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VOL. XXVII. NO. 7
SHENANDDIH FORCED
TO DROP GAS TANKS
TO REGAIN STABILITY
Giant Dirigible, Careening
Through Darkness, Loses
Way Over Mexico
EI« PASO, Tex., Oct. 23.—The
dirigible Shenandoah was sailing
easily towards this city early today
en route to the Fort Worth, Tex.,
mooring mast after some of the most
unusual adventures of her career.
The ship got badly off her course
early today and dipped into Mexico,
according to reports at Douglas,
Ariz., before she was set aright by
» wireless from Fort Huachuca.
As darkness settled on the Shen
andoah above the Arizona plains, the
gas in the great bags was contract
ed by chilling breezes, and, becom
ing heu’ier with every drop in the
tempera/ure, she was forced to Jetti
son 1,40 u pounds of gasoline and re
lease one of the tanks after having
discharged all water ballast to ac
quire an even keel, for, with all
motors running full speed, she had
settled to an angle of fourteen de
grees.
The dirigible was sighted over El
Paso at 7:30 a. m., Mountain time.
The ship was fighting a strong
headwind, and was moving at a
speed of not more than twenty miles
an hour, according to estimates of
air officers from Fort Bliss. Appar
ently all motors were running in
an effort to gain speed.
HEAD WINDS DELAYING
DIRIGIBLE ON JOURNEY
' FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 23.
Helium plant and naval officials
here do not expect the Shenandoah
to arrive over Fort Worth, and the
mooring mast before 7 p. m. Orig
inally, plans had been made to pe
rceive the dirigible earlier, but un
favorable winds in west Texas caus
ed delays.
Non-Stop Plan Abandoned
Hopes of a non-stop flight across
the continent, from San Diego to
Lakehurst, were abandoned when
the Shenandoah passed El Paso.
The winds, which would have been
necessary for such a long jump,
were not favorable, but were blow
ag from 15 to 20 miles an hour
against the ship.
In addition, almost a ton and a
half of gasoline which would have
been needed for fuel, had been sac
rificed tp lighten the dirigible in
tae high altitudes of the Rockies.
The Shenandoah was making 30
miles an hour over El Paso and
Juarez, but when Fabens was reach
/ ed her trailing shadow on the ground
registered a speed of 38 miles an
hour.
DIRIGIBLE SAFELY PASSES
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DANGERS
ABOARD THE U. S. S. SHENAN
DOAH, Oct. 23. — (Via Fort Bliss,
Tex.) —The last of the Rocky moun
tain barriers has been nassed by the
U. S. S. Shenandoah, leaving a. clear
'course for the return of the big
dirigible to her hangar at Lakehurst,
New Jersey.
Arizona and the worst of the Rock
ies were left behind safely when |
Rodeo, N. M., was reached early
Thursday morning, although the big
ship had groaned and strained as it
drove into the eddies whirling over
the peaks, while wind currents rush
ed through the mountain passes like
water through mill races.
The shaft-houses of the copper
mines of Bisbee, Ariz., were illumi
nated like a summer amusement
park when the big dirigible unex
pectedly found herself in a bowl of
<he Isle mountains over the city
just after midnight. Peaks of moun
tains seemed to tower around it on
all sides except the single pass
through which it had entered the
pocket in the Rockies. The moon
had been a pale crescent, and its
feeble rays only faintly touched the
bottoms of the mountain passes.
The ship sped at fifty miles an
hour over the ranges of Arizona at
an altitude of 6,500 feet; then turn
ing southward at Benson the Shen
andoah followed the railroad south
east towards the Mexican border.
After a short spurt, Bisbee was
seen glistening under the moonlight,
* and in a. very few minutes had been
passed. The bountiful- lights of the
mines, the sketchy outline of its
two streets. Tombstone Canyon and
Brewery Gulch, showed that the
city was Bisbee.
Tank of Gasoline Dropped
The nose of the ship pointed up
ward until it was on a 6,700-foot
level and another 175-pound tank of
gasoline was droppe dthrough the
• silken bottom to lighten the load.
The Shenandoah then turned, and
was over Naco, and with another
turn, and a broad swing over the
Mexican border. she again was
s;>eeding eastward, passing Douglas
and its smelters.
The return trip across the Rockies
was almost as dramatic as the west
ward journey.
. Along the 6SO feet of the. Shenan
doah's glistening body, on either
side of the 9-inch cat walk, the big
gas bags seemed ready to burst
against the net work of cord as the
helium expanded in the ratified alti
tude.
hi the navigating car Lieutenant
Commander Lansdowne, captain of
the Shenandoah; Lieutenant Com
mander Hancock, the executive of
ficer, and the officers on watch were
•training their eyes into the dark
ness guiding the ship as it sped on
Its uncharted course of the air.
In each of the motor gondolas en
gines were roaring and men on duty
were eager to respond to the signals
which might mean the difference
Between destruction or safety.
