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FRANCE IN ROLE OF MEDIATOR AT GENEVA
Bobby Jones Wins National Amateur Golf Title
Defeats
Von Elm
9 and 8
ARDMORE, Pa.—Robert Tyre
Jones, Jr., of Atlanta, came to
man's estate Saturday, acquired
tlfs honor he sought in vain for
eight years of his youth—the na
tional amateur golf championship.
In the final 36-hole round of the
annual tournqfnent he defeated
George von Elm, of Los Angeles, by
the unprecedented score of 9 and
8 for the cincluding match of the
week’s competition.
Triumph came at the Merion
Cricket Club, where In 1916, a boy
of 14, who wore short pants even
when not playing golf, first at
tracted attention by his ability at
what some scoffers have often
termed an old man’s game.
A favorite several times hitherto
to win the amateur crown, he was
eliminated by opponents of far less
average ability. The open title
came to him last year only after his
average score per hole over a
period of years had been less than
that of any other competitor.
Now, with family and business
matters to attend to besides golf,
and about to cast his first vote for
president, he joins the cla3 of link
stars who have both the amateur
and open titles.
MACHINE-LIKE
PLAYING WINS
Bobby, as thry still call him ex
cept a few Atlanta friends who
hive taken off the last syllable,
shot his usual machine-like golf
Saturday. His game was a bit in
ferior to the great heights he
reached in his semi-final match
with Francis Ouimet but he was
better than Von Elm in every
branch and was never down after
the second hole.
Von Elm attracted attention all
the week by the lowness of his
medal scores and the decisive mar
gins of most of his victories before
the final round.
Jones won 12 holes of the match
of which seven were in the morn
ing round of 18 holes. Von Elm
took three holes, all in the morning,
going to lunch four down. Jones
this morning shot a 74. or four over
par on the long, heavily bunkered
course. Von Elm took 79. To the
turn in the afternoon Jones had a
37, one over par, while Von Elm
had a 44, becoming erratic as the
inevitable end drew near.
A second shot by Jones into a
trap at the first hole of the day re
sulted in Von Elm winning by a
par 4. At the 523-yard second hole
Jones shot a birdie 4 and soon
thereafter the result of the match
was never in doubt with most of
the gallery. Errors by Jones were
few and inconsequential. Von
Elm’s slips were invariably to his
disadvantage.
Amundsen Sails
For United States
CHRISTIANA. Roald Amund
sen, the Norwegian explorer, sailed
for America Saturday. The news
paper Morgenblatt says that
Amundsen hopes, as far as possible,
to discharge his financial obliga
tions by making a lecture tour. The
explorer expected some profits also
from his projected airplane flight
to the north pole next summer,
preparations for which are being
made.
Captain Amundsen early this
month filed a voluntary petition of
bankruptcy, listing his liabilities at
$50,000.
/
RECLUSE MURDERED
Body of Aged Man Found
Near House
BEDFORD HILLS. N. Y.—Martin
Roughan, 80 year old recluse, was
found murdered near his farm
house Friday night. Hits skull had
been crushed with an axe and a
trunk in the house in which he was
said to Have kept his money, had
been ransacked. The recluse was
reputed to have had property and
money totalling $50,000.
Discovery of the body was made
by a grandson, James Roughan, of
New York Citv. who had come to
go fishing wlith his grandfather
Saturday.
The old man never had any vis
itors except the grandson, neigh
bors told the police. Each week he
had sent carfare for the hoy to
come to Bedford Hills, "Just to
keep him company.”
Brutal Slaying of
Woman in Detroit
DETROIT —Led to a rooming house
late last night by an anonyomous
telephone call, police found the bodv
of Mrs. Martha Calahan, 32. lying on
her bed, bar jaw broken, finger mark*
on her throat and her clothing torn
to ribbon*—all marks of a desperate
fight for life. * T:ie police arrested
Mrs. May Perry. 05.. keeper of the
rooming house, and John D. Meyers, a
roomer. They are being held pend
ing Investigation. . . , .
Mrs. Calahan. whose husband is
i serving a life term for murder, ap
parently was killed in the tonneau of
an automobile found parked in front
of the house and her body dragged
into the house and thrown on the
Police are searching for Mrs. Per
ry's son, Gordon, who Is said to have
been the owner of the machine.
