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VOL. XXVII. NO. 8
NATION'S BUSINESS
. TO BE HALTED FOR
WALLAGE FUNERAL
Services to Be Held in White
House Monday—Presi
dent to Attend
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The na
tion’s business will halt four hours
Monday, while the capital pays offi
cial tribute to the late secretary of
agriculture. Henry C. Wallace, who
died Saturday.
Funeral services will be held in
the east room of the White House
at 11 o’clock. Government offices
have been closed by proclamation
between 9 and 1.
President and Mrs. Coolidge, mem
bers of the cabinet, high officers of
the army and navy, the diplomatic
corps, officials of the department of
agriculture and relatives and friends
of the Wallace family will be pres
ent at the service, which will be
conducted by Dr. Wallace Radcliffe,
pastor of the church Mr. Wallace at
tended here.
The ceremonies will be simple, con
sisting of the singing of two psalms
and the reading of a short sermon.
After they are concluded, all em
ployes of the department of agricul
ture will be admitted to the east
room to pass by the body.
Funeral at Des Moines
At 3 o’clock Monday afternoon the
funeral party will leave here for Des
Moines, la.-, residence of the late sec
retary, where the body will be in
terred at private service.
The cabinet will secort it to the
station, and Secretary of the Inte
rior Work will accompany the party
to Des Moines as the official repre
sentative of the president.
Included in the party will be Mrs.
Wallace and daughter, Ruth, who
were here when Mr. Wallace died,
and three sons and one other daugh
ter, ■who were rushing to the capi
tal when word reached them that
their father was dead.
All flags on government buildings
will be half masted until after the
funeral ceremonies at Des Moines.
Administration of the affairs of
the agriculture department has for
the time being been placed by the
president in the hands of Dr. Charles
F. Marvin, director of the United
States weather bureau in the absence
of Assistant Secretary Howard M.
Gore.
Mr. Wallace is the first cabinet of
ficer to die in office since the death
of Henry Payne, postmaster general
J during the first Roosevelt adminis
tration.
In the hospital comforting Mrs.
Wallace and her daughter through
out the day was Mrs. Weeks, wife
of the secretary of war, and James
C. Davis, director of the railroad
administration, and Mrs. Davis, close
friends of the family.
As soon as Mrs. Wallace return-
‘ ed to her home from the hospital,
President and Mrs. Coolidge called 1
upon her to offer their condolences. !
Coolidge’s Condolences
Later, in a. letter to Mrs. Wallace,'
the president said:.
“I am writing to you of the
shock and of the great sorrow that
has come to Mrs. Coolidge and my
self with the news of your distin
guished husband’s death. Though -we
had followed with much solicitude
the reports from the beginning of
his illness, it had not seemed pos
sible, until very near the end, that
this great loss could come to the
country.
• “I do not need to tell you that all
of us- who had been associated so
long with him share with you in the
sorrow which this hour has brought.
His loss will be indeed a grief to the
entire nation, for his fine qualities
and able, untiring services had en
deared him to all the people. Com
ing from private life to the post of
secretary of agriculture at a time
in which its administration was ■
surrounded by acute and unprece- (
dented difficulties, he brought a
particularly effective equipment of
wisdom, industry and executive
capacity. Through their unsparing
application he achieved a splendid
* series of successes in behalf of the
restoration and rehabilitation of this
supremely important national inter
est. His work has won for him the
unstinted confidence of all citizens
as his high character and appeal
ing personal qualities gained for
him the affection of all who enjoyed
the privilege of intimacy with him.
Among the expressions of regret
over Mr. Wallace’s death was a
‘ statement by Secretary Weeks,
which said:
“It hast been my privilege to have
enjoyed a close personal friendship
with Secretary Wallace during the
Harding and Coolidge administra
tions. In addition to uur service to
gether in the cabinet, we were mem
bers of the federal power commis
sion. Thia commission met frequent
ly and our duties in connection with
this activity brought us into a most
Intimate relationship. Mr. Wallace
was a man of high character and
ability. I shall mourn him as a good
friend ami an abk public servant. ’’
“To you and the others of his
family I extend for Mrs. Coolidge
»nd myself the profoundcst of con
dolences. We want you to know
that we share with you alike in
your sorrow, and in the pride that
must be yours as you contemplate
the splendid legacy that his great
career has left to you ami to all
. who arc nearest to him."
Letter Urging Rebellion
In Britain Is Branded
"Impudent Forgery ’
MOSCOW. Oct. 26 —M. Zinocieff
today telegraphed Christian Rakov
sky, Russian charge in London, de-
* nouneing the alleged letter urging
« rebellion by the British commun
ist as an "impudent forgery."