Weary Men Sleep
Weary rxen off duty were sleeping
In their tanks. while the deafening
roar of motors lulled the exhausted
to sleep and drowned the voices of
those awake. Lights flickered in the
listance through the darkened tun
nel as officers made hourly inspec
tions of engines and keel, and men
r.lentlv and methodically sped along
the little runway measuring gaso
line, shifting water ballast or stand
ng by to cut out a tank and throw
it overboard.
While the ship sped along between
:he stars and the lights of the sleep
ing world below, its radio was talk
ing with unseen ears in Fort Bliss,
n towns immediately beneath and
ithers thousands of miles away.
When New Mexico was reached
the officers who had been on duty
»ver lhe mountains turned in. and
Lieutenants Lawrence and Rosen
h*i took the bridge.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
DENVER. —Dr. Henry Augustus
Buchtel, former governor of Colo
rado, dies, aged 7'J years.
WASHINGTON. —President Cool
idge is initiated.into the Smokle In
dian tribe of Prescott, Ariz.
STOCKHOLM. —The Noble prize
for medicine is awarded to Profes
sor William Einthoven, of Leyden
university.
LOUISVILLE. —Three miners are
missing following explosion in mine
of Hart Coal corporation near Mad
isonville, Ky.
WASHlNGTON—Ratifications ot
treaty with Italy to prevent illegal
importation of intoxicating liquors
exchanged at state department.
WASHINGTON.—Suit is argued
before the court of claims, involving
right of government to collect reve
nue stamp taxes on short sales of
stock.
ROME.—Body of Leo XIII, pope
from 1878 to 1903, is removed from
St. Peters to the Basilica of St.
John Lateran, to be permanently
entombed.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway.—Conserv
atives and agrarians are given a
combined margin of four votes over
all other parties in the elections for
the Strothing.
COPENHAGEN? Prince Viggo,
cousin of King Christian, of Den
mark, and bis bride, formerly Miss
Eleanor Green, of New York, were
enthusiastically welcomed home.
NEW YORK.—Congregation of
First Presbyterian church in accept
ing resignation of Dr. Harry Emer
son Fosdick, its preacher, asks him
to preach at church on such Sun
days “as he finds convenient.”
EAST ORANGE, N. J.—Expendi
tures totaling $30,0M,000 have been
made overseas in 74 years by Wom
en’s Foreign Missionary society of
Methodist Episcopal church, reports
to general executive committee said.
LONDON. —Heckling and rowdy
ism are reported as general at po
litical rallies incident to British par
liamentary campaign; Lady Astor is
prevented from speaking in social
ist center of her constituency by
interruptions and singing of “Red
Flag.”
NEW YORK.—Martin W. Little
ton, prominent New York attorney,
in address to American Defense so
ciety, declares La Follette candi
dacy was brought about by "revolu
tionary forces,” which were set in
motion in 1921 at socialist conven
tion at Detroit.
WASHINGTON.—SamueI Unter
myer, New York attorney, in a state
ment declares "a nation wide scan
dal” iii regard to prohibition enforce
ment "still exists” and that Presi
dent Coolidge "has proved he will not
put an end to it.”
"WASHINGTON. Edward T.
Stotesbury, of Philadelphia, member
of firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., de
nies before senate committee inves
tigating campaign expenditures, that
he headed bankers’ committee to col
lect funds for Republican party, but
admits he collected in Pennsylvania
approximately $50,000.
Thirty-Year Age Limit
Barred Smith m Fight
For Alapaha Judgeship
A provision in the constitution of
Georgia that requires judges of the
superior court to be thirty years of
age disqualified Seward M. Smith,
special attorney for the state high
way department, from either ap
pointment or election to the judge
ship in the Alapaha circuit, it be
came known at the state capitol
Wednesday.
Friends of Mr. Smith had been
active in his behalf and. it had been
reported that Governor Walker Prob
ably would appoint him as the suc
cessor of the late Judge R, G. Dick
erson, of Homerville. However, it
developed that Mr. Smith is not old
enough to hold the office of superior
eourt judge, as he was not born until
January 10, 1896. Mr. Smith com
municated this fact to the governor
when he found that he was disqual
ified, and withdrew an application
to have his name placed on the bal
lot for the special election held in
the Alapaha circuit last week.
The constitution provides that no
person shall be a judge of the su
preme or the superior court, or at
torney general, unless at the time
of his election he shall have attained
the ag e of thirty years; shall have
been a citizen of the state for three
years, and shall have practiced law
for seven years.
Wed at Rail Station
To Keep “Promise”
To Bride’s Parents
DETROIT, Oct. 23.—Keeping his
promise literally to his bride's par
ents, Scot McKee, a toolmaker at an
automobile plant, was married to
Miss Margaret Curry at a railroad
station here late yesterday. McKee
wrote to the bride’s parents in Glas
gow, Scotland, asking that the girl
be allowed to come to Detroit to
marry him.
The parents consented on the con
dition that the couple be married as
soon as the girl arrived in Detroit.
McKee assented, and when the train
bringing the girl arrived from New
York, he was waiting with a mar
riage license and a minister.
