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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
FAIRFIELD. —Unidentified mask
ed men kidnap Clarence Hurd, 30,
from his home and take him several
miles to lonely woods * where he is
given sixty lashes and left to walk
home. No cause is given.
ALTOONA. — Holly Stancil, over
by gas fumes while working
in deep well and thought dead, sud
denly comes back to life. He is in
serious condition, however.
DECATUR. — While here on busi
ness, L. A. May, of Birmingham
and New York, president of Mo
bile ami West Aabama railroad, ex
presses opinion that Henry Ford
will be voted Muscle Shoals project
by congress this winter.
MONTGOMER Y*.—Alaba ma eou rt
of appeals holds that unsupported
testimony of accomplice is insufficient
to convict, in case of Andrew Motes,
convicted of burglary in Morgan
county circuit court.
MOBILE. —A. W. Hargett, feder
al prohibition director for Alabama,
and W. C. Robbins, federal prohibi
tion agent, are convicted of tres
passing and fined SIOO and $5, re
spectively. in federal court here. It
is charged they searched home of
C. O. Hartley, near Satsuma, with
out warrants.
GREENVILLE. Butler county
and south Alabama will not produce
as much cotton as predicted by opti
mistic forecasters, says R. A. Bee
land, Greenville's leading banker
farmer. who estimates Butler's crop
to be 5,000 bales short.
GADSDEN.—Lucian Castleberry,
negro hoodoo doctor, is in jail charg-
SEiTE OF MCE
SUSTftENS PREMIER
OjO
PARIS, Aug. 26.—8 y the Associ
ated Press.) —The French senate
this evening gay 3 a vote of confi
dence to Premier Herriot on the
negotiation of the London repara
tions agreement. The vote was 200
against 40.
Former Premiet Raymond Poin
care, speaking for the opposition,
was steadfast in the defense of the
occupation of the Ruhr. He inter
rupted the various speakers with j
-short observations,, and corrected'
anything he thought erroneous.
The former premier's first com
,.ment was “that was an important
mistake.” This was said when Sena
tor 11. Lemery asserted that the
- Dawes committee had not been hin
dered by, the restrictions governing
the work of the Morgan committee,
which had been obliged to keep with
in the treaty of Versailles, and the
London schedule of payment.
When M. Lemery said that the
Ruhr occupation had brought in
3,000,000,000 paper irancs, above ex
penses, the Dawes plan prom
ised 7,000,00(1,000 francs, and re
marked, in addition, that the esti
mate of 3,000,000.000 francs from
. the Ruhr was rather optimistic, M.
Poincare promptly interjected:
Money Received Recently
“No, it’s inside the truth,” and
added that this amount had been
taken principally during the last
few months.
It is generally regarded as almost
inevitable that the senate will vote j
confidence in M. Herriot and ap
proval of the London accord as the
chamber already had done.
There is much curiosity, however,
to see how the same men, who were
almost unanimous in their support
of M. Poincare ami his Ruhr policy,
will vole an exactly reverse policy.
M. Poincare opened his own inter
pellation of the government on the
London accord at the beginning ot
the afternoon session when he made
a lew sarcastic references to M. Har
riot’s reception, marked by cries of
“long live peace” when the premier
returned from London. The former
premier immediately added to the
sharp remarks, however, rhe state
ment:
“I do not disapprove of M. Herriot
accepting an agreement based on the
experts’ nlan.”
Dissects London Plan
The former premier made a de
tailed dissection of the London
agreement before the well-filled son
ate, and proceeded to a lengthy de
fense against the charge of nor hav
ing taken quicker advantage of the
cessation of passive resistance in the
Ruhr.
"We left it to General deGout te
and M. Tirard.” the former premier
said. (General J. M. J. deGoutte is
commander of the allied troops on
the Rhine, and Paul Tirard is presi
dent of the international Rhineland
commission.) “They found the Ger
man proposition very dangerous and
we preferred to deal di: ... ~ .><i
the German industrial magnates.”
• Personal} - 1 hive never refused
to tn at with the German govern
ment,” M. Poincare added, recalling
his conversation with Leopold von
lloesch, German ambassador to
E rance.
REICHSTAG COMMUNISTS
SEEK TRADE FOR NOTES
By A. R. Decker
(Special Kadiu h> The Atlanta Journal and
the Chicago Daily News.)
BERLIN, Aug. 26.—The Commu
nists agai nare trying obstruction
ist methods in the reiehstag.
Today they proposed that the
Dawes plan, even if accepted over
their vote, should not go into ef
fect until two months later, during
which interval they doubtless would
make, new obstruction plans, as the
reiehstag situation is not cleat.
