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ZUlaiila Gri-Ukckly souvnal 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. How to Stop Fit Attacks !' 'ou bate ; -of Fits.. L.Ukrsy or Palliiu I mH te: jou low to secure FRKE • hem* treatment witch h»s 'tenped (he »n»cks in hundreds t f eases I- til « vedi’ •• re' Arren tub 1!. Sunon C, Milwaukee Wis. --(Adverlleement.) 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. 5 UENii> A COPY, $1 A YEAR. '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.