THE AUGUSTA HER AT I)
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
‘SILENCE OF 1924'
IS RIDICULED
Iff DAVIS
WILMINGTON, Del.—Just as
the historian will describe the
year 1920 as that of "the year of
great promises," so* he will come
to dominate 1924 as "the year of
great silence." John W. Davis de
clared in an address to several
thousand persons here Saturday
night.
. "It is a vast, pervading and
mysterious silence,” Mr. Davis
said. “It is broken here and
there by the vocal nominee of the
republican party, warning the
American people in anxious tones
that round every corner and un
der every bedstead there lurks a
bolshevik ready to destroy them.
"Now apd then some person al
most forgotten writes to a candi
date and complains of the terms
in which he has been described.
"And then occasionally some
cabinet officer, standing on the
western shore, will rattle his sabre
like a new toy recently given him.
•The extinguishment Is placed
upon him and silence reigns su
preme once more. It all reminds
me of nothing so much as the
words of Tennyson:
“ 'The dead steered hv the
dumb move onward with the
flood.' ” v,
‘‘WHY THIS SILENCE 7”
NOMINEE ASKS.
"Why this silence?” asked Mr.
Davis, then he proceeded to answer
his own question with a review of
the record of the republican party’s
administration of the federal govern
ment both in the field of domestic
and foreign affairs.
Referring to Senator LaFollette, the
independent presidential candidate by
name for the first time in the cam
paign, Mr. Davis said a “bogeyman”
was being set up by spokesmen for
the republican party. "A bogeyman
clad in a great red cloak with the
word 'bolshevik’ burnt across his
breast.”
“But when the cloak drops," ho
added, "lo and behold, it's none other
than our familiar friend. Senator 'Bob'
LaFollette.
“I hold no brief for Senator La-
Follette," Mr. Davis said, adding that
he had opposed with all his vigor the
LaFollette proposal for a veto power
by legislators over the supreme court
on legislative matters.
As to the contention that LaFol
lette is seeking to "lead the country
to Moscow,” Mr. Davis said he was
rather of the opinion* that he was
seeking to lead it to London, where,
under the British form of government
the parliament is supreme.
COURT RECESSES IN
BIGHAM TRIAL FOR
FUNERAL OF STEELE
Many More Witnesses Re
main and Case May Not Be
Completed Until Wednes
day
CONWAY, S. C—The jury in the
second trial of Edmund D. Bigham
on a charge of murdering his
brother, L. Smiley Bigham, re
mained In the custody of two bail
iffs Saturday while court was in
recess in order to permit witneses
to attend the funeraf services of
George J. Steele at Pamplico.
Mr. Steele died suddenly Thurs
day afternoon, having been stricken
with heart trouble while on the
stand as a witness against Bigham.
Manyof his neighbors and relatives
are witnesses in the cats-, and
Judge Hayne F. Rice decided to
suspend court to give them the op
portunity to go to his funeral to
day.
It was predicted that the trial
would not be completed before
Wednesday. State’s attorneys said
they had from forty to forty-five
witnesses to testify, and only nine
had completed their testimony
when court suspended Friday after
noon at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Ola Cur
tain. the tenth witness called, was
on the stand at that time, and she
will resume her direct testimony
Monday.
SEVERAL MORE
FOR THE DEFENSE
The
several witneses. but the exact
number has not been revealed, Blg
ham’s attorneys saying they would
not decide how many they would
call until after the prosecution has
rested.
Bigham. alleged to have slain his
mother, Mrs. M. M. Bigham, his
sister, Mrs. Marjorie Black, and
the latter's adopted children, Leo
and John McCracken, besides his
brother, remained in the Horry
county jail over the week-end. He
was visited by his wife and two
daughters, Louise and Evelyn,
aged about 16 and 9, respectively.
Mrs. Bigham and the girls have
occupied seats near the defendant
throughout the trial.
