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VOL. XXVI. NO. 1.59
COURT FLAYS CROWE AS FRANKS CASE WINDS UP
KIOTifiG POSTPONES
. VOTE IN REICHSTAG
ON DEBTS PROGRAM
National Members Block
Ratification of Pact Made
in London
» BERLIN, Aug. 28.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Final balloting in
the reichstag on the bills necessary
to carry out Germany’s part of the
Dawes reparations program has
been postponed until Friday because
of the prolonged interruptions from
the Communists.
The disturbances in the house
Wednesday culminated in general
fighting, and the reichstag presi
dent, to restore order, was compelled
to call in a police squad and have
three of the Communists removed.
Unless 'the Nationalists decide to
give the legislative program nega
tive support, by permitting defec
tions from their reichstag lineup
when the last vote is taken, there
apparently is scant hope of the gov
ernment obtaining the two-thirds
majority required for final passage.
The bills Wednesday passed then
second reading only by. a general
majority of 248 to 174.
Determined upon ratification of
the Dawes program, regardless of
the attitude of the deputies, Chan
cellor Marx has obtained from Presi
dent Ebert a decree providing for
the dissolution of the reichstag,
which he intends to use if the neccs,
sary two-thirds vote is not forth
coming.
ALLIES TO SIGN DAWES
DEBT PACT ON SATURDAY
LONDON, Aug. 28.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The formal signing of
the pact to make effective the Dawes
reparation pla’n concluded at the re
cent international conference, will
take place at the foreign office in
Downing street at noon Saturday.
FRENCH CABINET TO CUT
ADMINISTRATION EXPENSES
PARIS, Aug. 28.—(8y the Associ
ated Press). —The French cabinet to
day decided upon a radical overhaul
ing of governmental expenses with
a view towards strictly balancing the
budget. It was agreed that Premier
Herriot and Finance Minister Clem
entel should begin on September 8,
the task of eliminating all unneces
sary expenses from the budget of
the various ministries.
The premier and finance minister
will go over each budget and prune
it wherever necessary in order to
hold down next year’s expenditures
within the nation’s income.
This revised list of appropriations
will then be considered by the cab
inet. ami a budget bill strictly balanc
ing expenditures and income, will
be prepared and given to parliament
at its opening session, about the be
ginning of October, so that it can
be adopted before the beginning of
the next fiscal year, January 1.
The fresh difficulties of Chancellor
Marx’s government in obtaining a
ratification of the London agreement
has surprised the official world in
Paris. The telephone lines between
here and Berlin were largely occu
pied today with government and pri
ority calls.
Informal consultations among
members of the reparation commis
sion indicate that President Barthou
and his associates are disposed to
appoint an agent general and other
functionaries required to apply the
Dawes plan without waiting for the
new German elections. Thyir pur
pose, it is said, is to show Germany
that the allies have done everything
required of them, under the London
.agreement, and that Germany alone
putting it into execution,
Photographs
. Transmitted by Wire
From Chicago to N.Y.
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. The
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co. Wednesday night announced
that colored protographs had been
transmitted from Chicago to New
York.
According to the announcement,
a colored picture was placed in a
, sending machine in Chicago and was
reproduced here in less than an
hour in its original colors.
In the newest development of pic
ture transmission, the actual colors
are not sent over the wire, but the
colors are separated at the point
of sending and reassembled when
received, according to the announce
ment.
k Three photographs of the picture
to be transmitted were taken, each
time screening out one color. The
photograph then was sent as a
bla-'t- •—’d white picture, and. on
bei..rt Jiceived at New York, was
resfoled to its original color.
Ford Denies Saying
Klan Is Good Order,
But Misunderstood
DLrTROIT, Aug. 28.—Henry Ford,
* tn a wireless dispatch to his office
here from his yacht en routqp from
Montreal to Detroit, last night pos
itively denied a statement credited
to him yesterday by the Montreal
Star wherein he was quoted as say
ing that the Ku Klux Klan was
misunderstood.
His offices here today gave out
another wireless from Mr. Ford's
yacht, quoting exactly what was said
concerning the klan.
While the manufacturers yacht
was being taken through one of the
locks of the St. Lawrence river en
route to Detroit, a number of re-
* porters sought to interview him. the
wireless slated. Numerous questions
concerning political matters and
President Coolidge’s chances for re
election were ask -i and then one
leportt r asked:
"What do von know about the Ku
* Klux Klan?"
