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VOL. XXVII. NO. 17
BORAH TO REVIVE
MOVE ID PUSH UP
CONGRESS SESSIONS
Idaho Senator Would Inaug
urate Presidents in Jan
uary After Election
(Copyright. 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association —Special T.eased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal. 1
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—1 n Sen
ator Borah’s advocacy of a special
session of congress to be held soon
after March 4, next, lies the progres
sive idea of a constitutional change
In the present antequated system of
congressional sessions. Unable to. do
away with the “lame duck session
which begins Monday, December 1,
Senator Borah would have the new
' congress meet as soon as possible in
order that it may carry into early
effect whatever mandate the people
gave it at the last election. With
out a special session, the congress
men and senators elected the fourth
of this mcnth will be unable to func
tion until one year from the coming
December.
. There is a revival of interest
everywhere in the plan to have the
congress elected in November each
two years take office the first of the
following January. The plan also
calls for the presidential inaugura
tion every four years on the first
of January following the election.
There is held to be no valid reason
at the present, time for a wait until
March 4. That date was all right
in the olden days when election re
turns were gathered slowly and
when the presidential electors had to
travel to Washington by stage coach
or horseback.
The advantages of the proposed
new constitutional system are held
to be manifold; there are few if any
defenders of the present arrange
ment. The change in the date of
the presidential inauguration, how
ever, is secondary to the proposed
new congressional plan. The inau
gural date automatically would move
forward if the congressional meet
ings were changed.
Under the present system of elect
ing a new congress in November and
then having a full meeting of the old
congress in the following Decem
ber, defeated “hold overs” or lame
decks are permitted to legislate after
the people have repudiated them at
the polls. By the same token a
I resident, defeated for re-election, in
November, is permitted on the first
Monday ia December to give to con
gress his ideas as to what is best
for the nation for the year after he
has been thrown out of office.
Furthermore, under the present
system a congressman elected for
two sessions of congress, is permit
ted to serve only in one before he
must take his cause once more be
fore the voters. Under the proposed
system he would serve in two con
gresses and would have made his
ability or his inability perfectly
plain.
One great value of the new system
is that it would make extia sessions
of congress unnecessary except in
some extreme emergency. As it is
extra sessions during the past six
teen years have been numerous.
They were called by Presidents Taft,
Wilson and Harding.
Under the present system the no
called short session of congress, like
the one which convenes December 1
and must adjourn by March 4, is
virtually useless so far as general
legislation is concerned. It has about
all it can do to pass the supply bills.
The constitutional limitation upon
the session permits of filibusters and
the talking to death of many meas
ures—some at least of which might
be for the public good.
Under the new system, with ses
sions beginning each January 1,
there would virtually be no limit
upon congress. Some business men
might consider this a bad thing.
They believe generally that long re
cesses of congress are better than
k'ng sessions. Secretary Mellon is
opposed at this time to President
Coolidge calling an extra session
next March. He thinks tax matters
should be allowed to rest for the time
being and as taxes are foremost in
Mr. Coolidge's mind he may be guid
ed by his secretary of the treasury
rather than by the commanding in
fluence of Borab on capital hill.
War and Civilization
Causing Gypsy Bands
Os World to Die Out
BUDAPEST, Nov. 15.—The gyp
sies of the world are said to be dying
out. This is especially true of the no
madic tribes which have roamed
about Europe since the beginning of
the fourteenth century. They have
not been able to keep pace with mod
ern civilization.
While definite figures are lacking,
it has been estimated that today, in
all countries, there are less than
600,000 gypsies, while 25 years ago
there were more than a million scat
tered about the earth’s surface. Hun
gary and Rumania have today over
half the gypsy population of the
world. Os these approximately 100.-
000 speak only the gypsy language.
There are gypsy settlements in
both Hungary and Rumania, as well
as other European countries, where
the gypsy has settled down, enter
ing trade in the villages, tilling the
soil, or serving as musicians and
singers. But there are still many
thousands wandering over the con
tinent and eking out an existence by
fortune telling, giving musical con
certs or making minor repairs f
the housewife encountered on the
way.
The war is responsible for ti e de
crease in the number of nomadic
gypsies in Europe, it is declared.
During the years that the armies
fought across one country after an
other the wondering gypsy was driv
en from his favoritet fields of travel,
and he has never “come back” in
numbers anything like those which
existed prior to 1914.
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y.—Mrs.
Frances F. Morgan, widow of J. i
Pierpont Morgan is critically ill.
WASHINGTON. Program of I
1 resident Coolidge’s trip to Chicago 1
calls for two speeches December 4. '
PEORIA. Hl- —Four prominent
fanners were killed when a. train hit
their automobile at Tiskilwa, near
here.
"WASHINGTON. —Agreement with
Poland for- funding of national debt .
of $179,565,025 to United States is
signed by President Coolidge.
NEW YORK.—New York stock
exchange will co-operate with federal
government in nation-wide effort to
rid country of security swindlers.
EVANSTON, 111. Charles G.
