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VOL. XXVII. NO. 4
51.714.317 RAISED
FOBG. D. P. USE IN
CORRALLING VOTES
Senate Committee Delves
Into ‘‘Slush Fund”
Charge of La Follette
CHICAGO, Oct. 16. — The Repub
lican national campaign organization
had received gross contributions of
$1,714,317 up to October 10, last, W.
V. Hodges, treasurer of the Repub
lican national committee .testified to
day before the special senate inves
tigating committee.
The net contributions totalled sl,-
342,959, the remainder having been
contributed for the congressional and
senatorial and in some instances
state campaigns, Mr. Hodges testi
— tied.
V The total contributions to the La
campaign up to the
same date was $i.90,535, and expendi
tures were $155,062, John M. Nelson,
national manager of the independent
presidential campaign, told the com
mittee.
Lincoln Dixon, manager of western
Democratic headquarters, said his
division had received and expended
$32,500, exclusive of rentals paid by
the national committee. Mr. Dixon
said all of the $32,500, except $5,000,
contributed by George E. Brennan,
Illinois Democratic leader, had come
from the Democratic national com
mittee.
Mr. Hodges told the committee
that the $1,714,317 gross total re
ceived by the Republican organiza
tion had come from 16,902 contrib
utors, the largest sum received from
any single contributor being $25,000.
Summary of Contributions
“Those contributing from $1 to
$99 numbered 14,962,” he said; “those
giving from SIOO to SSOO numbered
1,446; those giving from $5Ol to sl,-
000 numbered 287; those giving
from SI,OOO to $2,500 totaled 105;
those giving from $2,500 to $5,000
numbered 78; those giving from $5,-
000 to SIO,OOO numbered 14 and those
contributing over SIO,OOO numbered
twelve.”
Mr. Hodges listed expenditures as
follows:
Publicity $437,000 Including
“newspaper service,” the amount of
■which was not listed; speakers' bu
reaus, $105,000; colored bureau, $31,-
860; research bureau, $3,000; wom
ens bureau, $19,889; labor bureau,
$46,425; college bureaus, $26,760;
club bureaus, $2,671; foreign bu
reaus $12,799; Vermont to Califor
nia Caravan, $31,413; administrative
expenses, Republican national head
quarters, $213,908; senatorial cam
paign committee, $57,000; congres
sional campaign committee, $80,o00;
Washington headquarters,
petty cash expenditures, $44,000.
Mr. Hodges was unable to give
offhand the names of those who had
contributed SIO,OOO or more to the
Republican fund, except that ne
knew William Wrigley, .Ir., of Chi
cago, had contributed $25,000 He
was requested to prepare a detailed
statement during the noon recess
of the committee.
To Probe “Slush” Charges
The committee is headed by
ator William E. Borah, of Idaho
and includes Senators Caraway, oL
Arkansas, and Bayard, of Delaware,
Democrats, and Shipstead. fanner
labor, Minnesota.
Under a preliminary agreement,
the committee will Carefully analyze
the expense reports as turned in by
spokesmen of the three parties be
fore taking up the charges of Sen
ator La Follette that the Republic
an organization is collecting a large
“slush fund” for use in Mates list
ed as doubtful.
Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City at
torney. acting as the personal rep
resentative of Senator La Follette,
will present documents and other
data upon which the Wisconsin sen
ator based his charge. The precise
nature of the material in the pos
session of Mr, Walsh has not been
revealed publicly or to the members
of the committee.
Lincoln Dixon, manager of the
western Democratic headquarters,
the first witness called, said his di
vision was not in the business of
collecting campaign contributinos.
All its funds except $5,000 paid by
George E. Brennan, Democratic load
•Ar in Illinois, on October 7, had
|F<Yune from the Democratic national
1 committee. The total, he placed at
" $'32,500.
Dixon explained tHe $.>.000 pay
ment by Brennan by saying that
t at that time there was a shortage
of funds in the western division.
The $32,500 total given, the wit
ness added, does not include ihc
rental of ’he western headquarters
here. That is paid direct by the na
tional committee, he added. The
funds expended by western head
quarters go for payroll and expenses
of speakers.
Chairman Borah wanted to know
if Mr. Dixon knew of any funds be
, ing underwrite!! for the Democratic,
party. “I regret to say that I do
not.” Dixon replied.
The witness was excused.
The La Follette-Wheeler national
organization has collected a total of
$190,535 in its presidential campaign
and expended $155,062, John M. Nel
son, campaign manager, testified.
In a prepared statement read to
the committee Congressman Nelson
said the contributions had been re
ceived from approximately 72,000
contributors.
.Many $1 Contributions
“Aside from the advances or con-
4 tributions made by National Treas
urer W. T. Raleigh,” Mr. Nelson
said, "there has been received one
contribution of $5,000 and three con
tributions Os SI,OOO each and the re
maining contributions are in smaller
amounts, mostly in sums of sl.
"The committee has no outstand
ing obligations except for printing
mid supplies, the amount of which,
when deliveries are completed, will
** nut exceed $36,000. Any further
statements desired by the committee
will be most cheerfully furnished.”
Mr. Nelson said each state organi
zation collects its own funds for
state use and that the national or
ganization contributes nothing to
the state bodies.
Replying to questions by Chair
man Borah. Representative Nelson
said liis organization had originally
made a budget for national expendi
tures. but that it had varied so that
no attention now is paid to it.
"Tt ranged original!? all the way
from $500,000 to $1,500,000," he said.
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
NEW YORK. Henry Robinson
Towne, a ged 80, a founder of the Yale
and Towne Manufacturing company,
lock makers, dies here.
WASHINGTON. ln presence of
President Coolidge "nd leaders of
Methodist church equestrine statue
of Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer
churchman, is unveiled.
FRIEDERIcidSHA'FEN. This
city celebrates arrival of ZR-3 in
America by firing 126 salvos from
ancient cannot, one shot for each
Zeppelin constructed there.
SHANGHAI. American consul
ate is called on for protection by for
eign missionaries and hospitals
against Chinese "reds” who fire city
of Canton and loot property.
STOCKHOLM? - Dr. Hjahnar
Granting, former premier of Sweden,
and leader of Socialist-Democratic
party, undertakes, at request of King
Gustav, to form new cabinet.
CHARLOTTE. nTT.'.— Ernie Ans
terberg, noted automobile driver, is
killed when he loses control of his
car while trying out the new speed
way track here.
FREDERICK. Aid. Arthur Rice,
convicted of aiding in tarring and
feathering Miss Dorothy Gr a ndon,
faces sentence of from 18 months to
ten years for offense.
CANTON. Casualties in fighting
between local factions in C a nton
and from incendiary fires are esti
mated at 1,000; looting of houses and
shops continues on large scale.
SAN FRANCISCO. Shenandoiih,
flying north from San Diego, bucks
heavy winds, ranging from 50 to 70
miles an hour velocity near Surf,
Cal., according to early reports here.
CORORADO~~BEACH, C a l. En>
sign M. J. Flanders and Chief Ma
chinist’s Mate Robert H. Kerr, are
killed when two naval airplanes col
lide in air. William (.’ole, gunner, es
capes death in parachute.
READING, Pa.—Philip A. Hart
man, of Annville, Pa., surrenders
here and confesses, police say, that
he held up State Bank at Abbotts
town, Pa., Tuesday, and when pur
sued shot and killed Trooper Franc:*
L. Haley.
CHICAGO. Published state
ments attributed to Emil Yde. Pitts
burg pitcher, and emphatically de
nied by him, that more sensations
in baseball scandal were forthcom
ing has led Commissioner Landis to
summon Yde before him.
BOISE. U, S. Senator Borah,
nominee of Republican and Pro
gressive parties for re-election, will
seek office as a Republican, he ad
vises secretary of state of Idaho
when court rules candidate c a n be
represented upon but one ballot.
NEW YORK. Federal Judge
Augustus N. Hand, at New York, in
dismissing libel proceedings against
Orduna of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet company, holds steamship
cannot be libeled by government
when members of crew smuggle li
quor o? narcotics into United States
without knowledge of ship owners.
QUINCY. 111. John W. Davis
renews his charge, and offers evi
dence to sustain assertion, that de
partment of justice officials and
George B. Lockwood, former secre
tary of Repblican national commit
tee, conspired to effect indictment
of Senator Wheeler during his prose
cution of Daugherty investigation.
Slayer Who Hid Heads
Os Victims m Concrete
Found Sane by Jury
GENEVA, 111., Oct. 16.—The jury
which has been hearing evidence as
to the mental condition of Warren
J. Lincoln, who killed his wife and
her brother and sealed their heads
in a concrete block, Tuesday night
returned a verdict finding Lincoln
to be sane "at this time.”
The verdict means that Lincoln,
the Aurora, I’d., horticulturist and
lawyer, must stand trial for the
slayings.
Municipal Electricians
Meeting at Augusta
AUGUSTA. Ga., Oct. 16.—The
29th annual convention of the In
ternational Association of Munici
pal Electricians opened here Tues
day with several hundred delegates
from all parts of the United States
and Canada in attendance. Presi
dent J. L. Caldwell, of Colorado
Springs, Col. is presiding.
Mayor Julian M. Smith delivered
the address of welcome at the open
ing session, and the response was
made by Clark Diehl, of Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
The convention will last through
Friday. The entertainment program
includes a big barbecue.
Dog Raiser Gets Three
Years for Mail Fraud
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 16.
Members of the United States circuit
court of appeals here today, were en
tertained with a iiscourse of dogs
during the argument of an appeal
from Memphis. Tenn., of T. E. Mc-
Lendon, dog raiser and fancier. Mc-
Lendon claimed there was error in
the federal district court trial, which
found him guilty of using the mails
to sell dogs which the government
claimed were not as represented.
McLendon, who lives in German
town. near Memphis, was sentenced
to serve five years in the Atlanta
penitentiary following his conviction.