Tim government tonight is dis
patching a note to Great Britain
demanding satisfaction and an apol
ogy and proposing arbitration to
establish the persons guilty of the
forgery as well as the procedure to
he taken against them.
,’Z dij not have any previous un
derstanding (prior to the seizure of
Pekin) with Chang Tso Lin."
Feng said the fate of Tsao Kun
would be decidedly by « lawfully
organized national assembly.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. ln midst of
campaign worries. President Cool
idge has had thrust upon him the job
of listening to bitter controversy be
tween Washington renters and land
lords.
MEXICO CITY. Foreign office
\ and Japanese legation unofficially
deny reports concerning presence
in Lower California of Japanese gen
eral staff with project for colonizing
20,000 Japanese near Mexicali.
OYSTER BAY; nTy. Mrs. Theo
dore Roosevelt, taking part in a pub
i lie ceremonial for the first time
I since late president’s death, is made
an honorary vice president of the
Girl Scouts of America.
NEW YORK.—Public offering of
$30,000,000 Swedish loan, negotia
tions for which were closed with
Swedish government, will be made
early this week by syndicate headed
by National City bank.
WASHINGTON?^President Cool
idge at Golden Rule dinner of the
Near East Relief association, de
clares "America wants to help Eu
rope to help itself.”
NEW YORK. John W. Davis,
I Democratic presidential candidates,
‘ on return from final western cam
paign, declares Democrats will win
presidential election and control con
gress.
j DES MOINES. Attorney Gen
eral Stone in a campaign speech says
proposed La Follette supreme court
amendment would if adopted “create
in congress a centralized political or
ganization not unlike the Roman
empire.”
NEW YORK. Prince of Wales
sails for home aboard Olympic.
MEXICO CITY. Mexico com
pletely severe relations with Great
Britain by ordering closed Mexican
| consulates in London, Liverpool and
j Glasgow.
CHARLOTTE. New automobile
speed record is made here by Bennett
Hill, of New York, who drives around
new oval at 126.4 miles an hour.
CLEMSON, S. C.—Twenty-three
seniors are dismissed, and 112 others
are suspended for rest of year by
board of trustees of Clemson college
for participation in walkout.
PEKIN. Chinese cabinet resigns
i after countersigning mandate of
President Tsao Kun order cessation
of hostilities.
LONDON - . British foreign office
accuses Soviet government of
further spreading propaganda, citing
letter to central committee of British
I Communist party from president of
; committee of Communist Internaion-
I ale urging subversion of British
| forces and overthrow of government.
TIENTSIN. —General Wu Pei Fu,
deposed marshal of the Pekin gov
ernment, is marching on the capital
to drive out his former subordinate,
Feng Yu Hsiang, who seized the city
last Thursday.
LAKEHURST. America's two
great dirigibles, the Shenandoah,
home from her transcontinental
trip, and the ZR-3, are berthed to
gether in a hangar that would ac
commodate a third big airs.np.
General
William G. Haan, retired, who com
i manded the Thirty-Second division
I in France, dies.
I
Steamer and Cargo
Os Lumber Destroyed
By Fire in Florida
PENSACOLA, Fla., Oct. 26.—Tele
phone messages Sunday from-Pana
ma City, report that the big fire
which raged there for hours on the
docks was at last quenched. The
Italian steamship Valdarno, which
was a total loss, had 1,100,000 feet
of lumber aboard, in addition to
about 300 barrels of rosin. Approxi
mately 1,200,000 feet of lumber piled
on the wharf was destroyed also.
| About 400 feet of the loading wharf
i was either burned completely or
J badly damaged. The Valdrano had
no steam in her boiler at the time
• of the fire, it is said, and there were
, no tugs in the bay at the time to pull
the vessel to safety.
The fire originated on the wharf,
it was learned, and did not start on
board the steamship as first report
i ed. The wind at the time was blow-
■ ing briskly from the north and this
• was considered fortunate, in that
it saved a million dollar sawmill
plant of the St. Andrews Bay Lum
ber company close by. Three hun
dred volunteer firemen worked all
night to confine the fire to the
docks. Estimates of the loss have
not been completed but it is said
the steamship was worth approxi
mately $650,000 and the lumber un
officially estimated at $500,000.
Searching for Wife,
Husband Discovers
He Has Killed Her
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—When Allen
j Moore, 30. a clerk, waited three
i hours to see the wife he had killed
less than 24 hours before, police ar
rested him on suspicion.
“You'll find your wife in the
, mofgue,” he was told.
Yesterday, in a frenzy of anger,
1 j Moore had slashed her about "the
j throat and arms. She died a few
i hours later.
; “I didn’t know I killed her.’’ the
grief stricken husband sobbed.
Police believe Moore murdered his
i wife while intoxicated.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: fair.
