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VOL. XXVII. NO. 18
SREED STATEMENT I
IT BAPTIST MEET
Dr Ashby Jones Opposes
• All Creeds for His
Denomination
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 19.—(8y j
the Associated Press.)—With an i
underlying current of expectancy ;
from the breaking of the feared storm
between the literal and liberal Or-1
thodox factions at the close of the I
opening session late yesterday, still
in evidence although not outward
ly, the second day of the Georgia
Baptist convention got under wpy
this morning.
There was no indication early to
day as to when the storm would
break out anew. It is believed oy
those intimately connected with the!
workings of the convention that it ’ ,
will come when the committee ap-)
pointed to propose principles for ,
Baptist institutions reports. No time j •
is set for the committee to make.
known its findings, but it will be:
before the meeting ends.
Following the stirring address of
Dr. J. D. Mell, for many years pres
ident of the convention, in which he •
appealed for a plan of Baptist sal
vation and “setting a mark and '
making everyone who comes into
our fold or elected or employed by ;
the convention toe it,” Dr. J. C.;
McConnell, of ,Atlanta, took the!
floor. Dr. McConnell lined up with ;
Dr. Mell and it appeared that the j
former had the plan in his pocket, }
Dr. Jones Takes Issue
Immediately following Dr. Me- .
Connell, Dr. M Ashby Jones, of At- i
lantp, one. of the leading ministers
in nie state, took- the floor and an
nounced that he. wanted to go on ;
record immediately that he was op-j i
posed to any and all creeds for the !
Baptist faith, as from time imme- j
morial the Baptists had not had a !
creed and that he desired to an- j
nounce his independence and faith |
in the spirit and genius of the de-1
nomination’s history.
The two contentions which threat-,
en to take the center of the stage •
in the convention are, on one hand, p
that no man or body of men pos- I
Besses the right to make another}
man’s creed, and on the other hand, )
that there is no attempt to make a
creed. Both sides emphatically de
clare that they are opposed to a
creedal church, at the same time
there is an inclination favoring lay
ing down the lines for, the profes
sion and ministry to follow.
The Committee
A resolution was afterward adopt
ed appointing a committee, com
posed of eleven, to formulate and
bring back to the convention for
its consideration and action a set of
principles that agents and servants |
of the convention must subscribe to
and be governed by, in its educa
tional institutions and elsewhere.
The following is the cpmmittoe:
W. W. Barris, Thomasville, chair-!
man; D. W. Key, Washington; E. j
J. Forrester, Sparta; J. E. Sam
mons, Rome; L. A. Henderson. Co- i
hunbus; W. H. Faust, Atlanta; W. '
F. George, Vienna; J. P. Nichols, I
Griffin: A. W. Evans, Sandersville;
M. L. Brittain, Atlanta; H. s. Hall,
of Newnan.
Butler Will Retain
Republican National
Office While Senator
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—William
M. Bi/tler announced today he would
not. resign the chairmanship of the ’
Republican national committee when j
he takes his seat next month as a
senator from Massachusetts.
Mr. Butler has been here the. last
, ’two days winding up affairs of the
recent campaign with Roy O. West, }
of Chicago, secretary of the national ;
committee. The two had luncheon 1
with President Coolidge yesterday,
and Mr. West conferred again today
with the president. Mr. Butler is a
guest of President Coolidge at the ,
White House
Waders Cross Hudson
At Low Level Mark
TROY, N. Y., Nov. IS.—The Hud
•on river was rising today after
reaching its lowest level on record — ;
three feet below sea level. Naviga- i
tion was hindered for several hours
and many vessels were temporarily l
stranded. The low level record was |
caused by a strong north wind sweep-1
ing the water downstream with the ‘
tide, combined with the long drought I
in the state. Persons wearing hip ‘
boots were able to walk across the
’ stream. i
Perjury Charge Faced
By John Henry Hardin,
North Georgia u King”
John Henry Hardin, a picturesque
resident of Cherokee county and gen- ,
erally known to prohibition agents as
the “king of moonshiners,” was ,
bound over to the federal grand jury
under SI,OOO bond following a hear
» ing Monday afternoon before United ;
States Commissioner W. Colquitt
Carter on a charge of perjury.
Hardin arrested several weeks
ago after he had failed to test ify as
government officers expected he
would at a hearing given C. C. Coyle,
a federal prohibition agent, on a
charge of accepting a bribe. As a re
sult of Hardin’s testimony, charges
against Agent Coyle were dropped.
At the hearing Monday afternoon,
testimony was introduced tending to
show that Hardin had told govern
ment officers one thing at the time
of Agent Coyle's arrest, but gave a
* different story at his hearing.
Hardin recently completed a term
at the United States penitentiary
here, imposed in connection with a
bribery case seveixil years ago.
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WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
I
BELFAST. —Cardinal Bogue, pri
mate of Ireland, is dead.