Virginia Ports Oppose
Proposed Rate Hearing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The
ports of Norfolk, Portmouth and
Newport News today petitioned the
interstate commerce commission to
dismiss the appeal of the port of New
York authorities and New England
ports for a joint hearing by the in
’terstate commerce commission and
the shipping board on equalization
ot ocean and rail freight rates. The'
three cities, intervenors in the case,
contend the commission has no juris
diction over ocean rates and there
fore cannot participate in any de'is
ion affecting them.
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VETERAN HEMES
INSANITY CHARGE
IS ALL FRAME-UP
Relatives of W. A. Ellis, eighty
two-year-old inmate of the Confed
erate Soldiers' Home, who was im
prisoned late Wednesday in the Ful
ton tower on charges of insanity pre
ferred by officials of the home, ex
pressed indignation Thursday morn
ing at the arrest; declared the af
fair was a “frame-up” on the part
of Major \V. E. McAllister, super
intendent of the home, and took
steps to engage counsel to secure
his release from prison and to fight
any writ of lunacy that may be
taken out.
The arrest of Air. Ellis came at
the conclusion of a meeting of the
board of trustees of the home, and
was the result, board members de
clared Thursday, of a violent atti
tude manifested by him in connec
tion with the trial of charges of abu
sive language and insubordination
which had been preferred against
him.
At the same meeting, it was re
vealed Thursday, Superintendent Mc-
Allister and all other officials of the
present administration at the home,
tendered their resignations to the
board, but the board refused to ac
cept or consider them.
At the tower Thursday morning
R. A. Ellis, seventy-nine years old,
of East Fourteenth street, was in
conference with the imprisoned vet
eran. He said later that the arrest
was an “outrage and a frame-up
perpetrated by McAllister,” and an
nounced that lawyers would be re
tained immediately to fight any ac
tion that may be taken against his
brother.
Bitterly Denounces Ellis
Mr. Ellis himself was bitter in his
denunciation of Major McAllister
and his administration of the home.
Mr. Ellis said the trouble originated
tn a conversation with Major McAl
lister Wednesday, when he accused
the superintendent of being “a liar.”
“I asked for some blankets,” he
said, “because I was cold at night.
I didn’t get them, so I went out
and purchased five. Wednesday, I
told McAllister the state provided
funds to purchase bedding tor us,
and that as he had refused to pro
vide me with blankets 1 thought he
should reimburse me for the money
I had spent.
“He refused to do this, and in
the conversation which followed 1
called him a liar. When he told
me 1 ought to have too much re
spect for him to talk like that, I
told him that I couldn’t have any
respect for a man who was a liar.
“This whole thing arose because
I was called as a witness in the
recent investigation of McAllister’s
administration of the home. I was
under subpoena, but was not used
as a witness. McAllister knew 1
could testify against him, however,
and he had a grudge against me.
“I have heard of at least two other
veterans who were railroaded to the
asylum at Milledgeville and later
returned to their homes when the
doctors there said the e was nothing
the matter with them.”
McAllister Denies Frame-up
Superintendent McAllister, talking
Thursday morning to a Journal re
porter, declared there was no truth
to the charges of a frame-up, and
said that Mr. Ellis was "crazy.”
“I had asked two county police
men to come out to the home Wed
nesday afternoon,” he said, “because
I feared trouble from Ellis when his
case came up. He threatened to
kill me and boasted that he kept a
pistol ‘oiled and greased’ in readi
ness for me. He also boasted that
he already had killed two men and
would kill me, too.
“As for his charge that he didn’t
get blankets: when he applied for
blankets we investigated and found
seven blankets in Lis room. He nev
er bought a blanket as long as h.s
was in the home.”
In addition to Major McAllister’s
statement, Captain R. DeT. Law
rence, president of the board of trus
tees, sent the following written state
ment to The Journal, detailing hap
penings at the board meeting:
“Editor The Journal —The trustees
have refrained from making anv
statement regarding the sensational
report of this matter in the morning
press, as the matter was in the hands
of a committee, but in reply to your
question as to the happenings at tne
trust (J's' meeting on yesterday I beg
to nt.Tiie rhe following statement:
“The usual business was transact
ed harmoniously with the usual dis
cussions on such occasions, after
which one man was brought in
charged with begging and two others
for having intoxicating liquor in
their rooms. These cases were dis
missed upon promises to obey the
rules of the home.
Says Ellis Became Violent
“Mr. Ellis, an inmate, was then
introduced and charged with using
abusive language to the officers of
the home and with insubordination.
He became so violent and abusive
that, not keeping quiet when told
to do so. General Morgan, of Savan
nah. undertook to conciliate him.
"Becoming more violent and at
tempting to strike Mr. Morgan, he
was led out of the room. The trus
tees then discusesed as to what
should be done. It is a rule with
them not to discharge any inmate
unless some provision was made for
his care, and, not knowing of any
such provision that could be made
in this case, and the board consid
i ering Mr. Ellis as dangerous and a
menace to the peace of the home,
a resolution was offered that the
superintendent take out a writ of
lunacy. Nothing in opposition to
this being said, the resolution was
passed unanimously.
