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BOY TELLS STORY
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BY GEORGIA YOUTH
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Tift Farmer’s Son Jailed Fol
lowing Death of Wealthy
4 Maryland Man
. * ■
WASHINGTON Nov. 10.—Fred,
.A. McClellan, twenty-two years old,'
of Tifton, Ga.. is held in the Rock-'
ville, Aid., jail charged with stabbing
to death Thomas A. Sims, a wealthy ,
contractor, fifty-two years old, at
whose home McClellan boarded.
After the stabbing, MeCleUan sum
moned an officer and surrendered. ;
I’Olice said he made a statement de
claring he went to the Sims home
\ and found the latter intoxicated and
abusing his wife. Sims, he said. ;
turned on him, shook his fist, and
■ordered him out of the house. Sims. I
he asserted, followed him into the i
yard, abused and berated him and ■
attempted to strike him with a stick.
Jn self-defense, he said, he drew a
pocketknife and cut Sims after the
\ latter had wielded the stick.
• Mrs. Sims was placed in the care
pf a physician after the killing. Po
lice said she had made no statement.
Bojr’s Story of Affair
A twelve-year-old orphan boy will
be called before the grand jury of
Montgomery county Wednesday to
testify about the stabbing. The or
phan is George Wheaton, who was
taken into the Sims home a year
ago from a Washington aslyum.
State’s Attorney John A. Garrett to
day put the boy in custody of Sher
iff Clay Plummer as a material wit
|jiess.
Jealousy aroused in Sims and his
direct accusation against his wife
and the youth were responsible for
the quarrel, according to the boy’s
Btory today to the sheriff and the
state's attorney. Sims staggered
back from the fight, bleeding at the
throat, and fell dead at the feet of
the wife whom he had accused, ac
cording to the boy.
L- He declared the woman
falling forward upon her husband’s
prostrate form, after screaming aft
er McClelland; “Mac. come back
here, I've killed him.’’
Young Wheaton is said to have
been an eye witness of the struggle
between the young man and the
contractor, and the only one who
Baw the fatal blow struck.
Contradicts Confession
The boy’s account contradicts
statements in the confession of Mc-
Clellan at the jail. Sims ordered
MtClellan to pack his clothes and
leave, according to young Wheaton.
(fAs McClellan went out with his be
longings, Sims followed. The boy
said:
“I opened the door and saw Mac
bit Mr. Sims anil then run. Mr.
Sims didn’t have anything in bis
hands. He stepped back a couple
of paces, picked up a ('hair and
started for the gate. But Mac was
F laway down the road and running as
Vast as he could go.
Mr. Sims turned around and start
ed back toward me. ' I cried out
that there was blood on his neck.
He said, ‘that darned fool did it,’
then he sort of wavered and fell.”
McClellan, who was one of a fam
ily of eleven children, said Mrs.
Sims had been like a mother to him
since last spring. When he was
hired by her husband.
* M’CLELLAN’S RELATIVES
WILL GO TO lIIS All)
TIFTON, Ga., Nov. 10.—Fred Mc-
Clellan, reported to have stabbed to
Kleath Thomas A. Sims, at Kensing-
• ton, Md., is the son of Mitch McClel
lan, prominent farmer and lumber
man of Tift county. Relatives of
the young man are expected to go
immediately to Maryland to lend aid
to the youth and ascertain details of
the Affair. Young McClellan bore a
g’o*? reputation here.
Railroad Brotherhoods
Map Campaign for
i Howell-Barkley Bill
CLEVELAND, 0.. Nov. B.—Chief
•xroJuttves or representatives of
. twenty railroad brotherhoods and af
filiated labor organizations met here
today to plan a legislative campaign
before congress, particularly regard
ing the Howell-Barkley bill, which
seeks the abolition of the railroad
labor board. Warren S. Stone, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
Engineers, who issued the call
Lor the meeting, presided.
The railroad brotherhoods and
unions will seek to have congress,
when it reconvenes in December pass
the Howell-Barkley bill which would
substitute machinery for the media
tion of railway labor disputes for
the arbitration provisions in the
transportation act of 1920.
u According to a statement of Mr.
atone given out after the meeting
the bill ■> ould revive the old joint
conference boards created by the
Newlands and Erdman acts.
The labor provision of the trans
portation act were declared by the
delegates at the meeting to be a
“complete failure.”
Details of the railway organiza
tions’ plans to push the Howell-
Barkley bill were not divulged.
The conference is understood also
to have canvassed (he general s.tu>-
tion of railway labor from a legis
lative point of view.
• Roach Poison Kills
Baby Prize Winner
NEW YORK. Nov. S.—Mary
S jiaet’er. two and one-half years
old, who won a silver medal in a
health prize contest last year, died
in a hosg.tal today poisoned by
roach powder placed on a piece of
bread. While playing at home the
.child found the bread beneath an
v<e box and ate it. She was rush
to a hospital and after appar
ently' responding to treatment suf
fered a relapse which proved fatal.
