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W :uuuila Journal
VOL. XXVI. NO. 134
DAVIS WILL URGE
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VOICE IN INDUSTRY
Democratic Nominee Views
Workmen’s Councils as
1 Aid to Employers
LOCUST VAI.LEY, N. Y., Aug. 17
In his Labor day speech, John M.
Davis very likely will give a full
exposition of his views, first stated
v in his acceptance address, that de
mocracy in government and de
£ -•'tnocracj' in industry alike demand
. the free recognition of the right of
♦ * all of those who work, in whatever
rank or place, to share in all deci
sions that affect their welfare.
p On behalf of the Democratic presi-
dential candidate, it was stated to
day that his conviction is that there
can be no lasting settlement of in
dustrial unrest until the workers
, f have a share in the councils of in
i' dustry and that labor's knowledge
of its own needs gives it a right to
a voice in-all matters of government
that directly or peculiarly affect
' this right.
’ With labor having a voice in the
management of industry, Mr. Davis
believes ther e will be removed the in
cause for industrial disputes because
there will be full opportunity for
the workers to have knowledge of
exact conditions respecting the
. adequacy of wages and other matters
which usually form the basis of dis
agreement.
Favors Stock Sharing
j The Democratic nominee also is
I represented as holding to the view
that the plan of stock distribution to
the workers pow in operation in
gome lines of industry should be
given wide application as one that
has and will prove helpful alike to
labor and to industry.
With respect to representation in
government circles. Mr. Davis be
a lieves that these agencies dealing
' with labor should be given into the
charge of men who have had prac
tical experience and who thus would
bring to their task an intimate
knowledge both of the problem and
questions demanding solution and of
* conditions as they exist in practice
rather than in theory.
The Democratic nominee remained
at his home here today marshalling
material for Ijis forthcoming ad
dresses. He spent the entire morn
ing in his study and made sub
stantial progress on the speech he
t / is to deliver at Columbus, 0., on
August 26.
To Speak in East
Before going to the west, Mr.
Davis will deliver two addresses in
F the east, both at Sea Girt, N. J.,
next Friday, it was stated today at
his headquarters. The first will be
before the state Democratic commit
tee and the second at an open air
meeting.
9 . The place for the delivery of the
| Labor day address still is underter
mined. While some of his advisors
have urged that he make at least
one speech between August 26 and i
September I, it is not at all certain [
that he will do. so as, personally, he !
does not believe in. too great an ex
penditure of effort and ammunition
in the early stages of the campaign.
Besides working on his addresses,
Mr. Davis conferred today with Sen
ator Copeland, of New York, who
volunteered his services in the cam
paign, and played a round of golf
with George Gardner, a former law
* > partner.
IMPORTANT CONI ERENCES
AT WESTERN HEADQUARTERS
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Western
Democratic headquarters was the
' scene of several conferences among
party leaders Saturday with Clem L.
Shaver, chairman of the Democratic
• national committee, busy with or
ganization plans. Mr. Shaver, who
here tomorrow night for Lln-
* coin, Neb., for the Bryan notifica-
Ztion ceremonies, conferred with
George W. Brennan, Democratic na
tional committeeman from Illinois.
* Mr. Brennan took the national
chairman to Mayor William E.
Dever's office for a brief meeting.
Mr. Shaver announced afterward
that the meeting was purely a social
one and that politics was not dis
cussed.
While in Lincoln Mr. Shaver will
confer with Governor Bryan regard
ing his campaign plans, which now
are understood to be only in tenta
/ tive torin. How far the vice presi
f dential nominee will go on his
sueikim tour could not be learned
officially Saturday. It was intimated,
however, by those close to party
leaders tl.at he would probably con-
I fine a majority of his tours to the
middle west.
It is understood that John W.
Davis will come to Chicago for sev
er'd days’ conference with party
4 leaders soon after his address in
Co'ambus. Ohio, August 26. It is
1 expected that he will speak in this
Jr city during his western tour in Sei -
F te.’-iber.
ORGANIZATION IN EAST
HITTING FULL STRIDE
NEW YORK. Aug. 17. — With the
selectior Saturday week of director of
the speakers' bureau and the trans
fer on Tuesday of the headquarters
to the Belmont hotel, the eastern di
vision of *he Democratic campaign
organization expects to get into full
swing.
t T. J. Spellacy. eastern manager,
said today that the Democratic earn-
Zpaign in this section consists chief
ly in presenting John W Davis in
person to as many voters as pos
sible.
