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VOL. XXVII. NO. 3()
MOVE TO OVERRIDE
POSTAL PIT VETO
IM IN SENILE
Ashurst Forces Question
Onto Floor but Party
Chiefs Turn It Aside
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Admin
istration leaders in the senate today ;
blocked an effort to override I’i'esi
dent Coolidge's veto of the postal
pay bill.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Ari
zona, was successful in bringing the ,
question to the floor but through i
parliamentary maneuvering a vote
was forestalled.
r The question came up when Sena
tor Sterling introduced his new pos
tal bill providing increases on vir
tually all kinds of postal service
except first-class letter mail. Sena
tor Ashurst at that time seized the
, opportunity to call for a vote on the
, veto. The Arizona senator's motion
to ask for a vote was approved, 51
to 30, but the aceual vote on the
veto could not be forced through.
In arguing against overriding,
Senator Sterling said the vote of the
last election should “guide us in de
termining our stand on the presi
dent's economy policy.” He added
" that no emergency existed demand
ing a general increase in postal sal
aries and that a better bill could be
drawn on a basis allowing increases
where living costs were high.
In the two-hour fight, Democrats i
led by Senators Ashurst; Heed, of '
Missouri, and Harrison, of Missis I
v sippi, and supported by Senator Nor- |
ris. Republican, Nebraska, sought in |
vain to block debate by various par
liamentary moves which were over
ruled.
At one stage, Senator McKellar, |
Democrat, Tennessee, moved an ap
peal from a ruling by President Cum
mins, but this vote also was blocked
by Senator Sterling’s debate.
Cummins Turns Tide
The failure of those advocating 1
overriding was brought about by a
decision of President Cummins that
Chairman Sterling, of the postoffice
committee, should have unlimited
time to debate his motion that the
whole question be sent back to com
mittee.
Senator Ashurst moved first that
he senate give immediate considera
tion of President Coolidge's veto.
* Overruling an objection by Sena- I
o Sterling, Republican, South ;
Dakota. President Pro Tern Cum- I
iiins declared the; motion in order I
ind ordered that the roll be called. I
The actio nblocked an administra- i
tion move by which it was hoped 1
’he veto would be held up until *
tetion on a measure to increase
postal rates was before the senate.
How They Voted
Republicans voting for the imme
diate consideration of the postal pay
increase measure were Couzcns,
Michigan; Cummins, Iowa; Edge,
New Jersey: Frazier, North Dakota;
Howell, Nebraska; Johnson, Califor- 1
nia; Jones, Washington; Dadd, North
Dakota- McKinley, Illinois; McNary,
Oregon; Reed, Pennsylvania; Stan
field, Oregon; Wadsworth. New
York. Senator Norbeck also was I
included but corrected his vote after
'the roll call.
Senators Bruce, Maryland; Dial,
South Carolina, and King, Utah,'
were the Democrats who joined the
Republicans opposing consideration.
$30,000,000 Increase Provided
The increases in rates which
would be levied on the third and i
fourth-class mail matter, would call
for about $30,000,000. it esti- ’
mated $12,500,000 additional would
be gained from proposed increases
on postal cards and some miscel
laneous first-class mail; $10,876,000
by increases on second-class mail, in
cluding newspapers, and $4,161,000
by increases on insurance and col
lect-on-delivery services.
Senator Stirling favors open hear
ings to continue through the Christ
mas recess, making possible a report
to the floor by the time congress re
convenes after the ho 1 idays.
’Needle’s Eye Carries
Letter of 44 Words
To Smithsonian Board
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—A 44-
iword letter reposing in the eye of a
needle has been received at the
Smithsonian institution. The mi
croscopic missive, which was sent
to the institution for dsplay before
the annual meeting of the board of
regents, is so small it has to be
magnified 88 times before it can be
read. It measures exactly 1-11.250th
of a square inch.
The text of the letter follows:
“This is a crude, hurriedly-pre
pared, large sample of microengrav
ing. 1 trust it will contain a mo
ment of interest to the regents, and
regret that time prevents preparing
an exhibition more worthy of their
inspection. Believe he to be, yours
cordially. ALFRED McEWAN.”
