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VOLUME XXXI, No. 145
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WOMAN IS SOUGHT IN CHICAGO MURDER MYSTERY
Four Men Held
For Questioning
As To Slaying
CHICAGO.—A police guard was hurriedly
thrown about the home of Jacob Franks, father of
the slain 13-year old victim of kidnappers, Robert
Franks, Saturday after new threats of violence had
been reported to State’s Attorney Robert M. Crowe
by members of the family.
CHICAGO. A woman
was sought Saturday for the
first time in connection with
the kidnapping and death
of Robert Franks, 13-year
old son of a millionaire man
ufacturer. This and an au
tomobile license number
was all that the police al
lowed to become known of
their plans to solve the mys
tery.
At the same time four
men, one an instructor and
another a former instructor
at the private school which
the boy attended, were de
tained for further question
ing.
The authorities were apparently
in agreement with the belief of the
coroner's' chemist that death had
been caused by suffocation.
The instructors are Fred Alt
wood, who formerly was a science
teacher at the private school, and
Walter Wilson, instructor in math
ematics, in the school.
The two others are Fred Cre
tors and his son, Joseph, friends
of Kenneth Booth, until recently
a roommate of one of the instruc
tors.
One of the men held, the police
explained, lives two blocks from
the drug store where Thursday af
ternoon two telephone calls were
received from a man asking if Ja
cobs Franks, the father, was there.
The father had been instructed
by telephone to take the ransom
of SIO,OOO to the store.
CHlCAGO—Science Saturday had
satisfied the authorities that Rob
ert Franks, 13-year old son of a
millionaire, was killed by suffoca
tion when kidnapped for ransom,
and science too had pointed the
way to identication of the owner
ship of the peculiar spectacles
found near the swamp where the
body was found in a culvert. The
spectacles are such o« are ordi
narily worn by a woman.
BOY WAS VICTIM
OF SUFFOCATION
Coroner Oscar Wolff announced
that the boy was a victim of suf
focation after his chemists had
found no external cause of death,
no metallic poisons in the vital
organs, and concluded that a hand
or cloth pressed over the lad’s
mouth, brought death.
The spectacles, narrow from tem
(Continued on Page Two)
T okio Welcomes
Airmen of V . S.
U. S. AVIATORS
TOLD TO LEAVE
RUSSIAN WATERS
TOKlO—Russian authorities on
Bering Island, where the American
aviators rode out a snowstorm on I
the night of May 16, while on their
way from Attu. in the Aleutians, to
Raramashiru, in the Kuriles, ob
jected to the Americans taking ref
uac in Russian territory, Lieuten
nm Lowell H. Smith, acting com
mander of the flight, told The As
sociated Press Saturday.
The planes had come down and
were riding the choppy seas off
Komandorski. Smith said, when
Russian authorities put out in a
boat and approached the flagplane.
The aviators were notified that
they would not be permitted asboie
and must leave Russian territorial
waters immediately. Smith said.
“They were decent enough but
made it plain that we were there
without a welcome because the Uni
ted States and soviet Russia have
no treaty relations," said the lieu
tenant. .
"I told them we were not there
because we wanted to be and that
we'd be damned glad to leave their
countrv as soon as possible."
/The aviators rode out the storm
for six hours in the darkness and
then hopped off at 8 o'clock on the
morning of May 17 for Paramashl
tnt>
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 24, 1924
17 CONDEMNED TO
DEATH BY SUPREME
COURT IN RUSSIA
LENINGRAD. The supreme
court Saturday after 27 hours of
deliberation condemned to death 27
former judges, court officials, law
yers and persons connected with
the operation of the new economic
policy on which they had been tried
on charges of corruption and brib
ery.
Forty-eight persons had been on
trial for twelve days. Of the re
maining 31, seven were sentenced
to ten years imprisonment, two to
five years imprisonment* eight to
three years imprisonment while a
number of the others were ordered
deported to Siberia. Three more
were acquitted.