Jesse H. Jcnes, finance director
of t’te natJn i U committee, announced
that he wo -Id publish periodically I
full lists of contributions to the cam- I
1 nisrn fuao, a procedure urged by Mr. !
Davis. There will be a director of i
finance in each state. Mr. Jones said. 1
Rev. J. Allison Molboy
? Is Dead at Nashville
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 26
After n illness of several months, j
during which time he made a strong
fight to regain his health, the end
came to the Rev. J. Allison Molboy,
beloved ..ember of the Tennessee
conference of the M. E. church and
raster of the Tulip Street church,
Friday.
The funeral will take place at Tu- !
tip Street • much Sunday afternoon, •
y * it I o'clock.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told in
Brief
WASHINGTON. Program for
! Prince of Wales during his visit
! here has been filled, it is Announced.
WASHINGTON. —Call is issued for
i fourth Pan-American labor congress
to be held in Mexico City December
I 3. . .
LONDON. —Serious riots break out
at Mandalay, Upper Burma, accord
ing to dispatches to the Exchange
Telegraph.
WELLESLEY, Mass. —Professor
Irving Fisher, of Yale, in an ad
dress declares “the gold monetary
standard has become a fiction.”
CINCINNATI.—-John E. Eldridge
Bruce, one-time secretary of old na
tional baseball commission and for
mer director of St. Louis Browns,
dies at age of 68.
NEW YORK. —Coast guard cutter
Seneca, patrolling waters off Fire
Island, fails to discover any trace of
‘‘floating case,” reported anchored
in that vicinity.
BOSTON. —Agreements have been
made with twenty-seven of thirty
five men’s clothing manufacturers
included in strike order of Amalga
mated Clothing Workers.
MADRID. —Spanish official com
munique issued at Madrid, admits
situation in Morocco is critical, and
that considerable number of Span
iards have been lost in fighting.
LO'S ANGELES.—Kid McCoy con
fessed to killing Mrs; Theresa Mors,
wealthy divorcee, to a man whose
name is withheld, district attorney
here is advised.
PLYMOUThTVl— President Cool
idge expresses satisfaction at out
come of international conference at
London and sends message of con
gratulation to Ambassador -Kellogg.
BUENOS AIRES?—-The low pow
er beam ray is reported successful
ly used for night transmission of
regular commercial radio messages
between France and Argentina.
LONDON. —Solution of reparation
tangle will bring t oFrance imme
diate and substantial realities and
pe«*e, Premier Herriot declares in
press statement, prior to returning
to Paris to face parliament.
DUBLIN. Eamonn deValera,
Irish Republican leader, recently re
leased from prison, declares in
speech at Ennis he has no new
policy and that “policy of 1917 and
1921 stands.”
NEW YORK. —Petition asking
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secre
tary of navy, to become candidate
for Republican nomination for gov
ernor of New York will be presented
to him August 27.
LONDON. —While German and
French delegations at international
conference do not reach agreement
on Ruhr evacuation question, each
issues statement forecasting earlj
settlement.
LCS ANGELES.—Coroner's jury
investigating death of Mrs. Theresa
W. Mors, in connection with which
Kid McCoy, former pugilist, is being
held, decides she. was shot by per
son or persons unknown.
BERLIN. —Dr. Karl Jarres, Ger
man vice chancellor, tells German
editors that solid allied opposition
at London conference makes further
resistance by German delegation to
reparation settlement futile.
HELENA, Mont. —Senator Thomas
J. Walsh, of Montana, prosecutor of
senate oil committee, in speech here
opening state Democratic campaign,
sharply criticizes attitude of Presi
dent Coolidge toward oil disclosures.
LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y—Read
justment of existing freight rates
and stimulation of co-operative mar
keting movement, through existing
agencies are essential steps towards
agricultural relief, John W. Davis
tells friends.
NEW YORK. —During memorial
services for Inez Milholland, suf
fragist leader, at her grave at West
port, N. Y., John E. Milholland, het
father, jurblicly protests action of
National Women's Party in exclud
ing negro spokesman from program.
BUENOS AIRES. —A “national
holiday,” automatically acting as a
moratorium, has been declared in
the state of Sergipe, where a revo
lutionary movement was reported
some time ago, according to a dis
patch to La Nacion.
CL AR K S BURG?’ W. Va.—l Tarr i
son County Central Trades and La
bor council, whose jurisdiction in
cludes Clarksburg, where John W.
Davis was notified of his nomination
for president by Democratic party,
indorses Senator La Follette for
president.
