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®be iMlanla ®ri4Weefcl» Sounial 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. ' s 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. How Many Pounds Would You Like to Gain in a Week? If you are 'tin and want to gain weight, we:.!; and want to’be strong. I will send you a sample of famous Alexander X itumincs absolutely Free iNo monev. just nut".' and ; "dress for s imple. Alexander Laboratories, I V2XI GtP't.-n- Station. K->r City. 5 Mo. (AdverUsemcn..) I t 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- ■ Tent Ftmply him your name and j address.—'.Advertisement.) 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.