: North Carolina: Fair and slightly
■ • warmer.
South Carolina: Fair and slightlv
warmer; fresh northerly winds di
i minishing.
Georgia: Fair, moderate norther-
• ly winds.
Florida: Generally fair; little
» • change in temperature.
Extreme northwest Florida. Ala
bama. Mississippi: Fair.
' | Tennessee and Kentucky; Fair.
Louisiana: Fair,
i Arkansas. Oklahoma and east
Toxas: Fair.
West Texas: Fair.
WASHINGTON—A general in
crease of production of basic com
modities, factory employment and
distribution of merchandise in Sep
tember and a considerable increase
in borrowing for commercial pur
poses in September and early Octo
ber is noted In a federal reserve
board statement.
RENO.—Ruins of a buried c’ty
have been uncovered by an explora
tion party headed by Governor
James G. Scrugham, the governor
announces in a telegram from Beat
ty, Nev.
MOSCOW.—Soviet government of
ficially brands as forgery letter pur
ported to have been written by M.
Zinovieff, president of executive
committee of Communist interna
tional, to British Communists and
urging overthrow of government,
against which British foreign office
has protested formally.
WASHINGTON?—President Cool
idge praises tendency of charitable
organizations to adopt business
methods in radio address to Federa
tion of Jewish Philanthropic societies
at New York.
NEW YORK.—Lew Dockstader,
famous minstrel man, dies, aged 68.
DUBLIN, Ireland. —Eamon de-
Valera is arrested outside hall at
Londonderry, where he planned to
deliver speech.
NEW YORK. —After attempting to
smuggle their way into United States
from Hong Kong in packing boxes,
one Chinese dies upon arrival in
New York and his six companions
are in critical condition from mal
nutrition. •
NEW YORK.—President-elect Cal
les, of Mexico, returning from
Europe, is welcomed at New York
by representatives of city, state de
partment, United States army and
Mexican embassy at Washington.
NEW YORK.—Soldiers are rush
ed from Governor’s Island to fight
forest fires, threatening government
arsenal at Dover, N. J., in which
high explosives are stored.
ELIZABETH, N. J. —One man dies
and four others are being treated for
delirium as result, physicians say, of
breathing gas in research laboratory
of Standard Oil company here.
WASHINGTON. Secretary
Hoovers calls conference of police of
ficials and civic organizations De
cember 15-17 to co-ordinate efforts
to reduce traffic accidents.
WASHINGTON. —In reply to ques
tionnaire of League of Nationas Non
Partisan association only eleven Re
publican senators commit themselves
to support of party’s platform, fa
voring American membership in
world court, while all Democrats
replying favor plan, association an
nounces.
WASHlNGTON.—Democratic na
tional pommittte declares in formal
sattement that President Coolidge
while vice president in May, 1923,
accepted fee of $250 and expenses to
deliver memorial address hafore
patriotic societies at, Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
COLUMBUS, O.—The Reserve Of
ficers’ association recommends to
the war department expansion of the
organized reserve forces to six com
plete field armies supplied with of
ficers and noncommissioned officers
and auxiliary organizations involv
ing 183,000 men.
Tiny Yacht Missing
In
Search Is Ordered
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—At the
request of the board of governors
of the Cruising club, New York, the
state department has requested the
Danish government to institute a
search in the north Atlantic near
Greenland and Iceland for the Amer
ican yacht “Leif Erickson,’’ four
weeks overdue at Battle Harbor Lab
rador.
The tiny craft, a sloop-rigged dou
ble-ender, only 40 feet over all, left
Christiania, Norway, during the sum
mer for the United States via Ice
land, Greenland, Labrador and Nova
Scotia. The last seen of It was at
Reyjavik, Iceland, on October 10.
All that is known of the party
aboard it is the names of the crew
and the fact that the commander
and three members of the cruising
party were American citizens. The
crew was made up of William Wash
burn Nutting, Arthur H. Hillebrandt
and John O. Toda hl Fleischer.
French Official Sees
Trade Reciprocity
As Key to Peace
LYONS. France. Oct. 26. Peace
ful relations between France and
Germany must be resumed by a
fair equilibrium of reciprocal con
cessions. Minister of Commerce Rey
naldy declared in an address before
the congress of foreign trade coun
cillors here Sunday afternoon.
“Mutual consent for trie develop
ment of complementary industries
instead of rival ones,” will be the
underlying idea in the negotiations
between France and Germany which
begin on November 15, Reynaid v
added.
He explained the Impossibility of
making an accord of long duration
at this juncture, since both coun
tries will probably go through a
period of tariff reform.
Injured Ex-Marine,
Dreadinc Operation,
Kills Self With Gas
WASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 25.
