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VOL. XXVI. N0.'151
EXPOSE PROMISED
UNLESS COOLIDGE
STOPS BUTLER ROW
Law League Says President
Alone Can Save Disgrace
to Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.—Pub
lic interest in the controversy be
tween Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick
and his director of public safety.
General Smedley D. Butler, has
been intensified by the action of the
Tj<iw Enforcement league in asking
President Coolidge to intervene.
The mayor, it is generally report
ed, will ask for the resignation of
General Butler as soon as he is well
enough to receive the request. The
general is convalescing from a se
cold. The Law Enforcement
in its telegram to the presi
threatens o make public “evi
charging political corrptiun
the line in the state of
by federal office-hold
ers.”
“You alone can save Philadelphia
from further disgrace’ and humilia
tion,” the telegram stated.
The fact th. t Mayor Kendrick and
Joseph M. -Steel, president of the
league, are on the reception commit
tee which will greet the president
on his visit to this c’ty tonight, add
ed interest to the situation. A broad
intimation was given, it was said,
that if the mayor broachas.the sub
ject to the president in the midst of
the exercises celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the meeting of the
first contihental congress, represen
tatives of the league will not be slow
to tell the president their side of
the case.
It was regarded certain by those
in close touch with the situation,
however, that the occasion will no*,
be taken advantage of to bring up
the matter.
COOLIDGE WON’T REPLY NOW
TO INTERVENTION REQUEST
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—1 t was
indicated at the White House today
that President Coolidge would not
reply immediately to the request of
the law-enforcement league of Phil
adelphia to intervene in the contro
versy between Mayor Hendrick and
Brigadier-General Smedley D. But
ler.
Shot in Back Kills
Young Alabamian;
Posse Seeks Slayer
TALLADEGA, Ala., Sept. 25.
Lawrence Curd, young man of Rag
land, Ala., died Wednesday in a
Birmingham hospital of bullet
wounds, and Deputy Sheriff Perry
< Campbell, of this county, was in
jured a few hours later while he
was attempting to arrest “Bud”
Thompson, alleged slayer of Curd.
Curd was shot in the back, accord
ing to officials, while he was work
ing on his automobile near Lincoln,
in this county. The motive for the
shooting has not been learned.
Campbell and Sheriff George Burk,
of Talladega county, were fired upon
when they went to Thompson’s
home to arrest him. After bringing
the wounded deputy back to Talla
dega, the sheriff with a posse re
turned to search for Thompson. Of
ficers believe that one of Thomp
son's sons was injured in the gun
battle that took place at the time
4 the deputy was injured.
Home of Kentuckian
Is Riddled by Bullets
Fired by Mob of 150
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky., Sept. 25.
A watch, a sweater and a trail of
blood were the clews upon which
Anderson county officers were work
ing today in an effort to determine
identity of a band of mon who fired
hundred bullets into the
hK’ine Sea, prosperous to
baqto grower and independent buyer,
Tuesday al midnight.
Members of Mr. Sea's family
escaped injury, although windows
were shattered and pictures on the
wall punctured by bullets. The trail
of blood found in the yard indicated,
•. officers believe, that when Mr. Sea
returned the fire with a shotgun
and revolver he wounded members
of £he attacking party.
He followed the trail in the yard
to a point on a nearby road where
automobiles in which the men came
were parked. Mr. Sea estimated
there were 35 automobiles and about
150 men.
1 00-Year-Old Woman
Dies; Was Last Mother
Os Civil War Veteran
BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Sept. 25.
Mrs. Ellen Buskirk, who celebrated
her 100th birthday last January 22,
with “open house.” died here today
after a week's illness. So far as
known she was the last remaining
mother of a Civil war veteran.
The Weather
Forecast for Saturday:
Forecast for Saturday
Virginia: Fair and warmer.
North and South Carolina. Geor
gia; Probably showers, slightly
warmer.
Alabama: Probably showers;
slightly warmer.
Mississippi; Showers.