WASHINGTON.—Senator La Fol
lette, in letter to non-partisan polit
iccal campaign committee of Ameri
can Federation of Labor expressing
appreciation of labor's support of
his candidacy, says his policy is
“conservation of human rights.”
Navy dirigible
Shenandoah completes 1,300- mile
scouting expedition off Atlantic
coast, remaining in air approximate
ly forty hours, a record for ship
and locating theoritical “enemy”
ships as part of naval maneuvers.
CHARLESTON. W. Va.—Ten min
ing companies file suit for injunc
tions against the officers and agents
of the 1 nited Mine Workers of Amer
ica asking the court to restrain the
union from lending aid to its mem
bers who refused to yield possession
of company-owned houses.
ATLANTIC CITYTn. J.—The in
junction of what is termed “the
odious issue of religion in politics”
is condemned and the Ku Klux
Klan is designated as “a hooded
cobra which threatens to strike its
poisoned fungs at the very vitals of
<\tr Lee national institutions.” at
the annual meeting of the National
Board of the Ancient Order of Hiber
nians.
Anniston Estimates
Population 33,800
ANNISTON. Ala., Aug. 16.—Based
on the usual ratio of 5 to 1. Anniston
now has a population of 33.500. a
report of a school census recently
completed made public.
According to the school census fig
ures the?e are 2.640 children of
school age within the city limits.
The federal census of 1920 gave
the population of Anniston as 17,731
Taking a more conservative estimate
of 4 tc 1. the city would now have a
population of over 27,000, an increase
of more than 9.000 in four year*.
DEMOCRATIC HOPES
PINNED TO WORK OF
SMITH IN CAMPAIGN
New York Governor Consid
ered Davis’ Biggest Asset
in Winning East
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
I (Special Leased Wire to The Journal— Copy
right. 1924.)
j WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Al
i though a number of Democratic lead
’ ers believe the greatest opportunity
for John W. Davis lies in a fifty-fifty
.split of the Republican vote of the
west between La Follette and Cool
idge not a few chieftians are insist
ing that Governor Al Smith is De
mocracy's real Moses and that upon
his decision the whole course of the
Democratic campaign in the east
will turn.
Al Smith, It would seem, has it in
his power to be the innocent means
of injuring the Davis candidacy .or
helping it. Just now the most inter
esting discussions are going on
which indicate conclusively that
Join W. Davis himself is deeply
concerned over the trend of Gover
nor Smith’s mind.
To understand the situation, with
its many sides it must be remember
ed that the close friends of Al Smith
have not given up hope of ultimately
landing him in the White House.
While the governor himself will ren
der loyal support, he can not control
all of his followers. Some of them,
he thinks, might vote for him and
cut Davis on the mistaken assump
tion that in this way they could
demonstrate the truth of their pre
convention boast that Al Smith could
carry New York even in a presi
dential year. The governor has said
to close friends that if he ran for
re-election he might not be helping
Davis to poll the normal Democratic
vote. He argued that possibly he
would do more good by stumping
other states like New Jersey, Con
necticut. Massachusetts and Rhode
Island where he is admittedly popu
lar, and would draw enormous crowds
whereas if he ran for governor of
New York all his time would have
to be devoted to speech-making in
the Empire state itself.
Smith’s Own Ambitions
This viewpoint has been misrepre
sented as it has percolated througn
Democratic channels into a story
that the real purpose of the gover
nor’s advisors in dissuading him
from running is a selfish one and
that they really want him to spend
his time on the stump not in the
east but in the west in preparation
for the 1928 campaign. This the
ory is predicated on the motion thar
Al Smith needs to establish contacts
in the west, that Davis will not be
victorious anyhow and that to help
Davis carry the east by running for
governor of New York and carrying
, Davis along might by chance bring
Davis into the White House, in
which case he would be the logical
candidate to succeed himself in 1928
and there would be no chance for
Al Smith to win presidential honors.
This correspondent came back
from Clarksburg, W. Va., on the
same train with several Tammany
leaders and discussed the guberna
torial situation with them. They
gave the sincere impression that
while anxious indeed for the triumpa
of John Davis because he has on
more than one occasion shown a dis
tinct friendliness to organizatioi.
men in politics, their chief concern
after all is the local Democratic
ticket. They—meaning Tammany—
want to win. No vote getter like
Al Smith has appeared in a genera
tion in New York politics. So while
they know of Al Smith’s disinclina
tion to run again, they feel he
would insure the victory of the state
and local tickets and they prefer
him to make the race. If it helps
1 the national ticket well and good;
if it doesn't, at least the local can-’
■ didale will have been swept into
; power.
