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VOL. XXVI. NO. 131
GERMANY ACCEPTS
ALL ALLIED TERMS
OF WAR DEBT PLAN
Agreement on Dawes Pro
posal Unconditional—Ruhr
Evacuation Planned
LONDON, Aug. 11.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The allied and Ger
man experts attached to the interna
tional reparation conference, have
reached a full agreement Qn the
Dawes program, it is announced.
They remained in session until
o’clock this morning to arrive at an
understanding on reparations pay
ment in kind on which the Germans
held out until the results of Premier
IHerriot’s Paris' mission became
known.
Names lor the post of permanent
agent general to carry the Dawes
plan into effect are being discussed
in conference circles since the an
nouncement that the French will
agree to the evacuation of th e Ruhr
on conditions which it seems likely
the Germans will accept. James A.
Logan, American representative on
the reparation commission; Dwight
F. Morrow, of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
and Paul D. Cr.ivath are mentioned
frequently.
Owen D. Young of the Dawes com
mittee, seems to be generally re
garded in conference circles as the
ideal man to initiate the Dawes plan,
but his announcement that he would
only consider taking the post tempo
rarily makes the selection of his suc
cessor necessary at an early date.
This morning the “Big Fourteen,’
the allied . and German delegation
leaders, met for an hour and a half
at No. 10 Downing street and heard
M. Herriot’s report of his Paris trip.
They then briefly considered the one
remaining problem within the pur
view of the conference proper—that
of the allied rai’waymen remaining
on the German lines.
This issue is so closely connected
with that of the evacuation of the
Ruhr, that both seem likely to be
settled at the same time, although
the Ruhr issue will be kept outside
the conference.
The French premier’s return with
his cabinet’s full approval of his
Ruhr evacuation policy put new life
and nope into the delegates, and
British observers believe the confer
encse will end by Thursday.
During the morning the allied dele
gqmea also met with the Germans
who approved the conclusions of the
second committee which has been
studying the problem of the econom
ic evacuation of the Ruhr.
Prime Minister MacDonald accept
ed a suggestion made by M. Herriot
that the allied delegates,, some time
before the end of the conference, ex
change views with the German dele
gates on the resumption of military
control of Germany, in order to give
France assurances regarding her se
curity.
M. Herriot declared that the de
cisions taken in Paris at the cabinet
meeting concerning the evqcuation
of the Ruhr had shown the peaceful
spirit of France, and had brought
immediate results. He said the con
ference now was assured of success.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
TO CHECK GERMANY:
PARTS. x Aug. 11. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —That the problem of
France’s security will be solved by a
League of Nation’s plan to keep
check on German disarmament is
generally inferred from a conference
held by Prime l ' Herriot with Paul
Boncoui socialist deputy and presi-1
dent of tYe subcommittee of the high
er committee of national defense
charged with studying the plan in
question
Confidence is expressed that tne
plan will be adopted by the League
of Nations assembly at Geneva in
September.
Premier Herriot declared, accoid !
in< to Le Matin, that he would sup
port the plan in person before the
assembly.
Premie' Herriot, of France, and
Foreign Minister Stresemann. of
■Germany, conferred late this after
■Mn on the question of the evacua
■nn of the Ruhr, their conversation
(Following the conference in principal
French and Belgian delegates.
Two Weeks’Old Calf
Struck by Lightning,
Down, but Not Out
MOULTRIE, Ga., Aug. 9.—Al
though it was struck by lightning
during a thunderstorm, a two-weeks
old calf is now able to play around
a» if nothing unusual had happened
to it. The owner of the calf saw it
drop and thought it had been killed,
but the calf was on its feet before
he could get into the yard. Blood
poured from the calf's back, the
hide having been split for about ten
inches. The wound looked as if it
had been made with a knife.
Franklin Roosevelt Not
Candidate ‘’This Tear’
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. —Franklin D.
Roosevelt, former assistant secretary
of the navy, announced today t hat V.e
would not be a candidate fir the
Democratic nomination for governor
“this year’’ to succeed Alfred E.
Smith. Mr. Roosevelt’s statement
was in answer to published reports
that he hid been selected to make
the race by prominent state and na
tional political leaders.
According to ti e announcement to
Democratic headquarters Mr. Roose
velt awaits discarding of his
crutches before re-entering politics.
He was stricken three years ago with
infantile ’-analysis hut physicians
have stated that another year will
see him r-'''li ned to normal 1 ealth.
