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VOL. XXVI. NO. 130
WALTON CONCEDED
SENATENONIINATION
IN OKLAHOMA HACE
Clan Foe Piles Up Lead as
Late Returns Arrive
From Country
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 7.
J. C. Walton, deposed governor, con
tinued to lead E. B. Howard, con
gressman from the first district and
Ku Klux Klan indorsee, for the
Democratic senatorial nomination,
uA the basis of returns from Tues
■ay's primary, cmpiled today.
' Kt noon 2,494 precincts out of
2,996 in the state gave Walton 72,058
votes to Howard’s 66,257, a margin
of 5,801 votes in the former gover
nor's favor.
Observers do not believe re
turns from the unreported precincts
will materially alter the present
standing. C. J. Wrightsman, anoth
er candidate in the race yesterday
conceded Walton’s nomination and
The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma
lity, which has opposed Walton, pre
iicted in today’s issue that Walter
would ultimately gain a plurality of
10,000 votes
Walton is a bitter opponent of
ihe Ku Klux Klan and severely at
tacked that organization in his cam
>aign speeches. Howard and
Wrightsman were known to have
he indorsement of the klan.
With more than a 2 to 1 lead
tver his nearest opponent, W. B.
Pine, of Okmulgee, seems assured
>f the Republican senatorial nomi
nation. Returns from 1,137 pre
nncts gave Pine 28,023; Lorton 13,-
)52; Scott 7,373; Leedy 1,628; Leiber
1,089: Bingham 987.
Pine had the indorsement of the
<u Klux Klan,- while Lorton op-
Josed the organization.
Incumbent congressmen were lead
ng their opponents in districts
vhere there were contests and seem
issured of renomination. Latest re
urns did not alter the standings of
he various candidates for state of
ices.
S’ELSON AND BAKER WIN
MISSOURI NOMINATIONS
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 7.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Dr. Arthur W.
kelson, of Bunceton, Democrat, and
lam A. Baker, Republican, of Jef
'erson City, are the nominees of
heir respective parties for the office
)t governor in the November elec
ions, according to reports from all
>ut 927 of the state’s 3,987 precincts.
Indications were that the missing
irecincts, all in rural districts,
vould further increase their leads,
kelson was expected to finish with
i lead of approximately 60,000, and
laker 40,000.
Nelson led Floyd E. Jacobs, of
vansas City. Former Judge Henry
'but'-'and-ouF"’“wet” candi
late, of St. Louis, was third in the
ace. George H. Moore, of St. Louis,
inti-Ku Klux aspirant for the guber
natorial nomination, was a close
fourth.
There was strong prospect that
Victor Miller, of St. Louis, former
'resident of the police board, would
'inish second in the Republican race
for the gubernatorial nomination.
Late reports indicate that Mrs.
Kate S. Morrow would be nominated
democratic candidate for secretary
state
<ANSAS PRIMARY LEADERS
MAINTAIN THEIR MARGINS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 7.—(By
he Associated Press.) —A day’s tab
ilation of returns of the Kansas pri
mary Tuesday made little relative
hange in the standings of the can
lldates.
Senator Arthur Capper, Republic
n, and Governor Jonathan M. Davis,
democrat, easily led their fields and
died up leads of 30,000 to 90,000. The
ace for the Republican gubernatorial
lomination, however, proved a fairly
lose one, with latest returns cutting
lown slowly the lead that B. S.
’aulen. Fredonia banker, had over
llyso M. Reed, of Parsons, and ex
* rnor W. R. Stubbs, of Law-
The five-sided race for the De
vatic nomination for United States
enator is running fairly close, with
ames Malone, of Topeka, somewhat
head of Edward T. Hackney.
Congressional results are un
hanged by the count, incumbents
eading in all districts,
biennial Session Bill
Signed by Governor;
Now Goes to Voters
It remains for the voters of Geor
gia to decide the question of biennial
sessions, after Governor Walker’*
tpproval of the bill which passed
he house Tuesday.
Governor Walker signed hte meas
ure late Wednesday afternoon, after
ending for Senator W. W. Munday,
he author of the measure, who was
presented wit hthe pen with which
he bill was given the executive ap
proval.
The measure now goes to the vot
>vs in the November general elec
ion and will become the law of the
date provided two-thirds of the vot
irs ratify it as an amendment to the
institution.
The Weather
J**.
LOUISIANA Saturday, partly
iloudy; probably local thundershow
•rs in southeast portion.
OKLAHOMA Saturday partly
•loudy. somewhat cooler in west
portion.
EAST TEXAS—Saturday partly
■loudy. continued warm.
WEST '"’ENAS —Saturday gener
ally fail'; romewhat cooler in north
portion Saturday.
VIRGINIA Saturday partly
•loud.'.; probably showers by night
n west and north portions; not
nueh change in temperature.
N ORT 11 CARO LI N A—Sa t u rday
;enerally fair; not much change in
emperature.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEOR
GIA —Saturday generally fair.
FLORIDA, EXTREME NORTH
WEST FLORlDA—Generally fair
>xcept widely scattered thunder
showers Saturday.
A I.ABA MA—Saturday probably
’air.