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; i
WASHINGTON. Department of
i agriculture estimates value of im
l portant farm crops of nation at $9,-
i -179,902,000.
WASHINGTON. — It is indicated
tit the department of justice that the
Atlanta federal ponitanthny ■-an-.0-.-al
cases might involve a wider develop
ment.-
NEW YORK. Will of August
Belmont makes largest bequests, in
cluding racing stable and personal
property, to his widow, Mrs. Eleanor
Robson Belmont.
’ WASHNIGTON. Representative
Crisp, of Georgia, a member of the
debt commission tells house no con
crete proposal on French debt had
been submitted.
WASHINGTON. Rear Admiral
Louis M. Nulton is selected to suc
ceed Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson
as superintendent of naval academy
at Ann.'.polis.
WASH INGTON—State department
officials declare, the protest of soviet
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin on the
operations of the cutter Bear would
not be answered.
WASH INGTON. —The American
embassy in Mexico is instructed to
inevstigate the shooting of Deputy
Sheriff Joseph Fierros, of Webb
county, Texas, near Nuevo Laredo.
CHICAGO. —Cold wave sweeps
northward and spreads southward
and eastward; lowest temperature
recorded in United States. 26 below
zero, is reported from Helena, Mont.
MADRID. L)uke of Alba, recent
ly returned from United States, is
elected honorary member of Ameri
can society of Madrid at luncheon
presided over by Ambassador Moore.
WASHINGTON.—Body of Samuel
Gompers, after lying in state in na
tional headquarters of American Fed
eration of Lpbor, at Washington for
six hours, is placed on train bearing
it to New York.
LONDON. The labor amend
ment to the king's address', express
ing regret at' conservative govern
ment's attitude on housing problem,
is defeated 356 io 136 in house of
commons.
WASHINGTON. —The senate cam
paign expenditures investigating
committee dismisses report of “mil
lion dollar Republican slush fund"
purported to have been ha lied
through four western reserve banks.
MEXICO ClTY.—Alberto Pani. sec
retary of treasury and Hilary
Branch, representing lluasteca ’e
trolcum company, sign agreement
whereby company advances govern
ment $3,000,000 against petroleum
taxes.
HA RTFORD—Governor-elect Hi
ram Bingham, of Connecticut, Re
publican candidate for United States
senator to succeed late Senator
Frank Brandegee, defeats Hamilton
Holt, Democrat, by substantial plu
rality in special election.
Complete Embargo
On All Live Poultry
Ordered m New York
NEW YORK. Dee. 17.—A complete
embargo on all classes of live poul
try, including chickens, turkeys,
ducks ami geese, was ordered in ef
fect for New York city Tuesday by
! all railroads, as a result of a. de-
I moralization of the local market
which has resulted from the partial
. embargo imposed last week on chick
■ ens from eight mid-western states
where a disease was prevalent among
poultry.
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STRONG OPPOSITION
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WL PROBE PLAN
•
Navy Adequate for Defense
Without Comparison With I
Other Nations, His Idea
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Naval,
building by the nations of the world [
on a competitive basis promises little
hope for the future in the opinion of
President Coolidge.
Simultaneous with the statement :
of the president's view, the senate
naval committee postponed action on
the resolution of Senator King, Dem
ocrat, Utah, for an inquiry into the
status of the navy.
Chairman Hale announced a "sub
stitute plan” had been presented to
the committee, but declined to ex
plain wherein it would differ from
the investigation sought by the Utah
senator, who charged the navy was
not being maintained at its treaty
ratio. i
With respect to the American <
navy, the administration viewpoint
was again defined today as looking
toward a navy adequate for the de-1
tense of the country without respect |
to steps taken by other nations.
These views ase expressed at the]
White House wege supplemented by |
the statement that the president re- [
gards as unnecessary any congres- [
sional inquiry into the state of the
nation’s navy.