SALUDAICHOOL
Commencement Exercises to
Begin Sunday
SALUDA, S. C.—Rev. B. F. Allan,
of Johnston, S. C., will preach the
baccalaureate sermon to the grad
uating class of the Saluda High
School Sunday morning at 11
o'clock at the Red Bank Baptist
church. This will mark the be
ginning of commencement exer
cises of the school for this year,
which will come to a close with the
graduating exercises to be held
Wednesday evening. The school
year just closing has been a most
gratifying and successful one.
Together with the baccalaureate
sermon Sunday morning the fol
lowing is the program for the com
mencement:
On Tuesday evening the senior
class play "Aaron Boggs, Fresh
man” will take place at the school
auditorium. On Wednesday even
ing Dr. J. P. Kinard, of Newberry
College, will deliver the graduating
address to the seniors, after which
the class exercises will be present
ed in "part as follows: Valedictory,
Miss Margaret Chadwick; saluta
tory, Miss Nita Pitts; history',
Thomas Smith; will, Lamar Long;
prophecy, Miss Alene Trout; poet,
Miss Ruth Odom.
In addition to the above the fol
lowing will receive state high
school diplomas: Misses Kathleen
Lindler, Helen Webb, Gertrude Mc-
Cattv, Helen Mitchell, Leila Mae
White, Annie Lee Sample and
Cooper White, Ansel Carson and
Ira Paul Merchant.
TOKIO —Tokio took the Ameri
can fliers to its heart Saturday.
A welcome unsurpassed in cordiali
ty and enthusiasm was accorded
the three aviators who are circum
navigating the globe by plane, and
the mechanicians.
A crowd of thousands shouted
“banzais" and surged about the
platform at the railroad station
where the Americans arrived from
Assumiguara, where Japanese navy
mechanics are remodeling the
round-the-world planes and pre
paring them for the Jumps on south
and west to Kushimoto, Kagoshima
and across to Shanghai in China.
Lieutenant General Galshi Nagoa
ka, presided* of the imperial avia
tion association, greeted the fliers,
addressing them as "heroes of the
air."
General Nagoaka’s small grand
daughter then presented Lieuten
ant Lowell H. Hmtth, commander
of the flight, with a bouquet and
made him a brief and pretty speech
in English, welcoming him to To
kio in a tiny, shrill, childish voice.
The Americans showed they were
greatly affected by the warmth of
the greeting accorded them.
From the station the little group
of guests went to the American em
bassy to make an official call on
Ambassador Cyrus N. Woods and
present their respects. Then the
Americans made calls on the min
isters of war and navy, after which
they were guests at the first func
tion in their honor here, a luncheon
by Minister of War Ugakl, at
which both General Ugakl and Am
kissJ'g- Woo's were speakers.
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
Most of City’s Tax Money Now Going For Debts,
and Purchase of Boat Wilt Only Add to Burden
This Is Tenor & Letter from
Dr. George T. Horne—H.
S. Cook, Retail Merchant,
Says Saving In Freight
Rates Would Not Be Passed
on to Consumer—Another
Writer Says No Certainty
Railroads Could Not Lower
Rates
Augusta, Ga.
May 24, 1924.
To The Heral<J:
Permit me to yell
for your timely and pertinent
editorials with reference to the
city assuming' an Indebted
ness of $135,000,f0r a boat lino
on the Savanna! river.
If the city Is financially able
to invest $135,M0 as an initial
cost in this bolt lino project,
why should not the administra
tion use some of this same
money to pay oft its indebted
ness.
Where is the money coming
from to repair the river wharf,
which is in bad condition and
will need several thousand
dollars in improvements before
it can be used for big cargoes.
For the city administration
to invest this amount in a boat
would be an injustice of 4he
grossest sort infposed on the
taxpayers of Augusta. ,
I referred above to the retir
ing of some of our debts for
the reason that 10 of the IS
mills of taxes now imposed by
the city is going for debts —in-
terest and sinking fund.
GEO. M. HORNE, M. D,
WHO KNOWS WHAT THE
GOVERNMENT WILL DO?
Mr. Bowdre Phinizy.
