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VOL. XXVI. NO. 135
LA FOLLETTE MENACE TO GOVERNMENT, DAWES SAYS
DEATH DEMANDED
FOR BOY SLAYERS,
ARGUMENTS BEGIN
State Attorney Picks Flaws
In Defense Plea of
Irresponsibility
CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—(8y the As
sociated Press.)—Testimony was fin
ished today in the case of Nathan ■
F Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, con
fessed murderers of Robert Franks.
A final exchange of pleasantries be
tween Dr. William O. Krohn, state
alienist, and attorneys for the de
fense, marked the conclusion of this
phase of the proceedings.
As both sides declared their cases
complete, the attorneys gathered be
fore the bench and conferred as to
procedure on arguments. Thomas
Marshall, legal expert, for the state's
attorney, was announced as the
• opening orator for the prosecution.
A five-minute recess preceded the
start of the arguments.
“There is only one penalty appli
cable here,” said Mr. Marshall at
the start of his argument. “That
penalty is death. The lower punish
ments apply only to lesser crimes.”
“If this case does not deserve
death, then there has never been a
case in Illinois that deserved that
punishment,” he added.
Requires Written Arguments
Judge Caverly announced that he
wanted both sides to submit written
conclusions, containing a statement
of opinion and reasons therefor. He
also asked for a complete copy of
the confessions of the youthful slay
ers as he has never read them, and
for the records of certain medical tes
timony.
The court announced that the tes
timony on the kidnaping charge
would be given after the final argu
ments on the murder indictment.
The,-'attorneys agreed this should not
last more than a half hour. The
judge stated that at that time he
i would announce the date upon
which his decision would be given.
Mr. Marshall stood directly in
front of Judge Caverly and sway
ing back and forth without chang
ing the position of his <! eet, he read
off his printed manuscript in a
tenor voice that carried to every
portion of the court room. His eyes
were seldom focused on the judge,
who leaned back in his swivel chair
and eye,] the ceiling, occasional!,
changing his position tc make note
of a citation.
“At common law the punishment
In all cases of murder was death,
but in our law the punishment may
be 14 years in the penitentiary, life
imprisonment, or death,” read Mr.
Marshall.
He expounded the idea that since
a plea of guilty had been filed by
Leopold and Loeb, the functioning
of fixing the penalty, usually a
duty of a jury, devolved upon Judge
Caverly.
Cites Court Decision
“In the case growing out of the
1917 Bast St. Louis race riots,” said
Mr. Marshall, “the supreme court
passed upon the question of admit
ting certain testimony in mitigation
of the offense. It was hild that the
of wanton acts by one
k ? ip did not justify similar acts .by
other.”
He read from that decision that
the law designed that punishment
should be proportional to the turpi
tude of the offense.
“Turpitude,” he read from an
other decision, “includes everything
done contrary to decency, honesty or
good morals.''
"An Oregon case was cited to
strengthen this phraseology.
“We are here in a proceeding to
fix punishment in a case where ag
gravation and mitigation are consid
ered because the law of Illinois so
provides.” said Mr. Marshall, and
read from the statutes in support of
this iea.
“There is no disit notion between
man and man before the bar of jus
tice,” he continued. “Poor and rich,
old and young, the learned and the
unlettered are all within the reach
of the law. No man is above it.
And in exercising judicial discretion
here, the court is bound to follow
the lav ’
Mr. Marshall said the court was I
bound to consider first, responsibil- !
ity; se- >nd, mitigation, and third, I
t urpituc He read dictionary defi-|
nitions if these terms and followed :
with quotations from various tieci-1
sions-giving legal interpretations. i
“1 an confining the discussion of!
the legtt. aspects of this case to these I
three subjects.” he explained.
Question of Responsibility
“Respi nsibility,” he said, "is with j
out degree. It is fixed.
"If Loeb and Leopold are respon- '
slide enough to receive a sentence
to the penitentiary, they are by
that same responsibility responsible!
enough to be sent to the gallows.
"Responsibility when fixed, there
fore. demands that the court set the
punishment in accordance with the
mitigation and turpitude of the of-1
tense.”
Where the person can distinguish
between right and wrong, he cannot
escape '.he responsibility for his act
on a pleX .'f insanity," was read from
an Illinois ease.
"This language." said Mr. Marshall
to the court, “is exceedingly impor
tant. as we understand it.”
He read the finding again, empha
sizing a passage that stated "it ,
would be dangerous to hold that a .
person might not be responsible al
though be was not entirely sane.”
"That is the law,” said Mr. Mar
shall, "and it is clear that one may ;
p* pnrtly Insane and yet be legally I
responsible and sentenced to death."