69 Pounds of Fat
Taken From Actress
By Chicago Surgeons
CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—An operation
on Miss Truly Shattuck, 56 years
old. vaudeville comedienne and mu
sical comedy star of twenty years
ago, has reduced her weight from
192 to 123 pounds and narrowed a
52-inch waist line to 34. according to
surgeons of a hospital here. Super
fluous fat weighing 69 pounds was
removed, they said.
Commander of Fascist
Militia Resigns Post
ROME, Oct. 23.—General Delbono.
director -general of police and com
manding general of the Fascist mili
tia. today presented his resignation
to Premier Mussolini.
SANTIAGO, Chile.—The Republic
of Portugal recognizes new Chilean
government. _____
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia— Body
of Henrky Sienciewicz, Polish writer,
en route to Warsaw, lies in states in
the national museum.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—Body ot
Henry Handy McHenry, of Ardmore,
is found chained to a tree. He had
been dead several hours.
TOKIO. —Tsao Kun, president ot
China, flees from Pekin to unknown
destination, says Kohusai News
Agency dispatch from Tientsin.
BERLIN. —Dr. Oskar llcrgt re
signs leadership of German national
party in consequence of campaign
against him by extremists of party.
ESCANABA, Mich. —Fire destroys
two ore docks of Chicago and North
western railroad. eni’dn". one death
and damage estimated at $1,250,0ta
DETROIT. —Fire destroys two ore
docks of Chicago and Northwestern
railroad at Escanaba, Mich., doing
damage of $1,250,000, and killing one
fire fighter.
TORONTO.—“Drys” lead by ma
jority of nearly 25,000 in plebiscite
in Ontario on question of retention
ot present dry law on basis of par
tial returns.
FT. 'WORTH, Tex. —After journey
across southwest in teeth of oppos
ing winds, dirigible Shenandoah ar
rives at Fort Worth where ship
plans to moor overnight.
EAST ORANGE, N. J.—Bishop
Herbert Welch, of Japan, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, calls
Japanese exclusion act “act of a
bully—a swashbuckler.”
MONTREAL.—Prince of Wales,
recovered from chili, leaves Mon
treal on special train for Lowell,
Mass., from where he will journey
to Hamilton, Mass., to be house
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Tuck
erman.
NEW YORK.—Helium gas used
for inflation of dirigibles has prac
tical anaesthetic qualities for use in
inducing surgical sleep. Dr. Everett
A. Tyler, of Philadelphia, tells East
ern Society of Anaesthetics n con
vention.
BALTlMOßE.—Secretary Hughes
makes sweeping defenses of admin
istration’s foreig npolicy in cam
paign speech here, denying in de
tail allegations of opposition as to
secret commitments and imperialis
tic tendencies.
WASHINGTON.—In effort to de
termine powers of comptroller-gen
eral is filed in District of Colum
bia asking injunction to prevent ob
struction of payment of allowances,
said to be due navy officers and
withheld by orders of Comptroller-
General McCarl.
WASHINGTON.—In extended ad
dress to members of Chamber of
Commerce of United States, prob
ably his last address before election,
President Coolidge outlines policies
of administration, which “maintain
peace, promote economy, leave the
people in possession of their prop
erty and maintain integrity of the
courts.”
Sunday School Party,
Tracking Wily ’Possum,
Runs Afoul of Law
A raid on a ’possum hunting party
promoted by a Sunday school, and a
threat by a county warden to prose
cute the entire personnel, has placed
Peter S. Twitty, state game and fish
commissioner, in a quandary.
"This department is charged with
the enforcement of the law. and the
law requires that each member of a
hunting party must have a license,
even to hunt opossums, but 1 don’t
want to undertake to prosecute folks
who are good enough to go to Sun
day school,” Mr. Twitty said, “There
fore I advised the warden to make
the leader of the crowd take out a
hunting license, and let it go at that
for this time,”
Air. Twitty stated that hi s office
had received many complaints of
the indiscriminate cutting of trees
on private property by ’possum hunt
ers, and declared that action will
have to be taken in such cases as
these. He also advised ’possum hunt
ers to have state licenses, for fear
they might run afoul of county
wardens.
Active Cotton Spindles
Show Large Increase
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Cotton
spinning activity showed an increase
in September as compared with Au
gust and July, according to the cen
sus bureau’s monthly report Issued
today.
Active spindle hours in September
numbered 6.414,902,010 or an average
of 170 per spindle in place, compared
with 5,399,549,661 or an average of
143 in August this year, and 7,482,-
060,995, or an average of 200 in Sep
tember last year.
Spinning spindles in place Septem
ber
30,122.384 were active at some time
during the month compared with
37.822.706 of which 28,945,603 were
active in August this year, and 37,-
491.706 of which 33,929,885 were ac
tive in September last year.
The average number *of spindles
operated in September was 28,783,-
156 or at 76.1 pr cent capacity on
a single shift basis, compared with
23,761,440 or at 62.8 per cent capac
ity In August this year and 34,941 -
676 of at 93.2 per cent capacity in
September last year.