"The superintendent was not men
tioned; but at the conclusion of the
meeting. Superintendent McAllister,
for himself and other officials of
the home, tendered their resigna
tions, which the board declined to
consider.
"There were present at the meet
ing the following trustees: Mrs. Wal
ter Grace, president Georgia U. D.
C.: Mrs. John A. Perdue, presidetit
Atlanta chapter U. D. C.; Mrs. J. W.
Hollingsworth, president Fulton
county chapter U. D. C.; Judge C.
U. Wiley, of Macon: General D, B-
Morgan, of Savannah; S. T. Hall, > f
Dublin: Judge J. P. Webb, of Law
renceville; Judge J. B. Strong, of
LaGrange, and myself.
“(Signed):
’ R. DeT. LAWRENCE.
"President bond »f trustees, Con
federate Soldiers home. ’
Clemson Strikers Drop
Part of Their Demands;
Classes Are Resumed
CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., Oct.
16.—Classes were resumed at Clem
son college today with approximate
ly half of the 1,000 cadets still
A. W. O. L.
The striking cadets have refused
to return to the college until they
are assured better and sufficient
food will be served in the mess hall.
Strike leaders have dropped their
demand for reinstatement of
"Butch" Holohan, suspended foot
ball captain, who will make his ap
peal through the regular channels.
They still refuse to call off the strike,
however, until the bill of fare is im
proved.
Trustees of the college will meet
here Monday in an effort to iron out
the differences between the cadets
and their superiors.
Since long roll Wednesday night,
the regular program of the college
has been carried out, and all for
mations held as usual.
At 9 o’clock Thursday morning,
there was much debate among the
students as to whether they would
attend classes or not. Many held
that they had bound themselves at
class meetings not to go to classes,
until matters were settled. As a
consequence, most of the students
gathered on the small parade ground
in front of barracks instead of go
ing to classes. Rev. John McSweeh
appeared before them and told them
that the student committee had not
told them to stay away from classes.
Rev. McSween said the committee
had heavy enough burdens already
without having the boys stay away
from classes. As the student mass
meeting had decided to wait until
Monday for action, he advised ever} 7
man to attend his duties.
Some of the cadets went to classes
the first hour, and after an hour of
debate and argument around the
barracks, most of the others went
to their classes at 10 o’clock.
Many parents and other relatives
of cadets were on the campus
Thursday morning to see their
boys.
A few continue to leave, and a
few to come in, but the number at
the college did not change noticeably
Thursday morning.
LA FOLLETTE SENT
MONEY BY SOVIET.
O'CONNORCHABGEB
BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 16.—Thom
as V. O’Connor, chairman of the
shipping board and for years head
of the Longshoremen’s union, asked
an audience here last night if any
one in “absolute authority” would
deny that a large amount of money
has been sent from Russia through
Mexico to strengthen the cause of
Senators J.a Follette and Wheeler,
the independent national ticket.
“How much money has been sent
here by soviet Russia to win this
fight and bring about uncertainty
in this country, the same as in their
own country?” he asked.
Mr. O'Connor spoke on the con
nection of union leaders with the
La. Follette-Wheeler campaign and
asserted that "members of labor or
ganizations are not going to stand
for having their vote delivered by
national officers or local representa
tives.”
"Labor,” he said, “will never al
low its vote to be delivered by that
conglomeration of union leaders, so
cialists and I. W. W.’s who have
been enrolled or conscripted in the
political army led by Robert La Fol
lette."
The speaker, who predicted Pros
ident Coolidge's election, charged
that Senator La Follette hoped to
throw the contest into congress,
where he expected to “name and
crown a president and in that way
gain for himself a greater power
than that possessed by the man who
is crowned.”
“I am not worried,” he continued,
“about the political effect of the
La Follette vote in this campaign,
but what does worry me and should
worry you men of organized labor,
is the destructive effect of a large
La. Follette vote upon organized la
bor. You cannot exaggerate the de
structive effect a large La Follette
vote would have on the present
strong position of union labor; a
position we have secured after many
years of hard, patient plodding.”
Quoting Samuel Gompcrs as hav
ing previously opposed socialists
within labor unions, the speaker
said he was now wondering at tne
position of Gompers, Frank Morri
son, Matthew Woll and other Ameri
can Federation of Labor leaders sup
porting Senator La Follette. He
sounded a “warning” to internation
al officers of labor organizations
“that a day of reckoning i<? coming
because the members of the union
who own union funds are going to
demand on accounting.”
“They will ask." he raid, “why a
bunch of fake organizers have been
placed on the different international
payrolls, not for the purpose of or
ganizing members in various locals,
but for the purpose of boosting the
political cause of Robert La Follette
and Burton Wheeler.”
Investigator Who Solved
$2,000,000 Robbery Dies
Baltimore, oct. 16.—John s.
Lemon, fifty-eight, special investiga
tor of the postoffice department,
who is credited with having cleared
up the $2,000,000 mail robbery, at
Roniiout. 111., last June 12. and land
ed Postoffice Inspector William F.
1 "Bill") Fahy behind the bars, died
yesterday at a hospital here after
an operation for goiter.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia—Fair and cooler.