Dawes, vice president-elect, injured
while taking morning exercises, is
operated on successfully at Evans
ton.
NEW YORK. —Preparations are
complete for 8 to 9 hour overnight
air mail service between New York
and Chicago, to be inaugurated next
spring.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. George
Eastman gives $2,300,000 toward
fund of ten millions for buildings
and endowment of University '•of
Rochester.
JACKSONVILLE. —Three women
and a baby are killed and 18 per
sons are injured when Florida East
Coe st railway train is derailed near
Wabasso, Fla.
WASHINGTON.—Gustav .1. Kar
ger, fifty-eight, one of Washington’s
best known newspaper men and cor
respondent for Cincinnati Times-
Star, dies after operation.
JERSEY CITY. —In second large
fire in Jersey City within three days
two Erie railroad piers and much
valuable freight are destroyed at es
timated loss of $1,500,000.
A MSTERDAM. Advices from
Java, dated November 13, say the
earthquake there continued threat
ening to ruin houses which escaped
undamaged in previous quakes.
CHICAGO. —Harold “Red” Grange,
of Illinois sensational halfback, is
definitely out of football for baaince
of season because-of injuries received
in Saturday’s game with Minnesota.
WASHINGTON. —Revision of tax
law should not be attempted until
after government books are balanced
at end of present fiscal year, June
30, 1925, administration decides.
GENEVA. —Refusal ’of Japanese
delegation to international confer
ence for suppression of opium smok
ing to sign proposed agreement
caused virtual collapse of delibera
tions,
LOS ANGELES.—Raiding party
diverts flow of Los Angeles aque
duct into Owens river near Lone
Pine, Cal., in effort to force settle
ment of feud over disposition of
water.
MEXICO ClTY.—Alejo Garcia and
Francisco Ruiz were sentenced to
death for the murder of Mrs. Rosalie
Evans, American-born widow of a
British subject who was killed last
August.
MEXICO. Leopoldo Guerrero,
aged member of the Mexican cham
ber of deputies from Zacatecas,
wounded in a shooting affray that
followed a debate in the chamber,
dies.
ATLANTIC "cTtyLn. J.—Board of
bishops of Methodist Episcopal
church demands principle of con
scription of wealth and labor as
"counterpart of any future conscrip
tion of human life in war."
BERLlN.—Germany’s reparations
payment of goods in kind during
September and October totaled ap
proximately 170,000,000 gold marks,
according to a report by Seymour
Parker Gilbert, agent-general for
reparations.
I NDIANAPOLJS.—The American
Legion announced it soon would
launch a national campaign to raise
an endowment fund of $5,000,000 to
care for orphaned children of World
war veterans and helpless disabled
former service men.
WASHINGTON.—The chamber of
commerce of the United States pre
sented a statement to President
Coolidge urging immediate repeal of
the law permitting publication of in
come tax returns and establishment
of a tax commission to simplify tax
regulations.
ATLANTIC CITY. —Selection and
financing of American Olympic
teams in all sports over which Amer
ican Athletic union has jurisdiction
is recommended in report of Wil
liam C. Prout, retiring president of
A. A. U.. submitted today to the or
ganization at Atlantic City.
Prominent Mobile Men
To Face Federal Court
On Bribe Plot Charge
MOBILE, A’a., Nov. 17.—The
ease against William 11. Holcombe,
former sheriff and member of the.
legislature; Dr. A. G. Ward. Percy
H. Kearns, an attorney; Frank W.
Boykin, real estate man, and H. M.
Cochrane, merchant, charged with
conspiring to bribe a federal official,
will be heard on December 3.
The defendants were indicted by
tie Inst November grand jury in
federal court. The case was set for
hearing last fall but was postponed
on account of illness of Mr. Hol
combe.
The defendants are charged with
conspiring to bribe United Slates
District Attorney Aubrey Boyles in
connection with the enforcement of
I the prohibition law nt Mobile.
lhe Weather
i
Virginia. North Carolina am] South
i Carolina: Tuesday increasing cloudi
ness and slightly warmer.
Georgia ami Florida: Fair T :es
. day.
Extreme Northwest Florida. Ala
■ baina and Mississippi: Tuesday in
! t l easing cloudiness and warmer.
Tennessee and Kentmky: Tuesday
j unsettled and warmer, probably rain
I in western portion.
Illinois: Generally fair Tuesday ex
cept unsettled in extreme north por
tion.
Missouri: Fair Tuesday.
Louisiana: Tuesday fair.
Arkansas: Tuesday fair.
Oklahoma: Tuesday fair.
East Texas: Tuesday fa r.
I West Texas: Tuesday fair.
BUTLER’S POSITION
W SENATE IWE
AND PROBLEMATICAL
New in Congress, Campaign
Manager May Be Power
Behind Throne
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
iSjrcial Leased Wire to The Journal—Copy
right, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. —What
will William Butler’s position be in
the United States senate. Will he
be the administration spokesman,
the man of whom those seeking a
point of political contact with Presi
dent Coolidge will lock?
