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VOLUME XXXI, No. 144
NOOSE READY FOR SATTERFIELD
Chicago Faces Its Most Baffling Murder Mystery
Youth Is Slain
As Kidnappers
Seek Ransom
Nude Body of Robert Franks, 14, Son of Millionaire,
Found In Culvert While Father Was Arranging
to Pay Abductors SIO,OO0 —Clues Lead to
Both High Culture and Degeneracy
CHICAGO.—CIues leading both to high culture and
to degeneracy mystified the police Friday in solving the
kidnapping, murder and attempt at ransom of Robert
Franks, 14, son of Jacob Franks, a Chicago manufacturer
rated at several million dollars.
Franks started to walk three blocks to his home late
Wednesday afternoon after umpiring a ball game and was
not seen again until his body was found nude and bruised
under a culvert several miles away.
Police and coroner said Thursday there was evidence
a degenerate had attacked him. The coroner said poison
had apparently caused death.
MOTHER RECEIVED
TELEPHONE CALL.
Soon after the kidnapping and
before the probable hour fixed by
the coroner for the death, Mrs.
Franks, the mother, received a tele
phone call from a suave-speaking
man that the boy was held for ran
som: that directions how to pfey
would come later, and warning her
not to trace telephone calls.
Next morning, about the time his
body was discovered, the family re
ceived a letter which police and
school instructors said, was written
by a well educated person demand
ing SIO,OOO ransom.
Investigation as to whether It
was copied from some well-known
magazine stories produced -no
known analogy. "There is no
question in my mind but that the
boy was enticed away by some one
he knew-very well,” said Chief of
Detectives Hughes.
SEEK OWNER OP
SPECTACLES.
When the owner of the horn
rimmed spectacles found near the
body was discovered one of the
murderers will in all probability
have been discovered, Chief Hughes
said.
The spectacles are small, such
as worn by a boy or small featured
man.
The police are enlisting the help
of Frank's schoolmates in the hunt
for his slayer. Irvin Hartman, 11-
year-old schoolmate of the victim,
said he saw Robert Franks leave
—-the- -,seh.of)LJ\ledaesday. jafternoon
and saw a big gray automobile
standing at the curb, a half block
away, as Robert was approaching
it. When he looked again. Irvin
said, the car was starting, but Rob
ert was not in sight.
Richard P. 'Williams, the athletic
Instructor at the Harvard school,
a fashionable private institution
which Robert Franks attended,
when questioned by the police said
he left the school about 4:15 p. m.
Wednesday in company with Thom
as Skillman, a pupil. He said he
went to the Skillman home, where
he remained during the eyening.
Mott Kirk Mitchell, the English
instructor, said he left the school
after 4:15 p. m. and went to his
home, where he worked in the
garden until dark.
Neither Williams nor Mitchell
knew anything of the movements
of the Frank boy after he left the
ballgrounds, they said.
CHICAGO’S MOST
BAFFLING MURDER.
CHICAGO. —Slain while kidnap
pers demanded a SIO,OOO ransom,
the nude body of Robert Franks, 14
year old son of Jacob Franks, mil
lionaire watch manufacturer, found
Thursday in a railroad culvert five
miles from his home, brought to
light the strangest and baf
fling homicide in Chicago's his
tory.
Unaware that the body of an uni
dentified boy found at 9:15 a. m.
Thursday was that of his son, the
father was arranging to carry out
the kidnappers’ demand, sent him
in a neatly typewritten special de
livery letter, couched in perfect
gmnimar. Hours after the body
had been recovered an uncle of the
boy went to a morgue and identi
fied it as the missing boy.
UNABLE TO FIX
MANNER OF DEATH
Coroner’s physicians who made a
necroposy, were unable to fix the
manner of hts death. Small gashes
on the left and right temples, and
two bruises on the back of the head
were Insufficient to have caused
death, they said. There was no evid
ence that he died of strangulation
or suffocation or that he was
drowned. They Indicated that the
slaying may have been done
through a sponge or rag saturated
In acid pressed to the mouth. The
eyes, nose and lips were blue snd
bits of brown coloring clung to the
mouth. The stomach and lungs,
surgeons said, were "in a patho'.ogl.
cai condition.”
