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VOL. XXVII. NO. 19
Washington denies
NEW M PARLEY
RUMORED AT GENEVA
France Wants to Delay Con
ference on Land Arma
ment Reduction
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —The state de
partment issued today a fiat denial
of rumors current in Geneva that
the Washington government was
taking steps to convoke a disarma
ment conference in Europe.
The department statement fol
lows:
“In answer to a question by the
Associated Press, today, the acting
secretary of state authorized the
statement that there was no trutn
in the report circulated in Geneva
that the Washington government
was taking steps to convoke a dis
armament conference in Europe.”
This was the first pronouncement
on the subject to come from any re
sponsible official here since the dis
armament question recently was
brought under active discussion by
the proposal for a conference tinder
the auspices of the League of Na
tions.
Officials were unwilling to go fur
ther in commenting on the Geneva
despatch, reserving until a later
time whatever opinions they may
hold on the geneg-il subject of any
new conference that may be called
either by the league or by President
Coolidge.
Such a conference, if held in Eu
rope, naturally would be concerned
with land as well as naval arma
ments, and it has been understood
that the Washington government
has always regarded the question of
land armament limitations as essen
tially a problem of the European
powers.
While the historic attitude of the
Washington government favors any
step that would relieve nations of
heavy armament burdens and while
it has been felt in Washington' that
economic restoration in Europe re
quired that the military outlays of
the European powers should be re
duced materially, there has been
nothing to indicate that the Wash
ington government expected to ini
tiate a conference to deal with that
question.
It is recalled that the question
of land armaments was included in
the agenda prepared in Washington
for the conference which resulted in
the naval limitation treaty. The
Washington government, however,
presented to the conference no sug
gestion as to bow this might be ac
complished, and the land armament
question was dropped almost at the
start of the conference.
An agreement to limit land arma
ments could be reached only when
the powers in Europe were ready to
negotiate for treaties having that ob
ject, and it has been felt here that
the initiative for an attempt to bring
about a conference for land arma
ment limitations of necessity must
come from some European power.
s The moral backing of the United
States unquestionably would be
given to any such plan, authough
the question of the size of the Ameri
can army itself is not one that could
interest the conference to any great
extent.
In his address accepting the Re-
- publican nomination for the presi
dency last August Mr. Coolidge an
nounced that “when the repara
tions plan is in operation” he would
deem it an appropriate time to ap
proach the other powers on the sub
ject of further limitation of arma
ments. Labpr, however, the Geneva
plan came prominently to the front,
and recently there has been no in
dication what the intentions of the
White House in the present situation
might be.
It has been apparent that the un-
• settled state of opinion in Europe
on the armaments conference ques
tion has had its reaction here. The
American government is anxious to
do what it can toward an arms limi
tation, but it desires, that whatever
seps it undertakes be attended by
circumstances conducive to success.
There apparently is no intention to
take away from the league what
ever credit might accrue to it from
a conference held under its auspices
and the questions which appears to
have been kept uppermost in all con
siderations of the problem is whether
the results desired could be better
accomplished under the leadership of
Washington or of Geneva.
AMERICA HAS SUGGESTED
PARLEY, GENEVA HEARS
GENEVA, Nov. 20.—(8y (he Asso
ciated Press.)—The latest rumor cir
culating in Geneva on the disarma
ment question is that President
Coolidge will convoke a new arms
conference to meet in Europe, per
haps at The Hagye. Those circulat
ing thte rumor insist that the Wash
ington government already has
■ sounded the new British government
on the subject.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND AGREE
TO DEFER ARMS DISCI SSION
PARIS, Nov. 20.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —The French delegates
to the League of Nations council
meeting in Rome next month will
concur in Great Britain's request for
postponement by the council of dis
cussion of preparations for the pro
posed conference for the reduction of
armaments, an official spokesman
for the foreign office said today.
Paul Boncour and the other
French delegates who ate going to
• Rome have informed the government
that they have a plan ready to pre
sent to the council but feel they
would like more time to study and
improve it, and thus they welcome
the British suggestion for postpone
ment.
