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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. How Many Pounds Would You Like to Gain in a Week? If you are bin and want to gain weight, weak and want to be strong. 1 wiM send vou a sample of famous Alexander A itamines absolutely Free. No money, jus: name and .-.ddress for sarnnle. Alexander Laboratories. 1231 Gotcv .iv Station. K >ib. ? City. Mo.—(Advert isement.) GW. DIRIGIBLE ZR-3, EN ROUTE TO AMERICA FROM GERMANY, SAILS SWIFTLY OVER AZORES; MODERATE STORM IS REPORTED IN ITS PATH i MVIS. ENCOUMGED SPENDS QUIET OHY ; 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 on Page 4)