ED PASO. —Hasty formation of
labor banks is condemned in report
of executive council of American
Federation of Labor, submitted at
opening session. #
WASHINGTON. Attorney Gen-;
oral Stone takes first steps to ob-}
tain indictments of certain newspa-1
pers for publication of income taxi
returns.
NEW V ORK.—Connection of Dr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, special I
preacher, with First Presbyterian I
church, will be severed March 1. i
1925, Presbytery decides.
MADRID.—As first step in evacua
tion of Moroccan territory Spanish
forces withdraw from “holy city” of
Sheshuan, official announcement of
military directorate states.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Authorities
question family of Mrs. Addie Sheats
ley, wife of Lutheran pastor, whose)
charred body was found Monday
in furnace, without uncovering clue.}
NEW YORK.—Explosion on oil!
barge results in one man being j re- }
ported missing, injury to dozen per- |
sons and property damage along New ;
Jersey waterfront estimated at 790,
000.
SAN FRANCISCO.—WaIter Jonn- }
son. Washington’s star pitcher, ..ml j
George Weiss, owner of New Haven ’
baseball team, take over Oakland !
Cal. club in Pacific Coast Basebail :
league.
NEW YORK.—Seven men aboard)
sloop Frolic, missing since Sunday
are picked up by Norwegian steam-)
ship Mexicano off Nantucket, ac-l
wording to intercepted radio mes-|
sage.
SALT LAK EClTY.—Ambrose N.I
McKay, general manager of Sait
Lake City Tribune and former vice)
president of the Associated Press J
dies at Salt Lake City, aged 56
years.
ATLANTIC CITY.—Two are dead }
and two are believed to have perished
in half million dollar fire which de- |
stroys one Atlantic City hotel, men- )
aces two others and damages famous
steel pier.
GENEVA. ■ — British government
formally requests indefinite ad-)
journment of discussion by League)
of Nations of security and disarms-j
ment protocol, recently adopted by
league assembly.
WASHINGTON. White stone
crosses similar to wooden crosses }
which have marked graves since war, }
will be erected over American war!
dead in France, battle monuments
commission decided.
BALTIMORE.—Trustees of Johns
Hopkins institutions in conjunction \
with the Wilmer foundation plan:
establishment of $3,000,000 founda-1
tion for endowment at Ba.ltimroe of:
great eye hospital and school.
WASHINGTON. Gen. Pershing
with rank of ambassador extraordi- }
nary and plenipotentiary, will head •
special mission representing United )
States at celebration in Peru ncx: }
month of battle_of Ayacucho.
WASHINGTON.—Commission on
agricultural inquiry called by Presi- !
dent Coolidge decides to base its •
analysis of the situation on pending |
farm legislation and administrati.m j
of present laws affecting agriculture. |
I,OS ANGELES.—TriaI of govern
ment’s suit for cancellation of SIOO.-
000,901 oil lease and contract with :
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans
port company closes, and case rests;
in hands of Judge Paul J. McCor-}
inick.
I.OS ANGELES.—Temporary court
order is issued at Independence. Cal.. !
restraining Owens Valley ranchers
from interfering with Los Angeles
water supply, which is being divert
ed in effort of ranchers to settle
“water war.”
LOS ANGELES.—Fred Fulton,
Minnesota plasterer-pugilist, and his
manager, are arraigned at Los An
geles for violation of state boxing
law, after allegations are made that
his fight at Culver City, Cal., Mon
day with Tony Fuente, Mexican;
heavyweight, was framed.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge accepts chairmanship of hon
orary executive committee to head
American Legion campaign for $5,- 1
000.000 endowment fund for ophaned
children of World war veterans and
helpless disabled former service men.
Detroit Woman Found
Strangled to Death;
Seek Former Suitor
DETROIT. Mich., Nov. IS.—A for
mer suitor of Mrs. Anna Lee Bow
ers. 27. was being sought by the po
lice today in connection with her
death in a downtown apartment
i early yesterday. Mrs. Bowers was
: found strangled to death with a
j piece of her clothing. Strips of her
I dress had been used to bind her
; hands and feet.
Six letters, said to have been writ
ten by a former admirer, were found
lin the apartment. Police are with-
I holding the contents of tW? letters
. and the name of the writer.
Mrs. Harding Better
After Restful Night
MARION. Ohio. Nov. IS.—After a
long normal sleep. Mrs. Warren G.
I Harding today appeared slightly im-
I proved, it was said at White Oaks
> farm at S a. m.
"Mrs. Harding rested well, and is
cheerful and refreshed,” the night
i nurse who went off duty at S a. m.,
I said.
The Weather I
Virginia—Generally fair Thurs
: day; slightly warmer.
North and Soutuh Carolina. Geor
gia and Extreme Northwest Flor
ida—Fair Thursday; slightly warm
er Thursday.
Florida—Fair Thursday.
Alabama and Mississippi—Tlri’-s
day increasing cloudiness and
I warmer.
Tennessee and Kentucky—Thurs
day increasing cloudiness follow?J
by rain and warmer.
Louisiana Thursday increasing
cloudiness, warmer.
, Arkansas and Oklahoma —Thurs-
! day partly cloudy.