Tennessee: Showers.
, Kentucky: Showers.
Louisiana: Unsettled, showers in
north portion.
Arkansas; Showers; colder.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy; prob
ably showers, colder.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, prob
ably showers in north portion, colder
in the interior.
West Texas: Partly cloudy prob
ably showers m nor’h portion.
Colder.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
GENEVA. —Santo Domingo ap- 1
I plies for membership in League of I
Nations.
i
CALGARY, Alta. Prince of
Wales arrives at end of his railroad
journey to his ranch.
MOSCOW. —Nearly whole of Len.
ingrad is inundated by worst flood
in years; 19 deaths are reported.
BOSTON. —Lotta Crabtree, once
famous actress, who retired from the
stage 30 years ago, dies aged seven
ty-s&ven years.
NASHVILLE. Tern—Mrs. Matilda
K. Baskette, 89. said to have been
| only person in United States to cul
tivate Egyptian brown cotton, dies.
WASHINGTON.—NationaI Wom
an’s party announces question of
married woman’s right to sign maid
en name to government checks will
be reopened.
HE LS ING FORS? Fin la nd.—G reat
damage is reported caused by gales
and floods and the water level of
the Gulf of Finland reaches its high
est stage in a century.
BALTIMORE. Brakeman on
President Coolidge’s special, bearing
president and party from Philadel
phia. to Washington, is knocked
from train and killed.
PHILADELPHIA. President
Coolidge is formally made a member
of the Carpenter's company, the
first outsider to be taken in at Car
penter’s hall celebration.
NEWARK, N. _ J?-Ad Stone, of
Paterson, N. J., in sensational 12-
round light heavyweight fight, wins
newspaper decision over Young Strib
ling, Macon, Ga., school boy.
NEW YORK. Censorship of
Breadway plays by members of New
York police department will be un
dertaken immediately, Police Com
missioner Enright announces.
LONDON. —Negotiations for pro
posed Franco-German treatv of com-
U. S. WORLD FLIERS ,
AT SUN FRMCISCO;
TRIP DHEVENTFUL
1 .
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 25.
The U. S. army world fliers landed
at Crissy field here this afternoon at
2:20 o’clock (Pacific time), after a
hop from Santa Monica. The day’s
flight was uneventful.
THRONG AT SANTA MONICA
TO SEE FLIERS DEPART
CLOVER FIELD, Santa Monica,
Cal., Sept. 25.—The world fliers, led
by Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith in
the flagship Chicago, hopped off
from here this morning for Crissy
field, San at 10 a. m.
Lieutenant Leslie Arnold, mecha
nician for Flight Commander Lowell
H. Smith, remarked that the fliers
had traveled 28,000 miles on their
way to Santa Monica and had been
in the air 350 hours. He explained
that these are “round figures.”
From Clover field the planes flew
due west about two miles, and then
turned north over the coast line, and
in five minutes had disappeared be
yond the mountains to the north. A
crowd of about a thousand saw the
planes take off.
The fliers were refreshed by a day
of leisure spent near the strating
point of their around-the-world flight.
With favorable weather condi
tions, the fliers w’ere to follow the
coast route, flying over Santa Bar
bara, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo,
Paso Robles, Salinas and San Jose,
arriving at Crissy field about 3
o’clock.
In case of heavy fog or clouds
along the coast route, however, it
was planned to use the valley route,
flying over the Tehachapi pass and
up the west side of the San Joaquin
valley.
Tomorrow the three planes are
scheduled to proceed from San Fran
cisco to Eugene, Ore., spend the
night there and continued on to
Seattle Saturday.
TRANSPACIFIC FLIGHT
NEXT IS BEING PLANNED
HONOLULU, Sept. 25.—(8y the
Assbciated Press.) —Plans for a trans
pacific flight by airplane from San ■
Francisco to the Philippines and I
Australasia, with several Pacific i
countries and the army and navy co- i
operating, are announced here by
j the Pan-Pacific Union.