By the testimony of the nine wit
nesses who have already been ex
amined, several links in the prose
cution's chain of circumstantial
evidence against the defendant have
been disclosed. Walter McWhlte,
W. W. Purvis, M. C. Brown, and
Magistrate B. .1. Hyman, all resi
dents of the Pamplico community
of Florence county where the
tragedy occurred, January 15, 1921,
testified that Edmund Bigham had
Indicated to thei* the general di
rection in which search should be
made for his brother's body, which
was not found until the day follow
ing the discovery of thebodles of
the four other victims at the old
B.gham home. According* to the
defense theory, as indicated by
cross-examination of states wit
nesses and as revealed at the first
trial, Smiley Bigham killed his
mother, sister, and the two children
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST JHOMES —THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
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Militarism Isn’t dead In Ger
many, by any means. And here’s
proof of It. It shows .sailors on
board the battleship Hanover, lying
Booze Is Going Begging
at $5.00 a Case on Rum
Row, Dry Agents Say
Three Children of
J, J. Hill Accuse
Brother of Fraud
NEW YORK —Three of the nine
surviving children of the late
James J. Hill, northwest "empire
builder" Saturday filed suit against
one of their brothers, Lewis William
Hill, for the return of property,
Which they claimed he obtained
from their late mother, through
“fraud and undue Influence.”
The suit seeks to set aside a deed
to property in Ramsey county, Min
nesota and a conveyance of rail
road bonds with an exchange value
of $600,000. The plaintiffs are
James N. Hill, Mrs. Ruth Hill
Beard and Walter J. Hill. A fourth
plaintiff Is George T. Slade, who
married Charlotte Hill. The suit
was filed In the supreme court but
later was transferred to the United
States district court for trial as the
defendant is now a resident of
Minnesota.
and then took his own life.
SAYS BLOODSTAINS
CUT FROM BUSHES
Brown tetslfled, also, to observ
ing bloodstains on some sweetgum
bushes and on a sapling several
feet distant from the spot where
the brother’s body was found with
a bullet hole through his right
temple, and with a pearl-handled
revolver clasping loosely In his
right hand. Dr. W. H. Poston, who
was the first witness called when
the trial opened Thursday, told of
seeing the bloodstains on the
bushes, and added that when he
later visited the scene, the stained
leaves had been cut off, apparently
with a knife.
Charlie Gordon, Walter Miller,
and Archie Davis, negro wood-cut
ters on tho Bighorn place, testified
they had seen the defendant In pos
session of a pearl-handled pistol,
similar to the one found In Smiley
Blgham’s hand. He had the wea
pon, they said, on the Saturday
preceding the tragedy, and also on
the day of the wholesale killing.
Herbert Foxworth, also ft negro,
Gordon and Miller swore to having
witnessed a violent quarrel between
the defendant and Mrs. Black, In
which Bigham threatened or struck
her with a three-foot board, a few
days before the tragedy. Mrs.
Black, her mother and the two
children left the Bigham home Im
mediately and went toward the
home of Mrs. Ola Curtain, the wit
nesses said.
Another negro, Walter Burch,
told of having been asked by Mrs.
Bigham to go to Pamplico and get
an officer to protect them against
the defendant, *s she said, accord
ing to the witness. "Edmund Is
about to kill us all." He did not
do ao. he aald In reply to a ques
tion, because the defendant threat
ened him If he obeyed Mfs. Bigham.
Judge Rice will render a decision
Monday on whether Mrs. Curtain
will be permitted to tell what
Smiley Bigham said to her a few
days before the crime. The ques
tion was asked by Philllp'H. Ar
rowsmlth, attorney assisting So
licitor L. M. Casque In the prosecu
tion. after Judge Mendel L Smith,
of defense counsel, had asked the
witness to describe how he acted
on the same occasion. The defense
objected to the state's question,
contending the ansver would be
hearsay evidence. The state re
plied that the defense had opened
the way to questions bearing on
the sanity of Smiley Bigham, and
that the conversation sought would
be competent In reflecting the men
tal condition of the man under dis
cussion. The Jury wss excluded
from the courtroom while the point
was argued.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1924
at anchor at Swinemunde, lined up
for inspection. Defense Minister
Gessler (In civilian attire) and
Admiral Behnke are giving them
the once-over.
NEW YORK—Beautifully label
led bottles of liquor are going beg
ging on Rum Row at $5 a case,
dry agents reported to their chief.