East Texas—Thursday partly
i clo.idy.
West Texas Thursday partly
I cloudy.
COLD WE GSIPS
EAST: icy BUSTS
BMTm
NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Leaving
in its path a mounting toll of death
and disaster, the great gale which
for 48 hours held the Atlantic sea
board in icy grip, appeared today to
have swept out to sea.
Ten known dead, many missing,
huge property losses to shipping and
wholesale damage ashore, was the
toil in this section.
Today, while life saving agencies
were mobilized to search the seas for
missing craft and missing men, the
wind abated. Weather forecasters
predicted milder temperatures, with
possible rain or snow in adjacent
districts. It was 20 degrees above
zero in New„.York at noon.
Tragic tales of the storm have be
gun to drift into the news channels.
A barge skipper died of exposure
at the end of a rope which was haul
ing him from the water to safety
aboard a United States revenue cut
ter.
A wealthy man dozed in his auto
mobile in a garage and died there.
A poor than froze to death in an
Elizabeth tenement while his son
was out looking for work.
Scores of fishermen and rum run
ners, caught in the gale, abandoned
•sinking small craft and were res
cued by coast guards.
A few arrests for liquor smug
gling were recorded after such res
cues.
Weighed down with ice cloaks, i
freight and passenger ships were ar- )
riving far off of a schedule with re- )
ports of 80 to !)0-mile gales encoun
tered as they neared the American
continent Some carry smashed
lifeboats and davits empty where
boats had been washed away. Only |
one of the incoming ships had re- i
ported the loss of a life
Adding to the casualties of the }
storm there have been several wa
terfront fires, culminating last night
in the destruction of an oil barge, a
tanker and several huge storage
tanks in Staten Island sound.
The property damage attributed
to the storm, directly or indirectly,
is estimated in the millions
The United States liner America
came in today, hours overdue, after
a hard battle with the seas.
Still at sea, but speeding to port j
in calmer waters was the White}
Star liner Homeric, whose scheduled j
arrival tomorrow has been post- |
poned until Thursday. Owen D.
Young, former agent-general of rep
arations under the Dawes plan, is
aboard.
Other trans-Atlantic craft, passen
gfer and freight, whose arrival has
been postponed a day because of the ;
storm include:
The Cunard liner Assyria, from '
Glasgow; the royal mail steam pack- i
et liner Orca, from Hamburg; the!
Swedish-American liner Kingsholm.
from Gothenburg; the Vunard liner
Aurania from Liverpool, and the
American liner Mongolia, from Ham
hi i rg."
UP STATE CROPS SI FFER
FROM SUDDEN FREEZE
ALBANY, N. Y„ Nov. 18— The:
wave of winter weather which sud-)
denly swept over New York state
Sunday night wrought havoc with
both harvested and unharvested
crops, according to reports gradually:
coming in from the rural sections.:
Farmers reported generally that !
produce customarily left in the
fields or stored outdoors until
Thanksgiving day had been ruined
by the cold.
I KEEZING BLAST SWEEPS
NEW ENGLAND; TWO DEAD
BOSTON, Nov. IS.—A wintry |
blast with a high wind and a tern
perature dropping nearly to zero
in parts of New -England has!
brought death to two men, distress'
to ships along the coast from Maine'
to Gape Cod, and delav to trains. )
Three barges, bound for Rock-1
land, Me., were adrift today. Cap-,
tain Albert Peterson, of Brooklyn.,
N. Y., died in the freezing water
when made fast to a line shot to
his barge from the coast guard cut
ler Ossipee.
One ship was reported ashore and
two schooners off Cape Cod were
riding the heavy seas with their
: sails in tatters and their anchors
out.
Several trains from New York
and Washington were from an ho.ir)
to two hours late in reaching Bos-1
ton. There was one death in Boston !
from exposure.
SNOW IN OHIO VALLEY;
one victim Claimed
COLUMBUS. 0., Nov. 18.—One
death from the unseasonably cold I
weather which swept the Ohio val
ley yesterday bringing with it the
first snow of the season was re
ported here today. The body of an
unidentified man 50 years of age!
was found buried in the snow on
the bank of the Olentangy river, i
Apparently he had frozen to death
CREW SAVED AS VESSEL
SPRINGS LEAK AND SINKS
I BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 18.—A ves-;
jsei familiar in the coastal rade for}
I seventy years ended her career when I
;the schooner Rebecca G. Whilldin;
was abandoned five miles south by I
• east off Pollock Rip lightship last I
night. Captain Magnus Benjamin, i
of Boston, and his crew of three men,
were brought here today by the!
steamer A. L. Kent, from Baltimore. |
which saw their distress signals ami
rescued them.
Sunday night the schooner sprang)
a leak, and the crew worked at the
pumps all night and through yester
day to keep her afloat.
The Whilldin. which registered ISB
tons net, whs built at Milford. Del.,
in 1853. and her home port was
Calais, Me.