There is a possibility that the
proposal might be accepted. It is
suggested that the Communists are
seeking a trade by which they
would vote for the I'awes plan, and
in return would receive amnesty
tor prisoners and the opportunity
tor propaganda through the release
of forbidden newspapers.
(Copyright, 1924. by the Chicago Daily News
John Owen, Former
Famous Athlete, Dead
DET RO I 1 . Aug. 27.—John Owen.
6'. prominent Detroit clubman and
said t<» have been the first man to
run the hundred-yard dash in 9 4-5
seconds, is .lead at his summer homo
on Mackinac Island. Death resulted
from injuries received when he was
thrown from a horse. Owen set
the record in 1890.
New Store at Adrian
ADRIAN. Ga.. Aug. 26.—A new
dry goods store is being opened here
by Chapman. Blander® Jt Co. Dr. J.
R. Rogers is president. Manning
Flanders is vice president, and S
P. Chapman is manager.
THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLY JOURNAL
ed with swindling by selling negroes '
"conjure bags” for $lO each.
DECATUR. Outlook for those i
cotton farmers of Tennessee Wal
ley who have used fertilizer to ad
j vantage and worked their cotton well
lis very bright, according to .1. T.
I High, of Auburn, who for many
I years has served sectio.; as farm
agent.
TUSKEGEE. Congressman 11.
! B. Stegall, of Ozark, says he views
'with alarm gathering strength of
La Follette. South is for Davis,
i north is divided between Coolidge
|and La Follette and west is decid- j
| ing territory, he thinks.
MOBILE. —Mrs. Lucret'a Alexan- .
i der, ninety-eight, has her hair bob- I
i bed. and is believed to be oldest; bob
■ bed-haired woman in Alabama.
MONTGOMERY. According to ,
1924 revision of rolls of county med-j
ical societies in Alabama, which con-|
I stitute Medical Association of Ala- |
llama, there are 3,200 doctors, in
cluding surgeons ami specialists,
practicing in state, or approximate-
Jy one doctor to every 1,000 popu
lation.
ENTERPR ISE.—Sixty-four Coffee
county farmers order 6,125 pounds
of hairy vetch for fall planting. Thi
will be first, extensive acreage of
vetch ever planted in this county.
SOUTH C/XROLINA
COLUMBIA. Mayor Coleman is
sues proclamation for city-wide ob
servance of day of mourning for
"Uncle Jaggers.” colored missionary!
to his race. .and founder of home for j
aged colored poor, who died recently j
MARRIAGE SOLEMNIZED IN PELHAM
MANOR OF MISS CRAWFORD TO
FORMER U. S. SENATOR HOKE SMITH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27.
1 T Announcement was made
here today of the marriage
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at Pelham Mjanor, New York, of for
mer Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
to Miss Maizie Crawford, of this
city and Cordele. Ga. The ceremony,
a quiet home wedding with only a
few attendants, took place at the
residence of Mrs. Livingston Leeds,
the sister of Miss Crawford.
The Rev. Dr. Robert Gardner Mc-
Gregor, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, with which Mr. and Mrs.
Leeds are connected, officated.
Immediately after the ceremony
former Senator Smith and his bride
left for Boston and from that city
will go on an extended automobile
trip through Canada.
Present at the wedding were. Mrs.
W. D. Wilson, of Cordele; mother
of the bride; Mrs. Harmon Freder
ick, of Marshallville, and Miss Mary
De Wilson, sisters of Miss Craw
ford; Mrs. Lyman Pratt, the daugh
ter of Mr. Smith by a former mar
riage, and her two little daughters,
Birdie and Olive: Captain Burton
Smith, brother of the groom, and
Mr. Lyman Pratt, all members of
the two families.
In addition to the immediate fam
ily there were also present Mrs.
PRISON COMMISSION
MBS CLEMENCH
FOO J. W. MTO
J. W. Minter, aged Coweta county I
man sentenced to he hanged on Sep-'
tember 1!> for the murder of his on
in-law, Millard Trouton, will he saved
from the gallows, if Governor
Walker follows the recommendation
of the Georgia prison commission.
The commission has declined to ■
recommend clemency for Will John-j
son, Atlanta negro convicted of the!
murder of Peter Poulos, Greek res-,
taurant keeper.
The two decisions of the commis
sion were announced Wednesday, |
following an executive session, and
the cases will go to Governor \\ alkei j
for review immediately.