The purpose of the flight will be ;
j to study the possible establishment I
j of five or more permanent air lines I
linking up countries bordering on
I the Pacific ocean.
ZANNI TO HOP TO SHANGHAI
DESPITE LU’S OBJECTION
SHANGHAI. Sept. 25.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Major Pedro
I Zanni, the Argentine aviator en
gaged in an air cruise around the
world, will fly from Hong Kong to
Shanghai tomorrow, according to
announcement made here today by
A. Del Carrill, the Argentine con
sular representative here.
The announcement of Major
Zanni’s intention to fly to Shanghai
came after a report that General
Lu Yung-Hsiang military governor
of Chekiang province, had urged the
Argentine consular representative
there to insist on postponement of
Major. Zanni’s flight to Shanghai be
cause of the war in that area.
Senor Del Carrill replied that he
I had obtained permission for the
I flight of Major Zanni from the cen
| tral government at Pekin and added
I that the Argentine aviator intends
to land at a point in the Whangpoo
> riser remote from the fighting area.
Pershing Is Entitled
To $21,500 Per Year,
Comptroller Decides
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—Gener
al Pershing is entitled to the full
pay and allowances he received as
an active officer, amounting to $21,-
500 a year, Comptroller General Mc-
Carl ruled today.
Previous opinions have held that
Pershing would retain his full sal
ary <>f $13,700 on the retired list but
i would have ta lose his SB,OOO allow
i ance of office.
mcrce falls through, because of ina
bility, Berlin advices say, of negoti
ators to find common basis for ac
tion.
PH ILADELPHIA. Pres i d e n t
Coolidge, speaking at celebration of
150th aniversary of first continental
congress at Philadelphia, pleads sot
determined resistance to encroach
ments on constitution.
WASHINGTON. Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt, nominated at Roch
ester by Republican state convention
as candidate for governor of New
York, anounces his intention to re
sign immediately as assistant secre
tary of navy.
OTTUMWA, lowa.—United States
Senator Albert B. Cummins, of lowa,
in an address declares it would be
“absolutely certain” that the senate
would elect Charles W. Bryan for
vice president and “the deadlock in
the house” continuing “Mr. Bryan
would become president.”
NEW YORK.—Rev. O. R. Miller,
superintendent of New York Civic
league, before platform at state Re
publican convention at Rochester,
N. Y., opposes naming of Ku Klux
Klan in platform on ground that
four-fifths of members of organiza
tion in state are Republicans.
PHI LA DELPHlAe—Alleging wide
spread corruption in Pennsylvania
by federal officeholders’ law enforce
ment league of city calls on Presi
dent Coolidge to intervene in contro
versy between Mayor Kendrick, o»
Philadelphia, and his director of pub
lic safety. Brigadier General Smedley
D. Butler.
NEW YORK.—Neptune associa
tion. American deck officers’ organi
zation, in attempt to test constitu
tionality of recent British-American
liquor treaty, seeks injunction re
straining Cunard Steamship com
pany, Ltd., from bringing liquor
within jurisdiction of United States.
1776 SCENES WILL
BE BE-EWEO IN
BIG CELEBRUTION
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.—The
celebration of the 150th anniversary
of the meeting of the first conti
nental congress and the 200th anni
versary of the founding of the Car
penter’s company, in whose historic
hall the patriots met to discuss the
relations of the colonies with the
mother country, begaYi today.
A two-days’ program, which began
at Carpenter’s hall today and ends
tomorrow at historic Valley Forge,
had been arranged. Tonight Presi
dent Coolidge will deliver an ad
dress.
Carpenter's hall, well preserved
through the interest of the Carpen
ter’s company, which still exists,
stands almost hidden between tall
building. It was here that the con
gress assembled in September, 1774,
after the patriots had met at the
city tavern and found that place
too small. They marched from the
tavern to Carpenter’s hall. Promi
nent in the procession were Colonel
Washington, John and Samuel
Adams, Patrick Henry and Peyton
Randolph, who was made president
of the congress. The congress con
tinued in session until October 26,
and during its life issued a declara
tion of the rights and grievances of
the colonies.