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
IT 7 or Id News
! Told in
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CHICAGO. —James Eads How, 65,
“millionaire hobo," of St. Louis,
marries Miss Engeberg Sorensen, 29,
' here.
LOS ANGELES. —Grand jury in
dicts Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, on
charges of murder of Mrs. Theresa
Mors, wealthy divorcee.
AV A SHING TON Rati fl ca t ions of
the liquor treaty between Sweden
and United States are formally ex
changed at state department.
MADRID. —Guerilla warfare is be
ing carried on by rebellious Moroc
can tribesmen on two fronts of the
Spanish zone, official statement say.
SCRANTON, Pa. —Closing of small
independent anthracite operations
due to slack demand, has made 15,-
000 miners idle, mine workers’ union
officials say.
MANILA. —One Negrito is killed,
another wounded and member of con
stabulary force wounded in fight be
tween constabulary members and
tribesmen.
PLYMOUTH, \t.—President Cool
idge “listens in” on radio at his
father's home to speech of General
Dawes accepting Republican nomi
nation for vice president.
NEW YORK. —Minimum budget
of $2,032,485, with plans for increas
ed colonization, is announced for
year beginning September 1, by
Palestine Foundation fund.
NEW YORK- —Strike on Lapor
day is threatened by 5,000 stage
hands, musicians and theater em
ployes throughout country unless
wage increase, demands ape met.
JACKSON, Miss. —United States
Senator Pat Harrison is renominated
by Democrats of Mississippi in pri
mary by overwhelming majority over
former Governor Earl Brewer.
SAN FRANCISCO.—EIection reac
tion theories, propounded by late Dr.
Abrams, of San Francisco, is pro
nounced baseless by. committee of
scientists, sponsored by “Scientific
American.”
CLARKSBITRG, W. V.-r-.Tohn W.
Davis plans to open western speak
ing tour Labor day by address at
Wheeling. W. Va., under auspices
of Ohio Valley Trades and Labor as
sembly.
MEXICO ClTY—Kidnaping of A.
T. Berrinean, Sn American, by ban
dits who held him for ransom, is re
ported to foreign office by H. F.
Schoenfeld, American charge d'af
faires.
BOSTON.—Henry Ford. Harvey S.
Firestone and Thomas Edison reach
Ludlow, Vt., on course of their va
cation motor journey about New
.England, and will call on President
Coolidge at Plymouth.
LOS ANGELES. —Two alienists
report to District Attorney Keyes, of
Los Angeles, that Kid McCoy, former
pugilist, who is held on suspicion of
murder of Theresa Mors, wealthy di
divorcee. si entirely sane.
LINCOLN, Neb —Governor Charles
W. Bryan, of Nebraska, in formally
accepting Democratic nomination as
vice president, pledges party to so
lution of difficulties of farmers and
wage earners.
CHICAGO. —In opening final
argument, Thomas Marshall, assist
ant state attorney, unqualifiedly' de
mands death penalty for Nathan F.
Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, con
fessed murderers of 14-year-old Rob
ert Franks.
NEW YORK. — Warrant is issued
on complaint of Canon Chase, of
Brooklyn, for arrest of Luis Angel
Firpo, Argentine heavyweight, on
charge of perjury in connection with
circumstances surrounding fighter’s
entry into United States.
PUTNAM, Conn. —Federal war
rant, charging embezzlement of SIOO,-
,000 from the First National Bank of
Putnam, is served on G. Harold Gil
patric, cashier and former state
treasurer, who is recovering from
attempted suicide.
NEW YORK.— Long lost marble
bust of George Washington, pre
sented to the United States by
France and thought to have
been destroyed by fire in 1851,
is found by Mitchell Kennerly. New
York art collector, and sold to Henry
E. Huntington, noted California col
lector.
EVANSTON, 11l. —National cam
paign of .1924 will be contest be
tween "progressive conservatism"
of Republicans and "untried and
dangerous radicalism" of La Fol
lette independents with Demo
crats straddling the issue, General
Charles G. Dawes declares in ac
cepting Republican vice presidential
nomination.
Lost Bust of Washington,
Given U. S. by France,
Is Found in New York
NEW YORK. Aug. 19—The mar
; ble bust of George Washington pre
-1 sented to the United States by
| France, and thought to have been
I destroyed in the fire which razed the
' Congressional library in December.
I 1851, has been found after more than
seventy years.
Mitchell Kennerley, art collector.