Slayer of Wife and
Another Is Freed
ZEBULON. Ga.. Aug. 9.—lnvoking
the'"1111 will ten law” as his defense.
D. G. Leach, who on Monday shot
and killed his wife and John Moore,
was ordered freed here-Saturday by
a tribunal of justices of the peace
who presided at his comniitmetM
hearing on a charge of murder.
Leach has been held in jail here
since the double homicide.
Justices of the peace presiding at
the hearing were W. H. Johnson.
J H. Baker and G. B. Ridley, all of
Pike county.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WIFE REFUSED TO MAKE HOME
IN OKLAHOMA, SO ROME MAN
KILLS HER AND THEN HIMSELF
“God Have Mercy On My Soul,” Says Note —Father Is
Requested to “Throw My Body in
* ‘ - the River”
ROME. Ga., Aug. 10.—Jealousy and
the refusal of his wife, to go with
him to Oklahoma, are said to have
been the causes of a murder and
suicide here Saturday as the result
Paul Harwell fatally shot his wife
and immediately committed suicide
by shooting himself, through the
head with the same revolver. A
note found on the floor of the room
ijy which the tragedy occurred and
believed to have been written by Har
well, but unsigned, said “Oh, God,
have mercy on my soul. I have tried
to Ave right. Please have mercy
or. me.”
Mr. and Mrs. Harwell came to
Rome about a month ago to visit the
latter’s aunt, Mrs. E. F. Bedford,
before going to Oklahoma to live.
Harwell had sold a battery and ga
tage business at Summerville and
planned to go in business in Okla
homa, it was said, but his wife had
refused to go with him because of
threats against her life that he is
said to have made. The man was
said to have been extremely jealous
of his wife. They are survived by
a four-year-old son.
Mrs. Bedford, in whose home the
OLD MOBY FIBE
INOUIBYIS ORDERED;
ORIGIN A MYSTERY
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Auer 11
Origin of the fire whicn destroyed
buildings, m’achinery and 45 /million
pounds of smokeless powder at the
Old Hickory powder plant at Jack
sonville, Tenn., near here Sunday,
had not been determined today, ac
cording to Major Oscar Krupp, army
ordnance officer in charge of the
government property there.
A thorough investigation into the
cause of the fire will be conducted
under orders from the war depart
ment issued today, but in the ab
sence of receipt of formal orders
from the department, Major-Krupp
could not state when the investiga
tion would begin.
From the offices of a local in
surance agency, which carried pol
icies on the Old Hickory plane
amounting to $12,000,000, came the
statement that it would be several
days before the amount of loss could
be determined and separated as to
the amount of the government’s risk
and that at the risk of the insur
ance companies. While the govern
ment was responsible for the build
ings used for the storage of powder,
a number of those destroyed were
at the risk of the Nashville Indus
trial corporation and were fully in
sured.
State Fire Marshal Ed M. Gillen
waters today sent a corps of deputies
to Old Hickory to investigate the
cause of the five and compile a re
pent or. the loss.
Powder, machinery and buildings
valued at $28,000,000 war-time prices
and at more than $2,000,000 at pres
ent valuation, were destroyed when
the fire swept clean a forty-acre
tract in the heart of the plant.
Several hundred thousand dollars’
worth of platinum is believed to be
in the ashes of the government of
fice building. Officials said that
they expected to find the metal un
harmed.
Approximately 45,000,000 pounds
of gunpowder, stored by the U. S.
government as a war reserve, were
consumed in the flames.
The cost of manufacturing this
powder during the war, according
to Major Krupp, ordnance depart
ment officer, was 50 cents a pound,
making the total cost $22,500,000.
The present market value of the
powder is approximately one cent
a pound, making the total value
$45Q,000, Major Krupp said.
There were* no dangerous explo
sions and no’ one was known to
have been injured.
A government guard turned in
the alarm at 5:30 Sunday morn
ing and although the fire spent it
self soon after noon, it was impos
sible eafty Monday to approach the
area, because of the intense heat.
The fire is said to be the great
est single loss the government has
suffered since the war. The plant,
constructed by the government dur
ing the war for the manufacture
of munitions, was the largest project
of its kind ever attempted. The
plans called for an expenditure of
$85,000,000, and the plant was di
vided into nine units each with a
daily capacity of 100,000 pounds m
powder.
When the armistice was signed
the plant had produced 35,900,000
pounds of powder and was 13,500.-
000 pounds ahead of contracts.