Air hough nobody has the right to
speak for John Davis authoritative
ly. except himself, some of the Deni
i ocrats who have discussed the New
i York situation with him are confi
j dent he wants Al Smith to run for
governor again.
No statement to that effect will
come from Mr. Davis because if
Smith is going to run he will do so
not as an adjunct to the national
ticket with a half-heartened interest
in his own race, but in response to
the demand of the people of New
York for another administration of
their affairs at Albany. The last time
he ran he did not disclose his inten
tion too early in the race.
May Not Go West
Should Al Smith fail to become
the Democratic nominee for gover
nor of New York, it may be serious
ly doubted whether h.'s stump speak
ing will be in the west. Al Smith is
known as a “wet” and the Demo
cratic managers would be taking a
big chance to send any pronounce 1
“wets” to the dry west to tell the
people of the arid belt how to vote.
In the east, however, where to be
a “wet” in politics is considered no
great hardship, but, on the contrary,
in the larger cities is a great asset,
the New York governor would le
helping Davis by giving him en
thusiastic support. Nor would there
be any question of sincerity involved
because Al Smith had the delegat'-m*.-
from the big eastern states at last
month's convention and could have
them again if he runs in 1928.
The strength of William Gibbs!
McAdoo was in the west. According
to letters received here from Eu-!
rope. Mr. McAdoo plans to make
speeches for John Davis in the west,
endeavoring to hold the radical Dem
ocrats to Davis and Bryan standard.
With Smith pulling hard in the east
and McAdoo in the west, the Demo-i
erats hope to ’-«ep their lines steady ;
against the Im Follette invasion «o I
that the Wisconsin independent max J
cither most of his votes from the
Republican party.
For the on* • of the election j
depends almost entirely vn how'
many Republican votes La F-”-*t‘e |
can take -—from whr : might
under other circumstances have:
been expected to have been a so’id i
R —niiean vote for Coolidge. If a?
takes 50 per cent everywhere and i
Democrats hold their own. the |
pluralities of 1912 might be repeated.
But will La Follette get 50 per cent
of the Republican vote? The Re- ■
publican managers insist he will not.
and they deny him the prospect of
a. much as 20 per cent outside hi®
ovxn strongholds in a few state*.
ALIENIST'S OPINION
UNDER HEAVY FIFE
AT FRANKS HEARING
Loeb and Leopold Defense
Claims Gains During
Day’s Battle
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Testimony of Dr.
IH. Douglas Singer, fourth alienist i
: for the prosecution, that Richard
; Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., were i
entirely normal when they kidnaped |
and killed 14-year-old Robert Franks i
last May 21, w?.s subjected today!
to the expert vivisection of the vig
. orously alert Clarence S. Darrow, I
chief counsel for the defense.
| The hearing to determine whether ;
Judge John R. Caverly shall inflict (
the death penalty on the youths on ;
their plea of guilty, or shall Impose
penitentiary sentences upon the
plea for mitigation of punishment I
was enlivened by frequent clashes I
of Mr. Darrow with the witness, and |
again with Robert E. Crowe, state’s ;
attorney.
At adjournment, the defense:
claimed these were net gains:
Admission by Dr. Singer that he '
had reached conclusions by observa
tion, and not examination; that a
split personality, described by de
fense alienists as existing in both i
beys, “might be evidence towards a
mental-disorder;” that the present '
ages of both Loeb and Leopold is
the critical time for developing
“mental sickness,” and that a dream
life might influence personality.
Sticks to “Normal” Opinion
Dr. Singer did not deviate from
his general declaration that he had
found no evidence in his observa- .
tions nor .n the testimony of de
fense experts to sway him from his |
conclusions that there was “no evi-l
dence to indicate a diseased mind in ‘
either youth,” and that they had;
displayed normal emotions and that :
their phantasy lives contained noth i
ing abnormal.
The other leg of the triangular:
plea of the defense —functional dis-;
orders of the endocrine gland sys-;
terns —was not touched upo-r today, j
Mr. Darrow was gratified by get- j
ting into the record a statement by |
James Quinlan, of Joliet, at one j
time an official of the state peni
tentiary, but now a lawyer, that
340 persons had pleaded guilty tc
murder in Illinois in the last ten
years, and that only one of them,
Thomas Fitzgerald, a man nearlv
forty years old, had been hanged.
Mr. Darrow’s point was to bring
out that no youths of the ages of
Leopold and Loeb had paid the su
preme penalty upon pleas of guilty,
and that Mr. Crowe, who had termed
the Franks case a “perfect hanging?
case,” sentenced Fitzgerald.