STOPS FIT ATTACKS
R. Les. so. residing at Apt. 895
Island Ave.. Milwaukee. Wis.. has
i simple home treatment which has
. uiven complete relief from attacks
Fits, Epilepsy and Falling Sick
in hundtee.s of Re.-.l-
die .or:,Lie
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
20 VICTORIES IN 20 STARTS
IS POLITICAL RECORD OF
COOLIDGE FOR 25 YEARS
Has Held Political Offices
Longer and Oftener Than
Any Other Man of His!
Years in Washington
IJ\ ROBERT T. SMALL
(Special Leased W ire to Tile Journal Copy
right. 3921.1
WASHINGTON. Nov. 9. —Prior to
the election of last Tuesday, the
country, for some reason or other, !
had the impression that Calvin Cool
idge didn’t know much about poli- '
tics. The country thought of him ;
as more or less of a political found- ;
ling, a chance man of fate, a play- I
thing of destiny.
President Coolidge is the master '
politician. He has held political of-i
fices oftener and longer than any !
man of his years now in Washing- I
ton.
Coolidge has run for political of- I
fices just twenty times-, and twenty I
times he has been elected. If any |
man in politics today can match or j
beat that record, let him come for- i
ward at this time or forever after I
hold his peace. Certainly there is ■
no one to match a path of political j
fortune, which has run all the way I
from city councilman of Northamp- ;
ton. Mass., to the presidency of the !
United States, with only about five ;
“lean" years intervening from the I
lowest to the highest.
It might almost be said of the |
president that he has won twenty- ■
one times, for in college he entered j
a national contest for a gold medal |
offered by the Sons of the Revolu- ;
tion for the best essay on the “Prin- I
ciples for Which the Colonies I
Fought in the Revolutionary War.”*j
The contest was open to all colleges, |
Young Coolidge, of AmTierst, car- I
ried off the prize.
Within four years after his grad- I
uation Coolidge had made his first I
political bid and won his first polit- |
ical victory. He was graduated in ;
1895. In he was in the city’ ;
council of Northampton. Political
victory number two came when he I
was elected city solicitor in 1900 for I
two years. In 1904 came political |
victory number three—clerk of |
courts.
Then the budding politician, who I
had after great deliberation trans- I
planted Uirpself from Vermont, to j
Massachusetts soil, began to warm I
up a bit and strike out for higher i
things. w j
Since 1909 Mr. Coolidge has never ;
been out of public office, and he has |
just been elected to four years more I
in the White House from March 4, 1
next. This will carry him from
March 4, 1925, to March 4, 1929, a
stretch of twenty years of political
preferment.
Mr. Coolidge’s victories have come i
in this manner:
1. City councilman. 1899.
2. City solicitor, 1900.
3. Clerk of courts, 1904.
4. House of representatives, Jias- '
sachusetts, 1906. 1
5. Re-elected to house, 1907.
6. Mayor of Northampton, 1909. j
7. Re-elected mayor, 1910.
8. State senate Massachusetts,
1911.
9. Re-elected, 1912.
10. Re-elected. 1913.
.11. Elected president of senate,!
1913.
12. Elected to senate. 1913.
13. Elected president of senate,!
1914.
14. Lieutenant governor of Massa- |
chusettsf, 1915.
15. Re-elected, 1916.
16. Re elected, 1917.
17. Governor of Massachusetts, '
1918.
15. Re-elected governor, 1919.
19. Vice president of United States,!
1920.
20. President, 1924.
Mr. Coolidge never has made !
much fuss and feathers about his '
remarkable political record. That ‘
is why the public has known so lit- |
tie concerning it. Ho long age ;
adopted the theory’ that, silence was ■
golden, and there has been none to
say him nay.
Where other politiciaAs would |
have been “pointing with pride," !
I “Silent Cal” has merely gone ahead
l sticking to the job. doing the day's
work and reaping the harvest. If
he has lacked-imagination, as some
of his opponents have said,- he cer
tainly has hot lacked the necessary
essentials of success.
Congressman Hill’s
Trial to Assemble
Notables in Court
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9.—Dr. Har
vey W. Wilby, of Washington, pure
food specialist and former prohibi
tion commissioner, has been sub
poenaed as a witness in the ease
against Congressman John P. Hill,
iin the hearing Monday in United
States district court. He has been
'subpoenaed by the overnment as an
I expert in the trial of the congress
man for alleged violation of the Vol
stead act in the manufacture and
| possession of wine and cider.
Mr. Hill has summoned Roy A.
| Haynes. prohibition commissioner,
land James E, Jones. Mr. Haynes’
(chief assistant, as witnesses in his
i behalf. He has requested several
persons who drank his wine and cider
| to appear for him. as well as several
iof his neighbors. The latter are ex
pected to testify ns to whether Mr.
Hill's home during the wine and cider
making episodes. < onstitute-.i a “nui
isance." as is charged in the indict
inent.
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The Weather ■
1 Forecast for Tuesday:
Virginia: Partly cloudy and!
warm 'r.
Nort li Carolina: Partly cloudy:
.rain in east j onion.