Conyers Man Fined SSOO
On Decatur Liquor Charge
| Willie Sharp, a young man or
Conyers, Ga., was fined SSOO Fri
day by- Judge Walter Daley, of
the Decatur city court, after he
pleaded guilty to a charge of ille
gal transportation of liquor, follow
ing his arrest Thursday night on one
: of the principal streets of Decatur.
Young Sharp was arrested by De
■ Kalb County Policemen Henderson
1 and Rogers, who found 43 gallons
of in bis car, they reported.
| The Weather
F’OIIECAST FOR TUESDAY
i Virginia lncreasing cloudiness
with moderate temperature.
North Carolina —Partly cloudy,
k South Carolina —Partly cloudy.
Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi
• —Partly cloudy in north ami proba
bly scattered thundershowers in
south portion.
Florida and Extreme Northwest
Florida —Partly clbudv with widely
scattered thundershowers.
Tennessee —Probably fair.
Kentucky—Mostly cloudy, possi
bly local thundershowers.
Louisiana—Partly cloudy.
Arkansas—Partly cloudy.
Oklahoma —Partly cloudy.
East Texas—Partly cloudy.
West Texas —Partly cloudy, proba
ble scattered .hows in cast per
, tion.
1 couple were visiting, said that she
I had feared violence on the part of
| Harwell for several days and had
kept a close watch on them during
the day, but had gone to sleep. She
was awakened by the revolver phot
and rushed to the room with Mrs.
Mary Blankenship, a, neighbor, who
was in the house at the time. Mrs.
Blankenship reached the room as
Harwell fired the last shot, she said,
and saw him turn the gun upon him
self and fell dead across the bed,
I while she stooped to pick up the
wounded wife, who was still breath-
■ ing. Mrs. Harwell breathed a few
minutes but did not speak. Harwell
is believed to have died instantly.
The coroner returned a verdict ol
murder-suicide.
A note found in Harwell’s cloth
ing, addressed to C. A. Harwell, his
I father, requested that his body be
thrown into the river.
It. said:: “Dear Father, I bate
leave you this way, but I love Bes
sie and 1 will not live without her.
So I am going to end it all. Do the
best you can and Gold help my soul.
Throw my body in the river.”
‘ IPprld News
To ld in
i Brief
\ L._x
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 8. —
Four parties qualified and filed tick
ets for the coming presidential elec
tion.
SANTOS. —Federal forces occupy
cities of Porto Felix and Itu and
capture 29 rebel cavalrymen, offi
cial advices say.
CHICAGO.—PoIice Chief Collins
announces he will ask for 1,000 more
policemen to add to Chicago’s 1 ?s
--ent force of 5,700.
DENVER. Nine persons are
killed and five seriously injured
when tornado demolishes farm house
near Thurman. Colo.
ROME.—ltalian sugar producers
asked government to re-estcblish
duty on imported sugar which ex
isted before May, 1923.
TOKlO.—Seventy-three persons are
dead and 57 missing a* result of
a flood of Tamsui river in northern
Formosa, advices say.
NEW YORK.—William J. Fallon,
criminal lawyer, is acquitted after
sensational trial in federal court of
charge of bribing a juror.
CURTISS FIELD,’ Aug. B—An
airplane, said to be the first de
signed specifically for freighf carry
ing. received an official test.
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. B.—The
third largest wheat crop in the his
tory of Kansas and the best yield
per acre since 1914 was reported.
MANILA, Aug. B.—Counsel for
209 Philippine scouts, charged with
joining a mutiny, offered no defense
and moved dismissal of the charges
LONDON. —Dispatches from In
dia say that tension has subside!
between Hindus and Moslems after
serious rioting a fortnight ago in
Delhi.
OTTAWA, Aug. 8. —Canada’s am
bassador to the United States will
not be appointed before the end of
the summer, Premier MacKenzie
King said.
WASHINGTON,—First test, of mo
bile anchorage, provided by U. S. S.
Patoka, for navy dirigible Shenan
doah, conducted in Narragansett
Bay, R. 1., is success.
WASHINGTON. Aug. B.—The
liner Leviathan lost an inboard pro
peller blade and will arrive a day
behind schedule, advices to the ship
ping board stated.
ROME. Aug. 8. —Opposition party
leaders renewed their decision not
to participate in parliamentary work
as long as present methods of the
fascist government, prevail.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge plans vacation of ten or twelve
days at his father's home at Ply
mouth, Vt., following formal notifi
cation exercises on August 14.