MISSING CREW OF THREE
RAISE STORM TOLL TO FOUR
ROCKLAND Maine, Nov. IS—The
death lis, from the storm that raged
off this port yesterday was brought •
to four today when searching ves-1
i seis returned here and reported they!
; could find no trace >»f three men!
i forming the crew of the barge Ho-1
| pat co ng. which foundered yesterday!
I off Monhegan island. Captain Pe-;
; terson. of Brooklyn. N. Y.. died last '
I night as the coast guard cuttei '
: Ossipee sought to rescue him from •
| his barge, the Canisteo
Quail Plentiful
MOULTRIE, Ga.. Nov. IS.—When'
the bars are let down Thursday.
; Moultrie hunters declare what prom
i ises to be the best hunting season
j they have seen in several years!
; will be at hand. It is said that
i quail are more numerous than they
have been in a number of x ears.
} This is attributed to the unusuall?
[ favorable hatching season. Last 1
I year young partridges by the thou
sands were drowned during the ex
ceptionally wet weather in June
and July,
Youngest Moonshiner,
Age 10, Is Released;
s Companions Jailed
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 18.—
Tennessee’s youngest moonshiner, I
Walter Howell, aged 10 years, was
arrested late yesterday in a raid on
a huge still southeast of here by fed- )
eral officers.
The lad was tending the “worm'’ |
and testing the run, according to )
the raiding officers. Two men, one
admitting he was the father of the
boy. was arrested? The boy was
freed by the “revenoors” with a
warning that his next offense would
mean a term in the state reforma
tory.
The two men were brought into
Nashville and lodged in the county
jail under federal warrants charg
ing the illegal manufacture of
whisk v.
MUG ORDERED
EOS TEB HEID IN
STMT KILLING
'
BUCHANAN, Ga., Nov. IS.—Ten}
men held in jail here will be given ;
a preliminary hearing Thursday
morning before a justice of the
peace at Draketown, on warrants !
charging them with murder in con- j
nection with the death of Mrs. Rob- '
ert Stewart, who was shot Thurs- i
day night at Draketown, near here,
when she went to the aid of her [
husband, the Rev. Robert Stewart, •
known as the “raiding parson” of
the North Georgia Methodist con- '
ference.
Solicitor General Griffith also an- ,
nounced that plans for a special ;
term of Haralson superior court
were being considered, and that;
such a session probably would be ,
called if the stpte makes out a
case Thursday at the hearing.
The men who will be given the ;
hearing are Jeff Henderson and
his sons, Otis and Herbert Hender
son, of Haralson county; Sid Hes
terly and Emmett Hollis, of Paul
ding countyE; Tom Bishop, of Ara
gon; Calvin Bishop, of Draketown;
John Carter, of Rockmart; Tom Go
ber and George Hutcheson, of Polk
county.
Warrants by Parson
The men are being hold on war- }
rants sworn out by Mr. Stewart and ;
his daughters, Tannie, seventeen |
years old, and Loraine, five, soon ;
after Mrs. Stewart succumbed to her }
wounds Saturday at the Wesley Me- I
morial hospital in Atlanta. Mr. :
Stewart assisted Sheriff E. D. Stew
art and his posse in arresting the
men, seven of whom the minister
is said to have declared were mem
bers of the group which sought to i
abduct him, resulting in the fatal |
shooting of his wife.
Mr. Stewart/who left Draketown !
Sunday to attend his wife’s funeral i
Monday at a mining community in )
White county, their former home, )
was expected io return to Haralson ;
county today to assist the sheriff I
in the hunt for other alleged mem- I
bers of the gang.
All of the ten men declare they )
had no part in the slaying of Mrs. }
Stewart. Each says he was some-1
where else at the time, and that he
will he able to establish an alibi.
Mrs. Stewart was shot by occu-}
pants of two automobiles who drove ,
up to the parsonage Thursday night ;
at 9:30 and asked Mr. Stewart, who is !
known ns a fearless opponent of j
moonshineers, to accompany them on ;
on a raid. When the Rev. Mr. Stew-;
art recognized some of the meh in !
the cars and hesitated he was seized
and was being dragged into one au
tomobile when his wife came out
of the house and opened fire with a
pistol, according to his statement.
The men then released the minister
and opening fire upon Mrs. Stewart,
shot her down, it is alleged. She
was shot twice, in the right elbow
ana the spine. The latter wound I
was inflicted as she lay upon the
ground after being felled by the first !
bullet, her husband said.
Ibanez Urges Revolt
Fo Dethrone Alfonso
And Start Republic
PARIS, Nov. 18. —Vicente Blasco }
Ibanez, noted author, today launched
his campaign to foment revolution
in Spain and drive King Alfonso \
from the throne.
Ibanez issued a pamphlet entitle-i
“Alfonso XIII Is Unmasked. Mili
tary Terror in Spain.” In it, the }
author of “The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse” scathingly attacked I
his sovereign, charged the directorv
at present in control in Spain is a ;
menace to the world, and called for i
a plebiscite to determine whether
Spain should continue a monarch?
or become a republic.
