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©be Atlanta ©ruWtW® Boutwl 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. How to Stop Fit Attacks If um liau atucKs of Fils. or Fa! : v I will tell you how to secure FIIEI* m h ine treatment which has slopt ctl the attacks in hundreds of It mves immediate relief. <r!s»n Tji*' Desk 11, Station C, Milwaukee. M i>. - (Advertisement.) Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 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. moopmi rmms Mnmw w 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.