Because he was afraid he would
have to go to the hospital again for
treatment of an injure to his leu
Joseph Alton Ward, ‘ twentv, ex
marine, son of Mrs. Alvin Ward, of
■ Cochran, Ga.. committed suicide by
placing an open gas tube in his
mouth Thursday and pulling the
covers over his head.
Ward’s leg was injured after he
was discharged from the marine
corps. He went to the hospital for
treatment. Wednesday, he confided
to a friend that he was afraid he
would have to retu-n to the hospital
“if he lived.”
M hile in M’ashlngton. M’arf! was
employed by a heating company.
DOMESTIC QUARREL
GIVEN IS CAUSE OF
ALABAMA TRAGEDY
Dr. Curtis Johnson, of Mar
shall County. Uses Pistol
With Deadly Effect
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 25.
After killing his wife and two oth
er members of her family, Dr. Curtis
Johnson, practicing physician of
Meltonville, Ala., 15 miles from here,
ended his own life today. He had
been separated from his wife and of
ficials blame domestic troubles for
the tragedy.
The dead besides Mr. Johnson are:
Mrs. Curtis Johnson, his wife.
A. O. Caston, his father-in-law.
Miss Jessie Caston, his sister
in-law.
Mrs. A. O. Caston, his mother-in
law. was shot and dangerously
wounded. She was brought here for
treatment.
According to investigating officers,
Dr. Johnson went to the home of his
father-in-law and without a w’ord
opened fire with a revolver. His
wife and sister-in-law were killed in
stantly.
Mr. Caston was shot three times
while trying to protect members of
the family. He died while being
rushed to a Guntersville hospital.
Mrs. Caston lived only a short time
after being wounded.
Without injuring two of his chil
dren, who were present, Dr. John
son is then reported to have backed
against a wall and fired a bullet
into his own brain.
Dr. Johnson was a brother of state
Senator Joe Johnson, who brought
the first news of the shooting to
Guntersville when he came for the
coroner. Senator Johnson stated
that his brother had been brooding
over his domestic troubles. The
doctor and his wife had been separat
ed for three months. They had five
children, two of whom are students
at the State Agricultural school at
Albertville.
GIMMIE PILE
NAMED TEMPORARY
PREMIEROF ■
PEKIN, Oct. 26.—The new cabi
net organized following the resig
nation of the government of Presi
dent Tsao Kun was announced to
night as follows:
Temporary premier and minister
of foreign affairs, C. T. Wang,
graduate of Yale university.
Communications, Huang Fu, for
mer minister of education; finance,
Kung Hsi Chow; army, Li Shu
Cheng; education, Li Shih Tseng;
commerce, Wang Nai Ping, a close
friend of Marshal _Chang Tso Lin,
the Manchu leader; permanent pre
mier, Chang Shou Tseng, who was
premier under Li Yuan Hung.
AGREEMENT ON SUCCESSOR
TO PRESIDENT IS SEEN
By Moto Takata
OSAKA, Japan, Oct. 26.—Tuan
Chi Jui, head of the Anfu club, may
come to the presidency of China,
replacing Tsao Kun with tiie sup
port of both Chang Tso Lin, the
Manchu war lord, and Feng Yu
Hsiang, Christian general, whose
coup d'etat forced resignation of the
Pekin regime, according to corre
spondents of Mainichi.
“I have thought from the first
that peace In China can be obtained
when all generals and the popula
tion support the president, Marshal
Chang said. Tsao Kun did not have
this support.
"Tuan Chi Jui is a capable and
adequate leader and will accomplish
peace. I will support him co-oper
ating with General Feng Yu
Hsiang.”
Feng, in an interview with a cor
respondent of the same newspaper
said: "I think Tuan Chi Jui is an
adequate leader but who shall be
come president cannot be said to
day. Tuan is not planning to enter
Pekin in the immediate future but
he is being informed fully of de
velopments.
GENERAL WU PLANNING
NEW THRUST AT PEKIN
LONDON, Oct. 26.—A Central
News dispatch from Tientsin states
that General Wu Pei Fu, the Chihli
leader, has returned to Tientsin and
is preparing to march on Pekin to
drive out General Feng Yu Hsiang,
who is in control there.
The report states Wu Pei Fu's
offensive on the Shanghaikwan
front was successful enough to al
low him to leave the remaining op
erations to his subordinates on the
staff, while he will personally con
duct the new offensive against
Pekin.
“Phony” Investigator
Is Held for Fraud
NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—A man giv
ing his name as J. T. Clemens, but
who refused to tell police where he
lived, was being held in $1,500 bail
on a charge of obtaining money un
der false pretenses from immigrants
on Ellis island.
Clemens, police said, carried cards
reading: “Investigator. United States
district court.’’ It was charged he
would obtain sums from 25 cents to
$25. from immigrants, promising to
purchase articles for them.