Certainl yno other manager has
gone to the senate in recent years
immediately after a successful cam
paign. Nor has any chairman of
the Republican national committee
been sitting in the upper house of
congress, though, to be sure, Cor
dell Hull has been in the house of
representatives during his term of
office as chairman of the Democratic
national committee. There is no
precedent by which to gauge the
future. But certain things may be
taken for granted.
In the first place, the appointment
of Mr. Butler by the governor of
Massachusetts is no mere fulfillment
of personal wishes. Mr. Butler has
for some time been anxious to go to
the senate. He might have been the
administration candidate in the Re
publican primaries this year when
Speaker Gillette was chosen to op
pose the re-election of Senator
Walsh. Mr. Butler, however, had
taken hold of the pre-convention
campaign of President Coolidge ahd
gave up senatorial ambitions to stick
with his chief. Whatever sacrifice
was involved then has by the hand
of fate been offset now by his ap
pointment to office as the successor
to the late Senator Lodge.
Mr. Butler’s vote-getting capacity
is the subject of some differences
of opinion in New England as he is
not the spectacular type. It may be
that before the next election is held
to choose a successor to Senator
Lodge in the regular way, Mr. Butler
may be found in the cabinet.
Just now with the secretary of
war, John W. Weeeks, coming from
Massachusetts, the president did not
feel like violating custom by having
two men in the cabinet from his own
state. Mr. Weeks himself may de
termine to enter the senatorial race
some day or to retire to private life
in which event Mr. Butler’s entry
into the cabinet might occur.
The whole thing will depend to
some extent on Mr. Butler’s ex
perience in the senate in the next
year. His opportunities to rise to a
position of commanding influence
and power are just as great if not
greater in the senate than in the
cabinet. At the Republican conven
tion in Cleveland last June, Mr.
Butler came into violent collision
with the “old guard” by issuing or
ders and instruction which, however
well-intentioned, went against the
grain of the veteran politicians. This
experience may have discouraged
him from essaying the role of politi
cal leader. For the sensitiveness of
few political chieftains in a national
convention is a mere incident com
pared to the attitude of the modern
senator toward anyone who plays
the part of leader, individualism has
developed to such a poit that it is
doubtful whether an Aldrich of yes
teryears could manage the present
day senators.
Senator Butler could not very well
become a legislative leader as he is
new in congress himself, and like
most new comers would have to be
going to school most of the time
in congressional practice. His
speeches probably will be few for
the same reason. Nevertheless like
Will Hays and Harry Daugherty, the
new senator from Massachusetts will
he in constant touch with the White
House on questions of appointment.
No one knows as intimately the obli
gations incurred in a presidential
contest. The senators will find it
convenient to consult Mr. Butler and
to seek his co-operation. Were lie
disposed to play polities in the old
fashioned way dispensing offices to
the constituents of those senators
and members of the house who
“played ball” and co-operated with
the administration on legislation he
could build up a position of personal
power which would give him leader
ship—a man behind the throne—it
all depends on his own tact and dis
cretion. And, no one envies him the
job of being the confidant of the
administration, a senator and a for
mer campaign manager all at the
same time.
War Veterans Asked
To Save All Pap ers
Recording Any Event
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Tie
war department has issued an ap
peal to war-time officers, field clerks
and enlisted men of the army in
France, requesting that they for
ward to the department any papers
they may have which would throw
light upon the participation in the
war of the units to whicn thev were
assigned.
"No war-time papers should be
thrown away." the department de
clares. "Even an informal note or a
rough sketch may be the key to an
important situation.”
The papers are desired In order
that the historical section of the
•raff may complete a series of mono
graphs covering the participation
of the American forces in the va
rious operations of the World war
and also that "all orders, reports,
diaries. memorandums. telegrams,
maps and informal notes, etc., bear
ing upon activities or operations
may be with the records of the
proper units on file in the adjutant
general's office.”
Majority of 1 1,235
Given Mrs. Ferguson
DALLAS. Texas, Nov. 16.—Mrs
Miriam A. Ferguson was given a
majority of 112.235 over Dr. George
O. Butte for governor, in the final
report of the Texas election bureau
here Saturday night.
Complete returns from 246 coun
ties gave Mrs. Ferguson 414.904 anti
Butte 302.669. Six counties which
haii> not reported have a total voting
strength of 1.2’8, the report said.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding
Reported Much Weaker
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 16.—Mrs.
I Warren G. Harding, widow of the
• p: esident, was comfortable most or
I the night, according to a bulletin
' issued Sunday by Dr. Sawyer, her
I physician.
The former first, lady of the land
was much weaker this morning and
I showed a marked tendency to drowsi
nt ss, ihe bullet in said.
,WET-ORY BATTLE
SEEN IN CONGRESS
AT SHORT SESSION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The
first real fight of wets against drys
; in congress since enactment of pro
hibition is to be staged on the floor
I of the senate in the coming short
I session.