"What do you know about it?”
Mr. Ford countered. I
‘‘Nothing,’ the answered
•‘Neither do 1. ' Mr. Ford :eturned
and the inUrvie.v was terminated.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
GARVEY’S DULCET VOICE AGAIN
DRIPS GENTLY IN DUSKY EARS
AS 7,000,000 AWAIT BIG HEGIRA
"President of Africa" Prom
ises Land of Milk, Honey
and Other Things Even
Has a Ship Right on Exhibit
BY ROBERT T. S.VLALL t
(Special Leased Wire Io The Journal— Copy
right, 1924.) v
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Tim Uni
versal Negro Improvement associa
tion is holding its annual meeting
in Harlem and listening once more
to the stories of the promised land
that lies over the seas. The “back
to Aft tea” movement is in full swing
again and Marcus Aurelius Garvey,
variously known as “President or
Africa” and “Commander of the
Sublime Order of the Nile,” has an
nounced that no less than 7,000,000
negroes have expressed their inten
tion of going back “home.” Four
million of these negroes are sup
posed to be in the United States. The
other .3,000,000 are scattered through
the West Indies, where Garvey him
self hails from.
As Exhibit A of the new move
ment, Garvey has the steamer Gen
eral G. W. Goethals tied up at a
dock in the Hudson river. The steam
er is to be the Booker
T. Washington and it is pointed out
as the flagship of the new Black
Cross Navigation and Trading com
pany. Soms 5,000 members of the
improvement association and their
friends l ave been inspecting the ship
the last few days, a ticket booth hav
ing been erected on the dock and.
fees of 50 cents each charged to the
non members.
Uniiornis for All
Travel on the Booker T. Washing
ton, when it becomes that, will be
no cheap affair. The rates for the
cabin have been fived at SIBO for
each passenger. This does not daunt
the leaders in the movement. The
inspection of the vessel has been
attended with great pomp and cere
mony. “The Royal African Guards”
have been on duty as well as the
Universal African Legion and the
African Legion band. There is one
nice thing about belonging to one
es Mr. Garvey’s organization. Each
and every person is entitled to wear
a uniform. But no member must at
temp to imitate or in any way ap
proach the uniform of the command
er-in-chief. Garvey’s outfit is be
yond description. King Solomon in
U1 his glory was never arrayed like
that. The Garvey uniform has every
thing but electric lights and is de
signed for both land and sea duty,
for ashore he is a generalissimo and
afloat he is an admiralissimo.
Garvey still retains the affection
and loyalty of his followers despite
the fact that his personally conduct
ed exodus to Africa has been long
postponed, and despite that the
United States government has had
him convicted of using the mails to
defraud. A little thing like a five
year sentence has not daunted the
spirit of the self-constituted Moses,
lie is out on $20,000 bail, and Tiot
a moment of his time is idle. His
first project was called the “Black
Star Line.” That was the one that
got him in trouble. His new Black
Cross line is his answer to his critics
and “persecutors.”
The flagship of the Black Star line
was officered and manned by col
ored men when Garvey took it on
a West Indian trip as a preliminary
to the first crossing to Africa. It
is related that on this trip the of
ficers could not find Jamaica. The
island was not big enough. It also
is related that the galloping ivories
and the pursuit of lady luck occu
pied so much of the time of the crew
and the passengers there was little
real thought or attention paid to
the higher projects of the promoters.
It .May Take Time, But—
Garvey has announced now that
the officers of the Booker T. Wash
ington will be white and the crew
Colored. He expects the first sailing
to be in November, and the steamer
is designed to carry seventy-five
first-class and 100 second class pas
sengers. Os course, at this rate it
would take some time to transport
the entire 7,000,000 negroes enlisted
in the ggiuje but Garvey’s facile
pictures a great fleet
shortly engaged in the maneuvers.
If passengers are lacking at first,
Garvey says the boats will be used
for cargo purposes.
Garvey says he is not going' to
Africa himself. He has so much
work to do on this side of the water.
The president of Liberia also is said
to have announced that “General
Garvey” is not coming over. It
seems the real president of Liberia
thinks there might be sonje clash
of authority and any way Liberia is
not big enough for two presidents.
Meanwhile the pilgrim ship lies
at the dock. She is a little rusty
in spots, but all that will disappear
st m under a new coat of white
paint. The ship is open to one and
all for the small sum of fifty cents.
