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VOL. XXVII. NO. 3
FRANK BRANDEGEE.
LEfIOER IN SENATE.
COMMITS SUICIDE
High in Administration, He
Bitterly Opposed League
. Entry by U. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Senator
Frank Brandegee, of Connecticut,
prominent for years among the Re
publican leaders of congress, com
mitted suicide at his home here to
day.
Worried and distracted, his friends
said, over financial difficulties, he
went to an unused bathroom on the
third floor of his house and, just be
fore dawn, took bis own life by in
haling gas.
He left in his bedroom below a
note to his chauffeur, telling him
| where the body would be found. He
f was a bachelor and for years had
lived alone.
The note ascribed no motive. A
verdict of suicide was returned by
the coroner after he and the police
had made a qompiete investigation.
Pencilled in an uncertain hand
on senate stationery, the senator's,
last message said:
“October 13, 1924. j
“Dear George: I
“1 inclose SIOO for you and SIOO
for Emma and Rufus.
“1 am up in the bathroom on the
top floor near Seventeenth street, j
The top floor. The floor above the j
one I sleep on.
“If you or Dundy come up there,)
beware of the gas.
“Good-by.
“FRANK B. BRANDEGEE.
Money Pinned to Note
Pinned to the note were two SIOO
bills. Emma and Rufus, referred to
by the senator, are Emma and Ru
fus Kenney, negroes, servants of
Mr. Brandegee. The chauffeur is
George Jones.
The two sentences in the note,
“the top floor. The floor above the
one' I sleep on.” were in red crayon,
as though inserted as an after
thought.
The senator was last seen alive
by Jones and W. D. Lundy, his sec
retary, yesterday morning. At that
time he went for a ride with Jones
about the city. Jones said he seemed
then to be in the best of spirits and
health, remarking time and again
during the ride about how beautiful
a day it was.
He was heard about the house last
night by the servants, but his bed
had been untouched except for the
note lying on it.
Lundy and Jones instituted a
search upon their arrival at the
home soon after 9 o’clock this morn
ing. The note was found when they
went to his bedroom. In his dying
moments, the 60-year-old senator had
crumpled a bathrug beneath his
head for a pillow. The end of a
small rubber tube, attached to an
open gas jet, still was in his hand.
Senator Brandegee had no living
immediate relatives. Mr. Lundy
took charge of the funeral plans, and
announced that the burial probably
would be in New London, Conn., Mr.
Brandegee’s birth place and home.
The residence occupied here by
Senator Brandegee had been owned
by him for some time. It is a rather
spacious dwelling, close to the down
town section, and had been the
scene of many important conferences
among the leaders of the senate.
Although he once was a compara
tively rich man, his* friends said to
day that he had suffered heavy losses
in recent years. He was a lawyer by
profession, but for time has
been heavily interested in real estate.
Senator Brandegee was chairman (
of the senate, judiciary committee and
one of the Republican leaders on the
foreign relations committee. A close
personal and poltical friend of Sena
tor Lodge, the Republican floor
leader, he has been one of the circle
of senators which have had most
to say in the conduct of senate af
fairs since the Republicans regained
a majority in congress.
A native of New London, where
he maintained his home until his
death, Senator Brandegee had risen
, -•» ©rominenct- through a succession
I. minor offices, including the
speakership of the Connecticut house
ot representatives and membership
in the national house of representa
tives. He was sixty years old, and
had been in the senate for almost
twenty years. He never married.
The most conspicuous part played
by Mr. Brandegee in recent years
was in the League of Nations fight.
Taking a position from the start
with the irreconcilable opponest of
the Versailles treaty, he throw the
powerful weight of his forensic abil
ity against the treaty and the league
covenant during the long senate de
bate. and later at the Chicago Re
publican convention in 1920 was one
of those irreconcilables who laid
down before party leaders a. virtua’
threat to leave the ranks of Repub
licanism unless the national plat
form contained a provision which
would uphold the Republican Sena
tors opposed to ratification.
During the last session of congress
the Connecticut senator was not ac
live on the floor. His health had
begun tn show the effects of his
years, but he remained until the last
a trusted conferee of Republican
congressional leaders on all impor
tant questions of policy.
DEATH N ECESSIT AT EjS
A SPECIAL ELECTION
NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Oct. 14.
The death of Senator Frank B.
Brandegee in Washington today will
necessitate the holding of a special
election to fill the vacancy. The
time for filing nominations for the
regular election November 4 expired
today.
REALTY LOSSES CAUSED IT.
SECRETARY WEEKS SAYS
NEW YORK. Oct 14.—Secretary
o r War John W. Weeks issued a
statement today concerning the
death of Senator Brandegee <in
Washington, in which he said; "I
know that the reason for taking this
rash step is due to personal finan
ial troubles resulting from in vest
men’s in real estate.’’