The proposal has been made in ,
congress that an inquiry should be,
undertaken ito the status of the [
navy before appropriation of addi-1
tidnal funds, but Mr. Coolidge re
gards the investigations and hear
ings held annually in connection
with the naval appropriation bill as
a thorough-going inquiry into the
state of the nfival establishment.
Furthermore, he feels that the
naval general staff and the secre
tary of the navy continually are at
work examining the condition of the
naval establishment, and their find
ings are at the disposal at all times
cf congress.
Although the question of gun elc-)
ration of capital ships has • again I
come to the fore through considers- j
tion of pending legislation, Mr. Cool- I
idge does not regard that as an im- 1
portant factor in the present discus- i
si in of the national defense. He has j
not examined the proposal thorough- I
ly, but inasmuch as five of the
eighteen capital ships are deemed to
need no elevation of guns and five
others are declared by naval officials
to be comparable in gun range with
the major elements of other navies,
the matter of elevating the guns of
the eight remaining hardly could be
considered as of prime importance.
Another factor to be considered in
the president’s opinion is the mat
ter of expenditure, an appropriation
of $6,500,000 having been proposed
in the pending legislation for such
work.
The president’s views were brought |
forth by an inquiry at the White j
House for a statement as to the coin- j
p a-ison of the American navy with !
those of foreign countries. Mr. Cool
idge does not want to proceed on the
theory of a continual comparison of
world navies. Such a method of
naval building would leave slight
hope of a reduction in armaments ‘
and therefore the only economical, 1
and at the same time safe yardstick
with which to measure the American
navy would be that of its adequate
ness to defend the country coasts.
An address made by Chairman
Hale, of the senate naval committee,
last summed in the senate provides
in the president’s opinion a complete
statement as to the state of the I
American navy. This since has been I
supplanted by the study of naval I
needs made by the budget bureau, by ■
the president himself in his consid
eration of budget estimates, and by •
the house naval committee in its con-1
sideration of the pending naval bill. [
WILBUR APPROVES NAVY PAY I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. —The re-•
port of the navy wage board fixing 1
wagej scales for civilian employes at j
all navy yards and stations was ap- [
proved Tuesday by Secretary Wilbur. I
6,000 Gallons of Beer
And 1 wo Stills Seized
In Chattanooga Bakery
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Dec. 17.
Raiders headed by Federal Agent
Victor Williams visited the Su
preme bakery, in the heart of the
city Tuesday, destroyed two huge
stills. 6,000 gallons of beer, cap
tured forty gallons of whisky and
arrested .1. Druy. owner, and sev
eral employes.
Druy’s wire was arrested later
at her home and charged with at
tempting to destroy evidence.
Agent Williams lives across the
street from Druy and had noticed
that negroes frequently visited the
place and carried away suspicious
looking packages. Tuesday he fol
lowed two negroes who had left
the residence in a car, and when
he halted them one of the alleged
rum runneis engaged in a pistol
battle with the officer and escaped,
while the other was arrested. Wil
liams then secured reinforcements,
and returning to the Druy home
arrested the woman and Samuel
Sacks, employed by Druy.
The raiders then went to the
bakery and found that an effort
had been made by Druy and a force
of men to destroy evidences of dis
tilling by pouring the beer in a
sewer and burning the barrels in
a furnace, but the sewer became
clogged before the work' was com
pleted. '
DOCTOR IS INDICTED
ON MURDER CHARGE
111 SLAYING DE WIFE
Bi RM ING HAM, Ala., Dec. 16.
Dr. George T. Edwards was indicted
Tuesday by a special grand jury on
a chhrge of first degree murder in
connection with the death of his
wife. Annie Lou Edwards who was
drugged and clubbed to death in toe
Edwards Fairfiled home early on
the morning of December 2.
Dr. Edwards was arrested a few
hours after he had raised an alarm
and told persons who came to his
aid that his wife had been slam ami
he himself attacked by an assailant
believed to be a robber. The physi
cian had been shot in the left hand
He said the .ntruder shot him.
Little is known concerning the evi
dence presented to the grand
Most of the witnesses called are dep
uties and police who investigated the
case. It is expected that a special
term of the Bessemer court will l.'e
called for a trial of the action the
last of January Or the first of 1- eb
rua ry.