Woodmen Will Present
. ‘Old-Fashioned Mother’
The play “An Old-F.ishi >ned
Mother.” will be presented hv the
Woodmen Circle Maple Grove x>i,
Friday evening, at S o'clock, m the
, t entral Congregational church, at
• C.nnegie Way and Ellis street it is
announced. This will be the s. \ ■
Pr.th time the Maple Grove Wood
n’en have presented the play, it is
stated.
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WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
LISBON. —Government of Pre-
I mier Gaspaid resigns after parlia
| ment rejects motion for vote of con-
I fidence.
CAIRO. Egypt.— Major General
i Sir Lee Stack, governor general of
the Sudan and sirdar of Egyptian
j army, .shot by gunmen at Cairo
i Wednesday, dies.
MEXICO CITV.— Enmities glow-'
ing out of case of Mrs, Rosalie
Evans, killed last August, have cul
minated in disorders in the Huejot
zingo district, state of Pueblo.
NEW YORK.—There is no need
at present for urgent legislation by
congress with respect to railroads,
Association of Railway Executives
says in declaration of policy.
WASIIINGTON. — Representative
Nelson, of Wisconsin, insurgent
leader in house, says Republicans
are “too wise” to attempt to ban
progressives from party ranks.
WASHINGTON. The constitu
tionality of the Kosher law of New
York, which regulates the sale of
Kosher meat, is attacked in argu
ments before the supreme court.
1 NEW YORK.—Five men and Iwo
women, entire crew of three-masted
schooner, Susan 8., which sank off
the Virginia capes, were rescued by
City of Atlanta, radio message says.
PORTSMOUTH. Va. — Uncomplet
ed dreadnaught Washington, afloat
off Virginia Capes, twice with
stands bombardment by 14-inch
shells and bombs from battleship
Texas.
WARDENSVILLE. W. Va.—
Charles Theodore Murray, retired
newspaperman and one-time Wash
ington correspondent for New York
Times and other newspapers, dies
here aged SI.
WASHINGTON.—A federal law
to prohibit the sale of Christinas
trees is advocated by 11. V. Berry,
of Fort Plain, N. Y., before the
national convention on utilization of
forest products.
ATLANTIC ClTY.—Total debt
standing against farms in the United
states is estimated at fourteen bil
lion dollars, state Master Jesse Ncyv
som, of Indiana, tells national
grange convention.
GENEVA.—Bishop Charles H.
Brent, addressing international opi
um conference, declares public
opinion in United States demands
drastic action in curbing illicit traf
fic in narcotic drugs.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Prosecutor,
unwilling to accept suicide theory,
continues search for possible slayer
of Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, wife of Co
lumbus, Ohio, minister, whose cre
mated body was found in furnace.
COLUMBUS, Ohio.—ln note to
county prosecutor, signed by Rev.
C. V. Sheatsley and his son Milton,
the youth is committed to statement
that door of furnace in which Mrs.
Sheatsley’s body was found was
open when body was discovered.
MOSCOW. —Leon Krassin, soviet
ambassador to France, tells em
ployes of the commissariat of for
eign trade that despite England’s
refusal to grant Russia a loan, the
Bank of England has allowed the
soviet government credits amount
ing lo $88,000,000.
Mayor of Stillmore
Tried on Charges of
Financing Moonshiners
SAVANNAH, Ga.. Nov. 20.—F. A.
Edenfield, mayor of Stillmore, is on
trial in the federal court today on
three charges of conspiracy to vio
late the federal prohibition law. His
alleged conspirators in the first case
are J. B. Waggoner, Mrs. Hattie
Waggoner and Jim Smith, of Eman
uel county; in the second, J. B.
Pinkard, and in the third B. P.
Walker, R. L. Warren and Sam F.
Evans, of Candler and Emanuel
counties.
The government alleged Edenfield
financed the moonshining operations
of the other men. He was tried in
January and a mistrial resulted.
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LAX ENFORCEMENT
DF LAW SCORED BT
METHDDISTPASTDRS
Ministers Stirred to Action
by Murder of Rev. Rob
ert Stewart’s Wife
;
Resolutions characterizing the
i slaying of Mrs. Rooert Stewart, wife
| of the Methodist pastor at Drake
, town, Ga., a few days ago, as a
• "climax of crime caused by lax en
; forcement of law” weie adopted
I unanimously by the North Georgia
■ Methodist conference, in session
Thursday at the Wesley Memorial
church.