I'he following statement was is
sued hy Secretary Weeks through
the Republican national committee:
“I exceedingly regret to learn that
Senator Frank B. Brandegee has
committed suicide. I have een en
tirely familiar with his persona,
business affairs, and ’ know that
the reason for irking this rash step
due to personal financial troubles
(Continued on Psge S, Column 4'
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
FRANK B. BRANDEGEE,
Republican senator from Con
necticut, found asphyxiated in
his apartment at Washington
under conditions in lira ting sui
cide.
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WOMAN NOMINATED
By DEMOCRATS FOR
WYOMING GOVERNOR
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 15.—(8y
i the Associated Press.) —Wyoming,
always regarded as a typical western
state, today was slowly recovering
from the shock of witnessing the
nomination for governor of a wom
an, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, widow
of Gov. William B. Ross, by the Dem
ocratic state convention here yes
terday.
Perhaps the state electorate is
even less surprised than the recipient
of the honor herself, who late last
night had not recovered sufficiently
from her surprise to enunciate any
political policies or plans other than
an often repeated desire to “carry
on" as her husband had and to an
nounce definitely that she would not
make an active campaign.
Paradoxical as Mrs. Ross’ nomina
tion may have seemed to a typical
frontier commonwealth, a glance
into Wyoming history makes it ap
pear a logical sequence of events; for
the territory of Wyoming in 1869 was
the first -territory or state in the
union to extend the privilege of the
ballot to women. Despite this fact,
however, Mrs. Ross is first woman
ever to be nominated for such high
office in the state.
The Democratic nominee has ex
pressed a desire that sentiment sur
rounding her recent bereavement not
be allowed to enter into the cam
paign. She declared herself willing
to have the campaign fought out
with her Republican opponent, Eu
gene J. Sullivan, of Basin, Wyo.,
along party lines and on party mer
its only.
Although Wyoming is normally a
Republican state, only twice electing
to the governorship candidates of the
Democratic party, Democratic lead
e-s today regarded as more than a
remote possibility a split within Re
| publican tanks as a result of Mr.
j Sullivan’s pronouncement against
the state primary law in his speech
of acceptance yesterday after the Re
publican state convention had nomi
nated him.
Men prominent in Democratic and
Republican ranks today were dis
cussing the possibility that the work
of the conventions yesterday may
have been in vain. They point out
that the Wyoming statutes do not
provide for election machinery to
nominate candidates for office in an
emergency like the present one, due
to the death recently of Governor
Ross, and fear that an appeal to the
state supreme court by a dissatisfied
elector might result in nullifying the
ballots containing the names of the
newly chosen candidates.
Boy Kills His Father.
To Save His Mother;
Gives Up to Police
KNONX ILI.E. Tenn., Oct. 15.
William 11. Hood, forty-eight, cross
ing- watchman for the Southern rail
way, was shot and killed here last
night by his son. FJnier Hood, nine
teen, at 1 heir home. The younger
Hood telephoned police head
quarters and surrendered himself,
alter stating he acted in defense of
his mother, who, he said, had been
attacked by her husband.
The youth told headquarters offi
cials tha this father had repeatedly
abused his mother, and that last
night he threatened to kill her and
then began striking her. He said
he got his shotgun and when his
father did not stop at his warning,
fired on him. One load of shot en
tered the elder man's abdomen, and
he sank to the floor, expiring a few
minutes later.
Mrs. Hood's face was badly bruised
when policemen reached the home,
and she corroborated the story told
:by her sott. saying she had been
I knocked down by her husband and
■ was being roughly handled when he-
I son came to her rescue.
Hood has been in the service of
'the Southern for twenty five yea s.
! Elmer Hood is a call boy for the
i s.ane comp in j
Beggar With Poisoned Arm
CHICAGO.—Two days after he
was arrested for begging, the arm
of Benjamin I.o's-ch was amputated
because m blood ; oisoning.
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CLEMSON CADETS
GO OUT ON STRIKE;
CLASSES SUSPENDED
CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. €’., Oct.
15. —Classroom work til Clemson col
lege,# the state's agricultural and me
chanical college, has been suspended
pending a settlement of the situation
that arose yesterday when nearly
half the student bedy of .1,000 mem
bers quit the campus in protest
against the suspension of a student
and as a mark of dissatisfaction
with the mess hall fare.
Possibility of the entire student
body' leaving was seen following a
meeting- today of the cadets who re
mained at which resolutions were
adopted appointing a committee to
confer with college officials and to
present the students’ demands, one of
which was understood to provide for
the reinstatement of all those who
left the school grounds.
Acting President S. B. Earle an
nounced that he would meet the com
mittee as soon as he received a re
quest from it.
The cadet whose punishment pre
cipitated the -walkout, was R. F.
(Dutch) Holohan, president of the
senior class and member of the ’var
sity eleven, who was suspended fol
lowing an inv ngaottiofise%%di%%
lowing an investigation of charges
that he had been drinking.
More than 500 cadets out of the
student body of between 1,000 and
1,100 walked out following the pre
sentation of a petition to Mr. Earle,
in which four demands were made.