Seven hours after the body had
been found an attempt was made to
collect the demanded ransom. A
taxicab was sent to the Frsnks
home, the driver Insisting that he
bad no Instructions except to cal!
for Mr. Franks, who was to direct
him where to go, Charles Robinson,
driver of the cab, told detectives
last night the person ordering the
ctb represented himself to be
Franks. Robinson was allowed to go
after questioning.
The boy’s body was found half
Continued on pags Eleven
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
CONTINUE PROBE
OF MAYFIELD
ELECTION
WASHINGTON—More testimony
bearing on the charge of Ku Klux
Klan activities in the 1922 sen
atorial campaign in Texas was
heard Friday by the senate com
mittee investigating the election
contest brought against Senator
Mayfield by George E. B. Peddy.
The committee also questioned M.
G. Mayfield, of Terrel!, Texas, a
brother of the senator who said
he was active in the campaign and
had contributed to its expenses.
He had on the road 18 or 20 sales
men employed by his grocery com
pany, he said, and from them he
collected from time to time small
contributions which he split up and
applied a part to his own expenses
in connection with the work done
for his brother.
Luther Nickels, counsel for Ped
dy called the committee’s attention
particularly to the witness’ state
ment that expenses at the May
field Austin headquarters had been
$9,000. • The sworn statement sub
mitteri-fcy-Fewtor-MayfK:!d, -Nick#*-
said, had not shown expenses of
over half that amount.
PROBE ADJOURNED
UNTIL MONDAY
There being no other witnesses
present, the commute adjourned
until Monday with an admonition to
Peddy’s counsel that he must hurry
his witnesses so the committee
could complete its work quickly.
The witness said he had not so
licited contributions to the May
field campaign from any of his
customers. Among his traveling
salesmen, he named Sam .Tones, J.
D. Patterson. D. B. Connell. Har
etty, and Frank Jones as having
given amounts ranging from $lO
to $25 each. The grocery company
has a capital stock of SBOO,OOO. he
said, of which Senator Mayfield
owned from $20,000 to $30,000. He
testified the company never ad
vanced money to Senator Mayfield.
Senator Mayfield had received
his share of his father’s estate—
slo,oo0 —long before his father’s
death In September, 1921, the wit
ness continued when pressed
Peddy’s counsel ns lo the source
of money used by the senator In
his campaign. The expenses of the
Mayfield headquarters at Austin in
both the primary and general elec
tions amounted to $9,000 the wit
ness continued. This information
had been given, he said, by his
father.
When the Peddy attorneys took
him into the extent of the Ku Klux
Kian organization in Texna he d«-
rlarod that all the people down in
mv country belong to It.
He emphatically declared no con
tributions had been received to the
senator’s campaign from Ku Klux
Klan organizations in Texas. "Not
one cent?” asked Wm. P. .u ..ean,
counsel for Mayfield.
"Not one cent” answered the wit
ness.
The witness testified that his
total contribution to his brother's
campaign did not exceed $125
$l5O.
Seek to Regulate
Weight of Bread
WASHINGTON.—Effort* to draft
a model state law regulating the
weight of a loaf of bread will be
made during the seventh annual
conference on weights and meas
ures, Monday and Tuesday, at the
bureau of standards, to which of
ficials In charge of weights and
measures of the various states have
been invited.
A change In the bureau's plan
for standardizing the weight of a
loaf of bread must be altered some
what, the bureau announced, on
account of the recent supreme
court decision holding the Nebras
'ka law unconstitutional. An in-
I vestlgation into the accuracy of
taximeters both as to recording of
mileage and waiting time also
will be made.
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1924
Let’s Be Sure There Is a
Pork Barrel Before Augusta
Spends Taxpayers’ Money
One of the arguments for the City Council spending
$135,000 of the taxpayers’ money to buy a boat for the
Savannah river is that the Government will spend $2,000,-
000 just below Augusta to deepen the channel. But this
is hope, this is a possibility. It is not an assurance. It is
not yet a fact. As yet the survey ordered by the Board
of Engineers has not been completed. The facts estab
lished by this survey have not yet been set up. They have
not been even considered by the Board of Engineers. It
will be time enough for Augusta to consider her part and
how she is going to perform her part when the report of
the Engineers is completed and ready to go before the
proper Congressional Committee for their action.
