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£lje Atlanta ©ri'Wtekfo So urnal
VOL. XXVII. NO. 2
BANDIT CHAPMAN
SDUGHT IN KILLINC
' OF POLICE OFFICER
Million-Dollar Mail Robber
Who Escaped Pen Here
Surprised Blowing Safe-
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Gerald
Chapman, who escaped from Atlan
ta in April, 1923, now is being
sought for the murder early yester
day of Policeman James Skelley, in
New Britain. lie has eluded the
police of New York, Connecticut and
Massachusetts with the same skill
he showed in escaping three times
from the authorities after his cap
ture in 1921 for a.million dollar mail
robbery in ths city. His confederate
in a robbery which yesterday led to
jx . the killing of a New Britain police-
I .< . man, was Walter E. Shean, son of
L/ty well-known family of Springfield,
■T Mass. Shean was captured as he
was entering an automobile waiting
near the department store which the
pair undertook to rob.
In the automobile, the police
found burglary tools, a revolver, and
S2OO in currency which the police
believed was all the robbers obtain
ed from the store safe which they
blew open with nitroglycerine. The
pair were preparing to blow a sec
ond safe when the employe of a
livery stable nearby turned in an
alarm which brought five policemen,
including Skelley on the run.
Shooting of Officer
The yeggmen were at work on the
mezzanine floor and as the officers
were half way up the stairs, the
man alleged to be Chapman appear
ed at the head of the stairs and
warned the patrolmen to halt.
The policemen did not stop and
they had gone but one step upward
when the man fired. Skelley fell
back, a bullet in his abdomen. In
the confusion, the man escaped.
Skelley died in a ’. ;pital.
The man who was later identified
as Shean was arrested after he was
seen coming out of the rear door of
the building. He first gave his name
as John B. Clark, of New York, but
an inquiry to New York diclosed
that both the name and the address
were fictitious. It was not until
Sunday afternoon that the stranger
was identified. He admitted he had
knotVn Chapman for some time.
Five Safes Drilled
The police found that five safes
in the -department store and an-
• other store adjoining had been
drilled and charged with nitroglycer
ine ready to be blown open.
Chapman escaped from the Atlan
ta penitentiary March 27, 1923, and
a reward of $1,990 has been offered
by the warden for his capture. He
is 35 years old and at times has
gone under the names of G. V. Cal.-
well, Edward Brice, George Char
ters and C. W. Eldridge.
Skelley was 56 years old and had
’ been a member of the police depart
ment for *22 years. He’ leaves a
widow, two sons and one daughter.
A close watch was maintained over
railway terminals, hotels and ferry j
houses. Chapman, who is also |
known as “Bryce” and “The Count,” I
was believed to have been the brains ;
behind the $1,000,009 robbery’ of a ;
registered mail truck in lower Broad- '
way three years ago this month. ]
After trailing him for weeks, police I
rrrested him and George Anderson, i
?f Rochester, in July, 1922. |
They were convicted of the rob- i
bery and sentenced to twenty-live I
years in Atlanta penitentiary. They I
f served less than eight months I
K their sentence when they escaped. |
.stiean said he first met Chap- [
nian last July in Springfield.
Shean is the son of Charles T.
Shean, president of the Kimball I
Hotel Compafiy of Springfield, and
owner of the Cooley hotel of that I
city. Young Shean was suspected
of complicity in the robbery of the
People’s Trust company, of Wyomis
ing, Pa., in 1921, after stolen bonds
worth $15,009 had been recovered
from him. He had the prosecution
stopped, however, maintaining that
he had come by the bonds ho’nestly.
Chapman's Escape
Chapman started his record of
an hour after his arrest for
mail robbery here. Postal in
sectors recaptured him by threat
ening to shoot if he jumped from
the coping of a building in which
he was being questioned.
His second escape was six months
after he had been committed to At-
• lanta prison. While in the prison
hospital he and another prisoner
overpowered a male nurse and es
caped by ropes made from bed
sheets.
Two days later Chapman was re
captured in Athens. Ga., after an
interchange of shots during which
he was wounded. While in a hos
pital he escaped an hid in the base
rtietic. There he overpowered a
» guard and escaped in the guard’s
Privacy Is Doomed;
New X-Ray Machine
Looks Through Wall
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 11.—
Even when you close the bathroom
tnd pull down the blind you’re not
safe any more. Dr. W. R. Coolidge
»nd his associates in the research
laboratory of the General Electric
» company have invented X-ray ma
’ chines whereby one may look through
walls and floors as a physician now
examines a patient’s innermost
parts.
The new apparatus is expected to
prove valuable to plumbers, builders.
Jewelers and electricians. It is only
hi pounds in weight and can be car
ried in a box 7 by 10 inches.