None of the varsity or freshmen
football players participated in the
walkout.
In a statement given out last
night, Mr. Earle said he had told the
cadets he would look into the matter
tof the food served, but had refused
ito dismiss the mess officer, and de
clined to engage or hire a niaron
until a suitable person could be
found for the place. As to Holohan,
the president said, the cadets were
informed that the suspended student
had been advised of the proper
method of appealing from the find
ing of the discipline committee.
I STRIKERS’ RANKS WILL BE
AUGMENTED, STI DENTS SAY
ANDERSON, S. C.. Oct. 15.—Strik
ing students of Clemson college,
who came here yesterday when
more than 500 members of the stu
dent- body quit the campus after
making certain demands on the col
lege authorities, today indicated
they would not return until arrange
ments satisfactory to them had been
made. Local Clemson alumni held
a meeting last night and endeavored
to persuade the absentees to go back
Ito the cpllege. Some of the stu
dents here predicted that the 650
cadets who did not leave yesterday
would join in the walkout.
CLEMSON STI DENTS ON
STRIKE TWICE BEFORE
CLEMSON, S. C., Oct. 15.—Twice
[before the walkout reported today
i from Clemson college, the students
lof the state’s agricultural and me
chanical collegfe have participated in
major “strikes,” according to W. D.
Barnett, of Columbia, a trustee of
I the institution.
| In 1908, about. 400 of the 700 cadets
i enrolled took part in an “April fool”
prank in the shape, of a desertion
from the campus and a trip to the
neighboring town of Pendleton. The
participants were suspended for the
remainder of the year, and many' of
them never returned to the college,
although some of them did go back
the following year and finished their
coursek. it was stated.
Four years ago. the freshmen and
sophomore classes left the institution
and the junior and senior classes
were threatening to join them when
the juniors and seniors were granted
leaves of absence pending an ad
justment of the trouble. An investi
gation hy the trustees brought from
the students varying expressions as
to the reasons for the walkout, ac
cording to Mr. Barnett, one of them
being “lack of confidence” in the
then president, Dr. XV. M. Riggs.
Dr. Riggs preferred charges
against himself in accordance with
the complaints made by' the students,
and was on trial for three days be
fore the trustees. ’'The students were
finally permitted to return upon sign
ing a statement, to the effect that
they had not intended to be insub
ordinate by' their conduct.
Shaver Defies G. 0. P.
To Prove His ‘Expose’
On Coolidge Incorrect
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Chair
man Clem L. Shaver, of the Demo
cratic national committee, offers
$4,000 reward for “evidence of any
untrue assertion or suppression ot
any evidence.” in the committee's
I yecent statement, “alleging that Gov
ernor Calvin Coolidge evaded re
sponsibility and utterly’ failed to
deal with the crisis and riots inci
dent to the Boston police strike.”
This announcement, issued from the
comtwHiee's headquarters here, as
| sorted that Mr. Shaver said he
stands “behind every statement
contained in our expose.”
The announcement referred to a
statement issued through Repub
lican national committee headquar
ter-- by Henry Wyman, of Boston,
Mass., attorney general at the time
of the Boston police strike, combat
ing the Democratic committee state
ment of the case. The Wyman state
ments are "untrue.” Mr. Shaver de
clared.
"I will pay a reward of SI,OOO to
Mr. Wyman or anybody else, who
will produce evidence to sustain
| them.” Mr. Sira vet said referring
| to “charges" by the former Mass t
i chusetts attorney general that the
j Democratic “expose” was inaccurate
l and misleading.
Dead Nominee’s Wife
Candidate for Office
STATESBORO. Ga.. Oct. 15. A
; Democratic primary will be held
J next Monday’ to elect a candidate
i tor tax receiver of Bulloch countv
! to run in the general election No
• \ ember 4.
Mr. XX. Bruce Donaldson was
elected to fill this position at the
regular election. His death last week
makes the second election neces
sary.
Friends of Mr. Donaldson ano
his family ar.- pushing the candi
dacy of Mrs. Donaldson to fill her
husband's place. Mrs. Donaldson is
. msidgred capable of filling the
place. “having hti much experience
in clerical work.
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES.—James Cruze,
director and Betty Compson, actress,
and Kenneth Harlan and Marie Pre
vost,'screen stars, were married.
KANSAS CITI', Mo. —Senator Rob
ert La Follette, in his first, speech
west of the Mississippi, outlines pro
gram for faun relief.
M ADRI D. — Lieutenant General
Luis Aizpura, who resigned as min
ister of war to become Spanish high
commissioner to Morocco, resigned.
WASHINGTON. —Outbreak of foot
and mouth disease in Texas is con
sidered under control, federal depart
ment of agriculture announcement
says.
