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VOL. XXVI. NO. 153
LOCOMOTIVE DIVES
' INTO GEORGIA»
• MOODY IS HURT
Train Crew Swims Out of
Creek Near Quitman
After Accident
‘ QUITMAN, Ga., Sept. 30.—An At
lantic Coast Line fast passenger
train, en route from Savannah to ■
Montgomery, running forty minutes !
late, went into the flood waters of I
>the Piscola creek between Dixie and
Pidcock, ten miles west of Quitman,
this morning at 3 o’clock.
The engine went into the creek
‘ and turned broadside, being com
pletely covered with water. The ex
press car also left the track and the
roadbed and went into the water.
The other coaches, with water run-
almost to the platforms, remain
|Bhl on the track. All hands aboard
WBBj £ped serious injury, and the pas
ter singers remained marooned in the
cars and Pullmans until 9 o'clock
this morning, when the first of the
relief parties reached the scene after
Six hours of battling with flood
■water which was from three to ten
feet deep.
When news of the wreck reached
Quitman at 3 o’clock this morning,
Albert Tidwell, whose daughter was
a passenger on the traip, started for
the wreck. He arrived at 9 o’clock,
■ walking three miles after having
abandoned his car in impassable
water.
Crew Swims Out
5 In charge of the train were Engi
neer Maynard, Conductor Wilkinson,
Train Master D. E. McLeod, and a
negro fireman. The engineer cau
tiously proceeded through miles of
swamps, covered in water, at times
running through water which had
broken across the,rails. The entire
party of four were watching for
washouts, and the train was creep
ing slowly through the inky night.
Ten miles west of Quitman, the en
gine suddenly keeled to its side and
started on its plunge into the swamp.
The fireman jumped, but the other
three stuck in the cab as it rolled
r over and took the dive which com
pletely submerged it in water. The
crew swam out to higher land, and
finally reached the coaches and
climbed aboard.
The passengers were orderly, and
there was no panic aboard. The
negro passengers were removed to
the rear coaches, and the white pas
' sengers were carried into the Pull
mans .and then began the six-hour
i wait for rescue.
Wreck Train Held Up
The wrecking train and crew or
dered from Waycross reached Quit
man in record time, but could go no
farther, as the main line of the rail
road is washed away a distance of
forty feet in the western part of the
city. Highways are under- water at
many places, bridges are gone, and
Quitman is isolated, except on the
Coast Line to Valdosta.
The South Georgia railroad is still
blocked on account of train No? 3
tufning into the swamp yesterday.
No. 89, Coast Line train due in Quit
man at 10 o’clock this morning, after
backed twenty miles to Val
dosta and then used the Southern
tracks to Tifton to Albany and down
to Thomasville, covering nearly two
hundred miles in order to go twenty
six miles west. No. 82 has been can
» celled, and it is believed there will
be no traffic between Thomasville
and Quitman for two days, as the
water is impassable and the track
fone. In several. stretches west of
loston, -it is said'one thousand feet
®f track has been washed away, and
( she water averages ten feet deep. It
began raining in Quitman last Mon
day a week ago, and during that
time 24 inches of rain fell —practical-
ly the total rainfall for the average
twelve months' period. All peanuts
and cotton remaining in the fields, as
well as the hay crop, are reported
•practically destroyed.
TRAIN IS OVERTURNED
BY GREAT LANDSLIDE
POTTSVILLE. Pa., Sept. 30.—A
Philadelphia and Reading railway
locomotive was buried under hun
. dreds of tons of earth in a huge
\ landslide near Ringtown this after
■ noon, according to messages reach
here. The fireman and a flag
* • Btwn were buried.
The entire side of a mountain
roared down on the railway tracks,
according to the messages. Tor
rential rains, which have continued
k 24 hours, caused numerous smaller
landslides in the vicinity.
• • Later messages said the landslides
occurred near Ringtown.
The engine, was overturned and
rolled some distance by the force of
the slide.