Hereafter, anyone wanting to se
lect the solid spot in the wall into
. . which a nail may be driven has onl"
Io turn on the machine.
American Missionaries,
Man and Wife, Beaten
By Indian Buddhists
RANGOON. India. Oct. 11.—Pro
fessor and Mrs. Gleason. American
missionaries attached to Judson col
lege here, were mobbed by Buddhist
tnonks Thursday night.
Both were badly beaten and re-
Diovcd to a hospital.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
I WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF j
1 TOURS, France. —Anatole France,
I dies peacefully at his home in Tours,
I France, after illness months, aged 89.
SHANGHAI. —Chekiang forces de
! fending Shanghai surrender to in
' vading Kiangsu armies and armis
j tice is declared.
: SAN DIEGO. —Shenandoah will
i leave San Diego early Tuesday morn-
I ing, on its voyage up Pacific coast.
I it is officially announced.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—Laure
nus Clark Seeleye, president-emeritus
and first head of Smith college, dies
at Northampton, Mass., aged 87.
Jamestown, n. y.— Richard
: Smith, 26, playing football, was
| killed when his skull was fractured
; as he attempted a tackle.
New York
Giants defeated the Chicago White
Sox in the first exhibition game of
their winter tour, 13-5.
j NEW YORK. —New York Zoologi-
I cal society plans to send expedition
to study sea life in Sargasso sea off
west coast of Afr.ca.
LOS ANGELES.—Kate Lester,
I motion picture character actress,
I died of burns received when a gas
’ heater exploded in her dressing
room.
| ST. PAUL, Minn.—St. Paul and
I Baltimore are tied at four-all in “lit
; tie world series” as result of defeat
I of Baltimore at St. Paul by score
of 3-1.
NEW YORK.—Cargo of 964-ton
■ vessel, consisting of 43,000 cases of
i iquor, is seized and crew of thirty
! two is arrested by coast guard off
New York harbor.
WASHINGTON. Washington
: wins 1924 baseball championship, de
: feating New York Giants, 4-3, in
! 12th inning of seventh and deciding
' game of series on home field. /
SAN DIEGO, Cal. —In face of
I heavy winds and hours behind
I schedule navy dirigible Shenandoah
| arrives at San Diego and ends first
! trans-continental journey.
: HOUSTON, Texas.—A new out
j break of foot-and-mouth disease in
I a herd of seventeen cattle under ob- i
servation is reported. The animals
are killed and buried immediately.
! EL PASO, Tex. —Crew of Cbihua
! hua and Orieirte railway 'train, in
cluding an unidentified American,
are killed by bandits who escape
with $39,000 payroll near Candelario,
Mexico.
WICHITA, Kan.—Mrs. Ruth Gar
ner, aerial performer, is killed at
National Air congress meet at Vyi
chita, Kan., when her parachute
fails to open when she leaps from
plane.
TVASHINGTON. Gate receipts
for 1924 world series, totaling sl,-
093,104, establishes new record, but]
attendance figures show i’-nt 283, |
695, or 17,735 'less than 1923, saw |
games.
FRIEDERICI IASI FEN.— ZR -3
giant dirigible, which left. Frieder
ichshafen early Sunday morning for
America, is reported in latest dis
patches to be over Atlantic ocean off :
Spanish coast and headed for Azores. !
NEW YORK.—Over-subscription of i
I America’s share of $110,000,000 in
I $209,000,000 allied loan to Germany,
■ to be floated under Dawes' plan, be
j fore books are opened on Tuesday
] is predicted by New York bankers.
, NE W1 ’ORT N EWS, Va. —Taeuten-
j ant Bruce N. Martin is dead and
| another officer and throe, men are |
) seriqusly injured as result of wreck
j age of army blimp TC-2 by explo
j sion of bomb during target practice
I at Newport News. Va.
! WASHINGTON. —President Cool-
I idge in a Columbus Day letter to
I Vita Contessa, of New York, presi-
I dent of the Italian Benevolent socle
i ty, pays tribute to Christopher Co
j lumbus and to American citizens of
I Italian birth.
I *
WASHINGTON.—Appoint mont of
: Thomas Nelson Perkins, Boston at-
J torney, by reparation commission to
sit on commission when questions
: relating to operation of Dawes’ plan |
! arise, virtually completes prelimina- |
; ry organization for putting plan into]
i effect.
I NEW BRITAIN, Conn. —Gerald i
| Chapman, notorious bandit and es- I
I eaped convict, is sought for murder |
|of James Skelley, New Britain, I
Conn., policeman, shot while pre-
I venting burglary of department
' store; Walter J. Shean, business
man of Springfield, Mass., and al
j leged accomplice of Chapman, is |
held on murder charge.