Trouton Thrown Into Creek
Minter was arrested shortly aft
er the body of Trouton. weighted
down with rtWks, was found in 1-ine j
creek, not far from Newnan. Two
sons of Minter and other parties i
were also arrested, and charged with '
complicity in the slaying of Trou- !
ton. it was alleged that Trouton i
was thrown into the creek while |
alive, and died by drowning. Minter;
was sentenced to he hanged for the !
crime, and one of his sons was'
given a life sentence. The supreme I
court upheld both verdicts.
The plea for commutation was|
based on the claim that Minter’s j
mind had become unbalanced he-I
cause of worry over alleged mistreat - I
inent of his daughter by Trouton,|
and it was further contended that
Trouton was killed in a tight by the
roadside, and his body afterward
thrown into the creek. Because of
conviction that Minter was not in
his right mind at the time, of the I
crime, and the circumstances of the;
slaying, the commission recommend
ed that he be given a life sentence
instead of the death penalty.
Johnson’s Caso
Johnson, a former employe of Pou
los in a restaurant on Forsyth street. 1
near Alabama street, was convicted
of the slaying of Poulos when the
latter intercepted .Johnson and an
other negro in the act of robbing the
restaurant and holding up one of
the proprietors. Poulos showed
fight ami was shot. Before living,
he declared that Johnson shot him,
itiwas said.
The plea for commutation for
I Johnson was based on a claim of
! mistaken identity. This case was
'argued before the commission last
l week, and brought forth a verbal at-
Itack upon Congressman William D.
d'pshaw, who was present to oppose
•the plea, by Attorney Thomas J.
; Ripley. representing the negro.
Mrs. Ferguson’s Lead
Mounts Past 91,000
As Returns Come In
DALLAS. Texas. Aug. 26—Mis.
Miriam A. Ferguson bad increi- d
her lead over Felix D. Robertson for
the Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation to more than 61.000, accord -
ing to returns from Saturday’s nri-i
mary to the Texas election bureau I
at 11 o'clock today
Latest tabulations from coun
ties, including 170 complete. gave j
; the wc nan < andidate 430,711 and I
Robertson 3113.445.
1 > .1
jin 93rd year. Jaggers was unlver
■ sally popular.
A I»BEVILLE. Unusual opera! ion
is successfully performed on Eakin
Cochran, six months old, smaller in
testine having been swallowed by
larger.
ANDERSON.—County Democratic
committee decides that man convict
ed of wife-beating is not necessarily
disqualified ns elector, because of
conviction, and rules name can re
main on club rolls.
CHARLESTON. State depart
j ment of American legion has 4.363
, members, greatest since organiza-
I Hon, according to report of E. H.
I <’appelmann, state adjutant.
(-I lARLESTo.N. Merrill Zealy,
I shrimp fisherman, reports alligator
i sixteen feet long, probably longest
lever seen hereabouts, in Ashley
river.
j NEWBERRY.—M. L. Smith. of
j Prosperity, brings first boll of cot
ton to town on August 16.
COLUMBIA.—Six-foot alligator is
found by W. J. Johnston, in charge
of pumping station of Southern rail
way, near city.-
NORTH CAROLINA
ELIZABETH ClTY.—Colonel Isaac-
Meekins opens his campaign as Re
publican nominee for governor with
address at Asheboro. August 30.
ASHEVILLE. —Junior Order, Unit
ed American Mechanics, in annual
session, vote to meet next year at
Winston-Salem. Resolution decrying
| teaching of evolution in schools and
I urging removal of public school
I teachers adhering to evolution theo-
James Jackson, widow of former
Chief Justice Jackson, and Major O.
H. B. Bloodworth, of Forsyth, w'nc
has been associated with Senatoi
Smith in his Washington law offices.
Miss Crawford, now Mrs. Smith,
belongs to the prominent Crawford
family of Georgia and is a young
woman of great charm and attrac
tiveness.
For a. time, while Senator Smith
was in the senate, she was his con
fidential secretary. More recently
she has been associated here with
Senator Smith’s law firm. The
groom was a member of the Cleve
land cabinet, serving as secretary
of the interior; was twice elected
governor of Georgia and twice elect
ed to the United States senate
Their marriage probably will come
as a surprise to most of their friends
of the social and official circles of
Washington and Georgia, although
more intimate associates have lately
believed that a romance was under
way. However, no announcement of
the engagement was made and not
until Mr. Smith left Washington to
meet his bride, who was on a visit
to her sister, did the announcement
come of today’s ceremon
After the wedding journey former
Senator and Mrs. Smith will reside
in Washington, where Mr. Smith
will continue the practice of law.
HIGH BENUE POST
FOII IBIS SEEN
By CAPITAL m
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building.
RY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 27.