South Carolina and GeorU.;: Part-
I ly (loudv . \
Florida: Partly cloudy
Extreme Northwest Florida: Gen
erally fair.
Alabama and Mississippi: Increas-
I ing cloudiness and warmer,
Tennessee and Kentucky: In
i creasing cloudiness and warmer.
. probably followed by rain in west
I portion.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy.
Arkansas: Unsettled, colder in
west portion.
Oklahoma: Unsettled, colder in
west portion
East Texas; Pa tly cloudy fo
ci, Mv. e< dec n fxiren’-' northwest
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. Advices from'
Chile say plans have been made for |
a general election, May 10. at which
a president and congress will be se-I
lected by direct popular vote.
WASHINGTON. —Senate commit- I
tee investigating campaign expendi
tures may not resume hearings tin- I
til after congress convenes, Chair
man Borah says.
MEXICO CITY. —Stanislaus I’ist
kovsky, first Russian soviet minis- i
ter to Mexico, presents his creden- I
tial.s to President Obregon.
NEW YORK. —The Republican na- !
tional committee came through the j
campaign without a deficit and with !
a probable small surplus, while the
Democratic national committee's def- !
vcit will approximate .$200,000..
WASHINGTON.—No extra ses- .
Sion of congress after March 4 is I
contemplated at present, it is said at I
White House.
WASH ING T() N.—-Robe rt D. Ca- |
rev, of Carey hurst, Wyo., former |
governor of state, is named by’ Pres- [
ident Coolidge as chairman of com- I
mission of eigh,t to investigate na
tional agricultural condition.
VlENNA.—Austrian government, j
headed by Chancellor Ignz Seipel, re- !
signs following calling of a general i
railroad strike'which result s from i
failure of workmen’s organizations |
and federal railroad management to !
agree on wage question.
NEW YORK?. —Four boys admit |
accidental shooting of Ernest
Schwer, their thirteen-year-old play- I
mate, for whorfi a ten-day search !
has been made, and confess to se- |
cret burial of body in swamp near |
Jam&ica, N. Y.
LONDON.—On occasion of formal
assumption of reign of government I
conservative British cabinet'is ad
vised by friendly press that, with I
labor holding second place of power, j
mere stability or tranquillity of gov
ernment will not «be sufficient.
NEW YORK.—lncorporation in
Maryland of Continental Baking cor- |
poration is expected to be first step !
in merger of United Bakeries r-orpo- |
ration. W ard Baking corporation !
and other organizations.
NEW YORK.—John W. Goff, for
mer justice of the supreme court of
New York, who sentenced Lieuten
ant Becker and four others to death
for the murder of Herman Rosen
thal, dies.
INDIANAPOLIS. —James A.
Drain, national commander -of the
American Legion. announces ap-i
pointment of a commission to handle
questions of foreign relations com
ing before the legion.
WASHINGTON. —' Definite re
vival of business of a volume partly
to overcome recession of midsummer
has been noted by the federal re- ,
serve board in the last six weeks, al- |
though current production still is ■
below the same period last yea-.
WASHINGTON: - Having total
resources on October 10 of $23,323,- I
061,000. national banks of this conn- I
try reachdd the highest point in re- I
sources since November 15, 1920.
WASHINGTON: President
Booth, of the international chambei |
of commerce announces an economic I
world survey’ designed to supplement ■
the purposes of the Dawes plan and J
to produdion. revive in- :
dustry and restore international!
trade.
NEW YORK. Asserting “our
probable enemies are becoming
stronger to attack and we weaker
to resist,” Rear Admiral Bradley A.!
Fiske, retired, urges the Unite I
States to take adequate nrecau
tions.
BOSTON. Henry Cabot Lodge,
veteran Republican leader in the i
senate, dies in hospital at Cambridge I
Mass.
WASHINGTON. Recordbreak
ing- dry spell in many parts of the
country is responsible for fores;
fires, threatened exhaustion of watei
supply and unfavorable fall planting
conditions in many sections.
w .\ s} 11 \(, ii i \ More than
half of veterans entitled to adjusted
i compensation have failed to inake
application. Adjt. General Davis an- I
Bounces in urging ex-service men to
take necessaiy steps to obtain bonus. :
MECCA CLEANSED!
PURITANS PLACE
BAN ON SMOKING
( AI RO. Nov. 9. (Jewish Tele-,
graphic Agency.) There will be
no further smoking in Mecca, the
■Moslem Holy etv. now that Mecca
I is under the reign of the Moslem'
Puritans. The JVahabis have seized 1
100,000 Narghilis and 1
on an auto-da-fe in the 1.,; of Mee-!
ra, according to a repot received
here today. They have also prohit
ed furthe: importation of tobacco, o l '
| manufactured ' cigarettes or cigars,
within the limits of the holy city
According to the doctrines of the
Wahabis, the Puritan sect of the
Moslem faith, smoking is as great a
sin as di inking.