The indictment carried counts in
dicating doubt in the minds of the
grand jury as to the exact manner
in which the woman met death.
These several counts charged that
she met death either by a pistol
wound; a wound made by a heater
handle or “a piece of iron or other
blunt instrument; by chloroform or
some other drug or substance, un
known to this jury.”
It was announced, that Sheriff
Shirley had appealed from the order
of Judge Gwin directing that Dr. Ed
wards must be confined in Bessemer
branch jail. Hearing before the su
preme court has been set for Decem
ber 22. Meanwhile the prisoner will
be confined in the Bessemer jail un
less disposition of the case is made
before date for the hearing.
Bail may be secured for a person
so indicted only under habeas cor
pus proceedings. It has not been
learned whether an attempt would
be mad? to secure bond for the phy
sician.
BODY OF MRS. EDWARDS
DISINTERRED FOR AUTOPSY
MONTGOMERY. Ala., Dec. 16.
The body of Mrs. George T. Edwards,
murdered at Fairfield, a suburb of
Birmingham, two weeks ..go, was
taken from its grave here Monday
and an autopsy performed. This was
revealed Tuesday Jjy records in the
probate court.
The autopsy was ordered by Dep
uty Coroner J. J. Crowe, of Besse
mer. who first permitted Mrs. Ed
wards’ body to be buried without a
formal medical examination.
Results of Ihe autopsy have not
been announced.
The dead woman’s stomach was
taken to the laboratory of the state
chemist, Dr. E. B. Ross, at Auburn,
for examination. Other organs were
carefW’y examined.
Salary of Dr. Soule
Approved by Trustees
At Athens Meeting
ATHENS, Ga., Dee. 16.—Dr. An
drew M. Soule’s salary as president
ot the State College of Agriculture
was justified today by the-board of
trustees in special session. A reso
lution was passed saving that the
president was paid his salary in a
regular manner. State Auditor Sam
uel J. Slate recently took the posi
tion that Dr. Soule s salary was paid
illegally.
In regard to the purchase of auto
mobiles for the college, the board
insisted that it investigated before
buying equipment and took the
course it considered most economical.
Chief Justice Richard B. Russell,
chairman of the University of Geor
gia board of trustees, indorsed the
action of the board, as did Howell C.
Erwin, chairman of the university's
prudential committee.
The Weather !
FORF( AT FOR THURSDAY
Virginia—Rain; colder in north
portion.
North and Smith Carolina.—l'n.-'-t
--tied: probably local rains; mild tem
per.ur u re.
Goorn.a.—Mostly cloudy; probable'
!<> al mild temperature follow-
er ny colder in northwest portion by
nicht.
'•'b’rii’ i. — Fair, mild temp''! itur".
Extreme Northwest Florida.—
Rain: colder night.
Alabama.—Rain and colder; mucn
colder Thursdav night.
Mississippi. Kain and much
colder.
Tennessee. Rain and colder n
east and snow or rain and decidedly
colder in west portion.
Kentucky. Probably snow and
much colder.
Louisian i.—Rain and colder.
Arkansas. Unsettled probably
snow. < nttnued cold.
Okiabonia. Partly cloud? , con
mm?d cold.
AILAKTA PEH PROBE
MAY EXTEND INTO
0. S. PAROLE BOARD
Sartain Charges He's Been
Macle Victim of Petty
Political Revenge
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Some
indication that the investigation of
'the Atlanta federal prison, now un
der way, may lead elsewhere ami
| possibly into the federal parole board,
I was given today by Attorney General
Stone.
The attorney general would not
predict the extent to which the in
vestigation may develop.
He asserted, however, that he did
not believe it involved the other fed
eral prisons.
SARTAIN SAYS HE’S VICTIM
OF POLITICAL REVENGE
; Announcement by A. E. Sartain
that he had been requested to re
sign as warden of the Atlanta fed
eral penitentiary, and dispatches
from Washington to the effect that
a “general house-cleaning” is in
prospect at the Atlanta prison, were
developments Tuesday in the latest
I federal prison sensation.