The Democrats are so confident that
they will control the next congress
I that they have begun to allot /.he
i committee, chairmanships and mem-
I btrships of the senate. So says today
the Washington Herald, independent
; newspaper, which carries a story
| that Senator William J. Harris, of
; Georgia, will head the powerful sen
i ate committee on appropriations.
Senator Overman, of North Caro
lina, is ranking Democrat of that
jcomniittee ami Senator Harris stands
I second. Should Senator Harris be re
i elected and assume the appropria
tions chairmanship he will be the
second southern senator to hold that
I place in half a century. Regarding
'the senatorial committee situation.
I the Herald says in part:
“While Senator Overman, of North
I Carolina, is the ranking Democrat
son the appropriations committee, he
j has told his colleagues that he pr->
jfers the chairmanship of judiciary
Ito that of appropriations. Harris is
' next to Overman on the appropria
| tit ns committee. When the Demo-
I crats were in control of the senate
I during the Wiison administration
| Overman was chairman of the ju
■dietary committee and the late Sena-
I tor Martin, of Virginia, the Demo
leratic leader, was chairman of appro
| priations. Martin was the only
I southern senator to head that com
mittee within the last sixty-live
: years. -
"Whiff the appropriations comma
tee always has been very powerful,
its importance recently has been in
, creased because of the adoption of
the budget law, and the changes ”t
the rules which place all appropria
tion hills under the jurisdiction of
that committee. Because of his in
terest in fiscal matters and the fact
he was secretary of the treasury for
two years under the Wilson admin
istration. Senator Carter Glass, of
Virginia, is slated to head the bank
ing and currency committee in the
event the Democratic aspirations are
realized.”
Congressman Felled
By Republican Rival
During Controversy
CENTRAL CITY. Ky., Aug. 27
-Congressman R. Y. Thomas, of Cen
tral City, was felled by a blow from
George Baker, his Republican op
ponent for congress for this district,
during an argument here today. ac
cording to witnesses who assisted
Thomas to a nearby drug store.
"Missing” Man Safe
THOMSON. Ga.. Aug. 26.—W. B.
. Parker, manager of the Western
I Union telegraph office at this place,
i who mysteriously disappeared about
I two weeks ago, leaving a note in-
I dieating that he would commit
j suicide, has been heard from by a
I friend tn this place, by letter, from
| snm e point in North Ctrolinn.
-; ry is adopted and forwarded to legis
lature in session at Raleigh.
i RALEIGH. —Col. A. D. Watts,
i astute politician and former state
collector of revenue, says state's
voters will defeat, by 70,000 margin
Governor Morrison's ship line and
port terminals bill, if submitted to
popular vole, due to public ignorance
of and fear of its expensive pro-
• visions.
RALEIGH. —Colonel I. M. Meek
ins of Elizabeth City, Republican
. nominee for governor, in state
; ment. expresses doubt of commer
cial value of Governor Morrison’s
ports and ships proposition and of
political wisdom of Morrison cham
pioning this matter, to cost, inltial
! ly, $8,500,000, at time when Dem
ocrats are under Meekins’ attack
for extravagance.
GRENSBORO.— 801 l weevil dam
age to cotton crop in eastern part
of state is "not alarming,” says J.
E. Latham, of Greensboro, cotton
factor, on return from survey.
GREENSBORO. Within past
seven months, General Gas and Elec
tric corporation, of New York, has
spent $10,000,000 in acquiring public
utilities in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Florida, acording to
company representatives here. Other
properties in southeast will be
bought soon by this company.
SALISBURY. Fifty-four distil
leries and fifty-two stills are destroy
ed by federal agents in North Caro
lina in July, according to report of
case are under arrest,
GRE EN S BOKO.—T h ree startling
•'murders, within few weeks, of auto-
FULTON'S GALLOWS.
M END DE DAYS.
TO FUNCTION AGAIN
I The gallows of Fulton county,
gruesome engine of death, which,
for many years, has taken its toll of
human life in carrying out the sen
tences of the courts, is fast nearing
the end of its usefulness.
On September 19, unless the unex
pected occurs, Will Johnson, a ne
gro, convicted murderer of Peter
Poulos, a restaurant keeper, will pay
for his crime with his life, Governor
Walker having removed his last hone
Wednesday by refusing to intervene.
! Johnson will go to his death on
i the gallows, having been sentenced
|to die before the legislature passed
jus recent bill abolishing the rope
and substituting the electric chair
as a means of execution.
He will be the last man in Fulton
county to die on the gallows. Besides
him, only one other convicted mur
derer is under a hanging sentence,
land that person is a woman, Mrs.