W oman New Assistant
Cashier of Chase Bank
NEW A ORK. Oct. 23.—Appoint
ment of Miss Mary Vail Andress as
assistant cashier of the Chase Na
tional bank yesterday marked the
first succession of a woman to an
executive position in a Wall Street
banking institution.
Miss Andress will be associated
with the main office of the Chase
bank, assuming duties similar to ex
ecutives of corresponding rank.
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■SON REVOLTS:
PEKIN IS ISOLATED
FROM THE WORLD
TIENTSIN, Oct. 23.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Portiohs of the
Eleventh division of the Chinese na
tional army under command of Feng
Yu Hsiang, the Christian general,
revolted at Pekin this morning,
seized the city’s gates, cut all tele
graph and telephone lines, and stop
ped all train service, according to
reliable information reaching here.
General Feng and his army were
supposed, to have been at Jehol
(Chengtehfu) about 100 miles north
west of Pekin, where tney were sup
posed to stop an expected advance
from Mukden of the Manchurian
armies of Chang Tso-Lin, who is
making war on the central govern
ment at Pekin. Apparently General
Feng never progressed beyond the
great wall.
Whether General Feng is acting
independently in the present revolt,
or with the collusion of the Mukden
government, has not been learned.
Rumors that General Feng was
not in sympathy with th4 Chihili
(central government) party have
been current, however, ever since
the outbreak of hostilities with
Manchuria.
SHANGHAI IS MYSTIFIED?
HEARS REPORT OF REVOLT
SHANGHAI, Oct. 23.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Pekin was sudden
ly completely cut-off from telegraph
ic communication will all outsid?
points this morning.
The announcement from Shanghai
of the cutting off of Pekin from tele
graphic communication follows close
ly advices in special dispatches from
Mukden that the forces of the Pekin
government have suffered serious
setbacks at the hands of the Muk
den troops. An all-night battle,
launched by 15,000 Pekin troops, re
sulted in the Mukdenites turning the
left flank of the Pekin troops and
their pressing the right flank upon
prepared mine fields, the explosion
of which killed thousands. .
The Pekin troops also were said
to have been defeated inside the
great wall and on the Jehol front.
At 8 o’clock tonight a Japanese
news agency received a message
from Tientsin reporting all foreign
military telephone and telegraph
communication out of Pekin cut
off after the return to Pekin of
General Feng at 6 o’clock this
morning with the eighth mixed
brigade of the Eleventh division.
General Feng's action in with
drawing his troops from the Man
churian-Chihlian border, the mes
sage said, was brought about by a
desire on the part of the Christian
general to adopt the same attitude
as that shown by General Sun Yo,
commander of the fifteenth mixed
brigade, whose troops returned to
Pekin several days ago from the
northern front.
Later reports from Tientsin say
General Feng, entering Pekin with
a body guard, demanded that Presi
dent Tsao Kun issue a mandate or
dering* the suppression of General
Wu Pei-Fu.
FENG REPORTED LEADER
IN OVERTHROW PLOT
TOKIO, Oct. 23.—(8y the Assg
dated Press.) Gen. Feng Yu-
Hsiang, commander of the Pekin
central government troops in their
defensive battles on the Chihlian-
Manchuria border against the invad
ing forces of General Chang Tso-Lin,
Manchuria leader, has conspired
against General Wu Pei-Fu, military
head of the Pekin government, c
cording to a dispatch received here
today from Tien-Tsin.
The dispatch adds that General
Feng, who is known for his Chris
tian practices, has entered Pekin and
the situation is said to be grave.
300 LOOTERS ARE SHOT
AMID CANTON TURMOIL
CANTON, Oct. 23.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Three hundred loot
ers shot, citizens fleeing from a city
of turmoil and disorder, all banks
and business houses closed and
troops still in control of the business
center of the city—this was the
scene Canton presented today in
the wake of disturbances which be
gan when members of the mer
chants’ volunteer corps, the fascists
of China, battled in the streets here
with the so-called Red army of Chi
nese laboorers. The troops were on
duty today despite an order which
terminated martial law. Mayor Li
Fu-Lum tendered his resignation yes
terday. His likely successor is Fu
Ping-Shueng, 29-year-old graduate of
Hongkong university. Fu was for
merly superintendent of customs at
Canton.
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, who was in con
trol of the government of south
China around Canton, has fled to
Shiukwan, leaving General Yang
Hsi-Min, commander-in-chief of the
Yuananese forces, as the chief con
testant for control of Canton. Gen
eral Y'ang has 8,000 troops available
for service and General Li Chai-Sam
of the Kwangsi forces has 1,000.
Considerable alarm is felt in busi
ness and administrative circles here
owing to the threat of the troops to
seize the Canton customs house.
Cotton Trade Awaits
Government Report
On Crop Conditions
BY GEORGE DEWITT MOI LSON
lS['eci,;l Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right. 1924.1
NEW YORK (Thursday). Oct. 23.
The cotton market developed into a
regulation pregovernment report af
fair today.
