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VOL. XXVI. NO. 148
COMMUNISTS ATTEMPT TO MOB FRENCH PREMIER
U. S.GLOBE FLIERS
Lffl Ifi MUSKOGEE
FROM ST. JOSEPH
Hop of 340 Miles Is Made in
Three Hours and Fifty-
Five Minutes
MUSKOGEE. Okla., Sept. 18.—The
army around-the-world fliers landed
at Hat-box field at ,5:22 p. m., een-
Atral standard time.
The Chicago piloted by Lieutenant
was the first to land, follow
ed closely by, the Boston 11, piloted
by Lieutenant Wade, and the New
Orleans with Nelson at the stick.
The 340-mile hop from St. Joseph,
Mo., was made in 3 hours, 55 min
utes.
ROSECRANS FIELD, St. Joseph,
Mo., Sept. 18.—(By the Associated
Press.) —The ’round-the-world fliers
arrived here today from Omaha at
12:29 p. m., and received a wild
demonstration.
The 135-mile flight down the Mis
souri river valley from Omaha was
made in one hour and forty-eight
minutes.
Tens of thousands of persons
greeted the airmen as they passed
over St. Joseph and at the landing
field five miles out more than 5,000
gathered to honor the globe encir
clers.
OVERCAST SKIES DELAY
START FROM OMAHA
UNITED STATES AIR MAIL
FIELD, FORT CROOK, Neb., Sept.
18. —The United States army squad
ron hopped off on the last leg of its
world flight at 10:41, the Chicago
leading and the Boston and New
Orleans following almost instantly.
The planes started down the field,
but before going 300 feet decided to
go to the north end of the field so
that they might have advantages of
the full area of the air mail field
and take advantage of the air cur
rents.
Four army planes accompanied the
fliers, in addition to the advance
plane of Lieutenant Moffatt.
The fliers planned to make a
brief stop at St. Joseph, Ma., for
lunch and then continue + o Mus
cogee, Okla., where the night will
be spent. The distance to Muskogee
is 450 miles.
Murky weather along the route
served to delay the start.
The jumps planned for today
will carry the aviators first to
St. Joseph, Mo., 135 miles away, and
after a brief halt there for lunch,
on to Muskogee, Okla. The next day
they will go to Dallas, Tex.
A misunderstanding last night
with officials of the air mail serv
ice caused the “Chicago,” Lieuten
ant Smith’s plane, to be overloaded
w'ith gas, and half an hour was
spent draining off the surplus.
POT OF GOLD GATHERED
FOR SUCCESSFUL FLIERS
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Sept. 18.—
A ship load of flowers and a pot of
gold await the army’s round the
world fliers scheduled to arrive here
next week.
The cargo of blossoms Is to he
gathered by residents of the port of
San Pedro, from which the airmen
took off on their globe girdling flight
last March.
The pot of gold, symbolic of the
rainbow’s end, is being gathered by
newspapers, banks and civic organi
zations of various southern Cali
fornia cities.
I 7-Year-Old Burglar
Is Given Sentences
Os 10 to 100 Years
Heber Wilson, seventeen years obi,
■leaded guilty Thursday morning be
fore Judge John D. Humphries, In
pulton superior court, to fifteen In
■khctinents charging burglary and re-
an indeterminate sentence of
<* from 10 to 100 years.
On the first five Indictments,
Judge Humphries sentenced the
youth in each case to serve from
:wo to ten years, to run consecutive
ly, and in the remaining ten cases,
'com one to ton years, also to run
onsecu lively. He stipulated, how
ever, that the sentences, thus divided
into groups, will run concurrently,
making a minimum of ten years and
.1 maximum of 100 years.
City Policemen J. C. and J. 11.
Davis, who took the youth in cus
bdy severa. weeks ago, said the
boy had obtained loot valued at ap
proximately $30,000, of which $20,-
000 has been recovered.
Wilson was arrested after a
■hase on Eleventh street , during
which he went through several
apartments and finally was cornered
in a bathroom. The officers say be
later led them to a deserted house
where a quantity of the valuables
were found.
Young Wilson is said to have
given the police names of several
alleged confederates, none of whom
has been arrested.
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Brief
NEW YORK.—Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federa- 1
tion of Labor, is reported ill at a
hotel.
WASHINGTON.—Report of politi
cal situation reaching White House
say Senator La Follette has “fifty
fifty” chance in northwestern states
CHICAGO.—Before great crowd in
Stock Yard district John W. Davis I
declares his willingness to wage cam- '
paign solely on issue of Republican
administration.