Ida Hughes, who now is in Fulton
tower, awaiting final judgment of
the Georgia supreme court on the
sentence of death imposed on her tor
l the murder of her mother-in-law,,
I Mrs. M. C. Hughes, on December 31,
j last.
Last to Be Hanged
I If the supreme court refuses her I
I a new trial and if the priso\i com- !
mission refuses to recommend and
■the governor refuses to extend ex
ecutive clemency, she will be hanged,
by a provision of the new law which
sets out that the method of execu
tion by electrocution shall not inter
fere with sentences of death on the
gallows already pending.
And if she is hanged, she will be
the last human being in Fulton coun
ity to perish on the now obsolete gal
lows. All others will pay for their
I crimes by the more modern method
jof electrocution, in the electric chair
'soon Io be installed at Milledgevil'e.
I lr is. indeed, of interest to note in
! this regard that before Will Johnson,
i the last man to die on the gallows, I
is executed, the first man to die by
electrocution will have paid the su
preme penalty at Milledgeville.
Howard Hinton, convicted of a
criminal assault in DeKalb county
recently, will be electrocuted in
Milledgeville on September 13, six
days before Jonson is sentenced to
he hanged.
Gallows Waits Decision
Until the cases of Johnson andj
Mrs. Hughes are finally and definite-1
ly disposed of. the gallows of Fulton !
county must stand, no matter howl
many more recent criminals may dist j
by electrocution at .Milledgeville. If!
these two are executed they must be j
hanked: that is the law.
But when they are disposed of. the i
I gallows will come down, the deadly!
j trap will be dismantled, and the awe
j inspiring scaffolding removed. it
! will be the last of the gallows of Ful
ton county upon which many a mur
derer has expiated his crime.
Looking at Pike’s Peak,
Named for His Kinsman,
Man Blows Himself Up
MORRISON, Colo., Aug. 27.—0 n |
I the peak of Mount Gelion, from I
' which he co ild obtain a clear and
j unobstructed view of-a peak to the
I southward, discovered by his fore-j
j bear and namesake, Zebulon Moat j
| gomci y Pike, of this place, dectaead |
I to be a nephew of the discoverer of*
j Pike's peak, last night committed
, suicide by blowing himself to pieces
i by exploding a stick of dynamite,
j His body was discovered early to
: day by a posse of Morrison citizen
who, alarmed at his absence, started
out in search of him.
in choosing <’ynamite as a means
of ending his life, he met his death
m much the manner as did
his- illustrious relaitve, who was!
killed in Ap.’il. 1813, by the explo
i sion of a powder magazine at an
army camn wh re he was station 4 1
j following his return eastward after ,
: discovering the famous mountain [
■ peak of Colorado which bears his
I name.
Abducted American
Released by Bandits
In Hills of Mexico
WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.—After
being held for ransom by bandits in
the Mexican hills for eight days, R
It. Barrinean, American lumberman
is tree, and on his wav to Durango
recording to state department ad
vice sreceived today from the Amer
.ican consul at Durango.
Barrinean telegraphed ths consul :
from Tethuants. where he was cap- '
I tured. that he was released August j
i 23. He is a native of South Cam
II ia, and manager of the Rock Hard!'
i I umber Turpentine• company. Th?
Mexican government sent out a
military troop a ,v< -k ago to search
f r him
I
mobile drivers which have been
given wide publicity here have
caused motorists to cease picking
up strangers and taxi drivers are
cautious of passengers at night.
OWEN YOUNG NAMED
TEMPORARY Effl
DE WM DEBT BOARD
PARIS, Aug. 25.—(8y the Assocl
j a ted Press.)—Owen D. Young, ot
■ New York, is to serve temporarily as
•agent-general under the Dawes rep
aration plan; probably for three
months, during which time he will
get the staff well organized, and
break in his permanent successor.
In this work he will be aided by
Rufus C. Dawes, brother of General
Dawes, and Henry M. Robinson,
who, like Mr. Young, served on the
expert committees which drew up
the plan.
Seymour Parker Gilbert, Jr., re
cently under-secretary of the treas
ury, is mentioned for the permanent
post of agent-general, but in repa
ration circles it is said the selection
has not yet been made.
The reparation commission is ex
pected to meet Tuesday to act on the
appointments which were virtually
decided upon during the 'London con
ference, but the meeting may be
postponed, and, in any case, the
final decision will not be»recorded
until after the London agreement is
signed, if at all.
, Officially, the Dawes plan i s in
operative pending ratification by the
French and German parliaments and
signature of the agreement, which
has thus far been only initialed by
the negotiators.