Mi’S. Stewart was shot to death at
her home in Haralson county when
she attempted to prevent a gang of
alleged monoshiners from abducting
her husband, who had been active
in running down violators of the
prohibition law.
The resolution, introduced by the
Rev. C. O. Jones, superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon league in Georgia,
was signed by many prominent min
isters and laymen. It was asserted
that the practice of assessing small
fines on violators of the prohibition
j laws is a travesty on law and en
| couragement to crime. The state
’ ment also is made in the resolutions
that “many prominent citizens,
among them church members, scout
the law, patronize moonshiners and
boast of their bootleggers.”
Tendering the sympathy of the en
tire conference to Mr. Stewart the
resolutions conclude as follows:
"That we urge all our citizens to
obey the law; our newspapers, mag
i azines and moving pictures to com
-1 mend and not condemn the law; and
; judges, sheriffs, policemen and oth
ers to enforce the law without tear
or favor; «ind all our pastors to
preach often on the necessity of law
enforcement by all officers and law
observance by all citizens; and we
respectfully suggest that our
churches observe by special pro
grams the Sabbath preceding Janu
ary 1(>, 1925, the fifth anniversary of
the eighteenth amendment.”
The introduction of the resolutions
followed a voluntary offering for
Rev. Stewart which resulted in con
siderably more than S3OO being con
tributed.
.Mrs. Stewart Memorial
Establishment of a memorial to
Mrs. Stewart in the form of an en
dowed room at the Wesley Me
morial hospital was put under way
Thursday at the suggestion of Mrs.
A. F. Nunn, of Temple, Ga., Mrs.
Nunn is the wife of a Methodist
preacher in the same section of the
state where the Stewart tragedy oc
curred. It is planned that the me
morial to Mrs. Stewart shall be es
tablished from contributions from
women of the North Georgia con
ference.
The idea was presented to the
conference by Dr. Elam F. Dempsey,
secretary of education, who an
nounced that a committee consisting
of Mrs. Nunn, Mrs. W. T. Irvine,
of Rome, and Mrs. Warren A. Can
dler, of Atlanta, would receive all
contributions for the memorial.
Dr. 11. W. Cox, president of Emory
university, and head of the Wesley
Memorial hospital, described briefly
to the conference Thursday the de
velopment of the hospital since its
transfer to become a part of the uni
versity, saying that the institution
now is almost on a paying basis
avd that the free patients at the
hospital constituted about one-sixth
.of the entire number. Every effort
is being made to reduce the cost of
operations Dr. Cox stated, and it
is hoped to be able in the near fu
ture to handle 100 free patients.
In Arrears On Missions
Bishop W. B. Beauchamp, cf
Brussels. Belgium, who is in charge
o> Methodist missions in, Europe,
s' oke toward the close of the ses
sion. outlining the financial situa
tion of the Methodist mission board,
which, lie declared, was in debt
$900,000. Bishop Beauchamp pointed
out that the North Georgia con-
(Continued on Page 3. Column J)
Barrett Is Re-elected
President of Farmers
For Twentieth Time
OKLAHOMA (TTY, Okla., Nov.
20. —Charles S. Barrett, of Union
City, Ga.. was- re-elected president
of the Farmers Educational and Co
operative Union of America for the
twentieth time at the annual con
vention today. He was elected over
George D. Baker, of Des Moines.
lowa, by* a two-to-one vote.
E. L. Harrison, of Lexington, Ky.,
was elected vice-president and A. C.
Davis, of Springfield, Mo., was re
elected national secretary-treasurer.
The directors were re-elected.
Mr. Davis read his annual report
in which he urged unity of action
‘ among the farm organizations and
stressed the need for a definite leg
islative policy.
The convention unanimously ap
proved a resolution endorsing the co
operative marketing of cotton under
long-term contracts and recommend
ing that all other farm products be
sold through co-operating agencies.
EUROPE Oi
INITIATIVE IPUAND
ARMAMENTPARLEY
\
B\ DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to 'i’ln; Journal —Copy-
right, 11)21.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Al
though the United States govern
ment is deeply interested in every
move chat may reduce the cost of
armaments to the civilized world and
lessen the chances of war, the Cool
idge administration expects the
initiative in respect of land arma
ment reduction to come from Euu6-
pean powers.
