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Ready Buyers For Your Business Through The Herald " VOLUME XXXI, No. 273 jg ¥ y i, f y 9 y .$ **** 'ifeifr * U. S. AIRMEN FETED AFTER GIRDLING THE GLOBE City @f Seattle Pays Homage to Makers of Epoch SEATTLE, Wash.—Six United States army aviators who completed a flight around the world here Sunday were prepared to receive the welcome which has been ar ranged by an appreciative citizenry. The elapsed time of the flight was 175 days total mileage, start to finish, 27,534; days actually in air sixty six; actual flying time 351 hours, 11 minutes; average speed, 76.36 miles per hour. END OF FLIGHT IS OFFICIALLY REPORTED Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, commander of the flight, officially reported completion of the journey to Major General Mason H. Pat rick, at Washington, D. C„ by tele phone Sunday night. He was in formed by General Patrick that fu ture duties and movements of the six aviators will be announced to morrow. At a public luncheon Monday the fliers and their mechanics were to make talks describing their world famous trip. In addition to the luncheon, the aviators planned to participate in the dedication of a monument at Sand Point, com memorating man's first circumnavi gation of the globe by air. The lieutenants were scheduled to speak briefly there. When Lieutenant Srtiith finished a luncheon aboard a private yacht yesterday en route to Madison and Volunteer Parks for a formal cere mony and reception, he expressed gratitude that "all the worries and taking care of their machines were over” and that the only thing left, he said, that they could not avoid, was the appearance of himself and his comrades before the public. TELEGRAPH FROM THE PRESIDENT A telegram received Saturday night from President Calvin Cool idge informed the men that the president intended, on the conven ing of congress to "recommend that authority be granted to re ward the squadron by promotion l and other appropriate action in order that your distinguished services may have a practical recognition from your country.” At present it is not known how long the aviators are to remain in Seattle or whether the aircruisers Boston 11, Chicago and New Or leans are to be taken back by the original pilots to the cities they were christened after. Seattle's homage to the epochal making aviators was among the best of any city along the route in the nited States. Ten thousand witnessed the arrival of the three planes, 5,000 more cheered as they stepped off a private yacht at Madison Park and transferred to automobiles and thousands of others sounded automobile horns and sent up lusty greetings as the aviators progressed through the automobile-lined streets to Vol unteer Park where 50,000 per sons listened to short talks from them. HOBOKEN CROWD Makes Threats of Lynching Sailor JIOBOKEX, N. J. A squad of police Monday rescued Christopher ufonne, 31. a sailor, from passengers and members of the crew of the liner George Washington who made threats of lynching after he had broken into a statfcoom and attacked Miss Ottillle Urban, 22, as she. slept. Dunne, the police reported, came on board from shore leave in an in tixicated condtiion and nearly ceeded in hanging the young wo man with a rope which he had wound around her neck. Answer ing her screams, pasengers and members of the crew forced an en trance to the locked cabin. Miss Urban was taken to the hospital suffering from bruises and shock. The police fired a couple shpts in the air on the dock to keep the crowd back after they had taken Dunne in charge. Tate Confesses Poisoning Man to Marry His Wife MARION, 111.—Seated by the side of his bride of seven days, Robert Tate, coal miner, confessed Sunday to county officials that be had adminis tered the first dose of poison to Jody Herrington whose widow he married, 20 days after his death. His confes sion came after a long grilling during which his wife pleaded with him to confess his part of the plot they had planned so that they could marry. In his confession, Tate said he at first had opposed Herrington’s re quest that he come to Herrington's home to board, because the couple were too religious for him. How ever, he yielded later His infatua tion for Mrs. Herrington, he said, came gradually, but It was not until April. 1924, that he became familiar with her. He had been Injured In a mine, he said, and after his return from the hospital he and Mrs. Her rington began to love one another. The poison plot, he said, first was THE AUGUSTA HERALD DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc. LEASED WIRE SERVICE. DAVIS PREPARES FOR EAST RIO OFFENSIVE LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y.