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VOL. XXVII. NO. 16
MM IND LEMS
OF ILLINOIS TOWN
NAMED IN MURDER
Men Convicted of Slaying
Publisher’s Son File
Accusations
ROCK ISLAND, 111., Nov. 13.
Several prominent citizens of Rock
Island were under bonds of $.10,000
today io appear in circuit court
Monday for a preliminary hearing
on a charge of murder, in connec
tion with the death two years ago
of John Connor Looney, son of
John C. Looney, former publisher
here, who is now held in Albuquer
que, N. M., for violation of the Dyer
act.
Young Looney was killed in an
alleged gun war for which An
thony W. Billburg and George Hol
sapple were convicted and sentenced,
although tlTey have not as yet
started their prison terms. It was
upon their affidavit that J. W. Pot
ter, publisher, and John M. Colligan,
managing editor of the Rock Island
Argus; Jacob Ramser, jeweler, end
Thomas Haege, a clothier, were ar
rested yesterday on warrants charg
ing connection with an alleged con
spiracy to kill Looney. The affida
vit also charged them with person
ally participating in the gun bat
tle in which Looney was shot.
The affair in which Looney lost
his life was declared to have been
the climax of a cleanup in
Rock Island.
Others named in the Billburg af
fidavit as parties to the murder con
spiracy are Walter A. Rosenfield,
the mayor, and several of the lead
ing bankers of the city.
The affidavits charged that the
four, with a number of other promi
nent business men and city offi
cials, promised “Billburg and Hols
apple immunity for their part in the
attack on the Looneys, who were set
upon by a gang in a pistol tight.”
The fight, the affidavits said, was
the climax of a series of meetings
of those named in the sworn state
ments, who planned to drive the el
der Looney from th£ city.
No Prosecution Looked For
The accused had decided the au
thorities were lax and no prosecu
tion of Looney could be hoped for
from those in power, since no action
concerning the deaths of several men
in gang fights in which Looney was
involved had been taken, the affi
davits said.
Billburg, Holsapple, George Buck
ley and Dan Drost were found guilty
of the killing and sentenced to pris
on.
Application for new trials recently
were denied by the state supreme
court.
The elder Looney fled to New Mex
ico 10 days after his son’s death.
The affidavits said it was Ramser
who suggested the party which re
sulted in the killing of young Looney
in Market Square, in front of a hotel
managed by Lawrence M. Pedigo, a
codefendant with Looney in the in
dictment for the murder of William
Gabel, an underworld leader.
Billburg alleges he was called to
Ramser’s jewelry store and that
from there the several automobiles
carrying Jacob Ramser and several
friends, among them the men ac
cused by Billburg, proceeded to Mar
ket Square.
Billburg claims it was the Inten
tion the afternoon or the killing to
kidnap the elder Loney and Pedigo,
carry them to a secluded spot, build
a fire under each and force them to
confess the details of the murder of
Gabel.
Party Is Separated
The affidavit says Ramser and
his friends were separated from Bill
burg and his associatse in 'Market
Square and that in the firing there
young Looney was shot by a mem
ber of the Ramser party.
Others named in the Billburg af
fidavit as parties to the murder con
spiracy are: Mayor Walter A. Rosen
field; J. L. Vernon, former president
of the Peoples National Tank; Hugh
E. Curtis, president of the Rock Is
land Savings Bank; Morris Heagy,
president of the Central Trust and
Savings bank; M. H. Sexton, presi
dent of the National Association of
Minor Baseball Leagues and former
Rock Island police chief and others
not identified.
Billburg alleges Ramser promised
him and Holsapple all possible legal
and political protection and that they
would not be punished for anything
they might do to the Looneys; that
Ramser convinced Billburg and Hol
sapple that they would be backed by
the majority of citizens if they suc
ceeded in ridding the community of
the Looneys. Billburg admits he pro
ceeded to execute his agreement to
rid the city of the Looneys after he
was satisfied that the prominent
men mentioned by Ramser would
fulfill their part of the alleged agree
ment.
The four accused by Billburg were
admitted to bonds of SIO,OOO each
which was posted by leading men
of the city.
LOONEY WILL RETI KN TO
PEORIA TO FACE TRIAL
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Nov. 13.
John C. Looney, former Rock Island
publisher, expects to return to
Peoria. 111., on December 1. to face
* trial on a Dyer act. charging, over
which he recently lost a fight against
extraction, it was said today. The
circuit court of appeals decided
against him in a habeas corpus ac
tion and -ne has decided to return
instead of appealing to the United
States supreme court, according to
reports here. Looney has a ranch
in Rio Arriba county. While the
charge on which he is being returned
is for the interstate transportation
of a stolen automobile, several other
charges are pending against him
there.
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WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
TOK 10. —Daisukc Namba. is con
demned to death for attempting to
I assassinate Prince Regent Hirohito.
SHANGHAI. — Report is received
, from Tientsin that Gen. Feng Yu
| Hsiang, the “Christian general’’ has
I fled.
BERLIN. —President Ebert, as
chancellor and Dr. Marx as presi
dent. is forecast at probable outcome
of Reichstag elections.
BATAVIA. —Island of Java is
shaken by earthquake Wednesday,
many towns are reported destroyed
and 300 persons killed.
WASH are 5.000
booleggers in Washington, according
to police court figures, Assistant
United States Attorney David I.
Hart declares.
PARIS. —Premier Herriot pre
sents approval of Franco-American
rum treaty, similar to one signed by
Great Britain and United States, to
chamber of deputies.
WALLACE, Idaho. —Directors of
Hecla Mining company with prop
erties at Burke, Idaho, declare divi
dend of 25 cents a share on capital
stock of one million shares.
MEXICO CITY. Two deputies
are wounded in course of shooting
affray in Mexican chamber of dep
uties when more than 200 shots
and fired as climax of stormy debate.
DUBLIN. Several shipping
agents were fin/fl on charges of at
tempting to bribe American consu
late officials here*to get them to ad
vance. appointment dates for emi
grants.
WASH INGTON. — Representative
Fred A. Britten, of Chicago, is named
chairman of committee to further
candidacy of Representative Martin
B. Madden, Illinois, for speaker of
house.
WASHINGTON.—John L. Lewis,
president of United Mine Workers of
America, is indorsed by Chairman
O’Connor, of the shipping board, for
secretary of labor should Secretary
Davis resign.
GRAND RAPIDS. —Two men are
killed, twelve injured and damage
estimated at $50,000 is done to Grand
Rapids postoffice when mysterious
explosion wrecks loading dock and
receiving room, i
WASH INGTON. - Nation wide
jewel smuggling conspiracy is
broken up by customs service, treas
ury reveals in announcing seizure
and ’identification of gems valued
at quarter of million.
WASHINGTON. IT. H. Bryn,
Norwegian minister to United
States, promises to investigate al
leged activities of vessels of Norwe
gian registry along Atlantic coast
in liquor trade.
NEW ORLEANS.—Suit seeking
to oust Walter L. Cohen, negro
comptroller here, and at
tacking the legality of the fourteenth
amendment to the United States con
stitution, is dismissed.
NEW YORK. Leonard Kip
Rhinelander, member of one of New
York’s oldest families, is married to
Alice Beatrice Jones, a daughter of
’a New Rochelle, taxicab driver, it
is disclosed at New York.
NEW YORK.—Miss Martha Osten
so, 24, a school teacher, wins $13,-
500 prize offered jointly by Dodd,
Mead & Co., Pictorial Review and
Famous Players-Lasky, for her first
novel “The Passionate Flight.”
BALTIMORE. Representative
John Philip Hill acquitted in fed
eral court at Baltimore of violation
of Volstead act, says he is in posi
tion to ask congress to modify law
and pash 2.75 per cent beer bill.
PI 11 LADELPHI A.~ University
of Pennsylvania football team will
meet University of Illinois and Uni
versity of Chicago under home-and
home arrangement next season,
Pennsylvania football officials an
nounce.
DES MO INES.—Sena tor A. B.
Cummins, of lowa, co-author of
Esch-Cummins transportation act,
announces that preparations for
railroad legislation in short session
of congress will get under way im
mediately.
WASHINGTON. Ordinary ex
penses of government have been cut
in half during first three years of
budget, H. M. Lord, director-gen
eral of budget, tells members of
chamber of commerce of state of
New York.
WASHINGTON. Agricultural
problem today, President Coolidge
says in address to Association of
Land Grant colleges. is concerned
with distribution more than produe
tion and urges more attention to
scientific marketing.
BOSTON. • Living conditions
among students of six colleges and
universities of Boston are condemn
ed in report of faculty-student com
mittee, which finds immorality,
drinking and gambling exist in stu
dent rooming houses.
EL PASO.—Suspension of charter
of United Brotherhood of Carpen
ters and Joiners in American Fed
eration of Labor is demanded by six
teen international organizations of
building trades department of fed
eration in session here.
LONDON.—Emma Goldman, who
was deported in 1919 as an unde
sirable alien, declares at dinner in
i her honor that she will only return
i to America on her own terms, and
I will demand that all political depor
tees have right to go back.
The Weather
Louisiana. - Saturday partly
I cloudy, showers in south portion,
colder in south portion.
Arkansas.—Saturdya fair, warm-
1 er in north portion.
Oklahoma.—Saturday fair, warm
i cr -
East Texas.—Saturday fair, warm
er i nnorthwest portion.
West Texas. Saturday fair,
warmer.
Virginia. —Saturday partly cloudy
ami colder.
North and South Carolina.—Un-
I settled Saturday, probably rains
I Saturday; colder in west portion.
Georgia.—Saturday rain.
Florida. —Saturday partly cloudy,
rain in north portion.
Extreme Northwest Florida.—Sat
j urday fair.
Alabama.—Saturday fair, except
i rain in southeast portion; colder
i Saturday.
Mississippi. Saturday fair and
I colder.
Tennessee and Kentucky.—Satin
i day fair; colder in east portion.