Senator Borah and others who feel
the American government should
call another arms conference are of
that opinion largely because they
think that unless the United States
takes a hand in the land armament
question as was the case with naval
armament little will come of the talk
of reduced armament.
If, on the other hand the United
States government felt that the mere
yall of an arms conference was an
assurance of success, President Cool
idge would call one overnight. That,
however, is not the case, and unof
ficially there are some factors which
make it apparent the American gov
ernmen can only help fully advise
and cannot compel reductions even
by fore of opinion as occurred with
the naval conference. At that time
America came forward at the very
outset and proclaimed a program of
sacrifice. Having one of the two
leading navies in the world, the
United States could take the leader
ship and by her example compel the
others to follow or be placed in the
awkward position of blocking reduc
tion.
Different Question
With land armament the whole
question changes. The United
States has one of the smallest stand
ing armies in the world, just enough
for police protection and probably
not as much as European powers
with the same lefigth of boundaries
would think safe. For the United
States to announce her willingness
to cut her standing army would
have no effect on European powers
and the administration knows that
all to well. When the last arms
conference was held in Washington,
Premier Briand told the world how
France regarded the question of
land armament, and virtually killed
all chance of even discussing the
question in the same conference
with naval teduction. The Ameri
can commission was reluctantly
compelled to agree to that view
point or else enter into a contro
versy over reparations and the se
curity of France. This is still the
obstacle against American entry into
the discussions of land armament.
The Coolidge-Hughes dministration
■is trying scrupulously to keep out
of European parleys about frontiers,
security, offensive and defensive al
Lances and all the other intricate
political problems that are wrapped
up in the debate on whether a large
or small standing army shall be re
tained to prevent another European
wa r.
The American government is
deeply sympathetic—that is about
all that can be said at the moment.
Should a conferen e l^ 1 called. Amer
ica would accept an invitation to be
present, and would lend a helping
hand at every turn to make the con
ference a success, but a nation
which eschews European problems
cannot, it is felt by the highest gov
ernment officials, enter into the
land armament question without be
ing inconsistent and doing the very
thing the administration in its re
cent campaign promised not to do.
America Would Consent
The president and secretary of
state look therefore for Europe to
take the initiative. If Europe wants
the conference held in Washington,
America probably would gladly con
sent, but there is a feeling that the
place for the next armament confer
ence is in the country which has the
largest army and which must come '
forward with a program to which
other nations can subscribe just as
did the United States in the naval
conference.
The limitation of aircraft build
ing. submarines and other new weap-'
ons of war are, of course, related
vitally to the land armament prob
lem. The Washington conference
was nearly wrecked by the conflict
of opinion about submarines and the
delicacy of that question alone illus
trates how much more complicated
is the matter of military strength.
The discussion of the arms con
ference while regarded as somewhat
nremature because Europe has hard
ly digested the Dawes plan for eco
nomic reform, especially on repara
tions. is looked upon as a healthy
sign of the times. But before reduc
tion of armament gets into the realm
of tangibility there are other eco
nomic problems that will become in
volved in the discussion. America
has declined to discuss interallied
debts in relation to the money owed
S
other allies. Inter-allied debts stand
out as the Mg unsettled problem of
Europe. Were they out of the way
and a program of payment arranged,
the powers themselves would for eco
nomic reasons, if for no other, be
interested in scaling down the mili
tary budgets. It is considered here,
therefore, as an European problem n
most every phase, and the policy of
the administration is that the initia
tive in European questions must
come from En ’ore.
EARLYTRIAL ASKED
BY 5 DEFENDANTS IN
NIGHTRIDER CASES
Mrs. Stewart’s Dying Words
Repeated at Hearing—
Courtroom Packed
BY DUNBAR HAIR
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
BUCHANAN. Ga., Nov. 20.—The
• five men given a hearing here today
• on warrants charging murder in con
nection with the fatal shooting of
Mrs. Robert Stewart, wife of the
Methodist minister at Draketown,
near here, were remanded to jai?
without bond, after a hearing here
before Judge F. A. Irwin, of the Tal
lapoosa circuit, on the application
for bail in behalf of the men. The
I defense sprung a surprise when it
| failed to produce a witness, after
lit had summoned many friends of
[the defendants.