TENNESSEE—PartIy ( loudy Sit
iirxlay; probably scattered thunder
showers.
World News
Told in
Brief
BUENOS AIRES. —Crown Prince
Humbert, of Italy, arrives for an of
ficial visit to Argentina.
NEW YORK.—General Plutarco
Elias Calles, president-elect of Mex
ico, arrives, en route to Europe.
NEW YORK. —Oppressive heat
wave covers eastern states causing
several deaths and many prostra
tions.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —Heat wave
which covered eastern states for past.
three days is broken by series of lo
cal thunderstorms.
LONDON, Aug. 8. —Allies and Ger
mans in London conference reach
complete agreement on manner in
which defaults are to be declared
under Dawes plan.
NE.W YORK, Aug. B—John W.
Davis, speaking informally at rally
of Duchess county, New York, Dem
ocrats, says great issue of campaign
is honesty in government.
WASHINGTON.—Extended tour
of west beginning about August 26
will be made by naval dirigible Shen
andoah, navy department an
nounces.
CHICAGO, HI., Aug. B.—William
T. Tilden, national tennis champion,
announces he will play on American
Davis cup team in this' year’s com
petition.
PHILADELPHIA.—Dr. Robert
Grier de Conte, noted surgeon, is
found dead in his office with a bullet
wound through temple, apparently
self-inflicted.
EAU CLAIRE~Wis., Aug. B.
Three persons die, a dozen are in
jured and score of farm buildings
are wrecked, when tornadoes sweep
central eastern Wisconsin.
ATHENS.—Minister of Foreign
Affairs Roussos announces he will
go to Washington in September to
try to obtain the remainder of
Greece’s credit of $33,000,000.
NEW YORK, Aug'. B.—Consolida
tion of Erie, Pere Marquette, Ches
apeake and Ohio and Hocking Valley
railroads with “Nickel Plate” system
is unofficially reported in Wall
street.
CONSTANTINOPLE—D. Edgar
J. Fisher, professor of history in
Robert college, an American institu
tion, is expelled from Turkey for
alleged spreading of anti-Turkish
propaganda.
WASHINGTON.—Continued re
cession in business fields and rising
prices for agricultural products are
outstanding features of federal re
serve board’s monthly business con
ditions review.
NEW YORK.—Continued reces
sion in business fields and rising
prices for agricultural products are
outstanding features of federal, re
serve board’s monthly review of
business conditions.
WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—General
Pershing leaves today on tour of
nation’s civilian military training
camps and corps area headquarters,
probably his last inspection before
his retirement September 13.
ATLANTIC CITY,”Aug. B—Exec
utive council of American Federation
of Labor, in statement several criti
cises alleged anti-labor record of
General Charles G. Dawes, Republi
can vice presidential candidate.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. —Advance
ticket sale of sixty thousand seats
for Saturday's bout between Tom
Gibbons and Jack Bloomfield at
Wimbley Stadium indicates possible
establishment of world s record at
tendance.
WASH INGTON.—John W. Davis
sought conference with Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor before federa
tion endorsed La Follette-Wheeler
candidacies, but negotiations failed,
correspondence between Gompers
and former Secretary‘6X Labor Wil
son shows.
GEN. HSON LEADIBIfi
SENATOR SHIELDS IN
TENNESSEE PRIMARY
I
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. B—With
more than 130,000 votes in yester
day's primary election counted. Gen
eral L. D. Tyson, of Knoxville, was
maintaining a. lead of 12,319 votes
early today over Senatpjr John K.
Shields, his nearest opponent in the
contest tor the Democratic nomina
tion for United States senator.
Judge Nathan L. Bachman, of
Chattanooga, was running third, and
almost 12,000 votes behind Senator
Shields.
A tabulation of unofficial returns
from 1,392 of the state’s 2,118 pre
cincts showed the following vote:
Tyson, 55,797; Shields, 43,478;
Bachman. 31,534.
Governor Austin Peay had piled up
an overwhelming lead over John K.
Neal, in the Democratic guberna
torial contest. With returns from
1.301 precincts tabulated, the vote
was: Peay, 78,394, and Neal, 17,355.
On the basis of returns from 1,265
precincts in the contest for railroad
and public utilities ■commissioner,
Harvey H. Hannah, the incumbent,
[ had a lead of 13,644 over Sam E.
I Hill, his only opponent. Hannah
! had a total of 36,405, and Hill, 22,-
: 761.
■ T. F. Peck was maintaining a
! comfortable lead over P. H. Thach
I and W. N. Beasley in the Republican
• gubernatorial contest, on the basis
■ of meager returns from 149 precincts
j s altered over the state. The count
was Peek, 5,329; Thach, 3.619; Beas-
I ley. 1.523.
J With 133 of t. . 242 precincts in
i the Seventh congressional district re-
■ porting. W. U. Salmon, -he imm. -
; bent was running third in his con
test \xi.;'a E. E. i.stivk. Clarence W.
' Turner and Frank Hall for the Dem-
J erratic nomination. Esliek was lead
ing with a luvality of less than
1. '. with Turner second. The
count: Chick. 4.445; Turner, 3.807:
■ Salmon, 3.165: Hall. 1.815.