I Investigators dominating the
■ Couzens committee are determined
to pry the lid off the prohibition
I department and make public all its
I forcement, where, it is charged, se
l Drvs on the other hand served no
tice that any attempt to molest the
enforcement bureau would be re
sisted strenuously.
The Couzens committee resumes
its sessions here Wednesday and
within a few days it is planned to
go into the angle of prohibition en
forcement. where, it i scharged, se
rious irregularities have occurred.
Mixed up in the same tussle is
the Crampton bill passed last ses
sion by the house and now before
the senate. This measure would
place more stringent regulations
upon manufacture and sale of indus
i trial alcohol and is being contested
i strongly by all except the ardent
I drys.
Ma nufacttirers Protest
Manufacturers of industrial alco
hol have deluged the offices of sen
ators within the last week with let
ters contending that the bill is op
posed to the tone of the Volstead
act. The policy of congress, the
manufacturers say, has always been
to encourage the supervised distribu
tion of industrial alcohol, but the
Crampton bill will drive them all
out of business.
Senator James R. Couzens, chair
man of the committee which has
been authorized to investigate the
internal revenue bureau—of which
the prohibition enforcement office
is a unit—will arrive here Monday
to complete his plans for tire bat
tle. He is said to be convinced the
committee is lawfully empowered to
go into the acts of the prohibition
bureau.
i On the other hand, Senator James
| Watson, of Indiana, who quit the
■ chairmanship of the investigating
| committee because it threatened to
i tamper with the prohibition unit—
> declared he would countenance no
' such inquiry.
"If such a step is taken it wriL
’ be only over my dead body,” he
i xtid last night. “There* is no justi
i fication for such a move. It has
I no good motive behind it.”
Couzens Leans to Wets
Couzens, while not an outspoken
wet, was opposed for re-election by
I the Anti-Saloon league and has the
■ backing of all the mild, as well as
> the rabid anti-prohibitionists in the
■ senate.
Up to this time, the wets have
never staged a determined fight.
■ Moves for modification of the Vol
, stead act have been feeble and did
not receive the full wet support.
i Now, however, wets in the senate
■ believe they have a real issue and
' ate determined to fight it out.
The investigating committee will
first go into the tax situation in
j Lhe revenue bureau and this must
: be disposed of before the prohibition
i angle can be taken up. The latter,
'■ however, will be reached before
| congress begins session on Decem
' ber 1.
Oil Production Slump
During 1924 Is First
In Nineteen Years
BARTLESVILLE, Okla.. Nov. 17
During 1924, tor the first time in
nineteen > ears, there was a decline
| in Hie production of petroleum in the
. nited States, according to a review
of the world petroleum production
. for 1924 by Valentine R. Garfias,
■ manager of the foreign oil depart
ment of Henry L. Doherty & Co.,
made public here Saturday.
i This, following the sharpest yearly
\ increase recorded for the country,
the review said, turned lhe advance
• of 168,000.000 barrels of last year
into an estimated decline of 7,000,000
barrels.
’lhe influence of this diminution
of prodi ction, the review continues,
a 'counts for the world's production
remaining practically stationary dur
ing the last two years, as the in
crease in some fields was counter
balanced by declines in others.
lhe production of 1923, the review
said, was 1.004.000 barrels.
The most important factor in the
world s oil production during the
present year, said the report, has
been the increase in the Venezuelan
Helds, where the 1924 production is
estimated at 8,200,000 barrels, or dou
ble that of last year.
, At present there is enough oil
above ground in the United States
i alone to supply the whole world for
six months, the review says.
U. S. Envoy to Berlin
Says Europeans Soon
Will Be Buying Surpl us
NEW YORK. Nov. 17.—Alanson
1 Houghton, ambassador to Ger
many. who sailed Saturday on the
-viathan. expressed confidence that
I Europe had “turned the corner” and
; is on the way to normal conditions,
i He predicted that America would
; be directly affected through the in
| creased demand for grain, me its and
t manufactured goods.
I “With the new German elections
i we shall probably see the eradica
tion of the radical group." the am
i bassador said. “Communism is not
a German production and its in
j crease there was an outgrowth of dis
content during the post-war years.”
Mr. Houghton, who has been home
on a vacation, said his term would
expire on March 4. next. : nd that
: his plans thereafter were indefinite
A. W. Gregg, special assistant to
Secretary Mellon, who will stud.'
i English taxation laws, also departed
; on the Leviathan.
US CLING TO
SOURCE OF WATER
FOR LOS ANGELES
City Authorities Start Legal
Action to Reopen
Acqueduct •
I BISHOP, Cal., Nov. 17.—(8y the
! Associated Press.) Los Angeles
I aqueduct waste gates near Lone
i Pine were captured yesterday by a
■ small army of Owens Valley men
: who brushed aside city employes on
guard and diverted Los Angeles’
chief source of water supply into the
Owens river.
