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Speaking of bargains ! Why man! You ought to read Augusta Herald >Vant Ads ! VOLUME XXXI, No. 312 Georgian Says Kidnappers Forced Him to Dig Up Body of Wife FINAL 'RETURNS ADD *TO REPUBLICAN * STRENGTH May Have 246 Seats In House and 54 Votes In the Senate FARGO, N. D.—Vir tually complete returns on Tuesday’s presiden tial ballot gave North Dakota’s five electoral votes to President Cool idge. WASHINGTON. _ As final returns from doubtful states and districts trickled in Friday it appeared that President Coolidge had car ried North Dakota and prcbably New Mexico and that the political lineup in the new congress would be as follows: * Senate, republicans, 54; democrats, 40; farm-labor, 1; vacancy, 1. (Connecti cut.) House, republicans, 246; democrats, 184; farmer labor, 3; socialists 2. CLOSE RESULTS IN SEVERAL CONTESTS. At adjournment of congress In June there were in the senate 51 republicans. 43 democrats and two farmer-labor and in the house 225 republicans, 207 democrats, one so cialist. one farmer-labor and one independent. In several seatorlal contests, no tably the one in lowa, and in half a dozen congressional districts, the races were so close thaht recounts might alter the results. Regardless of the outcome, how ever, the republican organization in both the house and senate seemed assured of a working majority with the La Follette insurgent unable to get anywhere by forming a coali tion with the democrats. Included among the 54 senators listed as republicans are La Fol lette and four others—Norris, Ladd, Frazier and Brookhart, who has been re-elected on the face of un official returns, all of whom have consistently supported the Wiscon sin senator in congress—but unless they receive aid from other repub licans who at times are inclined to vote independently, they would be unable to trim the republican vote below the bare majority of 49. MAGNUS JOHNSON CONCEDES DEFEAT. Magnus Johnson, one of Minne sota's two farmer-labor senators, Thursday night conceded his de feat by Representative Thomas D. Schall, a republican, who as a member of the house had shown an inclination at times to vote inde pendently. In New Mexico, Senator Bursum, republican, continued to trail his democratic opponent, Sam G. Bratton, although President Coolidge retained a lead over John W. Davis, his nearest competitor. With a good share of the state's precincts still out, re-election of Representative Morrow, democrat, appeared probable, but not cer- The last hope of La Follette ad herents of carrying a state in to Wisconsin went glimmering when the independent candidate's assist ant manager in North Dakota con ceded that President Coolidge had won the state. . .. _ , With North Dakota in the Cool idge column, the president’s electo ral vote, in the event he holds his lead in New Mexico, will be 882, that of Davis, confined to the solid south,” 136, and La Follette’* 13— his home state of Wisconsin. In 1920 Harding received 404 elec toral votes and Cox 127. LONG DROUTH ENDS NEW ORLEANS—Rain which began falling at Baton Rouge this forenoon with every indication that it would spread throughout this sectlonof the state broke a drouth record of ninety years. Boy Emperor and 2,000 Manchus Are Evicted PEKING—In th* wake of tho evicted boy emperor end other im perial Manehue, nearly 2,000 Man chut of leaaer nobility, eervante and clanamen were Friday turned out of the forbidden oity and told that their eervicea were no longer re quired. There were the hangers-on of the erstwhile court which since the founding of the republic has been maintained on a dlminshed scale. The older servants were given ten dollars and the others eight dollars each as final compensation. As they left the flag of the re public was raised over the former Imperial quarters. The former em perior. *ow Mr. Pu Til, remains THE AUGUSTA HERALD DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc. LEASED WIRE SERVICE. PRESIDENT Isl IIJ CULL CONGRESS INTO SESSION AFTER MAR. 4 WASHlNGTON—Republican sen ate leaders who conferred Friday with President Coolidge reached the conclusion that It was highly improbable that the president would call the new congress into an extra session after next March 4. The president turned his atten tion Friday to the legislative pro gram and discussed plans for Hie coming short session of congrCTb with Senators Curtis of Kansas, re publican whip, and Moses, republi can. of New Hampshire. Both were of the opinion that the nation did not want an extra session and only the necessity of emergency legislation would lead the president to call the new congress before its regular meeting time a year from this December. While Mr. Coolidge had indicated he would press for tax reduction many congressional leaders have expressed the opinion that it would be difficult to get through tax legis lation at the short session with a congress that has just fought out its differences on tax reform. Senator Moses expressed" the be lief that farm legislation also wait until the facts on conditions could be definitely determined by the commission proposed by President Coolidge. It is unlikely, Senator Moses said, th£t this investigation can be completed and reports drawn until late next year. LODGE’S CONDITION Reported Unchanged. Little Hope of Recovery letin issued shortly after noon by physicians attending Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said that for the first time since he suf fered a stroke at noon Wednes day he was having short periods of consciousness. He also took nourishment today for the first time since he was stricken, the bulletin said. %. - CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The condi tion of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who has been unconscious since he suffered a stroke at noon Wednes day at the Charles Gates Hospital, where he was convalescing from an operation, was reported unchanged at 8 o’clock Friday morning. His physicians said there was little hope thaht any change would be for the better. A bulletin issued at 8:30 by Dr. John H. Cunningham, who has performed two operations on Saturday Lodge since July, said: “While still unconscious, Sena tor Lodge’s vitality has not per ceptibly changed during the last 24 hours. ELEVEN KILLED On S. C. Highways During October COLUMBIA, S. C.