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VOL. XXVII. NO. 32
TURNER SUCCUMBS.
. THIRD VICTIM OF
RIORDAN'SWEftPON.
Fred S. Stewart and Slayer,
Who Ended His Life,
Buried Sunday
Edward O. Riordan's third victim
died Sunday morning when S. R.
Turner, of 151 East Pine street, suc
» cumbed at 5:30 6“clock to wounds
suffered Friday afternoon in the
tragedy at the Fred S. Stewart shoe
store.
Mr. Turner was shot down when [
Riordan, supposedly in a rage at being i
dismissed from Mr. Stewart’s employ, [
shot his former employer to death |
and also wounded 11. E. Maddux, of
132 North Candler street, then killed
himself. Mr. Maddux is reported
safely on the road to recovery.
At almost the same hour Sunday ,
afternoon, in widely separated sec
i tions of the city, and under widely
different circumstances, funerals
were held for Mr. Stewart and the
slayer, Riordan.
Mr. Stewart was buried in West
View cemetery after services in the
West End Baptist church at 3
o’clock, conducted by Dr. W. M.
Seay, pastor, and Dr. John F. Pur
ser, former pastor.
Pallbearers were Howard Dobbs,
J. E. Martin, Josej# Little, W. S.
\ Richardson, C. C. Chamberlain, Os
car Venable, Frank Carter and I.
M' Sheffield. Masonic services at
the grave were i'll charge of W. D.
Duckie lodge.
Beautiful Floral Tributes
Riordan was buried in Oakland
cemetery after services conducted at
the undertaking establishment of
Greenberg & Bond, at 2:30 o clock,
S by the Rev. Father C. L. Howe, of
‘ the Sacred Heart church. Pallbear
ers were F. Fl Suttles, J. B. Robin
eon, George A. Cost, W. B. West.
Robert Lee and Earl Hahin. An
honorary escort was composed of
former comrades in the ranks of the
old Atlanta Greys, of the One Hun- .
dred and Twenty-seventh infantry.
Four letters, sealed and addressed
to as many different persons, were
'ound in Riordan’s pockets after the
V- shooting, but their contents have not
/ been divulged by the authorities who
• opened them before delivery. Nor
Wctild the persons to whem the let
ters were addressed indicate what
was the context. The enveepes
were addressed to Mrs. Annie Wea
ver Riordan, his wife; Claude C.
Smith, solicitor general ot the Stone
Mountain circuit and a former mili
i tary comrade of Riordan; Father
' Jackson, of the Church ot St. An
lymy; and W. J. Riordan, his bro»h
cr, a well-known lotton broker, liv
ing at 23!) Cherokee avenue.
Second Letter to Smith
Another letter, postmarked at 8
o’clock Friday night, but evident
ly dropped into a mailbox by Rior
< dan not long before the shooting oc
f curved, was received Saturday morn
ing by Solicitor Smith, who also
kept its contents secret.
It is known, however, that Rior
dan was greatly disturbed over the
discharge of his wife from the Steh
art company’s employ last summer,
and over the loss of his own posi
tion with the concern about a week
ago after 15 years service there.
Ordinarily of calm temperament, his
action Friday afternoon just before
the shooting indicated terrific inen-
• tai stress and unreasoning rage, ac
cording to eye-witnesses. He was at
home during the afternoon in his
apartment at 400 North Boulevard,
telephoned to his little daughter,
Pattie, who was spending the day
_ with her grandmother, Mrs. S. T.
W Weaver, of 67 Jones avenue; wrote
several letters and finally went
downtown, where he talked with his
wife about an hour before the shoot
ing.
t It appears that within an hour
after he talked with Mrs. Riordan,
and bought her a new dress, giving
no intimation of the impending
tragedy, he walked into the Stweart
store and engaged Mr. Stewart in
conversation, first about a. letter of I
recommendation and then about
what he chose to believe were in
justices done him while in the em
ploy of the company. Mr. Turner,
of the store, joined the
conversation, when suddenly Rior
dan whipped out a .25 caliber auto
matic pistol and began shooting.
Runs Amuck in Store
Mr. Stewart fell mortally wound
ed, with one steel jacket bullet in
hig brain and another through his
< neck. Then Riordan turned the gun
' on Mr. Turner, who was shot twice —
once in the neck, and again in the
abdomen. His face livid and dis
torted with rage, Riordan turned
and started toward the starway
leading down from the Ala bam street
level of the store to the main floor.