Saying they were determined to
i keep the water of the aqueduct
flowing through the spillway until
Los Angeles settles its long-standing
water feud with valley ranchers in
a manner acceptable to them, the
raiders defied aqueduct authorities
and the Inyo county sheriff to drive
them out. The raid today had set
tled into an organized occupation,
backed by the efforts of several hun
dred men and women.
Sixty men left on guard at the
waste gates last night will be re
lieved by others late today, Harry
Glasscock, editor of the Owens Val
ley Herald and spokesman for the
Teachers, told the Associated Press,
and for as long as necessary the
guard will be maintained by reliev
ing with fresh men every 24 hours.
Should 60 men not be enough, the
force would be increased, he said.
Yesterday a hundred men held the
gates.
Food for the aqueduct guard,
Glasscock said, will be prepared by
women in Bishop and sent to the
waste gates, 50 miles away, by motor
truck. Two trucks of food and sup
plies were sent last night.
Los Angeles’ water supply is as
sured for ninety days by water im
pounded at several sites along the
aqueduct south of here. Inyo coun
ty authorities refrained from action
pending the outcome of an appeal
I for state troops sent to Governor •
I Friend W. Ri hardson by Sheriff
I Collins, who urged immediate use of
i troops as the only possible way of
! dispersing the raiders without blood
|shed.
The ranchers maintain that the
I aqueduct has robbed their farms of
i water necessary for irrigation.
Motion pictures of yesterday's raid,
in which from sixty to a hundred
I men participated, were taken by a
Hollywood film com par. y, which hap
‘ pened to be on location near
j Lone Pine, and were to be thrown on
' the screen for the information of
i Los Angeles citizens today or tomor
j row.
No effort had been made by city
| employes to eject the raiders up to
j an early hour today, and Inyo coun-
I ty authorities were refraining from
I any further action pending the out
: come of the appeal for state troops.
LEGAL ACTION IS STARTED
BY CITY OF LOS ANGELES
I LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17. —How to
I restore without bloodshed the flow
i of water through Los Angeles, 25-
i mile aqueduct diverted into Owens
| river yesterday by raiders who
swooped upon the waste gates near
Lone Pine, 200 miles north of here,
despite protests by city employes
and Inyo county officials, was the
problem that faced Los Angeles au
thorities today.
No attempt at forcible ejection of
the raiders will be made by the city
pending Governor Richardson’s re
ply to an appeal for state troops,
Los Angeles officials said, but sev
enty-five civil complaints were pre
pared for filing in superior court
asking injunctions to dispossess the
raiders.
Except for two. all the complaints
' are directed against “Joe Doe.” The
two named are M. Q. Watterson, a I
banker of Bishop, and W. R. Me- |
j Carthy, irrigation engineer.
As to the raiders’ ultimatum, Wil-j
Ham Mulholland, builder of the I
I aqueduct and chief engineer of the
city water department, declared it
| would be ignored.
j Enough water is escaping through
: the waste gates, engineers estimated,
j to cause the city a loss of SIO,OOO
i daily, but sufficient storage is still
i on hand in reservoirs to supply ordi
! nary demands for ninety days.
The Alabama waste gates where
I the diversion took place are north
i of the old town of Lone Pine, a sta
• tion on the old Overland stage route
j to California on the Mormon trail,
I in the Alabama hills, about ten miles
i above the north end of Owens lake,
and were named after the hills.
'1 he Alabama gates are about 23
miles from the intake of the aque
duct system on the Owens river on I
the main diversion canal which car- I
tied lhe water supply to Hiawee I
reservoir, the first large reservoir I
on the system and sixty miles from I
the intake. The aqueduct consists;
of six storage reservoirs and 215
miles of conduit.
Fine Weather Follows ,
Capita] Snow Storm
WASHINGTON Nov. 16.—Bril
liant, clear weather today succeeded
| the storm of rain, sleet and snow
| which swept over Washington yes
. terday, the earliest snowstorm in;
■ 14 years.
President Coolidge and a party of
friends who embarked on the presi
dential yacht Mayflower yesterdax
afternoon at a time when a veritable I
j blizzard lashed the craft s decks. ;
were rewarded with perfect cruising ‘
conditions on the Potomac today.
The president plans to return to
Washington Monday morning after
spending the weekend aboard the
Mayflower.
Forest Fires Sweeping
Over Carolina Hills
GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. 17. '
Forest fires were ravaging wood
-1 nds near Paris mountain and
River Falls, north of here, today.
A large number of volunteers were
".chtlng the flames, which threatened
farm buildings in the foothills.
Winds died down during the nicht
. and the progress of the flames was .
lessened somewhat.
Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, November 18, 1924
FIGHTING FREE OF WRECK,
HEROIC FLAGMAN AVERTS
WORSE FLORIDA TRAGEDY
Pinned Down When Coach Leaves Rails, Killing 4, and
Hurting 18, He Works His Way Clear and Stops
Fast Freight J ust in Time
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 15. —Pinned be-i
neath the body of a dead woman!
passenger and made almost uncon-1
scions by the schock of his fall, A.!
R. Davis, of New Smyrna, Fla., flag-]
man, of the ill-fated Florida East
Coast train which left the tracks at I
Wabasso Friday night and took a |
toll of four dead and eighteen injur
ed, averted more serious results by
freeing himself and successfully flag
ging a southbound train which was
bearing down upon the scene of the
Wreck.
With but ten minutes to spare, the
flagman extricated himself, made his
way the length of the wreck, obtain
ed signal flares, and flagged the on
coming train.
How the flagman’s heroism avert
ed a second tragedy and a possible
greater toll of dead and injured is
told by W. M. Clemens, managing
editor of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Jour
nal. a passenger on board the Miami-
Bound train.
The flagman, who was standing
on the rear of the train when the
coach left the track, fell beneath a
Woman and the two were pinned
under the debris ofthe wrecked
car.
First Thoughts of Train
Uninjured but stunned by the fall,
his first thoughts were of the train,
carrying perishables, which entitles
it to run on passenger train time,
and which at the last station had
been reported ten minutes behind
the passenger train.
It took the flagman six or seven
minutes, he told Mr. Clemens, to
collect his wits and extract himself
from beneath the body of the dead
woman. Then, with his flagman’s
equipment scattered somewhere be
neath the wreck, it was necessary
for him to run almost the length of
the train to obtain other fusees, with
which to signal the on-rushing
freight train. He dashed back, ap
proximately 250 yards, lighted the
fusee just in time to stop the com
ing train from crashing headlong in
to the derailed passenger coach.
“The first thing that greeted my
eyes when I stepped out of the coach
was a girl’s body, headless and man
gled. One child was thrown from
the car with such force that her
body was almost entirely covered in
the dirt. Another had lost both legs.
The cries and groans of suffering
men and women, and of those search
ing in the darkness for their loved
ones was inexpressibly horrible.
Rescuers Work in Dark
“The work of recovering the in
jured was started in total darkness,
which handicapped us severely.
“One man had a lantern and an
other, working on the inside of the
overturned coach, had a flashlight,
but it was very hard to get around
the pieces of coach, the shattered
Navy Officer Admits
Desire to ‘Bump Off’
Daniels During War
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 17.
Lieutenant Commander Rowland M.
Comfort, United States navy, admit
ted on the witness stand in supreme
court here today that during the
war he had expressed a desire to
“bump off” Josephus Daniels, then
secretary of the navy.
The desire was expressed in a let
ter which Comfort admitted he had
written. The admission was made
on cross examination in his suit for
annulment of his marriage.
Mrs. Comfort was born in Ger
many and one of the grounds upon
whichthe officer seeks annulment is
her alleged disloyalty to the United
States. He said that his sister had
informed him that in June, 1921, his
wife had torn down art American
flag in their home, crying:
“To hell with the United States
flag. I wouldn’t ha#e one In the
house.”
Comfort also said his wife was
subject to epileptic fits.
On cross examination, counsel for
Mrs. Comfort showed the plaintiff a
letter which he. admitted writing to
his wife's parents on February 19.
1921. In this letter the officer had
said that because of his wife’s per
sonality their circle of acquain
tances in Washington had been con
siderably enlarged.
Counsel then read the letter:
“I’d like to bump off J. D. I'd
like to mash his face in for what he
has done to me with his orders.”
Comfort admitted “J. D.” meant
Josephus Daniels.
Dawes Is Recovering
After Slight Operation;
Eager to Leave Bed
CHICAGO, Nov. 17. —Charles G.
Dawes, vice president-elect, was
virtually himself again today, except
that he was in bed after a minor op
eration at the Evanston hospital yes
terday. He passed a comfortable
night and read his newspaper at
breakfast, his secretary said.
The general expressed a desire to
smoke his pipe yesterday after Dr.
W. R. Parkes had injected a locai
anesthetic, but the doctor forbade.
Again while the surgeon was reduc
ing the hernia for which the opera
tion was performed. General Dawes
asked how he was getting along with
his task. The surgeon is said to have
replied that he was getting down to
“brass tacks,” one of the general’s
iecent campaign slogans.
Mr. Dawes’ household and physi
cians anticipate no trouble except in
keeping the patient in bed long
enough.
Youthful Huntsman
Is Shot Accidentally
STUTTGART, Ark.. Nov. 17.
Paul Huff, 15, of Hot Springs, Ark.,
was shot in the abdomen Saturday
while hunting near Stuttgart, Ark.,
with his father. Young Huff sat on
a culvert to rest and as he did
so his gun slipped through a crack
r t ■ s .. The wcanon was dis
charged when it fell, the load hit
ting the youth.
seats, the broken glass and injured 1
passengers lying all over the ground. I
“We built a fire with pieces of |
splintered wood from the coach, then i
the frieght train arrived, and we
worked in the light from the engine l
headlight,
“The train carried no sleepers and
there was not a blanket aboard. We ’
stripped the Pullman seats of covers,
used towels, napkins and anything I
else we could get our hands on. ■
Aboard we had a small supply of
whisky and I think if the vote had I
been taken on the eighteenth >
amendment that the entire train
would have voted the wet ticket.”