Some of the members who have in
spected the ship ro "tined on board
all day, dreaming new dreams of
the land of milk and honey.
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.World News
Told in
Brief
PLYMOUTH, Vt.—President Cool
idge ends his vacation on his fa
ther's farm and leaves for Washing
ton.
PERRYVILLE, Ohio. —Seven per
sons are killed and one seriously in
jured when train strikes automobile
on grade crossing here.
BERLIN. Reichstag debates
Dawes bills for several hours, and
leaders are hopeful for required two
thirds vote on measure.
BERLIN. —After first trial trip of
ZR-3, dirigible which is being built
at Friederichshafen for United
States, builders pronounce ship per
fect.
PARIS. —President Doumergue re
ceives Captain Pelletier Doisy and
his mechanician, Besin, who return
ed after a ineffectual attempt at
world flight.
NEW Y’ORK.—Colored photo
graphs are successfully transmitted
by wire frqm Chicago to,New York,
American Telephone and Telegraph
company announces.
NEW' YORK.—Governor Al Smith
informs Geoyge W. Olvany, leader
of Tammany Hall, that he will not
be a candidate for re-election, the
New York World says.
NEW YORK?—Young Stribling,
Georgia school boy, and Paul Ber
lenbach, New York light heavy
weight, fight to a. draw in six-round
bout at new velodrome.
BERLIN. Reichstag passes
Dawes bill on second reading by
vote of 248 to 174, and leaders have
as result scant hope of final passage
by required two-thirds vote.
NEW YORK.—(By wireless.) —
Prince of Wales and his companions
are defeated by American team in
tug of war, an event on day's sport
program aboard Berengaria.
DETROIT.—Henry -Ford, in a
wireless dispatch, denies statements
credited to him by The Montreal
Star, which quoted him as saying
Ku Klux Klan was misunderstood.
LAKEHUST, N. J. —Preparations
are made for receiving new naval
dirigible, ZR-3, reported ready for
transatlantic flight from Frederich
shafen, Germany, about September
10.
WASHINGTON. Further post
ponement of flight of American
aviators from Ivigtut, Greeland. to
Indian Harbor, Labrador, until Sat
urday is decided on account of con
tinued storms.
MOSCOW.—General Boris Savin
koff, anti-Bolshevik leader and mili
tary governor of Petrograd under
Kerensky, arrested by Soviet au
thorities on his arrival from Paris,
is sentenced to death.
W’ASi 11NGTON. — Exchange value
of agricultural products for non
agricultural commodities is gradu
ally resuming pre-war figures, ac
cording to review of situation is
sued by department of agriculture.
CHlCAGO.—General Charles G.
Dawes says he will not discuss rep
aration plans bearing his name in
course of campaign talks, lest such
discussion hinder the plan, which
he regards as a non political achieve
ment.
DALLAS. Tex.—Thomas B. Love,
of Dallas. Democratic national com
mitteeman for TeSus. resigns, an
nouncing that he cannot support
candidacy of Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu
son, Democratic nominee for gover
nor.
WASHINGTON. Labor depart
ment orders Immigration Commis
sioner Curran, New York, to investi
gate charges Luis Angel Firpo, Ar
gentine heavyweight, violated immi
gration laws in connection with en
try into United States of Miss Blan
ca Picart.
NEW YORK.—White Star liner
Arabic, arriving with more than
fifty of its passengers and crew
severely injured, is hardest hit of
several incoming liners which bear
testimony to recent severe weather
in north Atlantic.
NEW YORK.—Directors of Pere
Marquette Railway company ap
prove offer of Van Sweringen inter
ests to join proposed “Nickel Plate”
merger, thus assuring completion of
$1,500,000,00(1 consolidation of rail
way. whose trackage totals more
than 14.000 miles.
Generals Hindenburg
And Ludendorff Speak
On Battle Anniversary
KOENIGSBERG, Germain. Aug.
28.—(8y the Associated Press.) —Gen-
I erals von Hindenburg and Luden
dorff Wednesday ran rival shows
here in celebration of the tenth an
i niversary of the battle of Tannett-
I berg.-The warriors made special ad
|dresses before different gatherings.
t General von Hindenburg, who ap
■ peared in full uniform, avoided the
j discussion of internal politics and
, spoke only of the historic past, men-
I tioning “our fatherland” without re
' ferring to changes which have t ome
about in the government.
At the other meeting, however.