K. Q. Merrick, Saturday.
Tho bottles, said tho agents, are
filled with the hard biting stuff
known colloquially as "Long Island
Scotch.” Enterprising Lend Island
ers manufactured 12,000 cases of the
liquor three weeks ago, Mr. Mei'rick
was told, chartered a three-master
schooner which was stationed off
Jones Inlet and put up a “For sale"
sign.
Business was good for three days
and the stuff brought the prevail
ing Rum Row price, of S2O, $25 and
S3O a case. But purchasers ceased
to appear after the beverage had
been sampled ashore. Now, accord
ing to tho agents, the manufactur
ers can’t get even $5 a case for
their “Long Island Scotch.”
A mile away, off Atlantic City,
the agents say ft dozen rum boats
rock on the waves with approx
imately 25,000 cases of Imported li
quor on their decks, some of which
is getting Into the country.
A daring aerial rum-runner is one
of the importers, the agents learn
ed. On several nights, the agents
reported, a giant seaplane has been
seen to roar its way to the rum
fleet and return. Four trip? have
been irmde between midnight and
dawn of day each night. The
agents have been unable to find the
cleverly concealed landing place of
the sky rum pilot.
Foot and Mouth
Disease In Texas;
Quarantine County
WASHlNGTON—Appearance of
the foot and mouth disease among
cattle In Harris county, Tsxaa,
caused the department of agricul
ture to Issue a quarantine today
covering that county nnd Galves
ton county together with portions
of Brazeria and Fort Bend coun
ties.
Tho bureau of animal Industry
took prompt steps yesterday to
ward the battle against the disease
and Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of
the bureau, ordered forty-one ex
perts into the Infected territory. A
preliminary survey Indicates the
disease was introduced from
South America and had no connec
tion with the recent ioutbreak In
California. The disease was first
dllscovered In a herd of 400 cattle In
Harris county, 18 miles south of
Houston. Reports received today
indicate It ha* spread to an adja
cent herd containing 800 head of
cattle.
JACKSON, Miss.—H. M. Garner,
state commissioner of agriculture
nnd chairman of the Mississippi
Live stock Sanitary Board, Satur
day Issued orders placing a quaran
tine against all livestock coming
out of the state of Texas. Mr
Garner stated that reports coming
to him are of such character that he
Is taking no chances of another out
break occurring In Mississippi
where anthrax was recently epi
demic and caused hundreds of thuo
sands of dollars loss In livestock.
STATE RANGERS
ARE MOBILIZED.
AUSTIN, Tex.—Mobilization of all
stjote rangers In Texas to assist In
controlling the foot and mouth dis
ease reported discovered near Hous
ton was reported by J. Boog Scott,
chaiman of the Texas Livestock
Sanitary Commission In a message
to Governor I*at M. Neef Saturday.
AUBURN, Ala—An order bar
ring from Alabama all animals,
feed or dairy or meat products on
the ground of the foot and mouth
disease In Texas was issued here
today by Dr. C. A. Carey, state vet
erinarian, when the discovery of the
foot and mouth disease in Texas
was anuonuced.
Wells Pens An Outbreak
of Auto-Obituary After
a Year of Journalism
Says His Admiration For Masters of Journalism Has
Grown to Immense Proportions Celebrates
Death As Periodic Journalist
(SPECIAL ARTICLE BY H.
G. WELLS)
LONDON.— Fifty-three ar
ticles have I writen in the past
twelve months and this will be
the fifty-fourth nnd last. I
desist. I turn over the book
into which my secretary with a
relentless regularity lias pasted
them all. Some I like; most
seem to be saying something
quite acceptable to me but im
perfectly in a rather ill-fitting
form; some are just bad. My
admiration for the masters of
journalism has grown to Im
mense proportions after these
efforts. Their confidence!
Their unstrained directness!
Their amazing certninty of
their length! And their un
faltering quality!
I had never realized before
the tremendous hardship of
periodicity. Every week or
every day the writer must chew
the cud of events and deliver
his punctual copy. Every day
wet or fine the newspaper
sheet must be filled, filled but
not congested. But It is only
now and then that the phase is
good for really happy writing.