Bonus Applications
Being Handled Rapidly;
i 10,000 a Day Received
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Ap-I
proved applications for World war i
veterans’ adjusted compensation are ■
reaching the veterans’ bureau from !
the army, navy and marine corps at I
a rate of 19.000 a day, and the num- i
her now on hand exceeds 370,000.
To date 160,000 claims have been
adjudicated, of which 6,874 call for a 1
cash aggregate of $234,000. The re- I
mainder, for veterans entitled to I
l more than the SSO cash payment, re- i
quire issuance of insurance certifi- '
cates representing an obligation
against the. government of $158,544,-
835.
Director Hines estimated today
that about 1,000,000 insurance cer
tificates will be in the mails by Jan
uary 1. and that all cash payments]
will have • been disposed of on i
March 1. i
charged with administra- •
tion of tne bonus law have urged
veterans to submit their applications,
only about 1,300,000 out of a pos- ]
sible 4.500.000 having been received. ■
War Material Seized
In Cuban Province
HAA ANA. Cuba., Oct. 11.—Six
hundred dynamite bombs, 100.000 ’
rounds of amunition and other war 1
material have been seized at San I
Jose de las Lages, in connection with ■
political disturbances growing out i
of the presidential campaign, it was I
learned today.
Simultaneously General Mario'
Menocal. Conservative nominee, is
sued a manifestor "to the people of :
Cuba” at Santiago de Cuba, charg
ing President Zayas wi.h deliberate'
I hampering of the Conserx itive <• ot 1
e 1
URMY OEFENOII'IO
SHSMI ROUTED:
CHIEFS IN FLIGHT
Chekiang Sues for Peace.
Foreigners on Guard as
Invaders Approach
SHANGHAI, Oct. 13.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Their defeated ar
mies retreating in confusion towards
Shanghai, General Lu Y’ung Hsiang,
military governor of Chekiang prov-j
ince, and his chief aide, General He ,
Feng Ling, defense commissioner of j
Shanghai, today announced they had
signed an armistice with the invad-i
ing Kiangsu forces representing the I
central government of China.
Generals Lu and Ho, who have led]
the defense forces fighting west and >
south of Shanghai for the last six j
weeks, today sought refuge in for-1
eign concessions while a report was
in circulation here that they had
been bribed to I etray their leaders.
While the Chekiang army was re
treating towards the environs of
Shanghai, every unit of foreign de
fense forces in the city, including >
United States marines and foreign
warships, was drawn up along the
boundaries of the foreign settlement >
to put up a defense against attempts ;
on the part of the Kiangsu troops to
enter the concession.
He was a holdover appointee from
an old Anfu party administration and
relied on his military strength to ,
back up his refusal to vacate office.
The Chekiang forces were torn;
apart by a revolt in their own ranks ;
about two weeks ago. Until that
time they had repelled the attacks of
the invading Kiangsu troops ant
were engaged in an encircling move- j
ment near Tai Lake, west of Shang !
hai, preparing to start a rear attack ]
against the enemy. The revolt was j
the beginning of the Chekiang de- |
feat. Their forces, cut off by trai-j
tors ih their own ranks, the Chekiang'
troops narrowed their lines down L-' |
the defense army south and west ml |
Shanghai, but the Kiangsu troops, |
tasting victory, pounded awa.y at the [
southern front until they captured :
the important town of Sungl.iang, I
28 miles south of here, a few days :
ago.
General Lu Yung-Hsiang, military
governor of Chekiang province, pre- j
sided at the conference which result
ed in the decision to surrender, and'
which sent him to the international
settlement here as a refugee.
Mrs. Humber to Appeal '
Murder’ Verdict for
Death of Husband,
COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 11.—Mrs.
Leila. C. Humber, charged with slay,
ing her husband, Lucius F. Humber,
Columbus warehouseman, May 18,
1922,. was found guilty of second
degree murder in Russell circuit ;
court Friday afternoon, and sen- '
fenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary, according to advices last night i
from Seale, Ala. The verdict was i
returned ft 5:35 o’clock, the case!
having gone to the jury at 7:39
o’clock Friday night. The trial start
ed Thursday afternoon.
The verdict of second degree mur
der came on the third trial of the
Humber case.
At the first trial she was found
guilty of second degree murder and
given eleven years. The second
trial the jury failed to agree.
Following the verdict notice of i
appeal to the state supreme court
was made by attorneys for Mrs.
Humber. A $3,000 appeal bond was
set. i
|
State Gasoline fax
Collections to Break
Record, Harrison Says
. The collections of state gasoline
taxes for the third quarter of 1921
will exceed $900,00.0 and break all
previous records, in the oidnion of
W. B. Harrison, tax clerk in the
comptroller general’s office. The
payments were not due until October
10, and are not all in, but the in
creases shown by the companies that
have reported assure a new record,
Mr. Harrison said.