I General Ludendorff addressed a
special crowd of his extreme admir-
I ers -and said: "So long as we have
la government whose president has
disarmed the arm.' and whose chan
cellor is a member of the Catholic
party whose evident aim is to de
stroy the reieh. and so long as a
man like Maltzan promotes bolshe
vistic ends in the government, and
so long as Stresemann is foreign
minister, we cannot think of German
I freedom.” *
A notice was posted on the door
of the hull where General Ludendorff
spoke which real: “No Jews Ad-
PRAU-POWER GO.
LITIGATION SETTLED
OUTSIDE OF COURT
Litigation that has been in prog
ress for several months between the
Pratt interests and the Washington
Land company, said to be a subsidi-
I ary of the Georgia Railway and
Power company involving exten-1
sive hydro-electric development
along the Coosawattee river in Mur
ray and Gilmer counties, has been
settled out of court, it was an
nounced Thursday, and the devel
opment will, it is said, be carried out
in such a manner as to co-ordinate
the projects of the Pratt interests
and the power company.
The series of transactions lead
ing up to the settlement constitute
one of the most interesting chap
-1 ters in the history of big business
affairs in Georgia. Some years ago
N. P. Pratt, formerly head of the
Pratt Laboratories and one of the
best known figures In the engineer
ing and industrial field, began ac
quiring lands along the Coosawattee
river, which flows down through Gil
mer county and into a section lying
between the two branches of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Realizing the possibilities of the
river for the development of hydro
electric power and the building up
of a great industrial district in
north Georgia, the Pratt interests,
it is said, finally secured all but
about 460 acres of the land necessary
to provide adequate storage and
drainage area for the projected dam
and power house just below Flat
creek on the Coosawattee.
Meeting difficulties in acquiring
this needed tract, the Pratt inter
ests instituted condemnation pro
ceedings in the Blue Ridge circuit
’of the superior court before Judge
D. W. Blair against the Washington
Land company, which held title to
the property.
It was set up by the Pratt inter
ests in this suit that the company
had acquired title to the property
after condemnation proceedings had
been begun. Judge Blair decided in
favor of the Pratt interests and the
power company carried the ease to
the higher courts, where it has been
pending.
Assent to Judge’s Decision
Under the terms of the compro
mise agreement just reached, how
ever, a court order has been pre
pared and signed by the parties at
issue, withdrawing the matter from
the courts.
The Georgia Railway and Power
company, it is said, had contemplat
ed developments further down the
Coosawattee river on what is known
as the Carter property just over the
Murray county line, and had ac
quired certain acreage along the
river at that point.
Recently, however, it is said, Mr.
Pratt purchased about 2,000 acres of
the Carter property at an adminis
trator’s sale, paying $157,000 after
spirited bidding against the power
company representatives. The ac
quisition of this property by the
Pratt interests, is said to have put
an effectual stop to any project the
power company might have for the
development of the Coosawattee,
and recognizing this situation, both
parties to the controversy entered
negotiations looking to a compro
mise.
The power company, it is said,
purchased the Carter property from
the Pratt interests at a price of i
$184,000 and at the same time turn- i
ed over to Mr. Pratt the, 460 acres
formerly held by the Washington I
Land company in the development
of its hydro-electric plans.
Thus, it is said, the Pratt inter
ests now own the lands for about
15 miles along the Coosawattee and
for about six miles along its prin
cipal tributary, Mountaintown creek
while the power company owns the
properties from Flat creek south- !
ward for a distance of perhaps seven |
miles.
. \
Three Power Plants Probable
While definite plans have not been I
made for the development of the Coo-1
swattee system, it is thought by en i
gineers that, certainly two and pos-1
sible three hydro-electric plants will I
be necessary. Os these, it is said the |
Pratt interests propose to construct i
one and the power company will I
probably put up the others. En
gineers in the employ of Mr. Pratt |
are now completing all details of a I
survey of the properties.
. According to Mr Pratt, the drain-,
age area and precipitation of the
Coosawattee system is about twice I
that of the Tallulah system, anti the j
hydro-electric development near Flat i
creek will have a fall of 253 feet,;
while the development on the power:
company property further down the
river will have a fall of 312 feet.
The Coosawatte developments. j
when completed, are expected to de- j
velop 120.1)0(1 horse-power, involve a:
total cost of about $18,000,000, and 1
provide electric power for distribu I
tion over a wide area in north Geor
gia and to make possible the estab- i
lisjiment of industrial centers at
points where such enterprises are
row effectually barred.