A freight train bound from New
Berry to Tamaqua was ascending a
deep grade when the slide occurred.
The first part of the train had pass
• ed this section, but the pusher en
gine was caught in the slide, bury
' ing the brakeman and the fireman
in the debris.
STORMS ON COAST NEAR
INTENSITY OE 111 RRICANE
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Sept. 30.
With storms on the coast, approach
ing in some instances the intensity
of a hurricane, the highest tides in
years and with the rivers in the
eastern and central parts of the state
at the highest stages ever known,
and bankful in the western section
state and federal assistance to per
sons whose property is jeopardized
was made available today.
• The state highway commission last
‘ night ordered its maintenance crews
to halt repairs and stand ready to
aid impeded traffic wherever needed
Today all engineers of the United
States geological survey, stationed
nt Asheville, were called itito the
field to gauge and watch tl e*rivers.
Although no additional lohs of lite
has been reported as a result of al
most two weeks of steady downpour
• coast, guardsmen were searching the
coast near Beaufort today for the
crew of a schooner believed to have
sunk off that port.
One man was electrocuted at Le
* noir yesterday.
The Cape Fear, Roanoke and
Reuse rivers in the eastern section
of the state are reported at the high
est stages in years, the latter higher
than ever before. The Cape Fear
this morning was at the 3S-foot
stage at Fayetteville and the Roa
noke at 31 feet at Weldon. The
Neuse was reported due fat; a tweai-
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
ROME. —Premier Mussolini plans
construction in Rome of 80-story sky
scraper. highest in world, to be mon
ument to Fascism.
PARIS. —• President Doumergue
sends cable to President Coolidge
expressing admiration of France for
achievement of American fliers in
encircling globe.
MONTREAL. —Six members of
bandit band which killed Henri Cle
reux, messenger of Bank of Hoch
elago, last spring, will be hanged
October 24. court of appeals decrees.
EL PASO-. Thomas Fortune
Ryan HI, grandson of the New
York financier, marries Miss Al
berta Eaton, daughter of a wealthy
Chihuahua, Mex., mine owner.
WASHINGTON.—AtIantic coast
states are swept by rain and wind
storm, unprecedented in many sec
tions, which does uncalculated prop
erty damage and causes number of
deaths.
LOS ANGELES. —The marriage
late in October of James Cruze, mo
tion picture director, and Betty
Compson, screen actress, is an
nounced by Mrs. Mary Compson, her
mother.
LONDON. —Postponement of start
of trans-Atlantic flight of dirigible
ZR-3, destined for United Sltates
navy service, is due to unexpected
trouble, says Friedernchafcn dis
patch to the Daily News.
BOSTON. —Earthquake, which
shook New England early Tuesday,
is thought by Harvard scientists to
have originated in maritime prov
inces and have been latest series of
ancient disturbances.
SPRINGFIELD? Mass.—Wm. J.
Hanifan, bank guard, of Union
Trust company, of Springfield, Mass.,
surrenders t/> police and admits ab
sconding with $90,000 of bank funds,
which he returns.
CLEVELAND. —Increase of 20 per
cent in number of automobiles reg
istered in United States in first half
of 1924 over corresponding period in
1923, is reported by American Auto
mobile association.
WASHlNGTON—Washington club
wins American league baseball pen-
FERGUSON DECISION
IN TEXAS APPEALED
TO SIME COURT
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 30.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Final decision as
to the qualification of Mrs. Mirim
A. Ferguson, the Democrtic nominee,
for governor of Texas,remained today
to be made by the state supreme
court, probably next week. District
Judge George C. Calhoun, in a ver
bal opinion yesterday, brushed aside
the common law barriers against
the right of a woman to hold office
and ruled that Mrs. Ferguson is le
gally qualified to fill the place to
which she aspires.
Counsel for the plaintiff. Charles
M. Dickson, San Antonio attorney,
gave notice of appeal to the court-of
civil appeals.