DEMOCRATS PUN
FIGHT FIN PLICING
BUTLER IN SENITE
Governor of Massachusetts
Names G. 0. P. Manager to
Succeed Senator Lodge
BOSTON, Nov. 13. —Democrats of
'Massachusetts are prepared to chal
lenge the constitutionality of ap
pointment of William M. Butler,
President Coolidge’s campaign man
ager, to fill out two years of the un
expired term of the late Senator
Lodge, Charles H. McGlue, chair
man of the Democratic state Commit
tee, announced this evening.
“The Democratic party will carry
this-case to the supreme court if nec
essary,” McGlue said.
“The Democrats feel that the state
law providing for teporary appoint
ment of United States senators can
not be construed as covering as long
a period as two years.
“We feel that Butler's appointment
is in violation of the sevententh
amendment to the constitution of the
United States.”
GOVERNOR COX ASSURED
OF BUTLER’S ACCEPTANCE
BOSTON, Nov. 13.—William M.
Butler, lawyer and manufacturer
and chairman of the Republican na
tional committee, today was appoint
ed by Governor Cox to succeed the
late Henry Cabot Lodge as United
States senator from Massachusetts.
The governor, it was said, has as
surances that Mr. Butler will accept.
The appointment is for approxi
mately two years, as the seat can
not* be filled by election until the
next general election in 1926. This is
in accordance with a lew enacted two
years ago, giving the governor auth
ority to appoint a' successor to fill
such vacancies as may develop be
tween elections.
Senator Lodge’s term would have
expired in 1928 and- the winner of
the election two years hence will
serve only until that time.
Mr. Butler will qualify at Wash
ington in time to take his s r , t when
congress convenes on December 1.
Mr. Butler, whose political activi
ties had been suspended for several
years, was ready to take the field
this fall for the Republican nomina
tion for United States senator in op
position to David I. Walsh, Demo
crat, but President Coolidge’s wish
that the manufacturer undertake
direction of the Republican national
campaign brought him into the
larger field as chairman of the na
tional committee instead. The suc
cess of the Republican campaign was
followed by a vacation intended to
last two or three weeks, but Sena
tor Lodge’s grave illness’cut it short.
It had been understood that Mr
Butler would have a place in the now
cabinet of President Coolidge and
that continued association with the
president in this connection was de
sired by him, but the senator’s death
changed the plans.
The senator-designate, who prac
ticed law at New Bedford for years
and was elected to the house and
senate, serving as president of the
latter body over a period of six years
before he came to thi scity in 1895,
before he came to this city in 1895,
of cotton manufacturing Interests
since that time. His interests also
included power and railway com
panies.
Bl TLER’S APPOINTMENT
PLEASING TO COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Word
>f the appointment of William M.
Butler as senator from Massachu
setts was received with undisguised
approval today at the White House.
Throughout his service as Repub
lican field marshal in the presiden
tial campaign, Mr. Butler worked in
close cooperation with President
Coolidge; and his selection to the
senate is regarded as adding an un
failing supporter of administration
policies, and an advisor to whom
the president can turn when ho
seeks counsel on major questions of
legislation.
The selection was not unexpected
among those close to Mr. Coolidge.
It was no secret that among the
president's most intimate friends Mr.
Butler was favored for the place.
Unusual interest was taken here
in the appointment both because the
vacancy was in the president’s home
state and because of Mr. Butler’s
position as chairman of the Republi
can national committee and his inti
mate association with the president’s
policies.
For these reasons the appointment
is expected to have at least an indi
rect bearing on the question of se
lecting a party leader in the senate
in succession to Senator Lodge.
There has been no suggestion that
Mr. Butler himself, a new senator,
would be elevated to that post, but
bis advice will be
sought on the question.
Losing Grip on Plane
Thousand Feet in Air,
Flier Falls to Death
TULSA, Okla.. Nov. 13.—Clyde
Horchem, student aviator, formerly
of Wichita, Kan., was killed Wednes
day when he fell from an altitude
of approximately 1.000 feet, near
Pumpkin Center, between Tulsa and
Drumwright, Okla.
Jess Catron. student flier, of
Sand Springs. Okla., was in the air
plane when Horchem fell. He said
they were on their way from Drum
wright to Tulsa when Horchem
climbed out on the wings of the
plane while Catron piloted, saying;
“You are getting along fine. I’ll
let you pilot by yourself.”
The flier then reached for the top
of one of the wings, slipped and slid
down the fuselage of the plane and
saved himself from falling by hold
ing to the rudder.
The plane then went into a tail
spin. Catron sail, and fell more than
500 feet. Horchem was thrown off
and crashed to earth, one thousand
feet below. Catron managed to right
the plane and m ike a landing.
Horchem’s wife. Bertha Horchem.
a daring stunt flier. wu kil’.e’ at
San Antonio, Tex., l ist Ma.ch while
I ’looping.’'