Wednesday’s active covering move
ment subsided after- various local
and commission house interests had
terminated obligations formed dur
ing the decline of the past two
weeks. Above 23 for December and
January, the market ran into in
creased offerings in the shape of
hedging operations from the south,
and this served to halt the upward
movement which started on Tues
day.
Covering and general evening up
prior to Saturday’s bureau, with
swapping operations, has formed the
bulk of trading the past forty-eight
hours. Very little new business
appeared since the majority is in
clined to wait until after official fig.
tires are out of the way before un
dertaking new ventures.
The last report indicated a yield
of 12.499,000. and the trade regards
the forthcoming report as likely to
point to a final outturn of possibly
COOLIDGE UPHOLDS
STAND-PAT POLICIES
IN FINAL ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Having
summed up' his views on govern
ment administration and campaign
issues in bis address before the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, President Coolidge today had
few other engagements on his cal
endar prior to the election and none
calling for an extended speech.
In the statement of his position
on government problems last night.
jMr. Coolidge said further tax re-1
duction is possible and asserted that■
the administration is prepared to
continue co-operation in interna
tional affairs in the interests of
peace, is ready to investigate agri
cultural conditions to place farming,
on a profitable basis and is deter
mined to maintain a protective tar
iff. He also reiterated his opposi
tion to proposals for public owner
ship of transportation and for lim
itation of the powers of the su
preme court, which he assailed as I
"revolutionary.”
Addresses Chamber
The address was delivered before
a meeting of the eastern division of
thq United States Chamber of Com
merce with business men from
eleven states in attendance and was
radiocast to almost every section of
the country. Numerous laudatory
messages from all parts of the coun
try were received at the White
House early today on the speech,
C. Bascom Slenip, secretary to the
president, reported.
"The government,” Mr. COolidge
declared, “can help to maintain
peace, to promote economy, to pro
vide a protective tariff, to assist the
farmers, to leave the people in pos
session of their property and to
maintain. the integrity of the
courts.”
In foreign affairs, he declared in
favor of constitutional covenants to
outlaw aggressive warfare, confer
ences to limit armaments and to
recodify international law and
American adherence to the perma
nent court of international justice.
He opposed American representa
tion at conferences discussing ques
tions of "purely our own domestic
affairs,” cancellation of war debts
owed to this country by foreign
nations and entry of the United
States into the League of Nations. |
Urges Against "Change”
“It is impossible to escape the
conclusion that the general eco-l
nomie condition of the country is
good,” he said. “While business and
agriculture have not fully recover
ed the losses caused by the world
wide depression which always fol
lows war, they are now on a fairly
profitable basis. It would be natural
to suppose that every well-wisher of
the country would be anxious to
maintain the present established
order of things which have given to
the people of America a position
superior to that ever before held by
any people on the earth.”
President Coolidge plans to at
tend the four-cent “Golden Rule
dinner” to be served at a hotel here
tonight under the auspices of the
American Near East relief, which is,
sponsoring observance of December
7 as international Golden Rule Sun
day. X,
The menu, which will be the
standardized ration of the American
Near East Relief orphanages, will
be served in tin cups and pottery
bowls manufactured in orphanage
training schools in Jerusalem and
Nazareth.
La Follette, Challenged
On ‘Special Privileges,’
Curtly Names Mellon
PEORIA, 111., Oct. 23.—“ Andrew
Mellon’s aluminum tariff is suffi
cient answer for tonight. Send check
to Salvation Army.”
This was the reply last night of
Senator Robert M. La Follette to
the offer of the Kansas City Jour
nal to pay SI,OOO if the senator
would name "one special privilege
that it is your purpose to destroy
if elected.”
EDITOR OFFERED SI,OOO
FOR SPECIFIC INSTANCE
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 23.—1 n
a letter to Senator Robert M. La
Follette, the Kansas City Journal
last night demanded that the inde
pendent presidential candidate de
fi e the term “special privilege” as
u.~?d in his party platform and of
fered to pay SI,OOO to any charity
he may name if he will “mention
a single special privilege, as dis
tinguished from a special influence,
now enjoyed by any man. or any
group, excepting agriculture and
labor.”
"The people are tired of all this
loose and nebulous talk about ‘spe
cial privilege,’ ” the letter said.
“Name one special privilege that it
is your purpose, if elected, to de
stroy. Please be specific and confine J
yourself to those that can be cpred I
by statute, by administrative act oi I
by court decision.”
"Special influence.” the Journal
declared, "is quite a different thing
from special privilege.”
Sir Thomas Lipton
Arrives in America;
To Try Again for Cup
NEW YORK. Oct. 23.—Sir Thomas I
Lipton, arriving on the Levia-I
than, reiterated his intention of chai- I
lenging for the America’s cup in •
1925. premier yachting prize of the ;
world. Sir Thomas ’was met at quar-;
antine by Police Commissioner En- '
right and a group of prominent men ;
on the yacht Florida and conveyed I
directly to the Columbia Yacht club ■
on the Hudson.