It was expected that the appelate
court, in order to expedite the ac
tion, would certify the question to
the supreme tribunal, which meets
next Monday for the coming term.
Southern Cotton Oil Co.
Authorized to Resume
Operations in South
NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 30.—Fed
eral Judge Runyon today authorized
receivers of the Southern Cotton Oil
company, subsidiary of the Vir
ginia-Carolina Chemical company, to
resume operations in 30 cotton seed
crushing mills, 32 cotton ginneries
and seven peanut shelling plants, all
owned by the Cotton Oil company in
southern states.
The receivers directed to proceed
with the operation of the plants are
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, of Newark,
and Charles G. Wilson, president of
the company.
Argument on the proposal was
heard last week by Judge Runyon,
and opposition was registered
against proposition of reopening
of plants by New York and south
ern banking interests having claims
of $7,026,100.
Judge Runyon held that under ir
regular circumstances the receivers
were justified in proceeding with
business. The court, however, order
ed the filing of a weekly statement
covering in detail the activity of the
plants involved.
The affair sos the Southern Cot
ton Oil company, a New Jersey
corporation, have been in the fed
eral courts for several months. The
same receivers are handling the
business of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical company.
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nant, and right to meet New York
Giants in world’s series by defeat of
Boston Red Sox at Boston; capital
city goes wild with joy.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary 1 loov
er in address, broadcast throughout
•nation, declares Senator La Follette’s
plan of government ownership of
public utilities would require rewrit
ing of constitution and curtail Dem-
I acratic government.
j NEW ORLEANS. —Mandamus pro-
I ceedings are brought against Secre-
I tary of State Bailey, of Louisiana,
to force him to show cause why
names of La Follette-Wheeler elec
tors. which he refused to allow on
ballots, should not appear.
GENEVA.—No solution of prob
lem. created at Geneva by refusal of
Japanese to accept protocol of arbi
tration and.security with “aggressor”
provision is effected, but swing of
sentiment to Japanese viewpoint is
indicated.
NEW YORK.—Two trawlers pre
pare at New York to start for Vir
ginia Capes to attempt to salvage
sunken Ward liner Merida, which
wp.s sunk thirteen years ago and is
said to have contained millions in
i silver and other metals in hold.
| CHICAGO.—Steady increase of
i criminal depredations against banks,
I marked by general increase in hold-
I ups and decline of burglaries, reached
I peak during past year, protective
■ committee of American Bankers’ as-
I sociation reports to executive com
mittee.
I NEW YORK.—Despite reported
receipt of claim for insurance by
Lloyds of London, members of,fam
ily of John Sanford refuse to con
firm report of theft of $50,000 in
jewels from their Long Island resi
dence where prince of Wales was en
tertained.
CHICAGO. — United States Senator
Smith W. Brookhart, Republican,
lowa, in letter to Chairman Willima
M. Butler, chairman of Republican
national committee, urges forced
resignation of General Dawes as
vice presidential candidate on
ground he has wrecked Republican
i organization, particularly in north
-1 west.
FIVE KILLED WHEN
Bill CAR MHES
INTOEBEIGBTTBJIN
COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 30
Rounding a curve in a blinding rain,
a railroad motor car crashed into an
on-coming freight train of the
Southern railway yesterday, result
ing in the death of five men,'a mile
north of Peak and 26 miles from
Columbia.
The dead, all of whom occupied
the motor car. are: Killian Chapman,
30, of Peak: Heyward Meetze, 22. of
Littleton; James W. Daley, 21, of
Peak; Charlie Brown and James
Henderson, negroes; of Peak.
Confusion in orders, coupled with
the blinding rain, are given .as con
tributing causes of the collision.
Chapman was killed outright.
Meetze and Brown died on a, passen
ger train while being brought to Co
lumbia. Daley and Henderson died
in Columbia hospitals last night.
Bigamist Is Sentenced
To Support Both Wives
Or Go to Chaingang
“His object all sublime he will
achieve in time,
"To make the punishment fit the
crime, the punishment fit the
crime.”