—John W. Davis began preparations here Mon day for the last big offensive in his campaign. The offensive will cover three gen eral fields, the middle west, the east and several of the border states. It will be inaugurated next Wednesday in Maryland with addresses at Fred erick and Baltimore and will end with a rally in New York city on the night of November 1. Returning to New York Thursday from Baltimore, Mr. Davi3 will speak that night at Madison Square Garden with Governor Smith. Then he will make a one-night stand in New Jer sey and another in Rhode Island be fore starting westward through up per New York state. In the last month of the campaign the democratic prsi dential nominee will deliver more than a score of set addresses and will give an even greater number of rear plat form speeches as he travels through New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Kentucky, Missouri and other states. BRITISH FREIGHT STEAMER SINKS OFF TYREE LIGHT SAVANNAH, Ga.—The British freight steamer Santa Theresa, bound from a Cuban port with sugar probably to a port in tho north Atlantic, sank Sunday night or early Monday morning, 95 miles southeast by south of Tybee Light, according to radio advices received here from the American tanker I. C. White, which has taken off all the crew of the British vessel. The tanker is proceeding to a port not given in radio advices, but the ves sel is not coming to Savannah, it is known. Distress signals W'ere sent out Sunday morning about 10 o'clock by the Santa Theresa stating it had sprung a leak in the engine room. The local United States radio station, the United States coast guard cutter Yamacraw and other local stations caught the messages. The leak is believed to have been in the main injection lines which supplies ocean water to the con densers. The position of the distressed vessel was given as latitude 32 north, longitude 79:50. The mes sages broadcast were picked up also by the I. C. White which was within a short distance of the Santa Theresa. The tanker pro ceeded to the assistance of the freighter. The Yamacraw sailed about noon yesterday. Radio ad vices continued to come in from the tanker stating preparations were being made to abandon the sugar ship as it was about to founder and It was advisable to get the crew off at once, in the event the freighter should take a sudden plunge. Then came word a little later that the crew had been removed to the tanker. mentioned during a secret meeting In a cow pasture, two miles from the Herrington home, after Mrs. Herring ton had repulsed his suggestion to Rill her husband with a gun. They decided he said, that he get the poison, and that she administer It In her husband's food. The poison be said, was stolen from a drugstore In Johnston City. They met nearly every evening dur ing the time Mrs. Herrington was giv ing her husband the poison, he said, and each time he Inquired about Its effect. Herrington died Friday, September 6th. Immediately after the funeral, his confession continued, he and Mrs. Herrington went to look for a home in West Frankfort whither they moved a few days later. Tate’s confession supplemented that made Saturday by his wife The inquest will he completed Tues day Coroner McCown said. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. Cost of Crime Reaches Highest Point As Much As Nation's Annual Budget CHICAGO. —The cost of crime in the United States has reached its highest point, as much as the annual bud get of the nation, which was more than three and one half billions of dollars, according to a report which has been prepared by the protective committee of the Amer ican Bankers Association. Preliminary sessions of the fiftieth annual convention of the association were being held Monday. . Elimination of politics from police affairs will be urged by the committee and speakers and creation of state police in those states without them will be recmmended. Forgeries, according to insurance estimates, includ ed in the report, may reach $100,000,000 for 1924, though the net loss not covered by insurance probably will not be above SIOO,OOO. Holdups have nearly doubled, according to the re port which contains a warning to banks not members of the association and showing that since the protective de partment was organized non-member banks have been the victims of 2500 burglaries with a loss of about $5,000,- 000 while member banks have had 2,500 burglaries with a cash loss of about $1,000,000. Summary of the News GEN ERAL Japan threatens not to sign protocol at Geneva. U. S. airmen honored upon completion of world flight. Cost of crime highest in nation's history. Davis prepares for last big o ffensive. Mecca reported captured by fanatics. Seek bodies of 28 in wreck of freighter. Illinois miner confesses poison plot. Chinese factions fighting bloodiest battle. Imbrie funeral held at Wash ington. T. W. Miller resigns as alien property custodian. GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA LaFollelte- Wbpeler convention starts at Maeon. Aiken to entertain, tourist caravan from north. Miss