* * »
If the report of the Engineers should recommend an
appropriation for a 5 foot channel, that is one thing. If
their report should be against an appropriation for a 5
foot channel then it must be admitted that any action
that Augusta should contemplate would be vastly differ
ent than if this report had been as we hope, a favorable
one. Augusta should not act hastily in such an important
matter. Augusta should not act at all before all the
facts are in and we know exactly what the Board of Army
Engineers is going to recommend in regard to a possible
appropriation for effective deepening of the channel.
If it is at all necessary to
keep up, which we very much
doubt, the present range and
scope of a microscopic move
ment of freight by a boat line,
averaging about a car of
freight a day, then we sug
gest that the present boat be
rebuilt, or some similar boat
be rented for the time being.
The Shipping Board we believe
has thousands of vessels for
sale or for rent, tied up at
various wharves all over the
country.
They would be glad to get
one or all of these vessels off
their hands. Why could not
one or more of these boats be
found suitable or easily made
suitable for the navigation of
tha Savannah river, while a
final determination is made by
the Board of Engineers of just
what their recommendation to
Congress is going to be? Let’s
not put the cart before the
horse and push ahead the
plans to buy a boat at a cost
of $135,000, 170 feet long and
34 feet broad, drawing 4 feet
of water when loaded, with a
capacity of 400 tons, when wo
do not know just what kind of
a channel, we are going to
have to operate such a boat
on?
Augusta will hurt its chances
rather than help them by
precipitous action at this time.
-Besides—here is echanca.to
save money for the taxpayers
instead of taking a chance of
throwing it away.
NEWSINBRIEF
Secretary of Navy Wilbur in re
port to house naval affairs com
mittee gives comparative strength
of British, American and Japanese
navies as 5-4-3.
Dr. Clarence E. MacArtney of
Philadelphia, fundamentalist lea
der, is elected moderator of Pres
byterian church in the United
States of America at 136th general
assembly at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wm. S. Ford, charged with set
ting 4flre which resulted in death of
six persons is found guilty of first
degree murder in Brooklyn su
preme court.
Body of Robert Franks, 14-year
old son of wealthy Chicago manu
facturer Is found, nude and mu
tilated, under railroad culvert
after father receives demand for
SIO,OOO ransom.
Selection of leader of Tammany
HaU to succeed late Charles F.
Murpliy is postponed by executive
committee until after democratic
national convention.
In protest against pacifist senti
ment In colleges and churches,
Chancellor Charles Wesley Flint of
Syracuse University accepts com
misison as Colonel in United States
army reserve corps.
General conference of Methodist
church at Springfield, Mass., elects
as bishops Reverends Brenton T-
Bradley of Calcutta, George A.
Miller of Panama City, Titus Lowe
of Omaha, and George R. Grose of
Grecncastle, Ind.
In brief filed by attorneys with
federal trade commission recom
mendation Is made that Pittsburg
plus plan of fixing price of steel
be abolished.
Ex-Governor CoX of Ohio, de
mocratic candidate for president in
1920, in statement at New York
says Issue of 1924 political cam
paign will be America's foreign
policy and existing "unholy alli
ance of government and business.”
Navy dirigible Shepandoah
makes first test flight since its
"runaway" on January 16. spend
ing huor In air, and attaining al
titude of 1200 feet and speed of 54
miles an hour.
Negative victory for governmnet
Is won In house of commons when
liberals decline to vote against la
borltes on unemployment Issue.
SNOW IN S. D.
WATERTOWN, 8 D He.avy. moist
©now, driven by a furious northwest
wind b©gan falling h©re ©»rly Friday.
It la said to be th© latest apring snow
here on record. The temperature la
well above freezing and crop damage
Ml cot ajaUclMtlart.
Army Aviators
Are Eager to
Press on
TOKIO—The American army
aviators flying around the
world have changed the plan
which would have kept them
here a week and will fly on to
Kushimoto probably next
Tuesday or Wednesday.
The 4jhunge was made in the
Interest of speed, the flight
already been many days be
hind its schedule. As a conse-,
quence of It, the time spent in J
idleness while Japnnese navy
mechanics install new motors
and overhaul the American
planes will be reduced almost to
nothing, ns an elaborate pro
gram of entertainment had been
arranged for the filers and now
has been compressed so as to
occupy most of the time at
their disposal. The Americans
express themselves as eager to
press on, and declare they will
fly again as soon as possible.
Plans to Share ~
$600,000 Dividend
With Employes
CINCINNATI. Declaring that
if ho. kept the $600,000 stock divi
dend distributed to him by the A.