Seauered returns from the First
; district ;.ive Con?. -? -'man B. Car
roll Reece a lead of 623 over W. E.
Jon s for the Republican nomina
tion. Forty-four of the 226 precincts
in the district gave Reece 3,393 and
, 11 ill 2.770.
There were no contests in the olh
. er congressional, districts.
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
LOEB’S GIRL FRIEND
ICCIffIBM
ON WITNESS STAND
CHICAGO, Aug. 7—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Introduction of lay
witnesses by the defense in seeking
mitigation of punishment for Nathan
F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb,
confessed murderers of Bobby
Franks, whom they had kidnaped,
brought from Robert E. Crowe,
state's attorney, the shouted charge
that one of them had “committed
deliberate perjury.”
Miss Lorraine Nathan was on the
witness stand when Mr. Crowe, in
seeking to impeach her testimony,
charged that she was varying her
.remarks from statements she had
made in his office shortly after Loeb
was arrested for the Franks mur
der. x ...
Miss Nathan just had testified
that she previously was fond of
Loeb, as he was of her, but that she
did not “feel that way now,” and
that, being a lady, would not lie to
aid Loeb. Mr. Crowe's denial of the
defense’s right to have Miss Nathan
read her earlier statement led to an
early recess of court.
The defense and state were di
rected to bring in authorities on the
defense’s contention that Miss Na
than should see the record of earlier
remarks before proceeding as a wit
ness.
Crowe Calls Her “Doctor”
Miss Nathan, the first girl wit
ness to appear for the defendants,
made a pretty, though somewnat
nervous, picture on the stand. She
testified in a cool but somewhat
catchy voice, and h' *ons as
to Loeb’s conduct so closely paral
leled that of tare? famous mental
experts who hud <led her 'hit
the state’s attorney ironically start
ed his cross-examination by address
ing her as “doctor.”
On the witness stand she avoided
Loeb’s glances, but when she passed
him as she left the courtoom sue
clutched his arm, whispered in his
ear and still was talking when a
bailiff jerked Loeb away from her
grasp.
Miss Nathan will resume the
stand for further cross-examination
this afternoon.
The prosecution at the start of the
hearing today refused to accept a
proposal by the defense for short
ening the hearing. , ;i
“Our answer was a blanket ‘no’,”
said Robert E. Crows, state’s attor
ney, who indicated that the defense’s
idea was to dispense with lay wit
nesses provided the state would ac
cept a blanket statement of what
their testimony would be, and would
also dispense with calling further
lay witnesses.
Two other young women, all
friends of Loeb, were to be called
by the defense today as character
witnesses.
The girls are Rosalind Nathan and
Miss Germaine K. Reinhardt, who
has repeatedly visited the jail and de
clared her intention to help “Dickie.”
No-girl friends appear for Leopold.
Neither of the slayers will take the
stand, but Foreman Leopold and Al
lan Loeb, their brothers, will be call
ed to identify pictures, books and
other exhibits which will be used in
evidence.
It was planned to complete the
character evidence before adjourn
ment today and resume tomorrow the
expert testimony with either Dr. H.
S. Hulbert, Chicago physician, or Dr.
James Whitney Hall, Chicago alien
ist. Clarence S. Darrow, veteran
chief defense counsel, has indicated
the defense may rest its case next
Monday.
Recess Taken at Start
Judge Caverly resumed the hear
ing at 10:40 a. m., ten minutes late
and immediately announced a thirty
minute recess.
The judge said that the defense
and state had informed him that a
conference at this time probably
would save from two to five days of
the hearing.
The three defense attorneys. Mr.
Darrow and the Bachrach brothers,
Walter and Benjamin, and the four
members of the prosecution,, led by
Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney,
; immediately retired for the time sav
ing effort, but failed to reach an
agreement.
Max Schrayer, the first witness of
the day, identified himself as twen
ty-one years old and a Chicago job
ber of household goods since he grad
uated from the University of Mich
igan. where he was a fraternity
brother of Loeb.
Schrayer's first answer to ques
tioning by Mr. Darrow met repeated
objections by Kir. Crowe, who in
sisted the witness was drawing con
clusions.
Scrayer said he had observed Loeb
i to be very nervous, to which the
' state objected and was sustained.
' Mr. Darrow asked the question in
! other phrases and brought this re
i Ply:
I “I observed he had a twitching of
! the mouth, was nervous in his ges-
I tures with his hands. Dragged his
ankle and on special occasions drank
a great deal. .He fainted several
j times at Michigan. He smoked a
great deal and showed nervousness
in doing it.
Loeb was known as a reader of
dime novels and detective stories.
■ the witness continued.
Mr. Darrow asked if Schrayer had
noticed anything peculiar about
Loeb's laughter. The witness said
he seemed to laugh at a great many
things not humorous and Mr. Crowe
asked the question and answer be
stricken.
“If this witness had listened to
the testimony of these alienists I
could see why anybody would get a
great laugh,” Mr. Crowe declared.
To which Mr. Darrow retorted:
“Yes. you would laugh at any
thing. except possibly a hanging, and
I think maybe you would laugh at
I the hanging of these boys.”