The governors of the thirteen orig
inal states were invited to attend
the double celebration today as were
also the military commands from
the states whose history reaches
back to the American revolution
These military organizations, in
their picturesque uniforms, will be
reviewed at historic Independence
hall as they parade to Carpenter’s
hall.
Later, the first session of the first
continental congress will be re-en
acted in the hall where it met. The
actors will be members of the An
cient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free
I Masons, and it was planned to have
I the costumes and speaking parts ac
i cord with the historic ones of the
I meeting.
Ot the conclusion a certificate of
honorary membership in the Car
penter company will be given to
President Coolidge, and will be re
ceived in his behalf by Senator
George Wharton Pepper, as the
president will not arrtve in Philadel
phia until tonight.
Flood Waters Threaten
City of Lyons, France;
Gales Sweep Coast
LYONS. France, Sept. 26. —The
flood in the Rhone river valley in
this district is becoming threaten
ing. Parts of the wharves here al
ready are submerged, and the bad
weather continues.
Railroad authorities say it will re
quire at least a week to restore
communication with Marseilles.
GALE R VGING ACROSS
FRENCH ATLANTIC COAST
I.A ROCHELLE, France. Sept. 26.
‘ A gale is raging along the Atlantic
i coast of France, devastating gar-
I dens, damaging houses and keeping
fishing boats in their harbors. Many
i vessels have failed to make port.
MOI NTAINOUS SEAS Rl N
OX COAST OF BRITTANY
VANES. France, Sept. 26.—A
storm of unparalleled violence is re
: ported all along the Brittany coast.
f rain falling in ceaseless torrents,
i Mountainous seas are. running, keep
ing the fishermen in port.
iTom Taggart Rushed
To Boston Hospital
With Appendicitis
BOSTON .Sept. 24.—Thomas Tag
gart, Democratic leader of Indiana,
j was removed to a hospital here from
his Cape Cod summer home today
threatened wiht appendicitis.
Examination at the hospital, how
ever. indicated the patient probably
could ba treated successfully with
‘ out an operation. His general physi-
I cal condition was said to be good.
Dress Remnants 66c a Yard
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I
ROOSEVELT CHOSEN
US 0.0. P. NOMINEE
FDR N. X. GOVERNOR
First Ballot Gives Him Ma
jority Over Three
Opponents
Al Smith Will Defeat
Roosevelt by 250,000,
Norman Mack Says
SYRACUSE, N. Y.» Sept. 25.
Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo,
Democratic national committee
man, when . told of Theodore
Roosevelt’s nomination as the
Republican candidate for gov
ernor, said Al Smith will beat
him by 250,000 votes.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 25.
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secre
tary of the navy, was nominated for
governor by the New York Republi
can state convention here today. The
choice was made upon the first bal
lot.
Colonel Roosevelt had a majority
over the. combined votes for his
three competitors, Colonel William
Hay ward,.ef New York; District At
torney Guy B. Moore, of Buffalo,
and Supreme Court Justice Arthur
S. Tompkins, of Nyack.
The vote was:
Roosevelt, 563; Hayward, 187;
Moore, 101; Tompkins, 134.
The nomination later was made
unanimous by acclamation upon mo
tion of former Governor Odell.
The platform adopted declares that
tne Republican party recognizes
neither color, creed; nor race as a
test of good citizenship or as a dis
qualification for holding office.
“It could not do this,” the docu
ment adds, “and remain Republi
can or American. We condemn and
oppose a. y organization, whether it
be called Ku Klux Klan or by any
other name, that seeks directly or in
directly to weaken this fundamental
American doctrine either in letter
or in spirit.
The Ku Klux Klan was mentioned
in a plank headed “Fundamental
Principles.” The plank concluded by
stating that “we condemn any can
didate or party that endeavors to
make political capital of such an Is
sue, and, while posing as its cham
pion, betrays the cause of liberty by
a direct appeal to racial and religious
groups.”