NEW YORK. —Oversubscription of
United States’ share of $110,000,009
of $200,000,000 German loan exceed
ed half billion dollars, official an
nouncement says.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Wyoming
Democrats in special convention
nominate Mrs. Nellie G. Ross candi
date for governor to succeed her late
husband, William Ross.
LONDON.—EarIy developments of
British parliamentary election cam
paign indicate real issue of campaign
will be Anglo-Russian treaty, spon
sored by labor government.
DETROIT. —After day as guest of
Ford family arql following dinner
dance at home of Edsel B. Ford,
Prince of Wales leaves for Toronto
by special train.
LONDON.—Liberals and unionists
seeking to avoid three-cornered con
tests in coming British parliamentary
elections are agreeing on withdrawal
of third candidates in many districts.
INDIANAPOLIS. Secretary
Hughes in campaign speech says
American sentiment will “not toler
ate” submission of “domestic issues
to determination of any group of for
eign powers.’’
SAN FRANCISCO. Continued
unfavorable weather along Pacific
coast results in further postpone
ment for at least 25 hours departure
of Shenandoah for Camp Lewis,
Washington.
ATLANTA. Governor Clifford
Walker, of Georgia, admits he was
“the governor of a great state,” who,
according to press dispatches, ad
di essed imperial klonvocation of Ku
Klux Klan at Kansas City, Septem
ber 23.
TACOMA, Wash. lndictment
against Robert Rosenbluth, charg
ing him with murder of Major
Cronkhite, at Camp Lewis, Wash.,
in 1918, is dismissed by' Federal
Judge E. E. Cushman.
WASHINGTON. —FederaI govern
ment will defend Walter L. Cohen,
negro comptroller of customs at New
Orleans, whose appointment to that
office was contested in a suit filed in
New Orleans.
"WASHINGTON. —Charles E. Lob
dell, fiscal agent for farm loan board
and federal intermediate credit
banks, concluded sale and delivery
of $11,000,000 of new issue of credit
bank debentures.
BALTIMORE.’—Wifiiam G. Mc-
Adoo, former secretary of the treas
ury. a patient at Johns Hopkins hos
pital, will have to remain there an
other week and should not partici
pate in campaign for some time after
his release, surgeons say.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney is completely
exonerated from all charges brought
by Evans Burrows Montaine, pro
fessional dancer, in million-dollar
breach of promise suit by jury in
United States district court.
ST. LOUIS. —Senator La Follette,
discussing foreign relations in cam
paign speech at St. Louis, declares
same forces that controlled Amer
ica’s foreign policy during Wilson
administration, now dictate policies
of Secretary Hughes.
WASHINGTON. White House
and war department officials
not neen advised of the withdrawal
b.v Henry Lord of his bid for a
lease of Muscle Shoals, which he in
dicated in an interview in Collier's
Weekly is being made.
NEW YORK.—Mayor Hylan. of
New York, in letter to President
Coolidge, asks an official statement
as to safeguards provided for Ameri
can investor.-, in $110,000,0011 loan to
German and hints at possibility of
collection by force.
Alpharetta Girl
Burned in Explosion
Dies in Hospital Here
Miss Beatrice Teasley, twenty-two
year-old daughter of Mr. and Airs.
Dodge Teasley’, of Alpharetta, Ga..
died at the Davis-Fischer saniatrium
Wednesday morning of burns re
ceived Tuesday afternoon when ker
osene which she was using to start a
fire exploded in her home.
Funeral services for the young
woman will be held Thursday from
the Alpharetta Methodist church,
where she served as a Sunday school
teacher, the Rev. Jesse Warwick,
her pastor, officiating.
Miss Teasley's father, who was in
the home when the explosion oc
curred. suffered painful burns about
the hands and face when he attempt
ed to extinguish the flames that
quickly enveloped her, but will re
cover. Miss Teasley was rushed to
the Atlanta hospital, bur efforts to
save her life were unavailaing.
Miss Teasley was one of the most
popukir young women in Alpharetta
and her family’ is well known in At
lanta and throughout this section.
She is survived by her father and
mother, and three sisters. Mrs. \v. G.
Murrah, of Atlanta, and Miss Fan
nie nnd Miss Mozelle Teasley, of Al
pharetta.
The Weather
Forecast for Thursday
Virginia: Fait; little change in
temperature.
North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia: Fair: little change in tem
perature.
Florida: Generally fair. except
showers in extreme south portion.;
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama. Mississippi: Fair; little
change in temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair;
little change in temperature.
Louisiana. Arkansas and Oklaho
ma: Fair; little change in tcnipeta
tur®.
East Texas: Generally fair.
IIMM>GOR,
STATE PENSION HD.
DIES IN WARRENTON
WARRENTON, Ga., Oct. 15.
Major C. E. McGregor, pension com
• missioner of Georgia, died at his
i home here at 5 o'clock this morning.
The funeral will be conducted
from the home by Rev. W. S. Nor
ton, pastor of Warrenton Methodist
Episcopal church, Thursday after
noon at 3 o’clock, burial to follow
hi the family'- plot in Sallie Hill cem
etery'- here. He leaves one son, L.