Judge W. E. Thomas, who ordi
narily dispenses justice in the supe
rior court of Lowndes county, but
who is presiding in the Fulton supe
rior court, achieved a unique puni
tive effect Tuesday, when he sen
tenced C. A. Wigley, a cement con
tractor, who had pleaded guilty to
bigamy, to support both wives and
their children. As an alternative,
the judge.decreed that Wigley should
serve from two to ten years on the
chaingang. Needless to say, Wigley
accepted the first provision.
Wigley admitted havmg married
Miss Ida Mae Banks. ofEast Point,
four years ago, although at that
time he had another wife, Mrs. Ethel
V igley, lyiving in Kirkwood. A ten
year-old child is living front the
first marriage and a four-months
old child from the second.
Both wives appealed to Judge
Thomas for leniency in Wigley’s
sentence and the judge agreed to
suspend the chaingang sentence pro
vided W igley would give a substan
tial bond as a guarantee that he
would pay S2O a month to his first
wife until her divorce now pending,
is granted, and that he would also
support his second wife and child.
Wife No. 2 announced on leaving
tlip courtroom thftt as soon as the
first wife’s divorce was granted, she
would marry M igley again—this time
legally.
Governmenrto Libel
Captured Rum Boat
SA\ ANNAH, Ga.. Sept. 30. The
y.nht Astra, towed into Savannah a
shot t time ago by the coast guard
cutter Yamaciviv., with 2.400 ca«es of
liquor aboard, is to be libeled bv the
government.
This announcement was made thi=
morning from the district attornev -
office.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia, North Carolina. South
Carolina and, Georgia: Generally
fair: not much change in tempera
ture.
Florida and extreme northwest
Florida: Generally fair.
Alabama. Mississippi and Tennes
see: Fair and warmer.
Kentucky: Unsettled and warm-"-.
Louisiana: Fair, warmer.
Arkansas and east Texas: Fair,
warmer.
Oklahoma and west Texas: Fair.
WORLD'S BUSINESS I
BETTER. COOLIDGE I
WRITES BANKERS
President Gives High Praise
tp Banking System
of America
CHICAGO, Sept. 30. President
Coolidge, in a letter to the American
Bankers’ association today, said
there are multiplying evidences of
improving conditions throughout the
business structures!of the world.
The president’s letter was address
ed to Walter W. Head, of Omaha,
president of the association, and
stated that the president has “a
strong feeling that the bankers of
the country deserve generous recog
nition of their services.” The presi
dent also wrote of appreciation of
the federal reserve system, and said
that banking once was a mystery,
but no longer is so regarded.
The president's letter was as fol
lows :
“Aly dear Air. Head: You have
been kind enough to ask me for it
brief message to the American Bilk
ers' association -at the time of its
forthcoming annual convention. I
am glad to comply, because of my
strong feeling that the bankers of
the country deserve a generous rec
ognition of their services. There
‘ will, I think, be general agreement
that the attitude of the public to
ward the bankers, and likewise that
of the bankers toward the public,
have both become more sympathetic
and appreciative in recent years. We
may attribute this in no small meas
ure to the extension of interest in
economic and financial problems in
recent yeras. It is in part a conse
quence of the increasing insistence
of these problems, and in part, also
a result of the establishment of the
federal reserve system. Even so
great a calamity as the war has had
some good consequences, and among
these we must include a greatly in
creased attention to matters that are
fundamental to the life of the com
munity. It is not so many years
since banking was a. good, deal of a
I mystery, even to the majority of
business men. Nowadays, thanks to
the policy of leading banks in tak
ing the p.ublic into their confidence
and discussing their problems in sim
ple and understandable fashion, the
mystery has largely disappeared. In
its place have come confidence and
understanding, which make for the
best interests of both, the bank and
its customers.
Praises Federal Reserve
“On incident to this new attitude
is the general appreciation of the
federal reserve system’s usefulness.