The Florida East Coast Railway
company was held to blame for the
wreck by a coroner’s jury which re
ported this afternoon at Fort Pierce.
Proper equipment was not pro
vided, the verdict said.
Testimony given at the inquest,
which first opened at Wabasso last
night and which adjourned to Fort
Pierce today,'did not clearly bring
out the cause, but indicated that a
defective wheel on the ill-fated coach
was responsible.
Witnesses testified that the car
was an old wooden one and appa
rently too light to be at the end of
a long train.
Revised Casualty List
A revised list of the dead and in
jured made known tonight by the
railroad officials at Fort Pierce,
follows:
The dead:
Miss Ruby Stone. Northfield, Va.;
Miss Elizabeth Foxton, Alpena,
Mich.; an unidentified woman, weight
150 pounds, five feet six inches in
height, black bobbed hair, and mue
eyes; girl baby about three years old,
three feet in height, blue eyes, sandy
hair.
The injured.
Blanche Stone, Northfield, Va.,
broken bones and probable serious
internal injuries.
John J. Cavanaugh, Passaic, N. J.,
broken jaw and bruises.
Mrs. Lesa Miller, Blissfield, Mich.,
cuts and bruises.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Hiscock, New
Smyrna, Fla., bruises and cuts.
Mrs. William C. Miller, Linwood,
.Mich., injuries to back and bruises.
Mrs. Robert Davis, Northfield, Vt.,
shock and bruises, all in the Fort
Pierce hospital.
Injured transferred to the railway
company’s hospital at St. Augustine:
Harold Burnham, Old Orchard,
Maine, legs injured and bruises.
J G. Hethcote, Waycross, Ga.,
bruises.
Miss Helena Davis, Northfield,
Vt., bruises.
Mrs. Minnis, Litchfield, Mass.,
bruises and shock.
J. C. Underwood, Columbus, Ohio;
bruises.
A. K. Keneroon, Newport. N. IL,
bruises.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Lamarre,
Detroit, shock and bruises.
'EGYPTIANS STAGE
DEMONSTRATIONS
AS CABINET QUITS
CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 16. —(By the
Associated Press.) —Demonstrations
of sympathy by the populace of
Cairo were held Saturday after the
surprising nejvs became known that
Zagloul Pasha, the Egyptian pre
mier, had presented the resignation
of his cabinet in lhe chamber of
deputies.
The chamber had met to elect a
president, and other officers, and
nobody expected anything unusual,
i but the premier, in a brief statement,
annoi need that he had informed the
j king he was too tired to continue in
I office, and must tender his resigna-
■ tion. The premier added that he
; hoped to he happier as an ordinary
> member of parliament. VYi h a wavy
of his hand ho left the chamber, ac-
I companied by his ministers
The members appeared to be
I stunned, but soon adopted a vote of
I confidence in Zagloul by an over
whelming majority, and then ad-
I j< rned.
The premier and his ministers te
t paired 10 the senate, where a. similar
' statement was made by Zagloul.
Efforts are being made to induce
the cabinet to withdraw its resigna
tion. To a number of deputies and
senators who visited him tonight for
this purpose, Zagloul said: "I can
not work amid intrigues.” This was
interpreted as showing that in addi-
I tion to divergencies of opinion in the
j cabinet itself, there h-ve been at
i tempts to undermine Zasloul’s au-
I thority.
I Helium Too Costly for
Frans-Atlantic Flying,
ZR- 3’s Builder Says
NEW YORK. Nov. 16.—1 f helium,
; Instead of hydrogen, is used to in
flate the ZR-3, the navy's plans to
j use the big dirigible as a trans
; Atlantic mail carrier ,v.ll not mate
! rialize, Dr. Hugh Eckener, president
I of the Zeppelin company and one of
; the men in charge of the airship on
I her flight across the North Atlantic,
' predicted today just before sailing
for Germany on the Columbus.
"I doubt whether the ZR-3 can be
put to this use if heliurn gas con
tinues to replace hydrogen,” Dr.
Eckener said. “Helium is safer, but
it is not so economical as hydrogen,
which really is imperative in the
case of the ZR-3, so far as flights
I across the Atlantic are concerned.”
I “When we landed at Lakehurst.”
Dr. Eckener continued, “we had six
. and a half tons of fuel left, and had
I helium been used, the fuel carrying
I difference would have meant the dis
; ference between success and fail-
I ure.”
Dr. Eckener also said he did not be
lieve airships ever would displace
ocean liners for trans-Atlantic
I travel, because airships could not be
■ built large enough, and because most
j people would prefer the sea trip.