WASHINGTON. —President a n d
Mrs. Coolidge are interested but
neutral k spectators at baseball game
between White House newspaper
correspondents and photographers.
W A SIT TNG TON .—Un it ed States
cruiser Richmond is ordered to
search coast line of eastern Green
land for suitable landing place for
American round-the-world fliers who
now are in Iceland.
FRIE D RIC HS H AFEN. Ge r m any.
Aus'. B.—Trial flights of the dirigi
ble ZR-3. which is being built for
the American government by the
Zeppelin company, will begin Au
gust 25. _
WASH]NGTON.—Governor Smi: b.
of New York, orders participation
of state troops and citizens in De
fense day activities; Governors Mor
rison and Branch, of North Carolina
and Indiana, respectively, take sim
ilar action.
SALT LAKE CITY,’ Aug. S.—
Claron Nelson, western superintend
ent of the air mail service, was de
dared responsible for the death of
| Pilot W. F. Blanchfield, who crasn
! ed while flying over the grave of his
I termer mechanic at Reno.—'August 1
WASHINGTON?—United States
will not participate officially in any
meeting of the allied finance com
missioners. called to consider alloca
tion of German reparation payments
as result of pending London confer
ence, White House spokesman says.
LANSING. —Name of Henry Ford
as Republican candidate for nomina
tion as United States senator will go
on ballots in Michigan primaries un
| less manufacturer formally elimi
nates himself, Secretary of State De
land announces.
WASHINGTON. —General support
of war department plans for defense
day by patriotic societies placet l the
project above polities, SeciAptai”.
weeks writes Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, p*esident-smneral of the
D. A. R.
LEOPOLD PAINTED
ASDREAMVICTIM:
DBIVEN INTO CRIME
Diseased Endocrine Glands
Blamed for Fantasy by
Defense Alienist
UH l« 'AGO, 10.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—The defense Saturday
neared the end of its plea before
Judge John R. C.kverly for mitiga
tion in the punishment of Nathan I.
Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb,
scions of millionaire families, for the
kidnaping and murdering of young
Robert Franks.
The last of four eminent specialists
through whom the defense has at
tempted to prove the youths are
“mentally sick” spent the entire two
hour session of court on the witness
stand today. He dissected Leopolds
as he had that of Loeb
yesterday. Leopold, he said, was f.t
mentally to fall in with Loeb’s plan
to “commit the perfect crime be
cause of the mental state to which
he had been reduced through physi
cal deficiencies; failure of certain
glands to function normally and a
strange “king-slave” fantasy which
had persisted from childhood.
Having put Loeb's personality to
vivisection yesterday, the mental
pathologist. Dr. H. S. Hulbert, of
Chicago, dealt almost solely with
Leopold today.
“The psychiatric cause for the
Franks crime is not to be found in
either boy alone, but in an interplay
of their friendship,” he said.
Kind by Nature, He Says
Leopold was described as by na
ture kind, and an almost unwilling
partner in the murder of the four
teen-year-old Franks boy. Only Leo
pold’s obeisance necessary to his
“dream king” kept him a partner
even after his intellect told him com
mission of a “perfect crime” was im
possible, testified Dr. Hulbert. Leo
pold wanted to postpone the kidnap
ing and murder and go to Europe,
added the psychiatric.
Illustrating to Judge Caverly by
use of large X-ray photographs of
Leopold’s anatomy, Dr. Hulbert
pointed out what he said were glan
dular irregularities. He mentioned
the pineal, pituitary, adrenal and
thyroid glands. He described the
functional irregularities as respon
sible for Leopold’s admittedly far ad
vanced intellect and the stilling of
his emotional growth after the age
of seven or eight years.
Dr. Hulbert said that the X-ray
disclosed that the cartilage between
the plates of Leopold’s skull had
become bone, unusual in one of nine
teen years old, as the process gen
erally develops after the age of
thirty.
The witness veered from his usual
solemnity as he smilingly described
certain black lines on Leopold’s skull
as having been caused by “prepara
tions used to keep his hair in or
der.”
The youths’ intimate association
j was not always a pleasure to them,
■ asserted the witness, but he declared
j “each boy felt inadequate to carry
i on the life most desired unless some-
I one else in life was found to com
| plement him.”