Once during today’s short session I
Mr. Crowe charged that the defense!
was trying to cheat the law. Mr.;
Darrow countered by accusing Mr.i
Crowe of having held Loeb and Leo-'
pold illegally while he forced con-1
sessions from them. At another!
point the two argued heatedly when !
Mr. Crowe referred to the youths
as “criminals.”
Alienist Holds His Own
“You are not trying to fool me.;
are you, doctor?” presaged one of:
Mr. Darrow's tilts with the witness, j
and “you are not trying to avoid
us, are you?” heralded another. The
doctor, retaining his calm under the
inquisition by Mr. Darrow, each
time shot back invitations to try!
and find out.
“What other names do they use
for ‘split personality?’ ” asked Mr
Darrow.
“Phantasies, delusions, illusions,
mannerisms, etc; they are all evi
dences of a split personality,” re- [
plied Dr. Singer.
The "schizophrenic person” was a i
newcomer in the hearing. He was
introduced by Dr. Singer in a hook I
i m which he had sought to define
more definitely persons with split
personalities, Mr. Darrow reading
extensively from the work.
It was in that connection that the
dsfense counsel obtained the ad
mission from Dr. Singer that
schizophrenia, the inclination ot
parts of the personality to split off,
is me.re likely to develop into insan
ity in intelligent persons of the ap
proximate ages of Loeb and Leopold
th in in others.
ill Return' to Stand
Cross-examination of Dr. Singer
was unfinished when the hearing
was adjourned until 10:30 a. m.,
Monday. It was indicated the de
fense would end its questioning by
Monday n:on. There is only one re
maining witness, Dr. W. O. Krohn,
of Chicago, a veteran .expert witness
:n murder trials and regarded as the!
prosecution s “ace.” Attorneys esti
mated that a day and a half would j
suffice for hearing his testimony. ,
permitting arguments in the hearing;
to be stalled possibly Wednesday;
morning.
Loeb and Leopold found much ;
cause for merriment in the heated
exchanges between counsel and wit-i
ness today and their faces frequent
ly were wreathed in smiles, not I
changing even when Mr. Crowe!
spoke openly of the death penalty. I
At other times they whispered to
each other, or addressed low voiced
remarks to their attorneys.
Negro Shot to Death
On Savannah Streets
By Pursuing Policeman
SAVANNAH, Ga.. Aug. 16.—Jack
Jones, negro, xv.as shot and killed
here Friday afternoon after being
pur ued through crowded doxxm-toxxn
streets by a squad of policemen.
Jones xvas in custody of customs <
officials when he became unruly, and .
a call for police assistance was is
sued. As the patrolmen arrived, the ;
negro opened fire and fled. «
Firing as ran, policemen pur
sued him. Five bullets entered tin c
negro's body before he was killed.
Later when a search of the negro
xvas made, three pistols and five
hundred rounds of amunition xxere
found on his person.
PEA CE IN EUROPE DR A WS S TEP NEARER
AS ALLIED AND GERMAN DELEGA TES
SIGN PROTOCOL ON THE DAWES PLAN
Gist of New Peace Agreement
Evolved at Dawes Plan Parley
LONDON, Aug. 17. (By the Associated
Press) —The agreements concluded last
night by the London conference take the
form of a final protocol with four annexes.
The final protocol is a brief document in
French and English. It is signed by Ram
sey MacDonald, as president, by Secretary
General Sir Maurice Hankey, the allied
secretaries, the German secretary and a
representative of the reparations commis
sion The American secretary does not
sign.
The protocol states that the president
informed the representatives of the powers
and of the reparations commission as
sembled at the foreign office that all the
governments concerned and the repara
tions commission have confirmed their ac
ceptance of the Dawes plan and that by
means of the conference certain agree
ments annexed to the protocol have been
signed or initiated by the parties con
cerned.
These agreements are mutually inde
pendent and cannot be varied, except that
the dates will be advanced, as the original
dates presupposed that the first steps
would be taken on August 15. The parties
concerned will meet later in London to
attach formal signatures to the documents
which have not been signed, and a certified
copy of the agreements as concluded be
tween the allies will be communicated to
Germany.
1 of the protocol is the agreement
of August *J between the reparations com
mission and Germany, whereby Germany
agrees to take necessary measures to pro
mulgate and enforce the laws required to
carry out the Dawes plan in the form ap
proved by the reparations commission,
especially relating to the bank of issue,
the railway and industrial debentures and
to apply certain provisions regarding con
trol of the revenues assigned as security
for the annuities.