Hortense Landrum kill ed by auto at Columbia. Aiken prepares for Community Fair. British freighter sinks off Tybee Light. SPO RTS Washington meets Boston, n eeds but one more win. Kraft's three homers win so r Memphis in Dixie Series. Rain threatens to halt Yankees today. Spalla retains European heavyweight title. LOCAL Hearing on boat injunction begins in superior court City taxpayer to save $1.90 pe r thousand this year. Big furniture convention coming to Augusta. Samuel H. Myers died here S unday morning. Many new entries for dog show here. Captain J. G. Garnett, federa I engineer, Is dead. Man held here described as “ Modern Fagin.” Fair weather promised after long rainy spell. Matthew S. Rice is critically ill, PERIN SURRENDERS For Slaying of His Mother- In-Law CINCINNATI. —Rain soaked »nd dishevelled with his clothes bearing the marks of sixty hours out of doors, Vinton Perin, 60, surendered himself Monday to answer for the slaying of his mother in law, Mrs. Frances D. Rawson, 77. and for the shooting of his sister in law, Miss Nina Rawson. Alternately sobbing, Jesting and pacing the floor of detective head quarters, Perin told the police that after fleeing from the Rawson household Friday night bearing the smoking revolver in his hand he walked and walked. When he reached Walton Ky., 35 miles away, he turned hack. At 7 o’clock Monday morning, Safety Director Charles K. Tudor received a telephone call from Perin. Perin said that if Tudor would come out he would surrender himself at Walnut Hills. Tudor communicated at once with Chief of Detectives Kmmett Kerrigan who reached the scene at the same time as the safety direc tor. Perin stood on the corner and after he had talked a moment to Tudor said he wanted to surrender. Perin told a story of 20 years al leged persecution by his mother-ln iaw. She opposed his marriage to her daughter, Deborah, he said, and since the wedding did everything she could to eliminate him. Perin readily admitted the shoot ing but showed an aversion to talk of the actual killing. Says Democracy “Dead As Door-Nail LaFollette Director Addresses Macon Meeting MACON, Ga.—‘-“Democracy is as dead as a floor nail in Georgia,” declared R. L. Corey, director of eleven southern states for the LaFollette-Wheeler, progressives, in an opening speech of the LaFollette-Wheeler conven tion which began here Monday at noon. About forty delegates are in attendance. James L. Sibley, campaign manager for Georgia, called the convention to order and introduced W. C. McClure, state chairman, who made the next address. In AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924 MILLER RESIGNS As Alien Property Custodian of U. S. WASHINGTON—T homis W. Miller tendered his resignation to President Coolidge Monday as alien property custodian. The president in indicating he would accept the resignation re quested Mr. Miller to continue In his office for the time being. Mr. Miller safd he was forced to resign beeause the duties of the office to which he was recently elected presi dent of the inter-allied world war veterans' association would de mand his presence abroad during most of the next year. He was ap pointed to office by president Harding in March 1921. MRS. FERGUSON Wins First Step in Court Battle AUSTIN, Texas—Mrs. Mer riim Ferguson Monday won th» first step in the court fight to Have her disqualified as dem ocratic nominee for governor of Texas. An injunction to keep her name off the ballot was refuted by Judge George C. Cal houn in fifty-third district court. WHERE HISTORY IS MADE ! rap* - A closeup of individual* in tho League of Nations session 1n (lemeva, Switzerland, shows trtfemrting faces. Ramsay MwTXmnkt, Lord Parmoor and Arthur Henderson, the British delegation, are in tho second row to the left of the picture. Biggest Battle of Chinese War Is Now Raging SHANGHAI. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were killed and many others wounded Monday morning on a six mile front from Nansiang to Malu when armies of rival military gov ernors, fighting for posses sion of Shanghai, continued hostilities with impetuous intensity. DEAD ARE LEFT ON THE FIELD The dead have been left where they foil, according to the wit nesses and this practice hae re sulted in a carrion odor extending over the whole battle area. The offensive, which has resulted in continuous firing since it opened on Saturday morning, has enableJ the Chekiang forces to drive the Kiangsu forces back six miles, ac cording to General Hsia Chao-Lin, commander of the Chekiang forces in the center of activity. According to a witness who re turned thie afternoon after travers ing the sector from Nansiang to Malu, west of Shanghai, both sides were drenching tho lines with shrapnel. Numerous relief stations behind the six-mile Nansisng front were filled with wounded while scores of others were arriving on stretchers. GRID INJURIES FATAL HARRISBURG, Ills. The