It has demonstrated itself as the sta
bilizing and unifying factor of our
monetary and financial structure,
during a period which, without it.
would certainly have been marked
by distress and disasters. Instead of
these, we have seen our monetary
system accepted as the world’s stand
ard. We have been able to place
every reliance in the soundness of
our banks and their ability io adapt
themselves to the most extraordinary
requirements.
“Our financial establishment as
sumed from year to year a constant
ly larger part and significance in the
realm of international business and
financing. This is an inevitable re
sult of conditions which have placed
in our hands so great a control over'
the world’s reserves of credit and
monetary capacity.. Wielded with
the same wisdom and care in the fu
ture as heretofore, these forces will
contribute powerfully to the rehabili
tation of money systems, of credit,
and of business throughout the
world. They will do tins, moreover,
to the advantage both t>f our own
country and of others.
“I feel, therefore, that in extending
my good wishes and confidence to
the great banking interests of Amer
ica, I am also expressing a generous
and helpful purpose toward the con
cerns of sound business everywhere.
“There are multiplied evidences of
improving conditions throughout the
structures of the world. American
leadership, faith and ready helpful
ness have contributed Ira gel y to
bringing about this improved out
look. So it is fitting to extend con
gratulations to you American bank
ers upon your achievements of the
past and likewise upon the bright
prospect that opens before you.”
Walter Ay-. Head, president of the
association, quoting in turn from
John W. Davis and Calvin Coolidge,
today urged tjje association to op
pose “all efforts to give congress the
power to override decisions of the
supreme court.”
Air. Head told the opening general
session of the association convention
that "a return to common sense”
was “what the bankers stand for re
gardless of political partisanship.”
Air. Head later called to the ros
trum Sir John Aird, of Toronto,
president of the Canadian Bankers'
association, who said:
“I would only wish that the trade
and commercial relations between
our two countries were as satisfac
tory as the financial relations. That,
as you probably know, and as the
Canadian people know, is not a ques
tion for bankers but one for our
politicians; and it is dangerous for
bankers to interfere very, much in
political affairs.”
He added that while it was com
monly, and in part correctly, sup
posed that the Canadian banking
system was based on the Scottish
system, the Canadian plan “origi
nated in the mind of Alexander Ham-
I he convention adoptedytlie report
of the executive councils The report
included the unanimous opinion of
that body “that it seemed unfor
tunate for the senate of the United
Slates to take such action as might
lead to the termination of the gentle
men's agreement established between
Japan and the United States, thus
releasing the Japanese government
from any responsibility as to what
its nationals may do ami thereby
transferring the whole burden of ex
clusion upon our government.”
German Loan Approved
Formal approval of the $200,000,003
loan to the German government in
the United States was contained in
committee reports submitted to the
executive council of the association.
Recommendations that American
bankers have nothing to do with the
financing of Russia as long as the
present soviet government remains
in power, were contained in the re
port. The council also received a
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MTOIMtO..
TO VIEW AIR BICES
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 30.
Abandoning the planes in which
they completed the first circumnavi
gation of the globe, six United
States army lieutenants loft Seattle
this morning by train for Dayton.
Ohio, to witness the international
air races. The airmen plan to re
turn here later to claim their planes
at Sand Point aviation field.
“I didn't say good-by to my ma
chine, just said au revoir,” Lieuten
ant Lowell H. Smith, commander of
the expedition and pilot of the flag
plane Chicago, said qn leaving.
“I merely said good-by to my plane
temporarily”, asserted Lieutenant
Eric Nelson, engineer of the flight
and pilot of the air cruiser New Or
leans.
Lieutenant Leigh 11. Wade, who
piloted the Boston 11, also said be
hoped to be back after his machine.
Lieutenant Smith said last night
he came as ‘‘close to crying when 1
saw a monument commemorating
the world flight unveiled at Sand
Point yesterday as I ever was, be
cause I wasn't expecting it and
never thought of a monument with
my name on it until my head was
under it.”