Auto Fails 5 Stones
Down Shaft and Hits
Another; Drivers Live
NEW YORK, Nov. IS. —Despite
'he fact that he backed his automo
bile into an open elevator shaft in
t garage and fell five stories with
t to land on another automobile
just entering the shaft, Lindley M
Franklin, of Flushing, is suffering )
only from minor bruises. Archibald
Nesbett. of Bayside, the occupant of
t second car. a sedan, also es*;
caped serious injuries.
Both cars were wrecked in such
a manner as to pTotect the drivers
from being crushed
Dawes, in Hospital,
Puffs Famous Pipe
CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—The inac
tivity necessary for his complete re
. covery is the only troublesome fea
ture felt by Charles G. Dawes, vice
president-elect, in an Evanston hos
pital as a result of an operation for
hernia performed Sunday.
As a solace the general has his fa
mous underslung pipe, which he was
permitted to resume yesterday and
scores qf telegrams from all over tl>
United States.
PREACHER CHANGES
STORY ON BURNING
OF WIFE IN RIME
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. If).—Rev.
C. V. Sheatsley, pastor of Christ
Lutheran church of Bexley, a sub
urb, whose wife’s cremated body was
taken from a heating furnace in
the family home late Monday, today
changed his testimony of yesterday
and told Prosecutor John King he
believed his wife had taken her own
life. Yesterday he had refused to
accept a. suicide verdict.
The minister's statement was made
voluntarily. He called Prosecutot
King on the telephone a few hours
before the funeral was to be held
and’said he desired a “personal con
ference.” The prosecutor, with a
stenographer, went to the minister's
study, where he declared he wished
to change testimony given yester
-1 day.
“Yesterday you asked me if I had
any personal opinion as to how my
wife met her death, and I told you
I did not,” he began. “I have sent
for you to tell I now have
| a conviction of what happened. This
lis my own deliberate conviction,
} made after considering all angles in
} the case.
“I believe that my wife killed her
i self."
Pastor Is Composed
i Throughout hours of questioning
; Rev. Sheatsley has maintained rigid
} composure. Reluctant to accept a
verdict of suicide, he could offer no
: motive for murder.
“Is there anything you can tell
i us of any event in Mrs. Sheatsley’s
past life that would lead her to con
, template suicide or which would of
fer any motive for murder?” Prose
) cutor King asked him.
“I know of absolutely nothing,”
i the minister replied. “She was al
ways of a quiet disposition, interest
ed i.i her home work and my church
; and occupied w<th our children.”
The minister has long' been an en
thusiastic huntsman. In company
with another pastor, he spent a va
cation last\summer in the Michigan
woods. Last Saturday he was hunt
ing with friends and bagged several
rabbits, which he brought home.
Because these pelts had been burned
in the furnace, the children were not
suspicious of the peculiar odor ema
nating- from the furnace on the after
noon tlie mother’s body was found,
; they said.
Fire Blazing in Furnace
The investigators have only par
: rial facts concerning the condition
! of the furnace when the body was
: found. The minister testified that
; before going to town he refueled
j the furnace and that he left it
; thoroughly hot and filled with
; flame. Clarence ,the younger son,
j told police that shortly after 3 p.
! m., when he opened the door and
recognized his mother, the furnace
was filled with flame.
Police attach little significance to
Clarence’s testimony that he dis
covered rhe body, yet failed to tell
| his brother and sisters. His explana
: tion was that he did nor wish to
I worry them until his father knew
; the fact was accepted. He said that
I he was attracted to the furnace im
) mediately upon returning from
: school and recognized the body. His
j brother and sisters were in the
i room above, but he passed them by
I and went to his own room without
) noHfving them of the tragedy.
Coroner Murphy however, con
; tends that the fire could have been
i banked with ashes by the woman be
fore she crawled into the opening
i but even he cannot account for the
I door being closed.
.Prosecutor King conferred last
| night with chemists, but could ob
; tain no definite information as to
j the length of time necessary to cre
i mate a body in an ordinary furnace.
• He had hoped to establish the exact
j time of the tragedy with such in
formation.
The prosecutor was also told that
an insane person sometimes ] ses
sense of pain and that human mus
cles do not always contract when
in severe pan.
Back Toward Door
Mulch emphasis is being placed
ion the position of the body in.the
furnace. The younger son testified
jthat the back was to the door, with
■ the feet on one side and the head
;on the other, the body somewhat in
la reclining position, when he first
} identified it. Almost two hours later,
I when he accompanied his father to
the furnace, t hebody had fallen,
but the back was still toward the
j door.
Prosecutor King believes it would
have been impossible for the woman
• to have entered the heated vault feet
; first. Even had she been able to ae
i complish this, he believes, she would
; have been unable to close the door
I because her hack was against it.
Underwood’s Famous
24 Votes Preserved
In State Archives
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Nov. IS
Alabama's "24 votes for Osca W.
Underwood.” made famous at the
Democratic national convention in
New York last June and July, will
; be recorded forever in the archives
of the state, it has been stated.
A bound volume of copies of New
: York papers at this time of the con
vention containing the historic
words uttered by Governor W. W.
Brandon, has been received by the
1 state department of archives and
history and, under the direction of
Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owens, they
j will be preserved with other historic
• records of state.
The volume is the gift of Forney
I Johnston, prominent lawyer of
! Washington City, and a former
United States senator, who nominat
!i ed Mr. Underwood at the conven
tion. The records of the convention
will be of particular value to Ala
bamians who would care to again
review the storm days of the most
notable session in the history of the
' Democratic party, when the names
of the two native sons are recorded
with the now nationally famous
phase—“ Alabama casts 24 votes foi
Oscar W. Underwood.”
Mr. J. G. Sample
Burned to Death
ATHENS, Ga., Nov IS.—Mr. J.
G Sample, G 3, was burned to death
at his home yesterday near Watkins
ville. He was sitting by the fire
• ilone in the house when a leg of his
1 trousers blazed up.
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, November 20, 1924
MELLON’S AUTO, RUNNING WILD
IN TRAFFIC, WRECKED AFTER
HURTING TWO: DRIVER IS HELD
Car Roars Through Crowded Washington Street at Rate
of 45 Miles an Hour, Leaving Trail of
Destruction i n Its Wake
■WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Police,
making a drive to end traffic deaths
here, added to their exhibits of evi
dence today a cabinet officer’s auto
mobile, which in a dash down Con
necticut avenue sent two men to
hospitals, demolished a truck load of
building material which got in its
path, and left a wake of broken au
tomobile parts, and crushed curbing.
The oar, a roadster, was listed as
belonging to Secretary Mellon, but
he was not in it. Arthur E. Six
smith, secretary to Mr. Mellon, was
a passenger and Sixsmith's chauf
feur, a negro, was held by the police.
Eye witnesses declared a crowd sur
rounded the car when it finally came
to a halt and that cries of “lynch
him” were shouted at the driver.
FIELDS SEARCHED FOR BODY
OF FORMER MATE FOLLOWING
MURDER OF SECOND HUSBAND
Woman’s Conflicting Explanations of Disappearance Are
Cause of Suspicion—Hel d With Brother as Accom
plice of Charles Fielding, Confessed Slayer
PORTLAND, Me., Nov. IS.—A sec
tion of a field in the rear of the
Cote farmhouse in Gorham is to be
searched for the body of William
Sanborn, first husband of Mrs. Lot
tie Sanborn Cote, who is held as an
accessory in connection with the
murder of Alphonse Cote, her sec
ond husband, Sheriff Graham an
nounced today. Cote was shot and
killed eleven days ago his body
buried in a field. Charles H. Field
ing. of Portland, is held on a charge
of murder and has admitted, accord
ing to the sheriff, that he shot Cote.
Search of the field at Gorham has
been undertaken on information fur
nished the sheriff by Lucius P. Lib
by. of East Windham, a farmer, who
told the sheriff he could point out
the spot where the body of San
born, who disappeared 14 years ago.
may be buried.
Alleged conflicting statements by
FARMERS MLfflG
OUTOFDEPRESSIOAI.
BARRETT DECLARES
OKIAHOMA CITY, Nov. 18.—For
four years the farmers of the coun
try have suffered cruelly and suf-}
sered losses which can only be ab
sorbed in their capital account but
they are now coming out. of the de
pression, President Charles S. Bar
rett declared in his annual address
here today before the National F’arm
ers’ union.
A $40,000,000,000 loss was suffered
by agriculture since 1920-21 and in a
single year 1.200,000 farming people
were driven from their homes and
forced to tak° refuge in the city, he
declared. Those facts constitute the)
real reason for the exodus from the
farms and explain, he said, wnyi
many state and county officials have!
found it so difficult to collect taxes;
during the last four years and why I
there have been so many forecio-1
su res.
“It is clear that, in some manner,
our own federal government ha« bo< n
to blame,” Mr. Barrett asserted. “It }
dismantled its war production ma
chinery’ without making provision
for readjustments, but it encouraged
farmers to continue their maximum I
efforts of production even into the;
ciop of 1920. Then came the fear
at Washington of inflated tendencies. I
That was followed by a drastic de
pression policy inaugurated by the,
federal reserve board. Then the;
crash came
Rates Then Raised
“On top of this came the raising
of freight rates for which the fed-!
eral government was responsible an 1;
which put farmers of the middle we?i.
at a great disadvantage by forcing
them to pay peak prices to trans
port products whose value had
shrunken alarmingly.”
The Farmers' National Union’s co
opera’.lvo enterprises in many states
are in a flourishing condition, Mr.
Barrett told the convention. Tl-.e
nature and volume of business turn
over in gra : n elevators, warehouses,
wholesale organization®, insurance ;
and li\ e stock associations is enor-}
ous.