He met Mr. Maddux, manager of
' the junior department, and fired
'three times, two of the bullets tak
ing effect in his hand and shoulder.
Another bullet struck the floor be
tween the feet of Mrs. Wilbur King,
assistant manager of the depart
ment.
Then the slayer pressed the auto
matic to' hts forehead and fired the
last shot in the magazine through
his brain, falling dead across the
> body of Mr. Maddux, who had cdl
- lapsed upon the floor. I
Wild confusion reigned in the store
at the sound of the fusillade fired
in the midst of the crowd of Christ
mas shoppers. Within a few seconds
a tremendous throng had gathered
at the entrances as screaming wom
en rushed about inside the place and
pools of blood grew where the bodies
of the victims lay. Police reserves
were rushed to the store and held
back the crowds, permitting traffic
• to proceed and quelling disorder.
Blackhand War Clouds
- Gathering at Chicago
CHICAGO. Dec. 21.—Rev.tal of
the b!i-'.< hand war in Cluc.tg Ital
ian sei.tim :s feared w.:l; ti t i <r<itr
of three Italians here last night.
• While two were the result of quar
rels, the other slaying followed the
receipt of a blackhand death warn
ing and police say all three may have
bwen connected with secret societies.
Michael Gugaliardo was killed in
an argument with his former wife's
second husband. Genario Soria was
knifed in a saloon brawl. The body
■»( an unidentified man. with a death
nnta t.i his pocket, w ;s f<>un<| In an
t tlley-v ay of the ghetto district.
•
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WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON. House passes
I naval appropriation bill carrying
! nearly $300,000,000.
I NEW YORK.—American legion
! will tender General Pershing' a na
tional testimonial in New York next
May.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Body of Ju
lius Kahn, congressman from the
fourth California, district, is buried
with simple ceremonies.
NEW YORK.—Railroad freight
traffic in October was largest for
any month ever reported. American
Railway association announced.
WASHINGTON. —Cold wave which
dominated central and far west for
five days moves eastward on heels
of severe sleet and snow storm.
LONDON.—Premier of Albania
protests to League of Nations
against alleged formation in Jugo
slavian territory of armed bands
which invade Albania.
NEW YORK —Police headquarters
announce radio-casting of finger
prints makes possible identification
of criminals a few hours after their
arrest in any part of world.
COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Rev. C. V.
Sheatsley, pastor of Christ Luthern
church, of Bexley, occupies his pul
pit for first time since mysterious
cremation of his wife, November 17.
ATLANTA. —A. E. Sartain, and
L. J. Fletcher, deposed warden and
deputy -warden of Atlanta peniten
tiary, are indicted on charges of
receiving bribes from inmates of in
stitution.
VALLEY VIEW? Tenn.—More
than SIBO,OOO is missing as result
of looting by band of robbers of
vaults of First National bank and
First Guaranty State bank of this
place.
WJ LMI NGTON\ Del—Mrs. Os
borne Cutler Wood announces inten
tion to institute divorce proceedings
against her husband, former Lieut.
Wood, son of Major General Leon
ard Wood.
NEW YORK.—Federation Bank
of New York, $7,500,000 labor insti
tution, declares its first dividend
since it was founded 18 months ago,
and it is announced stock had been
placed on an eight per cent basis.
BOSTON. —Plan for discontinu
ance of approximately 1.000 miles of
Boston and Maine railroad because
of motor traffic competition and for
obtaining $13,000,000 for improve
ment of lines retained is proposed by
chairman of railroad’s executive
committee, Homer Loring.
RIO. —Attorney general of Argen
tine, in opinion, holds that Monsig
nor Juan Boneo, bishop of Santa Fe,
is liable to punishment for refusing
to submit tp government for ap
proval credentials of Pope Pius nam
ing him apostolic administrator for
diocese of Buenos Aires.
WASHINGTON. —Trea su ry ha s
been “successfully relieved of ex
cessively heavy financing” for next
March by its, recent fiscal operation,
Secretary Mellon declares in state
ment which discloses total issue of
new bonds in December program
has been something more than $750,-
000,000.
WASHINGTON. Early disposi
tion in senate of Muscle Shoals’ leg
islation is indicated by agreement
on number of amendments involv
ing disputed points: Senator Under
wood, Democrat, Alabama, «is com
pletely exonerated of charges made
by Hearst’s newspapers in connec
tion with this legislation.
Can of Home Brew,
Sent Through Mail,
Explodes m Sack
A mail order business in homo
brew was revealed Friday night
when one of the orders of home brew
exploded in a mail sack while being
re-routed at the railway mail service
depot in the Terminal station.
Postal inspectors found that a
gallon can of "brew” had exploded,
but that two other gallons in the
same mail sack were intact.
The whole samples were con
fiscated by the inspectors and are
being held as “Exhibit A” in the in
vestigation of the “Home Brew Mail
Order House.”
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WAR FINANCE BOIRD
PAINTS ENCOUWG
FARMING OUTLOOK
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—An en
couraging picture of conditions in
the agricultural regions was report
ed to Congress today in the annual
sumqMry of the war finance cor
poration.
“Most of the important farming
districts.” the report said, “are in
better shape than they have been
for several years. Bank .deposits
have increased, bank reserves are be
ing restored, business has greatly
improved and the farmers generally
are making excellent progress in
cleaning up the burden of indebted
ness under which they have been
laboring and strengthening their
economic positions.”
The price of range cattle, the re
port said, has not followed the trend
of prices of agricultural commodi
ties and conditions in the breeding
end of the industry were described
as still unsatisfactory.
Approval of 561 applications for
agricultural and live stock loans to
taling $12,240,000 was made by the
corporation during the year ending
November 30.
Banks Better Off
The amount, the report, said, is a
“substantial reduction from the pre
ceding year and evidence of the gen
eral improvement in the agricultural
situation, as well as in the condition
of country banks.”
Os the amount approved, $4,670 -
000 represented advances authorized
to 201 banking and financing insti
tutions and $7,570,000 to 24 live stock
companies.
Loans outstanding on the corpora
tion’s books, as ot’ November 30,
total $62,623,000, of which $16,975,t
000 was for war loans and $45,-
648,000 for agricultural and live
stock loans. All exports loans made
prior to th esuspension of business
in May, 1920, as well as those nw.F
after resumption of operations in
January, 1921, the report added, have
been liquidated.
The last six months, the report
Said, “have witnessed a noteworthy
improvement in the agricultural sit
uation, which in turn has brought
out a substantial improvement in the
condition of many country banks.
This is particularly true of the
wheat growing states of the middle
west and central northwest, where
the farmers have enjoyed an un
usually good season.”
Tobacco Situation Brightens
Referring to the tobacco crop, the
report said that while the industry
has been handicapped to some ex
tent by carry-overs from former
years, it has maintained a relatively
“satisfactory position.”
The sheep and wool industries, it
was said, have been receiving good
prices for their product and on the
whole swine growers have had a
favorable year.
After all outstanding loans of the
corporation have been liquidated,
£he report concluded, and after de
ducting operating expenses and
such losses as may be sustained the
government will receiyg in addition
to the original capital sto.ck of $500.-
000,000 a return approximately the
cost to the treasury of ihe money
used in the operations of the cor
poration.
Discussing the cotton report, th?
report said that growers produced
a crop approximately 3,000,000 bales
more than the 1923 output, and al
though prices have ruled somewhat
lower 'the total farm value, on ac
count of the larger production, prob
ably will approximate that of last
year.
Smithsonian Will Get
Statue of Laddie Boy,
Made of Boys’ Pennies
BOSTON, Dec. 21. — A -statue of
Laddie Boy, White House pet of
the Harding administration, made
from pennies contributed by news
boys throughout the United States,
will be turned over to the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington,
where it will remain in the news
boys’ memorial to President Hard
ing. The statue was to have been
presented to Mrs.
All Set for Debate.
Teams Discover They
Took the Sarne Side
I (Copyright. 1024, by the Counsolidatcd
I press Association —Special I.eased
Wire to The Atlanta Journal, f
ALBERT LEA, Minn., Dec. 20.
( So far as the cities of Albert
Lea and Alden are concerned, the
T League of Nations is an unsolved
i question.
! The debating teams of the two
I cities were to debate the que.s
--j tion this week. For three weeks
the members of the respective
I teams labored diligently prepar
j ing for the event. Special coaches
( were hired by interested business
men; all available material wa_s
collected.
Albert Lea journeyed to Alden
with its band and an organized
cheering squad. The visitors were
met by the entire town. A large
school auditorium was packed
and fire department officials lim
ited standing room.
Professor E. E. Hanson, of Al
: nert Lea. called the meeting to
i order and introduced Miss Ruthe
' ly, captain of the visiting team,
who started to present her argu
: ment. She was halted imme
| liately by the Alden coaches and
‘.heir team. There was much
I consternation.
Both sides had . taken the as-
I firmative side.
; The debate has been indefinite-
I ly postponed.
S confidence
IN SUPREME COURT
IS URGED OF BECK
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Now that
presidential campaign proposals to
i curb the powers of the supreme
court have been “stricken by the
lightning of public indignation,” it
is all important that “public confi
dence in the court be strengthened,”
James M. Beck, solicitor general of
the United States, told the Pennsyl
vania society, in annual session at
the Waldorf Astoria, tonight.
Mr. Beck suggested two days of
attaining the desired end: First, the
resurrection of such public interest
in deliberations of the supreme
court as was manifested a century
ago: second, the creation of a co
loperative arrangement between the
(court, the executive and the legis
lative branches of government,
I whereby preliminary opinions upon
(the constitutionality of proposed leg
islation might be handed down, to
(save such legislation from later
(branding as unconstitutional.
A real crisis in the life of the su
| preme court was survived in the last
(election when “a distinguished sen
tator made his chief objective the
(impairment of this balance wheel of
(our governmental, machinery,” ac-
I cording- to Mr. Beck.
i “Like Dagon, in the Old Testa-
Iment,” he said, “the La Follette
| party put an impious hand on the
[ark of the covenant, and like Dagon,
[it was stricken by the lightning of
(public indignation.”
Four Million Dissenters
Nevertheless, Mr. Beck pointed
out, 4.000,000 citizens supported La
Follette’s proposal, and such a dis
sent to a vital part of an institu
lion cannot be ignored by thought
ful men, for nothing is more certain
than that this is not the last as
sault upon the supreme court.”
Greater public interest must at
tend the court’s deliberations: the
court itself must cease becoming
“more and more a monastic institu
tion,” and its judges must not be
expected to be “political recluses,”
(said the solicitor general.
As evidence that the nurt had
I once been the republics “greatest
| forum of intellectual discussion.”
whose doings were widely i eported
(by tire newspapers and just as wide
ly read, Mr. Beck cited the “steam
boat case” of a century ago. involv
ing the right of New York stale to
grant a monopoly of the t ght of
navigation over the waters of the
( Hudson river.
Byway of contrast, Mr Beck told
how last he argued for two days
before the supreme court a case
[of similar nature, in which the gov
ernment sought to restrain the city
of Chicago fiom diverting into the
| Mississippi watershed 864.000,000
cubic feet per day of Lake Michigan
[ waters.
Few Paid Any Attention
'‘lt was a clash of gigantic inter
(ests,” he said. “Hundreds of nil
lions of dollars were involved, yet
nut an eastern newspaper apparent
ly made the slightest reference t >
this notable case ’
i In submitting his second sugges
tion for strengthening ; üblie mter
est in the supreme court, Mr. Peck
said:
“If congress, bv a joint t esolu
tion. signed by <:li? presidin':, te
; quested the court to give an ad
visory opinion as to whether a pro
posed law is within the competence
of the government, is it clear that
the court should decline its aid?
“I recognize that if a bare ma
jority of congress cou’.l thus drag
the supreme court into any current
political controversy. is prestige
would be in danger. But if congress
of both parties, sincere’/ dubious .-f
their power to pass a law. could
by a resolution passed bv a largely
preponderating majority of ongress
—say two-thirds—and signed by the
president, request such advice. I am
not so clear as others are. that such
an advisory opinion. tinder great
circumstances and resting solely in
the discretion of the court, would
i be prejudicial either to tht? govern
ment or tire country.”
The Weather I
Forecast for Tuesday:
Virginia: Unsettled, probably lo
cal snows.
Not ' ■ Probably ra. n or
' sleet on the coast and sleet or snow
in the interior.
South Carolina and Gcortna. Un
settled, probably rain or sleet: slowly
I rising i mper
North Carolina: Probably rain or
slecet. slowly rising temperature.
Florida: Unsettled: probably local
radius.
Extreme northwest Florida: Un
settled, probably rain: not quite so
cold.
Alabama and Mississippi: Unset
tled. probably rain or sleet.
Tennessee: Snow or sleet.
Louisiana: Cloudy. somewhat
warmer in cast portion.
Arkansas: I'nsetilcd.
. Oklahoma: Unsettled, ir?i much
j change in temperature.
GRIP OF BLIZZARD
ON MOST OF NATION
IS BEING RELEASED
Prediction of Near-Zero
Weather for Atlanta Fails
to Be Realized
Despite official predictions of
: near-zero weather in Atlanta and
■ Georgia the lowest temperature reg
istered here Sunday was 25 degrees.
The intense cold that had prevailed
over the greater part of the nation
( for several days was reported to be
| relaxing.
General prediction for the south
( ern states for Tuesday was for sleet
i and snow.
NEARLY ENTIRE NATION
J\ WINTER’S ICY GRIP
I CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Winter’s icy hand to
, night held in its grasp nearly an en
i tire nation.
The severe cold, which originated
six days ago in the northwest, neared
the Atlantic seaboard. The brunt of
the zero weather was felt. :n the mid
ale west, while in the northwest and
Pacific coast regions temperatures
Wre moderating, although still un
seasonably cold.
In wake of the rain, sleet and
snow, storms, followed by general
( near-zero or sub-zero temperatures
I left a trail of upwards of a score of
j dead, badly disrupted wire communi
( cations, delayed train service, suffer-
I ing on the part of humans and live
I stock, and fear of a fuel shortage in
i some sections.
Indications are that the severe
( cold would continue tonight through-
I out most of the United States, but
[ that moderating temperatures and
fair weather might be expected to-
( morrow.
! Despite a slight clearing up in
! weather conditions, wire communica
( tion to parts of Illinois, Missouri,
j Oklahoma, Texas and other middle
i west states, were eliminated or prac
i tically cut off today and many cities
[ were forced to depend on the radio
[ for news of the outside world. The
( Associated Press tonight continued
(to serve its Illinois and Missouri
( members’ newspapers 1 «' n Jio both
’ front WMAQ, the Chicago Daily
! News station here, and from VVDAF,
the Kansas City Star station in Kan
stis CP"
I In the southwest temperatures
; moderated durin , the day. but train
i service and wire communications
( showed little indications of returning
(to normal. The list of deaths direct
ly or indirectly due to the storm in
the southwest section, increased to
eleven t hen a mother and two chil
dren Wit Hobari. Ol:I-t.. were burnt ’
( to death in a fire started by an over
[heated furnace. Proper! v damage
i estimated at several hundred thou
i sand dollai’s wa.s caused by the
[ Storm and cold weather in Missouri.
Christmas mail was being delayed
[throughout the country by the
storm, and it ’vas estimated that it
(might be three or four d iys befo e
normal wire communications were
( restored.
[ Michigan reported four fatalities
[ due to the cold, while in Chicago four
[ persons v j killed during twenty
' four hours in accidents due directly
‘ n idircctly to the .weat'rer.
More than two hundred fire alarms
[ w< e answered in-Chicago today and
| streets and sidewalks continued to
offer unusual hazards to vedestrians
[ and motorists because of the glare
of ice with which they were covered.
The tempcratn-’o hero dropped to 6
v zero at 4 a. m.. with indica
| tions that it would again go below
! the zero mark during th? night.
American Labor Party
Is Predicted by Debs
I ERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dec. 20.
Eugene \ . Debs, today predicted th<
organization' > of an American labor
, party at the meeting in January in
Chicago of the various forces called
i to launch an “independent progres
: sive party” movement. Debs said
he “will not insist on the new party
i being a socialist party” nor does he
look upon it as “a collection of the
disgruntled Icaiicrs from other politi
‘ cal movements ”
Debs indicated that the next twen
ty’ years would see a political move
ment based upon trades and crafts
i interest, rather than on georgprahi
cal divisions as at present.
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, December 23,’ 1924
BAGGETT, MOURNED AS DEAD
FOR LAST FIFTEEN MONTHS,
RETURNS TO DOUGLASVILLE
Thought His Wife Was Trying to Get Rid of Him, He
Says, in Explanation of His Disappearance
on Octobe r 26, 1923
DOUGLASVILLE. Ga., Dec. 21.
Mourned as dead when it was sup
posed he had been murdered on a
lonely road near here, later a wan
derer through many states, but now
back in Douglasville, fifteen months
i after his disappearance, Rybtirn
' Baggett was reunited with his \wife
I and children today.