Editor Augusta Herald,
Dear Sir:
I wish to congratulate you on
the stand you are taking in re
gards to city qouncU establlsh
ing a boat Urn*, on tUkViver.
-ir- the promoters of this
scheme are sincere why not
have them publish whatever
correspondence they might have
had with the government in
Washington, showing to what
extent if any the government
has committed Itself in this
matter.
It has been proven that the
railroads are an asset to our
city, so why antagonize them?
It might re-act against us, it
might eventually mean the
moving of the railroad shops
elsewhere.
The matter of putting boats
on the river should never be
decided upon by city council.
After all the facts are put be
fore the people, showing the
increase in taxes that will he
necessary, etc., then submit it
to a referendum which no
doubt would show an over
whelming majority against the
city going into the boat line
business.
Granting that the boat line
would save something in freight
rates the peole as a whole
would never know the differ
ence, as this saving would not
be passed along to the con
sumer.
Hoping that you will he suc
cessful in the good work you
have started. I am yours very
truly,
H. S. COOK.
DR. VIDETTO DECLARES
IT JUST WILL NOT PAY
To The Herald: Kindly allow me
space in your paper endorsing every
word you have said in opposition to
Augusta buying and operating a
boat line.
I have never heard of a city job
given out to anyone, from driver of
scavenger cart to mayor which did
not take “political pull” to get it;
therefore, we small taxpayers who
have no city jobs (and not asking
for any) do not care to be burden
ed with more taxes, and for Au
gusta to run a boat line certainly
means more taxes.
Mayor Smith, as a wholesale gro
cer. can make by reduction in
freights, but he knows as well as
any man in Augusta, that with his
money and management his boat
line failed to make good.
I have facts and flgures«rid l am
willing to show them, when Cap
tain J. T. Wade and I lost our mon
ey in the steamboat business, and
I charged Captain Wade full price
for every package, which amounted
to one to two hundred dollars a
month increase for us. “It Just can’t
be did.”
Let those who endorse It, put up
the “dough,” hire their own men
and make all they can, which will
be less than nothing, and they
will lose all they put Into It. My
records will show every package,
together with cotton, guano, etc.,
and with all we took in, we lost
money, and since that time a rail
road has come up from Savannah
between the Central railroad and
Savannah river.
I think the small tax payer should
have a vote before we allow our
money to be spent in a losing prop
osition. I thank you.
Lit. R. J. VIDETTO.
WORTH >135.000 IF SURE ,
U. 8. WILL BUILD 7-FOOT
CHANNEL
To The Herald: If we could put
a boat line on the river, even with
city aid; get a #deeper channel
thereby: and If then the railroad*
could not reduce their rates, but
would be compelled to keep them
at the new high levels soon to go
(Continued on Page Two)
Wholesale Grocers Get 0 v T er 84%
of Benefits of a Boat Line
MILLS, HARDWARE AND PLUMBING INTERESTS GET
9 PER CENT, LEAVING A LITTLE OVER 6 PER
CENT FOR REST OF CITIZENS OF AUGUSTA
Is it right for the City Council of Augusta to increase
the taxes of the small taxpayers, mostly home owners,
and there are thousands of them in Augusta, in order to
raise the money to buy a $135,000 boat to navigate the
Savannah River? This is the question that The Herald
would like to have every small taxpayer and home owner
in the city of Augusta put to themselves when they think
of a municipally owned boat line on the Savannah River.
We would like if possible to have every small taxpayer
also ask this question of the Councilmen who represent
their Ward in the City Council.
Mayor Smith is quoted as
saying this money can be found
without. increasing taxes.
With all the anticipated reve
nue of the city for the present
year already appropriated,
there Is no way to get this
money save to borrow it, create
a debt of the city, and event
ually next yeai>when the tax
levy is made tofraise the mon
ey to pay this debt by more
taxes. *
And here is another point
for the small taxpayer and
home owner of Augusta to con
sider in case Augusta appro
priates $135,000 for the pur
chase of a boat. It is in the
significant statement of Mr. F.