The French senate probably wilt
reach a vote Tuesday or Wednesday,
but the R-ichstag session is likely to
last until next Thursday. This is
causing anxiety, although the latest
information, available to the repara
tion commission members, is that the
Germans probably will approve the
agreement regardless of the loud
outcries from the nationalists.
The appointment of an American
as a voting member of the repara
tion commission is understood to be
still uncertain. James A. Logan, Jr.,
the American observer with the com
mission, is favored for the place, but
he refuses to discuss the suggestion,
and it is known that many of his
friends believe his considerable in
fluence might better I>e exercised by
continuing in fiis unofficial capacity,
leaving another American to as
sume the voting- power.
Rufus Dawes and Mr, Robinson
protaoly will be the only important
appointees to be named by Mr.
Young, as the various governments
will choose their representatives and
the total personnel of the agency
general will not be large.
John D.’s Appetite
Greatly Improved,
Floridian States
DAYTONA, Fla., Aug. 25.—John
D. Rockefeller, Sr., has won what
perhaps has been the hardest fight
of his life—that against indigestion,
according to information revealed by
one of his closest friends during his
winter visits to this section of the
Florida east coast.
The story is told that after com
ing to Florida, Mr. Rockefellers’ ap
petite is keen and his digestion is
normal. George N. Rigby, mayor of
Ormond, states that Mr. Rockefeller
is able to sit down to the table and
eat anything any ordinary man eats,
although he uses judgment in his
diet and does not over eat. Mr. Rig
by says he has eaten with the oil
magnate frequently and that he is
surprised at the varieties of food he
enjoys.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., recently
bought an estate at Ormond, and his
father since has acquired one near
it, in order to be nearer his son, it
is said. The elder Rockefeller has
for some years spent his winters at
Daytona Beach, where he has taken
a daily turn around the golf course
for eight holes.
179-Year-Old Rum
Sampled by Owner
And Sealed Again
LONDON. Aug. 25.—A bottle of
Jamaica rum 179 years old, honored
as the oldest in the world, has just
been opened and sampled by its
owner, a London merchant, and a
few of his friends. It was then re
sealed and put away with instruc
tions for it to be tasted once in each
generation of the owner’s descend
ants.
The bottle similarly was uncorked
and tasted by the generations of 1837
and 1884. A modest value of 15
pounds has been placed on the
treasure.
Dead Twenty Years
In Eyes of the Law,
Man Is Found Alive
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25.—John
W. Temple, 40, who, relatives say,
was legally declare:! dead after he
had been missing from his home in.
Danville, Ky., for more than 20
years, was identified at rhe city
prison today by his cousin, L. A.
Williams, treasurer of a realty com
pany.
Temple was ai rested on complaint
that he had made threats when re
tused food. Temple left his home
about 25 years ago, according to Wil
liams and the family has made an
pxtensivc search for him.
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ELECTION FAILS TO BREAK UP
FERGUSON’S FAMILY ROUTINE
“Ma” Is Happy for “Jim,”
Since Texas Voters Vindi
. cated His Name and Re
stored His Honor
BY JAMES R. RECORD
j (Cop.vrixht, J 924, by th<- Consolidated Press
Association —Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
TEMPLE, Texas, Aug. 25.
j Household duties were not inter-
I rupted in the home of James E.
j Ferguson Sunday just because “Ma”
had been nominated for governor
of Texas.
Maybe there was an extra plate
or two at the dinner table. Maybe
Mrs. Miriam Ferguson complained
a little more than usual of her swol
len right hand —the voters of Texas
had shaken it sore during the long
campaign. Maybe “Farmer Jim”
chatted longer than usual on his
front porch. But otherwise things
looked about normal around the
modest little homestead. ■
Mis. Ferguson sat on the front
porch too. after dinner and after
! she had seen that the house was
j straightened. Neighbors came in
! early, friends—some of them friends
|of the old, true and tried kind and
some others of the kind that suc
cess attracts —were arriving all day
and extending their congratulations.
Mrs. Ferguson was - happy her
strong face showed it. But she was
happy for “Jim;” It was for him,
to vindicate his name and to,restore
his honor that she had consented to
be. a- -she. hates the word —politician.
M ell Equipped for Job
. And now that she is a politician,
and a winning one, “Ma” Ferguson
aims to be a good one. She would
almost certainly be elected governor
in November and will move in Jan
uary back into the Texas “White
House,” from which her husband
was driven in disgrace.
Mrs. Ferguson is well equipped,
menially and physically, for a sue
i cessful career in Austin. Born on
a plantation in Bell county Texas,
she was splendidly educated by
prosperous parents. Taught at first
by a governess, she later was grad
uated at Baylor College for Girls at
Belton, Texas. Personally she is at
tractive. Her face is pretty, though
saddened by the Jong years of fight
ing to vindicate the Ferguson name.