D. McGregor, an attorney here;
three daughters, Mrs. D. Cf. Stowe,
of Gainesville, and Misses Josie
Gene and Jessie Lou McGregor, of
j Warrenton.
Major McGregor was taken seri
i ously ill several weeks ago, and due
i to his advanced age, little hope was
l held for his recovery. He was a
I Confederate veteran and well known
[ throughout the state. He was re
cently' defeated for re-election as
pension commissioner by Colonel
John W. Glark, of Augusta.
Major McGregor was eighty-four
years old. »
Major McGregor was born in War
ren county, and has always lived
there, lie was a mere youth when the
War Between the States broke out,
but enlisted in the Eighth Georgia
regiment, and soon rose to the rank
or lieutenant. He took part in many
battles, and for his efficiency and
valor was promoted until he "Attained
the rank of major. His comn ission
gs a colonel reached him on the dav
before General Lee’s surrender at
Appomatox, but as he did not serve,
in that capacity, he retained the title
of major through life.
After the war, Major McGregor re
turned to Warren county, and joined
with thousands of other Georgians
in.an effort to rebuild his farm and
jehabilitate the south. He always
manifested great interest in polities,
and had served as representative ot
his county on several occasions, and
as n member of the state senata
from his district. In 1922 he was
elected state pension commissioner
over Colonel John W. Clark, of An
i gusta, by a large majority, but in
! the recent Democratic primary Coi
' onel Clark defeated him.
Major McGregor was always a
I close personal friend and devoted po
litical follower of the Hate Senator
I Thomas E. Watson. Senator W-.tson
i defended him in one of the most
I notable trials in tne annals of the
I state, when Major McGregor was ac
j quitted of the charge of slaying a
fellow townsman.
Major McGregor was regarded as
a leader of the Watson following
after the death of Senator Watson,
and paid the former senator a nota
ble tribute at the Democratic state
convention held in Macon in 1922. He
also created much interest, in politic ll
circles by starting a legal fight Hi
secure his office as pension commis
sioner in January 1, 1923, instead of
vailing until June 1, as had been
the custom. In this case the decision
went against him.
Rigid Paralysis Partly
Relieved by Operation,
Is Claim of Surgeons
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—An operation
which may offer a partial cure for
rigid paralysis was performed here
Tuesday by Dr. .1. G. Hunter, pro
fessor of anatomy, and Dr. N. D.
Royle, orthopedic surgeon. Both
men are attached to the University
of Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Hunter, who is 27 years old,
is reputed to be the discoverer of the
method whereby the operation is per
formed, in which he was assisted by
Dr. Royle.
It was explained that the operation
j is only effective in cases of rigid pa
! ralysis where the patient suffers a
twisted or deformed limb, which he
iis unable to control. The surgeons
sever from the spinal branch thW
nerves that cause the rigidity of the
muscles. The limb is then loosened
and can be controlled only by actual
thought. No reflex action remains
and the limb must be educated to
function as does a baby’s hand.
In no case, it was pointed out, can
; the new treatment be attempted
upon patients whose mentality has
i been destroyed, since only by mental
i control over the effective member
; can it be educated back to useful-
■ ness. Both surgeons emphasized
i that they do not remove the cause
;of parfl l \ sis
3 New Orleans Policemen
Dismissed on Bribe Charge
NEW ORLEANS. Oct 15.
' Adrian E. Kavanaugh. Theodore
i Peters and Joseph Maes New Or
leans policemen, who faced trial
■Tuesday before Superintendent of
Police Guy .Xlolony on charges grow
ing out of a story told the superin
tendent several days ago by X’incent
■ N--- olitano. alleged wine-meke-,
' that he had given them SSOO for
‘protection” of his place. were
I found guilty and dismissed from the
’ force.
Similar charges are pending
'against the officers on complaints
of two others, who alleged they paid
the policemen ' protection” money.
A special grand jury, which was
called last week, also is inveStigat
intr the ' barges against Kavanaugh,
peters and Maes, and two other
patrolmen, who have been similarly
I eharged.
Mexican Police Chief
Murdered by Assassins
DEL RIO. Texas. Oct. 15.—Jose R.
Estrada, chief of police of Monte
rev. Nuevo Leon. Mexico, was
sassinated late Monday night, of
ficers here were notified today.
Reque Leal Garza, former army of
ficer and chief of | oliee security in
th® state of Nuevo Leon, and two
others whose names were not given,
are being sought in connection with
the slaving, according to the mes
sage. They are thought to have
fled to the border. _
STOPS FIT ATTACKS
R Lepso, residing at Apt. 39. 895
Wis., has a
treatment which has given complete re- 1
lief from attacks of Fits. Epilepsy and
Falling Sickness in hundreds of cases.
