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Ready Buyers For Your Business Through The Herald VOLUME XXXI, No. 272 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. Still 'U It! Germans Play at War As They Did In Kaiser 9 s Day mgr i Jffl fjp film.. bL... 1 *r '* ' 1 aMBEig > v . v ' K~ ' j BBii Hr s -Ji4- x raiff’jMfffl \Ui-4'M i ,a;l' ; y-j < %'ft " Jf m] •i w • w ** •>-.-«. i i 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. ■.- i - 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. Kidnaped TELEGRAPH PHONE 2036 AND SAYI SEND ME THE HERALD 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 »üb 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! ___ o 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.