He recounted the activities of the :
union's representatives at Washing-i
ton and of their co-operation with i
the national board of farm organ!-!
zations and enumerated among mat-1
ters the union would undertake the j
following-
“Passage of the truth-in-fabric bill. ;
“Legislation to protect farmers’ jn-1
forests by providing for truthful and }
adequate branding, labeling and ad-!
vertising of seeds, feeds and fertili
zers when shipped in interstate coni
merce.
More Information Wanted
“Legislation to provide more ade
quate market reports of the depart- j
ment of agriculture, both at horue
and abroad, and to give certain for
eign representatives of the depart
ment of agriculture the rank of ag-'
ricuitural attache.
“Prevention through legislation, if I
possible, of discrimination by manu- '
facturers, financial and commercial I
interests against farmers who wish j
to buy collectively in wholesale quan-}
tities.
“Revision of the Esch-Cummins act
in order to obtain lower freight rates !
on agricultural products.
“2,taking certain that hereafter)
there shall be no recurrence of the'
rank discrimination against the farm
er which has obtained under the fed
eral reserve system and its inter
locking pn-ate financial connections
The crowd became greatly in
censed, it was said, when the negro
chaffeur, in reply to a question said:
“Sure, I was going about 45 miles
an hour. What of it? Everybody
goes fast over this bridge.” (The
Connecticut avenue bridge.)
Sixsmith later went to his office,
and meanwhile lawyers appeared at
police headquarters for the negro's
defense.
“Really, they seem to be making
a lot of fuss over nothing,” Six
smith said in response to telephone
inquiries. “There wasn’t much dam
age done —two men were only slight
ly hurt, I believe.’
The roadster was going at such
a speed,/.witnesses said, that its en
gine roa/ed like an approaching piece
of fire apparatus. When it finally
struck a curb, it carried 1 4feet of
the stone with it.
Mrs. Cote to explain the disappear
ance of Sanborn were revealed when
Percival E. Sanborn, of Beverly,
Mass., his brother, notified authori
ties here that the woman had told
him her first husband was serving
a term of imprisonment in a Ten
nessee penitentiary. Word was re
ceived today from Nashville that no
prisoner of that name was confined
there. County officials who investi
gated the case at the time said Mrs.
Cote told them her husband had left
to attend a show at Portland and
never returned.
In his alleged confession, accord
ing to the sheriff, Fielding said he
induced Cote to accompany him on
a hunting trip and shot him because
of his cruelty to Mrs. Cote and her
j son by her first marriage. The son.
| Ralph Sanborn, is held as an ac
i cessory after the fact.
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INDEPENDENCE. Cal., Nov. 19.
(By the Associated Press.) —Jeff Hes-
I sion, district attorney of Inyo coun-
• ty, announced today that he was
! leaving immediately for Sacramento
to urge Governor Richardson to
send state troops to the Alabama
gates of the Los Angeles aqueduct,
where ranches were wasting the Los
Angeles city water supply.
Sheriff Charles Collins, of Inyo
county, also announced that he had
sent a telegram to Attorney Gen
eral U. S. Webb, at San Francisco,
urging him to attend the confer-
I ence between the governor and He.s
sion. Collins said that he already
had asked the governor three times
■to order in the state troops. H
Friction between two types of
passive resistance today threaten
ed, according;to Inyo county author
ities, to snap the tension of the situ
ation created south of here last Sun
day in the seizure of the Los Ange
les aqueduct by Owens Valley rang
ers.
Since the approximately 100 ranch
ers took over the Alabama gates of
the aqueduct and diverted Los An
geles’ chief source of water supply
into Owens Lake, they have re
mained at the spillway quietly, un
armed and waiting for armed force
to be sent against them.
The governor on Monday denied
the request of Sheriff Collins for
state troops and since then hart not
changed his policy of non-interven
tion. Accordingly the ranches are
faced with the alternatives of aban
doning their attempt to force the city
into a settlement of their long
standing water rights feud with it,
or else continuing “on the job” a*
the spillway indefinitely—for engin
eers estimate that Los Angeles still
has about three months’ supply of
water on tap in its reservoirs.
Now, according to their spokes
men, the ranchers are not in any
mood to give up their fight, nor are
they in any mood to remain on the
aqueduct for threfe months. They
! demand immediate settlement of
| their dispute with the city and each
} day that this settlement is delayed
' increases the tensity of the situa
. tion and the likelihood of a more
• serious flareup of the feud.
“I am thoroughly convinced,” Dis
trict Attorney Hessia said yesterday,
“that unless troops intervene in the
controversy between Jnyo county
residents and the city of Los Ang®-
les, there will be loss of 1/fe and
destruction of property.”
Sheriff Collins said: “I am power
less. If I attempt to oust the ranch
ers it will mean possible loss of life
and the dynamiting of miles of the
aqueduct. The ranchers ate not
armed now but I know that enough
arms are available in the valley to
supply 175 men and women with
weapons inside of one hour.”