The monument, a polished granite
column, 15 feet high, with a model
of the globe on top from which
bronze wings symlTblize a bird alight
ing at the end of a flight, is the
gift of Mrs. Frances Cole, of Spo
kane, sister of Lieutenant Leslie P.
Arnold, mechanician tor Lieutenant
Smith. It was designed and mod
eled by Victor Alonzo Lewis, Seattle
sculptor.
A sidelight of the world flight was
revealed by Lieutenant Wade who
stated that the trip influenced the
growth of hair.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce
piesenred each flier with a small
metal replica of the monument.
Goltra’s Barges Slicked Up
For Mississippi Trip
ST. LOUIS. Mo., Sept. 30.—Gov
eminent barges, of the so-called Gol
tia fleet were being prepared today
for their first trip down the Missis
sippi in consequence of a ruling
made recently in federal court here
by Judge Faris, that the operation of
the fleet would have to be resumed
by October 1, if Edward 1-. Goltra
were to retain control of the liver
vessels.
STOPS FIT ATTACKS
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Island Ave.. Milwaukee, Wis., has a
yeatment which has given complete re
lief from attacks of Fits. Epilepsy and
Falling Sickness in hundreds of cases.
Realizing the terrible suffering caused by
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gratitude, says he wants to teli every
sufferer how to relieve themselves of
their torture by this simple home trea’-
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Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, October 2,1924
ELECTORS CHOSEN
FOB LU FOLLETTE IT
ii MEETING IN IfflCON
_
MACON, Ga., Sept. 30.—C. W. Me
i . Clure. of Atlanta, was elected per-
■ ■ manent chairman of the progressive
I ■ party of Georgia at the state con
:'' vention held here Monday, and
. | called for the purpose of choosing
’ I electors to run on the La Fllette-
- \ Wheeler ticket in the state.
5 ] Other officers chosen are Frank
Radensieben, Atlanta, vice chair
man; Marvin Harwell, Atlanta, sec
i«i.ary; Carl Karston, Atlanta, treas-
- urer; James L. Sibley, Milledgeville,
■ campaign manager; Mrs. W. T.
Mooney, Atlanta, vice chairman fi
nancial committee, and W. G. Mc-
Rae, Rockmart, chairman of the
speakers’ bureau. .
Electors selected are: William
' Gray, Savannah, First district; Dr.
J G. Standifer, Blakely, Second dis
trict; Marvin Rambo, Bluffton,
Third district; Jerome Jones, Atlan
; ta, Fifth district; J. D. Minor, Ma
I 'con. Sixth district; W. G. Mcßae,
- f Rockmart, Seventh district; W. W I
1 Darden, Union PoTht, Eighth dis- I
i trict; S. D. Winder, Ninth :
; , district; J. C. Wall, Thomson, Tenth i
district; Dan Cowart, Waycross, •
■ Eleventh district, H. W. Nalley, Ala- :
I mo, Twelfth district. The elector- i
i ship for the Fourth district and for !
- the two places from the state at '
large were left vacant, and will ie
chosen later by the executive com-
. mittee, which is composed of the
permanent officers of the party.
Only part of the district campaign
chairmen were selected. They are |
J. G. Standifer, Blakely, Second dis- ■
s trict; Marvin Rambo, Bluffton, Third.
> district; Mrs. W. E. McCord, Sixth
■ district; Floyd W. Hendrickson, Mil- I
kdgeville, Tenth district. Tempot
ary chairmen for two districts were
also appointed. They are 11. M.
Woods. Savannah, First, district, and
W. H. McCrary, Jeffersonville, j
Twelfth district. The other district I
posts wiil be filled by the executive '
c rmmittee.