Sir Thomas warded off questions :
as to details of the expected chal
lenge for 1925 by remarking with a I
smile “what's the use of America
getting the cup or keeping it? She
has nothing to put in it.”
Sir Thomas will make his head
quarters in New York during his
brief visit, on whic hhe will combine
business with pleasure.
I
100.000 or 150,000 bales above that.
The Commercial Appeal, of Mem
phis. today estimated the crop at
12.771.000 bales, on a condition of
55.7. or 172.000 l«ale s above its last
figure of 12.599,000. This publica
tion has been very close to the act- j
ual outturn for several years.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, October 25, 1924
TELLS HOW CONSUL IMBRIE
WAS STONED TO DEATH AS HE
LAY ON OPERATING TABLE
Former Minister to Persia
Says Natives Were En
raged by Attempt to Take
Pictures of Miracle Foun
tain
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—How Rob
ert Imbrie, American consul at
Teheran, was stoned to death by na
tives as he lay unconscious on an
operating table, was related today
by Joseph F. Kornfeld, United States
minister to Persia, resigned, who
Returned on the Leviathan with a
report of the tragedy which be will
submit to the state department at
Washington.
"In Teheran, as in most Persian
cities,” Mr. Kornfeld related, "there
are numerous drinking fountains,
where are stationed self-constituted
attendants, who, in the name of a
Mohammedan saint, Abbas, solicit
alms. At the time of the Imbrie
affair, there had been given wide
circulation a story of a miracle that
was reputed to have occurred at
one of these fountains only a few
weeks before.
"The story was that a native ap
proached this fountain to fill a
gourd with water. Tn the name of
Abbas?’ asked the alms solicitor. ‘No,
in the name of Bahai,’ replied the
gourdbearer. Straightway he was
stricken blind for his blasphemy;
then as he descended to his knees
and ranted with a prayer of apology
directed to the. saint, Abbas, his sight
was restored.
Thousands Gather at Fountain
“The fountain became a. r thering
place of thronged thousands, who
tied themselves to it and lapped up
the trickling water, or fought their
way toward it and prayed.
"Imbrie heard of this. One day
WIFE OF DOHENY
GIVES TESTIMONY
IN TEAPOT PROBE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23—Mrs. E.
L. Doheny, wife of the oil magnate,
called to the stand today by the gov
ernment in its suit for the cancella
tion of contracts and leases in the
Elk Hills naval reserves, testified
the missing signature torn from the
promissory note for SIOO,OOO was in
the possession of Frank J. Hogan,
counsel fur the oil magnate.
jj. L. Doheny, Sr., and his son, E.
L. Doheny, Jr., when called to the
witness stand, made formal state
ments refusing to testify, on the
ground that any evidence they might
give might be used against them in
the trials pending following their in
dictments in Washington, D. C.
The note with the signature miss
ing previously had been introduce!
and the handwriting on it had been
identified as that of Albert B. Fall,
former secretary of the interior. The
not was made payable to Edward L.
Doheny.
The government charges this note
was a receipt for SIOO,OOO given Fall
in a little bag in connection with an
alleged conspiracy to fraudulently
grant to the Doheny concern leases
out of which Doheny estimated a,
profit of $100,000,000 would accrue
to his interests.
Owen J. Roberts. government
prosecutor, introduced the note as
an exhibit of the government noting
that the portion on which the signa
ture should have been, had been torn
off. The text of the note follows:
“November 30, 1921. On demand
I promise to pay to the or
der of E. 1,. Doheny one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) at New
York or Los Angeles, value receiv
ed at interests.”
Following presentation of the note
Roberts introduced cattle vouchers
signed by Fall and other evidence
to indicate that Fall went from
Washington to El Paso immediately
after the time dated in the note.
Toward the close or yesterday’s
session, Former Senator Atlee Pom?-
rene, of the government counsel,
called to the stand Graham Young,
treasurer of Blair & Co., New York
investment securities firm, with
which the elder Doheny and his son
had accounts.
Over the objection of defense coun
sel, Mr. Pomerene drew from the
witness a description of how E. L.
Doheny. Jr., had notified him on
November 30, 1921, that he would call
that day to draw $100,000; how this
SIOO,OOO in currency was turned over
to the younger Doheny in a confer
ence room of Blair & Co., and how
Doheny "put it in a little black
satchel.’'
Next the government counsel
brought out from Charles L. Little,
assistant teller of the firm, that
about one month later the younger
Dobeny’s account with Blair & Co.,
was up over $190,000 again and that
most of this amount came from
Doheny, Sr.
Cross-examination of the witness
by .Frank J. Hogan, chief counsel
for the defendant, Pan-American
Petroleum and Transport company,
however, brought out that it was not
unusual for Doheny, Jr., to have con
siderable sums on deposit which
came from his father. • I
Mr. Pomerene declared he would j
introduce testimony to show that the •
SIOO,OOO was paid to Fall the day i
after the younger Doheny drew the :
money.