Had No Common Sense
Schrayer testified that he regard
ed Loeb as abnormal, that Loeb
was not permitted the responsibility
• of being a mentor over freshmen, a
duty of seniors at the university
and that Loeb was a good book stu
dent but apparently did not seem to
have logical common sense and was
rather impractical.
After fifteen minutes of direct ex
amination, Mr. Crowe took the wit-
■ ness and asked if he did not recall
I having made a statement to the
. state's attorney that he regarded
’ Loeb as perfectly sane and normal.
| (Continued on Cage 3, Column 6)
TOBACCO BIDS FAIR TO RIVAL I
COTTON AS MONEY CROP IN
RICH SOUTH GEORGIA SOILS
Missionary Work of A. ( B. &
A. R, R.j Atlanta Trust
Company and Georgia As
sociation Bearing Fruit
BY BRYAN COLLIER
(Stall’ Correspndent of The Journal)
FITZGERALD, Ga., Aug. 7.—Sev
eral thousands of Georgia farmers
and plain citizens —the latter lay
men in the tobacco industry—visited
the auspicious opening here Wed
nesday of the Fitzgerald tobacco
warehouse and saw for themselves
that in tobacco southern Georgia
has developed a permanent cash
crop that bids fair in the very near
.future to rank second only to cotton
I in ready money value.
They saw 82,000 pounds of the
gleaming yellow leaf —in color sug
gestive of the gold it brings—spread
in glistening heaps until it filled the
great floor of the warehouse, and,
before the day was over, they saw
every pound of it sold, to buyers
from far and near.
Practically all of the tobacco
spread on the floor Wednesday was
;of the quality known as “sand
lugs,” the technical name for that
part of the plant that is closest to
the ground, the first part cut and
cured and, therefore, the cheapest
portion of the plant.
Even so, the 82,000 pounds brought
an average price of J7 cents, with
some of it, exceptionally low grade
of sunburnt sand lugs, bringing as
low as 8 cents, and other lots, of a
better variety but still not the best
that the plant produces, selling for
40 cents.
Average Price 25 Cents
It was a most auspicious and suc
cessful opening and the opinion of
conservative business men, vouch
safed after final tabulations of the
day’s sales had been made, was that
the excellent price brought by the
lower grades indicated that the aver
age price brought by the whole Geor
gia bright tobacco crop would be
not less than 25 cents per pound.
The daji- was auspicious not only
because of the ready money that
the sales brought to the tobacco
growers of Wilcox, Irwin, Coffee.
Ben Hill, Jeff Davis and other
counties, who brought their product
to this particular warehouse, but
also because it foretold in terms of
cold figures that tobacco as a money
crop is successful in Georgia, and
has come to this state to stay.
It was a splendid triumph, not
only for the individual planters who
courageously planted tobacco over
the objections of those who «aid they
could not do it, but also f.;r the r:iin
roads, the banks, civic organizations
and business men who backed the
growers to the limit, believing confi
dently in Georgia’s future as a to
bacco raising state.
Among the railroads, the Atlanta,
Birmingham and At'ai tic has iaken
a leading part in the ileve.'jpmcnt
of the industry in the state, its agri
cultural agents having oeen engaged
fo>- sun-: years in a “m’semnaiy
prog’fm among Georgia farmers in
the blight tobacco te ■r/ory along
U ciionll B. L. Bugg, receiver for
this road, was on hand at the open
ing here, and was introduced by J.
E Turner, director of the Georgia
association for Ben Hill county and
director of the Exchange National
bank of Fitzgerald, who acted as
master of ceremonies, as “one of the
first, if not the first, who ever saw
the future of Georgia as a tobacco
growing state.”
i Colonel Bugg made a short talk m
which he painted a glowing picture
I of Georgia’s future in this line. He
I was the only speaker at the open-
I ing besides Mr. Turner.
Other A., B. & A., officials present
at the opening were A. D. Daniel,
passenger traffic manager; J. I«. Ed
wards, vice president, and G. B. Eu
nice, agricultural development agent.
Trust Company’s Work
The Atlanta Trust company, one
of the south’s leading financial insti
tutions, possessed of a great faith in
the tobacco-growing possibilities of
Georgia, has not only equipped and
brought thoroughly up-to-date numer
ous farms throughout the state, but
also hag gone further in sending its
representatives to the Carolinas and
other tobacco-growing states to bring
experts in the industry to the Geor
gia bright tobacco belt, offering them
modern farms for purchase at terms
of unprecendented liberality.
R. O. Crocker, general manager of
all the Atlanta Trust company farms;
J. W. Sikes, who manages the tobac
co end of the company's activities:
G. A. Sikes, who manages other
crops proc«jced on the company's
farms, and F. L. Allison, farm sales
manager, were the Atlanta Trust
company's representatives at the
Fitzgerald opening.
The giant Lon Dickey warehouse
in Fitzgerald, where the sales this
year were conducted, is managed by
L. B. Knott & Co., Mr. Knott, the
head of tris concern, being one of
j the tobacco experts which the Atlan
ta Trust company brought from
North Carolina and being in charge
lof that company’s 210 acre tobacco
! plantation at Ambrose, Ga.
i The Atlanta Trust company had
■ more than 40,000 pounds on the floor
j at the opening, and this tobacco was
■ sold for a price above the average.