Early Windup Seen
< “Leopold wantetd a superior for
, a companion and Loeb wanted some
! one to emulate him,” said the doc
! tor as he analyzed the alliance that
1 led to the murder of Franks.
I Dr, Hulbert still was on the stand
j when the hearing was adjourned at
| noon until 10:30 a. m. Monday.
; Clarence Darrow, chief of defense
I counsel, stated after adjournment
| that possibly four additional wit
; nesses would be called and the de
; sense rest its plea for mitigation of
I punishment Monday afternoon.
! Allan and Jacob Loeb, brother and
uncle, respectively, of Richard Loeb
j and Foreman Leopold, brother of
Nathan and the Loeb family chauf
feur, would be the last defense wit
i nesses, Mr. Darrow’ indicated. He
I said thatVhey would be called upon
j to identify certain exhibits and not
to give extensive testimony. Thai
, won Id prohibit extensive cross-exami
' nation as nothing not remarked
| upon in direct examination can be
■ brought out by the state.
Immediatetly upon the defense
j resting, Robert E. Crowe, state’s
• attorney, will launch a vigorous
rebuHal in furthering his demand
for tne death penalty for Loeb and
Leopold.
Former friends. university in
i structors. servants in the Leopold
; and Loeb families, and prominent
: women, some of whom were pupils
lof Leopold jn his ornithological
I class, are named on a list of fifty
| prospective witnesses announced by
: Air. < rowe as having been summon
ed to testify that the youths are
i sane and constitute normal actors
■in what he has called a "perfect
hanging case."
Leopold's "Best Girl” Called
Rebuttal will require possibly font
days, the prosecutor indicated. Pros
pective time needed for the state
was reduced today when Mr. Crowe
agreed with Mr. Darrow not to call
more than four alienists if the de-
I sense would cut off expert testi
mony with that of Dr. Hulbert.
On the stage's rebuttal witness
list appears the name of Miss Su
san Lurie. University of Chicago
[Student with Leopold, ahd said to
have been the only girl for wlvcm
ihe evei expressed any feeling. It
was to Miss Lutie that Leopold i<
alleged to have remarked before he
was arrested for the Franks murder
that it would be a good joke were
I she to surrender him as the mur-
I derer and claim the SII,OOO in re-
I wards.
The minds of those interested in
the case, was as usually, burdened
; with t rank letters today. Judge
• Caverly got letters from throughout
| the country, the "vote" today being
largely against the youths.
Prosecutor Crowe received a small
box containing eight marbles, each
wrapped in tissue paper, and the
whole carrying the note: "For the
kiddies. Babe anti Dickie."
Loeb and Leopold maintained their
usual composure in the court room
[today. Both smiled and greeted rel
| atives as they were led in. m-l,
i front time to time, as has been
1 their wont, found plenty of amuse
; ment in the proceedings.
DAVIS RETURNS TO OLD HOME TOWN
TO AWAIT SUMMONS INTO BATTLE-,
CHEERING THRONGS WELCOME HIM
MOTHERS OF U. S. AROUND-WORLD FLIERS
ARE PROUDEST RIGHT NOW, IN COUNTRY,
AS SONS ADD NEW CHAPTER TO HISTORY
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Mothers of the American ’round-the-world flyers. Upper left, Mrs. Robert Harding, Los Angeles.
Center, Mrs. Jasper G. Smith, Los Angeles. Upper right, Mrs. Cora Arnold, Spokane. Lower left,
Mrs. William M. Wade, Cassopolis. Mich. Lower right, Mrs. Christina Nelson, Sweden.
COOEIDGE WINNING
BIS POLITICAL FOES,
MJNIGEB ASSERTS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Presir
dent Coolidge devoted attention to
Republican campaign plans at an
other conference this afternoon with
Chairman Butler, of the national
committee, after the chairman an
nounced organization of a national
partisan iYovement for Coolidge and
Dawes probably would be launched
soon.
i\Lr. Butler told the president the
movement had been inspired by vol
untary expressions of members of
other parties of sympathy with the I
candidacy of the president.
“Reports to me,” Mr. Butler said,
“are to the effect men and women
are leaving their party fold to sup
port our presidential ticket because
of their appreciation of the sincerity
and honesty of the Coolidge adminis
tration. Some of them also have
admitted a slight dissatisfaction with
their own party leadership. In cer
tain cases they have announced their
intention also of voting for certain
local Republican candidates, but this I
is not general. Underneath all is ]
the confidence in the president and |
his judgment.”
