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Atlanta Battmal VOL. XXVI. NO. 150 GEN. JOHN L. HINES HAS DEFINITE PLAN TO KEEP MEN 'FIT' Successor to Pershing Holds Training More Important Than Numbers Milestones in Career Os New Army Chief 1868 —Born. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 1887 —Entered West Point. 1891—Commissioned second lieu tenant. 1898 —Santiago campaign. 1901—Philippine insurrection. 1908—Departmental quartermas ter. Adjutant general’s depart- / ment. y I*ll6—Chief of staff. Villa expedi tion. 1917—Assistant adjutant general A. E. F. 1922—Deputy chief of staff. 1924—Chief of staff. BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The new chief of staff of the United States army pushed back his chair and thumped his desk: “I don’t intend to be a desk chief. I’m not going to stay around the war department much. I mean to get out in the field and see what’s going on. The thing that counts in an irmy is not numbers but training— ind training men means inspection.” Major General John L. Hines, Per ihing’s deputy, who has succeeded “Black Jack’’ as chief, has a reputa tion In the service as a driver. But a kindly driver, one who does not ex pect more of others than he demands »f himself. His Army Ideal Hines did not have to hunt for an ir.swer when the United Press cor ’espondent asked him to put into one lentence his ideal for the army. He said it in one word: “Efficiency!” When officers say a regiment can je “over-inspected,” he gets angry. If you happen on an army post vhen Hines is on one of his unaa lounced inspection tours, the first part of him you are apt to see is iis legs* sticking out from under a juilding. When he is giving a bar •acks the once over, he crawls on iis stomach and examines the foun lations. He never asks the cavalry jfficers if the horses are properly ihod —he gets down and looks at he shoes. And if conditions are not right, dines sees that they are speedily v.afi*-.. right. He tells this story of low he used “strong-arm methods” o whip into shape his command in France: Tells a Story “I joined my regiment, the Six teenth infantry, in the Gounde Court trea in November, 1917, and found i large portion of the regiment lazed or asleep. The equipment was jot being properly cared for the transportation was filthy. 1 1 tried noral suasion for a short while. 1 yas not highly successful. I had to •esort to 'strong-arm methods’ mixed yith praise. Here was a case when Iriving was necessary to get things Itarted. I believe that a commander yill often find it necessary to exer jise a driving force to get a com- Eiand to its feet and sometimes to eep it there, too.” Hines is fond of illustrating the lesirability of commanders exercis ng personal leadership with a story ibout George Washington when the ♦ British crossed to New York after lhe battle of Brooklyn Heights. “General Washington was so in lensed at two brigades of his troops •etreating before a force of about Ifty British that he belabored them yith a stick —and came near being japtured with his aide and hi~ jorse." Absolute Obedience Hines demands absolute obedience bis subordinates. In listing the ■fllLfst virtues of an officer, he loyalty first. When asked as the most important thing le hau learned in the army, he re- Ried quickly: “Loyalty first and loyalty last.’ Lnd he makes this a test of citizen ibip: “Obedience to the law because it is ihe law, not because you approve or tisapprove.” Here is a bit of his instructions to i jfficers: "You must accomplish your ask whether you personally and in lividually approve it or not. Criti tism of the orders of superiors should > e avoided and discouraged, for it tan load only to disloyalty—the most ricious characteristic a military nan can possess.” Attitude Toward Pershing His attitude toward Pershing in Mexico and France and as deputy inder “Black Jack” at the war de partment, has been a rigid exemplifi lation of his doctrine of loyalty. Much of Pershing’s success has :ome from the unquestioning and inassuming support given by Hines. Whenever Hines makes a speech he ncludes the name of Pershing with Washington and Grant as America’s freat military leaders. Secretary of War Weeks, by the way, classes dines as an equal with America’s •utstanding generals of the past, ind one of the best produced by the World war. The rule followed by Hines when , tommanding under fire is best ex pressed by his favorite quotation Iroin Foch at the Marne: ' I am leavily pressed upon my right: my tenter is giving way; 1 cannot re list ribute my forces; the situation s excellent, and I shall attack. Self-control Necessary Self-control looms large in his eye is a necessary virtue in military r.rn. As a man of high temper, who tas fought to conquer himself, he •xpects as much from others. He ells how the French command ■hanged orders on him three times * * one night during a battle in Trance. “1 blew up and paid my respects o lhe French in no unmeasured erms,” he confessed. "In the midst •f this tirade I suddenly realized hat here was something I should nobably encounter often and that n.v actions were entirely wrong. I •an remember no other instance in rhtch I lost my self-control fn the 4 rar.” Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday GENERAL JOHN L. HINES, who succeeded General Persh ing as commander of the Amer ican army, and who has his own ideas of how men should be DM shrdluetaoishrdlu shrdluea r* l ' CARPET OF ROSES SPREAD FOB FLIEBS IT SINTI MONICA CLOVERFIELD, Santa Monica. Cal., Sept. 23. —(By the Associated Press.) —The three army world cruis ing airplanes reutrned to Cloverfield at 2:47 p. m. today, six months and six days after they left, March 17, to encircle the globe. Santa Monica was groomed for the return of the airmen who last St. Patrick’s day set out on what their skill and courage were to make the first successful around-the-world flight of history. As benefits conquerors, tne return ing airmen will alight on a field of roses; for that is what Clover field will be when the planes built in Santa Monica for the world flight come home to Santa Monica again. All night trucks laden with flowers trundled out to the field from com munities that had stripped their gardens to provide a gay and color ful welcome to the fliers. From San Pedro came a whole shipload of fra grant blossoms. ZANNI POSTPONES FLIGHT ON GENERAL LU’S ADVICE SHANGHAI, Sept. 23.—(8y the As sociated Press.) —The flight of Major Pedro Zanni, the Argentine ’round the-world flier, to Shanghai from Hong Kong, where he arrived yester day, has been postponed as a result of a communication from General Lu Yung-Hsianm, military governor of Chekiang province, it was dis closed today by A. del Carril, the Argentine consular representative here. The request from General Lu urged postponement of the flight to Shanghai because of the war. Del Carril, in a protest presented to the bureau of foreign affairs, represented that Major Zanni in tended to alight on th., Whangpoo river at a point very remote from the fighting, and insisted that a per mit had already been granted for the Hong Kong-Shanghai flight by the central government at Pekin. Del Carril has telegraphed to Ma jor Zanni to delay his departure from Hong Kong, but said it was probable Zanni would proceed de spite the protest by General Lu. HOP TO SANTA MONICA IS ONLY 150 MILES SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 23.—Three United States army aviators, on the home stretch of an air cruise around the world, slept soundly this morn ing while observers at Rockweßl field expected a low fog to disap pear under a southern California sun before the scheduled departure of the three airmen for Santa Monica at 12:30 p. m. The three fliers, Lieutenants Low ell 11. Smith, Eric Nelson and Leigh Wade, viewed the jump today along the California coast as a cruise lack ing the element of risk which char acterized their flights through un charted air lanes in other lands. N. C. Governor Plans Fight for Return of Police Chief’s Slayer RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 23.—Gov ernor Morrison has been advised by California authorities that the hear ing on the requisition for the re turn to North Carolina of Dr. J. W. Peacock, Thomasville physician, who was captured near Los Angeles several days ago, would not be held until the arrival of representatives from this state, it was learned here this morning. Governor Morrison, being advised at Charlotte yesterday that Dr. Pea cock intende dto fight extradition, announced that he would direct At torney General J. S. Manning to go to California to appear at the hear ing in behalf of the state. Dr. Peacock escaped from the criminal insane department in 1923 after being committed there follow ing his trial in connection with the slaying of Chief of Police Taylor, of Thomasville, the jury having found him not guilty of murder, and de claring him to be a paranoiac. I ndispatches Saturday night, the identity of Dr. Peacock was con fused with Dr. J. W. Peacock, of Thomasville, Ga., who had no con nectio nwith the shooting of the chief of police of Thomasville, N. C. Posse Surrounds Armed Desperadoes In Georgia Swamp ALMA, Ga., Sept. 23.—A swamp near here, in which two armed des peradoes are believed hiding, was surrounded today by a sheriff's posse. The fugitives are Carlton Johnson and Olin Wages, state convicts who escaped from the Bacon county jail here Monday. The pair escaped from the Coffee county chaingang a month ago. and were recaptured three weeks later. They were brought here to be tried for shooting Wash Nelson dur ing their first escape. The fugitives are heavily armed, and are expected to put up a stiff battle if overtaken by their pur suers. I \ ■ DAVIS REITERATES CHARGES AGAINST HARRY DAUGHERTY Democratic Nominee Writes Former Attorney General He Will Not Retract NEW YORK, Sept. 24. Having served notice that there is to be no obscuring of the issue that the American people shall be aroused to condemn and not to condone the betrayal of official trust, John W. Davis prepared today to return to the stump, determined to hit out harder than ever on the subject of “corruption in government.” The notice from the Democratic presidential nominee was contained in a letter writen yesterday to Harry M. Daugherty in reply to one in which the forme attorney general protested against what be charac terized as the “usually vague and all the more reprehensible” references which Mr. Davis has made during the campaign to his official conduct. Agreeing with Mr. Daugherty that “there is something more important in this year of grace than election to office or political success,” Mr. Davis said the isue of honesty of public officials could not be becloud ed “by your forced effort to repre sent the real contest of this cam paign as one between the defenders of the constitution and those who seek to overthrow it under leaders ‘fresh from a baptism of Bolshevism in lurid and suffering Russia.’ ” “If the constitution is to endure,” Mr. Davis wrote, “the first requisite is that men who hold office under it shall be honest and faithful to their trusts. Its real enemies are not the Reds and Bolshevists of whom you speak, whose shadows frighten you. but corrupt and impotent public of ficials and their associates.” Aserting that instead of being “quite veiled,” his allusions in the campaign to Mr. Daugherty had been “both direct and specific,” Mr. Davis declared that he found no war rant whatever for withdrawing a single one of them. Daugherty Appointed Means Brushing aside Mr. Daugherty’s statement that his “self respect” de barred him from appearing before the senate investigating committee because of the malice exhibited to wards him by it, Mr. Davis said that it seemed to him that under the circumstances “the malice of the committee and the falsity of the evi dence -would rather increase than di minish the natural desire of any man, much less an attorney general of the United States, to meet his ac cusers on their own ground.” “I confess that your failure to do so,” Mr. Davis wrote, “as well as the refusal of your brother to furnish information demanded of him in re turn, produced on ine, and I think upon the country, an exceedingly painful impression.” With respect to the testimony of Gaston B. Means, before the com mittee and his subsequent repudia tion of it and his still later repudi ation of the repudiation, the Demo cratic nominee said it was Mr. Daugherty who appointed Means to a confidential position in the depart ment of justice. “You brought him into the circle of your official intimates,” Mr. Dav is said. “You created him a govern ment agent. You gave him his cre dentials. At the time you did so his character was already notorious. I can imagine no maladministration in any governmental department more vicious than the employment of men of such character.” Adverting to the indictment of Senator Burton Wheeler, of Mon tana, “prosecutor” for the senate committee. Mr. Davis said “the sig nificant thing" was that no effort to find such an indictment had been made until Senator Wheeler “had as sumed a leading part in the criti cism of the administration and of yourself.” In writing Mr. Daugherty that he was mistaken that such references as had been made to him were “un usually vague and all the more rep rehensible,” Mr. Davis said he begged to call attention to them. Jazz Artist, Fired Because Too Noisy, Puts End to Life BERLIN, Sept. 23.—“ The days of jazz music are gone and as there is nothing else for me to do I have decided to hang myself,” were the farewall words of Kurt Krar zler. bass drummer in a Berlin jazz Land. Kranzler was discharged because he persisted in dominating the band’s performances by too lusty ap plication of his drumstick and cym bals. M hen told that modern dance music no longer liked excessive noise. Kranzler was seized with a fit of melancholy and disappeared. He was found hanging bv a stran taken from his bass drum from a tree m the Grunewa’t Traffic Policeman Unwittingly Delays Davis-Smith Talk NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A police man on the Willamsburg bridge i Monday prevented John W. Davis , from keeping an engagement with . Governor Smith. Mr. Davis’ chauffeur was driving | across the bridge on the way to Lo | cust Valley to bring the Democratic i presidential nominee to the gover- I nor’s hotel when the officer arrested i the chauffeaur because the car car | ried police department card. The chauffeur was taken to a precinct i house, where It was ascertained that ' Mr. Davis’ machine was privileged to use the sign. Dress Remnants 66c a Yard Remarkable offer on 5-yard rem nants of serges, tricotines and suit- I ings being made by Textile Mills I Co.. Dept. 534. Kansas City. Mo. Write them today for free informs j lion.— (Advertisement.) PBDOERS TO HEAR | iwm'ssffl IN SPECIAL SESSION Brookhart to Issue Call. Means Charges to Be Given Airing Government Tax Lien For $267,614 Filed Aainst Gaston Means WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The federal government has filed in the supreme court here a tax lien against Gaston B. Means, star witness in the senate department of justice investigation, amount ing to $267,614.40 for alleged un paid income taxes for years 1921, 1922 and 1923. The lien assessed the unpaid taxes at $214,091.52 and the pen alty $53,522.88. CAMP PERRY, 0., Sept. 23.