BLOODY EDIT FOUND
IN HOME OF NEfifiO
MURDER SUSPECT
i Garment Is Discovered in
i j
House of Women Held for
Slaying Aged Watchman
j Investigation by city detectives ot
I the brutal slaying last Saturday |
'night of J. L. Arendale, 60-year-old j
; nightwatchman at the Patterson '
Lumber company plant, on J-lighlants |
■ avenue, was spurred Thursday after- |
noon by two striking developments,
as follows:
1. Announcement by detectives
that a bloody coat had been found
In the home of Pearl Booth, negress,
the same place where detectives
Wednesday found Mr. Arendale’s
! watch, and a hammer alleged to
I have been used in crushing the skull
; of the aged night watchman. De
i tectives say they have witnesses
! who will testify that the Booth
I woman was seen wearing this coat
■ Saturday night.
I 2. Announcement that Mrs. J. F.
I Rogers, of 412 Edgewood avenue,
■ has identified the Booth woman as
the person who entered her home
about two weeks ago, under pre
tense of securing work, and had
struck her across the head.
According to Mrs. Rogers, the
■negro woman was Heightened away
I from the house by her screams, and
! failed to take anything.
Detectives also announced that an
investigation of the alibi offered by
(the Booth woman for her actions on
Saturday night was nearing comple
tion, and that they were almost ready
to take the’ case before the grand
jury.
An investigation of the alibi of
fered by Madison Reeves, the negro
man implicated by the Booth wom
an, also was being made by officers
Thursday afternoon.
The. police took away from the
Booth woman’s room more than
two truck loads of property sup
posed to have been the loot from
a score or more recent burglaries.
Officers were at work Thursday list
ing this property, which included
wearing apparel, house furnishings,
bed and table linens and all manner
of small articles. The police declare
they will be able to connect the
Booth woman with at least a dozen
recent burglaries.
Stolen property, valued at more
than sl,ooo* recovered in connection
with case, has so far been identified
by the following:
M. Helman, 202 Peck building;
Dave Epstein, 109 West Harris
street; J. R. .Tennis, 209 St. Charles
avenue; P. R. Womack, 715 High
land avenue; Miss Gertrude Ward,
99 East Ellis street; Mrs. J. A. Pat
terson. 66 East avenue; J. E. Mil-
I ler, 265 North Jackson; Mrs. L. E.
I Lamontagne, 38 Arlington place;
I Harmon Lyon, Peck building; Mrs.
i L. A. Sullivan, 243 East Pine street;
J. L. Kent, 293 Lake avenue; J. G.
Gordon, 430 Virginia avenue; Mrs.
L. C. Boland, Jr., 80 Rosedale drive;
R. O. Stephens, 18 Adams street;
Mrs. T. E. Middlebrooks, and Mrs.
W. Y. Freeman. 69 Ashland avenue.
The statement from the Booth
woman that the -watch and the
blood stained hammer were brought
to her rooms early Sunday by
Madison Reeves, a negro of
184 1-2 West Mitchell street, does
not satisfy the detectives, who have
been investigating the case. Reeves,
held incommunicado at police head
quarters, denies all connection with
the murder of the aged watchman
and also denies having given the
watch and hammer to the Booth
woman, but the officers are check
ing up on his movements Saturday
night.
! Four detectives who have been
working on the case have expressed
the opinion that the Booth woman is
directly involved in the Arendale
murder, either as a “lookout” for the
gang that attacked the watchmaij in j
the lumber company office, or as an
actual assailant of the aged man.
Unhealed cuts and scratches on her
face, hands and arms are regarded,
they say as indicating that she was
i engaged in the struggle with Mr.
I Arendale. The office where his body
i was found bore evidences of a ter
' rific batt.e before he was overcome.
A. B Kuykendall, who lives in the
vicinity of the lumber company’s of
fice, was attacked by a negro wom
an Saturday night, about the time ot
the Arendale murder, as he walkeq
past the lumber company’s plant, he
reported to police. He was knock
ed in the head and severely injured,
but was able to give a fairly accu- j
rate description of bisassailant.
Mrs. Harding Spends
“Very Restless Night,
Doctors’ Bulletin Says
MARTON. Ohio, Nov. 13—Mrs.
Warren G. Harding, who is critically
ill with kidney trouble, was reported
as not so well in a bulletin issued
this morning by Dr. Carl W. Sawyer,
her physician. The bulletin read:
“Mrs. Harding had a very restless
; and painful night and is not so well
this morning.”
Instead of being given to newspa-■
per men personally by Dr. Sawyer, |
this morning’s bulletin was read o'er!
the telephone by a nurse. This was 1
taken to indicate that Dr. Sawyer is '
remaining close to the bedside of his j
patient.
Suit to Oust Negro
Official Dismissed
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 13.—The
suit of E. Edward Bolte, Washing-:
ton. D. C., attorney, seeking to;
oust Walter L. Cohen, negro com?-1
1 troller of customs here, from office,;
and attacking legality of the adop-;
tion of the fourteenth amendment
to the constitution of the United!