, The reason for this, according, to ex
perts. was that Mr. Knott and other
■ experienced tobacco workers that the
company brought from the Carolina-
, were‘more experienced in raising, cur
j mg and grading tobacco than were
i the comparatively inexperienced
farmers who are natives of the Geor
| gia tobacco belt.
Another organization that has en
| thusiastically backed the tobacco in-
I dustry from the start is the Geor
j gia association. F. H. Abbott, of
I Waycross, secretary of this associa
'i tion, was in attendance at the Fitz
) gerald opening.
Man Held for Sale
Os Cancelled Bonds
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Aug. 7.
| Clyde Smauels, alias L. R. Johnson.
| alleged confidence man. was arrest-
I ed by local detectives last night and
i twelve thousand cancelled Chicago.
I Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
1 company bonds taken from his per
; son. The coupons were clipped up
j to date, and at first the officers be
| lieved that the bonds were valuable.
■ Smaue' adn-cted. according to the
' pokce. that he sold two of the bonds
to the Kentuekv National bank, at
! Louisville, for Jl.jno. c-.o • ?•
I >i : :c?.h. Ky.. for SGOO and another in
j Evansvii'-', Ind., for $4,600.
FIRST Dirs SALES
OFGEORGIATOBACCD
AMOUNT TOSROO.OOO
MACON, Ga., Aug. 7.—More than
3,500,000 pounds of tobacco were
sold at auction in ten south Georgia
i tobacco marketing centers during
I Wednesday, the opening day of the
i season, according to reports to the
Macon Telegraph.
In most instances, reports indicat
ed that the growers have not yet
brought m their best tobacco, but the
low grades offered brought a price
aveiaging better than 20 cents a
j pound, or a total cash return of ap
{ proximately $600,000.
j The season’s crop probably will
| bring more than ten times that
amount, according to estimates that
have been made, and from the good
prices obtained during the day. the
total will go considerably over the
estimate.
Some tobacco during the day sold
I as low as four cents a pound, but
not much at that figure. Some
j brought as high as 70 cents a pound,
this being a consignment of especial
ly fine tobacco from Brantley county,
sold at Tifton, and one consignment
at Nashville brought 80 cents a
pound; Vidalia as high a5.46 cents a
pound; Hahira as high as 50 cents
and Fitzgerald reported sales at 45
cents.
Sales and Prices
The consolidated figures show the
following sales and average prices:
City Sales Av: Price
Valdosta 225,000 23c
Hazlehurst .... 350,000
Nashville 960,000 25c
Vidalia 300,000 25c
Hahira 40,000 22c
Fitzgerald .... 82,176 17c
Tifton 125,000 25c
Blackshear .... 750,000 23c
Camilla 200,000 20c
Douglas 400,000 22c
Double Selling Force
In Nashville, because of the heavy
volume of tobacco brought in by the
growers, arrangements were made to
establish a double selling force, be
ginning with Thursday morning. At
several other points the buyers were
unable to reach all warehouses, be
cause of the large offerings.
In all marketing centers, the open
ing of the tobacco season was cele
brated with barbecues. Thousands of
persons flocked to each city. There
were buyers on hand for all of the
big tobacco firms figuring in the
Georgia markets.
SALES CONTINUE BRISK
ON VALDOSTA MARKET
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 7—Tobac
co sales Thursday were a continua
tion of Wednesday, the auctioneers
and buyers trying to clean up the
stocks on the warehouse floors that
could not be reached opening day.
At Nashville, about a third of the
stock on the floor was sold Wednes
day, two of the large warehouses
-not being touched. At Hahira, it
was about the same thing, while at
Valdosta not much over half the
stock was touched.
The sales Thursday ranged at good
prices in all of the markets, aver
aging about 23 cents. Some of the
lowest grades that were knocked off
here Wednesday were put up and
resold Thursday, bringing much bet
ter prices, in some instances twice to
three times as much as Wednesday
when conditions were somewhat de
moralized by the immense
that thronged the warehosue and got
in the way of buyers and sellers.
| The highest price here was 60 cents
i Thursday for tobacco grown by J.
|W. Bradshaw, of Jennings, Fla. He
I had another lot that brought 50
cents.
At Hahira, a negro tenant on J.
E. Webb's place ha dtobacco to sell
for 65 cents.
At Nashville. J. R. Carter, of Cook
county, sold 2.000 pounds at 59 cents,
and Morgan Rowan sold 3,000 pounds
at 51 cents. It is hardly probable
that much new tobacco will be put
on the floors this week, as the im
mense quantities at the opening
' have given the buyers and auction
leers more than they c-uld dispose of.
The sales are 'ieing packed in huge
hogsheads, and will be shipped as
rapidly as possible.
Political Argument
Leads to Duel and
Halts Bridge Traffic
MIAMI. Flu., Aug. 7.—Traffic wr.s
j tied up for more than an hour Wed
nesday while two aged bridge tenJ
: ers, J. A. McCrory and J. S. Mar
shall, on a bridge swung in mid
i stream at Musa Isle, on the Miami
canal, fought, one armed with an old
I shotgun and the other with an ax.
I over the question of the respective
merits of the Democratic and Repub-
I lican parties and the probable out
! come of the November general elec
j tion.
McCrory, a southerner, and natur-
I ally a Democrat, opposed Marshall
who came to this section three years
: ago from lowa, a rock-ribbed Repub-
■ lican state, for his health. The two
'men have been living in’ a house
i near the bridge and were boon com
! nanions until the incident.
Strangest ‘‘Funeral”
Reported by Prohi
Enforcement Officers
I GAINESVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 7.—Re
:urning from a raiding expedition
; this week in the vicinity of Dawson
; ville. where they destroyed t—n stills.
! Prohibition Officers J. B. Johnson.
A. N. Sears and Ed Sears came up
on a sight near the Etowah river
; which really Was “something new
1 under the sun.”
i ■' Two men were busliy engaged in
| burying a Ford automobile. They
had the grave dug. and were about
to nut the flivver to rest when they
saw the officers and fled. They in
formed Sheriff Crow, but when he
got to the scene the car had been
■ rolled to the river and sunk. The
I officers had taken the license '•’.■m-
I ’ ?r. ''owever, and arrests are •r't
i ed. it bCnc . d‘ ■•• i cer ea that
| the machine had been stolen.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, August 9, 1924
DEMOCRATIC HOPES
CEIMD IN FIRST
SPEECH BF DAVIS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal —Copy-
right. 1924.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—The Dem
j ocrats are staking their all on John
I W. Davis’ speech of acceptance to
Ibe delivered at Clarksburg next
| Monday. The action of William B.
i Wilson, former secretary of labor, in
i writing to Samuel Gompers, asking
him to make no presidential indorse
ments until after he had heard Mr.
Davis, is a reflection of the attitude
of all the party leaders. They are
in effect asking the country to wait
until Mr. Davis speaks.
No candidate perhaps’ ever had so
much at stake on a single group of
utterances as Mr. DAvis has on next
Monday. There is plenty of evidence
that the country at large holds Mr.
Davis in high regard as a man. The
people are waiting to take his meas
ure as a statesman and possible
chief executive.
Much of the burden which comes
to Mr. Davis at this time is due to
the fact that, as the campaign de
velops, it is becoming more and more
evident that it is to be a battle of
personalities rather than of parties.
Party ties, it is generally admitted,
were never so loose as today. The
Republicans are making a special
plea to the people to elect Calvin
Coolidge because he is Calvin Cool
idge, and not because he happens
to be the nominee of any particular
party. They realize that senators
and representatives of the party were
at odds with Mr. Coolidge on nearly
every one of the important meas
ures he urged during the past win
ter, and that a straight out party
appeal would not have the same
weight with the people as an appeal
for Mr. Coolidge personally.
The 'Republicans are saying that
Calvin Coolidge is his own platform;
his own pledge for the future.
The Democrats of the country are
hoping to say the same thing for
Mr. Davis.
Parties Subordinated
The “Progressive” campaign cen
ters almost wholly about the per
sonality of Senator La Follette.
Without him there would be no La
Follette party in the field. The sen
ator led the movement from the
start and it was apparent to political
observers in Washington four or
five months ago that nothing could
keep him out of the race this year.
The parties are being subordinated
this year as never before. The Dem
ocrats are willing that some of their
antics at Madison Square Garden
shall be entirely forgotten, and that
the race shall be decided upon the
abilities of their chief candidate.
Nevertheless the Democrats will
make more of a party appeal than
either of their two rivals.
It will be a part of Democratic
strategy to show that if they are
given a majority in congress they
will function as a party and bring
legislative order out of the legisla
tive chaos of the past two years.
The Democrats claim that the re
sults of the Republican primaries in
various states already show that the
Republicans will have the same split
forces in the two branches of con
gress that have made them virtually
impotent during the past session.
Men who voted consistently against
Mr. Coolidge last winter have furled
the Coolidge banner about them
selves for primary purposes, but
there is no reason to believe that
upon their return to Washington
they will be in any greater sym
pathy with him.
The Republicans are willing that
much of their party record of the
past two years shall be forgotten.
This was evidenced in the platform
; adopted at Cleveland. The record in
congress was all but ignored.
G. O. P. “Looks Forward”
The Republican is to
look forward, not backward. They
are willing that all the “pointing
with pride” shall be done in the di
rection of Mr. Coolidge. Os course
they will view the Democrats with
i alarm from time to time. That is
natural.
The new combination of progres
sives surrounding Senators La Fol
lette and Wheeler, having no party
record, are content to denounce both
of the old parties and to promise
everything for the future.
The Democrats are not going to
| let the Republicans get away with
I their soft-pedal policy if they can
I help it. Mr. Davis already has an
nounced that Chairman Butler, of
the Republican national committee,
is very much mistaken if he believes
Teapot Dome and the cabinet
changes at Washington are dead is
sues.
The assumot'jn that Mr. Davis
I might be too “high minded’ to touch
I upon the “scandals” seems to have
I been a mistaken one on tue par’, of
j the Republicans.
The Democratic candidate is going
! to drag evr? grinning skeleton out
of the Republican closet that he can
lay his hands on. Hi? friends are
uigi.ng him to take a.i iggressive
attitude in Hus directi >i», and ”rom
present indications there will be a
i great rattling of dry bones from the
■ very start of the campaign.