Other government witnesses at ■
yesterday’s meeting were Command- 1
er 11. A. Stuart, U. S. N-, formerly '
chief of the navy department’s fuel >
oil bureau, and Commander Erwin ;
F. Landis, inspector of naval oil re
serves i : : California.
Their testimony was designed to '
show that there was friction and di
vergence of opinion among naval of- ■
ficers concerning the granting of I
Elk Hills leases and that Fall grant- '
ed the leases and contracts to Do
heny int-rests without the consent '
cf those officials supposed to be di- i
reetly responsible for the fuel oil j
supply of the navy and the operation i
of the California oil reserves.
he strapped on a camera and, with
his aid, named Seymour, drove in
a barouche to the miracle spot. Im
brie forced his way through the
crowd to take a photograph. The
natives surged around him, clamor
ing, and he fled to the barouche and
drove away.
“Behind the carriage the infuriat
ed natives ran shouting; ‘Stop him.
The Infidel has killed four of the
faithful and poisoned the waters of
the fountain!’”
Although he was not wholly in
formed of events that immediately
followed. Mr. Kornfeld said, the gist
of conflicting reports was that the
natives believed Imbrie’s camera to
be a weapon which silently dispatch
ed death.
Imbrie’s Aid Mauled
"They overhauled Seymour in an
alleyway where he had taken ref
uge, and mauled him,” he continued.
“They pursued Imbrie into a tea
shop; they clubbed and stoned him
until the police rescued him and car
ried him to a hospital.
"Even then the outraged natives
were not satisfied. They clamored
for Imbrie’s life in atonement to
their Mohammedan saint Abbas.
They stormed the hospital, batter
ed down the doors and, finding Im
brie unconscious upon an operat
ing table, tore the tiles from the
floor and crushed out his life with
them.”
The state department already was
in possession of evidence support
ing the story he related, said Mr.
Kornfeld. As for reports that Im
brie's death was the result of a long
drawn conflict between oil interests
of several nations, he declared it was
“fanaticism, not oil,” that lay at
the bottom of the tragedy.
After reporting at Washington.
Mr. Kornfeld will go to Toledo,
Ohio, to assume charge of a syna
gogue.
WEDDING OF HIGH
GEORGIAN ID N.Y.
GIRL POSTPONED
BALLSTON SPA, N. Y., Oct. 23.
The wedding of William 11. Shippen,
a millionaire lumberman of Ellijay,
Ga., and Miss Helena A. Jenkins, 27-
year old (daughter of B. F. Jenkins,
wealthy lumber dealer of this city,
scheduled for tonight, has been post
poned indefinitely, according to
members o£ ( the Jenkins family.
Members of the Jenkins family re
fused today to comment on the dis
rupted plans. Mr. Shippen, who is
53 years old, and widower with five
children, had been a close friend of
the Jenkins family for many.years,
it was said. The engagement was
announced three months ago.
Mr. Shippen arrived here Tuesday
morning and went through a rehear
sal of a church wedding with Miss
Jenkins on Tuesday evening. To
day he was on his way back to Geor
gia alone.
Kidnaped When Baby,
Soldier Finds Mother
After Eighteen Years
TAYLORVILLE, 111., Oct. 23.
After being lost to her eighteen
years, Leon Humphrey, 26, found
his mother, Mrs. Charles Collins, of
Kincaid, Wednesday in Taylorville.
When Humphrey was two years
old he was kidnaped by a man
thought to be his father, deserted in
California, and, finally joined the
army in the Philippines.
Inquiries for relatives and
searchers were made in Indiana, Illi
nois and California by Red Cross
units.
The reunion came at a local rail
road station.
Man and Girl Killed
By Huge Rock Slide
While Exploring Cave
AMARILLO. Tex., Oct. 23.—Miss
Alice Miller, 19, and Carroll Brown,
26, both of Ros-well, N. M., were
crushed to death yesterday when
several tons of rock caved in on
them while they were exploring a
cave in Lost River, 12 miles north
east of Roswell, according to word
received here today.
The bodies were recovered today
from the cave by members of Bat
tery A., New Mexico artillery, and
taken to Roswell.
Little Girl Is Killed
By Fall Off Side of
Lookout Mountain
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 23.
Elizabeth Sims Smartt, four-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed
mondson Sznartt, plunged to her
death Wednesday from the palisades
of Lookout mountain while playing
along the cliffs. Her skull was frac
tured and her body badly crushed by
the fall of about one hundred feet
and was dead when rescuers reached
her.
The Weather
Forecast for Saturday:
Virginia.—Fair with rising tem
perature.
North Carolina. —Fair; somewhat
warmer.
South Carolina, Georgia.—Fair;
slightly warmer.
Florida: Partly cloudy, probably
showers in extreme south portion;
little change in temperature.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama. Mississippi.—Fair; slightly
warmer.
Tennessee, Kentucky.—Fair, with
slowly rising temperature.
Louisiana. —Fair, warmer.
Arkansas and Oklahoma.—Fair,
rising temperature.
East Texas.—Fair; farmer.