Nash Tailoring Company this city,
his conscience would condemn him
as "the greatest robber that ever
walked!’, Arthur Nash, president
of the company announced to hi*
employes Friday a plan for ‘distri
buting this stock among them.
Tuesday the company declared
a 100 per cent stock dividend. But
while he refuses to keep the addi
tional $600,000 and plans for Its
distribution among employes he
makes a condition that the voting
power of this stock remain in his
hands, so that he can control the
company for five more years.
He states that he desires this
control only for the purpose of edu
cating the workers to a point where
they will be able to take over the
management.
Nash announced that he desires
to distributo the stork dividend In
such a way that every employe
may own at least four shares of
stock. The par value Is SIOO a
share.
Nash operates his business on
the "golden rule” plan.
METHODISTS VOTE
To Fill Fifth Vacancy on
Board of Bishops
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.-The fifth
find last vacancy on the board of
bishops was still unfilled at the
Methodist Episcopal General Con
ference Friday. On the seventh
ballot, announced at the opening of
the session, Dr. Raymond J. Wade,
of Chicago, led with 475 votes, with
the necessary two-thirds vote 532.
Dr. Ralph A. Ward, of Foo Chow,
China, was second with 241.
On the eighth ballot with 642
votes needed for election, Dr.
Wade's vote dropped to 434 ond
Dr. Ward’s to 384. John Thompson,
of Chicago, was third.
RICKNER CASE
Expected to Reach Jury
Friday
ANNIHTON. Ala.—Following the
completion 'I arguments, the ease
of Mrs. Evelyn Hun Klckner, charg
ed with slaying her husband, Lieu
tenant James C. Rlekner, at Camp
McClellan, Iset June, is expected
to resch the Jury by noon Friday-
Arguments began In the rasa late
Thursday afternoon and were limi
ted to two hours to each side.
WOMAN WILL BE
GOVERNOR, FIRST
IN UNITED STATES
MRS. SOLEDAD C. CHACONE.
SANTA FE, N. M.—The first wo
man governor of an American
state will he Mrs. Soledud C. Cha
cone, secretary of state for New
Mexico.
Lieutenant Governor Baco* died.
When Goveronr James F. lllnklo
leuvos New Mexico for the demo
cratic convention, Mrs. Chueone will
become acting governor.
BULLETINS
WASH'NGTON. —Agreement
(.•.is reached Frida/ by the
sc late foreign relatione com
mittee to finally dispoee to
morrow of tha several proposi
tions befors it dealing with
American adherence to the
world court, The decision was
accepted by most members as
assuring a favorable report on
n composite plan.
DUBLIN.—'The frea state
government will expedite the
release of all prisonera interned
or under sentence of imprison
ment with the exception of Ea
men deValara and other repub
lican leaders who have not yet
been tried.
SAVANNAH, Ga—A mask
ed negro entered the Staso,'
restaurant Friday morning at
5:30 o’clock, coverad the coun
ter man, George Viaeoa<with a
pistol, rifled the cash register
of S3O and with tha weapon
atill drawn backed out of the
|Jlac« and escaped.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.
Mrs. Dozier Lowndes will meet
Miet Rosalie Mayer, Atlanta in
the finale of tha 13th annual
tournament of the Southern
women’s golf aeoeciation Pri
ori. Lowndes defeated Mist
Priscilla Rogers of Galveeton,
7-5. Mit Mayer eliminated
Mrs. H- 8. Geitmrr of Bir
mingham, with a par thre* on
tha eighteenth green.
CHICAGO.— Boston-Chicago
postponed, rain.
MEANS’ TROUBLES
DEBATED BEFORE
DAUGHERTY PROBERS
WASHINGTON. The iron hies
of Gaatou B. Means, atar witness
for the Daugherty committee were
debated before the committee
Friday at a session resounding
with tumult from beginning to end.
Hiram C. Todd, ssslstunt attor
ney general In churn" of the prose
cutions ngalnst "fenns In New
York, wss un the witness stand but
committee members snd counsel
for former Atlorney General
Daugherty took up much of the
Urn*- with a. series of quarrels so
bitter that the spectators tried to
join In, an# were quieted by capitol
police.