North Carolina—Fair; little hang?
v temperature.
South Carolina. Alabama. Missis
sippi, Georgia, Extreme Northwest
Florida—Fair; little change in tem
perature.
Florida—Probably fair except
showers in extreme south portion.
Tennessee and Kentucky—Fair
little chance in temperature.
Louisiana and Arkansas —Fair.
Oklahoma—Partly cloudy.
East Tnxas—Partly <4m;dy.
West Texas—Partly cloudy,
TO PUSH COOLIDGE'S
PUN FOB DISPOSING
OF MUSCLESHOALS
WASHINGTON. Oct. IG.—With ,
urawal by Henry Ford of his offer
for Muscle Shoals clears the way,
Representative Kearns, Republican
of Ohio, declared today after a visit
at the White House, for disposition
of the plant through a commission as
suggested by President Coolidge in
his message to congress last Decern-.
ber.
Mr. Kearns said he had assurance :
that the president’s attitude in this
respect was unchanged and that (
therefore he would seek appoint
ment of a commission by congress as
soon as it convenes in December.
Such a commission. Mr. Kearns >
said, should be composed preferably;
of members of the hotise military af
fairs committee and the senate ag- i
riculture committee, as suggested by
the president. He discussed the
Muscle Shoals question today at the
White House with C. Bascom Slemp,
secretary to the president, who was
said to have indicated the president’s
attitude on the Muscle Shoals ques
tion had not been changed by recent
developments and that he still favor
ed appointment of the commission.
“I am gratified to notice,” said
Mr. Kearns, who was a member of
the house military affairs committee
when it investigated the Muscle
Shoals offer two years ago, “that Mr.
Henry Ford has at last withdrawn
his so-called ‘offer’ for Muscle
Shoals. This is entirely in the pub
lic niterest. Some of us have known
for a long time that an acceptance
of Mr. Ford’s proposals would have
involved an enormous waste of pub
lic interest. Some of us have known
great natural resource of the south
to a billionaire, and would have
worked a great hardship upon all
the taxpayers of the country.
“Mr. Ford’s withdrawal from Mus
cle Shoals means that the farmer
now has a real chance of getting
cheap fertilizer and that the enor
mous cheap water power at Muscle
Shoals will be distributed equitably
all over the south to the people
thereof, to whom it belongs. That
prospect would have been nearer to
day than it is, if Mr. Ford’s so-called
‘offer’ had not stood in the way so
long. I happen to have been the
first man in public life to have point
ed out these things, and it is especial
ly gratifying to note that Mr. Ford,
in withdrawing, now supports the
recommendation in President. Cool
idge’s message to congress that a
small commission should be author
ied to work out the future of Muscle
Shoals.” __ _
Loeb-Leopold Verdict
Scored by President
Os Tennessee Synod
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Oct. 16.
Dr. John Royal Harris, president of
Cumberland university, Lebano".
’Tenn., who is attending the annual
conference W the Tennessee Synod
Presbyterian church, U. S. A., in
session here, declared last night at.
a fellowship dinner that the verdict
in the Leopold-Loeb murder trial at
Chicago was a miscarriage of jus
tice and that the slayers or young
Franks should have ‘‘been hangad
ns high as Haaman.” Dr. Harris
also paid his respects to the Ku
Klux Klan, saying it. was attempt
ing to do things in the wrong way,
and pleaded for law enforcement by
constituted authority.
Dr. Harris scored the modernists,
who, he declared, are attempting to
change the Lord’s prayer, the ten
commandments and many other
parts of the Bible. He also lambast
ed dancing and drinking and said
that a grace compound was needed
to cure the social diseases of to
day. Dr. Harris declared that it is
a time when all men should speak
out for truth and righteousness.
Report of the foreign missions
committee of the synod at Wed
nesday’s business session showed
that more than $242,000 had been
expended on various phases of the
work.
100 Avoid Jury Duty
In Trial of Memphis
“Roadside Slayer”
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 15.—Trial
of Charles Barr, negro, alleged "road
side slayer.”, was halted today when
the regular and a special panel of
veniremen were exhausted with
only two jurors accepted. Additional
veniremen will be summoned to re
port Monday when the trial will be
resumed.
More than a hundred summoned
to appear for questioning, as pros
pective jurors, failed to report and
were fined $25 each.
Barr is on trial for the killing
of Obe Spencer, a chain store man
ager. He is also charged with the
killing of Mrs. Ruth McElwain
Tucker and Duncan Waller, a travel
ing salesman of Mayfield, Ky.
All were killed when the auto
mobiles in which they were riding
were fired on from roadways near
Memphis. Barr is alleged to have
made a confession to the police.
Florida Highways
Conditions Improved
ORLANDO. Fla., Oct. 16.—A road
condition bulletin issued by the
Florida Automobile association this
morning says:
“All generally traveled highways
are again open, although a little
rough in some sections, with 'he
exception of the route between Pa
latka and Jacksonville, which is still
impassable via Green Cove Springs,
but by very careful driving motor
ists can travel from Palatka to Jack
sonville via St. Augustine.