F. M. Grady, manager of the
Traffic Bureau. He is quoted
as saying the government
would rather have the city of
Augusta spend SIOO,OO than for
the individual citizens to spend
a million. Why are the tax
monies of the city of Augusta
worth 10 times What the pri
vate citizens money is worth?
To our mind the only possible
reason for such a statement
lies in the fact that the city’s
SIOO,OOO is but the beginning of
a precedent, and that year after
year, Augusta will be called
upon to spend more and more
money to keep up a boat line
that would be rapidly losing
money. This in turn means
higher and higher taxes each
year. If the city of Augusta Is
once saddled with a boat line,
municipally owned, the first
$135,000 will be but a drop in
the bucket, that finally this ex
periment will cost the taxpay
ers of the city.
The effect of distributing the
cost of a boat line on the river
among all the taxpayers of the
city instead of placfng it on
the few interests that will pos
sibly benefit by it is strikingly
brought out by the figures pre
sented at the Board of Com
merce meeting by Mr. Landon
Thomas, Jr., when he declared
that out of the freight actually
hauled by the boat line the
wholesale grocers benefited
over 84 per cent, the mills
slightly over 2 per cent, the
hardware merchants over 5 per
cent and the plumbing interests
nearly 2 per cent. Nearly 94
per cent of the benefits of a
boat line so far as actual
freight hauled is concerned was
distributed as above. That
leaves mighty small pickings so
far as the great body of retail
merchants of the city is con
cerned. And it leaves none at
all so far as the widow and or
phan and laboring man and the
vast army of small taxpayers
and home owners of Augusta is
concerned. It simply means
that all the people’s taxes are
eventually going to be raised,
while a very few of the people
of Augusta are going to get any
possible benefit out of these
extra boat line taxes.
FOUR GUNMEN
Attempt to Take Life of
Klan Dry Raider
BELLEVILLE, ll.—Police of many
southern Illinois cities are search
ing Saturday for four unidenti
fied gunmen who late yesterday
attempted to take tho life of H.
Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan dry
leader, while Young astd his wife
were driving on the Atlantlc-Pa
ciftc Highway at the Okaw river
bottoms west of Okawviile, by fir
ing a volley of shots at them from
a sedan.
Doth Young and his wife were
wounded, but escaped death by
dropping to the floor of their car
as tho gunmen's car sped by them
while three of the men fired from
.45 calibre automatic and a shot
gun, Mrs. Young received a charge
of shot In the right side of her
face, while Young was wounded
In the right leg. The wounds are
not considered serious.
Young's machine was pierced by
fifteen bullets.
THE WEEK’S WEATHER
WASHINGTON.—Weather out-*
look for the week beginning Mon
day:
South Atlantic and east gulf
states: Considerable cloudiness
and occasional showers with nor
mal temperature.
Bulletins
SPRINGFIELD, MASS—THE
peace resolution of a special
committee published Friday
waa unanimously adopted by
the Methodist Episcopal gen
eral conference here Saturday.
An amendment was adopted
which demanded that conscrip
tion of wealth and labor ba a
counterpart of any future con
scription of human life in war.
POPLAR BLUFF, MO.—Sev
an persons are reported injured
at Gray Ridge, Mo., and one at
Caruthersville, Mo., in a aavere
windstorm Friday night. One
block was reported destroyed
at Caruthersville. Communica
tion lines are cut.
LONDON—Chancellor Marx
of Germany, Foreign Minister
Streaemann and Minister of
"LaHor Brauns conferred Sat
urday In Berlin and decided it
would not bo necessary for the
cabinet to resign, according to
a news agency dispatch from
the German capital.
PITTSBURG, PA—The Pitts
urg-Brooklyn game postponod;
rain.
- WRENS SCHOOL
Commencement Exercises
Are Now In Progress
WRENS, Ga. —Tim commence
ment exercises of Wrens High
School began Friday evening wiih
an entertainment by the grununur
grades. The auditorium was
crowded to capacity and was high
ly pleased with all the numbers
which showed careful drilling.
On Sabbath morning Rev. J. M.
Glenn, D.D., will preach the ser
mon and on Tuesday, B. 14. fierce
of Augusta will deliver the annual
address.
