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Atlanta SfcMWtWa it viral 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.” NEW LAMP HAS NO WICK OR CHIMNEY Most Brilliant Home Eight Known— Cost One ( ent a Night A new lamp v hich has no wick or chimnex. yet, according to ex perts, gives the most powerful home light in the world, is the latest achievement of W. C. Fowler. 632 , Factory building, Kansas City, Me. This remarkable new lamp beats gas m- electricity—gives more light than 300 --.imiles. 18 ordinary lamps or 10 b I'iant electric lights, and costs onr* one pent a night. A blessing «■ every home, especially on farm or in email town. It is absolutely safe, ami gives universal .'.iiistaction. No dirt, no smoke, no <»oor. A child can carry it. It is the ambittn of Mr. Fowler to have ‘every home, store, hall or church enjoy the increased comfort of this powerful, pleasing, brilliant white light, and he will send one of his new lamps on free trial to any read er of The Journal who writes him. He wants one person to whom he can refer new customers. Take ad vantage of his free offer. Agents "anted. Write bun t'»ii.\. (Advert i-emem > Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday WORLD NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF ; 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. HELP US AVOID THE RUSH THAT HURTS SERVICE SUBSCRIPTIONS pour in by the thousands after January 1. 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We make this offer solely in the interest of better service to all our readers. We want to spread cur work over a reasonable period of time, instead of concentrating it in four months. Renew Now and Get Thirteen Months for The Price of Twelve STRONG OPPOSITION OF COOLIDGE KILLS [ 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. How Many Pounds Would You Like to Gain in a Week? If you are thin and want to gain weight, weak and want to be strong. | 1 will send you a sample of famous Alexander Vitamines absolutely Free. No money, just name and address for .llexandor Laboratories, '231 Gateway Station, Kansas City. Mo,—(Advertisement.) 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 (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) CHRISTMAS The Tri-Weekly Journal will make an ideal Christ mas present for a "dear relative or friend. It will be a thrice-a-week reminder of your thoughtfulness for thirteen months. How different from so many presents! If you care to do so, we will enter the subscription to begin with the issue dated December 25 and will write a letter to be delivered that day saying the paper is a gift from you. Use this coupon. Tri-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. Enclosed find -for which send The Tri-Weekly Journal for thirteen months as a Christmas gift ot (Name of Addressee) (Address) and write saying it is a gift from (Ycur Name) (Your Address) Start paper and write letter immediately. Start paper December 25 and deliver letter that day. Strike out one of these last two lines. 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. ;