Tramps, With “Puzzle”
\\ orth $4,500, Sought
By Railroad Sleuths
MANSFIELI) ()hio N. v 9 —Two ,
trampiy who probably ait working
•Hi puzzles more fascinating than
t hose of the cross-word variet y , were
being sought today by the police
and railroad detectiv<.-.
The.v were seen vesterday as they
picked up *4.50(1 in bills after a
mail pom h. thrown from speeding
I’ennsv Ivania train tit Monroeville
iOhio. fell under the wheels ami was
ma ngled.
Ten thousand dollars in bills was!
I in the pouch ami whole ami mangled
| < itrrenev fluttered along the right,
lof way like a flurry of autunm
I The Monroeville postmaster retriev
;ed all but *4.500. He said be thought
I the tramps were trainmen gather
ing up the fragments, uat. they sml
diii’v disappear,-:'.
COOLIDGE HAPPY;
PURS ID FULFILL
CJMPIIGII PLEDGES
r.'onomy Greatest Promise.
Congress Message Will
Show Tax Plans
BA DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special I.eased Wife l<> The Journal— Copy
right. 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—There
is no thrill doubtless like the thrill
of a v’ote of confidence, given, by the
American people to a servant in pub
lic office —and as Calvin Coolidge
sat at his desk today and received
caller after caller his eyes seemed
to show plainly the light of eager
ness to fulfill what so many voters
expect of. him.
The president was full of smiles,
happiness was written in every’ sen
tence he uttered, he appeared some
how to be relieved of a great strain.
Perhaps he has not been conscious
or that strain, but it was a combi
nation of shyness and caution and
great modesty. Placed in office by
the hand of Providence, he felt a
responsibility to follow in the foot
steps /of another. Appointments
were to a large extent guided by
commitments made by his prede
cessor. Inauguration may’ be four
months away but to all intents and
purposes the second term of Presi
dent Coolidge began this week. The
ceremony on March 4 will be of only’
technical and historical importance.
For President Coolidge is turning
toward his tasks with- a feeling that
henceforth - he must fulfill the
pledges of his campaign.
Promise to Economize
Greatest among these pledges was
a promise to practice economy. Fore
most among the impressions of Cal
vin Coolidge among the voters gen
erally' was one that emphasized his
thrift, his lifetime habit of careful
expenditure. It has remained with
him in the White House. It was
the basis of his many’ vetoes in the
last session of congress. He has
been advised that more votes are
obtained by satisfying the demands
of members of congress for compen
sation to their constituents in one
form or another whether it was an
increase in pay to the postal service
or veterans’ pensions, but Mr. Cool
idge chose to believe the wiser policy
in the long run was to veto any’
proposed expenditure if it was not
justified. Til re probably will be an
increase in pay to the postal. It
seems to be admitted on all, sides
that the clerks are underpaid but
the question that has to be solved is
from what source the increased rev
enue is to be obtained—from in
creased rates on parcel post or sec
ond class matter or a revision of all
postal rates.
The postal service is not as effi
cient as the American people would
like to have it. Excessive economies
in the last few years, especially in
the railway mail service, have inter
fered with efficiency. It sometimes
takes two days to get mail from New
York to Washington—a five-hour run
on 'he railroads. Airplane mail is
assisting materially in transconti
nental service but tiie demand is
growing for better mail service on
the short distance runs.
I . S. Finances in Good Shape
Government finances are in spleix
did shape. The new tax law has
not brought a deficit but a surplus.
Will congress give the American peo
ple the benefit of lower taxes or will
it* insist on spending the surplus?
President Coolidge’s leaderh.sip on
this issue will be revealed in the
message now being prepared for the
December session of congress. Mr.
Coolidge promised earlier in the year
to continue his efforts for tax revi
sion. It is unlikely that he will for
get. There are some gkuing inequi
ties in the present law The presi
dent did not feel justified in vetoing
the whole law to secure a revision
of any portion of it. A campaign
was ahead and he couldn't imperil
tax relief by a veto. But now the
situation has changed. Even with
a co:igre.<4 in which the La Follette
radicals hold the balance of power—
for they remain in office until next
March—the president can if he
chooses present a measure for
amendment of the present act and
some of the insurgent Republicans
may not be as anxious to oppose Mr.
Coolidge they were several
months ago The election returns
may have bid a salutary effect on
those who would obstruct merely for
individual or partisan advantage.
With ref, i ence to the present tax
law, there will be some interesting
data sought from the treasury as to
the productivity of the new’ rates.