The men orered held for grand
(jury investigation, and whose cases
l-probably will be considered next
i week, are: Jeff Henderson and his
j two sons, Herbert and Otis; Tom Go
i ber, Ji’., and Cab Bishop. They were
' identified by Mi’. Stewart, in testi
i niony given at the hearing, as hav
ing been in the group which at
| tempted to abduct him, and later
i fired upon his wife last Thursday
'night, inflicting wounds which
i proved fatal twenty-four hours later
in an Atlanta hospital.
The state rested its case at 2
o'clock, and the defense attorneys
then asked for time to confer. A
few minutes later, the defense asked
Judge Irwin if he would consider
evidence concerning alibis, in de
termining the question of bail, and
the judge replied that where facts
were involved, it was a question for
a jury.
Early Trial Requested
The defense attorneys then an
nounced that they would produce no
witnesses, but asked for an early
trial should the grand jury indict
the defendants.
Solicitor General ,Ed Griffith, who
conducted the state’s case at the
I hearing, announced that a special
I term of court would be called to
i dispose of the cases, if the grand
I jury took action.
Speaking in a soft, conversational
tone, with no show of emotion in his
or voice, Mr. Stewart, ; vv l ho i>
knywn as “the raiding pai’ioti ’ of
Draketown, accused live men of be
ing in the group which tried to ab
duct him from bis little par sot age
one. week ago and which shot his
wife todeath when she rm bed to Shis
assistance.
The fearless pastor, who combed
the neighboring woods and hills for
moonshine stills while not tending
his flock, called the names of Jeff
Henderson, and his two sons, Her
bert and Otis, and those of Tom
i Gober. Jr., and Cab Bishop as among
I those in the group.
Mi. Stewart’s Statement
■ His statement follows:
“About 8:30 o'clock on the night
' of November 13, I was summoned
'to the door. I had retired but being
i told that some men wanted me, I
I dressed and went outside.
“There were two cars standing in
the road in front of my house. They
contained several men while a num
ber of other men stood in a group
around them. As I drew near I rec
. ognized five of the men and hesi-
S tated and started to go back. Wherc
' upon, the men seized me and hauled
me into the first of the two automo
; biles.
“As they did. one of them said to
me, ‘Damn you’. You have made your
last faid.’
“About that time my wife came
running out of the house. She cried
to the men to let me out, but they
did not and she opened fire with a
pistol she had in her hand. She
fired only once before she was seized
by three of the men.
“Somehow, though, she managed
Ito free herself from their grasp.
I She fired again, but as she did she
I stumbled and fell face down. As
: she lay in that position, some one
' in one of the automobiles fired at
| her and wounded her. In the ex-
I eitement, I leaped from the automo-
I bile and started across the street
I for help. As I ran. Jeff Henderson
i fired at me with a shotgun. Return
i ing 1 saw the automobiles get under
' way. and 1 ran to the place where
, my wife lay, picked up the pistol
iand fired once after them, as they
, wi re moving off in a westerly direc•
| tion.”
Recognized Five of Party X
On direct examination by the so-
I licitor general, the minister said he
I recognized Jeff Henderson, his two
sons, Otis and Herbert Henderson:
Tom Gober. Jr., and Cab Bishop as
i members of the group. On cross
examination, the minister's testi
mony was unshaken.
Dr. E. F. Eaves, first witness
i called by the stare, told how he
: rushed to Mrs. Stewart’s side soon
after she was shot and of the trip
made to Atlanta to bring her to the
i hospital, where she died.
“When I last saw Mrs. Stewart
alive." the physician said, “she told
me she had sometiiing of importance
to say. She drew my head down and
in a weak whisper said. ‘Cab Bishop
; was one of the men I saw in the au
i toniobile before I was shot.’ ”
The doctor said from his examina-
I tion he concluded that both shots
which took effect in Mrs. Stewart's
right elbow and spinal column, were
fired from the rear.
The court room was packed to ca
pacity and many interested specta
tors, who could not obtain seats,
stood leaning against the walls to
catch every word from the witnesses.