The consumption of gasoline is al
ways heavier during the summer
months, and the third quarter in
cludes July and August. The legisla
ture of 1923 increased the state tax
on .gasoline to three cents a gallon,
and the combination of the increased
tax and the heavier consumption
will establish a new record.
White House Hears
"‘Eeyab Coolidge!’’ as
Students Give Yells
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.—The
White House grounds resounded to
day with the sounds of school yells
by students from Trenton, N. J. High
school and West Philadelphia High
school who gathered on the White
House lawn and had their pictures
taken with the president.
When Mr. Coolidge appeared the
Trenton students loosed their
school yell. Not to be putdone, the
Philadelphia girls gave ’their school
cheer with an “eeyah Coolidge” at
the end.
Stopping on the way from the
grounds to permit a student to <al;e
his picture, Mr. Coolidge was soon
the center of other pleading amateur
photographers and he obligingly
halted until most had snapped their
pictures.
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IN HOOSIER STATE
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 12
Encouraged by the reception given ;
hint "cltiring his address here last ,
night, John AA”. Davis rested today
in preparation for a week of steady
campaigning which he hopes will
result in assuring Indiana for the
Democratic party. The Democratic. \
candidate .speaks in Terre Haute
tomorrow and will leave the latter
city Tuesday morning for Spring
field. 111., where he speaks Tuesday
night.
Mr. Davis will leave Springfield
Wednesday morning, speaking in
Quincy that night and then will go
to Chicago for speeches there Thurs
day and Friday night. He will spend
Saturday in St. Louis.
Mr. Davis carried his campaign
into Ohio and Indiana Saturday, de
livering three speeches in denuncia
tion of the Republican party, its
leaders and the administration of
governmental affairs at Washing
ton. The third address was made
here Saturday after appearances
earlier in the day at Urbana, Ohio,
and Richmond, Ind.
Mr. Davis called attention in both ]
the Indianapolis and Richmond
speeches to what he described as
“four years of rapid promise and
reckless misgovernment,” and de
clared “a continuation of the pres
ent situation” would mean not
“ ‘Coolidge or chaos,’ but ‘Coolidge |
and then chaos.’ ”
At Urbana he confidently declared
Ohio would be found in the Demo
cratic lists on November 4, and said®
there was every reason for Demo
cratic confidence on that point.
Business conditions were reviewed ]
at some length by the candidate in ;
Indianapolis. He said the Republi- ]
can administration took office three
and one-half a ears ago, “heedless >
and helpless and rudderless,” and
had failed to stabilize business con
ditions or restore a feeling of se
curity. in'this connection Mr. Davis i
compared the last three years of the
Wilson administration with the first!
three years of the Harding-Coolidge ’
administration.
Cites Bank Failures
“Take bank failures,” he said, “in
the >wirs 1921, 1922 and 1923, a tc-’
tai of 1,221, and during the first six'
months of 1924, a total of 428 banks ]
failed, with liabilities more than
double those of the last three years
under Wilson.
“In the commercial failures the
record is equally striking. During
the last three years, under Wilson, i
there were in the entire country
25,314 failures; during the first three
years under Harding and Coolidge '
there were 62,048, with liabilities I
three times the liabilities of those
who failed in the Wilson admin
istration, and in the first six months
of 1924 there have been 19,785 com
mercial failures with liabilities more
than half of the total for the entire
years of 1918, 1919 and 1920.
“In order to divert attention from
these unpleasant facts and to throw
a smoke screen over the pitiable!
record of the last three and one-!
half years, Republican spokesmen, I
headed by President Coolidge, are i
now going into hysterics over the;
menace to the constitution present
ed by the third party They are
trying to persuade themselves and
persuade the country that tbe pro
posal put forward by Senator La
Follette, that congress shall have
the power to override a decision of
the supreme court, is the real is
sue upon which the American people
must pass in this campaign. Some I
people, including myself, have been
openly against that suggestion -
ancient as it is—long before const’-
tutional patriots like President Cool
idge and General Dawes began to
be excited about it.
Purely Smoke Screen
“I opposed it in 1912, when it was ■
put forward by Theodore Roosevelt.:
I do not remember that either Gen-'
era! Dawes or President Coolidge!
had anything to say about it at that
time. But they know, you know,
and the country knows, that the
outcry they are making now is a
smoke screen, pure and simple.” ;
Mr. Davis pointed out the differ
ences as he saw them between the 1
Democratic and Republican parties.
“I know there are those,” he said,
“who seek-to have the country be
lieve that there is no difference be
tween the Democratic and Repub
lican parties or their nominees. I
should like to point out the differ
ence of two hundred million dollars
in the profits that Sinclair and Do
henv hoped for from their oil leases,
which they would never have got
ten under Democratic rule: a dif
ference of nearly thirty millions of
dollars in the condition of the Amer
ican farmer and the value of his
holdings: a difference of $759,000,099
in the proposed ship subsidy: a dif
ference of not less than two billions
of dollars in excessive prices to the
consumer, imposed by a Republican
tariff, and a difference between
wholesale and widespread corruption
and administrative honesty.”