I announced he had found the historic
; relic in an obscure marl’ cutter's
> establishment in Manhattan and dis
posed of it to Henry E. Huntington.
of New York and San Gabriel, Cal.
j Daniel Chester French, Paul Bart
lett and Jo Davidson, American
sculptors, and several art experts
have pronounced the bust to be the
work of Pierre Jean David, com
monly called David D'Angers, fa
; mous French sculptor, fupm whom
the French government originally
I purchased it for presentation to this
government. Other evidences, such
as comparison of the bust with de
• seriptions and dimensions noted by
■ D‘Angers’ biographer, testify to the
authenticity of ie find.
The bust, of pentelic marbles, and
about thirty inches in height, was
i presented to the United States early
in the last century.
IHIOT ID FACE
HOSTILE DEPUTIES
WITH DAWES PUN
PARIS, Aug. 19. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The French cabinet
today unanimously approved the
work of the French delegation at
the international conference in Lon
don, and thanked it for the important
results it had attained in the inter
ests of France.
The cabinet met this morning,
ami, after having listened atten
tively to a report by Premier Her
riot on the proceedings and results
of the conference, gave its un
qualified approval of the accord
which had been concluded at the
meeting at the British capital.
It nvas decided that the premier
should read his declaration before
the senate and chamber Thursday,
giving a complete report of the work
of the London conference to both
bodies of the French legislature.
Faces Parliament
With the approval of the cabinet
! for his part in the London negotia-
I tions, M- Herriot is faced with a
strenuous two or perhaps three
weeks in parliament where already
eight important interpellations are
scheduled in the chamber of depu
ties.
In the upper house former Pre
mier Poincare is to take the floor
again in the government. Neither
house, however, is expected to go to
the extent of voting disapproval of
the premier’s course. When the de
bate concludes, parliament probably
will adjourn until
Meantime the ministers will at
tack an important problem of in
ternal policy, meeting this evening
to consider measures connected with
the high cost of* living,. notably in
regard to the price of bread.
The cordial reception accorded M.
Herriot by his colleagues of the cabi
net echoed the enthusiasm of the
throngs of men and women who
came to greet him when he arrived
from London Monday evening.
Tribute Paid Herriot
The popular demonstration in and
about the St. Lazare station when
the premier arrived was an unmis
takable expression of popular re
joicing over the accord concluded in
London, but it was also, in the opin
ion of observers, a personal tribute
to M. Herriot from those Frenchmen
who believe the London agreement
was a paving of the way for a return
to a real peace footing.
I The approval given by the cabi
net this morning to the work of the
Fiench delegation in London is said
by competent observers to augur
well for the survival of M. Herriot’s
report through the two or three
weeks of preliminary buffeting it
will have to undergo.
Eight important interpellations
are scheduled and eight prominent
orators are t n the list for speeches
and it is understood that M. Herriot
does not desire to sut short the dis
c Lssions.
Premier Herriot told interviewers
today he was resolved to waste no
time in going ahead with the task
of obtaining the approval of both
houses of the legislature. He will
! take no vacation when parliament
finally adjourns, but will work hard
er than ever while the representa
tives of the country in the senate
and chamber are taking their annual
vacations in the country.
“The conference is the first act
of peace,” he said. “There remain
others to be accomplished, but I sin
cerely believe they will prove less
difficult. I count on the debate be
I fore the chamber to be over by Fri
day, and that before ihe senate be
fore Saturday.
Hope for Turk Treaty
The premier hopes that even the
Lausanne treaty may be taken up
and ratified before the decree clos
ing the session of the legislature
is read.
As soon as the adjournment is
taken, M. Herriot will attack the
problem of the high cost of living.
His attitude on this subject is indi
cated by his remark today.
“We simply have to find away
of bringing down prices.”
Consideration of this internal prob
lem, however, will not distract him
from his work on the progfams of
foreign policy, which will arise Wed
nesday or Thursday, he asserts
The first of these problems will be
that of ..1 ity to France, which
he will raise at the assembly of the
League of Nations, at Geneva, and
the preparation of which will require
much of his time.
Then will come the economic prob
lem. that of the interallied debts, and,
finally, that cf French relations with
Russia inta which he intends to go
fuity, studying particularly what
England has done and consulting
French merchants and manufac
turers who are now dealing with
Russia.
In the aggregate, all of these con
siderations form a formidable pro
gram of work for the premier while
the other politicians are at rest or
play.
GERMAN REICHSTAG PLANS
DAWES SETTLEMENT LAWS
By Edgar Ansel Mowrer
(Special Kacio to The Atlanta Journal anrt
the Chicago Daily News.)