.Mr. Stewart was the lone, witness
■ allowed to remain in the courtroom
during the proceedings. He was al
llowed to do this at the request of So-
; licitor General Ed Griffith, who said
he desired the minister's assistance in
t of t lings. Th(
i defense, represented by Attorneys
It alter Matthews, of Buchanan: J. P.
Hutcheson, of Douglas; and C. B. Mc-
Garrity, of Dallas, offered no pro
i test.
Accused in Dying Statement
Mr. Stewart, who is assisting of
ficers in their hunt for the persons
responsible for his wife's death, hur
ried here from the sessions in At
lanta of the North Georgia conter
jenee. of the Methodist Episcopal
I church, south, of which he is a mem
i ber.
Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday* November 22, 1924
CURSE OF FAMOUS DIAMOND
SEEN IN MYSTERY SHOOTING
OF ACTRESS’ THIRD HUSBAND
May Yohe, Former Owner of
Hope GeiTh Still Pursued
by Tragedy—Suicide Note
Puzzles Police
BOSTON. Mass., Nov. 20—The
curse of the famous Hope diamond
is again upon May Yohe, actress and
one-time possessor of the diamond,
now the wife of Captain John A.
Smuts, who is in a serious condition
at a hospital here, suffering from
a gunshot wound in his chest.
Mrs. Smuts called a physician and
the police last night, when, after
hearing a shot, s4te found her hus
band lying on the floor of an ad
joining room of their apartment
bleeding from a bullet wound.
Police found a note signed by
Smuts which read: “I intend to
shoot myself, because I have been
unkind to my wife.”
At the hospital, however, Smuts,
a cousin to General Jan Smuts, of
South Africa, said he had accidental
ly shot himself while cleaning his
revolver.
The note was signed, “J. A.
Smuts,” but the police said the note
and signature were in different hand
writing. When questioned at the
hospital Captain Smuts warned the
authorities not to make trouble for
his wife, and said: “It makes no
difference who shot me. If you
make trouble for my wife I will
maintain that I shot myself, no mat
ter what you say. lam a> ganfe fel
low. 1 can stand this. I love my
wife."
Note I.eft to Protect Wife
May Yohe later told newspaper
men, however, that she was alone
with her husband when the revolver
accidentally discharged, and Cap
tain Smuts fell to the floor. To pro
tect her from suspicion, she said, he
wrote out the “suicide note” to be
uesd in case he should die.
At the hospital today the United
Press was informed Captain Smuts
EFFORTS TO QUIZ
OBJEMBEITEN
IT BAPTIST MEET
COLUMBUS, Ga. .Nov. 20.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —An effort to
have Professor Rufus Weaver, presi
dent of Mercer university, take the
floor to declare his position on prin
ciples adopted by the Georgia Bap
tist convention last night governing
the teachings in educational insti
tutions of the denomination, failed
today when President Mell, of the
convention, ruled the move out of
order.
A statement signed by Dr. Arch
C. Cree, executive secretary of the
convention, was i.-sjed this after
noon in an attempt to blot out wha!
ever incorrect conception there
might have resulted frpni the r» so
lution of Dr. McConnell's committee
relative to the principles adopted by
the convention.
The statement of Dr. Cree fol
lows :
“The action of the convention in
adopting a statement of principles
for the guidance of the trustees of
the institutions and interests was h
no sense the adoption of a creed 01
mandate. Baptists do not work that
way. Our methods are fraternal and
co-operative. Therefore, the inter
pretation placed upon the action of
the convention labelling it as a
‘mandate’ or 'a creed’ is absolutely
incorrect and misrepresents the ac
tion of the convention.**
Resolutions adopted just before the
convention closed expressed the smy
pathv of the Baptists in Georgiy, for
the Rev. Robert Stewart and daugh
ters. in the killing of Mrs. Stewart
while she attempted to shield him
from abductors.
The resolution, a lengthy one, call
ed upon Governor Walker and the
county officials of Paulding county
to offer rewards and do their utmost
to capture tiie perpetrators of the
crime.