At another point the candidate
took up again his discission of busi-
Business Shows Effects
“Turn where we will.’’ Mr. Davis
said, “to mining, railroads, labor,
banking, the conserving of our nat
ural resources, or to any other
branch of producing and distributing
activitv and durin- the last three
and one-half years where do we see
in the field of business legislation
and reform aught else than a base
and tin wholesome desert broken at
great intervals'by a few cases tha!
Democratic votes were able to
create?
“Can we be surprised that such a
record has given strength to all the
forces of unrest and discontent’'
What could do more than four more
years of rapid promise and recltles
in this country for a spirit of rebe
lion against the const:*;:: n and ■
(Continued on Page 3, Column <)
IF THE ELECTION IS DEADLOCKED
The prediction is frequently made that the choice of a President will go to Congress.
To explain what would happen in that case, The Tri-Weekly Journal presents this summary
of the electoral laws. It may be accepted as an accurate summary of the legal aspects
of the problem, since it has been submitted to eminent authorities on the Constitution,
and pronounced substantially correct.
Tn the first place, what does
a deadlock mean?
The Constitution requires that
the president must have a ma
jority of the electorial college to
be elected. A deadlock is always
possible with three candidates
in the field. Woodrow Wilson
was a minority president in 1912.
He secured a total of 6,900,099
votes, as against a combined 7,-
500,000 for Roosevelt and Taft.
Whv wasn’t the 1912 election
deadlocked?
Taft, however, made so poor
a showing on the basis of States
carried (he captured only Utah
and Vermont) that in the elec
torial college he had but eight
votes. Roosevelt had 88 votes.
AVilson had 430, and in the elec
toral college was an easy win
ner.
It is on the basis of States as
units, then, that the election is
decided?
Yes. Coolidge and Davis might
have a total of 240,009 votes in
Nebraska, as against 130,900 for
La Follette; but if La Follette
had more votes than either Cool
idge or Davis individually, then
all of Nebraska’s eight elector
al votes, and not just a pro
portionate share of them, would
go to the third party in the
electoral college.
What would deadlock the elec
tion now?
There are 531 votes in the elec
toral college. Os these 531, 194
are votes in the solid south and
in the border states which a
Democratic candidate is reason
ably sure of carrying. That
leaves a remainder of 337.
A njajority of the college is
266. Accordingly, this is the sit
ua (ion:
If Davis carries the 194 votes
of the solid south and the bor
der states, then Davis and La
Follette between them need 72
additional votes to block the elec
tion of Coolidge.
La Follette is usually credited,
as a. minimum, with chances of
carrying the five northwestern
states of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Montana and the two Dakotas.
That is a block of 39 votes.
Thirty-three more for either
Davis or La Follette, anywhere
outside of the solid south, would
prevent tlie election of Cool
idge.
Endless combinations can lie
suggested which provide those
33. New York alone, for exam
ple, has 45 votes to deliver.
On the other hand, Davis can
not win his own election in-the
electoral college unless to his 194
he adds 92 more. And if Fol
lette is given 39, then, to win in
the college, Davis must cut the
Coolidge total to 226.
You can guess the answer any
way you like, but it is clear that
with,every state La Follette car
ries, both of his opponents have
an increasingly smaller margin
to play with. La Follette’s
strength is probable not spread
evenly throughout the country,
as Taft's was in 1912, but mass
ed in separate states. That is
whv there is talk about a dead
lock.
If no candidate receives a ma
jority iti the electoral college,
what happens next?
The first step is for the house
of representatives to attempt to
choose a president from among
the three high candidates. But
note these facts:
P'irst, the house does not vote
as it ordinarily does, by individ
uals, but votes by states.
Second, each state counts one
HOUSTON ILMEO
JI FEVER MICE.
1 DEAD. 88 ISOLSTED
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 12.—Fed
ral, state, county and local offi
cials met here today to discuss plans
Cor combatting the spread of yellow
fever in Houston which had alreaay
caused one death and the segrega
tion of 88 persons.
Staggered by the effects of the
hoof and mouth disease which has
held the whole of Harris county un
der strict quarantine for more than
two weeks, citizens awoke today
confronted with the greatest peril
While none of the 88 persons,
most of them Mexicans isolated on
the citx’s quarantine mrm In the
suburbs, have shown any indication
of the fever, health officers have
already warned residents that breed
ing places for mosquitos in th.
citv must be. destroyed at once.
