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Ei) c Atlanta uvi - lUccIJ n Soinnal 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 I Brief i 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- (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) 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.”