West Texas.—Fair, warmer in east
portion.
»CJKMa A COPY.
$1 A YEAR.
G. 0. P. CONCEALING
WAR CHEST GIFTS.
UNTERMYER SAYS
Suspicious When List Fails
to Reveal Names of
Gary and Morgan
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—With a
view to determining whether there
have been "concealed” contributions
from big business men to the Re
publican campaign funds, Samuel
Untermyer asked the senate inves
tigating committee today • to sub
poena the Republican state chair
men of New York, New Jersey.
Ohio and Illinois.
Mr. Untermyer, who is associate
counsel for Senator La Follette,
said it was strange that there were
I missing from the official Republican
1 lists the names of such men as El
| bert H. Gary, of the United States
I Steel corporation; J. P. Morgan, the
Rockefellers and officers of the
"great Standard Oil interests,” all
“recognized Republicans.”
Chairman Borah, of the commit
tee, announced that the request
would be granted and the state
chairmen named would be called to
Washington.
SIOO,OOO to Beat Walsh
Mr. Untermyer also submitted a
telegram from Senator Thomas J.
Walsh, Montana, saying it was
rumored that SIOO,OOO would be sent
to Montana to be used against him,
in his campaign for re-election. The
telegram, dated at Poplar, Mont.,
October 20, and addressed to Frank
P. Walsh said:
“Rumored that SIOO,OOO coming to
Montana to be used against me, not
passing, however, through either na
tional committeeman or chairman
Republican committee. Kindly ques
tion carefully concerning remit
tances to this state.’’ i
When Mr. Untermyer called atten
tion to the absence of the names
of a number of capitalists from the
list of Republican contributors Sen
ator Borah remarked:
“I am mighty glad their names
are missing.”
“If they are really missing,” in
terjected Untermyer.
“We will try to find that out,” re
plied Senator Borah.
Bank Executive Next
Fred N. Shepherd, executive man
ager of the American Bankers’ as
sociation, was the first witness at
today’s session.
“Was there any discussion of
paign contributions at the meetM*
of your association at Chicago re
cently?” asked Senator Borah.
“No,” the. witness answered.
"Was there any discussion on the
part of the Bankers’ association to
raise campaign funds?”
"None.”
Shepherd said he knew of no bank
ers who had contributed to campaign
funds except those whose names he
had seen in the papers. He person
ally had made no contributions, he
added.
Frank P. Walsh took over exami
nation. He made reference to the
American Bankers’ league and asked
if it was not the organization that
handled for the bankers’ political
and legislative matters.
“I don’t know,” Shepherd said.
“Do you know whether this league
'maintains a lobby in Washington?”
“I don’t know.”
"You do know that they have an
office in Washington?”
“I understand so.”
Tax ITan Still Alive
Walsh then read a letter written
by the league to its members re
garding the Mellon tax plan. It said
President Coolidge had publicly an
nounced that he would resubmit the
Mellon plan next month and that
the league was making a survey of
the situation with reference to con
gress and asked for suggestions.
The letter was dated last July 31.
Shepherd said the committee ought
o question Charles De B. Clalbourne,
of the Whitney Central National
bank, of New Orleans, whom he de
scribed as a “disgruntled committee
man of our association.”
Walsh asked again about the Chi
cago convention of the American
Bankers’ association, but Shepherd
insisted that his association did not
discuss political contributions. He
added that the association bad no
control over what was said by those
who addressed it.
"Was there any discussion of curb
ing of the activities of Robert M. La
Follette ”
“Reference was made to La Fol
lette, but I can't answer categorical
ly. You will find the answer in the
file that is before you.”
The witness was referring to the
minutes of the convention of the
bankers’ association. '
Terms Charge “Fiction”
Walsh then read a letter written
to Senator La Follette by T. Cardan,
of Philadelphia, in which the writer
said he had been informed by a
banker attending the association’s
convention that a suggestion was
made that trust companies give to
the Republican campaign fund sums
equal to one-twentieth of one per
cent of their capital and national
banks one-tenth of one per cent of
their capital.
“I regard that as pure fiction,”
Shepherd said.
Shepherd said the only official dec
laration by the bankers’ association
was contained in a resolution adopt
ed and which said “the exigencies
of the campaign” require that the
full vote of the country be polled.
The resolution also declared that “a
particularly large and dangerous ele
ment of economic fallacy has been
injected in the present national cam
paign,” adding that “the common
sense of the American can be relied
upon to demand the continuance of
sound principles in the conduct ot af
fairs.”
Shepherd testified that the only in
formation he had that a bankers’
committee in New York was collect
ing Republican campaign funds was
what he had read in the newspapers
regarding the proceedings before the
senate commitee. Walsh asked about
letters produced at the Chicago hear
ings soliciting such funds and pur
ported to be signed by George W.
Simmons, vice president of the Me
chanics and Metals National bank.
Shepherd said he did not know Sim
mons, nor had he seen the letter be
fore.
Shepherd Cross Examined
Walsh subjected Shepherd to a
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