• Pei z, Mexi a■ . ton
to Houston from New Orleans < n
October 1. He arrive! in New Or
leans from Yucatan September 28,
according to papers found in his
clothing. He became .11 shortly aft
er reaching Houston and died in a
tel Wednesday. An aut
The other* roomers in the hot'l
were immediatelj* !s"l..ted and Sat
urday night a cordon of police was
thrown about the building. Cyanide
of potassium fume.-- were us d to
fumigate th e hotxi. All houses i
the block where tke hotel s De: t r .
may be quarantined today, i-_ w.
Drastic quarantine regulatio:
will be put in foro? effective today,
if it s deemed ne essary. it wa~
indicatcd by Mayor Oscar Holcombe
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, October 14, 1924
Votes in Electoral College
Alabama ...12 Nevada . . 3
Arizona 3 N. Hampsh. 4
Arkansas ... 9 N. Jersey .14
California ..13 N. Mexico . 3
Colorado ... (I New York .45
Connecticut 7 N. Carolina 12
Delaware .. 3 N. Dakota . 5
Florida 6 I Ohio 24
Georgia. ...14 I Oklahoma. .10
Idaho .. .- 4 Oregon .. .. 5
Illinois . ..29 Pennsylv’a. .38
Indiana . .15 Island .. 5
lowa 13 S. Carolina . 9
Kansas . ..10 S. Dakota .. 5
Kentucky .13 Tennessee .12
Louisiana ..10 Texas .. ..20
Maine <’ Utah 4
| Maryland .. 8 Vermont . . 4
Massaehu’s -18 Virginia . --J2
Michigan .15 Washington 7
Minnesota .12 \V. Virginia 8
Mississippi .10 Wisconsin -.13
Missouri ...18 Wyoming ... 3
Montana ... 4
Nebraska .. 8 Total .. .531
The constitution requires that
the electors shall meet in then
respective states and vote by bal
lot lor president and vice presi
dent. Certificates are then for
warded to Washington, directed
to the president of the senate. In
the presence of the house and
senate this official opens the cer
tificates and counts the ballots.
A majority is necessary to a
choice, and a majority in the
present electoral college is 266.
vote and only one—New York,
for instance, with its 43 mem
bers, counts no more than Wy
oming with its one.
Third, it is not the new house
that does the voting, but the old
house —that is. the existing
house, even though the election
i may have changed its member
ship substantially.
Who wins when the house
votes?
Once more a majority, and
not a mere plurality, is neces
sary for the election of a presi
dent. How large a fraction of
' the present house La Follette
could control in such a
is debatable. But for the sake
of illustration, grant him his
five states again. There are
48 states in all; 25 are neces
sary for a majority; each state
counts one vote; set La Follette’s
five aside, and all either Davis
or Coolidge has to do to block
the other’s election in the house
is to tally nineteen votes. For
these 19, with La Follette’s five,
would leave the other party only
24. And 24 is one vote shy of
a majority.
Assume this happens. AA hat
follows next?
The house has until March 4
to break its deadlock, if a dead
lock’.should arise. The break
could come either by La Fol
lette surrendering enough of his
state delegations to Coolidge or
to Davis to furnish a majority,
or by enough Coolidge states go
ing over to Davis, or vice versa,
on the theory that a victory
for the other side was better
than confusion.
Suppose, however, that party
lines hold fast. AA hat happens
in that case?
The question goes to the sen
ate.
Does the senate choose a pres
ident?
No; what the senate does is
not to elect a president, but to
elect a vice president from
I among the two highest candi-
j The Weather |
FORECAST FOR Tl ESDAV
I.ojisiana —Fait'y cloudy, prob
! ably rain near coast with fresh to
! strong easterly winds.
I Arkansas. Generally fair, little
change m temperature.
Oklahoma. Generally fair, little
change m temperature.
i East Texas. Generally fair in
1 north, unsettled in south portion
with local rains. Moderate to fresh
| northeast to east winds, on the
coast.
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia. Fair, little
change in temperature.
Florida. Generallv fair.
Extreme Northwest Florida. Ala
bama and Mississippi Gen'-rally
fair.
Tennessee and Kentucky. Fair;
little c-hanae in temperature.
Cardinal Hayes Has
Something to Say On
Bobbed Hair Question
NEW YORK. Oct. 11.--Cardinal
I laves struck jestingly at bobbed
. .dr in an address before the annual
reakfast of the New Y>rk Cycle of
the International Federation cd
“Somebody asked me ‘W'hat is
our opinion of bobbed hair.” ' His
Eminence said. “I replied: ‘I have
no opinion on bobbed hair, so long
a- you don’t ask me to bob mine.’
T don’t want to be quoted on bobbed
hair or an women’s dr-ss because
1 am afraid if I say some ning seme
women may bob their hair all the
more or take off even more clc<hes.