SHANGHAl.—Following revolt of
third army Chekiang defense of
Shanghai threatens to collapse;
Kiangsu forces launch new offensive
at Liuho on Yangtze river.
Mel
lon makes available to senate in
vestigation internal revenue bureau
all files and reports and records of
department.
NEW YORK. Constantinople
cable says earthquake in Erzerum
district of Armenia Saturday de
stroyed 102 villages and killed hun
dreds of inhabitants.
BERLlN.—Unemployed persons in
Germany, including occupied terri
tories, number one million, of which
540,000 are drawing doles, accord
ing to statistics of minister of labor.
ST. PAUL.—Plans to press Gen
eral Pershing for candidate for na
tional commander of American Le
gion in convention at St. Paul are
abandoned at general’s request.
MUSKOGEE, Okla.—Army round
the-world fliers, en route to Pacific
coast and end of journey, reach
Muskogee, Okla,, after three-hour- *
55-minute flight from St. Joseph, Mo. j
FAIRMONT, W. Va.—Sixteen per- (
sons, among them several credited j
with being state officers of the Ku I
Klux Klan are indicted on charges I
growing out of the shooting of a I
negro.
COLOGNE, Germany.—lnter-allied !
Rhineland high commission author- :
izs the flight of ZR-3 over occupied
territories in coming voyage of Zep
pelin from Frederickshafen to Lake
hurst, N. J.
WASHINGTON.— Efforts to “dry '
up” Washington have failed, Major!
Daniel Sullivan, police superinten- j
dent, says in his report, blaming
prohibition law for inadequate pen
alties and court delays.
TOPEKA, Kan.—Permanent in
junction restraining members of Ku
Klux Klan from parading in masks
and regalia of order in Kansas is
issued by Judge Bender in Jeffer
son county district court.
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Approxi
mately fifteen acres on the summit
of Mount Shasta cave in. damning
up Mud creek canyon and threaten-'
ing a flood if the wather breaks over
the walls of the creek bed.
NEW YORK—Huge audience, half
of which pays admission fee, greets
Senator La Follette, independent
presidential candidate, and listens to
outline of independent platform and
assault on old-time parties.
W ASHINGTON.—Composite regi
ment. made up of men from two of
regular regiments, included in First
division during World war, is or
dered to Washington to participate
in dedication of First division
memorial, October 3-5.
CHlCAGO.—Following arrest, of
Rev. L. M. Hight( Ina, 111., minister,
on charge of murder of his wife, in
whose stomach is found quantity of
poison, investigation is begun of
mysterious death two months ago of
Sweetin, of Ina.
— Conformation
“insofar as it is practicable” to Fed
eral Trade commission’s order di
recting abandonment of Pittsburg i
plus system of price fixing is |
pledged by United States Steel cor- j
poration and other concerns affected. I
PHILADELPHIA. —ls Germany !
had possessed in 1917 devices now !
controlled by war department, trans- j
portation of A. E. F. to Germany I
could virtually have been blocked, j
Major General M. M. Patrick, chief |
of army air service, tells scientists
at Franklin institute centenary.
Supervisor Fillyaw,
Os Southern, Killed
By Train at Griffin
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 18.—Super
visor W. L. Fillyaw, of the South
ern railroad was instantly killed by
a freight train near this city, Wed
nesday afternoon when it ran into
his motor car as he was on his
way to Williamson where he lived.
He leaves a wife and two children.
The. place where the accident oc
, curved was on a reverse curve
1 about a mile out from this place.
The freight train was an extra and
! coming towards this place. Evidently
i he hail forgotten about the train
I for he started on his motor car
I alone to Williamson when he met
his instant death. His body was
brought to Griffin by the train
■ crew and was badly mangled.
• .
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
VIRGINIA: Showers.
NORTH CAROLINA: Showers.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEOR
GIA: Occasional showers.
FLORIDA, extreme northwest
Florida: Local thundershowers.
ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI:
i Local showers and thundershowers.
TENNESSEE. AND KENTUCKY:
Showers; cooler in central and west
I portions.
LOUISIANA: Partly cloudy to
cloudy, probably scattered showers.
ARKANSAS: Unsettled, probably
showers, cooler in northwest por
tion.
OKLAHOMA: Partly cloudy to
| cloudy.
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, scat
j tered showers.