—A special session of the senate commit- , tee investigating the department of ; justice will be called immediately, ' Senator Smith W. Brookhart an- • nounced here today. . Senator Brookhart had just receiv- i ed a telegram from Senator Burton K. Wheeler, authorizing the hear- , ing. Harry M. Daugherty, former at torney general, is to be called be fore the reconvened session, Senator Brookhart said, in an attempt to sift the truth from the many ru mors, charges and counter charges resulting from Daugherty’s open let ter to John W, Davis and the alleged repudiation statement of Gaston B. Means. MORE LIGHT IS SOUGHT BY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Demo cratic leaders moved today to get at the facts behind the disputed re pudiation of Gaston B. Means of his sensational testimony before the sen ate committee which investigated al leged corruption in the department of justice under former Attorney General Daugherty. As a result the inquiry is likely to be reopened. While Democratic leaders have some faith in Means’ assertions that his “repudiation” was merely a trap set for Daugherty, their chief desire to keep the matter before the pub lic, since Daugherty has once more brought the question of "corruption in government”—the paramount is sue of John W. Davis, Democratic presidential candidate —into promi nence. Means undoubtedly would be call ed to tell his story If the inquiry were reopened. Democratic leaders, however, want to have Daugherty and Means’ attorney, Thomas B. Felder, put on the stand to explain the circumstances surrounding the “repudiation” and certain documents said to be in Means’ possession. Senator Ashurst wired Senators Brookhart and Wheeler, chairman and “prosecutor” of the senate Daugherty committee, as follows: “In view of the statement of Gas ton B. Means that his repudiation of his testimony was procured frojn him by promises of assistance made by some friends of Attorney General Daugherty and in view of the further fact that Means now urges that the committee be assembled so that he may lay before it the circumstances and reasons leading to his signing the repudiation, I therefore suggest that a meeting of the committee be. called at once and that all persons involved in these alleged transactions be subpoenaed to testify. Kindly ad vise me.” Wheeler is on a tour that will take him to the Pacific coast and it is unlikely he will abandon his trip even to re-open ihe investigation. So ■ if it is reopened it probably will be , conducted by Ashurst and Brook hart, who is at Camp Perrv. Ohio. Palatial Franks Home Dismantled and Sold As Echo of Murder CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—An after math to the tragedy of the death | of young Robert Franks, for which I his kidnapers and slayers are now ; serving life sentences in prison, took place Monday at the palatial home of Jacob Franks, wealthy father of the murdered boy, when the luxu rious home was dismantled and its costly furnishings sold to the high est bidder under the auctioneer’s hammer. Gale Sweeps France As Autumn Arrives; 13 Persons Drowned t PARIS. Sept. 23.—The worst sum mer France has experienced for many generations blew itself out to the accompaniment of a deluge and autumn opened with a hurricane blast wreaking havoc on sea and land. The coasts are being swept by a northwesterly gale. 11 The Weather Forecast for Thurdsay: Virginia, North Carolina and South | Carolina: Generally fair; not much ; change in temperature; moderate I northeast winds. 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Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, September 25, 1924 ! World News I Told in Brief I MOSCOW.—Leon Trotzky, war commissar, urges Chinese revolu tionaries to join world proletariat. MARION, Ohio.— Brigadier Gener i al Charles E. Sawyer, personal phy sician to Presidents Harding and Coolidge, dies suddenly at his farm near here. SAN SA LVA DOR.—Negotiations for armistice between government j and revolutionary forces in Hondu ! tas have been started, and advent I of peace is near, advices say. WASHINGTON. —Secretary of the Navy Wilbur refers to the navy gen > eral board the problem of determin ing ratio of submarines, surface [ ships and aircraft in navy next year. HONGKONG.—Major Pedro Zan ni, Argentine world flyer, and his i mechanician, narrowly escape drown- I ing when launc h in which they are riding in harbor here collides with another. 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(Advertisement.), 5 CENTS A COPY, SI A YEAR. WOMAN CONFIRMS PASTOR'S STORY OF DOOOLE POISONING * Husband Rallied Twice, So She Gave Him Third and Fatal Dose MOUNT VERNON, 111., Sept. 23, After an all-night vigil, Mrs. Elsie Sweetin confessed this morning that she was implicated with the Rev. Lawrence M. Hight, of Ina, in a plot to poison her husband and Mrs. Hight in order that she and the minister could be married, thus com firming the confession made yes terday by Hight. Hight and Miss Sweetin were re moved from the county jail here to day -because of reported threats at Nason, a small town near Ina. The minister was taken to Salem and Mrs. Sweetin to Belleville, 111. Arrested yesterday evening at her > home in Ina, twelve miles