“But look what happened to Sam
son when h p had his locks shorn.”
STOPS FIT ATTACKS
R Lepso. r siding at Apt. 39. . 895
island Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.. haa a
treat-rent .Li has given complete re
lief iror.i attacks of Fits, Epilepsy and
Falling Sickness in hundreds of cses.
R:.-’.' .. ~ the terrible suffering caused by
these •ttP.'k«. Mr. Lepso, out of pure
,-ta de. sa; s he wants to tell every
sufferer how to relieve themsehes of
ment S s»*nd him yr>ur name and
Hddi CaS. € 1 Üb<?lD€llt - j
1 dates. The Twelfth Amendment
to the constitution provides: “A
quorum . . . shall consist of
two-thirds of the whole number
■ of senators, and a majority of
the whole number shall be nec
essary to a choice.”
What happens if a vice presi
dent is elected?
He proceeds to act as presi
dent and the incident is closed.
But it is not difficult to be
lieve that if the deadlock was
carried thus far it might go one
stage farther.
To be sure, the contest is nar
rowed down by this time; one
man is ruled out, and the choice
before the senate is now between
the two highest candidates for
vice president. But suppose
those two highest are Dawes
and Bryan. There are three Re
publican votes (La Follette's,
Frazier's and Ladd’s) which
would almost certainly go to
Bryan; there are two Farmer-
Labor votes (Shipstead’s and
Mangus Johnson’s) which would
go in the same direction. That
would tie the voting, 48 to 48.
Or, to prevent a majority until
party lines broke, these three
Republicans, two Farmer-Labor
men and perhaps several of their
more insurgent colleagues, might
refrain from voting either way.
The constitution requires a ma
jority of the whole membership,
and not merely a quorum, for
an election.
For the sake of illustrating all
* the possibilities which the situa
tion holds, grant that another
deadlock blocked the senate’s ac
tion. What would follow after
that?
It would take a fortune-teller
to feed certain. For the Twelfth
/Amendment, which lays down
all these complicated rulings,
leaves off here and nothing’
takes its place.
It has been suggested that Mr.
Hughes, as secretary of state,
would fall heir to the presidency,
thanks to the presidential suc
| cession act and the provisions
of Article IL,, section 1, of the
constitution. But if that is true,
the same statute also requires
him to call a speeial session of
congress, and in this case it
might be the duty of the incom
ing congress—the statute doesn’t
; specifically affirm it or deny it
to elect a new president and
vice president.
It has also been suggested
that the supreme court might be
asked to pass on both the inter
pretation of the constitution and
the constitutionality of the
statute. But the question raised,
the method of electing a presi
dent might be regarded by the
supreme court as a nonjusti
ciable question over which it
would decline jurisdiction.
Other theories suggest all
manner of emergency methods,
from the appointment of an elec
toral commission, as in the
Hayes-Tilden controversy, to the
theory that the present occu
pant of the White House simply
continues to hold office until his
successor is elected.
Why is the law so vague?
Because it was drawn vaguely
and we have never improved on
it. The plain fact is that the
constitution makes no provision
for the election of a president in
the case of a deadlocked senate
and a deadlocked house. Quite
aside from the year 1924, and as
a matter of good government,
the Twelfth Amendment needs
amending.
CODE IOGE PLFffl
,i IE DULL CiPIISN;
FEARS Lfl FOLLETTE
I ’
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Copyright, li»2f. by the Consolidated Press
Association —Speeial J.eased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
WASINGTON, Oct. 11. —Scarcely
more han three weeks away lies elec
tion day and the country still re
fuses to get excited. Every one
thought. the lethargic campaign 1
would “open up” October 1 and there
; would be a whirl-wind of mad ex
citement. Senator “Bob” La Fol
lete was Eo go galloping forth with
fiery nostrils, stirring up the land to ,
strike down both the old parties and ■
get a new deal all round. It is true ;
the gentleman from Wisconsin has |
provided a large share of whatever
excitement has eventuated, but when
that excitement has been spread over ;
the entire country, the layer has
been powerfully thin.
President Coolidge has found him- '
self with virtually nothing to do but i
to keep on sawing wood. No atack |
has been made upon him directly,
enough to call for a personal replj’
or for a more active participation by ]
him in the campaign. Things are ■
moving along precisely to his liking. :
He didn’t want to be active. He ;
thought his best role was to continue .
to be the president and let others do
the campaigning. Mr. Coolidge real
ly has given less time to politics
than any man whoever ran for '
second term in the White House. It i
was thought the White House would I
be a great clearing house of political I
information, of political generalship, I
of craft and strategy and “such like,” i
but the executive mansion has heen
the “quir.*-sconce of quietude.” The '
president has been going to the ball
game and sailing down the river at
week ends on the Mayflower. No
one would ever imangine that the!
quadrennial political cyclones were
swirling their stormy ways about,
losing for a shining mark to hit.