Only five resolutions were offered
to the convention, and ail of them
were adopted. They were (1) ratifi
cation of the platform of the nation- '
al progressive party ami indorse
ment of La Follette and Wheeler for
president and vice president; <2> op
position to any attempt to change
the laws providing for elections of
judges by popular vote; (3) appoint
ment of C. W. McClure as agent of
the partv to certify the progressive
ticket to the secretary of state; (4)
a demand that women be given equu
rights with men in all phases of po
i.tical activities, and that provision
be made to permit them to serve as i
presidential electors in Georgia, ant
(5) an expression of regret forth;
death of the late Senator Thomas E
! Watson, and an expression that the
! resent progressive party is in ac
cord with the Populist party formed
in IS9I bv Senator Watson.
I I
■ISON ATTACKS
COFILIDGE; BLAMES
HIM IN SCANDALS
CLEVELAND, Sept. 30 —Senator
Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, open
ing the Democratic speaking cam
paign here Monday at the luncheon
of the women’s domestic organiza
tion, criticized the record of Presi
dent Coolidge.
‘‘They say Coolidge should not be
held recoonsible for the corruption
. that infested the Harding adminis
tration.” he said. ‘‘Why, the wild
orgies of the veterans’ bureau were
exposed through congressional com
mittees, aired and acted upon by
congressional mandates. The T«»*
pot Dome scandal corroded even the
rafters and corridors of the senate
chamber, so nauseating was it in
its foul odors. Calvin Coolidge
could not escape it. The country
has not forgotten, too, that on the
first day President Harding went in
;as thief executive, he said: ‘The
sort of government I have in mind
ought to take advantage of the
capacity and experience of a man
like Governor Coolidge by bringing
him into the cabinet counsels.’
i “If Calvin Coolidge did not obtain
I some inside information touching
I the corruftion of the Teapot Dome
1 from these cabinet members, then
I it was certainly his duty, in the in
| terest of the country and in good
I.faith of his high position to hjjs par
ity and administration, to appriw
the president and the cabinet of
what he had heard as presiding of
ficer of the senate.’’
Three-Year-Old Child
Killed by Caged Bear
Before Mother’s Eyes
CHICO, Cal., Sppt. 30.—Before the
eyes of her mother, three-year-old
Hazel Pepper, Monday was killed by
a caged black bear on the W. IL
Quimby property at Durham, seven
i miles south or Chico.
The animal seized the little girl
‘ as she ran past the cage.
The bear was shot by Allan Green,
who recovered the girl’s body.
Sheriff Killed by Auto
OCALA. Fla., Sept. 30.—Sheriff
Henry Gordon, of Marion county,
was instantly killed near here last
night when his automobile was
thrown into a ditch. He was return
ing with a negro prisoner from
Bushnell. Raymond B. Bulloch.
Ocala lawyer, who accompanied him.
suffered two broken ribs. The negro
was unhurt.
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SI A YEAR.
EEIGUE MODIFIES
miifflTMCT
TO JPPEfff JAPAN
Nations Can Act Even
Against Ruling From
World Coui t
GENEVA, Sept. 30.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —The revised protoettf •
on arbitration and security, includ
ing modifications to satisfy the de
mand of the Japanese delegation for
an amendment, was unanimously
adopted this evening by the arbitra
tion commission of the League of
Nations and will be submitted to the
assembly for-adoption tomoriow.
At the opening session of the com
mission, M. Politis, of Greece, as the
official reporter, declared that the *
changes made in the protocol satisfy
all the legitimate Japanese demands,
without weakening any of the guar
antees of security which other states
hope to obtain under the protocol.
M. Politis said it was imperative
that the protocol should make pro
vision to give a last chance for a
state, which is in dispute with an
other on a domestic question to set- ,
tie the quarrel by peaceful means be
for declaring that state an aggres
sor.
The ‘agreement reached is sat
isfactory to the Japanese. This
was divulged by M. Loucheur, the
French member of the League of
Nations protocal committee, just be
fore noon.