Sometimes everythnig Is ger- .
minating but nothing seems to
happen; at others a dozen Is
sues compete for attention.
Now one does not want to
write because there? Is nothing
to stimulate one to utterance;
how because one wants time to
consider some dominating
event. But the columns stand
waiting. Henceforth for my
poor Irregular brnin there shall
be no more periodicity.
~—‘j*
“THE LONGER PART
IS FINISHED" I
J o
I look over theße articles and
suddenly there joins on to niy
sense of then* the fact that on my
table are lying the proofs of a
collected edition of my wrltngs
thirty fat volumes they will make.
I oereeive I have already lived a
long industrious life. I celebrate
my death as a periodic jounalist—
and these proofs extend the obi
tuary sense beyond the scope of
that event. If I am not actually
tucked up in my literary death
bod I am at least sitting on It.
Possibly I may yet. take afew more
airings before I send for the c etgy
mnn and the heirs and turn In for
good and stnrt blessing nnd for
giving people from my pillow, blit
the longer part Is fished.
does It all amount to, that masn
of written matter?
o °
HOW HE VIEWS
HIS WORK
o ;
The gist of It Is an extraordinarily
sustained and elaborated adverse
criticism of the world as it Is a
persistent refusal to believe that
this is the best or even the
most interesting of all
worlds. There is a developing at
tempt culminating m the Outlin
of History to show that the world
of men Is only temporarily what
it is and might he altered to an
enormous extent. There is a search
through every sort of revolutionary
project and effort for the materia
of effective alteration. The total
effect of these articles and these
hooks of mine on my mind, Is of a
creature trying to find its way out
of a prison into which it has fallen.
I recall how that in my boyhood
I made a little prison of paper and
cardboard for a beetle and how I
heard the poor perplexed beast in
cessantly crawling and scratching
arid fluttering inside. I forget
what became of it. Perhaps I gave
it its freedom; perhaps It pressed
and worried at the corners where
the light came through and made
and enlarged a hole and worried its
own way out. But I remember the
dirty scratches and traces of its
explorations on the unfolded paper
cage. To a larger mind these
books and articles of mine will
seem very like those markings.
O
FAITH IN GREAT I
OUTSIDE ( l
O
Implicit behind and beyond all
these writings there Is faith In a
great “outside.” I do believe there
Is a better life for such crgnAures
as we are and betterment, for our
race and an escape from the mean
ness, the dullness, the petty doomed
life of this time. Be far as I can
go beyond my untrained feelings
and my unsolved limitations I give
myself to the attack upon our com
mon prison walls of Ignorance and i
effortless submission. In all these
articles and books there Is the
thrust of the natural and con
scious and convinced revolutionary.
I am against the elothes we wear
and the food we eat, the houses we
live In, the schools we have, our
amusements, our money, our wayti
of trading, our ways of making,
our compromises nnd agreements
and laws, our articles of political
association, the Brltsh Empire, the
American constitution. I think
most of the clothes ugly and dirty,
most of the food, had, the houses
wretched, the schools starved and
feeble, the amusements dull, the
monetary methods silly, our ways
of trading base and wasteful, our
methods of production piecemeal
and wasteful, our political arrange
ments solemnly Idiotic. Most of mv
activities have been to get my soul
and something of my body out of
the customers, outlook, boredoms
and contaminations of the current
phase of life.
n
I “THEY STRUGGLE
TO GET AWAY”
O o
I am not so very exceptional in
this. Endless people find the pre
sent world, in spite of storms of
natural beauty, in spite of the Ir
regular delightful revelations of
human possibility, almost Intoler
able. Indeed Ido not know how
far the occasional intense loveli
ness of nature and the rare gleams
of human dearness and greatness,
do not exacerbate tlielr general dis
content. They struggle to get away
from it. Drink—"the shortest way
out of Manchester,” as someone
called It—a vicious pursuit of ex
citement, opiates and religious de
votion, a widespread indulgence of
reverie, arc all forms of escape
from the cruel flatness of unin
spired days. But none of them
unless It be the religious excite
ment give more than a temporary
respite. When the orgy is over
comes the awakening still in tno
cage. But In the Idea of revolution
which docs not forget the cage but
realizes Its Impermanence there is
an enduring sport for the spirit.