Todd himself accused by f'linlr
man Brookhart of being "unfit for
his Job,” fired sharply back across
tho commutes table at the Jibes of
his questioners, declaring the com
mittee had shown "indignity" to
ward the courts and reminding
Senator Wheeler, tile committee
prosecutor, that he htinself Is under
Indictment in Montana. . The wit
ness said Means' story of tho dis
appearance of his famous diaries
was a "fairy tale", which could be
disproved easily by the testimony
of two department of Justice agents
who guarded the Means' residence.
The only purpose of the wsteh
sst over Means by ths department
Todd Insisted, was to observe his
health, ond see whether he was
well enough to come to New York
for trial.
After the committee adjourned
Kenator Brookhart, i’aul Howland,
of ths Daugherty counsel, and
Means renewed verbal hostilities in
an adjoining hall.
MODIFICATION OF
BONUS BILL
IS SOUGHT'
Senator Walsh Would Sub
stitute Cash Payments For
Insurance. Says Govern
ment Could Save Billion
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Th« first
move to modify the four-day-old
bonus law was made Friday when
Senator Walsh, democrat, Massa
chusetts, proposed an amendment
substituting cash payments for
Insurance on the same per diem
basis now contained in the bill.
He estimated the government
would save one billion dollars If
the change was approved.
Such a proposal was advanced
by senate democrats during con
sideration of the bonus biTl, but
was defeated on the floor of the
senate. At that time minority
leaders withdrew support from the
proposition on the ground that It
endangered enactment of any
bonus legislation.
Notice was served, however,
that a move would be made later
to substitute the cash amend
ment. There was little infla
tion from democratic leaders *>l
- that the Walsh amendment
would be pushed to a vote.
TENNESSEE OEMS
Instruct Delegates to Sup
port McAdoo
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—ln one of I
the stormiest sesalona ever seen in
a political gathering here the de
mocratic state convention late
Thursday by a vote of 1300 to
74314 Instructed the Tennessee de
logtalon to the national convention
to support Wm. G. McAdoo with
the state’s 24 votes ns long as his
name Is before ths convention.
Supporters of nn unlnstructed
delegation were far In the lead
when Shelby county threw Itk 160
votes for McAdoo and turned the
tide. The. stormy part of the ses
sion broke loose when C. K. Hol-
JSdy of Cookvllle, leader of the
McAdoo forces made ft motion that
the delegation bo Instructed for
McAdoo. Underwood forces ob
jected but tho resolution was read,
and the McAdoo faction began a
demonstration that lasted at inter
vals until the end of the conven
tion. When Mat Btcwart, of
Chattanooga, arose to speak the
disorder reached auch a point that
police reserves appeared on the
platform. After a demonstration
of about twenty minutes, the
bedlam subsided slid the roll call
was taken.
The platform adopted by the
convention endorsed the adminis
tration of Governor Austin Peay,
pledged support to the democratic
nominee to be chosen at. the New
York convention and urged the ac
ceptance of Henry Ford's bid for
Muscle Shoals.
COOLIDGE BETTER
Returns to His Office Friday
Morning
WASHINGTON—Hts cold having
slightly Improved overnight. Presi
dent Coolldge returned to his of
fice Friday, facing a long series of
engagements. Including the Friday
meeting of the cabinet.
The cold appeared Thursday to
have grown worse, and ns n result
he spent most of the time In his
room.
Friday morning he look one of his
early morning walks and was at his
desk In tho executive offices before
Secretaries Hlemp and Clark or
any of the A’hlte ’!oum staff hal
reported Tm th« dav.
FOUR TEE OFF
In Play For Southern Wo
men’s Golf Honors
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—Fight
ing for a <-hanc« at the title of
champion woman golfer of ths
south, the four remaining players
In the championship flight of th*
thirteenth annual tournament of
tho Houthern Woman's Golf Asso
ciation, teed off Friday morning
shortly after 9 o'clock with large
galleries following each m -tch.
Miss Priscilla Rogers, of Galves
ton. Texas, who Thursday won
from Mrs. J. M. Taylor of New Or
leans, seven up and elx to play, hsd
•or her opponent Mrs. Hosier
I/iwndes, of Atlanta, former south
ern champion who Thursday elimi
nated from the running the defend
ing champion, Mrs. Dnvid Gaut, of
Memphis, two up snd one to play.