WEST TEXAS: Tartly cloudy
probably showers in north
JIB MAIL SERVICE
TO SOUTH AMERICA
PUNNED BI 0. S.
Atlanta Spurred to Action on
Landing Field by
New Project
Plans for the establishment of a
municipal airplane landing field near
Atlanta were given added impetus
Thursday by receipt of information
from Washington that officials of
the state and postoffice departments,
in co-operation with the army air
service, were preparing to lay before
President Coolidge a project to es
tablish an international air mail
service between the United States,
the Panama Canal Zone and South
American countries. Such a route
would, it is believed, include Atlanta.
The councilmanic committee,
headed by Councilman C. C. Aven,
now investigating available airplane
landing field sites near Atlanta, will
meet Friday or Saturday for an in
spection of the various sites sug
gested. Colonel Charles Danforth, of
the Fourth Corps Area headquarters,
will accompany the committee. In
this connection it was announced
that W. L. Chaffee, of the chamber
of commerce special committee on
aviation fields for Atlanta, will at
tend the national air meet at Day
ton, 0., in October to secure data of
aid to aviators in landing and taking
off from fields.
Officials Study Project
Following is the dispatch from
Washington:
“Establishment of an international
air mail service between New Or
leans or some other gulf port, the
Panama Canal Zone and the various
Central American capitals, is being
discussed by officials of the state
department, postoffice and the army
air service. The project is regarded
as both practical and desirable by
all concerned, it is understood, but
has as yet not passed beyond the
stage of discussion.
“Before any step can be taken it
must be approved by five other gov
ernments. The plans have been
made known to the state department
in order that it may sound out the
Central American foreign offices but
have not been laid as yet before
President Coolidge.
“The idea which led to the project
grew out of the flight made by three
army planes early this year from
France field, Canal zone, on a visit
of courtesy to the Central Ameri
can capitals.
“Estbalishment of air mail connec
tions with Central America, it is
held, would be a tremendous step
forward in the development of com
munications between the United
States and its neighbors to the
south, serving not only to promote
commercial intercourse but also to
stimulate the good feeling already ex
isting between the peoples and gov
ernments.
To Use Army Fliers
"Plans for the service as now de
veloped would provide that the army
air service initiate it with its own
pilots and equpment and with the co
operation of the postoffice depart
ment. It is expected, however, that
the service would be transferred
later as a going concern either to
the postoffice department, or because
of its international character, to com
mercial enterprise.
“It is pointed out that the pro
posed international aerial mail would
tend to give American aircraft pro
ducers an opportunity to introduce
their products in South and Central
America in a commercial way and
would lead also to the development
of the types of ships particularly
suitable for use in both tropical and
northern climates.”
Senate’s Committee
On Revenue Bureau
Hears Mellon Views
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The
special senate committee investigat
ing the internal revenue bureau in
executive session today heard the
views of Secretary Mellon on meth
ods by which the work of the bu
reau could be improved.
Secretary Mellon went before the
committee at its invitation. Sena
tor Couzens, Republican, Michigan,
is chairman of the investigating
body which has announced its pur
pose, with the aid of special counsel,
to go into all tax questions as well
; as prohibition.
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COLLAPSE IS H
FOR CHEKIANG MEN
' AS REVOLT GAINS
Shanghai Foreign Quarter
Tense After Break in
Defense Line
I
I SHANGHAI, Sept. 18. —(11:40 p.
j m.) —(By the Associated Press.) —Col-
I lapse of the Chekiang forces defend
; ing Shanghai from the Kiangsu
I armies of Tuchun Chi Shieh-Yuan
[ tonight was believed imminent.
1 Lu Yung-Hsiang, commander-in
chief of the Chekiang armies, forced
Ito flee from his provincial capital,
j Hangchow, by the revolt of his home
! defense force, the Chekiang third
I army, issued a personal statement
I tonight, expressing his willingness
| to retire as tuchun of Chekiang.
I No dalnger to the foreign settle
ments here was expected tonight,
but in anticipation of the breaking
down of the Chekiang defense of the
city with a resultant influx of refu
gees, every foreign defense unit was
being mobilized, while especially
heavy guards were placed at all ap
proaches.
Psk Loh, secretary to Ho Feng-
Ling, military governor of Shanghai,
and an appointee of General Lu, to
night finally admitted, after rumors
consistently unfavorable to the Che
kiang cause had been given credence,
that through “treachery and bribe
ry” a revolt had been effected in the
i third army practically amounting to
I a declaration of independence.
| Secretary Loh said the revolt
. might mean that the troops were go
j ing over to the side of Sun Chuan
I Fang, military commander-in-chief
for the province of Fukien, who is
allied with General Lu's opponents.