BERLIN, Aug 19.—The reich
stag probably will be called Thurs
day to begin discussion of the laws
Germany must pass in order to make
the London settlement effective and
to enable the Dawes plan to operate.
Hence, the question: "What will
the reichstag do'."' is on the lips of
everyone.
The German government has done
everything in its power to prepare
the ground for smooth legislation. It
convened the party leaders who —
even those not in the government
advised the acceptance. Now it is
placing the settlement before a com
mittee of jurists to advise if it is
necessary to have a two-thirds ma
jority. since the treaty of Versailles
provides for plurality passage of laws
necessitated by the treaty.
PARTY CHIEFS SEE
PEHEECTHIBMONT
IN BRYAN SPEECH!
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Specia. Leased Wire to The Journal —Copy-
right. 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Al
though there has been no anxiety
as to the character of Governor
Bryan's speech of acceptance mafii
fest, unquestionably the managers
of the Democratic party breathe
easier today as they read the ad
dress of Nebraska's governor.
Until now the impression has
been cultivated by many Republi
cans that the presidential and vice
presidential nominees could be
counted on to be at opposities on
public questions and that the voter
would not be considering candidates
standing on the party platform, but
two men who would interpret it in
different ways.
The speech by Governor Bryan
puts a” end, so far as the Democrats
are concerned, to any such fears, for ;
Mr. Bryan not only has kept within
the limits of the platform—he really
had little difficulty, for his own
brother drafted most of the platform
in New York —but he comes out for
John W. Davis as a progressive and
makes a bid to the radicals in both ,
parties to* follow the Democratic I
ticket.
The nominees for president and j
vice president stand together. This .
will not end efforts to drive a wedge |
between them. The Bryan speech is ‘
not ultra radical. Every word of it I
can be subscribed to by John W. j
Davis, for if anything it amplifies ,
the principles he has already. enun- ■
ciated. During the coming cam ,
paign Mr. Davis will be found more j
and more in line with the Bryan in <
terpretation of the platform than 1
with the conservatism of which he ,
was presumed to be a disciple before
he was nominated.
Bryans Strong in West
William Jennings Bryan's publish
ed interview in which he admits he
was frankly mistaken in his esti
mation of John W. Davis, and that
his views were based on circumstan
tial evidence rather than study, will
not prevent the Republican critics
from assuming that the Commoner s
enthusiasm is based upon his fond
ness for his own brother, but it will
enable the former secretary of state
to stump the west whole-heartedly
and give new evidence of the pro
gressivism of John W. Davis.
The Bryan brotners have a hold
on the west. Governor Bryan has a
reputation for sincerity and honesty.
He was indorsed by the farmer-labor
party of Nebraska —Lj'i Follette’s
own followers when he ran for
governor last time, and was elected
by an overwhelming majority. His
speech of acceptance, therefore, will
be examined by Nebraskans to deter
mine whether he has shaken off the
radicalism of the farmer-labor party
or whether he has kept the faith of
progressivism.
One thing can be counted upon
the Bryan speech represents the
type of appeal the Democratic party
will make to the western voter. It
is intended to be more progressive
than the Republican platform, and
not as radical as the La /Follette
pronouncements. It is designed to
win the approval of those independ
ent voters who do not wish to con
sider themselves as conservatives
and yet v?ho do not wish to follow
the La Follette band wagon. Wheth
er such a group is numerically large
is difficult to conjecture, but there
is no such uncertainty as to the
number of voters inside the Demo
cratic party who have been looking
with some favor on the La 1* ollctte
movement.
Seek to Hold Lines
The Democratic strategy is to hold
the normal Democratic vote every
where and not to lose any groups no
matter how small, especially in the
west where the insurgent movement
inside the Republican party has been
running strong for the last six years.
The Democrats confidently believe
that if they hold their own lines
they will have a plurality as between
the La Follette and Coolidge vote.
The western managers here say that
all the ultra radicals left the Demo
cratic party two and-four years ago
when the Brookharts, Norrisses.
Shipsteads, Magnus Johnson and
the rest of the radical Republicans
were running for office. Their large
majorities were really assisted by
Democrats voting both in Repub
lican primaries and elections.
An appeal will be made to get
some of them back but basically the
Democrats figure that the Repub
lican party in the west must neces
sarily lose much of its strength to
La Follette. The Coolidge speeches
made no effort to truckle to the
western radicals. The Bryan speed,
makes a distinct gesture in the di
rection of the western radicals of
both parties.