Mr*. Lowndes, In yesterday's match
laid Mrs. Gaut four stymies In ths
eighteen holes each of them caused
a hole to be halved
Miss Rosalie Mayer, chsmplost
woman golfer, of Birmingham. Mias
Moyer defeated Miss Regina Hahn,
of Chattanooga, Thursday ceven Un
end five to go, Mrs. Orelsmer nosed
out Mrs. C. L. Bradley, of Atlanta
one up at the eighteenth.
FARMERS BUSY COMBATTING
BOLL WEEVIL
GREENS TORO. Ga.—More than
76 per cent of the farmer* of Greens
county are using calcium arsenate
and other poisons this year In their
effort* to defeat th# boll weevil,
according to County Agent Wade
11. West. A carload of calcium ar
senate purrhnaed on tbe co-opera
tlv plean was unloaded here Thurs
day, and all Indications point to a
successful year with cotton.
18 CENTS A WEEK.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE. WEATHER
To Hang Friday
Afternoon; Last
Appeal Denied
ATLANTA, Ga.—Governor Walker has denied James
B. Satterfield’s last appeal for clemency, and the con
demned man will pay the extreme penalty for the mur
der of his brother-in-law, R. H. Hart, Friday afternoon,
according to officials at the Fulton county jail.
With the condemned man during his last hours are his
sister, clergymen, newspapermen and jail off jcials main
taining the death watch. He is said to maintain the stoical
attitude that has characterized his throughout the long
fight for life.
The Day In
Washington
Senate and house mpet.
President and cabinet meet.
Senate Daugherty committee
meets.
National conference on outdoor
recreation continues.
American Institute of architects
continues its convention.
Senato agriculture committee
• continues the Muscle Shoals hear-
I nig.
Senate elections committee bear
ing the Mayfield contest Is called.
House committee Investigating
the shipping board continues its
Inquiry.
House rivers and harbors com
mittee goes forward with the Chi
cago drainage canal bearing.
Senate foreign relations com
mittee proceeds with consideration
of world court proposals.
House Irrigation committee re
sumes consideration of tho report
of Secretary Work’s fact finding
commission.
Mouse commerce committee con
tinues Its hearing on proposals af
fecting tho rats section of flic
transportation act.
TAMMANY AFFAIRS
To Be Handled By Commit
tee Until July 15
NEW YORK. -A committee of
seven appointed after the death of
Charles F. Murphy to administer
the affairs of Tammany Hall, will
remain In power, it is announced,
until July 16, when tho democratic
national convention will bo over.
In some quarters the belief is ex
pressed that Governor Hmltli will
be chosen to head Tammany should
delegates to the convention blast
his presidential hope*. Prominent
members of Tammany Bay that Is
not so, however. The committee of
seven is headed by Frank J. Good
win, who will be the nominal head
of ths wigwam until Juno 15. Three
women are members of the com
mittee. Decision to keep power In
tha committee of seven Is said to
have been reached by the execu
tive committee yesterday at the
Instigation of former Sheriff Thom
as F. Foley, a frlpnd of Governor
Smith.
JOINT DEBATE
Among Candidates For
Sheriff at Leesburg
LEiSMBURG. Ga.—An impromptu
Joint debate among three candi
dates for sheriff of Leo county,
marked by considerable bitterness
and replete with chargee and coun
ter charges, caused a sensation In
political circle* here Thursday
night.
J. F. Hines, a candidate for
sheriff In the primary to he held
next Tuesday, had advertised that
he would mak* a speech on law en
forcement und a large audience
greeted him. When he made
statements In rsgard to th# other
two candidates, Hherlff P. C. Max
well, and a. H. Lsramnre, they
were on hand and answered them.
Various charges were made hy
each speaker. Hines charged sher
iff Coxwtil when non enforcement
of the prohibition law, and Lara
more with various alleged acts of
law violation. Both got up and
denied tha charges, and made
counter charges against Hines.
The Joint debate created consid
erable excitement among the audi
ence. It wss th# first Joint debate
In local political circles to b# pulled
off In Lee county In many years.
It wss announced Friday that
th* debet# would be repented at
Hmlthvllle tonight, when all three
candidate* are expected to be
primed for a. hitter eonteet of
words.
FRANKLIN GRIFFITH
Elected Heats of Electric
Light Association
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Franklin
T. Griffith, president of the Portland
fCttctrle power Company. Portland,
Oregon, Friday, waa unanimously
©lected praaldant of tha National
Klactlic Light Aaioclatlon In conven
tion hera.