My imagination takes refuge from
the slumß of today in a world like
a great garden, various, orderly,
lovingly cared-for, dangerous still
but no longer dismal, secure from
dull and base necessities. I have
come to believe in the complete
possibility of such a world and to
realize the broad lines upon whlc:h
we can work for its attainmen
through a great extension of the
scientific spirit to tho mental flei-l
and through a deliberate recon
struction of social and economic
lifo upon the framework of a new,
far-reaching educational organiza
tion. By projecting my ™
ward to that greater civilization.
Bv projecting my mind forward to
that greater civilization I do suc
ceed in throwing a veil of un
reality over the solemn ineptltudo
of today and the complete indent -
fication of myself and my
clencles and dlsapoplntments with
the quality of common things.
Insisting that I can be ■; creattv
revolutionary I escape from "«
quiescence in what I am and what
things are. To live Poo
of King George or President Coo
lidge and under the sway of cur
rent customs, habits and usages,
can be made tolerable by the re
cognition Of their essential transl
torlnoss nnd their ultimate Insig
nificance. And In no other way
can it be made tolerable to any
one with a aense of beauty and .1
passion for real living.
This is what I have ben saying
In these thirty volumes of collected
works and In this yearful of news
paper articles and after a rest It
is quite possible I shall go on
Ing it some more. But after these
reflections upon my literary denth
bed I think 1 shall take a holiday—
at least from Journnlism— for ft
lime. If there is anything worse In
this way than periodic Journal ism
it must be preaching nnd haying
to go into a pulpit with half an
hour's supply of uplift fresh an
punctual every Sunday.
(Copyright, 1924, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
SHIPPING SERVICE
From South Atlantic Ports
to Europe Designated
WASHINGTON. Ib C.—The Oftro
llnY Companyo/ charleston. Katur
day was rleulgnated by the ehlptdn*
board to operate the consolidated eer
vlcc from booth Atlantic ports to the
United Kingdom and continental l-u
--rope. The service will be known as
the American Palmetto Line.
The board's action eliminated as
agents the concern of Trosdal, I hint
and LaKonta and the Tampa Inter-
Ocean Company and awards to tnn
Caret pa Company the combined ser- |
Vice which the three companies have
been handling out of the ports of
Charleston, Savannah nnd Jackson
ville. The three operated a total of
nine ships, but under the consolida
tion the Carolina Company will have
only seven.
Disposition of the South Atlantic
consolidation wound up the shipping
board-fleet corporation program of
combining services traversing the
same ocean routes In order to bring
about greater economy and efficiency.
Fourteen consolidations have been ef
fected recently.
Sacramental Wine
“Frauds” Lead to
Pair of Warrants
CHlCAGO.—Warrants for ths ar- I
rest of two men, unnamed, as arrh
ronsplrators In what the federal au
thorities have declared to be flagrant
abuse of the sacramental wine pri
vileges weiv In the hands of United
States deputy marshals Saturday
Records or the Illinois prohibition
officer was taken on subpoenas to j
the federal building where a grand
Jury Is to go Into the reasons for a
great distribution of sacramental wine
In Chicago by more than a million
gallon* In excess of the amount con
sumed In New York city last year.
Two prohibition agents will be re
quested to tsstlfy, It was announced.
18 CENTS A WEEK.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
Seeks To Save
Arbitration and
Security Pad
GENEVA. —The disarmament commission of the
league of nations assembly Saturday night adopted
the Benes report on the draft protocol of arbitration
and security.
* **'
Los Angeles citizens anil
church organizations have of
fered rewards totaling thou
sands of dollars for tho dis
covery of May Martin, 12
(above), and her younger sis
ter, Nina, 9, who nre believed
to have been spirited away by
degenerates. Police were sus
pected of laxity In the ease be
cause of tho poverty and ob
scurity of the mother,” ill's.
Paul Buus.
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WORLD FLIERS
REACH OREGON
EUGENE, Ore.—The army around
the world fliers completed next to
the last hop of their historic flight
when they landed here Saturday
afternoon nt 2:17:35 from Crlssy
Field, San Francisco.