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'RAIDING PARSON'S’
WIFE LAID TO RESL
TEN SUSPECTS HEID
Heroic Woman Paid Elo
quent Tributes From Many
Georgia Pulpits
Ten men were being held in jail
at Buchanan, Haralson county, Mon
day as alleged members of the gang
which on Thursday night shot and
mortally wounded Mrs. Robert
Stewart, at Draketown, a small
Haralson county settlement, when
she went to the rescue of her hus
band, the Rev. Robert Stewart, “the A
"-.'l
raiding parson” of the North Gcergia J
Methodist conference, who was being
abducted.
The group were to be given a pre
liminary hearing Wednesday before
a justice of the peace at Buchanan.
The ten men, according to dis- j
patches from Buchanan, are Tom
Cober and Emmett Hollis, of Haral
son county; George Hutcheson, Cal
vin and Tom Bishop, of Polk coun
i ty; Jeff Henderson, and his two sons:
a man named Carter, and one named
Hesterly, of Paulding county.
In statements made to a repre
sentative of The Journal, the men
all denied any knowledge of the at
tempted abduction which led up to
the fatal shooting.
A hunt for other members of the
gang was in progress Monday. Mr.
Stewart, who assisted in the round
up of the ten men in jail, however,
was not a member of the posse, hav- .-
ing temporarily abandoned the man
hunt to attend funeral services for
his wife, which were held Monday
in a little mining community in
White county—a community from
which she departed several years
ago as the wife of a "circuit rider,”
but to which she returned a heroine
and a martyr.
Simple and appropriate exercises
marked the burial. Tributes were
paid to her memory and her last act •
—the sacrifice of her life to save
her husband —was eulogized. Sinn- ,
lar aulogies were heard in many
churches of the North Georgia con- !
1 ference Sunday, and in all she was
I referred to as a heroine, a martyr
and a victim of "lawlessness, liquor
manufacturing and liquor drinking.”
Speaking at the Druid Hills Metho
dist church Sunday morning, Dr.
Elam F, Dempsey, secretary of edu
cation of the conference, declared:
“Not once or twice in our Georgia
history have such heroines illustrat
ed our annals with wifely loyally
and motherly bravery.
'While there are such women left
among us, from whom American
youths may be born, and at whose
breasts they may be nourished, we
need not marvel at the heroism of ;
• Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry,
I which makes America illustrious for
I bravery, for she is the bravest of
I the brave.”
Dauntless Spirit Praised
“Coming of a race who wrought
I out tlie law of habeas corpus, secur-
I ing the sacredness of the person, and
who has taught all men to know that
every home, whether palace, lowly
cottage or humble Methodist parson
age—is every man’s castle, her gab
rant rush to her husband’s relief,
when assaulted by hoodlums, was aa
natural as it was for her to breathe.
Glorious, brave mother, dauntless
mate and wife—we have no mate
rials fit for your monument and no
words adequate to memorialize your
greatness!”
Dr. Dempsey said the citizens <4
Haralson county “are chasing thosj
criminals and I believe millions o 5
ztrue American hearts are cheering
these in their just wrath against
this sin against womanhood, hearth J
and home.’’
“Who fired the shots?” the min
ister continued. "Bootleggers, rum
runners—yes.”
“But not they alone. Who fired
that cowardly shot into this brftve
little wife’s spine, and who then fired
that other, poltroon shot into her
holy body at it writhed on ths
ground?
“Whose' finger pressed that trig- •
ger, I ask? Not only bootleggers
and rumrunners, but jvery copi- :
pron.lser with evil, every dealer with
these lawless ones, everyone who
by trival and light speech fosters a
public opinion that makes such
crimes possible—every willy-nilly
whisky-bibber and every hip-flask
dance hound and lounge lizard—
and above all these, the brains
scoundrels in our cities that organize
and exploit for profit this lawless
ness and every seemingly decent citi
zen that buys from them —every on*
of these had a finger on the trigger
that fired that shot and every one .
of them has the blood of this holy
woman on their hands. Nor will
audit but the blood of Christ wash
it from those guilty hands!”
Tribute also was paid Mr. Stew
art for his zealous anjjjrearless fight
for law enforcement. His stand
against violators of the prohibition
laws was lauded particularly, and
reference was made to his many
raids against moonshiners In the
fare of threats.
Mr. Stewart has a reputation
throughout the North Georgia con
ference for his fearlessness In prose
cution of prohibition law violators,
and has assisted officers in raiding
stills in Lumpkin, Floyd and Haral
son countea.
Mrs. Stewart died Saturday at the
Wesley Memorial hospital here. She
was wounded twice, but a bullet
y.-.ich struck her spinal cord an-!
ranging upward, shattering several
vertabrae, caused death. This but
let. it was stated by Mr. Stewart,
was fired at her as she lay on the
ground after having been struck
down by the first shot, which peue
trated the right arm.
Mr. Stewart, who accompan.ed h's
wife to the hospital, was not with
her when the end came. He had
returned to Haralson county to as
sist in the round-up of her slayers.
Mr. Stewart and his two daughters, , .
Tannic, 17 years old, and Loraine. 5,
' met the body at Helen, Ga.. Monday
and accompanied it to the final rest-
| ing place.