The Bryan-Davis campaign, after
all, will be fought most vigorously
in the west and that is why the
Bryan speech of acceptance is a key
note of the national campaign itself
as it will be waged by every one of
the Democratic candidates from
John W. Davis down. There-will
incidentally be no abatement of this
doctrine when campaigning in the
east for the appeal will not be to
conservatists who are mostly life
long Republicans, but to independ
, ents.
The speech of Charles G. Dawes,
i vice presidential nominee of the Re
i publican party, is expected also to
> be in close accord with the Coolidge
j speech of acceptance and with the
four principal speeches delivered.
' the national campaign will be on in
full swinu this week.
Flames Sweep Block
In Downtown Houston;
Loss Put at $200,000
HOUSTON. Tex.. Aug. 19.—Fire
■ which swept a downtown business
I block here caused damage estimated
I at $200,000.
The Settegast building, an eight
story structure, was burned to the
• ground.
The Bering Hardware company’s
i loss alone was SIOO,OOO. Their en
‘.ire stock was wiped out.
One spectator was injured when
he slipped on the wet pavement.
Prices Are Going Up
FOR several years the national papers and maga
zines have been fighting hard for Southern
subscribers. In the fierce competition for circula
tion in Dixie they have been cutting their prices
away below the cost of mailing out their periodicals.
As a result, our readers have been able to get
the cream of the periodicals through Tri-Weekly
journal clubs at ridiculously low cost.
That bitter competition is about to be replaced
by saner and sounder business methods on the part
of those publishers. So clubbing prices are go
ing up.
You will always be able to get clubs through
us as cheaply as from any other publication—but
we will have to increase our prices on all combi
nations on October 1.
Subscribe now and save money. If your sub
scription expires within the next six months it will
pay you to renew now if you want clubbing com
binations.
We have the other publishers tied up with con
tracts till October 1. They can’t raise their prices
to us before that date. Until then you can get
any of the combinations listed on Page 5 at the
remarkable bargain prices which have been in force
since January 1. But the price of every one Os
them will go up in a littte over thirty days.
Don’t wait till it is too late. Act now.
October 1 is the last day.
DAVIS AND LEADERS
MEET TO DISCUSS
CWIGN PLANS
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Having
practically finished the blocking out
of the subject matters of several of
his forthcoming addresses during a
three-day stay at his Ldng Island
home, John W. Davis found time to
day to devote his attention to several
important conferences at his person
al headquarters here.
The Democratic presidential nomi
nee was ready to take up with George
White, former chairman of the Dem
ocratic national committee questions
concerning the make-up of the
“board of strategy” and other mat
ters having an important bearing
on his campaign. Mr. White has
just returned from national head
quarters at Washington where he
talked with a number of party lead
ers. •
Another party leader with whom
Mr. Davis has a conference is Gov
ernor Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland.
He planned also to see several other
Democratic chiefs and to give atten
tion to pressing correspondence. Aft
er his addresses at Sea Girt, N. J..
Friday and Columbus, Ohio, next
Tuesday. Mr. Davis will turn his face
westward on the first long tour of
his campaign. His first speech of
that trip will be delivered at Wheel
ing. West Va.. on Labor day, at the
annual assembly of the Ohio Valley
Trade and Labor council.
Leading Wheeling, Mr. Davis will
io into the middle western states and
after some days there will pn«h on
further west. He does not plan to
make a continuous tour of it, but
however, to conduct what he calls a
“shuttle” campaign, basing himself
meantime on the western headquart
ers at Chicago.
Army Chaplain Flying
Across the Continent
To Visit War Mothers
MITCHELL FIELD. Long Island
Aug. 19.—Father John J. Sullivan
lett here today- at 4 a. m., eastern
standard time, in a DeHaviland
plane, piloted by Lieutenant M. L
Elliott, on the first lap of his trans
continental flight.
The plane was expected to reach
Chicago at 11 a. m., after a stop at
Cleveland for refueling.
Between Chicago and San Fran '
cisco, the priest will visit parents of I
aviators killed in the World war. i
for whom he performed burial serv- I
ices in France when he was attached '
to the American aviation corps as i
chaplain.
Father Sullivan is rector of St. !
Augustine's church, Boston, and is
a chaplain of the Veterans of For- I
eign Wars
He expects to spend three months >
on his present mission.
Head of Fake Whisky
Label Ring Confesses
Cleaning Up $450,000
CHICAGO. Aug. 19. —Frank Jus
chinsky, alleged head of a counter-!
feit strip stamp and fake whisky la-1
bel ring, arrested last night, has;
made $450,000 through his operations •
in three years, according to detective?;
who said he has confessed. He 1-:
willing to spend five years in the
penitentiary as a result, they said.