Despite another day of intense I
heat, Mr. Coolidge was at his office:
desk throughout the morning.
Tentative plans have been made
by the 'resident to leave here on
his vacation to Plymouth, VI.. next j
Friday night, the night, after the
formal notification exercises. Under I
this program he and Mis. Coolidge I
would arrive at Plymouth the next I
afternoon.
The president is planning to make'
the visit one of complete rest. He ,
has consented to installation of spe-,
cial telephone service at Plymouth I
to be used for the conduct of such |
government business as is urgently i
necessary, but so as possible,hopes >
to relhx from his official duties. I
with his father, Mrs. Coolidge and [
their son. ’.John. Under present I
plans no party leaders will accom- ■
pany the president and the cam-I
paigfi will be left, so far as Mr. i
Coolidge is concerned, entirely in i
the hands of the national commit- i
tee and advisers.
The president heard further re
ports on the progress of the cam-,
paign today fiom Senator Stanfield,
of Oregon, and Representative
Chindblom. of Illinois. Both de- ;
dared a predominant sentiment in
favor of the presidential ticket ex
isted throughout the east and west.
Farm Laborer, Aged 60,
Runs Amuck With Gun;
Kills One, Wounds Two
SUMMIT, Miss.. Aug. 9.—Mrs. j
Will Bolian, 4.T. was killed and her
daughter. Sannie, 15. and a neigh
bor, Charles 11. Carver, 22. were I
dangerously wounded when George
Mack. RO-year-old farm hand, ran
amuck with a pistol at the Bolian ■
home, two miles north of here, late'
today. j
Mack escaped after the shooting,
and had not been apprehended late '
tonight. A posse, headed by Sheriff
D. W. Guy. was searching the conn-:
tryside. but latest reports from rhe I
posse said no trace of Mack had ,
been found.
The shooting was said to have i
been the culmination of a quarrel be- I
tween Mrs. Bolian and Mack over I
the latter’s attentions to the da ugh- !
ter.
Mrs. Bolian. a widow, and the I
mother of nine children, was killed i
instantly.
The girl and Carver were both I
taken rfc a hospital at McComb, I
where it was said late tonight ‘ !;:;t
neither was expected to live. The
girl was shot through the ston; ich.
while a bullet pierced Carver's liver.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, August 12, 1924
Smiled as They Bade Their
Boys Good-By Like Spar
tans of Old, Although They
Knew Hazards of Trip
They are the proudest mothers in i
i America:
And well they may be!
The whole country—and for that
1 matter other countries, too —are
singing the praises of their boys.
For their sons are adding a new
chapter to history.
. Their boys are circling the globe,
through the air, for Uncle Sam.
And now they are coming home.
Fully aware of the dangers their
sons w’ould encounter, these mothers,
like the Spartatn mothers of old,
sent their boys away last March
with smiles on their lips.
But let these women speak for
I themselves:
"I wouldn't have stopped Lowell
from flying around the world for
anything.” says Mrs. Jasper G.
Smith, of Los Angeles, mother of
Lieutenant Lowell Smith, who re
ceived command of the flight after
Major Frederick Martin crashed into
an Alaskan mountain.
Took Her 100 Miles an Hour
“He took me 100 miles an hour, so
I could see Wliat.it was like. And,
oh. it was the most inspiring feel
i ing! Now I understand why Lowell !
j has been so absorbed by flying since i
I the war.
“Lowell was an instructor at Kelly
field—so good they kept him there !
; when others were going to France, i
i But he finally got overseas. Just j
after he wrote that he was selected !
j to head a division flying into Ger- |
many, the armistice was signed.”
In Los Angeles is Mrs. Robert !
i Harding, whose son, John, is the j
! ranking second lieutenant and me- ;
' chanician on the New Orleans, ship
! No. 4 of the flight.
“All his life, .everything he's done.
1 John always has come to me first,” '
j she declares.
“When they called him from Mc-
( Cook field for this ’round-the-world ;
, flight, he put it up to me. But I ■
! would not decide for him. I never i
’ would stand in his way. And I’ve !
i never felt the slightest doubt as to •
his safety.
“Flying has changed my boy. Be-
RUNAWAY TRAM
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MACON, Ga., Aug. 9 Fourteen
i persons were injured, some perhaps ,
ft.tally, when a clay train operating l
' from a mine near Mclntyre, 39 mile- :
j from here, broke loose from a loco
: motive and. buttling doWu a mil:,.
i long im line, crashed info a train!