McAdoo on Way to
His California Home
NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—William G.
McAdoo, aspirant for the Democrat
ic presidential nomination and who
was recently a patient in a Balti
more hospital, was en route for his
home in California today.
McAdoo left here last night and
was due in Chicago late today. His
i stay in that city will be brief as
he intends to leave on the first avail
| able train for the west coast.
DAVIS VICTORY ASSURED,
CHAIRMAN SHAVER SAYS
AFTER CHECK-UP OF STATES
SHENANDOAH BACK
HHEII HOME POUT
AFTER RECORD TRIP
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 26
The navy dirigible, Shenandoah,
came to earth at its home station
here just at midnight Saturday, aft
er a journey of 9,000 miles across
the country and back, which had
taken MUdays and a half.
ABO AR D U.~S.sTi EN ANDO AH,
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 25. —(By Radio
to Fort Hayes.)—A new era in the
history of lighter-than-air navigation
was written tonight when the big
navy airship Shenandoah hovered
gracefully over its home hangar at
Lakehurst. N. J., completing 'its re
markable and record-breaking nine
thousand-mile cruise.
Not only were the world’s records
of achievement broken, but a great
er thrill came to the country from
the fact that the first American
built rigid airship had made the first
voyage across the United States and
returned. The test of ship and of
men, a test as severe as any ship
ever faced, has been successfully
met.
The Shenandoah cast off from the
mooring mast at Lakehurst and
started its long cruise at 10 a. m.,
October 7. At 11 o’clock tonight,
445 hours had passed since the start.
In that time the Shenandoah had
been flying with its engines ruhning
for 257 hours and 38 minutes, and
moored to masts for 187 hotArs and
25 minutes. The latter includes
five days, or 120 hours, that the ship
was being repaired.
None of the precious helium was
lost by difficulties during the voy
age. All that escaped was valved
to permit landing or set free by au
tomatic safety valves under the ex
pansion of the high altitudes.
For every minute through the en
tire ship was able to main
tain constant radio communication
with the land, frequently with sta
tions several thousand miles distant.
Weather reports, official messages,
instructions as to mooring hours and
thousands of words of press mes
sages were sent and received. New
discoveries in the possibilities of radio
communication from high altitudes
were made. All of the radio equip
ment carried on board was manu
factured at the Bellevue experiment
al laboratory, Washington, many of
the technicalities of which never had
been tried out before and their suc
cess was evident.
As remarkable as the effectiveness
of the radio apparatus, was the
promptness with which communica
tion was in almost every
part of the United States. Thou
sands of radio amateur* picked up
the ships’ messages and relayed
them to their destination. One of
these amateurs was bed-ridden, and
not a few were retired telegraph or
radio operators keeping their wrists
limber and nightly talking through
space with acquaintances they had
never seen and knew only by call in
San Diego.
The actual flying time between
cities, deducting the time taken in
locating the mooring masts through
the fogs, were 235 hours and 11 min
utes, The fastest express trains be
tween the same cities make the run
in 272 hours and 30 minutes, also de
ducting the time for connections.
The-Jive 300 horsepower motors of
the ship ran without a stop during
sailing hours. The shortest voyage
between cities was a 36-hour period.
For most of the cruise the motors
were turning over at 1,200 revolu
tions per minute.
During the few critical hours
when the big heavily-loaded ship was
crossing the crest of the Rockies at
a height of 7,200 feet, the engines
were roaring a t 1,400 revolutions per
minute. Had a single one hesitated,
the navy’s pride of the air probably
would be resting today a ruined
wreck in a moutain chasm.
Fuel consumption, including a
small amount of the radio generator
and the cooking range, averaged a
gallon per mile. The twenty im
mense gas cells, each from 15,000 to
20,000 cubic feet capacity inside of
the long silvered tube of the ship,
stood up equally well.
Yesterday’s voyage was bumpy,
the ship rising and falling in long
glides, 1,000 feet between crest and
trough. An average speed of 55
miles an hour was maintained. En
ginemen in their cramped cabin
gave an extra turn to their motors
for home "when the mooring mast
came in sight. The men experienced
the same thrill at the sight of the
mooring mast at Lakehurst as nur
soldiers did when passing the statue
of Liberty on their return from
France.
Gen. Amos Stickney
In Sherman’s Forces,
Dead in New York
| NEW YORK. Oct. 26—Brigadier
General Amos Stickney, United
t States army, retired, is dead at his
- : home here at the age of SI. Death
1 i was caused by pneumonia.
‘ j General Stickney, whose military
5 service was spent mostly in the
: corps of'engineers, was born in St.
5 | Louis, August IS. 1843. He entered
5 West Point in 1860, graduating in
» 1564. His first assignment was
> with General Sherman.
> j Funeral services will be held
[ Monday morning and burial will he
, at rhe United States military acad
■ emy at West Point.
Blease Spent Nothing
In Senatorial Campaign
- j WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.—C01e L.
’ I Elease, Democratic senatorial nomi-
• ' nee in South Carolina, reported to
• the secretary of the senate today he
had spent nothing in his campaign
I and received no contributions. Wil
s liam N. Doak, Republican, of Vir
ginia. who is opposing Senator Glass,
reported he had spent nothing ard
received no contributions.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, October 28, 1924
VET SALS COOLIDGE
CHARGED A FEE FOB
MEMORIALADDRESS
-
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. —Charges
that Calvin Coolidge, while vice
president, required a fee of $250 be
fore making a memorial address in
Bridgeport, Conn., were made at a
luncheon in Jersej' City Saturday.
John J. Devine, former lieutenant
and wearer of the croix de Guerre,
made the charges before an audience
of leaders of the Hudson County
I Veterans’ league.
The memorial address referred to
took place on May 27, 1923, at a
Bridgeport theater. Other speakers
gave their services, but Devine con
tends Coolidge "commercialized his
patriotism.”
Friends of President Coolidge point
out that if he did receive the fee,
it was in keeping with the practice
of men in public life to derive re
muneration for addresses they make
on such occasions.
ACTION BRANDED INSULT
TO MEMORY OF HEROES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The
charge by a Bridgeport, Conn., vet
eran that President Coolidge in 1923,
when still vice president, charged
$250 to deliver a memorial day ad
dress to a veterans’ society drew
the fire of the Democratic national
committee here today in a formal
statement.
“The disclosure that President
Coolidge, when vice president, exact
ed a fee of $250 and expenses for
the delivery of a memorial address
under the auspices of the United
Patriotic Societies of Bridgeport,
Conn., May 27, 1923, will shock the
sensibilities of the American peo
ple,” the statement said.
“They cannot fail to classify
a transaction as a sordid indiffer
ence to the memory of the dead and
an insult to the soldiers and sailors
living who offered their lives in de
fense of their country.
“President Coolidge’s attitude to
ward the service men, when money
in his own pocket was involved, can
not but be contrasted with the fine
phrases he uttered when he voted
the soldier bonus bill.
“In that veto message he said:
‘Patriotism which is bought and paid
for it is not patriotism. Patriotism
can neither be bought nor sold. It
is not for hire or salary. Our coun
try has maintained the principle
that our government is established
for something higher and finer than
to permit those who are charged with
the responsibility of office, or any
class whose favor they might seek,
to get what they can out of it.’
‘.‘The patriotism of a man who
leaves his home and country and of
fers his life in shock of battle may
not be bought or compensated, -but
that of a vice president has its
price, albeit the cheap price of $250
for an evening of phrases on
the heroism of the* soldiers who
raised the money to pay' his fee.
“Evidence that Vic© President
Coolidge did this mercenary thing
is indisputable. Everybody else do
nated his or her services for the
meeting.
"Can the American people imagine
Lincoln, Roosevelt or Wilson exact
ing a fee from soldiers or sailors for
delivering a memorial address. Yet
Mr. Coolidge, after a period of hag
gling, declined to go for his mere
expenses, although he was in Massa
chusetts nearby and the expense
was small, consented to make a
‘patriotic’ address at a memorial
service for dead soldiers and sail
ors for $250 and expenses.”
PAIR OF ELOPERS,
84 AND 14, SOUGHT
BY OHIO POLICE
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 25.
Police of southern Ohio and north
ern Kentucky have been asked to
search for A. C. Campbell, eighty
four, who is believed to have eloped
with his fourteen-year-old grand
daughter, Catherine Walling, of
Long Run, Ky.
Campbell is the father of seven
teen children by two former mar
riages, and according to his daugh
ter, Mrs. Milly Walling, mother at
Catherine, "fell madly in love with
the little girl and insisted that he
be permitted to marry her.”
“Father was visiting us afrid we
noticed he was paying attention to
Catherine,’’ Mrs. Walling told po
lice, “but we didn't think anything
of it until he asked Mr. Walling to
consent to their marriage.”
Walling laughed at him, but when
he found the older man was in earn
est he locked his daughter in her
room. She contrived to get away
and the two disanpeared.
They were believed to .have gone
to Campbell’s horn© in Burlington,
Ohio, but poliefe there say the Camp
bell home is closed up.