> CEMo k COPY,
Si A YEAR.
AERIAL LEVIATHAN
ON SOUTH ROUTE
ICBOSS MTIC
Big Ship Scheduled to Arrive
In United States Tuesday
Night or Wednesday
HORTA, Azores Islands, Oct. 13.
(By the Associated Press.) —The giant
d’rigible ZR-3 passed Fayal at 2:35
o’clock this afternoon (local time)
Ou her way to Lakehurst, N. J. She
was flying in a westerly direction,
traveling at a good rate of speed.
Apparently all was well on board
the airship which was clearly out
lined against the sky. The weather
was fine with a northwesterly breeze
blowing.
The approximate air line distance
f om Friedrichshafen to the Azores
islands is 1,900 miles. The elapsed
time of the dirigible’s .flight to Fayal
from Friedrichshafen was thirty-five
hours. On this computation the av
erage speed of the ZR-3 for this
stage of the flight was approximate
ly fifty-four miles an hour.
BERLIN, Oct. 13.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press) —The giant dirigible,
ZR-3, reached the Azores islands at
noon. Greenwich mean time, accord
ing to a wireless msesage received
here.
CRUISER REPORTS GALES
IN PATH OF AIRSHIP
AA r ASHINGTON. Oct. 13.—A mod
erate disturbance in the mid-AtlartJc
was reported today practically in
the nath of ZR-3 by the naval ships
on observation duty in connection
with the transatlantic flight. The
latest forecast, relayed by the
cruiser Milwaukee and giving the
compiled prediction from all sources
for the noon period today, was as
follows: .
“Disturbance south of Greenland
moving northeastward with trough
of low pressure southwest to Ber-
Lowest (barometer) 29.42.
Pressure still high Quebec south to
| Florida; highest 30.34 at Montreal.
I Strong shifting winds above latitude
i 45 but diminishing -elsewhere. Mod
erate to fresh northerly winds west
j of longitude 69 and probably mod
' era/e Southwest winds between lati
j tune 35 and 45 from longitude 69
| eastward.
On the basis of the forecasts of
; ficials here predicted the cruiser
would be assisted rather ttyan hin
<]red by tbe disturbance. They point
ed out that from the Azores the ZB
-3 might expect to have favoring
westward winds if conditions now
prevailing continue, and by main
taining her present indicated speed
would arrive at her destination about
9 o’clock Wednesday morning.
GREAT CRAFT SENT AWAY
WITH TEARS AND “HOCHS”
FRIEDRICSHAFEN, Oct. 12.-?-
The giant dirigible ZR-3. en route
from here to the United States, was
nearing Bordeaux, France, at 11.
o’clock this morning, according to
a radio message received here from
the ship.
Later a mesage was received from
Dr. Eckener, director of the Zeppe
lin works who is making the jour
ney to America, saying the vessel
had passed Bordeaux and was over
the mouth of the Gironde river,
passing out to sea, at 2:24 p. m.
The ship’s machinery was func
tioning in good order and all bn
board were in fine spirits, according
to the message.
The dirigible left Friedrichshafen
at 6:10 o’clock this morning.
At 6:39 Dr. Eckener ordered tbe
vessel from the shed after the crew
made last minute inspections to as
sure everything being in order for
the long journey.
A heavy fog hung over tha laka
as the huge ship slipped quleti.7
from the ground and headed to
wards the west, away from the land
of its creation to be turned over to
the United States as spoils of war.-
A great crowd was on hand to
witness the departure and cries of
“hoch” went up from the throng as
the vessel soared away. Here and
there, among the crowds, were
many who openly wept as the ship
sailed away. These included rela
tives of the ship's crew and gray
haired mechanics who helped con
struct the last Zeppelin to be made
in Germany.
Forty men tugged at the ropes
and drew the mighty monster of
the air from the shed to the field.
Dr. Eckener, from his stand in the
pilot’s cabin, shouted “hoch” and
followed with the command for the
ascension of the dirigible.
The next moment the vessel was
in the air, the engines were started
and the ZR-3 was on its way to its
new home. /
The roar of the motors almost
drowned out the strains of the vil
lage band which kept playing as
the big ship sailed off. While the
vessel still was near the earth the
crew dropped flowers to the specta
tors and women waved tear-stained
handkerchiefs. They continued
waving until the iron-crossed ma
rine flag of Germany, flying from
the stern, could no longer be seen
through the mist and the fog.
“We hope to make the trip safe
ly,” Dr. Eckener said just before
leaving, “and w e also hope that the
bringing of the ZR-3 to America will
result ;n a new era of relations be
tween the United States and Ger
many, and we hope also to show
that German efficiency will lead to
abrogation of the regulations which
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