The reparations commission undertakes
to do its best to carry out the Dawes
plan, particularly in the way of facilita
ting a loan, and both the reparations com
mission and Germany agree to help to
carry out any additional agreements, in
cluding arrangements for modifying the
Dawes plan. If there is a disagreement on
the interpretation of the provisions, the
dispute shall be submitted to arbitration.
Three of the annexes, to the protocol
embody agreements which the conference
reached for dealing with sanctions to be
applied by the allies to Germany in the
event of her possible default. Under the
Dawes plan, restoration of Germany’s
economic unity and the setting up of a
transfer committee to receive and distri
bute reparations in kind from Germany
The reparations commission, augmented
by an American member, is to supervise in
the first instance the operation of the
Dawes plan. In case of Germany’s de
fault the reparation commission may take
the allies’ recommendation as to the action
PRICE OF CORN
JUMPS 4 CENTS
ON CROP NEWS
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Almost
panicky advances in the corn
; market today xxent to such a
I point that prices were up nine
teen to twenty cents a bushel
above values current at one
time last week. Fear that a
large portion of the corn crop
will fail to mature before kill
ing frosts arrive was the accept
ed general explanation.
Even in war time, few paral
lels are found for Saturday’s tu
multous action of corn values or
for the excitement which per
vaded all the grain pits on the
exchange. The net result when
the gongs cleared out the per
spiring crowds of brokers was a
meximum net gain of 4 1-4 cents
a bushel for corn, 3 1-2 cents
for wheat and 1 7-8 for oats
above Friday’s closing prices.
Interest in corn dwarfed every
thing else, so far as nine-tenths
of grain traders gave any sign,
the agreement at London with
Germany evoking hardly more
than a hurried glance or word,
while every line about the corn
crop received the most eager at
iention. One of the circurn
s tances which brought out the
sharpest comment was the ap
parent capacity of the market
to absorb huge profit-taking
sales. Whether the limit in this
respect had been reached was
widely discussed after the close,
and with much difference of
opinion. It was generally con
ceded that up to this time the
absence of speculative selling in
a market so active as of late
was nearly without a precedent.
The Weather
Forecast for Tuesday
Virginia: Fair, moderate tempera
North and South Carolina: Partly
cloudy.
Georgia: Partly cloudy, probably !
thundershowers in south portion.
Florida, Extieme Northwest Flcr- j
ida: Generally fair, except widely ■
scattered thundershowers.
Alabama, Mississippi: Partly J
cloudy.
Tennessee: Generally fair.
Kentucky: Partly cloudy and |
warmer.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy; unsettled. !
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, August 19, 1924
MIDNIGHT DEATH STRUGGLE
IN KID M’COY’S APARTMENT
' BARED BY WOMAN WITNESS
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 16.—1
The McCoy-Mors case, wherein The- !
resa Mors, divorced wife of a wealthy I
I antique dealer, died some time!
j Tuesday night, with a bullet hole !
lin her head and Kid McCoy, ex- *
■ pugilist, was arrested on suspicion, j
marked time several hours today I
! without any conflicting developments!
i being recorded.
( The affair, which has been de |
! scribed by District Attorney Asa !
j Keyes as the most tangled one he
lever has had to handle, did, however,
Ipioduce a few new angles.
I The district attorney sent three
alienists into McCoy’s cell to ex
j amine him mentally and physically.
The former prize ring idol wil
! lingly bared his body to the trio,
! but his mind and his heart remained
(covered under the seal of silence,
.put on his lips by his attorneys.
McCoy's legal advisers also an
! nounced that they were preparing
Ito tread the tortuous trial of psy
! chiatric testimony with reports of
I alienists of their own choosing.
; Prior to today’s lull in the develop
■ ment of contradictory phases of the
i case, the police revealed late last
i night that they had found a woman ,
j i
Silver Dollar Circulation
i To Save Money for People
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—Pre-',
I dieting that an annual saving of I
( $1,000,000 would result from their .
] use, the treasury department an-;
i nounced tonight that between forty;
and fifty million silver dollars soon •
are to be unloaded on the public.
Approximately fifty million silver I
dollars are in circulation now.
In announcing the proposed clr-j
, < ulation, Under Secretary of the’
Treasury Garrad B. Winston de- !
! dared the increased use of silver •
dollars would permit the treasury to |
! maintain its paper circulation in bet. (
ter condition.