The trail of Baggett, which was
j found by relatives only once in the
[ long period of his absence, led from
' Douglasville to West Palm Beach,
[ Fla., and then through many cities
i until he was finally found in St.
( Louis, Mo., Thursday, and brought
back here bv his brother, A. S. Bag
gett, sheriff of Douglas county to
day. the wanderer stated.
At the time of his disappearance
Baggett was driving an auto truck
| outside Douglasville. When he failed
to arrive at his home, a search was
instigated that resulted in the find
ing of his truck and his hat at the
Chattahoochee river bridge on the
Ba nkh ea d hig h w ay.
Thinking possibly he was murder
ed, Sheriff Baggett had the river
dragged for miles up and down
stream. He followed every clue
that might have led io the recovery’
of his brother's body, and all to no
avail.
Finally Receives Letter
Six months later, the sheriff re
ceived a letter from West Palm
Beach, Fla., inclosing a check for
S3OO, which Ryburn Baggett in
structed was to be turned over to
his children. He '■aught the next
train for the Florida town, but be
fore he got there, the wanderer was
gone
From then until Thursday noth
[ ing was heard from him. Then
SENATE CONFIRMS
POSTMASTERS FDR
1 GEORGIA TOWNS
Atlanta Journal Nows Bureau,
408 Evans Bldg.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 21.
Before adjourning for the Christmas
holidays Saturday afternoon the sen
ate confirmed nominations of seven
Geotgia postmasters. President Cool
idge Saturday afternoon also sent in
nine additional nominations for Geor
gia.
The nominations confirmed were:
Gertrude Wingard, Aragon; George
P Whigham, Bartow; Floyd P. Jones,
Leslie; Jane M. Wilkes. Lincolnton;
Clyde S. Young. Rebecca; Lucius L.
Dean, Smithville, and Johnnie B.
Roddenbery, Thomasville.
The postmasters at Thomasville
and Lincolnton were reappointed.
The president sent the following
nominations to fill vacancies at nine
Georgia towns:
Milledgeville, Hugh T. Cline; Una
dilla, Jessie H. Bedingford; Garfield,
Robert J. Walsh; Kingston, Gordon
R. Hulme; Mitchell, Virgil A. Snider;
Pitts. Portia <’. McAllister; Rocking
ham, Henry W. Harvey: Yatesville,
Edgar S. Hicks, and Young Harris,
Forrest <’. Berry.
Rum Runners Smash
Sheriff’s Car Used
As Blockade; Escape
SPARTA. Ga., Dec. 20. —A high
powered alleged rum car ran ropgh
slv-xT. over the smaller automobile of
Sherftf J. M. Jackson Friday eve
ning on the Sparta and Greensboro
public road and so dismantled it that
the officer and a deputy were not
able successfully to pursue. The
smash occurred five miles north of
Sparta when Sheriff Jackson placed
his automobile across the highway
in an attempt to slop the approach
ing car. about which a tip had been
received from Greene county. The
alleged rum runners, a rnan and a
woman, raced through the streets
here and when last seen were well
on their way in the direction of Au
gusta.
came the news that he was St.
Louis.
When returned here today Baggett
told a strange tale of his adven
tures.
“1 had trouble at the bridge with
my truck that day,” r>e"said. It was
October 26, 1923. “While 1 was out
working on it two men drove up in
a louring car and asked me if they
could help me. I asked that they
try.
“Then I don’t remember anything
until one of them hit me on the head
and the two started beating me up.
While they were beating me 1
thought I saw my wife in the car
with them. Then all went black.
Woke Up at Columbus
“The next thing I remember was
some time later I came to my senses
in Columbus, Ga. 1 started thinking
the thing over. It came to me that
my wife evidently was in league with
these men who had come out and
beat me up and I decided 1 would not
go back home. I wasn't needed.
“I traveled on to West Palm Beach
and got a job. As soon as I had
saved some money I sent it for the
use of my children. 1 thought they
needed it.”
Then, according to Baggett’s story,
he decided to leave the Florida city
and wandered on from town to town
until he landed in St. Louis.
“I have never been happier in my
life than to arrive back at home and
find that my wife is all I ever
thought her to be; tha she was
never in league with any one against
me, and that I am again reunited
with my lamily, where I shall al
ways be, from now on,” Baggett
said.