General Sun already had been invad
ing Chekiang on the south.
Although tho strife may be pro
longed in the vicinity of Shanghai,
Loh’s statements tonight cemented
the belief that the coup in Hang
chow meant the collapse of the Che
kiang defenses on three sides of that
province, leaving the loss of Shang
hai by Lu only a matter of time.
May Be Aid to Fang
Secretary Loh said the revolt
might mean that the troops were go
ing over to the side of Sun Chuan
Fang, military commander in chief
of the province of Fukien, who is
allied with General Lu’s opponents.
General Sun already had been invad
ing Chekiang on the south. Al
though the' strife may be prolonged
in the vicinity of Shanghai, Secre
tary Loh’s statements tonight ce
mented the belief that the coup in
Hangehow meant the complete col
laps eof the Chekiang defenses on
three sides of that province, leav
ing the loss of Shanghai by Lu only
a matter of time.
Wealthy Widow, 72,
Marries Organist, 29;
Love Match Claimed
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 18.—After
being refused a marriage license by
Norfolk authorities, owing to the
vast difference in their ages, Jack
Griffith, 29, motion picture theater
organist, and Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth
Fray, 82, widow of John W. Fray,
wealthy Washington and Raleigh,
N. C., broker, were married in a (
Portsmouth, Va„ church today.
Griffith announced that he and
the aged widow would take no honey- i
moon. “This is our private affair,” !
Mrs. Fray told newspapermen nerv
ously. “You need not expect me
to answer any questions.”
The organist said he met Mrs. i
■ Fray in Washington two years ago
while playing in that city, and that
he would marry her because of their
love. Griffith said money was not
the object, declaring he earns a
good salary.
The bridegroom will continue to
play in a local theater.
Griffith figured in a temporary in
junction obtained last month by Mrs.
E. F. Wayland. Washington, D. C..
: daughter of Mrs. Fray, restraining
officials of the Citizens Bank of
Raleigh, N. C., from allowing the
aged woman to dispose of $13,000 in
securities held for her by her bank.
Mrs. Wayland alleged her mother
( had become enamored with the hand
i some young Griffith and that he was
i endeavoring to marry her to obtain
| control of her fortune.
i ’ '
| Washington Not Dry,
All Attempts Failed,
Police Head Asserts
WASHINGTON. Sept. IS.—Efforts
! to “dry up” Washington have failed,
: Major Daniel Sullivan, superintend
i ent of police, concedes in his an
i nual report, in which he blames the
I prohibition law itself and the courts
i for the condition.
Washington is not dry, says the
! police chief, “because of the utter
; inadequacy of the penalties provided
i by law and because of the delays
experienced in the courts in bringing
‘ offenders to trial after they are ar
. rested.”
Major Sullivan recommends that
j the penalty clause with relation to
( the illegal sale of liquor be amended
so as to provide a jail sentence of
at least sixty days for the first of
fense, without fine, with proportion
• ate heavy increase in the period of
i imprisonment for each subsequent
! offense.
Mother Defends Son
In Street Fight; Slain
By Boy Foe’s Father
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 18.—Be
cause she defended her young son,
police said, after he had engaged in
a street fight with another boy.
Mrs. Annie Saboto was shot and
killed last night by Leonardo Pe
turra, father of her son's assailant.
After firing five shots at ’he wom
an. three of which lo’ged in her
breast. Pcturr fU 1 nr ’ was cap
tured several blocks away,
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SENTENCE OF DEATH
DEALTTDNEGROIS
LIFTED BY WALKER
Will Johnson, Atlanta negro sen
tenced to be hanged Friday for the'
murder of Peter Poulos, Forsyth
street restaurant proprietor, was
granted a commutation to life im
prisonment by Governor Walker
Thursday. The prison commission
had declined to recommend clemency
in the case.
Governor Walker, who has had the
case under consideration for several
days, based his commutation upon
the possibility of mistaken identity,
and the further fact that Chester
Johnson, an older brother of Will
Johnson, received only a life term
when convicted of complicity in the
same case.
The two Johnson negroes and
Clifford Walker, a third negro, were
charged with slaying Poulos when
they attempted to rob the restaurant
and Poulos resisted them. It had
been claimed that Poulos, in a dying
statement, charged Will Johnson
with firing the shot.