Realizing the terrible suffering caused by
these attacks. Mr. Lepso, out of pure ,
g.r.titudc. says tie wants to tel, every
sufferer how to '- lie'e themselves of
th» ; r torture, bv this simple ’.tome treat- ■
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Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, October*l6, 1924
ZR-3 Reaches America
After Flight Over Ocean
SNIOER. ms ■
GIVEN LIFE TERMS
FDD KILLING GIRL
I
WARRENTON, Ga., Oct. 15—Aft-
I er deliberating 16 hours, the jury in
■ the case of Eugene Snyder and
Charlie Hattaway, charged with the
; murder of Hattie Wimberly, of Au
| gusta, returned a verdict of guilty
(with recommendation to mercy at
11:10 o'clock this morning. The ver
dict automatically prescribes life im
prisonment.
It is understood that the defense
will appeal the case.
Early Wednesday morning Judge
E. T. Shurley recharged the jury at
its request and after deliberating a
few hours a verdict was reached.
Both defendants claimed the kill
ing of Hattie Wimberly was an ac
cident, Snider admitting to the ac
tual homicide. He said that his re
volver was discharged accidentally,
and that he, with the assistance of
Hattaway, then carried the body in
a car to a point about 20 miles from
the scene of the killing and threw
it into the Ogeechee river.
Hattaway claimed that tho killing
took place while his back was turned,
but that he heard Snider say imme
diately after the shot that it was nh
accident.
The state contended that the mo
tive for the killing was to remove a
damaging witness in event the de
fendants were ever prosecuted for al
leged illicit traffic in liquor.
Nine witnesses Were introduced
for the state. They testified tliat
Snider and the girl had had an al
tercation in Green county, prior to
the woman’s death, in which she
was badlj’ beaten, and that she later
■ swore out a warrant for Snider at
Greensboro
Other witnesses testified that on
the Sunday before the killing Snider
and Hattaway had remarked in
their presence that unless the girl
refrained from talking that they
would put her in the river. The
state then introduced expert testi
mony that the pistol used in the
killing could not be fired by having
the hammer struck, which caused
the defendant to change his pre
viously published statement as to
how the accident occurred.
The state closed, and the defense
put Hattaway on the stand to make
his statement, in which he exon
erated himself and explained that
I Snider had accidentally killed the
I woman while he had his back turn
j ed, but that he heard Snider say
[ immediately after the shot was fired
j that it was an accident.
i Snider then took the stand and
1 tearfully related the relations that
had existed between him and the
woman. He told how he had taken
her to the home of Blum Thomp
son at sunrise the morning she was
killed. After arriving there he
went to take his pistol from the
ear and in .some unknown way it
had fired and killed her, he said. He
stoutly maintained his ■ innocence,
slating it was an accident and could
not have been avoided and that he
should not be held to account.
La Follette to Confer
With Senator Brookhart
En Route to Des Moines
LA FOLLETTE SPECIAL, EN
ROUTE TO DES MOINES, lowa,
Det. 15. —(By the Associated Press.)
Senator Robert M. La Follette, inde
pendent candidate for president,
afuy- two campaign s|>eeche.s in Mis
souri. was on his way today to Des
I Moines, lowa, where, with an ad-
I dress tonight, he will continue has
j efforts to win votes in this agricul
i tural region.
From the lowa capital he will go
to Minneapolis where he is sched
uled to speak Thursday night, and
then will invade South Dakota for
I a speech Friday night in Sioux
Falls.
As Mr. La Follette speeded toward
Des Moines from St. Loqis, where
; Tuesday night he criticized the for
eign policies of Woodrow Wilson and
I of the Harding-Coolidge administra-
I tion, it was announced he was ex
i pected to have Senator Smith
Brookhart, of lowa, aboa.rd his spe- (
[ cial ear today for an hour of two.
’ Arrangements has been made, it
was said, for Senator Brookhart,
who is running for re-election as a
Republican, to board the train at
Moulton. lowa, and ride with the
La Follette as far as Albia.
While the • lowa senator has as
sailed both President Coolidge and
his running mate. Charles G. Dawes,
he has not publicly indorsed Mr. La-
Follette’s ctndidaey.
Secretary Wallace Goes
Upon Operating Table
WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.—S®cre- I
tary XX'allace underwent an opera- I
lion here today for removal of his '
appendix and treatment of his gall ’
bladder.
The operati n was performed at
the naval hospital, and Commander '
Joe] 'I. Boone, one of President ■
("oolidge's physicians, who was pres
ent, said Mr. Wallace would be con
fined to his bed for about ten days
or two weeks.
Mr. XVallace entered the hospital
last night. He has been ill for sev
eral weeks, suffering front sciatica
which physicians decided resulted
from infections of the bladder and
appendix. tj-
FREM 11 WHEAT ( ROP
PARIS, Oct. 15. —The French I
Wheat crop, according to the semi
official Temps, will be estimated at
76,840,000 quintals <a quintal equals
220.46 pounds in the metric system)
by the ministry of agriculture, i
which will publish the approximate I
< -op figures shortly. Th® ry® crop,
it is said, wiil be giv as 10.12<.000 [
quintals.