Roosevelt will leave Rochester to
night for Washington, where he
will tender his resignation as as
sistant secretary of the navy to
President Coolidge tomorrow.
This announcement was made this
afternoon by Roosevelt's special con
vention secretary, Earl Hartnett.
HARMONY IS KEYNOTE
AS DEMOCRATS CONVENE
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 25.—Har
mony was the dominant note at the
formal opening of the Democratic
state convention today with Francis
E. Cullen, of Oswego, the keynote
orator. Bitter battles of previous
conventipns were conspicuous by
their absence and all was in readiness
to renominate Governor Smith and
other state officers without a hitch.
After Mr. Cullen’s address and the
appointment of committees they
planned to recess until tomorrow,
when nominations will be made and
other business cleaned up.
The resolutions committee was to
meet late today to frame the party’s
platform. Senator James J. Walker,
close friend of Governor Smith, was
understood to be the choice for chair
man of the platform committee.
bebliWtestb
ON IMPORT TAXES
LEVIED OX PARIS
PARIS. Sept. 2G. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The German charge
d’affaires here today presented to
the French government Germany’s
official protest against the French
decree imposing a 23 per cent im
port duty on all goods from Ger
many, dating from October 1.
Germany's intention to try to in
duce France to cancel the levy was
made known in, Berlin on Tuesday.
Germans Regret That
Beautiful Zeppelin
Must Go to America
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
(By Radio tv The Atlanta Journal and the
Chicago Daily N’ew».)
BERLIN. Sept. 26. —‘‘What a pity
such a beautiful production of Ger
man genius must be given to the
Americans!”
This is the only comment of mil
lions of Germans who have wel
comed the ZR-3, in its thirty-four
hour cruise. with cheers and
triumph. As this is written, on Fri
day. the great airship has just swept
over the Berlin office of The At
lanta Journal, the motors roaring
smoothly.
Wireless reports, available every
quarter of an hour, announce that
the American representative aboard
is more than pleased with the mo
tors but the impressions can only be
confirmed when the trip is ended.
The popular enthusiasm is simple
incredible, crowds flocking to all
open places around the Branden
burger gate at the reiehstag. Noth
ing else recently has awakened such
deep-felt emotion.
“Why are you so enthusiastic?”
the writer asked a German.
“Zeppelins are a triurrvJi of Ger
man skill,’’ he replied. "No other
nation has done anyCiing compar
able. We alone ht-c- mad- r
Others have cj.<? d and tlea have
destroyed. This is our last Zeppe
lin, for once it is completed ear
hangars must be uestroyc-’. our en
gineering star is eclipsed, yet this
must be. given to Anu-. ■ t. Can’t
you imagine b>w w- e! ' '
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PASTOR IN DUAL POISONING
CLINGS TO LOVE FOR WOMAN,
BUT IS SCORNED IN RETURN
"I Never Want to See Him
Again/' Mrs. Sweeten
Sobsj in Jail Cell at
Salem
MOUNT VERNON, 111., Sept. 25.
(By the Associated Press.) —“I nev
er want to see that man again, nev
er,” C. C. Sweeten declared here to
day, Mrs. Elsie ,'yweeten, his daugh
ter-in-law, told him last night in the
jail at Salem in referring to the Rev.
Lawrence M. Hight, at whose sug
gestion she poisoned her husband.
Mr. Sweeten, despite his advanced
age, went to see her because, “after
all, Elsie is the boys’ mother,” and
wanted to talk to her about the
boys’ future.
“My son is gone and nothing we
can do will bring him back,” said
Sweeten. “But there are three little
boys to look v.fter. They are fine
boys and for their sake, I hope El
sie does not hang.”
When the aged man confronted
Mrs. Sweeten, he extended his hand
without a word. The daughter-in
law took it in both of her hands
and bowed her head.
“He made me do it,” she began.
“I didn’t want to.”