third death this season resulting from Injuries received on the gridiron was reported Sunday when Max Lancaster, 22,/member of an Inde pendent football team, died. his opening remarks, Mr. McClure said for the first time a militarit progressive party was in session. The slogan of the campaign is, “it can be done”, the speaker continued. “Wilson, Roosevelt and Daniels spoke highly of LaFollette. And another thing, when Tom Taggart of Indiana was national committee chair man, a delegation from the south called on him fr>r funds and he said, ‘we know how you southern folks will work,’ and the delegates went away.” (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) WEATHER ® Shower ‘ to ‘ Man Kidnaped At Wedding Ceremony RKNO, Nevada. Dragged screaming from the church an he prepar'd to go to the altar for a wedding ceremony. Francis A. Robb, 84, wealthy Reno property owner, was Risked away in an au tomobile Sunoay night. Two sons, Ray und Edward Robb, are being sought, according to the police. Tho elder itobh wiik to have been married to Mrs- Margaret Nlcbol son, 60. The "best man” and a Catholic clergyman witnessed the alleged kidnapping and passersby stood In amazement as the old man called vainly for help. Robb Is a contractor and has been a resident of Reno for years. RAIN MAY PREVENT YANK-ATHLETIC GO PHILADELPHIA—Rain was falling in Philadelphia Monday, making it uncertain wheth >r this afternoon's game between pennant chasing New York Yanks end the Philadelphia ihlet.es will b a plavcd. ’ In Georgia 18 CENTS A WEEK. To Vote Against Protocol Unless Demand Granted GENEVA.—The members of the Japanese delegation declared to press representatives Monday that if Japan did not obtain satisfaction of her demand for an amend ment to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security she probably, much to their regret, would be obliged to vote against the protocol when it was submitted to the assembly of the league of nations. SIT. H. MYERS DIES SUDDENLY, 10 BE BURIED ON TUESDAY Prominent Augusta Attorney- Passed Away Sunday Morning. Funeral to Be Held at Residence Samuel H. Myers, prominent Augus ta attorney, died suddenly Sunday morning, 7:45 at the residence 1103 Mllledge road following an attack of apoplexy. . Funeral services will he conducted from tho residence Tuesday, atternouu at 3:30, interment to follow In the family burial plot at the City ceme tery, Rabid Herbert C. Strauss, of the Congregation Children of Israel of ficiating. Tho following gentlemen have been requested to serve ns pall hearers: Active, George Ilalns, John H. King, Rodney 8. Cohen, Henry G. Howard, Fernirtand Prinlzy, Louis Hcharff, Abe Levy and Rut ledge Capers. Honorary: Lee Blum, \V. M. Howard, llowdre I'hlnlzy, Dr. R. H. Armstrong, Ihhuc Read, Marlon Reynolds, Coles I’hlnlzy, Percy E. May, J. C. C. Black, Jr., Charles H. Ferris, W. M. McGovern. Marlon Duvall, Sanford Cohen, Ike Cohen und Oswell R. Eve. Mr. Myers Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nora Sterns Myers, and his sis ter, Mrs. R Allen Pendleton, both of Augusta; nnd the following nephews and nleecs: Joseph S. Myers and Ed ward M. Cohen, of Augusta; Charles Stanley, of New York; Allen Pen dleton, Jr., of Augusta; Miss Susie Cohen, of Athens; and Mrs. G. W. Walker, of Spartanburg, S. C.; a grandnephew, G. W. Walker, Jr., of Spartan burg, S. C. That Mr. Myers was not well was first noticed by Ids wife early Sunday morning when he failed to respond to ‘he ring of the door bell by the house servant coming to work, as was his usual custom. Mrs. Myers, notic ing his failure to respond to the sum mons at the door called to him, and on his not replying she discovered something to lie wrong and Imme diately summon'd help On arrival of a physician It was discovered that Mr. Myers was dead, nnd the doctor an hi that death had occurred but a short lime before. Mr. Myers had been In generally good health, so far as Is known, up to the time of his death, and was about his business af fairs In the city nil of Saturday as usual. No complaint Is known to have been made by him, and his death corning without warning as It did Is a distinct shock to his family and friends. HAD LIVED HERE FOR MANY YEARS. Mr. Myers, though not a native of this city, had lived here practically all of his life with tho exception of the years when he was away at school. He was born at Crawford vllle, Ga., March 25th, 1861, hla par ents being the late Joseph Myers and Bertha Kosenthal Myers. Hla father, Joseph Myers, was a native of Ger many, coming to the United States shortly before the Civil War and lo cating In Georgia. Ills mother was a New York woman, and before mar riage was Miss Bertha Rosenthal. Mr. Myers was married In June, 1890 to Miss Nora Stern, of Athens, Oa. Mr. Myers was a graduate of Princeton University. Ills earlier edu cation was received at a private school In Baltimore Md., under Pro fessor Johnston. lie later attended Princeton Preparatory School at Phil adelphia. going from there to Prlnce_ ton Univeralty where ho graduated with the class of 1881, receiving the decree of A. B. WAS ADMITTED TO THE BAR IN 1898. After leaving Princeton Univeralty, Mr. Myers returned to Augusta and for a number of years waa engaged (Continued on paga two.) Mother Kills Four Children . With Razor, Ends Own Life MAN GUM, Okla.