The Weather
Virginia: Fair Saturday, slightly:
warmer in north and west portion, j
North Carolina. Georgia, South
Carolina, extreme Northwest Florida?
Alabama and Mississippi: Partly
cloudy Saturday.
Florida: Partly cloudy with wide
ly-s -tittered thundershowers Satur
day.
Tennessee: Generally fair Satur
day, continued warm.
Kentucky: Saturday generally
fair, continued warm.
Louisiana: Saturday partly cloudy,
not much change in temperature.
Arkansas: Saturday generally
fair, little change in temperature.
Oklahoma: Saturday partly cloudy. \
East and west Texas: Saturday'
parti ycloudy to unsettled. ]
STORM-BATTERED
SHIPS CONTINUE TD
HOBBLE INTO PORT
I NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—Six more
storm-swept vessels, victims of the
Sunday to Tuesday hurricane which
cut a great swath from the south
to the north Atlantic, made port
j early today, bearing further witness
of the storm’s fury.
The ships coming in today were
smaller than the battered passenger
liners which arrived yesterday, first
of the storm’s victims to make port.
These were the White Star liners
Arabic and Homeric, the Munson,
liner Munargo, the Orizaba, of the
Ward line, and the Italian steam
ship Giuseppe Verdi, and the Mun
son ship Mundelta.
The Nordfarer, 2,500-ton Danish
cargo boat, arrived first today.
When just south of Cape Hatteras
Monday night, the staunch little
ship was almost crushed under the
weight of the waters that rolled
over her. The mad hurricane caught
the Nordfarer in its greatest fury.
A gargantuan wave struck her bow
on, and washed away the bridge,
carrying Captain M. J. Madsen with
it. j \
Behind the Nordfarer, the San
Pablo, from Tela, Honduras, made
her entry. She suffered the
of her lifeboats and all the loose ar
tides on her decks. u
Next came the British steamer In
dian Prince, from Santos, Brazil.
Her crew told of one of the»ir num
ber being swept from the decks
by a titanic wave which washed
him aboard again. The steamer’s
decks and upper works were badly
damaged,.
There followed the San Jose, from
West Indian ports, the Corsican
Prince, out of Buenos Aires, and the
Commodore Rollins, from Kingston-
Jamaica. The San Jose was only
slightly damaged. The Corsican
Prince suffered a bit more damage
Five liners, bearing evidence of a
struggle against the hurricane
steamed into harbor yesterday, sev
eral hours late, their fittings smash
ed and battered by the force of the
waves.
Only one life 3ias lost, the steam
er Elisa Walker reporting that Cap
tain J. Madsen had been swept over
board from the bridge of the Danish
steamer, Nordfarer, while south of
Cape Hatteras.
Captain Hickson, of the Arabic,
whose vessel and passengers were
the major victims, said the wind at
times attained an intensity of 120
miles an hour and Captain Metcalf,
of the Homeric, sister White Star
liner of the Arabic, asserted it was
the worst within his memory.
The Munargo of the Munson line,
and the Orizaba, of the Ward line,
suffered less than the other two
vessels, while the Giuseppe Verdi,
whose captain had brought her from
Genoa to meet the storm, exhibited
a dent in a smoke stack sixty feet
above the water line.
The Arabic had an estimated cas
ualty list of more than 150, with
fifty-two-persons who required treat
ment. Os these 33 were under the
care of surgeons when the vessel
docked, met by ambulances previous
ly summoned by wireless.
Among the passengers on the
Arabic who were under the care of
surgeons when the boat docked was
Mrs. Henry D. Clayton. Montgom
ery, Ala., who had an injured knee
The Mundelta, from San Pedro,
arrived at Quarantine late at night,
where a tug took off Captain Benja
min F. Smith, critically injured
when a large piece of wood on the
| Crest of a wave hit him in the face.
The Homeric fared much better
than the Arabic, having only eight
of its passengers seriously injured
and much less damage to the vessel.
The Berengaria, whose passenger
list bears the name of Edward,
Prince of Wales, apparently was
outside of the hurricane's border as
dispatches received from the ship to
day made no mention of unusual
weather.
j ATLANTA BOYS ABOARD THE
ARABIC; NEITHER IS INJURED
Charles and Hugh Nunnally, well
: known young Atlantians, who were
i passengers on the steamship Arabic,
I were not injured aboard the ship
I during the Atlantic hurricane, ac
i cording to their father, Charles T.
| Nunnally, president of the Nunnally
! & McCrea Co., who communicated by
I telephone with them Wednesday at
I a New York hotel soon after they
i had landed.