It would not be surprising to find
that the real reason for the surplus
is not the lower rates at all. but
the enforcement of the law. Several
new administrative provisions were
inserted by the treasury in the last
law based upon experience with eva
sions and avoidance. Many loopholes
have been plugged. Even had the
old 1922 rates remained on the stat
ute Hooks there would have been in
creased revenues, due to improved
administration. There is also im
provement in business conditions »o
be taken into account. Unquestion
ably there vvi'l be another drive for
tax reduction and economy in gov
ernment expenditures. It is the big
gest issue of the moment next to an
agricultural program and President
Coolidge will have something to say
on both when he sends his message
to congress and presents the budget
Says Wife Viofated'
Agreement to Let
Her Hair Grow Out
When Mrs. John' Henry V ,nree
band with cruelty, Vani • e appear
ment drawn between the two which
ind listen to reason and will live
In fighting the suit Vanree testi
fies that his wife f iiej to live up
DJWES' PUN SEEN
JS FIRST MOVE IN
RESTORING TRADE
Financiers of America, Eng
z land, France. Italy, Bel
gium, On Committee
WASHINGTON, Nov. A group
ot master business men and bank
eis ha.-; been organized for the pur
j pose of making, a world economic
■ survey ,to determine measures for
I solution of problems arising in the
j wake of the Dawes’ reparations plan,
! it was announced here today by
Willis H. Booth, president of the
I International Chamber of Com
! meree.
The purpose of the group as an
nounced will be “to restimulate pro
i duction, revive industry and restore
j international trade.”
The group includes:
A. C. Bedford, chairman of the
j board of the Standard Oil company
■of New Jerey; Owen D. Young,
chairman of the board of the Gen-
■ eral Electric company; Henry M.
! Robinson, president of the First Na
! ti_>nal bank of Los Angeles; Roy D.
I Chapin, chairman of the board Httd-
■ son Motor Car company; Lewis E.
j Pierson, chairman board of the Irv-
■ ing Bank-Columbia Trust company
! of New Lork; Fred I. Kent, vice
president of the Bankers Trust com
| pany; Julius H. Barnes, of New
! York; Joseph 11. Defrees, of Clii
i cago, and John H. Fahey, of Bos
: ton, former presidents of the- Cham
! ber of Commerce of the United
j States.
I A statement on the project by
! Booth follows in part:
“This survey will be made by an
j international committee composed of
the ablest business representatives
ot all the important commercial na
; Hons of the world. To this end the
I committee on economic restoration
iof the international chamber, of
which Fred I. Kent is chairman, will
| be enlarged by the addition of mem
| bers from the countries now’ repre
| sen ted and from other countries
j which play an important part in in-
I ternational trade. The membership
. o 2 the committee as now constituted
! includes Sir Felix Schuster, of Eng
-1 land; Maurice Lewandowski, of
France; Alberto Pirelli, of Italy, a
[ member of the experts committee,
j which formulated the Dawes’ plan;
I K. A. Wallenberg, of Sweden; Mar
cel Desprit, of Belgium and W. Wes
terman. of the Netherlands. All of
them are prominent in business and
financial activities in their respec
i five countries.
“Arrangements for making the
i world survey and selecting the ad
| ditional personnel of the committee
| are being considered at the meeting
i of the council of international cham
i ber now in session at Paris. It has
I been suggested by t lie American
i originators of the plan that the com
i rnitt.ee remain in session for a
I month or six weeks or as long as
I may be necessary to formulate a
! report which, it is expected, will
i recommend the steps to be taken to
| set in motion again the machinery
of production and trade which has
I not been in normal operation since
I the war.
"The survey will be a preliminary’
I to the Brussels meeting of the in
' ternational chamber, to behe 1 11,, 1 , dur-
I ing the coming year, at which the
| report of the committee vvill consti
i lute the basis of discussion of the
I general problem of economic resto-
I ration by the business interests of
! the 39 countries represented in the
I chamber's membership. The Brus
' seis meeting vvid take on the color
I of an unofficial international -eco-
I nomic conference and it is expected
■ vvill result in the adoption of certain
! definite principles of economic re
construction in much the same way
i .hat the Rome meeting of the cham
! ber in 1923 paved the way for the
I formulation and adoption of the
■ Dawes report.
I “The Dawes plan, successful as
I it ’’as been, has, in the opinion of
I the American s| onsors (if the project
I for a world survey, set the stage for
| an economic revival, but it. remafris
| for business men of the countries
I most diiectly concerned to take up
the problems involved in a revival
’of industry and trade. The adop
i tion of the Dawes plan, too, has
[ brought into the foreground of in
ternational business discussion of
I Other nroblems growing out of the
I adjustment, such as the transfer of
' credits."
Wm. Jennings Bryan
Sees Firm Foothold
For 1928 Campaign
WASHINGTON. Nov. 9.—Tn a
I statement issued here tonight sum-
I marizing his opinions of the election
returns. William Jennings Bryan
■ declared the Democratic party re
i mains “the only hope of the pro-
I gressive element of the country."
The Republican victory, he said,
was not as disastrous to the Demo
l crats as that of 192", when over
whelming Republican majorities
! were returned in senate and house.
He counselled Democrats to "find
I consolation in the fact that the high
i character of President Coolidge and
I General Dawes insures that the
I country vvill have the very bes:
i service that they can render.”
| The third party, even under the
; leadership of Senator La Follette,”
said Mr. Bryan, “polled such a small
percentage of the total vote that his
I supporters must be convinced that
it is impossible to build up a class
. pane in the United States.