Pram on 8. Arkwright. Atlanta, waa
named fourth vice-president*
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Augusta and vicinity: Fair tonight!
Saturday unsettled.
LAST DESPERATE
EFFORT IS MADE.
ATLANTA, Ha.—A last desperate
effort to stay 111 • hanging of J. B.
Satterfield here at 41 o’clock Friday
afternoon tor the murder of his broth
er-in-law, It. If. Hart, was being
inado Friday morning by counsel for
tho condemned man. Satterfield’s at
torney made a midnight trip to Coch
ran. Ga., Thursday night to appeal
to Governor Walker for the appoint
ment of a lunacy commission to de
termine .Satterfield’s sanity.
Arriving in Cochran early Friday,
the attorney boarded the train on
which the goverhor wss returning to
Atlanta and on the. Journey back to
the capital presented his case, making
a final effort to save the condemned
man from the extreme penalty of th©
law.
Tho appointment, of a lunacy com
mission would carry with it a respite
until the commission could report Its
finding*.
Tld* latest effort to savo flatter
fleld from hanging was virtually the
last hope of hl» counsel and cam©
after the state supreme court Thurs
day had denied application for a writ
of mandamus to compel Judge John
D. Humphries of Fulton superior
court, to certify a bill of exception on
an extraordinary motion for a new
trial presented Wednesday. Prior to
that decision the high court had af
firmed the verdict, of the trial court
and Governor Walker had declined to
grant executive clemency, following
the r*nisyl of the state prison bourcl
to recommend commutation of the
death sentence.
The train on which Governor Wal
ker and Counsel for Batterfield era
passenger* la due to arrive In At
lanta at 3 o’clock and If th© gover
nor should decide to grant th© re-
I quest for th© appointment of a lu-
ViaCv coiurnlMHiori there would he an
hour’s margin In which th© sheriff
could be notified. It was to give the
governor an opportunity to intervene,
II was said that t-lie sheriff fixed the
time of execution for 2 o'clock.
WAS CHEERFUL
FRIDAY MORNING.
Maiutalnlng tin composutr that has
charactsrUed ’ hfs' acttona' ever sine©
his arrest and imprisonment in Ful
ton county Jail, Satterfield Friday
morning was the most cheerful of the
little grout* that visited hia cell In
the condemned tier. According to
the special guard outside the cell, the
condemned man slept soundly
throughout, the night, and waa awak
ened at 7 o'clock by’ th© arrival of
th© Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, pastor of
th© Third Baptist church, who pray
ed with Satterfield ft was at. this
Juncture that Hatterffeld displayed
©motion, weeping a little aa they
prayed.
lie Is reported as saying to the min
ister:
“I can't forgive the Ilea that some
of th»» witnesses told against me at
my trial."
A ulster of th© doomed man
brought his breakfast, and they ate
alone, the sister on th© verge of col
lapse. Batterfield himself seemed
deeply moved.
Late Thursday the slayer expressed
a desire to talk with the widow of the
man ho killed, but Mrs. Hart sent
word that ©h© could not comply.
All was In readiness at th© Jail
For many days th© hangman rope
has stretched and the mechanism of
the trap thoroughly oiled and In
spected. Tbe hanging will be wit
nessed only by the necessary legal
witnesses, and newspapermen.
AMERICAN NAVY j
Is Given Second Place In
Fighting Strength
WASHINGTON—The America*
navy is given second place fit
fighting strength a* compared with
those of Great Britain and Japan
In an analyal* *ubmlt»ed to the
house naval committee by Secre
tary Wilbur.
Instead of th* 8-5-3 ratio fixed by
Wtiehlngion arme conference, he
said, the present ratio , not eon
alilerlng "strategically located and
well-eqquipped naval bases," Is 8-
4-3 with the sea force* of Great
Britain, United States and Japan
making In the order named.
The report made In response to a
resolution of Inquiry by Repreasn
utl vs Britten of Illlnol*. ranking re
publican of the commttte*. lets
forth a number of recommendation*
for congressional action looking to
th* strengthening of the navy
through modernization and new
construction.
CERTIFY McAULIFFE
Aa Eligible For Auguita
Postmasterehip
O- -—4 l
WASHINGTON,— Th# civil
service commission Friday
certified the name of John
C. McAuliff* as eligible for
appointment, as postmaster
at Augusta, Ga.