ANGLD-D. S. Jffl
ON WAG CLAIMS
SEEMS NEAR END
WASHINGTON, Dee. 21.—For the
first, time since the deadlock between
the United Stales and Great Britain
over the right to collect approximate
ly $250,000,000 American war claims
from German reparations payments,
the dispute seemed on the way to
settlement tonight.
This government lias indicated to
London Informally that it might ac
cept a deferred payment plan. This
scheme would entail no greater im
mediate drain on the reparations
fund than already provided lor in the
Wadsworth agreement covering in
annual payments the separate Amer
. lean claim of $255,000,000 for the
’ United States army of occupation
cost.
Such a plan, it is hoped here, will
permit Great Britain to withdraw
from her objection to American col
lection of claims without sacrificing
her contention that no greater load
shoulS be put on the reparations
fund at. present.
Negotiations Continue
Informal negotiations will continue
along this line in an attempt to
; reach an agreement before the post
poned conference of allied finance
ministers meets in Paris, January 6.
That conference, provided for by the
Dawes agreement, will allocate tne
reparations payments.
Great Britain, however, has not en
tirely given up the idea of dealing
with inter-allied debts at that con
ference, villi the intention of forc
ing joint consideration of German
reparation allocation and partial can
■ cellation <jff allied debts. France and
Italy also favor such a discussion.
Colonel James A. Logan and the
other American representatives of
’ the conference will be instructed to
keep allied debts off the agenda at
i ( any cost. This government will not,
[ and cannot under the law, discuss
reduction of allied debts to America.
If the L’nited States can limit the
‘ conference to reparations, the sup
port by the other allies of America’s
claim will force Great Britain to
agree to this country sharing in rep
arations under the deferred payment
plan.
Why British Protested
Great Britain has opposed codec
! tion of American claims out of the
Dawes fund because this country is
not a party to the Versailles treaty
and has not reimbursed uself for war
losses by permanently retaining
seized alien property.
The United States maintains that
it has the same right to collect from
Germany under the. separate Arrieri
can-German treaty as the allies have
under the Versailles treaty. Its equal
right, officials say, wa.s asserted at
the recent London conference and
recognized by the Dawes agreement.
Arbitration by the permanent court
of international justice of the Ameri
[ can-British dispute, which may be
! proposed by the London government,
!is not acceptable to the United
i States. The only legitimate arbitra
-1 tion of claims, officials here point
out, is between Hie two countries di
rectly involved, and such arbitration
is now in process under the L’nited
States-German mixed claims commis
sion, which is handing down the
awards on the claims.
$ 111,000 Rum Cargo,
Billed as ‘Vegetables,’
Seized by Dry Agents
NEW ORLEANS. La., Dee. 21.
1 0. D. Jackson, federal prohibition
director of Louisiana and Missis
( sipi, was notified that liquor val
j ued at $lll,OOO and billed from New
[ Orleans as “vegetables,’’ had been
seized by prohibition agents in Chi-
Tire shipment, consisting of
whisky, champagne and cordials of
i all sorts, was billed to a Chicago
> commission company, it was said,
i and was loaded in two freight cars,
i Each car is said to hat e carried
185 “vegetable” barrels, containing
the liquor in cases.
j Operatives from the office of Di
i rector -Jackson are said to have dis
[ covered the shipment while it was
‘ being loaded here, one of them ac
[ companled by a railroad detective
I making tire trip to Chicago on the
I train carrying the two cars, and
t.-.niny <'<<•'■ C r l;r -- CE f< . mt Ht
j.officers on their arrival.
» UEN'io A COPY,
£1 A YEAR.
BELGRADE ACCUSED
OF ASSISTING REDS
IN BORDER RAIDS
Jugo-Slavs Ignore Virtual
Ultimatum—Charges Are
Denied, However
BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Dec. 21.
—The Albanian minister has handed
a note from the Albanian govern
ment to Assistant Secretary of Stats
Markovitch, in which the accusation
is made that Jugo-Slavia is helping
the aggressions being carried out on
Albanian territory. Consequently,
the note says, Albania has decreed
mobilization to defend her national
territory against invasion.
M. s Markovitch made reply that
the contents of the Albanian note
were without foundation, and that
the tone of the note was such that
the Belgrade government had de
cided to ignore it.
PREMIER OF ALABAMANS
REPORTS MILITARY SUCCESSES
NEW Y’ORK, Dec. 21.—Premier
Noli, of Albania, today cabled C. A.