The scandals will make fine fuel
for the minor speakers of the cam
paign, and there will be as many
iof these as the slim purse of the
■ Democrats will permit.
NOTED DOCTOR
! ENDS HIS LIFE
WITH A BULLET
I PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.—Leav
: ing a blood-stained note to his wife
I ascribing his act of financial trou
' Oles, the police said, Dr. Robert
I Grier Leconte, internationally known
! surgeon, shot and killed himself in
his home here last night.
■ Relatives found the body lying be
i side the doctor's desk, with a bullet
i wound in the left temple. Beside
j him lay a pistol with one cartridge
' exploded.
Dr. I. Dnie's death was the third
1 in two days among the noted phy-
■ sicians of this city. Dr. Dunean L.
| Despard was shot to death yesterday
. l y u former patient, while Dr. David
1 icFa.D’id Cast’e at the age of
j 81, after a long illness.
W. R. L. MORGAN, of 266
Woodward avenue, who ended
his life Thursday afternoon
after fatally wounding Mrs.
Fannie Briscoe, of 97 1-2 Gar
nett street, in a store on Edge
wood avenue.
■ /
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sr JR
BERLIN ANO ALLIES
REACH AGREEMENT
ON DEFAULT PLANS
LONDON, Aug. 7.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The allies and the
Germans have reached a complete
agreement on the manner in which
defaults are to be declared under
the Dawes plan.
The conference leaders on the al
lied side met first th is morning and
shortly afterward the Germans wfre
admitted to take part in the discus
sion. It was decided to refer the
question of amnesty for German na
tionals in the occupie territories to
the conference jurists.
An agreement on this subject is
considered probable.
French circles expressed them
selves satisfied with the morning
meeting. They said the Germans
presented their propositions in a mod
el ate way and that the tone of the
discussion was most courteous.
One of the French spokesmen as
serted that many of the points put
forward by the Germans were capa
ble of adjustment and reconciliation
with the agreements x’eached by the
allies.
It was said that in some instances
only a slight explanation seemed
necessary to make the German and
allied views coincide.
Among other things the Germans
insist, according to the Telegraph,
upon the right of appeal against the
program for deliveries, in kind to be
elaborated by the reparation com
mission and the bodies emanating
therefrom.
Meanwhile American Ambassador
Kellogg is reported to have written
to the secretary of the international
conference that the representatives
of the United States are in accord
with the French proposal to hold a
conference of finance ministers in
Paris immediately after the close of
the meeting here.
The meeting was projected in reso
lutions, submitted last Saturday for
adoption by the allied delegates, the
first of which pertains to the alloca
tion of payments to be received dur
ing the first year the Dawes plan is
in operation.
Ambassador Kellogg’s letter, it is
said, states that inasmuch as the
question of .reimbursement for the
cost of the American army of occu
pation in the Rhineland, and certain
American claims for war damages
are involved, and as the agenda also
will include the question of allocat
ing Germany payments for the first
year under the Dawes program, the
United States, as the only “asso
ciate power” should participate in
the proposed conference.
After this morning’s meeting of
the “big fourteen,” a French spokes
man said an agreement was in sight
by which Germany would be allowed
to address the inter-allied reparation
commission should she be adjudged
in default under the Dawes plan.
SLBJECT OF EVACUATION
OF RUHR FACES MEET
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The confer
ence, which now has lasted longer
than any previous conclave on repa
rations, is expected to tackle its
chief bone of contention, military
evacuation of the Ruhr, when it re
convenes.
The conference, which now has
lasted longer than any previous con
clave on reparations, is expected to
tackle its chief bone of contention,
military evacuation of the Ruhr,
when it reconvenes.
Removal of French and Belgian
arms from German territory will be
discussed only informally in commit
tee, but it is considered the most
vital subject under discussion.
Premier Herriot of France, is be
lieved to have agreed in advance to
promise military evacuation of the
Ruhr, but may make the occasion
one for seeking further concessions
to the French viewpoint from the
British and Americans m order to
save his face at home.
The fact that Secretary Hughes
is returning to America is taken
as a favorable sign of his confidence
that the conference is succeeding
and that his presence on the “side
i lines” no longer is necessary. <
IA. H. Gray Named
Mayor of Blakely
I BLAKELY, Ga„ Aug. 7. —In a spir
' lied city election held Tuesday, A.
H. Gray defeated T. B. McDowell
for. mayor by the vote of 128 to 88
i In the race for two councilmen J.
[ G. Butler w’as re-elected, but L. B.
Fryer, present councilman, was de
feated by J. D. Smith by one vote.
The official vote follows: Grav, 188;
McDowell 88; Butler, 184; Smith, 116;
I Fryer, 115.
The new mayor is a well-known
; attorney and is at present judge
j of the city court of Blakely.
i CENTb A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
ATLANTIAN SHOOTS
WOMAN TO DEITH
AND KILLS HIMSELF
Tragedy Occurs in Down
town Store Death ,
Notes Bare Quarrel
A double homicide in the store at
125 Edgewood avenue shortly b®>
fore 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon
gnuffed out two lives, Mrs. Fannie,
Briscoe, employed in the store, dy-1
ing at Grady hospital within less
than wto hours after she had been 1
fatally wounded by W. R. L. Mor-,
gan, of 266 Woodward avenue, who
immediately afterwards turned thel
pistol on himself and died before
medical aid cou’d reach him.