—Eleven persons were killed on the highways of South Carolina during October, according to a report given out Thursday by C. H. Moorefield, state highway engineer, thlrtv-six uiere injured seriously, Hnd 57 received minor injuries, the report showed. A total number' of 75 persons have been killed on the state highways dur ing the year a'nd more tjian 500 In jured, it was reported. Son of Minister Confesses Robbery MUSKOGEE, Okla— Robert Gore, 20, son of a local minister, confessed Thursday night, according to officers, that he had robbed the First National Bank where he is employed as a clerk of about J 4.500. Gore In his confession related that while on duty one"'fi7)|ht he took some late deposits and walked out the door. Checks totalling 88,500 he tossed Into the Arkansas river, keeping 81,000 In cash, he said. at his father's house, which is sur rounded by guards, outsiders not being permitted to enter. Representatives of several pow ers who called at the foreign office were assured that the change would not endanger the personal safety of the former emperor of his suite. The step taken merely removed on anomaly which had hitherto been permilted, the callers were told. The removal of the boy emperor from the borbldden city was de declded upon by Feng Tu-Hsiang. the new head of the Chinese mili tary regime, who Secured the ap proval of the rufv cabinet. A new agreement was imposed abolishing allowance of the former emperor from |4,00,000 annually to $500,000. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. Comes Back The Tories’ victory in the British eloctiins means Stanley Baldwin becomes premier again. This is his latest picture. CONSERVATIVE PARTY Assumes Office In England Friday LONDON —The new conservative government assumes office Friday with the customary ceremony at Buckingham Palace when Stanley Baldwin and the members of his ministry thus far chosen take the oath, receive their seats of office from the retiring laborites and com ply with the other necessary for malities. The new cabinet gets on the whole a very favorable reception from the London morning papers even the opposition organs finding grounds for approval of many of thd appointments. It is universally remarked that the ministry is much stronger than Mr. Baldwin’s lasi administration although the Times while admitting this, regrets the in clusion of so many former office holders and says: "The public is looking with al most pathetic anxiety for the em ergence of new leaders.” The appointment of Winston Churchill to such a dominant post as that of chancellor of the ex cheque naturally arrests the mail attention of the commentators who remark upon the courage and in dependence shown by the premier in disregarding the inevitable hos tility which the selection will pro voke among a considerable section of the conservative ranks. The choice Itself is nowhere condemned and by several papers Is variously described as “welcome, sound or ex cellent.” NORTH DAKOTA Seems Assured for President Coolidge FARGO, N. D. —North Dakota’s five electoral votes as a result of Tuesday's election seemed assured for President Coolidge on the face of nearly complete, hut unofficial returns, tabulated early Friday. Although the missing precincts are in territory favorable to Senator Robert M. LaFollette, the votes ha polled In those scattered and sparse ly populated sections are not ex pected to change appreciably the standings of the two leading can didates for the presidency .in this state. Returns from 1,959 precincts out of 2,180 in North Dakota early Friday gave President Coolidge 90,- 809. Summary of the News GENERAL. Georgian, saying he was kidnapped, tells gruesome story. G. O. P. strength bolstered by late returns. Coolidge May call extra eeaeion after March 4. Mra. Ferguson tells how she will administer office. Boy emperor and 2,000 Manchus evicted from Peking. Railroad Brotherhoods meet at Cleveland Saturday. Senator Brookhart leada by 1,116 vote*. Senator Lodge's condition slightly improved. Big forest fimss rage in Kentucky. Radio flashed across ocean to produce photo. GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA Nat Harria indicatea acceptance at penaion commlsaionsr. Georgia girl staging hunger strike in jail. Hephzibah Baptiata and aeaaiona at Daviiboro. Fear lynching if negro caught by Jeaup poate. Issue warrant for head of G. O. P. central committee. Man killed in auto accident near Orangeburg, 8. C. Negro electrocuted at Columbia penitentiary. Eleven killed on 8. C. highways during October. Final results on S. C. amendments still in doubt. BPORTS. Georgia Bulldogs play University of Virginia Saturday. Amateur boxing at Armory Hall here Friday night. