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®be SUlanla Soiwnal 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.” Pictures G. O. P. Breach "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 (Continued on Pajje 3, Column 3)