Mrs. Briscoe died at Grady hospital
two hours after she was shot with*
out regaining consciousness. Mrs.
W. E. Jenkins, who said she was a
first cousni of the slain woman, and.
who gave her address as 97% Gar
nett street, was with Mrs. Briscoe 1
when she died. Mrs. Jenkins said j
Mrs. Briscoe resided with her.
Mrs. Jenkins said she did not
know Morgan, and was unaware I
that Mrs. Briscoe knew him.
The man left a note directing that 1
23 East Alabama street be notfied. j
This is th estore of Ed Matthews & j
Co., where it was said that Morgan I
had been employed up until about j
a month ago. More recently, it was
said, he had been employed at the
United States National Insurance
company, in the Austell building.
At both places, reports- . were
told that Morgan and Mrs. Briscoe,
had been keeping company for some (
time, and at the Mathews store it'
was said that he had related how he
and th ewoman had become es
tranged several weeks ago.
Tells Mother Goodby
The following notes were found in
the dead man’s pocket:
Letter No. 1:
“Good-bye mother, Walker and
Mrs. Kennedy. I am sorry to leavj.
you. I want to be buried in the
country at Corinth church. My
niece will tell you all about it. Fare
well. QMorgan.”
Letter No. 2. (No signature):
“Call Ed Matthews & Co., 23 East
Alabama street, MAin 0027. J. N.
Hirsch, on Morietta street, holds a
SI,OOO bank stock of mine. G. C.
Wray knows all about it.”
Letter No. 3. . ;
“8-4-24. I am tired of life. The
world has gone back on me. Call J.<
S. Alitehell,• works for the R. & P.
company. Call Victor Haydan, worka
for the Thomas Cusack company.]
Call my nephew at Buchannon, Ga., a
W. E. Morgan. I am now at 268
Woodward avenue If I don’t evert
see you any more God bless and save
•you.
(Signed) “W. R. L. MORGAN.
“P. S. —Send my books to 707 Aus
tel building, 1 hope God will take 1
my soul. I have just stood this as,
long as I can. Fannie Briscoe is the'
cause of i all. I can’t stand the way'
she has done me. That’s all. Good
by to all.”
According to frinds, Morgan was
about forty years old. The bul-i
let entered his temple and he was
lying on the floor, the gun at his
side, breathing feebly when Albert
Lovinger, of 354 Sims street, ran into
the stere after hearing the shots. Mr.
Lovinger bad stopped his automobile
nearby to repair a blowout.
Mr. Lovinger told the police he
heard a woman scream, “Don’t do
that, don’t do that!” A pistol shot
fcllowed, he stated, and he dashed
into the store just In time to see
Morgan standing in the middle of
th efloor with a pistol to his head.
A.; he entered, Morgan pulled the
trigger, Mr. Lovinger said. He add-,
ed that Morgan had the pistol over
hia head pointing downward.
rollce on Scene
Police Seregant Bob Waggoner,
who was passing on a trolley car,
alighted and ran into the store when
he heard the shots. He was one of
the first to reach the scene, closely
followed by call officers from police
headquarters, the Grady ambulance
and other ambulances. A cro- d 1
quickly gathered. •
Mr. Biggers, the proprietor of the
store, known as the B. & B. ready
to-wear establishment, said he had
left the store only a few minutes
before the shooting. lie returned
about fifteen minutes afterward.
Mr. Biggers told reporters that
the man had been keeping company'
with Mrs. Briscoe for several,
months. He said that she had been
married twice and that her present
husband is the warden of a Georgia
convict camp.
La Follette Remains ;
In Virtual Seclusion, !
7 I
Resting for Campaign
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Priming
himself for strenuous days of cam
paigning, Senator La Follette, inde
pendent candidate for president, re
mains practically in seclusion here.
He is delivering no speeches, al
though he is preparing some for use
later in the camaplgn, is leaving
management of his campaign, par
ticularly the detafls, to others, and
has only a limited number of con
ferences with friends and political
advisers. «
As a rule the Wisconsin senator
arises about 7:30 a. m., and after
breakfast and a leisurely perusal of
morning newspapers goes to the caiV
itol. He rarely walks, preferring to
ride in his automobile. Most of th®
day he remains tucked away in an
out-of-the-way office, separate from
his suite In the senate office build
itig, where his son, Robert M. La
Follette, campaign director here,
and a force of aides, do their work.
Senator La Follette tells inquirers
he is in excellent physical condition,
having entirely recovered from his
illness of the winter and spring.
If all the eggs of a single codfish
were hatched into fish, which should
in turn hatch all of their eggs. In a
very few years the whole earth
would be buried under many feet of
codfish.
WILLIAMSTON, Mass., Aug. B.
Lack of prosperity and not want
of experience, is holding back devel
opment of democracy in Europe, Dr.
Moritz J. Bonn, German financial ex
pert, declares at Institute of Poli
tics at Williamstown, Mass.