Mr. Nunnally said his sons suf
. sered no mishap other than wetting
|of their baggage. He quoted them
I as saying they never had seen any
j thing that looked so good as the
statue of Liberty.
The boys were returning to At
| lanta after an extensive trip
: through England, Scotland, Italy,
j Germany and France. They were
i members of a party of young men
I from southern states who made the
I tour of Europe together.
Mr. Nunnally said his sons stated
I they would leave New York Citj'
: Thursday if they could obtain reser
' cations, and would arrive in Atlanta
I sometime late Friday or early Sat
| urday.
CAPTAIN \ND THREE MEN
MISSING FROM SCHOONER
SYDNEY', Nova Scotia, Aug. 28. —
Captain Devon and three members,
of the crew of the schooner Julia F.
C.. are missing since the craft was
hit by the hurricane off the Bird
islands on Tuesday night.
The schooner, with her jib torn
. away, her mainmast gone at the
head and her cabin smashed, was
j last reported dragging her anchor
thirteen miles from Bird island.
I ___
Water Famine Faced
At Phenix City, Ala.,
Lawns Must Go Dry
PHENIX CITY, Ala.. Aug. 28.—1 f
it does not rain within three days
Phenix City will be without water to 1
I drink and a warning was issued to
: day to the residents of this town by
I Mayor C. B. Gullatt, that anyone
' '.aught sprinkling their lawns would
' be summoned to the court.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, August 30, 1924
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STING OF DEATH SHOWERED
ON WEEVIL BY AIRPLANES
IN CORDELE DEMONSTRATION
Senators, Agricultural Ex
perts, Farmers and Other
Visitors Revel in Crisp
County Hospitality
BY ERNEST ROGERS
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal',
; CORDELE Ga.. Aug. 28.—Further
i evidence of the impending doom of
; the boll weevil swooped out of the
j clear skies of Crisp county here Fri
day in the form of two giant govern
ment airplanes leaving in their wake
I a poisonous white cloud which set
tled down on the cotton plants of the
Wheeler plantation—on the south
west edge of Cordele —with the sting
I of death in the/white particles.
A. throng, practically as large and
equally as enthusiastic as the gather
ing at Athens on Tuesday, viewed
with wonder the miracle wrought by
the air monsters from the delta la
oratories, at Tallulah, La., working
in co-operation with the State Col
lege of Agriculture, of Athens.
From all sections of south Georgia
there were gathered farmers, agri
cultural leaders and business men
vitaliy interested in the demonstra
tion. \\ hen the clouds of powder
had settled, they viewed with pleas
urable amazement the thoroughness
with which the plants had been dust
ed, leaving no possible avenue of
vantage for the “scourge of the cot
ton belt.”
Barbecue
Following the demonstration the
throng repaired to Williams park
where a sumptuous barbecue, fur
nished by the citizens of Crisp coun
ty was served.
This delightful repast was followed
by a number of short talks in which
| agricultural leaders and leaders in
the state spoke in commendation of
the spectacle just viewed.
Dr. George A. Maloney, personal
representative of Dr. B. R. Coad, of
the Delta laboratories— whose sj>eech
« r as a feature of the Athens demon
stration—again told the people of
G-orgia the menace lurking in rub
; ash and wooded clumps where the
weevil finds a place to hibernate for
I the winter.
"Drive the weevil into the open ”
smd Dr. Maloney, “and slay him as
ou would any other invading
enemy. Don't give him a chance to
urk near the cotton to wreak his
destruction the following year.w.
Senators .Speak
ti.’ n ..' ted Stat P s Senator William J.
ai lis and Walter F. George were
h,' l ° n - f ° r talks and the >’ voiced
ugh Praise .or the airplane method
of distributing calcium arsenate and
J.? c * >^SS^ d ° n those the ne
■‘■ity for radical measures in fight
ing the bug. Among others to speak
Congressman Charles Crtsp,
J J. Brown, commissioner of aeri
culture for Georgia: Dr. J p hlJ
Campbell, head of the de
partment of the State College of A
-1 icu 11 jrc, nd oth6rs.