Her manner, at once charming and
gracious, is at the same time state
ly and one feels impelled to address
her —not in the champaign vernacu
lar as “Ma” but as “madame.”
The Fergusons were married in
Belton in 1899. “Jim” was a young
attorney. Presently he began to
prosper and with the aid of his wife’s
resources soon attained a millionaire
rating. It was at this juncture chat
he launched into politics—against
| her advice. He was successful from
i the start, triumphing over worthy
j opponents in the race for governor
j of his state, and conducted the af
fairs of the office in peace and har
mony' until lie became' ertihroiled
with the legislature over educational
appropriations. He insisted on re
ducing allotments for the hir’.er in
stitutions of learning, winch drew
the fire of the former university stu
dents, and in return, an open attack
on the institutions by Ferguson,
that was the beginning of his
downfall. Ultimately, he was re- j
moved from office because of his ,
personal financial transactions with I
brewer's.
It was at, this point that Mrs.
Ferguson began her fight for vindi
cation which ended victoriously on
Saturday. She advised “Jim” to
take his case before the people—the
voters. Time after time he was
repudiated by them when he offer
ed himself for high office. Even
taually, state Democratic executive
committee refused to put his name
on the ballot any longer—the stain
of impeachment had deprived hlnl
of citizenship, they told him. Where
upon the name of Mrs. Ferguson
was substituted and by lOO.OCO v . s
she was nominated over the Ku
Klux Klan candidate, Judge Felix
Roberison, Saturday.
Husband Klan's Foe
Mrs. Ferguson is not a politician, j
but she says she is anti-Ku Klux j
Klan. Her husband is the original
foe of the klan in Texas. He car
ried the anti-klan banner in the
fight against Earl B. Mayfield two
years ago. The Fergusons realize
that their vindication is not all that
attracted victory to their side—the
anti-klanners followed “Ma” by tens
of thousands.
"I told Jim I* was going to an
nounce that I liked his platform,”
says Mrs. Ferguson. "One of the j
planks is condemnation of the klan.
The platform tells how taxes can be I
reduced and how the government '
-an be restored to the hands of the '
people. I want to be governor for 1
two years—and then I will not run I
again.
Ol course, I will take Jim's ad- '
vice some, I intend to run the j
office ju.it like I run the home. Y'ou
know, it takes a newly elected gov
ernor two years to learn his posi
tion. I will not have that handicap
—Jim has been governor before and
he will aid me.
“Both of us know what Texas |
needs and we intend to see that our i
beloved state gets it."
The Fergusons have two daugh- ’
U-ts, one married and a resident of '
Austin, and the other unmarried i
and bookkeeper at her father's !
newspaper office.
Entire Family of Six
Wiped Out When Auto ;
Is Wrecked by Train
LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 25. Six '
persons, an entire family, were i
killed at noon Sunday a mile west j
or Sterling, Neb., when a Burling- i
ton train, running between St. j
Joseph, Mo., and Lincoln, running
more than forty miles an hour, j
making up lost time, struck their i
automobile.
Three Killed in Battle
I ,
Resulting From Quarrel
Begun by Children ■
TULSA, Okla., Aug. 25.—Three
men were killed and one was i >
wounded Sunday afternoon on a■ i
highway 21 miles east of Tulsa, in |1
a battle which climaxed a family ' i
feud starting over an argument be- .
tween children. i|
THURSDAY, AUGUST 38, 1924.
A. B. Coltrane, prohibition director
for stafj. More than 50,000 gallons
of malt, 782 gallons of liquor and
property worth $26,000 is destroyed.
Forty-six persons arc arrested.
Preacher Denounces
Evolution as Monkey
Chatters by Pulpit
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 25.—With a
monkey tied to a broomstick held by
his 12-year-old daughter, as she sat
beside the pulpit. Rev. Z. Colin
O’Farrell, of Butte, last night
preached to a big congregation at
the First Baptist church while the
animal chattered and chirped. His
reason for bringing the monkey to
the pulpit Was that his daughter re
turned from school recently and ask
ed him if she came from a monkey.
When asked what mompted the
question, she told him that her
teacher so informed her while at
school that day.
“The teachings that we are mon
key-made instead of God-made must
revert the coming generation
brutality beyond description. If man
believes he came from a brute he
will act and live like a brute.”
With the lights turned off and
the church in darkness except for
a spotlight directed on the preacher
and the monkey. Rev. O’Farrell
pointed at the frightened monkey
and imitating the antics of the tree
climber, recited a verse as follows:
“Turn backward, turn backward,
oh, time in your flight, and make
me a monkey again just for to
night.”