! loaded wit h ' orkmen on their wat
i home.
Doctors, were hurried to the scene
i and the injured were treated. Th ?y ;
were then brought to Mclntyre. ;
' Those injured were: R. A. Lamb,
ir.jured seriously about, the head and
shoulders: Tim Grinade. jaw broken:
Will Bloodworth, head injured; W
W. Massengale, badly bruised; Hen
ry Brewer, face cut and bruised: :
George Alridge, bruised. They are
, all white men. The remainder of
the injured were negroes. Limb will
i be carried to a Macon hospital for
i treatment Sunday morning on ac- j
■ count of his injuries.
The crash occurred on a curve near
‘ the bottom of the incline and the j
workmen did not observe the runa
way train until it was almost upon j
them. A number of men jumped
and escaped serious injury.
According to officials of the mine
the local clay train became stalled t
fore the war, when he was prepar
ing for an engineering course at
Vanderbilt university in Nashville,
Tenn., he had the smoothest, softest
skin, the reddest cheeks. Now his
face is tanned, and as he wrote mje
the other day, 'we’re husky like lum-
| berjacks!’
Expected Hard Trip
“But he’s still the handsomest boy I
I ever saw. Here's a photograph of
him with his officer's cap on. People
often mistake it for a picture of the
Prince of Wales.
“He expected the trip to be hard.
Before they took off in March, he
said, ‘lf anyone thinks this thing is
going to be fun, they’re crazy.’
“It isrtft John’s first long flight.
He flew around the ‘rim’ of the arc- |
tic in 1919.”
In Spokane, Mrs. Cora L. Arnold |
is waiting for her son, Lieutenant 1
Leslie P. Arnold, another one of the I
pilots.
‘‘l'm not at all worried about Les
lie,” she says. “In all the time he
has peen flying, he has had only one
accident. And that wasn’t serious.
“That was in Memphis, when he
was forced to make a landing on top
of a henhouse. But he escaped with
out a scratch.
“,Leslie was an instructor in the
air service both in this country and
m France during the war. He is a ;
Princeton graduate. Before going I
into the aviation service he was a I
draftsman in the submarine dlvi-
I sion.”
Many Letters From Wade
Near Cassopolis, Mich., lives Mrs.
i William M. Wade, mother of Lieu
tenant Leigh Wade. Like the moth-
| ers of the other flyers, she is confi
j dent he will return safely.
Lieutenant Wade has been home
{ only for visits of a few hours at a
I time since entering the army, his
mother says. A couple of times,
j when he was stationed at Dayton,
he flew back for brief visits.
Mrs. Wade receives almost daily
i letters from him. And cards and
souvenirs have been mailed from
every station at which the Yankee
I airmen have stopped.
Mrs. Christina Nelson, mother of |
Lieutenant Eric Nelson, liaison offi- I
cer and chief engineer on the flight, '
i lives In Sweden. And Mrs. E. B. |
Ogden, mother of Master Sergeant, j
A. D. Ogden, specially commissioned :
second lieutenant for the flight, lives I
in Woodville, Miss.
U.S.WORLDFLIEBS
TO GO ON DESPITE
ICE MCK'S PERILS
REYKJA VIK, Iceland. Aug. 10.— i
Whatever the obstacles or perils, the
American world fliers are going on.
probably late this week.
If the ice packs along the east
ern Greenland coast repel a landing,
the airmen will come down and re- ;
fuel in the open sea.
The only J:hing unlikely is aban
donment of the flight.
“No conference was called to
consider calling off the flight,” Rear
Admiral Thomas Magruder said.
The flight ha;- reached the first
serious obstacle encountered, that is
all.
on the hill and while efforts were
made to reach the top, a coupling j
pin gave way and five loader! cars
started backward. One man climned
aboard the runaway cars and applied ;
the brakes without effect. He leaped :'
' -> safety. I
Witnesses said the rinawty train ]
was going at least thirty miles an j
' our and the ascending train was ,
running fifteen miles an hour. The j
lncomr v ives we>-c telescoped and the. 11
Cars demolished. I;
i UENTb A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
CANDIDATE STIBBED
BY WM GREETING
PBEPABED FDR HIM
Like Giant of Ancient Tale,
He Says, Neighbors Give
Him Strength to Fight
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 10. |
John W. Davis was back home to
-1 night to receive official notification
of his nomination as the Democratic
presidential candidate and to seek
from his friends and neighbors
strength and encouragement for the
task that lies ahead. w
Crossing the West Virginia line
Saturday from New York, he had \
his first welcome at Grafton, his
official reception, in the place where
he was born, and his second home
coming tonight at Fairmont, the
rock of his early political strength
and the home of his field marshal,
Clem L. Shaver.