The committee, composed in add!
tion to M. Loucheur, of Sir Cecil
Hurst, of England, and Sigrior
Scialoia, of Italy, with M. Adatci, of
Japan, present, met in private con
ference in the palace of the League
of Nations, and examined the vari
ous formulas, designed to solve the
Japanese difficulty, which had been
prepared during the night by each
committeeman.
Idea in Covenant
The basic idea of the new accord,
it is pointed out, already exists in
the league covenant, because article
XI stipulates that it is the friendly
right of each member to call at
tention to any circumstances what
ever which might threaten to dis
turb international peace.
The broad basis of the solution ar
rived at. Dr. Benes, of Czecho-Slo
vakia, informed the Associated Pgggj \
is that the council of the League
j of Nations always shall have the
i right Ao examine all conflicts aris-
I ing between nations with a view te
I a pacific settlement of such conflicts
He said that the Japanese formally
' had accepted the compromise formu
la, and had agreed to withdraw theh
amendment to the aggressor clause '
which makes an aggressor of any
state refusing to abide by a decision
of the world court that the matter
involved is one of Internal jurisdlc*—-—■
tion..
Outline of Amendment
League officials explain that the
controlling idea behind today’s com
mittee agreement concerns the right
to appc'al to the council.
When the council, or world court,
declares that a dispute involves a
matter within the domestic jurisdic
tion of one party to the dispute, ths
other interested state will have ths
right to appeal to the council, not
for a decision, but for an amicable
intervention looking towards a
| peaceful solution.
If this channel of mediation is not
sought, then the party against whom
the world court ruled, in declaring
the issue a domestic one, will con
tinue to be an aggressor. Any mem
her of the council, however, may
bring up the question.
The attitude of the British domin
ions to the compromise agreement
worked out today was not made
clear.
Second Proposal Dropped
This is, in effect, the original Jap
anese amendment to the protocol
which the Japanese delegates aban
doned in favor of a much stronger
one when they found the first noe
met with disfavor.
Their second proposition, which
was considered as gravely endanger
ing the future of the protocol, and
of the proposed international confer
ence on disarmament provided by it,
called for the suppression of th?
protocol clause which proclaimed ai
an aggressor any state refusing to
abide, by a world court ruling in a
particular dispute, concerned with \
the sovereign rights of t-fte statfl z
complained against, hence that
conflict was justifiable.
Having gained their original point,
the Japanese have now dropped their
substitute amendment, the danger
i of which lay in its implied question*
I ing of the doctrine of the sovereign
rights of a state over its dome»<tij
affairs.
By the preliminary accord workel
out today, the Tokio government hay
obtained an araqijement whereby th®
door to conciliation and mediation
will not be shut by a decision of th®
, world court, but will be left open so
| that a discontented nation may still
I air its grievances before the League
' of Nations.
IMMIGRATION NOT CAUSE
OF INSISTENCE, SAYS TOKIO
TOKIO, Sept. 30.—(8y the Asso
' elated Press.) —Japanese insistence
lon an amendment to the proposed
i protocol of arbitration and security
i before the League of Nations ./as
, based wholly upon the legal, not
j the immigration phase of the ques-
I tion, and inferences to contrary are
far-fetched, according to official
views obtained here today.
Apparent indifference, on the part
of newspapers and officials, and the
manner in which the press avoided
any previous reference to the sub
ject, were the most remarkable
characteristics of Japan’s reception
of the pronouncements of Japanese
delegates at Geneva.
Sour Lake, Texas, Can’t
Pay Debt; Town Placed
In Hands of Trustees
BEAUMONT. Texas, Sept. 30.
The city of Sour Lake, Texas, popu
lation of 3.012, according to the cen
sus of 1920, has been placed in the
hands of three trustees named by
Judge VV. I. Estes, of the United '
States court for the eastern district
of Texas. This step was taken in .
default of paying a judgment for
money borrowed in 19 1 9 when it was
trying to be an incorporated munici
pality.
This judgment was given Vernon
IT. Branch, of Wichita, Kan., on
April 21, this year.