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eljc Alt ait I a tnnral 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- (Continued on Page 3, Column ’) I 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. NEW LAMP HAS NO WICK OR CHIMNEY Most Brilliant Home Light Known— Cost One Cent a Night. A new lamp which has no wick or chimney, yet, according to experts, gives the most powerful home light in the World, is the latest achieve ment of W. C. Fowler. 332 Factory building. Kansas City, Mo. This re i markable new lamp beats gas or ' electricity—gives more ligfiT than ‘ 300 candles. 18 ordinary lamps or j 10 brilliant electric lights, and costs I only one cent a night. A blessing to j every home, especially on farm or in | small to’vn. It is absolutely safe, land gives universal satisfaction. No I dirt, no smoke, no odor. A child can carry it. It is the ambition of Mr. j Fowler to have every home, store, i hall or church enjoy the increased comfort of this powerful, pleasing, j brilliant white light, and he will * send one of his new lamps on free I trial to any reader of The Journal nho writes him. He wants or ner , son to whom ’no can refer new cus- Itomeis. Take advantage of bis free offer. Agon's wanted. Write him I today.— (Advertisement.) 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 (Continued on Page 6, Column 6) Well, Here They Are Our 1924-25 Bargain Offers AFTER much wrestling with the o ther publishers we are able to an nounce what we believe to be t he best list of clubbing combinations ever offered by a Southern farm newspaper, at prices which represent a dis tinct saving to every subscriber. • When we began these negotiations, it appeared that all prices would be much higher this year than previous. Yet when we got down to talking about our ability to produce a big volume of business for other papers, some of the publishers saw the light and at the last minute made price reductions which make our clubs even more at tractive than in the past. 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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 R Lepso. residing at Apt. 39. 895 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 these attack?. Mr Lepso, out of pure gratitude, says he wants to teli every sufferer how to relieve themselves of their torture by this simple home trea’- ment. Simply send him your name and address.— t Advertisement.) 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. Dress Remnants 66c a Yard Remarkable offer on 5-yard rem nants of serges, tricotines and suit ings being made by Textile Mills Co., Dept. 535, Kansas City, Mo. Write them today for free informa ti^.— (Advertisement.) ' i CEMd a copy, 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.