States, was dismissed Wednesday;
in federal district court by Judge |
Rufus E. Foster. Bolte asserted:
Cohen was not a citizen of the;
United States since he was “of:
African descent” and could not:
claim citizenship because the amend
ment conferring it was illegal.
“Statesmen, jurists and historians
have termed that amendment the!
American Magna Charta.” said
Judge Foster. "And some have even:
termed it the Maxima Charta. Fori
56 years it h is stood as a bulwark
acainsr ar - ks on the rights of I
| citizens. ’
IBDPTIDN OF CHILD
LIBOB LIW URGED
IT CLLIB MEETING
Women's Body Recommends
Change in State in Method
of State Registration
Passage of resolutions urging the
I enaction of a more stringent child
j labor law in Georgia, recomrnend
i ing a change in the method of
| registration in Georgia, Jndorsing
| the Peach Blossom festival at 1' ort
Valley and recognizing various other
constructive movements, featured
Thursday afternoon s session of the
Georgia Federation of Women’s
clubs.
AH the resolutions had been dis
cussed Wednesday, and their adop
tion Thursday afternoon was in ac
cordance with previous indications.
An attack on the Georgia assem
bly for its failure to pass the Shep
pard-Towner bill and the Childrens’
Code commission bill, was embodied
in the report of the depart
ment of education, read Thursday
morning at the second day’s session
of the federations twenty-eighth
convention at the Atlanta Biltmore
hotel, by Mrs. Felton Jones, of
Rome, state chairman.
Mrs. Jones’ report declared that
clubwomen have found “that legis
lators do not always trouble them
selves to find out the facts in bills
on which they vote.” The report set
forth the Sheppard-Towner bill as a
specific example of this charge, and
declared that when one legislator
was approached in an effort to find
out why he did not support the bill
he “blushed, and turned red and re
plied that ‘he never did believe in
these birth control bills anyhow.’ ”
“Crass ignorance” was assigned
as the reason for this answer.
In discussing the children’s code
bill, the report declared that its pas
sage was' made impossible for a
“peculiar and politilcal reason,” set
ting forth that it was not reported
favorably by the house judiciary
committee, but instead was referred
to a special subjudieiary committee,
th echajrman of which "was known
to be an opponent of the measure.”
Road Program Approved
Indorsement of the pending pro
gram of state highway development
was given in the report of the com
mittee on federal laws, of which
Mrs. Walter Purdom, is chairman.
“In legislation,” said Mrs. Pur
dom, “our motto ‘Haive Faith in
Georgia’ should be' stressed more
than in any other field.”
In a speech at the morning ses
sion Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, state
director, praised the federation for
its activity in persuading women to
go to the. polls at the' recent
tion, declaring that the splendid co
operation of the federation “led the
( way to the fulfillment of the great
est duties of citizenhip.”
“Take back to your club the spirit
of federation,” said Mrs. Richard
son, “the spirit of co-operation of
the smallest club with the biggest
and of all clubs with the federated
organization. Let us pass on to all
clubs the good that is done in any
one .ckb. In this way we will
fulfill our greatest duty.
Mrs. W. H. Griffin, chairman of
the resolutions committee, an
nounced that a resolution had been
offered which proposed to make a
state, holiday in celebration of the
birthday of Joel Chandler Harris,
Georgia’s famous writer of negro
folk songs and “Uncle Remus”
stories.
Mrs. Wey then made the report
for the student aid foundation,
showing - that $39,991.25 had been
loaned to 253 girls in the last fif
teen years. One hundred and fifty
five of the beneficiaries have re
turned the loans in full, she said,
and last year alone, $4,419 wau re-
| turnfcd to the fund.
“Words cannot tell what these
figures mean.” said Mrs. Wey, "the
real story lies outside the figures.”
Letters From Women Read
She then read several letters
from young women in various sec
tions of the United States express
ing appreciation for the help given
them by the foundation in obtaining
an education. One of these letters,
from a young woman who was
made an orphan while very young
and bound out to service until she
was twenty-one years old, said:
“The clubwomen have rescued me
from a helpless and hopeless con
dition and have done so in a man
i ner which enables me to keep my
self-respect.”
"The call for new loans is constant
and urgent,” said Mrs. Wey, "and
last year we were unable to grant
forty-six applications. The impor
tance of this work cannot be over
estimated because it Is one of the
greatest that the federation is do
inc."
Immediately after Mrs. Wey’s re
port, Mrs. D. C. Ketchum, third dis
trict president, announced that the
report had so impressed the repre
sentatives of the Fitzgerald Wom
an’s club that that club had decided
to give SIOO to the students’ aid
foundation. This announcement was
met with a burst of applause.
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| Mistaken for Shiners,
Alabama Officers Shot
By Federal Raiders
ALBANY, Ala., Nov. 13.—W. P.
I Hampton, state law enforcement of-
I ficer, is at a hospital here seriously
! wounded as the result of a fight
j near here between state and federal
i officers when each party mistook the
i other for moonshiners.