German Soldiers Are
Called to Prevent
'Rioting in Elections
BERLIN, Oct. 26.—Orders placing
the German army in a state of read
iness and recalling all detached
groups to their garrisons were is
sued Sunday afternoon.
measures are being taken
to avoid the possibility of election
riots, or a subsequent coup d’etat
by some disappointed electoral
group, and are not based on any
specific information pointing to dis
order.
The army will henceforth be used
for policing, being ready to act in
any emergency. So-called Spanish
riders—barbed wire entanglements—
are also being constructed in several
places to aid maintenance of order
during the tampaign and election.
BAGGY TROUSERS
MUTE EVIDENCE IN
ANNULMENT PLEA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—A bag
gy pair of long trousers, with the
slack in the seat taken in by a |
large safety pin, was offered to the
district supreme court Saturday by
Claude Boswell, an under-sized six
teen-year-old high school boy, as
evidence for the annulment of his
marriage to Dorothy Marine, a pret
ty fourteen-year-old classmate.
The oversize trousers, the youth
ful husband tearfully told court of
ficials, were rented by his irate
mother-in-law to be for his wedding.
He was forced to discard his knick
erbockers and don the breeches and
when they proved too large, he said,
she took up the voluminous seat
with the safety pin.
“Dorothy’s mother threatened to
put me in reform school if I didn't
marry Dorothy,” Claude told the
court after relating the humiliating
story of the safety pin.
The lad’s story of the “Chaplin”
trousers was borne out by the Rev.
W. S. Hammond, of Alexandria, Va.,
who married the young couple.
“I noticed the boy’s clothes seem
ed too large for him and question
ed him about his age,” said the par
son. “But I didn’t notice the safety
pin.”
Claude also charged his mother
in-law, Mrs. Mary Marine, with
having obtained the marriage li
cense, giving his age as 21. This
she denied, saying that Dorothy ob
tained the license with her consent.
She also denied that sjie forced Bos
well into the marriage.
Claude was in knickers when he
went into court with his father to
ask that his short connubial career
be ended.
IVOOILEY ACCUSES
HIGHREPDBLICANOF
BIG LTOSS IN OIL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Tn an
open letter to Postmaster General
New, Robert W. Woolley, di
rector of publicity of the Democratic
national attacked Mr.
New’s charges of graft in the Wil
son administration, made in a speech
Friday at Cleveland, and charged
that ‘‘one of the very highest of
ficials of the Republican administra
tion lost SIBO,OOO speculating in
Mexican, Seaboard, Bethlehem Steel
and Pure Oil.’
"If you do not* know this,” Mr.
Woolley wrote, “your friends, Har
ry M. Daugherty and Charles G.
Dawes can apprise you of the facts.”
Mr. Woolley added that a broker’s
books showed the transactions and
asked:
“We know the facts but for ob
vious reasons of decency we have
refrained from discussing so per
sonal a matter.”
Laura Jean Libbey
Expires at Brooklyn
At Age of 62 Years
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. —Laura Jean
Libbey. widely knqwn woman writ
er, died at 4 o'clodk Saturday in her
Brooklyn home. She had been ill
only a short time. She was born
in this city sixty-two years ago.
Miss Libbey wrote more than
fifty novels and a vast number of
articles and short stories. In all
4ier novels the central theme was
love. She was a favorite author of
the parents and grandparents of the
younger generation of today.
She is survived by her husband,
Van Mater Stillwell, and a sister,
Mrs. Mary E. Taylor.
The best known of her novels are
“Lovers Once, But Strangers Now;”
“That Pretty Young Girl,” “Miss
Middleton’s Lovej’,” “A Forbidden
Marriage,’’ "Olive’s Courtship" and
“When His Love Grew Cold.”
Premier Mussolini
Urges People’s Help
In Restoring Italy
ROME, Oct. 26.—"1t behooves ev
erybody to toil hard for 16 hours a
day if necessary to increase the
power and wealth of Italy,” Pre
mier Mussolini told his audience at
Bustd Arsizio today.
"Every day a stone is added to the
edifice of national restoration. One
day it is a harbor; the next some
reclamation work or the construc
tion of an important highway. We’re
now completing all these undertak
ings after a century of useless talk.”
Mussolini pointed out that much
effort is being directed toward over
coming the short-comings of the
telephone system, which never rank
ed very high among other countries, i
Another Oil Painting
Os Pope Completed
ROME, Oct. 26.—Another life j
size oil painting of the pope has i
been completed, this one being by j
the ItaJo-Argentine painter Palanti. I
The pope consented to pose one hour ;
a day during the week for the paint- |
ing.
The members of the Prague munfe- \
ipal mission today placed wreaths I
on the royal tombs in the Pantheon I
and on the tomb of the unknown
soldier.
The delegation is visiting Rome at ;
the invitation of the municipal coun- |
cil, which paid a similar visit to :
Prague in 1920.