The oneratives said Juschinsky
told them he had planned to make
$25,000 before be got caught and be
lieved he could afford to snend five
years in the penitentiary.
His calculations may go awry, of
ficials said, pointing out that he s '
subject to a sentence of fifteen years
for possessing counterfeit stamps in
addition to five years for each of the
Platej.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, August 21, 1924
i INTENT TO ■OEB
FORMALLY CHADDED
IN FLORIDA SHOOTING
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 20.
. A warrant charging assault with
■ intent to murder was sworn out
Wednesday against Robert J. Whid-
I don, University of Florida student,
• in connection with the shooting Fri
! day night of his secret wife, Miss
( Viola Nash.
Sheriff P. G. Ramsey filed the for
mal charges after physicians had
stated that Miss Nash, whose body
was pierced by a pistol bullet just
i below the heart, probably would tc
. I cover.
. | The sheriff learned Tuesday from
; Judge Paul Thompson, of Gadsden
i county, that Miss Nash and Whid
i don had been married in Quincy, on
I June 5. The marriage was kept se
! cret here. Officers have also received
. j testimony from a friend of Whiddon,
j who is reported to have said that
I Whiddon had told him of the mar
riage and had threatened to kill Miss
Nash “because she will not live with
me.”
Revelation of the marriage seemed
to have a good effect on Whiddon
Wednesday. He acted normal, ate
heartily and talked freely about mat
ters othe ■ than the shooting. Until
Wednesday he had appeared insane
i and would neither talk nor eat. He
has not employed counsel yet. '
The circuit court here will not
I meet again until January, when
I Whidd on's case will he tried. In
[ the meantime, unless Miss Nash dies
' he will be allowed to make bond. He
I lias relatives in Sycamore, Ga., his
former home, and .Live Oak, Fla.
WIIIDDON S WIDOWED .MOTHER
HEARTBROKEN OVER SHOOTIN’
SYCAMORE. Ga., Aug. 20.—Mrs.
Francis Whiddon, mother of Robert
J. Whiddon. charged with shooting
Miss Viola. Nash, of Hawthorne,
Fla., 'ast week, is heartbroken over
her son’s troubles. She received a
telegram from him in which he told
I of the affair and the charges against
. him and asked her to come to him.
I On account of her age, it is not ex
i pected that she will go.
i Whiddon’s father, who has been
dead a number of years, was a well
to-do Turner county planter, and
members of this family, one of the
oldest in this section, have figured
! prominently in the history of Irwin
j and Turner counties. The young
man was in the army during the
i World war. but did not go to France
j owing to severe illnesses which made
j necessary several operations. Since
j the war, he has studied in several
lof the government’s vocational
I schools.
Alabama Girl and
Escort Shot From
Ambush on Highway
ALBANY, Ala., Aug. 19.—Mist !
j Lois Anders and Edgar Crane, of ;
I Hartselle, were suffering today from ■
I painful gun shot wounds sustained i
\ last night when some one fired into '
’ their automobile with a shotgun. I
They told police that they were j
I on their way to a meeting at Hart- I
j selle and had stopped to allow Crane i
to read a letter when they were fired |
upon
About twenty shots were taken ;
from their faces and heads. Police
I investigated but could not establish I
j the identity of their assailant.
i The Weather
Forecast for Thursday:
Virginia: Partly cloudy and warm
er. probably local thundershowers.
North and South Carolina, Geor-
■ gia: Partly cloudy.
Florida: Generally fair except
i showers in extreme southern por- !
tion.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama. Mississippi: Probably gener-j
ally fair.
MARRIAGES ILLEGAL
AFTER AUGUST 18.
M’LENDOIH HOLDS
Six Atlanta Couples in
Search of Licenses Are
Told to Wait
Every marriage contracted in
Georgia since August 18, when the
I new marriage act was signed by
I Governor Walker, is illegal, and
I persons who contemplate matrimony
! during the remainder of the present
! month, would do well to postpone
their wedding dates until the new
i marriage law can be put into effect.
I in the opinion of S. G. McLendon,
secretary of state. Attorney Gen
eral George M. Napier was out of
the city Wednesday, and it is not
known whether his opinion coincides
with that of Secretary McLendon
T. R. Gress, assistant attorney
general, agreed with Secretary Mc-
Lendon, especially with reference to
marriages based on licenses issued
within the five-day period after Aug
ust 18, when the bill bscsme effec
tive. Mr Gress declared that parties
contemplating marriage would do
well to await the receipt of copies
of the new bill by five var’ous caun
i ty ordinances, so as to be sure of
; compliance with the law, before, hav
i ing the ceremonies performed.