“It. is, the desire of the treasury,” j
j Winston said, “to restore to general !
j circulation silver dollars which for- ;
! merly represented a material portion !
i of the money used by the public !
i It is the treasury’s plan to invite !
i the assistance and co-operation of I
I other government department, as
! well as banks and civic organiza
. tions generally, in acquainting the
I public with the desirability of ac
to be taken; sanctions may not be applied
unless flagrant defaults are established,
and in case of a flagrant default the allies
shall confer as to the nature of the
sanctions. Any decision by the repara
tion commission regarding defaults not
taken by unanimous vote may be appeal
ed to the arbitral commission.
The members of this arbitral commis
sion and the American member of the
reparation commission shall be selected
by unanimous vote of the reparation com
mission and, in default of this, by the
president of t,he world court at The Hague.
In the the allies have to apply sanc
tions to Germany they will safeguard the
specific securities pledged to the service
of the £40,000,000 loan to Germany. Serv
ice of this loan is to have absolute priority
as regards any money of Germany so far as
such money have been subjected to the
general charge in favor of the loan and
also as regards any resources that may
arise through the imposition of sanctions.
The preliminary agreement for the re
storation of German economic unity is
confirmed in the terms already published.
Germany must fulfill the stipulated obli
gations in launching the Dawes plan and
the allies must restore German adminis
trative, civil and economic control
throughout the Ruhr in accordance with a
time table to be enforced progressively as
Germany fulfills Per part. The entire
program for the restoration of Germany’s
fiscal and economic unity is to be com
pleted by October 5, next.
In its handling of reparations in kind
by the transfer committee, Germany recog
nizes the right of the transfer committee
to use its funds to pay for deliveries of
certain products even after fulfillment of
the Versailles treaty obligations, and
agrees that such products need not be con
fined to those specified in the treaty, due
regard being had to Germany’s own re
quirements. Germany further agrees to
facilitate these deliveries under ordinary
commercial conditions.
The allies agree to prevent re-exporta
tion of these deliveries. Deliveries are to
be fixed by a program drawn up by the
reparation commission in consultation with
the transfer committee. If there is a dis
oute as to the program either within the
reparation commission or between the
reparation commission and Germany, an
arbitral commission of three independent
persons shall lay down the program for
defined periods, and such commission shall
also determine upon the complaint of an
allied government whether there has been
wilfull discrimination or obstruction by
the German government.
An elaborate scheme is outlined for the
arbitration of the different kinds of dis
putes that may arise in consequence of
the work of the transfer committee. All
arbitral boards not chosen unanimously
by the reparation commission shall be
nominated by the president of the world
court.
! who heard Mrs. Mors’ last words
and the shot that cut her down, as
I well as the footsteps of two men,
not one, running from the apart
ment where the body afterwards
I was found.
Mrs. Iva Martin, an apartment
I house neighbor of the dead woman,
! told of hearing Mrs. Mors cry: "Oh,
! my God, don’t do that!”
Then the shot and the thud of a
! falling body.
Two men, said Mrs. Martin, ran
from the apartment. One of these
she saw clearly in the moonlight,
and he was not McCoy. The second
man, she could not describe. 'l'hrough
the maze of evidence, report and ru
mor, the district attorney had his
eye on what he says has established
as a fact, namely, that McCoy
killed Mrs. Mors. He declares that
the grand jury will indict the ex
fighter on a murder charge early
next week when the case is laid be
fore that body.
McCoy, in his cell, an unkempt I
edition of the prize ring dandy when I
in other days he wore evening
clothes as frequently as fighting!
trunks, plays solitaire by the hour.!
He is gloomy, quiet and dejected, ;
.where formerly he was loquacious. I
, cepting the silver dollars as an aux
j iliary to the paper dollar in the in
. terest of a.better quality of a paper
currency and of economy to the gov- i
! eminent.”
In formally launching the clrcu ,
lation drive, the treasury depart- !
ment today placed a silver dollar in !
: the pay envelope of each of its 4,000 i
! employes.
During recent years, the govern-;
ment annually issued about $450.-!
! 000,000 in paper money. The aver
, age life of paper currency is esti
! mated at six months, and the aver
; age annual maintenance cost of a
. paper bill is 3 cents. Huge sums are
' expended in repairing mutilated cur
j rency, while reissues of currency;
I also are costly .
Treasury officials pointed out that!
! the life of a silver dollar is virtually
unlimited, and their employment in
I circulation will eliminate the ex
! pensive replacement of paper cur
renry, which occurs twice annually.