Governor Walker gave out the fol
lowing statement on the case:
“I believe in capital punishment
but only in atrocious crimes with
positive anil entirely satisfactory
evidence of guilt.
“This crime was atrocious.
“The eye witness who testifies
to positive evidence, a kinsman of
the deceased, was not positive when
the crime was committed. He now
says that his identification of John
son came into his mind gradually
through a period of several days aft
er the crime. In my judgment oth
er evidence does not measure up to
the standard satisfying me that the
extreme penalty should be imposed
“Those interested agree that Ches
ter Johnson, a co-defendant, is older,
more intelligent, with superior men
tality. and meaner and probably
planned the crime. But for assist
ance rendered the state by Johnson
the perpetrators would have gone
unwhipped of justice. Johnson’s wit
nesses were not placed on the stand
and the jury was not given the op
portunity to pass on the defendant s
evidence.
"For these and other reasons, I
am unwilling that a severer punish
ment than Chester Johnson's be im
posed and am commuting the sen
tence to life imiiis'.-nnieiit.”
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, September 20, 1924
Slippery Prisoner,
Who Greased Himself
And Escaped, Caught
OIL CITY, Pa., Sept. 18.—Laverne
Eisenman, a slippery prisoner who
slid out of the Clarion county jail to
freedom several days ago by greas
ing his bod}’ with vaseline and drop
ping through a small air passage,
was back in his cell today. He was
captured near his home last night.
Eisenman, charged with burglary,
picked the lock to his cell and made
his way to the upper tier where the
small airway leads to the outside.
Knowing that he could not squeeze
through the small opening in his
natural state, the prisoner used the
vaseline freely and a few minutes
later slipped to freedom.
RavJs. Found Guilty
In Slaying at Tybee,
1 o Seek a New Trial
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 18— Ber
nard 11. Rawls, convicted in the su
perior court last night of the murder
of A. Lamar Poindexter in the lobby
of Hotel Tybee, Tybee island, last
may, and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for life, will make application
for a new trial, his attorneys an
nounced this morning. The final
application will be made at once with
a bill of particulars to be filed later.
Rawls was very cheerful this
morning in his cell at the county
jail. His mother, who came from
Dublin, to be with her son at the
trial, and who was almost hysterical
last night when her son was car
ried from the sheriff’s office to the
jail, was much more composed this
morning. It is evident that there
is to be a strong legal fight made
.to prevent Rawls going to the peni
tentiary.
Judge Meldrim set the hearing on
the motion for a new trial Sept. 27.
Unclothed Astronomer
Leaps on Car in Vienna
Seeking Ticket to Mars
VIENNA, Sept. 18.—His mind un
balanced by excessive pondering on
the question whether Mars is in
habitated, Franz Enterpfarrer, a
mechanic at the Vienna observatory,
walked into the street here Wed
nesday without clothing, jumped
aboard a street car and shouted for
a ticket to Mars,
MAJOR M'GBEGOB
SLIGHTLY BETTER;
STILL M OOT
WARRENTON, Ga., Sept. 18.—Al
though the condition of Major C. E.
McGregor, state pension commission,
er, was somewhat improved this
morning after a restful night, little
. hope was held for his recovery, ac
| cording to attending physicians.
I Major McGregor, who is eighty-four
I years old, -was taken dangerously
i ill Tuesday.
Despite his advanced age and
; physical ailments which have been
sapping his strength for some time.
Major McGregor has refused to heed
the warnings of his physicians to
take a rest. When he was stricken
at his home Sunday, it was thought
that the attack was only slight, and
members of his family were not
alarmed until Wednesday, when he
grew worse, losing strength rapidly.
Ratio of Probability
Os Lightning Accidents
Figured by Engineer
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.—F.
W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer of
the General Electric company, de
clared in a paper prepared for pres
entation todav before the delegates
attending the centenary celebration
of the Franklin institute that a per
son standing directlv under a storm
cloud would be fifteen times more
liable to be struck by lightning than
one lying flat on the ground.
Through research in the company’s
laboratory at Pittsfield. Mass., he
said, he had been able to determine
definitely that the voltage of a light
ning flash was about 100,000.000.
“Research shows that lightning
■ from a cloud overhead does not
always strike the highest object, un
less the height of that object is more
than 2.5 per cent of the distance be
tween the cloud and the earth.” said
Mr. Peek.