Addressing his friends and neigh
bors from the veranda of his old .
home, Mr. Davis assured them that
it was neither by accident, nor by
caprice, nor without forethought,
that in the crisis of his life he had
returned home for strength, for sym
pathy, for encouragement and for *
.support.
, “In the presence of this welcome,
I in sight of these familiar faces, my
I heart goes out of me,” he said. “1
i must wait to speak until it comes
back. ,
Old Faces Hearten Him
“There is an old fable of the myth
ological giant, the son of Mother
Earth, whose strength was as the
strength of ten when on the earth.
Lifted above the earth, his power
fell from him and it did not return
until once more he had reached the
earth.
“Such is the sentiment that In*
spires me now.
“It is not by accident, nor by mere
caprice, nor without thought that
at this crisis in my life I have come
back here, for strength, for syinpa-.
thy, for encouragement and for sup
port.
“Your presence and in such great
numbers and with such smiling faces
assures me that I have not com®
in vain. I shall leave you strength
ened and heartened for the heavy
task that lies ahead.
“It is not easy to transplant a tree
that has had from forty to fifty
1 years of growth. It is not possible
| to transplant memories, traditions /
j and friendships that have come to
one who lived forty-five years in a
single spot.
“Although sale has made me a
I wanderer here and there over the
. earth, you, not I, are responsible fo r
that. You, fourteen years ago, called
me from the practice here I was en
joying and made me that wanderer
on the face of the earth. But I have
never cut the ties of affection that
bind me to Clarksburg, to West Vir
ginia, and their citizens. Never, 6ven
in thought or speech, has hom-s
meant anything other than this spot.
Welcomed at Birthplace
i “Forgive me if I say no more. Out
I of the fullness of the heart the mouth
may wish to speak without finding
words. But Mrs. Davis and myself x
thank you for this welcome. "W®
bow before you in gratitude and our
hearts are very full.”
Before his official reception here,
Mr. Davis was welcomed informally
at Grafton, the first stop of his train
in West Virginia. Mounting a
gage truck there, he expressed hie
joy at being upon native soil again
and his appreciation of the welcome
extended to him and to Mrs. Davi®.
This evening he made a 30-mile trip
to Fairmont to greet his supporters |
there who have stood loyally by him
in all his political adventures. Speak
ing at the home of Mr. Shaver, th®
nominee declared that while he could
not recall the first time he came to
Fairmont that when iie came to
count his friends the numbers did
not decrease when he got over th®
: Harrison county line.
After he had recalled by name a
number of West Virginians who had
had a part in shaping his early po
! litical career, Mr. Davis apologized
for dropping into reminiscences.
“It is enough for me to say,” he
declared, “how I rejoice to be with
you again and how sincere is my
gratitude for this evidence of »your
friendship and good will. A heavy
task has fallen to my lot. Yon will
not be surprised that, when I looked
about for aid in performing it, my
mind turned first of all to West Vir
ginia. I was not long in finding
\ there the man I needed. I came to
: Marion county and drafted your fel
i low-townsman and my friend. Clem
Shaver, as field marshal. We . it*
West Virginia know his political wis
dom and sagicity. We know, too,
his loyalty, integrity and courage,
and before long, the Democracy of
the United States will join us in our
high estimate of him as a citizen
and as a man.
Tbo«‘Liiif Streets
“And. so. in the name of obi
friendship, 1 offer you my gratitude
for all that your support has meant
to me in the days that are gone,
an<l my thanks for this evidence
that .win will not deny it to me in
the days that are to come.”
Reaching ’ksburg early in the
day, Mt. Davis was greeted by
hundreds at the railroad station z
an<l thousands that lined thestreets
leading to his home. One of the
first sights as he stepped from his
car was the West Virginia standard
used in the New York national con
vention. After the station reception
had ended, this standard had its
place in line with the national,
state, and town flags.
Immediately the procession got
under way. Mr. Davis’ car was sur
rounded by a cheering crowd, qnd
it was only with difficulty that it
was able to mak” its way. His head
bared, the candidate stood in the
lnnn»>u smiling and waving in re
sponse to a continuous ovation.