The monkey jumped, turned sev
eral flip-flops and nearly pulled the
broomstick from the hands of little
Miss O’Farrell.
The preacher ordered the lights
turned on and the monkey chattered
as if greatly pleased to get away
from the glare of the strong spot
light. . .
Rev. O’Farrell said “that lo save
j the world for God, we all must use
drastic means and methods.”
He closed his sermon with the
statement that “if evolution is cor
rect, then the human came from the
ass instead of the monkey.”
Missing Cashier Found
With Mind a “Blank;”
Authorities Puzzled
BLUE EARTH. Minn.. Aug. 26.
The course to pursue in the strange
case of F. A. Ludwig, cashier of the
First National Bank of Minnesota
Lake, who disappeared August 6
after alleged shortages had been dis
covered in his accounts, and who was
arrested Saturday night, is being
determined by Faribaul county offi
cials.
Found living in a barn in the
woods with his mind a blank as to
his past life, Ludwig was arrested
after farmers ha ( ] reported his
strange actions.
If his physical condition permits,
Ludwig may be brought into court
to answer charges of grand larceny
contained in a warrant sworn out
after his disappearance had revealed
shortage in his accounts that mav
reach $40,000 or $50,000. He is
charged specifically with embezzling
$5,400.
Although Ludwig claimed he could
recall nothing of his past—even fail
ing to recognize his wife and sister,
a physician asserted that he believed
the man was feigning amnesia. What
became of the money he is allleged
to have taken remained -a mystery.
Ludwig did not have a cent when
arrested.
Missouri Eats Lands
At One Acre Per Hour
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 26.
Thousands of dollars worth of val
uable corn lands are being eaten
away by the Missouri river at the
rate of an acre an hour, according
to farmers in Wyandotte county.
Kansas.
Large chunks of sandy soil, hear
ing seven and ten-foot stalks of
corn, are disappearing into the
swirling waters of the river at an
alarming rate, while farmers stand
helplessly by. unable to check the
ravages Os the stream.
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By J. P. Alley
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MOBILE. Ala.. Aug. s.—Four c’<~ t
fendants of charges growing out o£
the federal liquor investigation hero
last fall and summer pleaded guilty
in federal court todaj' to u charge of
ronspiracy to bribe a government ol
ticer and were sentenced to, a yea.-
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■r’y, beginning November 1.
Sixteen eases that were made out
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raids last fall were also disposed of
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please of guilty to the conspiracy to
bribe charge, and other cases against
the defendants were disposed of by t
pleas of guilty or by nolle pressed. .
The sentence imposed was made to
run concurrently with former terms
set for other charges in the liquor
conspiracy cases.
Chrisman pleaded guilty to an ad
ditional charge of conspiracy to vio
late the prohibition law, In which he
formerly had entered a plea of not
guilty and was sentenced to serve a
year and a day, concurrently with
the ocher sentence. Another charge,
citing him and Percy H. for
conspiracy to violate the
law, was nolle pressed as to
man after Kearns was convicted iStSt «
week of the actual violation. Two
charges against O’Connor, three
against Cody, and one against Perez (
were nolle prossed. Perez pleaded (
guilty to a charge of conspiracy to'
violate the prohibition law and wan
sentenced to a year and a day, io
run concurently with other sentences
aheady imposed.
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Indian Claims Filed
For Tennessee Lands
Including Chattanooga
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 25.
Claims to recover five million acres
ot land, embracing much of east.
Tennessee and including the city,
of Chattanooga, have been filed by
John M. Taylor, attorney, beforw
the interior department for the
Eastern Emigrant Cherokee Indiana ,
of Oklahoma and North Carolina. •
The suits have been filed Mur
phy, Cherokee county, N. C., and
also in Tennessee. The attorney, in <
support of his claim, has filed cer
tified copies of various treaties.
Wilbur Sees Danger
In La Follette’s Proposal
ST. PAUL, Aug. 26.—“ Certain
inalienable human rights” might 1
be menaced if final decision on con
stitutionality of the nation’s laws,
was given to congress instead of t
the supreme court, Curtis D. Wil
bur, secretary of the navy, said in
an address today. He is en route
to the Pacific coast.
Referring to individual liberties
under the constitution, the speak
er declared “some are made impat-'
. lent bj' the delays occasioned by #
the constitutional method of amend- t
ing that instrument” and pointed
to Senator La Follette’s proposal (
to make constitutional any law re
enacted by congress after the su
preme court had held it unconstitu
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