south of here, Mrs. Sweetin steadfastly de nied any part in the alleged poison plot, as had been admiUed by the minister, but broke down this morn ing after being closeted in the same cell with the minister, with State’s Attorney Thompson and newspaper 'men listening at the door of the cell. The text of the confession made and signed by Mrs. Sweetin, follows: “The first time that I noticed that Lawrence M. Hight had any feelings of affection for me was in April, 1924; my husband for some time had treated me without affection. “At first I wag horrified, but he talked so plausibly and I had such l confidence in him that it seemed to me to be right to do it. We then finally agreed that I was to admin- 1 ister poison to my husband, Wilford Sweetin, and he was to administer 1 poison his wife, Anna Hight. And when a week or two later my hus band was hurt in the mine, Law rence Hight gave me a paper pack-j age which he told me contained poison, and he told me to give Dome of it to. Wilford in anything. “Wilford was hurt in the mine ori the night of July 16, and the follow/ ing day we went to Benton and went to a drug store and got som4 ice cream and sodawater, and ori theXway home I gave Wilford, msl husband, some chocolate candy, iii| which I had mixed some of the* poison. He became very ill, bu< seemed later to grow better and oil Tuesday I gave him more poison in oatmeal, Mr. Hight having given xna more poison in the meantime. Had to Give Third Dose “With medical attention Wilfor.4 seemed to grow better again anq after Dr. S. A. Thompson had wait/ ed on him Friday, July 25, I admiul istered the final dose of poison and he grew worse and died July 28, thd final dose having been mixed in to 4 ma to soup. “Every time Mr. Hight came td the house during Wilford's illnesd he gave me a note of encouragemenj to give Wilford more poison. I dij not know and he did not tell md when he poisoned his wife, but whed she became ill and died I supposed he had poisoned her. Until I becanrt infatuated with Mr. Hight I had led a blameless life and had always beeq a true wife and mother and it :’4 true, so help me God. (Signed) “ELSIE SWEETIN.” After signing the confession, Mrs. Sweetin, accompanied by the stata attorney and the clergyman, wend to breakfast. Immediately afutd breakfast she was taken before ai justice of the peace, waived a t»*e/ liminary hearing and th e case was turned over to the grand jury. In telling of his life this mornings the preacher related how one nigho he was praying to find the right way/ and suddenly a great light shon4 upon him and he became converted/ That was thirteen years ago, he said,- and since then he had converted 2,J 500 persons, 133 during his stay in- Ina, He did not want to go to he said, but when the members of the congregation called on him urged him to accept the charge, he did. Tells of Meeting Woman It was one day in church, he said, • when he met Mrs. Sweetin. ThejH I met in the aisle of the little country church, and from then on he had! entertained a feeling of more than! friendship for her, he said. His af i section for his wife, he said, began to wane, he had found his “natural ’ mate,” he added. The first indication that Mrs. ■ Sweetin was weakening and ready to; admit the part in the poison plot the minister had attributed to her in his ; confession yesterday morning was given when the two met in the cell' : together. Attendants of the jail and; the state attorney, spying on them.j saw them caressing one another and weeping, seated beside one another. His original plan, Hight said, in his confession, was to poison his wife after leaving Ina, as he ha-i expect ed to be transferred to a large con gregation at the meeting of the church conference in Carbondale to day. However, he said, when his wife became ill, he was inspired with the thought that he could carry out his plan sooner than anticipated. Mrs. Sweetin has been described as a woman with attractive features. She is the mother of three small boys who are still at the Sweetin home in Ina. Hight also has three children at home. Both Blame Mates Loveless married lives, both’ the minister and Mrs. Sweetin told the state attorney, drove them together and led -to the plot to poison their mates so they might marry. “I’m a preacher, but I’m human, all too human,” the Rev. Mr. Hight said today. He wept as he talked of his chll dien. “I had lived for them,” he cried, “before I met her. I had planned riot to poison my wife until I left < Ina, but she fell sick with ptomaine poisoning and suffered such agony, I thought I might relieve her pain and free myself at the same time. “How sorry I am now I agonized' I in prayer to God and He heard me. i I I am forgiven. There is a lesson in ! this,” the pastor philosophized. “Marriages must have passionate love as a basis or there is no happi ness. Had I met and married Mrs. Sweetin first, our lives would have been unutterably happy. But she married a cold, indifferent man, and. I married that kind of a woman. My wife was good, but nothing I did would please her. Nagging was all I got. God forgive me.!” As he wept, the citizens from Ina (Continued on Page 3, Column 2)