Beaufort Baby’s Mother
Is 15 Years of Age;
Grandmother Under'3o
BEAUFORT , S. C.—Beaufort
breaks records along some lines
with frequency, but this Is unique.
On the 18th of this month In til's
place was born a boy baby to Mr.
and Mrs- Griffin Hall, The mother
will not be fifteen years old until
February, and the grandmother
(mother of Mrs. Hall) will not be
thirty until next month. The
young mother Is a daughter of the
late police chief, 11. O. Smith,
whoso death was mentioned som«
weeks ago.
Accuse Minister
of Abducting Girl
NOWATA, Okla.—A charge of ab
duction was filed Saturday by A. I*.
Anglin, county attorney, agalnnt the
Kov. Joseph E. YntcH, 40, minister «t
AUuwee, who in alleged to have doped
with a 14-year-old choir girl of hln
church. No trace of the couple has
been found.
Wins In Recount
WA JHL
WL .HP
Senator Ralph O. Brewster wvi
nominated as Republican gubernato
rial nominee In Maine, after tho
votes had been counted. He was
supported by the Ku Klux Klan.
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GENEVA. —France came forward
Saturday in the role of mediator
in an endeavor to save the draft
protocol of arbitration and security
which seemed endangered because
of the action of M. Adachi Friday
in announcing to the commission of
the league of nations assembly
which is examining the draft that
the Japanese delegation made
reservations concerning the entire
protocol.
It is understood that at a
meeting of the Japanese delegation,
several of the members expressed
the opinion that M. Adachi had
gone too far in taking his strong
position which all tne delegates
regarded as an insistence that dis
putes arising from the immigration
question which the world court
would be certain to throw out as
not being suitable causes for in
ternational intervention by the lea
gues, must nevertheless be examin
ed by the council.
Louis Loucher of the French
delegation Saturday met M.
Adachi, Sir Cecil Hurst of Great
Britain and Signor Schanzer of
Italy, and in a private conference
suggested the insertion of a clause
in the protocol which would mere
ly duplicate the covenant and say
that the council of the league
should strive to mediate in all
conflicts liable to endanger world
peace. This would remove the
sting of the proposed Japanese
amendment which specifically
wanted the council to act when the
world court decided that the ȟb
ject of dispute lay entirely within
the domestic jurisdiction of the
country against which the com
( plaint was m*de. In that event,
the official arbitral measures would
cease and the country complained
could not be proclaimed an asses
sor.
BLOODY BATTLES
In Province of Svanetia
Reported
PARTS —The Georgian legation
hero Saturday issued a communique
declaring that bloody encounters
nre now In progress In the province
of Svanetla. republic of Georgia,
between detachments of Georgian
revolutionaries and Russian soviet
troops.
"The Russians.” the communique
says, "have been unable to capture
the Georgian positions, have ar
rested women and children and the
c osest relatives of the rebels and
have placed them in their front line
of attack as a protection while they
are bombarding the fortified posi
tions of the Insurgents.”
They Don’t Have
To Do This In
Georgia!
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MBDNOTA, 111—Beginning
Wednesday, Mednota banks
will close between 12 noon
and 1:15 p. m. as a precau
tion against daylight bank
robberies.
O 0
LaFOLLETTE MEN
Report on Progress 0 f His
Campaign
WASHINGTON. A report on
the progress of the campaign be
conducted In behalf of the Indepen
dent presidential ticket was made
Saturday to Senator LaFollette by
members of the committee direct
ing activities who returned to
Washington from a two day con
ference In Chicago. The candi
date was given a report as to what
has and will bo dono by bis cam
paign organization, and was In
formed as the opinion ns his asso
ciation the political situation.
Scnutor LaFollette, In turn, out
lined to the committee * members,
who Included his son. Robert M.
r.aFollette, Jr„ the speechmaklnif
Itinerary which will carry him dur
ing October across the continent.
Announcement of the route, It wns
said Saturday would bo made by
the first of the week.
Mrs. LaFollette, wife of the In
dependent candidate, leaves Wash
ington for Mountain Lake Park.
Maryland, where at a LaFollette-
Wheeler mass meeting Sunday
afternon she will deliver the first
of several addresses she Intends to
make In behalf of the ticket.
