wil
liam H. Anderson, -former state
i superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
! league, now serving a year’s sen
tence in Sing-Sing for third degree
forgery, has been made a trusty, |
prison officials announced today.
This change allows the former dry ■
leader the privilege of occupying one
of the comfortable and attractive
cells in the new dormitory overlook- i
ing the old prison. He now spends !
only 36 hours a week behind prison (
walls and that is when he teaches -
school in the old prison.
a UENIo A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
Iceland;
Accident
LOSING MATES IN
FOG, LIEUT. NELSON ;
GOES 11 ALONE
Wade’s Airplane Is Wreck in
Effort to Salvage It
After Descent
" i i
LONDON, 4.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Misfortune again has
laid a harsh hand on the American
army world flight expedition. Two
of the dauntless pilots, Lieut. Lowell
H. Smith and Lieut. Eric Nelson,
with their mechanics, are at Hoefn
Hornafjoid, Iceland, ready to con
tinue on to Greenland, and over the
bleak watery of the north At-
lantic to LabraCrer, but Lieut. Leigh
Wade and Sergeant Ogden, his
mechanician, are out of the running.
Rescued by a British trawler and
the American destroyer Billingsley
after they had been forced down at
sea by engine trouble on the hop to
Iceland from Kirkwall, in the Ork
neys, Wade and Ogden stood by help
lessly on the deck of the U. S. S.
Richmond and saw a steel boom
weighing a ton crash through the
fragile tissue of their plane while:
endeavors were being made to hoist
it aboard the vessel.
The wings of the machine had
been damaged seriously in the forced
landing at sea and the two men had
worked for six hours attempting to
make temporary repairs which would
enable them to rise again? The acci-;
dent during the hoisting process
after they had boarded the Richmond
sent all their hopes crashing. '
Lieut. Wade and the commander
of the flight, Lieut. Smith, hopped
off from Kirkwall yesterday morning:
to join Lieut. Nelson, who made the
trip to Iceland alone Saturday after
the three had become separated in aj
fog and the first two had returned,
to Hou ton bay. Smith through'
and joined Nelson at Hoefn Horna
fjord, although he had a hard fight
during the latter part of the flight,
encountering both rain squalls and
heavy fog banks.
HOFEN, Iceland, Aug. 2.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Lieutenant Erik
Nelson and Lieutenant John Har
ding, Jr., his mechanic, had better
luck than their four companions
who started with them from Kirk
wall early ’J.*:;’ morning on the first
lap of the homeward egos their,
round-the-world flight, pushing
through the heavy fogs off the Ork
ney islands and landing here at 3'49
o’clock this afternoon.
The other four men—Lieutenant
Lowell H. Smith, and his mechanic.
Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, and
Lieutenant Leigh Wade and Ser
geant A. M. Ogden—became separat
ed from Lieutenant Nelson's plane*
the New Orleans, and fearing a coh
lision in the impenetrable fog turned
buck toward Scotland, landing at
the starting point, Kirkwall.
The New Orleans covered the
tance from Kirkwall—more than sl'ol
miles- —in eight hours, nineteen mfn4
utes, and tonight is moored safely
behind the breakwater
Hornafjord fro mthe Atlantic, awaiL
ing the arrival of the Boston an(J
the Chicago.
Nip and Tuck at Start
Nelson lost the others in the foi
soon after they left Kirkwall. Forced !
into a spin, he flattened out jusfi
above the surface of the water an<|
drove on, thinking the others werd
above him. More than an hour latei)
he sighted Faroe Islands and wai
able to take his course and carry on.
He first sighted the Billingsley, and
as she was steaming in the course
of the flight, he took his coursd
from her. He followed the samfli
procedure when he sighted the Reid
and the Raleigh.
“The flight was all right after thd
first two hours,” Lieutenant Nelsoii
said, “but it was nip and tuck a<
the start.”
Lieutenant Harding praised thd
new engine installed in the Neu|
Orleans at Brough, saying it pen
formed well and gave no cause foiF
anxiety.
The aviators caught the first sight
of land soon after they passed th4
Raleigh. They had no difficulty In
finding the moorings that had been ?
prepared for them.
Villagers Give Cheers
Meantime, the villagers, who
the past few days have been watcle
ing with much interest the firs|
American warship to anchor in th«
harbor, stood about the shores oj
the fjord. As the first aircraft eves
to reach Iceland taxied into the
calm niche in the harbor, they
cheered lustily.
The aviators found plenty of fog,
but Harding explained that "you
could always get above or
it.” He declared the absence of wind|
was helpful and that although tha
plane varied from Its course on the
lap between the Billingsley and thd
Raleigh, they knew where they
were and were never in danger after
the first tussle with the fog.
THWARTED FLIERS WILL
TRY AGAIN ON SUNDAY
KIRKWALL, Scotland, Aug. 2.—*
(By the Associated Press.) —The
American team of round the world
fliers tonight finds itself divided—
Lieutenant Erik Nelson spending
the night at Hoefn Hornafjord, Ice
land, the first stop of the trans-
Atlantic route, and Lieutenant Low
ell H. Smith and his colleague, Lieu- JI
tenant Leigh Wade, with their me
chanics, still at Houton Bay, Kirk
wall, forced to return by the enemy,
of airmen, fog.
The two pairs of aviators tiirnol
bacK from their attempt to make
Iceland after covering about thirty
miles. But Lieutenant Nelson pushed
through a clear hole in the fog from
an altitude of 3,000 .’>eet, to a clear
level, under the fog. ard Smith and
Wade heard of him again only In
reports from the destroyers Bil
lingsley and Reid and the cruiser
Raleigh, announcing his spectacu
lar flight into Iceland waters.
Smith and Wade will attempt to
rejoin Nelson if the reports received
by the cruiser Richmond. which
again is anchorinc outside Houton
Bay, allow another trip tomorrow
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