Killer Eludes Posse,
Flees to Swamps
After Desperate Fight
HATTIESBURG, Miss., Sept. 14.
I Somewhere in the dense Leaf river
i swamps in Perry county, six miles i
| from Benmore, is hiding John Dix-.j
: on, alias George Mackie, Summit,
Miss., woman killer and double mur-
■
deter, who again has eluded a sher
iff’s brigade and a posse of volun
teer officers.
Dixon’s last break was made early
1 last evening, but his escape was ■
the most narrow of any of the
many in which’ he has been the
principal figure since he worked his ■
way from Pike county to hide him-)
self in the Perry swamps.
Bloodhounds rushed to Benmore I
followed the tracks left by The re-;
treating Dixon as his automatic an-1
sweied back, shot for shot, the bul
; lets fired at him by men bent on
his capture, only to come, to a dead
halt and refuse to go farther on
the trail.
Dixon is wanted for killing Mrs.
Will Bolian, upon wliose farm he
was employed, and Will Tarver, 18
years old, last August. Dixon, said I
to have been rum crazed, endeavor
ed to induce 14-year-old Fannie
Bolian to elope with him. Her
mother interfered. Dixon obtained a
shotgun arid fired tit the mother.
Tarver and another young man
working nearby rushed to protect
the woman-. The farm hand opened
fire on 'the pair, and then discharg
ed the remaining shot at the girl.
Mrs. Bolian was killed outright, Tar
ver died a short time afterward,
, white. Fannie Bolian wat4 so serious
' ly wounded it is unlikely she ever
| will again be. able to walk. The
■ other young man was only slightly
I wounded.
■ ■ ;
WALKER CONFIRMS
REPORTED ADORESS
IT KUN MEETING
“The governor of a-great state,”
named in press dispatches as ad
dressing the imperial klonvocation
of the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City
on September 23, was Governor Clif
ford Walker, of Georgia, it became
definitely known Tuesday., when
Governor Walker stated to newspa
permen that he attended the klon
vocation. J. J. Brown, commission
er of agriculture, and Peter S.
Twitty, state game and fish com
missioner, also admitted attending
the national klan meeting.
“Acting in my private capacity as
a citizen I simply told the klan some
things that I thought the klan
should be told,” said Governor
Walker Tuesday.
“I made a. speech of which I am
proud. 11l make that same speech,
if I’m requested to do so, before
any- Protestant organization and I’ll
make that same speech before any
Catholic organization.
“I held, as I have always held,
that religious freedom is one of the
first blessings of the constitution,
but that I must commend the Prot
estants of the nation for banding
together to vote in case the Catholics
of the nation have done the same
thing—which you know, and I know,'
and everybody else knbws, they al-1
I ways have done and probably al
ways will do.
“Furthermore, I told the klansmen
something about my attitude toward
law an.d order. I can never coun
tenance any interference with the
! constituted authorities and I told the!
klansmen so. And I also told them |
that dining the past two years, in
Georgia, since Nathan Bedford For
rest has been at the head of klan
affairs., we have had less mob vio
lence in Georgia than ever before
in the history of the. state and
statistics will prove it.”
“I went to the klonvocation at
Kansas City and I intend to go to
the next one, wherever it is held,”
Commissioner Twitty stated Tues
day.
Commissioner Brown declared that I
he attended the meeting in his in-1
dividual capacity, «es a private c?.,-1
■ zen of Georgia, and had a fine time.!
Midnight Hotel Fire
Routs Hundred Guests
At San Antonio, Tex.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 15.—J
After burnihg three-quarters of an i
hour, flames threatening the Men- |
gers hotel here at midnight were con- j
trolled after sweeping the entire I
fourth story of the hotel's annex, I
a block in length.
A check through all rooms of the!
hotel at 1:30 o'clock this morning
disclosed that all guests had escaped,
according to Fire Chief .1. G. Sarran.
The fire, starting in the kitchen
at the rear, leaped to the fourtn
story of the stone building and
spread quickly. Almost immediately I
the hotel’s lighting plant went out I
of commission and guests wer® |
forced to grope their way out in the
darkness.
All fire apparatus in the city was j
called out and two firemen, A. J.
Ashburck and W. R. Boyd, were in
jured severely when the steamer on
which they were riding to the fire
struck a street car.
Estimates place the damage at,
$200,000. Apparently the older- por-I
tion of the hotel, which has been in I
use since the sixties, was not dam- ■
agpd se.-iously. Third, second ana j
the first stories, the latter contain
inz valuable paintings, were darn-i
age 1 by water.
VETERAN PASTOR TO WED
CLEVELAND, 0.. Oct. 15. Re
ports of the coming marriage of
the Rev. Andrew B. Meldrum, who
on October 5 completed twenty-two
years' service as pastor of Old Stone
Presbyterian clrurch here, and Mrs.