and h b S Tt attenJing fJ ’ e 'iemonstration
and barbecue were recipients of the 1
funding hospitality of Crisp <-oun
n • Greer, secretary of the
Cordele board of trade, was chuii* '
man of the local committee, and was 1
highly efficient in attending to the ’
comfort of the visitors. The enter '
tr-mT e can L m A tee of th ® hoard of (
wa Z’-.nd ed by K ' P ' Tison ; the 1
h . \ t w^r anS commit tee. headed '
TJ J. J. Williams, and the publicity J
committee headed by C. M. McKen- 1
zie, also added to the comfort of the 1
--’tjests and the orderly manner in
the affair was carried out
D HanV U A H - ¥ Uff ’ head Os Huff- ‘
Frs tho i'° P ane Co ” ma nufactur- 1
eis of tne demonstration planes was i
RoV 6 !? M'r h h G n° r V Post ’ and (
y Mlt yhell. of Tallulah, La., i
who operated the machines. ;
Officials of the A., B. & a. rail- «
r«d were largely instrumental in =
hungiiig the throng to Cordele, and
for the convenience of the speakers r
an<. others interested, attached a
special Tullman to the Atlanta train t
BOOTLEGGER KING
OISJWS CHW
ONSTomm
Charging that he was offered a
pardon if he would help the AVheeler-
Brookhart senate committee “frame”
illegal transactions on former At
torney General Daugherty, George
Remus, former bootleg king of Cin
cinnati and now an inmate of the
federal prison. Thursday gave out an
affidavit in which he repudiated his
testimony before the committee in
Washing several months ago.
He now says he has never met
Daugherty nor Jess Smith.
Remus stated that the alleged of
fer was made him by Harry Stern,
an attorney connected with the de
partment of justice investigation,
who said he acted on authority of
the Wheeler-Brookhart committee.
He claimed that he insisted to
Stprn that he kmjw nothing against
Daugherty or Smith, but that he
finally yielded to the promise of free
dom, went to Washington and testi
fied against the two accused men.
In repudiating his testimony he is
actuated, he said, by a desire to clear
the name of Daugherty, and to ob
tain revenge for the failure of the
committee to keep this alleged
“gentlemen’s” agreement.
WHEELER SAYS WARDEN
FORCED NEW STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Sena
tor Burton K. Wheeler charged that
the statement of George Remus,
millionaire Cincinnati bootlegger,
that he perjured himself before the
Brookhart committee, has been
“ffoced” from him by the warden of
federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
I have just learned that Remus
has made* an affidavit that Henry
Stern, an attorney not employed by
the committee, but. who did assist in
our work, had tried to get him
(Remus) to testify falsely against
Harry M. Daugherty,” Wheeler said
in a formal statement.
“This statement, in my judgment,
is false and forced from Remus by
the present the peniten
tiary who is a close personal and
political friend and an appointee of
Daugherty from Ohio.
Quotes Mrs. Remus \
“George Remus wired to the com
mittee on more than one occasion
asking that he be called here and
he told part of his story of how he
gave mone yto Jess Smith. Mrs
Remus produced checks which she
told Senator Brookhart in my pres
ence and in the presence of her at
torney, were cashed and the proceeds
paid to Smith and to other go-be
tweens for Republican officials in
Ohio. Washington and New York. 1 ’
for their comfort. Making the trip
from Atlanta Ao Cordele on the A.,
B. & A. speciafl car were Senator
Harris, Commissioner Brown. Dr.
Campbell, A. D. Daniel, passenger
traffic manager of the A., B. & A.;
W. R. Tucker, agricultural agent of
the railway system; D. D. Long, soil
expert of the soil improvement com
mittee; Lee Worsham, former state
entomologist; Dr. Maloney, J. w.
Reid, division passenger agent, and
representatives of the Atlanta pa
pers.
It was expressed by the experts
and others that the Cordele demon
stration was in every way satisfac
tory and that enthusiasm had been
aroused in this section by the dem
onstration. It was the sense of the:
gathering that powerful and formid- j
able forces were being amassed to 1
exterminate the pest which for sev
eral years has been preying on this;
section.
The party from Atlanta was to ■
return at midnight Thursday on the’
special Pullman on the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic train.
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Caverly Issues Statement
Answering Veiled Charge- j
of Corruption
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —After portions of ■
the closing argument of Ropert E.
Crowe, state’s attorney, had been
stricken from the record by Judge
John R. Caverly as a “cowardly, das
tardly attack upon the integrity of
this court and an attempt to intinfti- 1
date it,” the court took under ad-, j
visement today the penalty which he
■ must decide for Nathan Leopold, Jr.,
and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnap
ers and murderers of Robert Franks.