French Submarines
Ordered for Poland
CHERBOURG, France, Oct. 26
Poland has placed an order for sub- I
marines similar to those built for i
the French navy, according to the '
Journal La Liberte in an article to- !
daj\ .
a CENTS A COPY,
Si A YEAR.
HISTORY TO REPEAT
WHEN THIRD PARTY
BREAKSG.O.P.LINE
Campaign Director Declares
Election of Coolidge This
Year Is Impossible
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Abso
lute confidence in the straight out
election of John W. Davis and
Governor Bryan was expressed by
Clem Shaver, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, in
a statement here Sunday declaring
that the election of Calvin Coolidge
is “an impossibility.”
“Davis and Bryan will be elected
in the electoral college,” Mr. Shaver
said. "This analysis is based on
the congressional and other elec
tions of 1922 and reports from state
and county chairmep from every
state in which the result is in doubt.”
States carried by the Democratic
party in >,the congressional elections
of 1922 would alone be sufficient to
guarantee the election of the Demo
cratic ticket, Mr. Shaver
With La Follette in the field
“drawing two votes from the Re
publicans to one from the Demo
crats” the outcome is made doubly
certain, he asserted.
Backed By Figures
“To be exact, the states carried
by the Democrats for members of
the house of representatives in that
year total 277 electoral votes or 23
majority in the electoral college,"
Mr. Shaver said.
“If we added to these the states
carried-by Democratic candidates for
governor or United States senator,
or both, they total 82 more, or 359
electors, a majority of 187 in the
'electoral college.
“Conditions since that time have
certanily not grown more unfavor
able for us. On the contrary,, the
various exposures of oil and other
scandals, the widespread business
depression and distress of the farm
ers, and other similar developments,
have certainly weakened the Repub
lican party and added, as a natural
consequence, to our strength.
"When to all of the above Is add
ed the fact that the third party
ticket is drawing more from the Re
publican candidate than from our
own, the reason for our faith in
Democratic victory is at once ap
j parent.
“The Democratic party carried the
country two years ago and is strong
er today than it was then. A solid
Democracy is behind John W. Davis
! and in addition he is gaining acces-,
1 sions from the leading educators and
j thinking men and women of the
1 country. There Is a tremendous
silent vote that determines all elec
tions. and this silent vote I. have
. every reason to believe will in large
measure be cast for pavis.”
Warns of “Straw Vote” Fakes
Mr. Shaver said that in the only
two previous election years
party was strong enough to mak«
itself felt, the Democrats came off
victorious by virtue of the third
party dividing Republican strength,
i These years were 1892, when Cleve
lajid was elected with the populists
I taking 22 electoral votes, and 1912.
when Woodrow Wilson went in,
with Roosevelt and Taft splitting
the Republicans.
Shaver concluded with a warning
that the Republicans have resorted
to “fake straw votes” to create s.
popular impression that the Demo
cratic ticket was out of the run
ning, and "catching the thought
less element of voters who like to
follow the band wagon.”
DAVIS AND AL SMITH .
JOIN FORGES IN NEW YJJRK
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—John W.
Davis and Alfred E. Smith joined
forces here Saturday in behalf of the
Democratic national and state tick
ets. Both addressed the women's
organizations of Greater New York,
assembled in honor of the candi
dates.
Mr. Davis also spoke at meetings
on Staten Island and again tonight
in the Bronx. On Monday he will
carry his campaign into New Jersey
again and drive in whirlwind fash
ion through the week, making the
final address of his personal cam
paign at Carnegie hall next Satur
day night. ™
Speaking before the women in the
afternoon the candidate said he had
come back from the middle west
bringing a “message of cheer and
of confidence.”
"I am as confident as I have
ever been in my political experi
ence,” Mr. Davis said, “that victory
awaits democracy this year and
that it needs nothing but the will
and the courage to reach forth and
grasp it.”
Emphasizing his assertion of vic
tory, the candidate declared there
was a profound conviction all over
the country that tke "mere return
to power of those who now hold
public offices" gave no hope of "re
form in the present or of progress
in the future.”
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"You will have again a party di
vided against himself,” he said. "One
branch of the party says ‘we have
plenty of followers, but no leaders.’
and the other says ‘we have a lead
er, but an unfortunate scarcitv of
followers.’ and I think they’ are
both exactly right about It."
The situation he pictured, Mr. Da
vis said, would not be bettered if
the American people by their Vhtf>*
next week ‘‘simply return to power
those who have proved themselves
powerless for any good.”
“And in these latter days* he
continued, “(listing pshed gentlemen
are trying to frighten us with the
assurance that all the institutions of
our government are trembling to
their fall and that there is the hope
of a continuance of the American
constitution and of the liberties it
preserves, and that the only hope
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