“Davis and Brvan stood for pro
gressive policies and made a clean
I and honorable campaign. Mr Cool
idge carried eight states hv a
minority vote: these might have been
i taken from him had the progressives
I been united.
“If the Democrats do half ns well
I two years from now as they did two
• years ago they will control the next
congress and lay the foundations
for the.campaign 1928.”
Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, November 11, 1924
FRANK M’DOWELL, WORSE,
IS PUT IN STRAIT-JACKET
AT FLORIDA’S SANITARIUM
Mechanical Restraint Necessary to Prevent Violence, Ac
cording to Report of Phys ician, Who Says Slayer’s
Condition Is Getting Beyond Control
TA LEA IIASSEE, Fla., Nov. 7.
The mental condition of Frank Mc-
Dowell. serving a life sentence in
state prison for killing his mother,
is growing worse, according to Dr.
J. L. Chalker, institution physician
at the Florida, prison farm. In a
letter to the commissioner of agri
culture. Dr. Chalker advises that he
has had McDowell under observa
tion for the last three weeks, and
that the youth is steadily growing
worse, necessitating his being put
under mechanical restraint to pre
vent violence.
McDowell, who confessed that he
burned his two sisters to death at
Decatur, Ga.. about two years ago,
and later killed his mother and fa-
DEATH TAKES SENATOR LODGE,
VETERAN REPUBLICAN LEADER
AND FOE OF WORLD LEAGUE
Served State in U S, Senate
More Than 30 Years.
Funeral to Be Held at Cam
brige Wednesday
CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Nov. 10.—
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior senator
from Massachusetts, and Republican
! leader of the senate, is dead. The
I end came at the Charlesgate hos
pital here shortly before midnight.
Struck down last Wednesday just
as he was making a rapid conva
lescence from his second operation
within a few months, the 74-year-old
senator was unconscious during
most of the days intervening before
his death.
On Friday he rallied with re
markable vitality, and regained con
sciousness for a few’ brief periods,
during which he spoke to his phy
sician and the relatives at his bed
! side. He again relapsed into a.
coma, however, and his strength
gradfwilly ebbed away.
His daughter-in-law, Mrs. John E.
Lodge; his granddaughter, Miss
Helena Lodge: his two grandsons,
! John S. and Henry Cabot Lodge 11.
! and his physician, Dr.. John C. Cun
ningham. were at the bedside when
! he died.
Word of his death brought tribute
| from many places. Senator David
I. Walsh, Democrat, who shared
with him the representation of
Massachusetts in the upper house,
said:
'l “Massachusetts has lost a states
! man and a scholar who added more
! to her prestige than any other man
i in half a century.”
Funeral on Wednesday
Funeral services for Senator Lodge
I vvill be held Wednesday at Christ
i-hiirih, Cambridge, probably at
noon, it was decided by his family
today. As he will be buried in the
I Lodge family lot at Mount Auburn
cemetery, Cambridge will have been
the scene of his death, the funeral
services and of interment, although
his long career in public life had
brought him back only occasionally
in recent years to the scenes here
of his college days at Harvard.
Bishop William Lawrence, who
was playmate and collegemate of
I Senator Lodge, will officiate at the
■ services, assisted by Rev. Prescott
Evarts, rector of Christ church.
It was at Christ church that Sen
ator Lodge was married, and it was
from that church.-also that Mrs.
Lodge was buried.
Bishop Lawrence, in a tribute to
j Senator Lodge today, said the death
of the senator was the loss of a
' friend ot' tit) years, adding, “he was,
as few people realize, a man of very
tender sentiment and warm affec
tion. His dominant motive in publie
life was loyalty to his country. He
was an able and strong statesman,
I occasionally over-masterful and rest
! less at opposition, but always moved
i by what he believed to be the high
i est welfare of his country and Hie
: world.”
Henry Cabot Lodge had served
I continuously in the I nited States
I senate since 1893, as Republic lead
er since August, 1918, and was one
of the most prominent members of
his party for a generation.
Statesman, publicist, author, law
yer and historian. Mr. Lodge's mani
fold activities made a wide impres
sion on comtemporaneous event*.
Chief prominence, perhaps, came tc
him as leader of the senate oppo
i sition to the League of Nations and
the treaty of Versailles during 1918;
1919 and 1920. As chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee
and Republican floor leader, he led
the contest with former President
Wilson in the fight against ratifica
tion. He was the author of the
“Lodge reservations” and was cred
ited with a large part in molding
the policy of the Harding adminis
tration against American entrance
into the league.
Women Governors
Are Likelv to Meet
On San Antonio Visit
SAN ANTONIO Tex,. Nov. 9.—The
first two women in the United States
to be elect'd governors may meet
here next month to get acquainted.
Distrivt Judge S. B. Tayloe. broth
er of Mrs. Nellie Tn vino Ross, gov
ernor-elect of Wyoming, has invited
his sister to visit him in December.
Hearing that Mrs. Ross probably
would accept the invitation. Mflk.-m<l
Mis John Bickett, friends of Gov
ernor-elect Miriam A. Ferguson, of
Texas, asked her to visit them at the
same time.