Today S. B. Robinson, special
} counsel for Los Angeles, is expected
to arrive here to seek warrants for
the arrest of those who, Monday, de
fied a superior court order command
ing them to cease interfering with
the city's water supply and leave
the aqueduct.
and under the federal farm loan
board which improperly and unfairly
have wrested control of the federal
lend banks from the farmers.”
a CEN Ao A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
CllLLffl GOES
■ESTOOTE'
OF FRENCH SENATE
Malvy Also Is Pardoned.
Former Premier’s Case
Recalls Bitter Strife
PARIS, Nov. 18. — (By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Joseph Cailluux, for
mer premier, who in October, 1918,
was found guilty of having “im
peded prosecution of the war,” was
voted amnesty today by the senate,
176 to 104.
Louis Malvy, former minister of
the interior, convicted of communi
cation with the enemy during th®
war and banished, from France for
three years, was voted amnesty
by 195 to 62.
The vote on the Caillaux case,
after only two hours’ discussion,
came as a distinct surprise alike to
the friends and foes of the ex-pre
mier, who had expected a long and
acrimonious debate lasting for days
and perhaps weeks.
The vote was taken immediately
after a stirring speech by Premier
Herriot, who pleaded with the sen
ators to let bygones be bygones.
The amnesty measure restores
Caillaux to full civic \ rights. He
now may run for parliament and
hold office. Upon well informed au
thority, it is -said, the government
intends to make him “financial ad
viser” to the ministry of finance.
May Try “Come Back”
He is in splendid health, active and
energetic, and is declared by his
friends by no mean? to have said
his last word in French politics.
The announcement for amnesty
for the former premier, whose case
long gave rise to bitter disputes
among Frenchmen in all walks of
life, estrangement of friends, fist
fights in restaurants and cases, duels
and rioting in the streets, caused
hardly a ripple on the surface of
the life of Paris today.
Tn connection with Caillaux's fu
ture career, it was noted today that
Georges Mandel, Clemenceau’s right
hand man during and after the war
and a former deputy, hinted in an
authorized interview in La Liberte
that should Caillaux attempt “to
plead his cause, after being granted
amnesty, by appealing to the French
public through seeking re-election to
the chamber or the senate, it would
probably result in the intervention
of some one who, although no longer
connected with politics, has the in
terests of. France at heart.”
This is interpreted as meaning that
Clemenceau would take up the cud
gels against Caillaux, the ‘‘tigeir*’
making a series of addresses through
out the country.
Malvy Case Not Bitter
The discussion over amnesty to
Malvy failed to produce even the
brief outbreak of bitterness that fea
tured the Caillaux debate. The for
mer minister of the interior was
merely banished and never forfeited
his civic rights. He now is a deputy.
The only incident came when former
Premier Poincare, challenged by a
member of the Left to shy whether
“in his soul and conscience” he be
lieved Malvy guilty, replied:
"I cannot grant that a former
president of the republic can be
called upon to explain as senatpr
events which occurred during his in
cumbency, but nevertheless I may
say that to my personal knowledge
during my presidency no action of
Malvy could be construed as lacking
in patriotism.”
Next to the Dreyfus trial, perhaps
no ease has excited wider interest
or greater animosities among the
people of France than the Caillaux
case.
Joseph Caillaux, financier and po
litical leader, whose career as a
statesman made him a figure of
world prominence in the decade be
fore the World war, became the butt
of attack during the crisis of the
middle period of the European war
when he was accused of trying to
bring about a compromise peace with
Germany. The echoes of the shots
from the pistol of the second Ma
dame Caillaux, which laid low Gas
ton Calmette, editor of Figaro, who
had made accusations of a personal
nature in the political fight being
waged against Caillaux as minister
of finance early in 1914, hardly had
died away before the outbreak of
the war.
Reports began to come out soon
afterward of mysterious activities
by Caillaux which were regarded as
not friendly to the war policies of
the ministries in power. Caillaux
was accused of various intrigues, in
volving correspondence with mem
bets of the enemy camp and upon
the advent of Clemenceau to power,
Caillaux was arrested and after a
long delay, tried on a charge of
high treason by the high court of
the senate. Caillaux was acquitted
on this charge but found guilty of
the lesser offense in connection with
which amnesty now has been extend
ed. He was sentenced to three years
imprisonment and restricted to resi
dence within prescribed areas for
five years and the loss of civil right*
for ten years. As he already han
been imprisoned a long time YMIJe
awaiting trial he was released soon
after his conviction but remained
subject to the other penalties im
posed.
$ 100,000 Fire Sweeps
North Carolina Town
PARKTON, -N. C„ Nov. 18.—
Flames swept the business section es
this town Monday, doing SIOO,OOO
damage before it was put uder
control by the combined efforts of
the local fire department and that
of Fayetteville, 15 miles distant. The
Fayetteville fire trucks reached here
lin 17 minutes after the call was
given. No water was available when
the Fayetteville trucks arrived, and
an engine in the railroad siding was
uncoupled from a train and he at
tached to its tank.
After almost two hours, the fire
was brought under control.
Maurice Fleishman, a Fayetteville
j fireman, suffered a badly burned
foot and ankle.
Origin of the fire was said to be
jin a drygoods store.