Ordinaries have been in grave
doubt as to their duties under the
new law, and have besieged the at
torney general and secretary of
slate with inquiries, it was said.
Copies of the new marriage law
were being mailed out to the county
ordinaries by the attorney general's
office on Wednesday.
Six couples' met with setbacks in
the ordinary’s court of Fulton coun
ty Wednesday morning when they
made applications for marriage li
censes and were informed the new
law had gone into effect.
Judge T. H. Jeffries said Wednes
day that new blanks are being
printed for the issuance of licenses
and that his office is now prepared
to receive all applications.
Five-Day Provision
The new law requires that notice
! of application for marriage licenses
j must be posted in the ordinary’s of
; flee for five days before the license
| is issued, in order that anyone who
desires to file objections may do so.
and there are other provisions mak
ing the marriage law more strict 'n
Georgia. For this eason, Secretary
McLendon advises all parties who are
not familiar with the law to wait
until the ordinaries receive their
copies of the act, and put them info
effect.
“Every marriage contracted In
Georgia' from the 18th day of Au
gust until this law can be fully com
pile 1 with will be an illegal mar
riage,” Secretary McLendon de
clared. “This is a serious matter,
and wi be embarrassing to all per
son ■ who may be joined in mar
riage and a few days later find that
their marriage was illegal.
"The law probably was passed to
put a stop to kindergarten mar
riages, but it takecs in old and young
alike. All people now engaged to
be married, and who have fixed any
date in the month of August for their
wedding, had better postpone their
marriage and consult the ordinary.
“The press can do a good turn for
hundreds of Georgians by rapidly
giving knowledge of this law. Since
no marriage forms are at present in
the hands of the ordinariees, and will
have to be printed, marriagees will
have to wait until the law can be
complied with.”
The law does not specify any date
for its effectiveness, which makees it
automatically effective when it has
been passed by both houses of the
legislature and signed by the gover
nor. Governor Walker signed the
bill Monday night.
Law’s Essential Features
The essential paragraphs of the
new marriage Jaw are as follows:
“Marriage licenses shall be grant
ed by the ordinaries, or their depu
ties, of the several counties where
the female to be married resides, if
resident in this state; provided, that
if she be a non-resident of this state,
then by the ordinary of the county
in which the ceremony is to be per
formed; directed to any judge, jus
tice of the peace, or minister of the
Gospel, authorizing the marriage of
the persons therein named and re
quiring such judge, justice of the
peace, or minister of the Gospel to
return the said license to the ordi
nary, with his certificate thereon as
to the fact and date of the marriage,
within thirty days after the date of
said marriage, which license with
the return thereon, shall be record
ed by the ordinary in a book kept
for this purpose.
“No marriage license shall be
granted until the ordinary or his
deputy shall have secured in writ
ing answers under oath from the
contracting parties or either of them,
to the following questions concern
ing each: Name, residence, city,
county and state, age, relationship,
white or colored, previously married,
divorced, upon what grounds, when
and where, any legal impediment,
date and place of contemplated mar
riage, parents’ residence, parents’'
nationality; which answers shall he j
certified to by the ordinary or his
deputy and recorded on or attached ■
to the marriage license.
To Post Application
“Immediately upon receiving ap- j
plication fur a license, the ordinary
or his deputy shall post in the ordi
nary's office a notice giving the j
nai.i-.s and residences of the parties •
t-polying therefor, and the date of
the application. No license shall be I
issued earlier than five days follow- :
ing the date of application tor such
license within which period of five
days objections to the proposed mar
riage may be entered; provided, that
in case of emergency, or extraor- ,
dinary circumstances, the judge of !
the court having probate jurisdiction
may auther’ze the license to be is
sued at any time before the expira- A
tion of said five days.
“It shall be the duty of the ordinary j
and his deputy to inquire as to tne
ages of all persons for whom mar-
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4 CENIS> A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
TRAINS WMM FIRE
ON RADICALISM IN
OPENING ADDRESS
G. 0. P. Vree Presidential
Nominee Accuses Demo
crats of Straddling
t EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 20.—(8y
? j the Associated Press.) —Having
I formally accepted the Republican |
jr nomination for vice president,
t Charles G. Dawes entered actively
3 into the party's national campaign
1 today with his departure for Maine
to deliver an address Saturday at
• Augusta.
‘ The Augusta address is the only
1 one listed for Mr. Dawes on the trip
s
undertaken today and he will return
v to his home here early next week
" and then proceed to Lincoln, Neb.,
” another speech on August 29.