The convention last night author
ized a bond issue of .$500,000 for a
new Georgia Baptist hospital build
ing in Atlanta. The hospital report
was submitted by Dr. Milo H. Mas
sey, of Americus.
In great financial distress more
than two years ago, the board of
trustees declared they were unable
to weather the storm and turned
the hospital over the the executive
committee. A plan for financing
and continuing the operation of the
hospital was worked out by Dr. Arch
C. Cree, of Atlanta. The executive
committee adopted his plan.
At that time there were liabilities
of $450,000. This has been reduced
until available assets are In hand suf
ficient to liquidate the indebtedness, ’
the balance of which is not due for I
two years, it was stated.
Last night the executive commit- I
tee proposed to go ahead with the i
plan for the first unit of the en- |
larged hospital with a capacity of j
250 beds.
An address on “the needs of a new
hospital building” was made by Dr.
T. C. Davison, an Atlanta surgeon
and for years president of the hos
pital staff.
Savannah was selected as the 1925
convention city.
TEN AS BAPTISTS OPEN
(. LNLRAL CON VEN TION
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 20.—The
opening session here today of the
seventy-sixth . Baptist general con-1
vention of Texas, representing ap- ■
proximately 3,000 churches, was de- ;
voted mainly to organization and i
appointment of committees.
The registration was in excess of
2,000. i
O. S. Lattimore, associate justice I
of the Texas court of criminal ap- ■
peals, is president, and Dr. F. S.
Groner, of Dallas, is general secre
tary. Dr. George W. Truett, pastor .
of First Baptist church of Dallas, ■
was on the program for the welcom-1
ing address and the Rev. M. E. Hud- |
son. pastor us First Baptist church, ■
McKinney, vas assigned to deliver I
the convention sermon.
was “resting comfortably,” but an
operation was believed necessary as
soon as X-ray pictures of the wound
could be taken.
The bullet entered the left breast,
glanced downward, and pierced the
abdomen, police said.
Captain and Mrs. Smuts came to
, Boston about two weeks ago, after
I their Blue Diamond inn at Marlowe
I was destroyed by fire. They were
married about ten years ago and to
’ gether took five trips around the
j world.
Tragedy and misfortune have fol
lowed May Y'ohe, once favorite of
I King Edward VII, since the day she
married Lord Francis Hope and be
came Lady Hope and possessor of
. the famous Hope diamond.
When her love for Lord Hope be
gan to grow cold she blamed it on
the sinister influence of the dia
, mond, which brought “hard luck and
misfortune to all who wore it.’’
Elopes With Army Officer
In the zenith of her popularity,
■ May Yohe ran away with a dashing
army officer, Major Putnam Strong,
, later marrying him when Lord Hope
secured a divorce.
This second matrimonial adventure
; soon went on the rocks. Crying,
“It's the curse of the diamond,” Miss
, Y 7 ohe divorced Major Strong and be
' gan singing in notorious cabarets of
San Francisco’s Barbary coast.
( Then she married Captain John A.
Smuts, who came to America after
I i fighting in the Boer war with his
cousin, General Jan Smuts, of South
Africa.
In an attempt to recoup her for
tune, Mrs. Smuts and her husband
recently opened an inn at Marlowe,
Mass., defying the gem, she claimci
had been the cause of all her mis
• fortune, with the name “Blue Dia
mond Inn.”
Two weeks ago the inn was de-
■ stroyed by fire, and the couple were
■ forced to live in a furnished j oom
' in a lodging house in Boston.
Today the woman who once owned
I I her own theater in London, faces
lithe latest curse of the diamond.
FARMUNIDNNEARLY
SPLIT ST UUMLI
DELEGATES' CONTEST
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov.
19. —With preliminaries out of the
way, the twentieth annual conven
tion of the Farmers’ Educational
and Co-operative Union of America
got down to business today. Elec
tion of officers and committee re
ports were the most important
items on the day’s program.
Seating of Mrs. G. H. Mathis, of
Gadsden, Ala., as the Alabama dele
gate, at last night’s session settled a
contest that waxed warm through
out yesterday, and for a time threat
ened a. split in the convention. Mrs.
Mathis was seated over Mrs. W. B.
Edmondson, of Decatur, Ala., the
convention holding that the latter
had not been legally elected a dele
gate. Both women had presented
claims before the credentials com
mittee. About 200 delegates from
25 states are attending the conven
tion.