Other developments included:
1. Reports that a federal grand
jury was to begin investigation of
the operations of the penitentiary.
2. Reports that W. J- Donovan,
|an assistant attorney general, was
j en route to Atlanta from Washing
; ton to take charge of the situation.
I v 3. T. B. White, special representa
| tive of the bureau of investigation
of the department of justice, remain
ed in charge at the prison, undei
authority vested in him by the at
torney general.
Reports that the grand jury was
investigating the prison situation
were neither affirmed nor denied
I District Attorney Clint W. Hagei
I could not be located Tuesday morn
-1 ing. and attaches of his office de
I dined to talk.- It was stated, how
' ever, that the grand jury met Mon-
I day and would meet again Tuesday.
Donovan Reported En Route
Attorney General Donovan was re
! ported to have left Washington Mon
day night, but whether he was com
ing here to conduct a grand jury in
vestigation or to supervise the
launching of a new prison adminis
tration was not made known in news
dispatches.
Acting Warden \\4iite declined to
state whether the arrival of Attor-
I ney General Donovan would affect
I Lis administration.
Details of charges made against
him are contained in the statement
made public Monday night by Mr.
I Sartain, the deposed warden. Mr.
1 Sartain declared his resignation was
I requested on the grounds tliat he
I was “too lenient with bootlegger in
mates of the prison, ' but emphat
ically denied that the name of
George Remus, styled the “boot
logger king,'’ of Cincinnati. Ohio.
I had been mentioned.
Mr. Sartain, who was a personal
appointee of former Attorney Gen
eral Hurry M. Daugherty, also de
clared the investigation which led
up to his resignation had not been
concerned with “the narcotic traf
fic’’ but seemingly had been con
ducted for the purpose of paying off
! “old scores on the part of certain
individuals."
Sartain’s Statement
Ilis statement in full follows:
"Mt- resignation was requested by
i the attorney general,” he said, “on
’ the ground that 1 was too lenient
with bootlegger inmates of the
prison. For about ten weeks past
j investigators of the department ol
[ justice at Washington have been con
ducting a so-called probe at this in
stitution. The men who conducted
this investigation are not trained for
prison investigators, but are unscru
pulous bootlegger chasers, and they
have not so much as interviewed me.
“Their methods of conducting the
I investigation have greatly affected
i the prison in every way, and the pub
! lie would be shocked at the discrim
j inatory attitude shown by them
i against a big public institution of
this kind.
"Over a period of two months, my
mail was opened regularly before 1
received it. My telephone was
I ‘tapped,’ and a prisoner informed me
that the investigators had checked
[ up on my private account in a local
bank without one time consulting me
regarding their activities at the
prison.
“Employes of the prison have
worked under great hardship, and
the probe has completely destroyed
| the prison routine and the morale
of its workers.
| “No information unearthed by the
so-called investigators has been dis
closed to us at the prison except as
prisoners have told us of the line of
questioning presented to them. Nu
nierous cases of intimidation of pris
oners have come to my attention.
Approximately 50 prisoners were
questioned time after time by the in
vestigators, and these prisoners have
informed me that they were threat
j ened with indictment by federal
■ grand jury and with adid'tional time
! Added to their sentences unless they
■ told who they paid for the positions
to which they were assigned at th?
prison.
Defends “Trusty” Record
"During the past year approxi
mately 550 prisoners were made
trusties and assigned to various po
sitions about the prison. About 150
of these were bootleggers, which
number is approximately the same as
♦hat of other classes of prisoners.
!W e never make trusties of narcotic
prisoners, and the proportion of con
victed bootleggers in the 550 trusties
was- not high.
"J have endeavored not to discrim
inate for or against any prisoners or
i class of prisoners, and have only
made assignments affecting privi
leges according to my best judg
ment.