While widely used in the west, j
; silver dollars are almost extinw In !
states east of the Mississippi river. ,
a CENTO A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
BERLIWO®
NOW MUST RATIFY
TERMS OF TRUCE
Both Sides Gain Points but
Neither Is Entirely
Satisfied
First Real Peace Pact
Since the World War,
U. S. Delegate Asserts
|
LONDON, Aug. 17.—“ This !fi
tbe first treaty of real peace since
tbe war,” said Colonel Janies A,
Logan, Jr., handling the bulky
documents embodying the confer
ence results. Colonel Logan, who
attended all the conferences since
that of Versailles, said the Lon
don sessions were of business
men. around a table trying and
determined to reach an agree
ment. t i.'iS.Ta
As soon as the conference end
ed, the teleg aph lines and cables
began unloading a flood of con
gratulatory messages. One of the
first received was from King
George.
General Dawes sent congratula
tions to the conference, and the
delegates wired a reply imme
diately.
Premier MacDonald, as presi
dent of the conference, was the
only one to sign his name to the
documents; the other delegates
initialled them only.
LONDON, Aug. 17.—(8y tbe As
sociated Press.) Peace between
France and Germany came one step
nearer last night when representa
tives of the allied powers and Ger
many assembled in Premier Mac-
Donald’s room in the foreign office
and signed or initialled a protocol
providing the means for putting into
effect the Dawes plan, designed to
settle the perplexing reparations
problem.
The London conference, after 30
trying days, thus has been brought
to a. successful conclusion. All eyes
now turn to Berlin and Paris, anx
iously watching to see if the Ger
man reichstag and the French, par- . ;
liament will support Chancellor
, Marx and Premier Herriot in the
' bold step they have taken.
Both these premiers belong to mi
| nority governments, which are none
too stable, and the reaction of the
, German and French peoples xvill be
watched with some apprehension un- i
til their executive bodies approve
and make it possible for German and
French representatives to meet with
the representatives of other interest:- |
ed powers at Paris on August 30,
and attach their formal signatures
to the documents.
Strictly Informal
Premier MacDonald, as president
of the conference, presided at to- =
night’s meeting, which was attended
by about 200 delegates and experts
from the various powers. The ses
sion was strictly informal, and lack
ed spectacular features, as the en
tire conference has. It was a busi
ness meeting in a business office,
and more like a directors’ conference
than a diplomatic function. The
British prime minister and Premiers
i Herriot and Thenunis Chancellor
Marx, Ambassador Kellogg, Baron
Hayashi, Japan, and Professor de-
Stefani, Italy, all made brief ad
dresses expressing their satisfaction
over the successful conclusion of
I the conference. M. Herriot said:
“We see the dawn, and hope soon
to see daylight."
Chancellor Marx thanked Premier
MacDonald especially for “the hu
man understanding” with which he
had dealt with the delicate prob
lems. ■ ! :
Ambassador Kellogg expressed the
opinion that the delegates were all
of the mind that the Dawes plan
was “the greatest piece of construc
tive work of modern times, and added
that he desired to'extend his sincer*
congratulations to General Dawes.
Ruhr Strains Relations
The German, French and Belgian
delegates and Premier Macdonald
had been through such a strain in
the last 48 hours in enforcing a set
| tlement of the French and German
l differences about the Ruhr evacua
! tion which were blocking the entire
conference that they rushed from the
! foreign office in great relief imme
diately upon signature. Mr. Mac- ’ ,
donald started at once for Scotland,
many of the French and Belgian of
ficials took the nlgnt boats home
ward and the .Germans are leaving
for Berlin early tomorrow to take up
their battle, with the reichstag for
ratification of the protocol.
Neither the Germans nor th*
French were fully satisfied with the
compromise agreement on the Ruhr
evaucuation, but both delegations
scored many points which they be
lieve will appeal to their publics and
ease the way in obtaining ratifica
tion.
The specific promise of the French
to evacuate the Ruhr absolutely
within one year from August 15 and
to evacuate Dortmund immediate)*,,
are great prizes for the German dele
gates. although they had hoped that
the period would be narrowed to six
month®. Premier MacDonald won
the admiration of all the delegates
by the fearless and dashing manner
in which he handled the tangled
Ruhr situation, speaking with equal
fianknf 's to both M. Herriot and
• hanceilor Marx aftd doing much to
keep wartime animosities down. The
French and German delegates had
many long conversat.ons during glie
conference concerning their fu»re
tariff arrangement and at times thia
commercial feature threatened to be
a serious handicap to the Ruhr set
tlement. But they finally agreed lo
ninct October 1 in Paris tn begin
negotiations for a commercial treaty.
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