“I came to talk to you about what
to do with the boys,” broke in Mr.
Sweeten. “Let me tell you about
it,” said Mrs. Sweeten. “I didn’t
want to do it. When he first named
it. I said I would not. But he kept
after me. I argued for a month
but he kept telling me to do it.
I was irv his power. Anything he
said I felt like I must do.
“It was terrible for me •to give
Wilford the first poison. When he
didn’t die. Hight came to the house.
He handed me a peach and slipped
a note in my hand at the same time
which said to give him some more.
All the time mj’ husband was sick
he was coming to my house and
giving me notes telling me to give
more poison.”
The mother begged that the chil
dren might he allowed to come to
Salem arid visit her in the jail. She
insisted that tb‘ > boys not be sepa
rated and that they be sent to the
Masonic orphanage.
When her father-in-law started
to leave, Mrs. Sweeten requested
him to stay longer, declaring she
was “afraid and awfully lonesome”
in the Salem jail.
- s. Cweeten's apathy to food has
aroused concern. The only nourish
ment she has taken since she was
brought here Tuesday was a glass
of milk late yesterday. Dr. S. A.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, September 27, 1924
. "We Will Remain Sweet
l hearts Until Death Parts
Us,” Rev, Lawrence Hight
Declares
NASHVILLE, TH., Sept. 25.—(8y
I the Associated Press.) —The Rev.
I Lawrence M. Hight, held in jail here
in connection with the poison plot
that cost Lhe lives of his wife, Anna,
and the husband of his confessed
accomplice, Mrs. Elsie Sweeten, to
day showed no outward strain of
his plight, while Mrs. Sweetin, in
jail at Salem, 111., worried more Over
I the future of her three children
. than her imprisonment.
“Mrs. Sweeten and I are still
; sweethearts and will remain sweet
hearts until death parts us,” the
; minister said.
Jail attendants said Hight was jo-
■ vial and talked freely. He mention-
■ed his children and said for their
. sake he repented more than ever
of having committed the crime
through which they lost their
mother.
Thompson said last night she was
on the verge of a nervous break
, down.
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THE INDIMENT Os
GASTON B. MEANS
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Federal
Judge Foster today upheld the in
dictment of Gaston B. Means, former
department of justice agent; his sec
retary, Elmer Jarnecke, and his at
torney, Thomas B. Felder, on
charges that they received money
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The indictment was upheld when
the court overruled a demurrer re
cently filed by Felder in which he
contended that the three defendants
were not charged with the violation
of any statute of the United States
and that the charges were vague
and indefinite.
Means, Jarnecke and Felder were
indicted by a federal grand jury
last March on charges that they had
received $65,800 from officials of the
Creager system and the Glass Cas
ket Company of Altoona, Pa., for
purposes of alleged bribery. They
are accused of having represented
to these officials, who had just been
convicted of using the mails to de
fraud in the sale of stock of the
Glass Casket company, that the
money was to be paid to the then
Attorney General Daugherty, United
States District Attorney Haywood
and other government officials. In
return for this money they are al
leged to have told the convicted men
the government officials would
cause them to be dealt with len
iently.
SARDIS CHAMBER OPENED
AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 25. —A party
of Augusta business men, including
Mayor Julian M. Smith and Jonn
Sylvester, president of the board of
commerce, visited Sardis yesterday
and participated in the forma! open
ing of the Sardis Chamber of Com
merce.
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ELECTORS BARRED
BX COURT RULING
California Socialists’ Offer
to Substitute Names
Is Accepted
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.
Thirteen presidential electors, named
by petitions of California voters and
committed to supnort the candidacy
of Robert M. La Follette, stood
barred today from the ballot at the
general election in November as a
result of a four to three decision of
the state supreme court yesterday.
The decision of the supreme court
was based upon the finding that a
presidential elector is merely the
agent of a political party, operating
solely through a political convention
as a sort of messenger and there
fore cannot be placed upon the bal
lot by initiative petition but only
through the agency of a party con
vention.