“The railroad ferry conveying au
tomobiles between Deer Park and
Melbourne on the Kissimmee-Mel
bourne route is expected to be in
operation again by Saturday of this
week.
“Traffic is passing Shingle r reek
on the Orlando-Tampa highway over
a temporary bridge.”
STOPS FIT ATTACKS
R Lepso. residing at Apt. 39. 895
Island Ave.. Milwaukee, Wis., has a
treatment which has given complete re
lief from attacks of Fits, Epilepsy end
Falling Sickness in hundreds of cases.
Realizing the terrible suffering caused by
these attacks, Mr. Lepso, out of pure
gratitude, saj s 'e wants to tell every
sufferer how to relieve themselves of
their rortijr.- by P>is simple home trf»t
->>enr. Simply .«•nd him your name and
address.—\ Ad\ertisemeut.).
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, October 18, 1924
GENTLE “NEXT WAR” WARNING
IS CARRIED TO NEW YORKERS
BY ZR-3’S ACCOMPLISHMENT
Greatly Increased Range of Aerial Operations Places
Manhattan About Where L ondon Was During the Re
cent Conflict, According to Smail's Observations
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
(Copytigiit, .1921, by the Consolidated Press
Associat ioii -t.-pecial Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The Zep- i
pelin ZR-3 sailed across New York I
city today as a reminder or as a
warning of what the next “world I
war” may bring. She sailed the en
tire length of Manhattan Island,
then calmly turned and stiled back
again. Theoretically the city was
destroyed. Army and navy folk like
to play at the game of “destroying”
cities.
But this time it was a German
crew and a German captain, sailing
in a super-Zep, direct from the Zep
pelin sheds, that demonstrated to the
metropolis of the new world that it
is not so all-fired immune as it
sometimes has supposed. The Amer
ican-built Shenandoah has often
been seen in the New York skies
but she is a home-bred and only
dropped in from New Jersey, so
there was not the thrill connected
with her visits that New York felt
as it rubbed its eight o’clock eyes
this morning and saw the big silver
whale, with throbbing engines, flash
by at express train speed.
An old world visitor, a craft born
of dreams of a military greatness
which might reach eventually to all
the corners of the earth, she sailed
majesticaly along as a harbinger this
time of a new day in commercial
transportation. She differs little in
general contour from the war-time
“Zeps,” only the big commercial
cabin up forward seeming to offer a
new exterior note. German-like, the
ZR-3 is much wider of girth and
not so graceful as the trim Shenan
doah, which, despite her Teutonic
origin, was vastly Americanized in
her upbuilding.
Vulnerable to Planes
Despite the potential threat she
carried, the ZR-3 appeared a vastly
vulnerable thing as she circled above
the city, with a silvery airplane or
two darting about her, like sparrows
about a hawk. One shot of a phos
phorous rocket from one of the
planes could have sent the giant of
the skies tumbling to earth like a
flaming meteor.
For the Zeppelin came ballooned
with hydrogen gas—the same sort
of gas which seared the soul of
many a German sailor during' the
Zeppelin disasters and defeats of the
great war.
The secret may as well be told
just here that the Shenandoah,
which is to share her palatial hom<
at Lakehurst with the stranger
from across the seas, ran away
from the ZR-3 and will not come
back until the Zeppelin has been
deflated of her highly dangerous
content. The Shenandoah sails on
helium wings, the gas that America
made, and will not explode. At
present there is not enough of
helium in existence to keep both
the Shenandoah and her burly sis
ter going at the same time. They
SHENANDOAH OFF
ON COAST FLIGHT
FROM SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Oct. 16.-r-(By
the Associated Press.)—America’s
first transcontinental dirigible, the
Shenandoah, left her mooring mast
at North Island at 9:12 a. m., and,
after a short flight over the extreme
southern portion of tne city, turne 1
her nose northward over the ocean
eh route to Camp Lewis, Washing
ton.
The giant airship, sailing in a se
rene and unhurried fashion headed
for San Pedro, there to fly over the
ships of the United States fleet. The
course then was to lie inland to Los
Angeles city and to Pasadena.
A message picked up by the ra
dio station here stated that the
Shenandoah would maneuver above
the battle fleet at practice on the
San Clemente island drill grounds
before putting inland to fly over Los
Angeles.
Present plans, taking into consid
eration the probable late arrival of
the Shenandoah at Seattle, call tor
a flight over that city on the return
trip.
The dirigible probably will go di
rectly to the mooring mast at Camp
Lewis.
Weather reports from the north
Wednesday night indicated to Rear-
Admiral W. A. Moffet, chief of the
naval bureau of aeronautics, and
Lieutenant Commander Zachary
Lansdowne, the Shenandoah’s com
manding officer, that the weather
along the dirigible's proposed route
was clearing.
The battle fleet at San Pedro is to
get its first look at the most recent
addition to the fighting forces in the
Pacific under tentative plans of the
Shenandoah’s officers. After cir
cling over San Pedro, Pasadena and
Los Angeles, the airship will head
north, flving over Santa Barbara,
en route to San Francisco, which
city should be reached by sunset Fri
day.