I Hampton and B. W. Smith, Law
i rcnce county deputy sheriff, were
I preparing to raid a still, and almost
; simultaneously, a group of federal
: officers approached the still and de
: ployed. The federal officers called
i upon Hampton and Smith to sur
. render. The state officers, thinking
; that the federal officers were moon
; shiners, reached for their guns,
i whereupon the federal officers open
ied fire. Hampton fell with a bullet
j in his lung.
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WHITNEYVILLE, Maine.—White
blueberries are the paradoxical fruit
‘ grown in WhitneyviUe. This freak
i of nature has been developed on land
I owned by Newell Albee, who is ex-
I tremely careful of his treasure an l
j allows onlj a very few to be picked.
Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, November 15, 1924
WOODROW WILSON DRAGGED
BRITISH PREMIER OFF ‘TIGER’
AT VERSAILLES, WRITER SAYS
Lloyd George, Angered by
Clemenceau’s Accusations
of Falsehood, Had Latter
by Collar—Duel Offered
LONDON, Nov. 13. —Woodrow
Wilson separated Lloyd George and
Georges Clemenceau when the Brit
ish prime minister had the French
premier by the collar and was de
manding an apology for' being
called a liar, Wickham Steed, former
editor of the Time, discloses in his
book, “Through Thirty Years,” pub
lished today.
The row occurred during the Ver
sailles peace conference, and led to
Clemenceau challenging Lloyd
George to a duel, Steed says.
“Clemenceau flatly accused Lloyd
George of repeated inaccuracies,”
the editor says, describing the inci
dent referred to. “Lloyd George
rose and seized Clemenceau by the
collar, demanding an apology.
“Woodrow Wilson separated them.
Then Clemenceau offered Lloyd
George reparation with pistols or
swords, as soon as the British prime
minister had resided in France long
enough to acquire a domicile —and
POSTOFFICE BLAST
KILLS 3. HURTS 12;
BOMB PLOT FEARED
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 13.
Nothing but a high explosive could
have caused the blowing up of the
receiving room annex of the local
postpffice yesterday, federal officers
investigating the blast declared tif
day. The blast which killed three
men, dangerously injured a fourth
and sent a score of others to hos
pitals for treatment, not only
wrecked the annex, but rocked the
downtown district and shattered
windows in buildings some distance
away.
Although city officials and some
postal authorities had insisted that
the explosion was caused when gas
which had accumulated beneath the
floor of the loading deck suddenly
became ignited, the federal investi
gation is said to have proved con
clusively that only a high explosive
could have produced the wreckage
by which the loading room was re
duced.
The death list of the explosion was
brought to three with the death this
morning of Dale Newhouse, a truck
driver, delivering mail at the time.
The other victims were Ernest Roth
and Herman Pettersch, both postal
employes.
The theory that the blast was
caused b.v the premature explosion
of a bomb sent through the mails
was advanced by postal authorities,
police and firemen, who worked all
night by aid of sarchlights, scouring
the wreckage for clues. No frag
ment of a bomb or other explosive
was found, however. I
Loraine Yarrington, who was in
an automobile across the road from
the postoffice, escaped with minor
bruises, but a dog in his automobile
was killed.
The three men who were killed, and
Newhouse were on the loading plat
form at the time of the explosion.
Newhouse was leaving the postoffice
after purchasing stamps.
Woman in Columbus
Claims Mystery Girl Is
Long Lost Grandchild
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 13.—A
woman giving the name of Mrs. Elli
son Lee, well known to police au
thorities, today visited the city hos
pital and claimed that Columbus’
“mystery woman” is her grandchild.
According to the story tuld to
hospital attaches by Mrs. Lee, she
has not seen the “mystery woman’
since she was eight years old, but
is positive she is not mistaken in
identity. The hospital was not giv
en the Christian name of Mrs. Lee,
but it is claimed that the last name
is “King.”
Mrs. Lee asserts that the “King”
woman lived in Louisiana, but failed
to give the location.
Hospital heads have placed no
ctedence in the identity of the wom
an and refused to release her until
they are positive she is the grand
child of Mrs. Lee. Sheriff’s forces
are investigating Mrs. Lee's story
also.
The story of Mrs. Lee was given
a. severe jolt this afternoon follow
ing an announcement made at the
family welfare bureau that they had
visited Mrs. Lee and knew of her
past and that she had never had any
children.
Coolidge to Discuss
Agriculture Before
College Association
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Presi
dent Coolidge will speak tonight be
fore the annual meeting here of the
Association of Land Grant colleges.
This will be Mr. Coolidge's first
public address since the election and
he expects to devote his remarks
chiefly to the subject of agriculture,
which is also the principal topic of
discussion before the college repre
sentatives.
The president plans to go even
more extensively into his views on
farming conditions in opening the
conference here next Monday of the
agriculture commission which he re
cently appointed to investigate farm
ing conditions with a view to out
lining a program for permanent
stabilization of this industry. The
meetings of commission, composed of
eight members, will be held with
the cooperation of the department of
agriculture.
meanwhile ‘the tiger’ refused to
apologize.”