The graduating cvercises will
precede the annual address. The
following compose the eleventh
grade:
Abram Pennington, Hearing;
Gladys Gay, Matthews; Annie Leo
Oliphant, Htellavllle; Jack Thigpen,
Davisboro; Agnes Thigpen, JJavis
boro; K. P. Walden. Grange; Laura
Ivey, Avcra; George Ivey, Avera;
Ralph Wiggins, Avera; Carrie Mae
Coleeman. Mitchell: Mary Wilcher,
Gibson; Beatrice Wlgins, Warren
ton; Clara McGee, Hearing;
Thelma Poole, Mathews and the
following from Wrens: George
Harris, Jimmie Florence, Maurice
Loguc, Elise Miller, Bara Wren,
John Hlvlngstone, Ampins Howard,
Earl Howard, Chester Avera, Made
Lee Howard, Marie Anderson. Vi
vian Williams, Linton
Thomas Hickson. Viola Dowling;
Dixon Oliphant, Elizabeth Barrow
and Ernest Wren. The class num
bering thirty two is one of the
largest in the history of the school.
Abram Pennington is the first
honor pupil and Thelma Poole
won the 'second place on the roll
of honor. *
Florence Chance and Annie Had
den completed the prescribed
course in the twelfth grade.
THREE ESCAPE
From Chaingang In Tift
County
TIFTON, OA.—Three negroes,
one serving a sentence for murder,
escaped from the Tift county
chaingang here Friday night. Sam
Westbrooks was tho first to escape
and while the warden was getting
doge to trail him, Klvln Bevard and
Robert James escaped also. Re
wards of fifty dollars each have
been offfered for the capture of the
three fugitives.
NEW PARLIAMENT
In Italy Is Opened With King
Attending
ROME—The new Italian parlia
ment wss opened Saturday In state,
King Victor Emanuel attending
with other members of the royal
family and delivering the speech
from the throne.
The king In his speech recalled
• that It was the ninth anniversary of
Italy's entry Into the war.
lie said tho annexation of Flume
was a resolute stroke of foreign
policy, calculated to assure for Italy
the place to which she was entitled
among nations.
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In those pictures interesting con
trast is shown in photographs sent
by radio and by phone. Above is a
picture of Herbert Hoover, secre
tary of commerce, transmitted and
received by rndio by means of the
invention of <?. Francis Jenkins,
Washington, I). C. t who has been
meeting with increased success in
sending photos in the air. Below
is a picture of President Coolidge
transmitted by phone through the
American Telegraph nnd Telephone
company. Home hold that radio
transmission is less practical, duo
to ether disturbances.
MIKELL ACQUITTED
At Savannah of Killing Pat
rick Calhoun
SAVANNAH, GA.—A. D.. Mlkell,
Savannah policeman, acquitted ear
ly Saturday morning of the murder
of Patrick Calhoun, an alleged liq
uor runner, appeared at police
barrack« Saturday morning and 1h
preparing to resume hi« place on
the police force. He will probably
return to work Monday. Mlkell haw
been under auapenHlon alnco the
shooting of Calhoun and hl« ar
rest. It 1h expected bin acquittal will
reault In the payment of his Malary
during the time he hna been in Jail:
He declined to (llkcuhh bin ca«e Sat
urday.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Senate by &6 to 5 adopt* majority
report of Wheeler Investigating com
mittee exonerating Montana wenator
of charge of illegally accepting fee
to prosecute oil claims.
Elbert H. Clary, at dinner of Am
eriean Iron and Steel Institute at New
York, tells how project to nationalize
steel and Iron industry during war
was blocked by Industrialists.
Conference report on tax bill Is sub
mitted to senate for consideration to
day; meanwhile President, weighs ad
vantages of new revenue hill with
present law.
M. Harriot, Paris dispatch says, will
form cabinet If ho Is asked to do so,
only on condition program of radical
bloc is to he carried out.