RO \D SEEKS EOl IPXIENT
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10.—The.
New Orleans. Texas and Mexico Rail
wav company applied to the inter
state commerce commission today
for authority to issue $1,740,000 of 5
per cent equipment trust certificates
j to be sold at 98.46 per cent of liar, I
; 'he proceeds tn lie used to acquire
7,00 box cars. 50n automobile cars,
i • • al cars, and two dining cars.
I 3 ' 1
ther as they slept at St. Petersburg,
this .year, was convicted in Pinellas
county last June on the specific
charge of slaying his mother. The
jury recommended mercy, and he
was sent to prison for life.
Specialists in mental diseases, who
testified at the trial on behalf of
the defense, declared that McDowell
was a sufferer from dementia prae
cox, and that he was in. an incur
able condition. They said he had but
a few years to live. His mind, they
said, was in such a state at the time
of the crimes that he was irresponsi
ble. Other physicians who took the
stand for the state declared, how
ever, that such was not the case.
FOUR SUSPECTS IN
OFFICER'S SLIIG
ARE OUICKLY FREED
Three men, carried to Alpharetta,
Ga., late Saturday afternoon in
connection with the investigation of
the killing Friday night of H. A.
Webb, a special deputy, and the
wounding of V. V. Eison, a Milton
county policeman, were released
Saturday night when policeman
Eison failed to identify any one of
the trio as his assailant or Mr.
Webb’s slayer, according to long
distance telephone messages from A.
W. Smith, sheriff of Milton couty.
A fourth man, M. H. Byers, of 590
Piedmont avenue, who was held at
police station on a charge of “sus
picion” in connection with the same
tragedy, also was released later in
the night. |
The four men were arrested in ;
Atlanta Saturday morning by city I
detectives and federal prohibition I
agents, who spread a drag-net over .
the city after news reached
here that one man had been killed I
and another wounded by alleged
rum-runners. Each of the quartet
was put through a rigorous exami
nation in the" office of Federal Pro
hibition Director Fred D. Dismuke,
■ at which Atlanta detectives and of
ficers of Gwinnett county, the
i scene of the tragedy, were present.
Following the examination which
! lasted several hours, three of the
men were carried to Alpharetta to |
be confronted with Mr. Eison, while
I the fourth, who was said to have i
! admitted he was in Milton and
. Gwinnett counties Friday night, was
lodged in the police station. Byers
• denied any connection wtih the ;
tragedy.
Sheriff Smith stated Saturday!
night over long distance that so far'
his office has been unable to obtain;
any clue as to the identity of Mr. ,
i Webb’s and Mr. Tlison’s assailants, j
l excepting that they were liquor run-!
ners.
At the same time, Prohibition Di-1
rector Dismuke announced that he
pind his force would lend every as
sistance to Sheriff Smith and Sheriff
■ E. S. Garner, of Gwinnett county, in ;
their efforts to track down the as-,
i sailants, and said that if necessary I
he would round-up every known;
liquor hauler in Atlanta and vicinity'
and question them.
Mr, Webb was killed and Police-!
man Eison wounded Friday night I
i when they pursued a supposedly ';
; whisky-laden automobile from Milton
county into Gwinnett county. Mr.
Webb was shot and slugged to death
,ind Mr. Eison was badly beaten with
a blunt instrument. Both were left
in a ditch beside the highway. Mr.
Webb died shortly after residents of
the neighborhood reached the scene,
while Mr. Eison, unconscious, was
carried to Alpharetta. Reports from |
the latter’s bedside Saturday night
were that his chances for recovery
are slight.
Funeral services for Mr. Webb,
who is survived by his wife and
five children, vvill be held Sunday at
Ocee, near Alpharetta.
W. W. Kitchen, Leading
Carolinian, Is Dead
SCOTLAND NECK. N. Nov. j
10—W. W. Kitchin, former governor j
of North Carolina, former represent
ative in congress and a brother of I
the late Claude Kitchin. Democratic;
house leader, died here Sunday, after !
a long illness.
Mr. Kitchin was a member of a I
family long prominent in North Car-*!
olina. politics and it has furnished, 1
at various times, three members of!
congress. His father, Captain Wil- i
Liam H. Kitchin, represented the
Second North Carolina district in the)
forty-sixth congress, and later, his'
brother, Claude Kitchin, represented j
the same district.
Former Governor Klichin repre- i
sented the I-'ifth district for 12 years
prior to being elected governor.