On another occasion, Steed says,
he himself suggested to Clemenceau
that the premier of France talk with
Wilson and ascertain what Wilson
wanted.
“Talk with Wilson!” Steed quotes
Clemenceau as retorting. “How
can I talk to a fellow who thinks
himself the first man for two thou
sand years who has known anything
about peace on earth? Wilson
imagines he is a second Messiah.
He believes- he is sent to give peace
to the world, and thta his precon
ceived notions are the only notions
worth having.
“I’ve done everything to gratify
him. I received him at the foot of
the staircase as though he were the
king of England, but still he’s not
satisfied.”
Clemenceau added. Steed says,
that talking t > Wilson was futile,
that they would never reach an un
derstanding.
STOP EXTRAVAGANCE
TOKIQ. —Girls in Mi wade. High
school must live the simple life. Ex
travagance of any sort is forbidden.
Girl students are being rebuked for
wearing expensive kimonos and car
rying gaudy, parasols. Teachers in
spect the wearing apparel of every
slant-eyed flapper who enters the
bytilding.
BR. W. H. EMERSON.
OF TECH FIGIILH.
IS TAKEN OF HEATH
Dr. William Henry Emerson, dean
of the chemistry department at
Georgia Tech, a member of the fac
ulty since the founding of the
school in 1888, and one of the best
loved and most widely-known educa
tors in the south, died Thursday
morning at 8:30 o’clock at his resi
dence, 160 West North avenue.
While he had been in ill health
for more than a year, Dr. Emerson,
in his devotion to Georgia Tech,
conlirbeo in his work of shaping
the course of the chemistry depart
ment until illness forced him to sus
pend his duties several weeks ago.
His death, while not unexpected by
members of the immediate family,
came as a distinct shock to his hun
dreds of friends in the city and at
the institution with which he was so
intimately identified.
On Saturday, at 12 o'clock, at the
Hotel Biltmore, the class of 1924
was to have presented a handsome
portrait of Dr. Emerson to Georgia
Tech, and Dr. Emerson himself was
to have taken a prominent part in
the program. It was announced Fri
day afternoon, however, that the
presentation of the portrait ’.vi.'l take
on the character of a memorial to
the dean, and that impressive cere
monies will mark the occasion.
Was Highly Esteemed
Dr. Emerson enjoyed a position of
high esteem in the hearts of Georgia
Tech men extending over a thirty
six year period. In the fall of 1888,
when the institution opened its doors
for the first time. Dr. Emerson went
there as head of the chemistry de
partment. Since that time he had
been associated with every interest
of the institution. In 1910 he was
made dean of the institution, as a
tribute to his teaching ability and
the place he held in the hearts of his
associates. In 1912 as a further
tribute to his character, and his
standing in the profession which he
had served so consistently and well,
he was awarded the degree of doctor
of science by the University of Geor
gia.
Officials of Georgia Tech, and men
acquainted over a long period of serv
ice with Dr. Emerson, Thursday, paid
tribute both to Dr. Emerson as the
man, and Dr. Emerson, the scholar,
the lover of his profession.
“He was one of the men whose
footprints have been deepest and
most important in the history of the
school ” Dr. M. L. Brittain, presi
dent, said in felling of the dean’s love
of Tech. ‘ His first interest, in the
years I knew him, and was associat
ed with him, was in Tech.”
Others Fay Tributes
Dr. Gilbert H. Boggs, associated
with Dr. Emerson in the department
of chemistry for twenty-one years,
spoke in high regard of Dr. Emer
son as a man whose work was the
important thing in his life, but one
whose life also was centered in the
affections of those who knew him, a
man who enjoyed the respect and
admiration of all who came in con
tact with him.
Dr. Emerson was born June 17,
1860, at Tunnel Hill, Ga. His fa
ther was Caleb Emerson, a well
known practicing physician of his
section, and his mother, Mrs. Emer
son, was Miss Caroline Austin, the
daughter of a well-known family:
Always interested, even as a young
man, in education, particularly
books of travel, Dr. Emerson at
tended the schools of his communi
ty, such as they were, and in 1876
won a congressional appointment
to the naval academy, entering the
institution in the fall of that year.
He was graduated from the insti
tution with the class of 1880, having
made an excellent record in his I
studies. He served as an officer in I
the navy until 1883, and then re- j
signed to pursue his educational j
work.
Came To Tech in 1888
Entering Johns Hopkins univer-j
sity, Baltimore, in 1883, Dr. Emer- '
son was graduated two years later j
with a Ph.D. degree in chemistry. |
From Johns Hopkins, he accepted a :
position in the Citadel university, I
where he taught until 1888, when |
he was offered the chair of chernis- i
try by the first board of trustees '
of Georgia Tech.
In connection with his work as '
head of the department of chem- |
istry, to which position his splendid
intellectual attainments were con
tributed whole-heartedly, Dr. Emer
son formed associations with stu
dents that in view of his lovable
traits of character and
treatment of student needs made
him one of the best-loved men in
the institution. He manifested a
deep interest in the Emerison Chem
ical society, an o-ganization found
ed »everaj ago in Ijjs faonor,
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CONGRESSMAN WINS
FIGHT IN COURT TO
TEST VOLSTEAO ICT
Shouts Gleefully as All Six'
Counts in Indictment
Are Dismissed j
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BALTIMORE, Md„ Nov. 13.—•
Manufacture! of wines and cider of
ordinary alcoholic content in private
homes is permissible, a jury in.