“The division of hits is about equal
between cloud and ground when the
object is 1.1 per cent of the cloud
height. Then. too. the chance of be
ing hit is less when the cloud is not
overhead.”
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Paris Party Is Rescued by
Police After Narrow
Escape
PARIS, Sept. 18.—(By the Asso
ciated Dress.) —Premier Herriot, of
France, narrowly escaped injury In
Marseilles last night when 200 Com
munists swinging canes and sticks
and shouting, “Amnesty,” made a
determined effort to surround and
mob the premier in the Rue Canne
biere, the main thoroughfare of the
southern city, members of the pre
mier’s party disclosed today on his
arrival here.
M. Herriot was rescued from the
excited crowd only after the police,
who arrived belatedly upon the
scene, had forced back the Commu
nists and dispersed the gathering.
The premier ran into the hostile
gathering because of his insistence
that he be permitted to walk
through the streets of the city.
Insisted on Walking
When he landed from a torpedo
boat, which had brought him from
the wadship La Provence, from the
deck of which he had witnessed a
great naval review, he refused to
enter a limousine which awaited
him at the wharf. It was more fit
ting, he said, that a democratic pre
mier 'should walk.
His progress from the water
front through the Rue Cannebiere
was a continuous ovation, the
crowds becoming denser and greater
as he walked further into the city.
He was loudly acclaimed and con
gratulated for his democratic d?<
meaner, and great cheers came up
from the. people as he stopped tu
shake hands with the common peo
ple and sailors.
Suddenly there rushed from a side
street a fairly compact group, esti
mated to number about 200 persons,
composed of representatives of the
younger element in the Communist
party. They were swinging their
i.ats at the ends of their canes and
sticks and shouting “Amnesty."
Premier Surrounded
The manifestants maneuvered
flank movement, and soon had the
premier surrounded, unable to make
further advance and unable to extrL
cate himself from the hostile cor.
don.
The sticks were swung danger
ously close to his head, and the at
titude of the shouting Communist,
was anything but reassuring.
The premier was pale, but he re
mained cool and collected amid the
uproar and in the face of the pur.
posefully swung canes until a be
lated police charge scattered the
crowd and permitted him to enter a
passing automobile, in which he pro
ceeded to the railway station and
boarded a train for Paris.
Florida Town Officials
Arrested; Shooting of
Motorists Charged
DADE CITY, Fla., Sept. 18.—It
motorists passing through Zephyr
Hills won’t stop quick enough when
hailed by the town marshal, he takes
a shot at them, is the charge coun
ty officers make in ordering the ar
rest of Marshal George Jackson,
Mayor George Gibson and five coun
cilmen.
Jackson was arrested two weeks
I ago, but released on the promise ol
the mayor to furnish his bond. N(i
bond has been made, so on Wednes
day, the county officials arrested
Zephyr Hills’ official family.
The mayor and Councilman Quig
gle are held under SSOO bond and
the others under $250.
Footmarks of Ancient
Elephant m Nevada
Stir Carnegie Scientist
REND, Nev., Sept. 18.—Tracks of
an ancient elephant, (Mylodon Har
lanii), embedded in the natural floor
of the Nevada state penitentiary at
Carson City, today were described
as “one of the wonders of the world"
by Dr. John C. Merriam, paleontolo
gist, and president of the Carnegie
institute at Washington, D. C.
Dr. Merriam was attracted to Ne«
vada by recent discoveries of relics
of pre-historic man in the state.
After inspecting the prints at the .
prison Dr. Merriam urged precau
tions be taken to preserve them and
that further excavating be done.
Woman Celebrates
Her 63 d Birthday
With 16-Mile Swim
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Sept, 17.
Mis. Anna Van Skike announced to
day that year by year she was get
ting better and better, as she
emerged from a 16-mile swim in the
ocean in commemoration of the be
ginning of her sixty-fourth year.
She was in the water nine hours.
Last year she swam 12 miles to
celebrate her birthday anniversary.
Shooting at Cow,
Mobile Boy Kills
Father by Accident
MOBILE. Ala., Sept. 17.—Charles
Williams, 55, was shot and killed ac
cidentally today at his home near
here by Jack W. -Williams, his -14-
year-old son, when the latter started
to fire at a cow that was eating up
a field of peas. The elder Williams
stepped into the range of the gun
fire and part of his head was brown
off. A coroner’s jury exonerated the
son of all blame.
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