-. His first stumping tour will begin
:- soon afterward.
s Formal notification of his selection
u as President Coolidge's running mate D
was given Mr. Dawes last night at
f ceremonies held on the lawn of his
- home here with an audience declared _
by Republican leaders to have been
one of the largest that ever gathered
’ at any political meeting in the vicin
j ity of Chicago.
The big audience, extending in an
c almost solid mass from the Dawes
home to Lake Michigan, three hun
s dred yards away, was composed of
the leaders of the Republican party,
of delegations from a number of rnid- >
. die western cities and towns and of
y the neighbors of the nominee.
i- Issue as He Sees It
v
Speaking to this audience and in
directly to the country’s voters, Mr.
Dawes assailed the La Follette in
’ dependent candidacy as “a mobiiiza
j tion of extreme radicalism,” declared
the real contest of the campaign to
be between the pprogressive Con
e servatlsm” of the Republican party
s and the “untried and dangerous rad
icalism" of the La Follette movement
e and defended the course of the Hard
ing and Coolidge administrations in
foreign affairs.
.’ Although givjng the credit to Pres
’’ ident Coolidge and Secretary Hughes,
n Mr. Dawes predicted that acceptance
v of the reparations plan worked out
under his direction meant peace and
‘ prosperity for Europe and saving of
r the United States from inevitable ag
’ rlcultural and industrial depression.
The nominee, after defining the
’ position of the Republican party as
one of progressive conservatism and
that of the La Follette independent
' candidacy as one of extreme radical
ism, declared the Democraic party
’> stood in between and “instead of re
’ cruiting itself from the two battle
’ lines, will suffer only the fate which
t befalls those who try to straddle in
a real fight.”
D Mr. Dawes spoke In response to
’ the formal notification address de-
J livered by A. W. Jefferis, former
o representative from Nebraska und
V charman of the official notification
r committee, who likewise attacked
7 "the man from Wisconsin, ’ whom
. he said had thrown off “all pretense
r of Republicanism and has run tway
’ from the home where for for.:y years
> he has been fed and sheltered and
i has finally eloped with the Socialist
1 party.”
I Small Party With Him
8 j The party leaving here Wednesday
with Mr. Dawes for Maine was
small, consisting only of the nom
inee. Francis J. Kilkenny, his <-h>ef
’ assistant; Major George A. Paddock,
of Evanston; a stenographer and
Howard M. Sewall, of Bath, Maine,
who will act as host to Mr. Dawes
during his stay in the Maine capiial.
Mr. Dawes will arrive jq New
, York at 9:40 a. m., Thursday and
leave twenty minutes later tor New
Haven, Conn. Arriving there, ha
’ will go by automobile to Westbrook,
’ Conn., to spend a portion of Thurs
’ day and Friday with Walter H. Wil
son, one of the directors of his Chi-
■ cago bank.
; Leaving Westbrook late Friday,
the nominee will go to Augusta by
’ way of Brunswick and spend Satur
day and Sunday in the Maine capital.
• Returning, he will spend Monday
forenoon in Boston, arriving back in
Evanston Tuesday morning.
i Acting as the spear-head of tho
Republican battle lines in the north
west, General Dawes initiated a
vicious attack on Senator La Fol
lette, candidate for president on the
: independent ticket, and on Governor
Charles W. Bryan, vice presidential
candidate on the Democratic ticket.
Dawes branded them as "radicals.'’
He attacked La. Follette for attempt
ing to tamper with the constitution.
In his speech accepting the nomi
nation, he dealt with only a. few is
sues, devoting himself largely to na
assault on La Follette and on the
“one radical candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket.”
“Robert M. La Follette, leading
i the army of extreme radicalism, has
a platform demanding public owner
ship of railroads and attacking our
courts which are a fundamental and
constitutional safeguard of Ameri
can citizenship,” Dawes said.
Sees La Follette as Menace
“Our nation is asked to leave im
portant constitutional moorings to
' embark again into these contests
i through which it has fought up to
the establishment of good govern
ment. Through the war of the rev
olution. through the Civil war and
I through the World war, our people
have struggled to maintain our con
stitutional principles. They are ask
ed to follow with an attack upon
I them, massed behind by an aggies
sive personality, a heterogenous
collection of those opposing the ex
isting order of things, with the so
j cialists flying the red flag, and into
j what? Into confusion and conflict
'of ideas and ideals and into the re
opening of war upon these funda
mental principles, of human liberty
’and the inalienable rights of men
I which are giving in this country
safety and opportunity to the hum- f
blest and to establish which the
blood of our forefathers was shed.
This is the predominant issue in this
campaign.”