—After an in formal Investigation into the death* Of five member* of the family of J. A. Melton, farmer, living five miles southeast of her, county authorities Monday placed responsibility for the killings upon Mrs. M«lton, one of the d<-nd, and declared a coro ner’s Inquest unnecessary. Melton, returning late Saturday night from Mangum, where b» said HOME EDITION WOULD PREVENT DISARMAMENT MEET If thia happens, the protocol in tiated by Foreign Minister Benea of Czecho Slovakia and elaborated by the disarmament commission ana its substitute committee will fail of adoption and consequently the in ternational disarmament meeting provided for in the protocol and planned for next summer will not be held. After a lengthy private discus •ion this morning among import ant delegates wijh a view towards finding a solution of tho difficult situation, the declaration of th« Japanese delegates when the sub committee. on. arbitration reas sembled thia afternoon, indicated a noticeable stiffening in their at tiude. Herculean efforts on the part of all of the leading delegates to aave the situation continued this after noon, many of them expressing the conviction that a saving formula would be found by the committee of jurists to whom they plan to refer the problem. DRAMATIC SCENES AT LEAGUE PALACE The palace of the league of na tions was the scene of dramatic in cident* Monday as the wearied rteli'gAtes reassembled In an aLtempt to discover a solution of the dif ficulty created by Japan's demand for an amendment to the proposed control protocol of arbitration and security, and In an effort to save the protocol which continued to be endangered by the new turn of events. The sub-committee to which the matter had been entrusted held a brief meeting but adjourned until this afternoon before taking up the Japanese problem because the lead era decided it would be more prac tical and less dangerous to find a satisfactory formula in private conversations. Therefore, Viscount Ishil, held a meeting with Aristide llrlund nnd Louis Lnucheur of the French delegation. Paul Hymans, of Belgium and other members of the council. Another meeting was held at the same time nnd this one was attend ed by Adachi of Japan; .1. Limburg, of Holland; M. Rolin. of Belgium; Vittorio Sclaloia . of Italy, and Raoul Fernandes, of Brazil, who opposed the Japanese amendment Inst night and who endeavored to find a formula which would satis fy the Japanese aspirations while safeguarding the rights of in dividual states as regards sove reignty in domestic matters which have been pronounced to be strict ly domestic by the world court of Justice. The discussion at this meeting apparently was of a most amiable character but little headway was made before the adjournment be muse most of the conferees sup ported tie Japanese paint of view. M l'.o’in particularly being bound bv his public doclarailon Sunday evening. None of the forenoon dis cussions succeeded in finding a wav ,ut cf the difficulty. Japan In sisted that their only det re was to close up effectually all of tho loop holei !r the convenant end protocol so that Japan and the other coun tries would have the opportunity to continue mediation discussions when they had been thrown out of court on the ground that the dis putes question was purely within the domestic Jurisdiction of the other party. GF.NEVA. —Grave inter nations! problems are believed to h*™ b«*" raised through the Japanese demand at the league of nations discussions for an amendment to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. Many of the delegates are of the opinion that the whole question of racial equality has been thrown defi nitely before the world by the Japa nese amendment, which touches upon a state's sovereign rights, and that Japan will continue to insist through th* league of nations for revlalon of International law so that matters now deemed to belong exclusively to the internal Jurisdiction of a state may be the subject of world-wide con rern, demanding treatment on the broad basis of equity. The delegates from the British do- Contlnued On Page Two ho had taken a shotgun for safe keeping, discovered the bodies of his four children, ranging in age from 11 years to J 8 months, and that of his wife, lying In a row In one room, their throat* all slashed with a razor. The razor was clashed In Mrs. Melton’* hand, of ficials said. Melton said his wife for sometime had been suffering from hallucina tion*.