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Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, December 18, 1924
RUDOLPH’S VANDYKE DOOMED
WHEN SCENARIOIST GIVES UP
STORY BY MRS. VALENTINO
June Mathis, Responsible for
Shiek’s Rise -to Fame,
Quits After Argument
Over Film
BV TED TAYLOR
(Copyright, 1!»21, by the Consolidated Press
Association—Special Leased Wire
to Tlie Atlanta Journal.)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16.—“ It's all
off” with the trim vandyke Rudolph
Valentino brought back from Eu
rope, and it's all off with the Span
ish Moorish story tliat called for the
Va ndyke.
A quarrel between two women has
forced Rudy to announce officially
that he would shave. The boycott
resolution of the Master Barbers’ as
sociation had nothing to do with it.
One of the women who forced
Rudy to strop his razor again is Mrs.
Valentino. The other woman is June
Mathis, the celebrated scenarioist,
who was really responsible for Valen
tino's rise to fame.
It is like this. When Valentino
returned recently from his continen
tal vacation, he announced his first
Ritz-Carlton production, “The Soarlet
Power," by “Justus Layne." Now
Justus Layne is understood in Holly-
SENATE VOTE KILLS
EEDEML CONTROL
OF MUSCLE SHOALS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The
senate went on record Tuesday as
favoring- private operation over gov
ernment operation of Muscle Shoals.
The expression of the senate was
voiced in the vote on the Smith
amendment, which was defeated.
The amendment would have
struck out ms the Underwood bill all
i of the leasing clauses, leaving only
government operation.
Senator Smith. Democrat, South
I Carolina, author of the amendment,
[declared his purpose was to rid the
j farmers and charged the Underwood
I hill was a “cash plus proposition.”
Explains Amendment
| “My amendment proposes that the
i government shall use the entire
| property at’ Muscle Shoals for fer
i tiiizer experimentation until the gov
ernment has demonstrated what it
I has to use," he asserted.
He declared the amendment did
[not bind the government to govern
ment operation.
[ Before the vote was taken, Sen
i ator Underwood, Democrat, Ala
bama. author of the bill, informed
the senate that be wished the vote
on the amendment to be regarded
as a definite expression of the sen
ate on whether it wishes to have
Muscle Shoals operated by a gov-
| ernment or private corporation.
Unamended, the Underwood bill
authorizes the secretary of war to
[ lease Muscle Shoals for the produc-
I tion of nitrogen for fertilizer and
[ammunition, but if a suitable lease
'cannot be obtained by next Septem
ber 1. it provides for government
' operation.
The vote was 32 to 49.
The vote on the Smith amendment
' was split. Thirty-four Republicans
■ and fifteen Democrats voted against
j the amendment and eight Repub-
I licans, twenty-one Democrats, one
: farmer-labor and two insurgents
[ voted fop the amendment.
■ Senator Underwood declared in the
i senate that he had discovered proof
of his statement that a lobby had
influenced the Washington Herald
editorial attacking him and his Mus
cle Shoals bill.
He read a bulletin, which he said
was issued by the National Fertili
zer association with offices in Wash
ington, which he declared the farm
ers referred to as the "fertiliser
trust.”
The bulletin declared th.e Under
wood bill was equally as object'on
able a sthe Ford proposal.
Reading further. Senator Under
wood declared the bulletin said “the
writer has interviewed many sena
tors during the last week and had
been assured that they would carry
the opposition to the last ditch.”
The bulletin, Senator UnderwooG
declared, suggested that people in
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wood to be the latest jtom de plume
of Mrs. Valentino. Before she be
came Mrs. Valentino she was profes
sionally Natacha Rambova, costume
and setting designer for Nazimova.
June Mathis, following her deposal
for political reasons as scenarioist for
“Ben Hur ' in Rome, was engaged to
write the continuity for Valentino's
first two pictures.
So the script of ‘The'Scarlet Pow
er” was submitted to Miss Mathis
for final revision and adaption, and
in the course of this procedure the
argument arose with the result that
Miss Mathis withdrew from active
interest in Rudy’s picture and went
over to the First National to adapt
"Sally” for Colleen Moore.
Despite the professional break, Vai
entind’s regard for the woman who
gave him his first big opportunity
in the “Four Horseman of the Apoca
lypse," remains unbroken. His
friends say he generously attributes
his success to June Mathis.
Instead of the bearded hero of
“The Scarlet Power,” Rudy will play
a clean shaven American in “Cobra,”
a Broadway play by Martin Brown.
Shortly after her break with Val
entino, June Mathis again surprised
Hollywood. She slipped away to
Riverside and married Sylvano Bal
boni, who is said to be an Italian
nobleman she met in Rome.
INTENSE GOLD FELT
THROUGHOUTNATION;
SNOWS ARE GENERAL
V,’ASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The
lowest temperature reported since
yesterday to the weather bureau was
42 degrees below zero at Edmonton,
Alberta. The weather bureau re
ports intensely cold weather in the
Canadian northwest, the northern
Rocky mountain region, the north
ern plains states and Minnesota. The
weather has become much warmer
in portions of the lake region, the
Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys
and portions of the southern states.
There have been general snows
within the last twenty-four hours in
I the northwest including the north
' Pacific states and raing in northern
California, Arizona, the lower Ohio
valley and eastern Tennessee.
The great area of high pressure
and decidedly colder weather now
over the northwest will soon over
' spread the greater . part of the
; United States. The temperature will
start to fall in the lower Ohio val
ley tonigWC’th'e upper Ohio and low
er Mississippi valleys Wednesday or
Wednesday night, and the Atlantic
states about Thursday.
MERCURY FALLS 84 DEGREES
IN 12 HOURS IN MONTANA
GREAT FALLS, iviont., Dec. 16. —
A temperature drop of 84 degrees
in 12 hours was registered from noon
Sunday to midnight at Fairfield,
George Sanford, director of the Sun
river project at Fairfield, announced.
At noon Sunday the government
thermometer stood at 60 above ze <
at midnight it was 21 below. This,
he said, was the greatest drop in 12
hours ever recorded by the United
States reclamation service during
its history in this part of the state.
The Great Northern railroad rec
ords here show a drop of 36 degrees
in one hour in Shelby Sunday after
noon. A blizzard was reported there
and also at Sunburst, where it was
30 below Monday. The same records
at noon showed 32 degrees below at
Havre, and 20 below in Billings, and
40 above in Butte.
A blizzard was reported north of
Great Fulls, with about 5 inches of
snow to the north of Conrad.
COLDEST WA\ E OF WINTER
GRIPS MOUNTAIN STATES
DENVER, Col., Dec. 16—After
having basked in the warmth of
Indian summer sun for the last
week, ’ inhabitants of the Rocky
mountain states were preparing to
day to go through their Christmas
shopping in the coldest weather of
the winter.
Lowering temperatures early in
the day foretold the rapid approach
from the Pacific northwest of the
storm which has held a paralyzing
grip on that section of the country
for the last twenty-four hours.
At midnight, Casper, Wyo., re
lented a temperature of 10 degrees
above zero, a drop of forty points
in twelve hours.
a U'EN’lo A COPY,
£1 A YEAR.
BUTTLE FOR LIFE - I
OF GIRL'S SLffi
TO START M. 1
Defendant Insists He’s Sane.
Is Questioned in Cell
by Alienist
Claude A. Roark, slayer of Miss
Vena Moore, twenty-one-year-old tel
egraph operator, will go on trial for
bis life in the Fulton superior court
on Wednesday, January 7. An in
dictment charging him with murder
was returned Tuesday noon by the
Fulton county grand jury, and hia
trial date was immediately set by
Solicitor General John A. Boykin.
Cross currents developed Tues
day in the projected defense to ba
advanced in Roark’s behalf, with an
examination of the prisoner at pollca
headquarters by Dr. Newdigate
Owensby, well-known nerve and men
tal specialist, although Roark him
self insists that he is perfectly sand
and rational.
Dr. Owcnsby’s visit was taken to
indicate that a plea of insanity will
be advanced for Roark, since the
alienist made his examination at the
request jf Attorney William Schley
Howard, of the firm of Branch &
Howard, with whom relatives of
Roark have been negotiating look
ing to engaging their services aa
counsel.