United States district court here de
cided today.
The jury dismissed all the counts
of the indictment against Represen
tative John Philip Hill, of Maryland,
which had charged him with unlaw
ful manufacture of 11.64 per cent
wine and 2.7 per cent cider in his
home.
Hill provoked the trial to test the
power of the Volstead act over home
brewing.
The jury reported to Judge Morris
Soper after twenty hours’ delibera
tion that it had found Hill, the de
fendant, not guilty on each of tha
six counts in the indictment found
against him.
The counts of the indictment had
charged Hill specifically with manu
facture and possession of intoxi
cants, and with creating a public
nuisance by having intoxicants in
his home.
The exact wording of the dismiss
al was: ;
“We, the jury, find the defendant
not, guilty of the matter of which he
stands indicted.”
Judge Soper, in charging the jury,
told them that their verdict must be
considered as passing upon the ques
tion of whether the beverage manu
factured by Hill intoxicating.
He said the issue of intoxication
must be decided on the question of
whether or not “a practical amount’’
consumed by any man. would pro
duce drunkenness.
Hill, who has long been opposed
to the prohibition laws, shouted with,
glee when the verdict was returned.
“Well, boys, you can make all the
wine you want now,” he said. “I
always did have faith in the com
mon sense of the Maryland juries.”
The courtroom was jammed when
the verdict was read and there were
cries of approval.
A dramatic story as to what trans
pired in the jury room was told
when jurymen left the box after re
turning their verdict.
It developed that the deadlock
finally was broken when eleven of
the jurors favoring acquittal ap
pealed to the hold out on the ground
that Christ, as recorded in the Bible,
recognized the utility of win®.
Last midnight, ten of the jurors
had been convinced a verdict of not
guilty should be returned. At 1:30
a. m., one of the other two swung
over. Then the eleven concentrated
on Sebastian J. Linz, a grocer.
“I am a prohibitionist and I am
opposed to wine, cider, beer an<A
everything else, no matter how
much alcohol it contains,” Linz told
his fellow jurors.
“Don't you read the Scriptures?”
one of his opponents asked. “Don't
you know that Christ hissed wine?,
Doi you think yourself superior to
Christ?”
It was not until breakfast tim®
that Linz relented.
Judge Soper made no statement
on the verdict.
After the verdict. Hill went out
through the corridors, where be
was acclaimed by the crowd like a
hero.
HILL CASE IS CLOSW>
INCIDENT, STONE SATS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Th®
department of justice will await a
full report from United States At
torney Woodcock at Baltimore be
fore it is willing to comment on th®
effect of the acquittal of Represen
tative John Phillip Hill in the cider
manufacture case. Attorney Gen
eral Stqne explained that there
could bb no appeal by the govern
ment under the law and Hiat there
fore the case against Mr. Hll be
comes a closed incident in so far ae
the government is concerned.
“OLD STUFF,” VOLSTEAD
SAYS OF HILL DECISION
GRANITE FALLS, Minn., Nov.
13.—The opinion of Judge Morris A.
Soper, of Baltimore, that fruit juices
may be made for homo consumption
regardless of the alcoholic content is
“old stuff,” Andrew J. Volstead, fa
ther of the prohibition act, decl&red
today. Judge Hand held the same
in New York some time ago,
according to Mr. Volstead.
“You can’t administer prohibition
enforcement by trying to interpret
what alcoholic content makes a bev
erage intoxicating,” Mr. Volstead
said.
“It was not the intention of th®
act to prohibit home-making and
consumption of fruit juice that will
not become wine. A fruit juice
will not develop any alcoholic con
tent without the use of sugar. Some
persons would become intoxicated on
a small percentage of alcoholic con
tent while others can consume large
quantities of high content without
exhibiting signs of intoxication.
“1 do not feel that the ruling of
Judge Soper will have any effect on
prohibition enforcement.”
Alleged Valdosta
Burglars Are Reported
Held in Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD, Ga., Nov. 13.
Three attempted burglaries were re
ported Thursday morning and Oi»
telegraphic information to Valdosta,
two tourists, said to be from Athens,
were arrested, having spent tha
night in a local camp ground. It is
said they fit descriptions of the par
ties implicated in the robbery of the
Chero-Cola plant, where they secured
$30.00 in money.
The Texas Oil company plant was
entered and the combination knob of
the safe broken in an attempt to get
at its contents. Mrs. Joe Smith, liv
ing in the rear of her confectionery
store in the heart of the business
district, was awakened during the
night and found a man *at her back
door. Several shots were exchanged
before the intruder fled.
Officers have gone to Valdosta to
seoure the arrested parties and bring
them heie [o£ HTycstigation. _
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