Marlon Hollins, former national
champion, wins for third time wom
en’s Metropolitan golf championship.
ft. Glenn Young, who figured as Ku
Klux Klan dry raider In Williamson
and Marlon bounty, Illinois, and his
wife rue fired on and wounded n'ar
OkawvllJe, ills., by a band of auto
mobile gunmen.
Chicago police question many re
garding death of Itobert Franks, 13-
year-old son of wealthy watch manu
facturer Including three Instructors at
boy’s school but. no arrests are insde.
Temporary Injunction Is granted at
New York restraining Managers’ Pro
tective Association and Actors* Equity
Association from entering Into con
tract. on ground such action consti
tutes restraint of trade.
Election of Rev. Wallace Rrown, of !
KyrH'tjar. by Methodist general con
ference at Springfield, fills last va
cancy on board of bishops.
President Goolldge, his cold Im
proved. resumes his executive duties
and attends opening of new congres
sional country club near Washington.
18 CENTS A WEEK.
Senate Foreign
Relations Body
Approves Plan
WASHINGTON. —Adhesion of the United States to
the permanent court of international justice was endorsed
in a resolution reported Saturday by the senate foreign
relations committee.
The resolution adopted by the committee follows
closely the composite proposal put forward by Senator
Pepper, republican, Pennsylvania.
The committee action brings the world court techni
cally before the senate for the first time but there is little
hope in any quarter of a vote during the present session.
J 1 SATTERFIELD
DIES STOICALLY
OKI GALLOWS AT
ATLANTA POISON
ATLANTA, GA.—As stoically as
ha had borne the more than
a year of imprisonment, J, B.
Satterfield went to his death on the
gallows Friday afternoon, convinc
ed until the very nooae was ad
justed about his ntek that provi
rencs would intervene to save him
from the extrema penalty for ths
murder of his brother-in-law, R. H.
Hart.
His only show of emotion was
whtn ha broke down and wept a
few minutes before he plunged to
eternity through the steel trap as
he spoke of his daughter, Eliza
beth, who committed suicide not
long ago in despondency over her
father's impending death.
Standing in the very shadow of
death, hs took opportunity just be
fore the death cap was adjusted
bitterly to arraign capital punish
ment, declaring:
"After you hang this man, if I gat
up high enough and have the pow
er, I am going to ask God to destroy
every gallows in this land. When
the law criticises mob rule, the mob
turns it right back on the law and
says, I am just as fair as you."
Calmly then, ha said:
"Here I am, gentlemen. Let me
die.’’
The trap was sprung at 3:19 p.
m., and eleven minutes later hs was
pronounced dead.
KILLED HART IN
DECEMBER, 1921.
Hatlorflold shot nnd killed Hart
hero in December, 1921. In his trial
nnd throughout the long court but
tle lie waged lo escape the gallows,
be sought to prove Justification for
the slaying by Ills assertion Mint
Hart, to whom had been delegated
the guardianship of Ids two daugh
ters and the administration of their
estate hy (he late Mrs. Batterfleld,
atid led the girls Into a life of
shame and dissipated their prop
erty.
The Inst desperate efforts of ids
attorneys to save him ended Friday
afternoon shortly before the death
warrant was read when Governor
Clifford Walker declined for the
second time to Intervene in the
case nnd grunt Satterfield's appli
cation for a lunacy commission to
examine him ns to his sanity at
the time of the killing.
Ho acccptcl the news with resig
nation, although lie expressed a
conviction until the Inst that
“something would happen.”
Hhortly after noon, he received a
mesange from the widow of Hart,
asserting that she forgave him. He
smiled cynically and observed:
“No she hasn’t. If she had, she
Continued on Page Two
Jefferson Davis Memorial
Is Practically Completed
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kunbar
Rowland, of Jackson, Miss., direc
tor of the department of archives
and history of the Mississippi state
library and author of "Jefferson
Davis, Constitutionalist" will re
present bis state at the dedication
of tho Jefferson Davis monument
at Fair View, Ky., on June 7, Gen
eral W. B. Haideman, comman
der-in-chief of the United States
Confederate Veterans, has an
nounced.