Fifteen Rockwell army planes are
flying with the Shenandoah as far
north as Los Angeles.
DIRIGIBLE IS SIGHTED
AT SEA OFF DEL MAR
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16.—The
Shenandoah was a quarter mile to
sea off Del Mar, 24 miles north of
Sun Diego, at 10:03 o’clock, making
slow progress, according to Santa.
Fe railroad reports.
Pnnce Comes Cropper
On loronto Fox Hunt
NEWMARKET, Ont.. Oct. 16.
The Prince of Wales had a spill dur
ing a fox hunt in his honor at the
Toronto Hunt club Wednesday, but
he was unhurt and continue ahis
The Earl of Dunmore, who attend
ed the hunt, also fell and returned
•>? the residence of Sir William Mul
lo<k.
One hundred and fifty rider- par-
in th-: r hun' One fox was
killed. _ .
will have to trade dresses, as it
were, after the Shenandoah returns
from her Pacific tour, but in the
meantime the American-built craft ■
will have nothing to do with the j
German until the all-consuming gas ■
has been cast to the New Jersey j
breezes and all danger of explosion '
is past.
Recalls War-Time Terrors
Zeppelin day in New York recalled
to many persons pow in this city •
the Zeppelin nights in London. And ;
here is another secret. The Amer
ican colony in London, to a man,
all wished that a Zeppelin might
reach New York before the war was
over, to drop its “eggs” on the tow
ering piles of Manhattan and bring
home at last a realization of what
the war was like
In the earlier raids the Zeppelins
came over London painted in silver
precisely as the ZR-3- Appeared in
the pale blue sky this morning. The
ZR-3 in her journey across the At
lantic chose the time of the full
moon to light her nightly way. Dur
ing the war the Zeps dared not ven
ture forth by moonlight. They came
on the wings of darkness and by
stealth they crept upon the sleeping
city. London was as dark as the
River Styx, presumably, but in
some manner the marauders always,
or nearly always, found their way.
Then the city devised a means of
finding the marauders. Powerful
searchlights began to pierce the sky
when the first hum of a hostile mo
tor was heard.
The silver “cigars” as they ap
peared at the great heights they
maintained, soon became a prey to
the defending airmen. Five or six
of them were brought down in
flames, their crews roasted to cinder.
The silver paint was discarded. The
newer Zeppelins, built for the nights,
appeared in dull mourning black,
and were as elusive as the dark
spaces between the stars.
Thrill Never Forgotten
The thrill of those Zeppelin nights
in London can never be forgotten.
First would come the ominous warn
ing that 17 or 18 of the hostile craft
had crossed the coast and were
headed for the British capital. These
warnings only reached the police
and the newspaper offices and for
eign correspondents. The waiting
moments, occasionally lengthened
into an hour or more, were filled
with imaginings and the knowledge
that within a very short time many
innocent souls were to be sent into
the great beyond. There was a doom
in the warnings for these who were
compelled to go unwarned. Occa
sionally a Bobby would stroll along
the street calling to the late pedes
trians: . .
“Air raid pending, please; air raid
pending, please.”
And most of th? time his warnings
were met with a grin. There wai’
sport to those raids as well as blood
ied terror.
ALABAMA'S BANK
SUPERINTENDENT IS
PUT DNDEH ABBEST
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 15.—A.
E. Jackson, state superintendent of
banks, was arrested here late Tues
day upon advice of Sheriff Lane, of
Madison county, in connection with
the investigation of a defunct Hunts
ill?, Ala., bank about a year ago.
Two indictments charging violation
of the banking Jaws were returned by
the grand jury in Madison county
Tuesday, the message stated.
John Stone, who was placed in
charge of the bank and is now cash
ier of the Merchants and Planters
bank at Montevallo, was also indict
ed on the same charges and arrested
at Montevallo today, Sheriff Lane
stated. Mr. Stone also made bond
immediately in the sum of $1,500.
The indictments charge that de
posits were received at the bank aft
er it had become insolvent in viola
tion of the laws of Alabama, and
name Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stone sep
arately in the indictments. They are
returnable to the Madison circuit
court.
Mr. Jackson when reached for a
statement was smilingly unperturbed
about the affair. It was nothing
more than an outgrowth of an un
warranted unfriendly attitude on the
part of some citizens in that section,
he stated.
“In my effort to protect the cred
itors and depositors and enforce the
laws of the state, I have incurred the
displeasure of some individuals,” he
said. “I court any investigation
from any source to vindicate my ac
tion.”
Mr. Stone, when called over iong
distance telephone, refused to go into
detail about the arrest.
“There is nothing to say so far
as lam concerned,” he said. "I was
commissioned to take charge of the
Huntsville bank, and my official acts
were under direction of the banking
department."
According to officials at the state
capitol, five attempts to indict Mr.
Jackson and Mr. Stone in the Madi
son circuit court on this charge have
been made without success.
Seeing Bandits Coming,
Mine Official Takes
Payroll Down Shaft
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 16.