The remarks of the court came
out of a clear sky and startled the:
crowded courtroom into a shocked
silence. , -3
Mr. Crowe's jaw dropped and he
blanched visibly under the judicial
broadside.
“Your honor, I had —” he began,’
but the judge interrupted him.
“The state’s attorney khew full
well that his remarks would be her
alded far and wide,” said the court.
“He knew, too, the court would have
no opportunity to reply or defend: ■
himself from criticisms except by
the action he has taken.”
The judge then read a prepared;
statement and at its conclusion an- v,
nounced he would give his decision’
September 10 at 9:30 a. m., “unless
illness prevents.”
Only the defendants, the attorneys!
for both sides, court attaches and,
newspaper men will be admitted to
the/t'inal scene in the famous case. | ,|
The court did not state specifi
cally what portions of Mr. Crowe's
remarks aroused his ire. It was re
called, however, that the state’s at
torney had referred to possible out
breaks if the death penalty were not’
imposed and had emphasized the
possible power of money in the
courts and the wealth of the de-| ' a
fendants. •
Defends Gertland
Just before the argument closed
Mr. Crowe also made it'defense of I
the testimony by James Gortland,
one of his staff detectives, that Leo- '
pold had expressed a hope to escape
the death penalty by pleading guilty,
“before a friendly judge.” This had
been denounced by Mr. Darrow as:
"perjury,” and when Mr. Crowe de-,
fended it the court asked the ste
nographers to give him a special i
copy of that statement.
None of the attorneys in the case
would comment after the proceed-1
ings were over. Clarence S. Dar
row, Benjamin Bachrach and Wal
ter Bachrach, the defense leaders, i
said it would be improper, and Mr.
Crowe remarked merely that he had
"been talking three days.”
The stenographic report of the
concluding scene between the judge
and prosecution was as follows: j
Mr. Crowe: “The state rests.”
The Court: “Before the state rests
in the other case, the court will
order stricken from the record tfie j
closing remarks of the state’s attor- 1
ney as being a cowardly and das- ■
tardly assault upon the integrity of
this court.” 71
Court’s Only Chance
Mr. Crowe: was not so intend-
ed, your honor.”
The Court: "And it could not ba
used for any other purpose except:
to incite a mob and to try and intimi-.
dale this court. It will be stricken
from the record."
Mr. Crowe: “If your honor please,
the state’s attorney had no such in
tention.”
The Court: “We will go on—” . 3
Mr. Crowe: “I merely want to put !
my personal feeling plainly before 4
the court. It was not the intention
of the state’s attorney—”
The Court: “The state’s attorney
knew that it would be heralded all
through this country and all over ■
thio world and he knows the court
hasn’t an opportunity except to do
what he did. It was not the proper I "■
thing to do.” (
Mr. Crowe: “It was not the inten
tion —” ■ ||
The Court: “This court will not
be intimidated by anybody at any
time or place as long as he occupies
this position.” <
“Now, in order to fix tfte date 1
that I will set this case, gentlemen, ,
I want to «ay there lias been a great
deal of criticism about the conduct
01 this co.se; some of it from well
meaning people who knew no better;
others from those who should know’;
better.
Claims Trial Was Speedy
“We have been criticized about
the dedays of justice. The court has
been criticized because after a plea
of guilty he permitted evidence to
be heard, and we have been criti
cized because of the length of tim»
it takes for an execution after the
court passes judgment.
“Permit me to say with reference
to tlie delays of justice that this
trial is one of the speediest trials
of a criminal case ever heard In
Cook county in which the state has
asked the death penalty.
“And this could not have been
done if it had not been for the able
manner in which the state’s attor
ney of this county investigated and
prepared his case and was ready to
go to trial when called.
“The defense are to be commend
ed because they made no attempt to
delay the trial. ,
“The murder Iwas committed on
May 21 two months before
the trial started. The defendants
were arrested on May 31, ten days
after the murder, indicted within a
short time thereafter ami within six
weeks of the day of indictment this
case wag on trial.
Quotes Evidence Ruling
“So that it cannot be truthfully
said that their wealth or property
had anything to do with the delay
in this case, because there was no
delay.
“There were 34 murder indict
ments returned for murders com-
(Continued on I age 3, JColymn 5.)