Aroused by the decision, La Fol
lette supporters in San Francisco
today were discussing measures
which might overcome the legal
handicap placed upon their candi
date by the court. In Los Angeles
the La Follette organization resolv
ed to start a movement to recall the
justices who wrote the majority
opinion.
As far as the general election was
concerned two alternatives remained
for the La Follette supporters to
day. One was to write in the names
of the barred thirteen electors or to
accept an offer of the socialist par
ty, made yesterday, to withdraw
their electors and place the La Fol
lette group on the ticket of that
party apd thereby assure them a
place on the ballot.
SOCIALIST PARTY OFFER
ACCEPTED BY LA FOLLETTE
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—Representa
tive John M. Nelson, of Wisconsin,
national manager of the La Follette-
Wheeler campaign, announced today
that the independent organization’s
presidential electors in California
would be*entcred under the socialist
party label.
A formal public statement accom
i panying the announcement said that
* Senator La Follette “desired to run,
as an independent but the action of
I the California supreme court will
1 force him to go on the socialist bal
lot with the same election."
“This effort of the predatory in
terests to rob La Follette of Cali
fornia will not succeed,” Mr. Nel
son’s statement said:
“La Follette will win California
and the people will rebuke those who
deny the free exercise of their elec
tion franchise.”
Day & Heaton Failure . i '
May Involve Others; ■
Sleuths Probe Case
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—New evi
dence unearthed by expert account
ants and police detectives caused au
thorities Thursday to speed investi
gation of the Day and Heaton stock
brokerage bankruptcy. Authorities
indicated that several persons would]
be involved in the $700,000 failure, in
addition to George R. Christian,
missing treasurer of the firm.
Attorneys for the five members of
Day and Heaton whom Christian left
behind conferred with acting District
Attorney Brothers, with the bank
ruptcy receivers and with police of
ficials in charge of the case.
Authorities claimed to have learn
ed in the last 24 hours that Chris
tian, believed to have been in Cana
da vacationing at that time, had
mailed from the New York general
postoffice to James W. Waterbury,
of the firm of Day & Heaton, an un
signed letter of four pages describ
ing thefts of customers’ securities
and shortages in house accounts.
This was u week before Day &
Heaton went into voluntary bank
ruptcy and resigned fro mthe New
York stock exchange. According to
the detectives, Waterbury did not
tell his partners about the letter, as
he "thought the matter could ba
straightened out.”
The stock exchange also was in
vestigating the failure, and seeking
to forearm itself against other resig
nations of membership, under simi
lar circumstances.
Dawes’Attacks Are
Helping La Follette,
Party Leaders Warn
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 24.—Ad
vised that his continued attacks on
Senate La Follette in the northwest
are doing more harm than good,
Charles G. Dawes, Republican vice
presidential nominee, may take a
new tack on his next trip to Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Dawes leaves tonight for a three
day tour into the northwest. He
said he expects to talk extempo
raneously from now on.
From Republican sources in the
northwest word has come to Dawes
that it would be far better for the
party if he softened his blows at La
Follette. They prefer to have
Dawes ignore La Follette.
Dawes’ speeches up to this thne
have dealt almost wholly with La
Follette’s determination to curb the
powers of the supreme court. On
this trip, he may talk less about
this subject and more about agri-J
cultural conditions and his own
achievements as federal director of
the budget.
Bandits Jail Marshal, ,’i
Isolate Town, Then
Loot Bank Leisurely
TRUMAN, Minn., Sept. 25.— After
relieving Charles Draf, night marshal
here, of his gun, flashlight and keys,
seven bandits who drove into town
about 1 a. m. today, escorted the'of
ficer to the jail, locked him in a cell
a?.d then leisurely blew the vault of
the Truman National bank. They
escaped with S3OO in silver and an
undetermined amount of loot taken
from eight uafety deposit boxes in
the vault.
The bandits cut all wires leading
into the town and held the citizens
at bay for more than three 4 hours.