Roark’s attitude, however, indi
cated that he did not coincide with
the theory that he is mentally irre
sponsible. He denies that he is in
sane, but refuses to disclose his mo
tive -n the killing.
While the defense laid prelimi
nary grounds for its expected plea
of insanity, the state set in motion
the machinery of prosecution. A
bill charging murder was returned b.y
the grand jury after Mrs. Ann 14
Norris, an eye-witness to th#
crime, which occurred in the main
operating room of the Western
Union Telegraph company, in th4
Brown building, in full view of some
sixty operatives, had given testi
mony.
Roark Promises Surprise
Roark, in a talkative mood
Tuesday, seemed to consider his in
dictment as a matter of course, and
said he would be glad when he wa<
removed from the police station and
confined in the Fulton tower.
“I am not insane,” he said. “1
am no crazier now than I have ever
been. I will neither deny nor as (
firm any statements that have been
made about this affair, but at the
propert time I will make a statement
that will throw an entirely different
light on it.
"I do not know whether or not .
my act was justifiable in the eyes
of the law, but in the eyes of God
I know I was justified. I am sorry
that I killed Miss Moore, and if 1
had it to go over again I wouldn’t
do it. If nobody was concerned but
myself 1 wouldn’t cure what became
of me, but I must live for my wife
and two children. They are the only
ones of whom I am thinking.
“I have lived a clean life and
tried always to make a man of my
self, but the cards have been stacked
against me. I never had a chance.
All my life I have had one bad break
after another. I have been unsuc
cessful but I am not crazy.”
Bride Breaks Silence
Mrs. Roark, youthful bride of the
slayer, also broke the silence she has
maintained since a few minutes after
the shooting, when she issued a for
mal statement to the police, and
made public a note which she re
ceived from her husband a few min
utes before he fired the five pdßto(
bullets that snuffed out Miss Moore®
life.
It was a note written in pencil on
a pink Western Union form sheet,
and was sent to Mrs. Roark while
she was in tlie woman’s rest room at
the Western Union offices through
the matron. It said:
“It has been so long since I wrote
you a note that I just thought I
would write you and tell you how
much 1 love you and how sweet you
are.”
Mrs. Roark was confined to her
bed at the home of relatives at 467
Bass street, and did Hot talk per
sonally with the reporter. She an
swered questions, however, through
a woman who went back and forth.
A question as to whether she in
tended to stand by her husband in
his trial for the slaying of Miss
Moore was not answered. Explain
ing the note, Mrs. Roark said that
her husband must have thought she
was ill when she went to the rest
j room and simply wanted “to let me
know he loved me.”
Miss Moore Is Buried
The body of Miss Moore, riddled
with five pistol bullets that were
fired into her back by Roark as
she sat at her keyboard in the tele
graph office Saturday night, was
laid to rest in the family burial plot
at West View cemetery Monday aft
ernoon, after brief but impressive
services at the chapel of H. M. Pat
terson & Son.
More than 200 officials and em
ployes of the Western Union, to
gether with scores of her friends,
packed the chapel, the adjoining
corridors and nearby ante-rooms, it
was an impressive sight as these
friends, most of them girls, filed
slowly past the white, flower-banked
casket with tears streaming down,
their faces.
Ihe aged mother, Mrs. Aubrey
Moore, whose already feeble health
suffered such a severe shock from
her daughter’s death that fears have
bsen felt for her life, was present at
the funeral services at the chapel
and at the grave, dressed entirely in.
black and leaning heavily on the
’-.rnis of two of her daughters.
The Rev. R. K. Redwine, pastor
of the Woodward Avenue Baptist
church, of which Miss Moore was a
member, officiated, and pallbearers
included close friends of Miss Moore
mong the employes of the Western.
Union. A musical program also
rendered by employes of the com
pany.
Mclntosh Nominated
As New Comptroller
WASHINGTON. Dec. j 6.
V. Mcjntosh, of Illinois, deputy
comptroller of the currency, was
nominated by President Coolidge to
day to be comptroller succeeding
Henry M. Dawes, who recently re
rigneH. ;