Anna. Newcomb Wanamaker, ver® |
verified b.v Barclay Meldrum. son of
th® retired pastor last night. The [
wedding will take place in Goshen,
Ind., October 20. j
*
a CEN AS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
WORLD RECORD SEI
BIWICrSNEW
JERIJL POSSESSION
-J .
Bag Buffeted Severely on
Latter Part of Flight,
Crew Reports
AIRDROME,' Lakehurst, N. J.,
Oct. 15. —(By the Associated Press.)—
The giant Zeppelin ZR-3 reposed in
her berth at the naval air st/ition
airdrome, Lakehurst, at 10:45 la., m
today. '■
Immediately that she was snubbed
fast, her navigating officers and
crewy disembarked. Officers climbed
into her hull and cabin with me
chanics to begin an inspection of the
gas bag's duraluminum structure and
motors.
Dr. Hugo Eckner, commander of
the airship and president of the Zep
pelin company, Jubilantly declared as
his feet touched the concrete floor ot
the airdrome:
“Gentlemen, a new world’s record
—5,006 miles of continuous flight.”
“The first part of our voyage was
fine,” Dr. Eckner continued, “Th<?
last part was full of heavy weather.
From 5 a. m. Tuesday to 5 e. m. to
day, we battle against the wind
with a velocity of 55 to 60 miles pel'
hour.
Great Speed Over Coast
“We changed our course from the
direct line we were pursuing from’
the Azores to Lakehurst, because we
found ourselves heading into a south
west wind which was rising and a .
small low pressure area.
“Monday evening we were making
45 miles aq hour. We headed to-,
ward Nova Scotia into a southeast
wind, then came at great speed
along the coast southward, passing
batwesn the scout cruisers Milwau
kee and Detroit, 6ut seeing neither.
“A favoring wind pushed us to*
ward Lakehurst, past Boston and on
to New York at a rate of 90 miles
an hour. So, gentlemen, we
here.”
The cabin of ZR-3 came lightly to
rest, upon the earth at 9:55 a. m.
She completed her journey from
Friedrichshafen in 81 hours, 25 min
utes.
She made a beautiful landing. Ap
pearing over the northern edge of
this naval air station at 9:16 a. m.,
she drove straight over the airdrome
to the far edge of the field, where
she headed around and skirted thit
station for a. quarter of its circumfer
ence, before nosing downward into
the breeze and coming to a stop be<
fore the airdrome.
She looked like a silver-gilded ball
on a Christmas tree as she settled
downward. She same so slowly that
she looked like an inanimate object,
suspended by some invisible force.
Makes Easy Landing
Thirty-four minutes after she wai
sighted, her motors stopped.' For a
moment she drifted easily, bobbing
up and down like a small boat in a
. roiling swell. ,
Straight past the red-and white
signal on th® ground which indicated
her chosen landing place, she glided
It appeared that she intended -CT
sail into the airdrome, but the pilot
of the ZR-3 contemplated no siich
spectacular exhibition. When within
200 yards of the lowering ’drome a
trap door flopped open from the hot.
tom of the. main cabin and out drop*
ped a bundle of rope as large as a
. barrel.
Another trap door opened and an.
■other coil of rope thudded below.
Signal horns and bells tooted arid
clanged somewhere out of sight in
the giant craft overhead. Whistles
shrilled below. Sailors and marines
hooked their spiderweb rope har
nesses into the. trailing towline of
the dirigible and almost without ef<
1 fort drew her gently down.
Cheers Are Silenced
A mighty shout werft up from
thousands as the air vessel camq
down.
“Please don't make so much
noise,” shouted Commander J. H,
Klein, Jr., commander of the Lake
hurst station and passenger on tha
ZR-3, as he leaned from a forward
cabin port. The din of welcome wa.t
silenced instantly, and a clears sharp
oredr of the navigators to the
grounding crew rang out distinctly.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, smiling hut
stern-Voiced, was recognized by a
little group of German citizens who
ciowded the state police and sailor
guards to shout their congratula
tions. Major F. M. Kennedy, in the
uniform of the United States army;
stood at another porthole, smiling a,
he bowed happily to the crowd.
At least six persons not on the
payroll of the naval air station at
Lakehurst were jubilant when wor<|
was flashed around after last mid»
night that the air cruiser was head*
ed homeward again. They were the
wives of Captain George W. Steele,
Commander J. H. Klein, Jr., and
Major F. -*<T. Kennedy and the tw7
sisters of Lieut. Commander S. M,
Krauss and the little daughter so»
whom Kennedy brotighg
from Germany a walking doll at*
most as big as herself.
The wives of Captain Steele, Com*
mander Klein and Major Kennedy
and Lieutenant Commander Krauss*
two sisters, were here to greet th»
officers.
“Papa, where’? my dolly?” shilled
Major Kennedy s eight year old
da.’.'ght.