Tashko, Albanian consul here, that
Albanian troops operating against
armed bands of Jugo-Slavs had re
occupied Krouna, the chief town in
the prefecture of Cossovo, and had
captured one cannon, a machine gun
and twenty-three prisoners of whom
three were regular Serbian soldiers.
“The government had further con
crete proof,” said the cablegram,
"that the Belgrade government is
fomenting the present frontier
trouble. The general military situa
tion is very satisfying.”
The message asserted that Premier
Noli had assumed the duties of for
eign minister in order that he might
bcin a position to negotiate person-
from Tirana with the League of
Nations and the powers.
ENVOY AT WASHINGTON
DENIES PLOT AT BELGRADE
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—The Bel
grade government has “absolutely
nothing to do with the present revo
lution” in Albania, and will respect
to the end the principle of non-inter
vention, Dr. Ante Tresich Pavichich,
the minister of the kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes, declared here
today in a formal statement outlin
ing the position of his country.
“In the last few days,” said the
statement, “the Albanian govern
ment and its legations in foreign
countries have sent out communi
ques in which they try to create the
impression that the present troubles
in Albania have been instigated by
the government of the kingdom of
the Serbs’, Croats and Slovens. The
truth is that the present revolution
ary movement in Albania is only a
reaction against the misrule of the
government* of Bishop Fan Noli.
“Those troubles are further due to
Bolshevist propaganda, the center ot
which is notoriously in Vienna. This
propaganda is carried out with the
knowledge and connivance of the
premier. Fan Noli. The same gov
ernment tolerated from its first as
sumption of power tlie arming of
bands of Katcbak Brigands and Bul
garian Comitadjis on Albanian soil,
and sent them for months past
against the territory of the kingdom
of the Herbs, Croats and Slovenes
to raid cattle, to kill innocent people
and to burn entire villages.”
ALBANIA TAKES PROTEST
TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GENEVA, Dec. 20.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Albania today formal
ly appealed to the League of Nations
in her dispute with Jugo-Slavia, and
requested the league council to con
sider the matter as promptly as pos
sible under articles 12 and 15 of the
covenant. This action follows a pro
test made to the secretariat of the
league yesterday by Albania against *
Jugo-Slavia that the latter was tol
erating and even encouraging the or
ganization on Jugo-Slavian soil ot
armed Bands which were crossing the
frontier into Albania and creating
revolutionary troubles.
Sir Eric Drummond, secretary gen
eral of the league, forwarded the Al
banian appeal to all members of t-h®
council which, under the terms of the
covenant, must endeavor to ( settle
the dispute. The Albanian protest
states that Jugoslavia’s attitude ia
endangering peace in the Balkans.
SOVIET I.EGATIO ' ASKED
TO LEAVE ALBANIA
LONDON. Dec. 20 —A news agency*"
dispatch from Rome states it has
been officially learned from Tirana
that the Albanian government re
quested the soviet legation, includ
ing Minister Krakovieski and six of
his staff all of whom arrived there
Wednesday, to leave the country. It
was added that the Russian officials
departed for Moscow this morning.
DEMAND FOR U. S. ;
MAY LEAVE SCOTS
WITHOUT WHISKY
EDINBURG. Dec. 21.—-With the
Christmas season approaching, the
honre consumer is facing paradoxical
prospects of facing a whisky famine,
right in the center of the liquor in
dustry.
The colossal demand for whisky
for th'-- West Indies, tire Bahamas
and Mexico, together with the ex
haustion of the American bootleg
supplies and the cessation of rye dis
tilleries in the Canadian dry areas,
are contributing factors in bringing
about this uncomfortable situation
for the local consumer.
Meanwhile control of matured
stocks has passed into the hands of
three corporations, who have con
cluded a. co-operative working ar
rangement for its distribution. For
export trade, the whisky is bottled al
most directly off the stills and is
shinped when two nr there weeks old
instead of the usual three years.
Oil Stock Promoters
Acquitted of Fraud
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2».—A
verdict of not guilty was retdTfrM____
by a jury in United States district
court here tonight in the cases of
A. W. and Harold Walker. Sidnev
Menasco and Hudmon Hopson, of
ficials of the bankrupt Walker Con
solidated Petroleum company,
I w?.h use of the mails to de
fraud in the sal? of stock.