Mail Fraud Charged
When “Beautiful Girl”
Proves Only a Man
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 20.
John B. Hendrix, alias “Miss Mabel
White,” alleged to have represented
himself as a "beautiful girl of nine
teen years who would shortly in
herit a fortune,” to a number of men
whose names he obtained through a
matrimonial agency, was held in de
fault of $2,500 bond to await the ac
tion of a. federal grand jury when
arraigned late Wednesday before
United States Commissioner Carl
Noble, on a charge of using the
mails to defraud.
Hendrix described himself as a
“beautiful young woman” and stated
in letters to a number of men that
he would go to certain cities if the
railroad fare was sent, according to
the information upon which the war
rant was issued. It was alleged that
he received money for railroad fare
by thus using the mails./
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VALDDSTIAN KILLED
IN STREET BATTLE
WITH POLICE CljlEF
“Dick” Boyd’s Own Weapon
Turned on Him After
Wounding Officer
VALDOSTA, Ga., Nov. 20.— A tre
mendous sensation was caused here
just before noon by a shooting af
fray in the heart of the business sec
tion. “Dick” Boyd, a well-known
Valdostian, was shot and killed by
his own pistol in a scuffle with Chief
of Police Kendall, whom Boyd had
wounded in tho hand and also in the
side. .
Chief Kendall and Leo Miller,
councilman and member of the po
lice department, were walking along
Ashley street, which was crowded,
and as they passed Geiger’s barber
shop Boyd, who was standing on the
side of the street, drew .his pistol and
began firing at the chief without say
ing anything to him. His first bullet
passed through the chief’s hand and
the second one through his clothing,
causing a small flesh wound in his
side. The chief turned upon Boyd
and a terrific struggle ensued. Tho
chief, who is a powerful man, turned
Boyd’s gun upon Boyd, a bullet from
the weapon striking Boyd in the
temple and causing almost instant
death.
It is said that Boyd had been ar
rested here on some liquor charges
and tb.at he had become angered
with the police department, but there
was nothing to indicate that he was
going to attack the chief.
Woman Witness in
Stewart Raid Hearing
Prays, Then Testifies
BY DUNBAR HAH?
(Staff Cori’espondcnt of Tho Journal)
BUCHANAN, Ga., Nov. 20.— A sen
sation was created in the Haralson
superior court here today during the
preliminary hearing of five men held
under warrants charging murder in
connection with the death of Mrs.
Robert Stewart, wife of “the raiding
parson” of Draketown, when Mrs.
Jesse Hogue, wife of a well known
Draketown physician, insisted on
reading passages of scripture, and
leading in prayer before rendering
testimony.
“May I make a little statement,' 1
Mrs. H,ogue asked Solicitor General
Ed Griffith when she was called.
“Take the stand and proceed,” tM'
solicitor said.
‘T have never been in court be
fore,” she said, “but I never enter
any important undertaking without
invoking the blessing of Almighty
God.”
Mrs. Hogue then preceded to read
several passages of scripture, after
which she led in prayer. Tn the
course of the prayer she said:
“May the blood of all officers in
the state boil until they wipe oat
this whisky evil, so defenseless wom
en may not be called out in the dead
of night and be killed in cold blood.”
Judge F. A. Irwin made no effort
to interrupt Mrs. Hogue. Those in
the courtroom were visibly affected
at tho remarks of the physician*t
wife. Then she proceded to give
testimony corroborative of that ot
her husband, Dr. Jesse Hogue, who
had preceded her. Both told of see
ing the shooting in front of the
Stewart home.
The Weather v I
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FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
A’irginia and North Carolina—ln
creasing cloudiness; not ;much
change in temi>erature.
South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida— Increasing cloudiness.
Extreme Northwest Florida—Un
settled, probably showers.
Alabama and Mississippi—Proba
bly showers.
Tennessee and Kentucky—Unset
tled, followed by rain; colder in
western portion.
Louisiana—Partly cloudy.
Arkansas—Fair; colder in west
portion.
Oklahoma—Fair, colder. •'
East Texas—Generally fair. /
West Texas —Generally fair.