Quick action of John Stamper, the
superintendent, who, when he saw
bandits approaching in two autos
at Tovey, Christian county, rushed
to the mine cage and sunk to the
depths of the shaft, saved a payroll
of $95,000 this morning.
The mine is one of the few of the
Peabody Coal company which pays
in cash and this was to have been
the last cash pay day. Al! other
mines in the district pav In checks.
The miners were paid ctf de.»
in the mine.
a UENTa A COPY,
Si A YEAR.
TEN MEN CHARGED
WITH SMUGGLING
LIQUOR 81 PLANE
U. S. Agents Say Rum Was
Brought From Cuba and
Sold in Middle West
CHICAGO. Oct. 16.—Ten men,
said by government agents to have
headed an organization which im
ported liquor from Cuba to Flori
da by airplane and later distributed
it throughout the middle west, have
been arrested here.
P. David Pinkhussohn, alleged
head of the syndicate and said to
have been the chier flyer on the
airplane route, was released in bonds
of $5,000 last night. The others ar
rested were Edward F. O’Brien, al
leged partner to Pinkhussohn; Jo
seph Wurzburg, drug store owner;
Lewis Bitter, warehouse manager;
Robert Malquist, warehouse foreman;
Emil Feindt, druggist; David Farrell,
John C. Schenk, Raymond E. Dal
ton and Dillon Carlson.
Investigation was started last De
cember, when liquor from Cuba was
found in two warehouses here, fed
eral agents said. The places were
equipped to dilute, rebottle and re
label. Two other plants, where Im
ported whisky and champagne were
prepared for bootlegging, were found
later.
Pinkussohn recently was indicted
in connection with the thelt of 6,000
cases of whisky from a government
concentration warehouse here.
Georgia Gas Tax
Receipts Will Total
$3,400,000 for Year
During the first twelve months of
the operation of the three-cent per
gallon tax on gasoline, the state of
Georgia has received $3,352,964.18,
according to statistics compiled in
the office of Comptroller General
William A. Wright. This covers re
ceipts from October 1, 1923, when
the tax became operative, to October
1, 1924. It is estimated that an ad
ditional $40,000 will be received from
oil companies that have not yet set
tled in full for the quarter ending
September 30.
If these figures are accurate, the
total revenues from the gasoline tax
j during the first twelve months of
I its operation will be approximately
, $3,400,000.
Os this sum one-third goes to the
I state highway department, one
thrid to the counties for highway
purposes, and one-third to the state
treasury to offset the rentals from
the Western and Atlantic railroad
which were discounted during Gov
ernor Hardwick’s administration for
a five-year period.
The sum of $540,000 is requited
to offset these rentals, and as the
treasury will receive approximately
$1,100,000 from the gasoline tax for
the first twelve months of its oper
ation there will be a residue of ap
proximately $500,000 after the ren
tals are taken care of. This balance
is used to pay general appropria
tions.
When the tax was imposed, it was
estimated that the total revenue
would approximate $2,500,000, Al
though officials in the comptroller
general’s office stated at the time
that the total would undoubtedly
reach $ 3.900.01)0
I ■ ‘ ■?
South Carolinian Tells
Story of Kidnaping and
‘Wildernesss Wedding’
GREENWOOD, S. C„ Oct. 18—C
F. Edge, local broker, told a sensa
tional story today of being kidnape,',
by a hooded mob, and forced to
marry a girl.
Accordnig to Edge’s story, he was
| picked up on Main street by five
I hooded men, covered with revolvers,
and taken <o the country where a
wilderness wedding had been pre
pared for him.
At least 100 masked men took
part in the ceremonies, he said.
After being “wedded” by one of tha
group, he was given a lecture and
warned that the “marriage” had
been performed by the Ku Klux
Klan, he said.
"We are as thick around here as
I dogwood blossoms in the spring
time,” the lecturer is alleged to have
told the broker.
Edge denied any misconduct with
the girl involved in the “wedding,’*
and will follow counsel of his attor
neys who told him the vows he had
i been forced to take were not bind
' ing.
Al Smith, Jr., Weds
Engineer’s Daughter;
Father Gives Blessing
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Alfred E.
' Smith, Jr., son of Governor and Mrs.
i Smith, and Miss Bertha Gott, of
■ Syracuse, were married this morn
ing in the rectory of Holy Cross Ro
i man Catholic church.
The religious ceremony supple
' mented a civil service performed se
cretly last Tuesday morning in the
marriage license bureau in the Bronx
borough hall by Deputy City Clerk
McCabe. Today’s ceremony was per
formed at the telephonic request of
i the governor. The governor assured
his son that che bride would be wel
' corned by her father-in-law.
Smith, Jr., is a law student at Ford-
I ham university, New York city. On
procuring the marriage license, he
| gave his age as 24 years and the
! bride said she was 25. The bride is
'the daughter of an engineer on the
Twentieth Century limited.
Governor Smith Pleased
BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Oct. J 6.
“They eloped in good old wild west
fashion,” said Governor Smith today,
commenting on his son's marriage.
"A" : • ■ lu p?' —just like a lover
uiiuer sjutiicrn skies.’*