S. C. Boykin, Carrollton,
Winner in Senate Race
CARROLLTON. Ga.. Nov. 9.—The
consolidation of the vote cast in the!
state senatorial race in this district I
shows that Shirley c. Boykin, (Jar-i
rollton attorney, piled up a large I
majority over his Republican oppo- j
nent, 11. V. Lovvorn. According to |
reports received here, Senator-elect i
Boykin received 1,445 votes in Troun i
county, to 158 for Mr. Lovvorn, and
in Heard county Mr. Boykin re-1
chived 300 votes tn 46 for Mr. Lov
vorn. In this county Mr. Boykin
piUd up a majority of more than
1.20A.
a LEN lb A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
'BROKE IIP MY HOME,
ONE HAD TO DIE,’
BOSBffl DECLARES
J. Vi/. McKenzie Jailed as
Surgeons Try to Save Eye
for Walter Anderson
MACON, Ga., Nov. 10. —Walter
Anderson, a garage proprietor of
Montezuma, whose face was filled
with shot by an enraged husband,
in a shooting affray at Fort Valley
Sunday atftcrnoon, vvill lose one eye,
his surgeon at Clinic hospital in Ma
con announced today. An operation
is to be performed on him this after
noon, when his right eye is to be
removed, and 25 or 30 shot embedded
in his head and face are to be taken
out. The surgeoii hopes to be able
to preserve the sight of his left eye.
James W. (Will) McKenzie, 26
years old, member of a prominent
Montezuma family, whose aim with
a sawed-off shotgun was perfect de
spite the fact that he has only one
arm, still was held in the Houston
county jail at Perry today, pendiiig
the outcome of Anderson’s wounds.
He gave himself up after the shoot
ing, which took place in the best
residential section of Fort Valley and
within two blocks of its principal
business section.
After his arrest, McKenzie said
Anderson had been treating him
“Anderson broke up my home,”
he said. “I told him to stay away,
and the last time I saw him, he said
if we met again, one of us would
have to die.”
Since her estrangement from her
husband, Mrs. McKenzie has been
working in one of the Fort Valley
stores. She roomed with Mr. and
Mrs. George JV. Mathews, Jr., there.
Right after the shooting, McKen
zie drove to the police station in
Fort Valley, from where he later
was removed by the Houston county
sheriff. Anderson, meantime, was
brought to Macon.
M’KENZIE REPORTED
SEEKING RECONCILIATION
FORT VALLEY, Ga., Nov. 10.— *
James W. McKenzie, twenty-six,
I member of a prominent family of
1 Montezuma, shot Walter Anderson.
I garage proprietor, also of Monte-
Izuma, in the face late Sunday aft
ernoon, when he found Anderson in
'company with Mrs. McKenzie in this
p-ity.
The McKenzies had been living
apart for several months and McKen
zie is said to have been trying to ob
tain a reconciliation.
He located Anderson In a fashion
able residence here Sunday after
noon. where his wife was stopping
and waited a half block away until
I both appeared. McKenzie then drove
his automobile along side of Ander
! son’s and opened fire with a short
barreled shytgun, two shots taking
effect in Anderson’s eyes. Anderson
was said to have been armed with a
pistol, but only McKenzie fired.
Immediately after the shooting,
McKenzie surrendered to the police.
He was taken to the county jail at
Perry later, and the wounded man
was taken to a. hopsital in Macon.
Shot with One Hand
How McKenzie fired the shotgun
is a matter that is causing much
comment here. He had only one
arm having lost the other in an ac
cident several months ago.
According to McKenzie's story to
the police, he said he brought along
the shotgun as a matter of precau
tion, knowing that had a
bad temper.” He said he had no
Intention ol using it. When he drove
up to the Anderson car, McKenzie
stated that he called to his wife, “trd
like to see you a minute.” She djd
not respond and Anderson is said
to have pushed her into the automo
bile. McKenziq stated that it was
then that Anderson apparently made
a move as if to draw a pistol. He
did not give him a. chance, he said,
McKenzie is said to have told the
police that he loves his wife, who
is little more than 20, and that he
still hoped to obtain a, reconciliation.
( When the shooting began, Mrs.
McKenzie screamed and leaped from
the automobile. She begged her hus
band not 1o shoot. He made no ef
fort to shoot her.
.Macon County Beauty
Mrs. McKenzie was one of th®
beauties of Macon county. She was
an orphan girl, her maiden name
being Miss Effie Little, o-f Monte
zuma. After an estrangement with
her husband, she came here to re
side. obtaining work in a depart
ment store. Recently she was em
ployed by a Fort Valley milliner,
I he McKenzies had no children.
Mrs. McKenzies suit for divorcs
is pending in Houston superior xiourt.
I he shooting affray, taking place
in the best residential section ot
bort \ alley and within two blocks of
the principal business section, has
caused a. big sensation here. ’ She
roomed with Mr. and Mrs. George
VV. Mathews-, Jr,, one of the most
Jjrominent families of Fort Valley.
Struck by Automobile
Driven by Her Husband,
Woman Wins Damage*
NASHX ILLE, Tenn., Nov. 9,-rA
woman can recover damages for in
juries received at the hands nf her
husband who is acting as the servant
of another, it was ruled by the state
court of civil appeals in session here
today. .Such an opinion was handed
down in deciding the led case
of the Six-Thirty-Eight Tire and Vul
canizing company, of Nashville,
agair st Mrs Mary I. Rooinson.
In the trial court . Robinson
was awarded damages against the
company for personal injuries she
received when struck by her hus
band. who was driving an automobile
on business for the company.