Governor W. J. Field and Colonel
Robert J. M' liryde, will make the
principal addresses In behalf of
Kentucky at the exercises while
Governor Austin Peuy has been In
vited to speak for Tennessee. The
residents of Christian and Todd
counties, In which the monument
arid IS aero park are located, will
provide the entertainment for hun
dreds of Confederate Veterans,
Daughters of the Confederacy, wo
men of the Confederate Memorial
Association and sons of veterans
who are expected to attend. Major
Jefferson Hayes-Darls of Colorado
Hr*logs, g'lrvnd son es the Confede
HOME
EDITION
WOULD GIVE U S. 7
AN EQUAL VOICE.
The plan approved by ths com
mittee recommends adhesion to ths
court on condition that ths court
statute and protocol are so amend
ed that the United States shall
have the same voting representa
tion as any other power; that the
"original jurisdiction" of the tribu
nal shall be restricted, and that
judges shall be elocted under a
council and assembly composed of
signatory powers instead of similar
auxiliaries of the league of na
tions.
Only one change from the text of
the Pepper plan as introduced
Thursday was mads in ths com
mittee. It would have the effect of
admitting to the benefits of the
court any nation which has diplo
matic relations with any eignatory,
instead of restricting them to sig
natories. Before taking up the
plan eventually reported, the com
mitte voted down, 10 to 8, the pro
posal by Senator Swanson, demo
crat, Virginia, which compromised
substantially the proposal trans
mitted to congress by Presidents
Harding and Coolidge.
Ths vote on ths Pepper plan was
10 to 6, all ths republican members
except Senator Johnson, California,
being recorded in favor and the
democrats present in opposition.
The proposal of Chairman Lodgt,
which would hava aet up an an
tirely new — court, waa withdrawn by
ita author before the. committee
had an opportunity to vote upon
it.
THE VOTE ON
PEPPER PLAN.
Tha vote on the Pepper plan fol
lows:
For adoption: Lodge, Borah,
Brandegee, Mosee, McCormack,
Wadsworth, Lenroot, Willie and
Pepper, republicans, and Ships
stead, farmer-labor.
..Against: Johnson, of California,
republican; Swanson, Pittman,
Robinson, Underwood and Walsh,
of Montana, democrats.
On the Swanson plan ths com
mittee divided as follows:
For adoption:. Lenroot, repub
lican; Swanson, Pittman, Shields.
Robinson, Underwood, Walsh, of
Montana, and Owen, democrats.
Against: Lodge, Borah, Brande
gee, Johnson, of California) Motes,
McCormick,. Wadsworth,. Willie,
Pepper, republicans) Shipatead,
farmer-labor.
The Day In
Washington
Seriate and house meet.
Simile agriculture committee ron
tlnues tho Muscle Shoals' hearing.
National conference on outdoor rec
reation hold* concluding session*.
House river* and harbor* committee
continues the Chicago drainage ca
nal hearing.
Senate foreign relation* rommittae
proceed* with its work on the world
court proposals.
House commerce committee con
tinues the hearing on proposed
change* In the rate lection of tha
transportation act.
rale chieftain; General MacDonald
Lee of Richmond, Va., commander
in-chlef of the sons of veterans:
Mrs. Frank Harrold, of Amsricus,
Ga., president-general of the Unit
ed Daughter* of the Confederacy;
Mr*. McD Wliaon. president of the
Women* Confederate Memorial
Association; Mrs. Jackie Daniel
Thrash Morrison of Turboro, N. C..
who «» representative for the
Daughters of the Confederacy, ob
tained tho largest contribution of
any state division for the monu
ment, and Mrs. J. P. Higgins, Bt.
Louis, treasurer-general of ths
United Daughters of the Con
federacy, are among those who will
take part in the ceremonies.
The monument, 351 feet high,
will be completed early next week.
It coat approximately $200,000 all
but (lie (Inal $15,000 of which w«*
raised by subscription. The re
mainder was appropriated by th*
Kentucky legislature this year.
It is the tallest concrete monu
ment In the country, and, next to
the Washington monumen th#
highest of any typs.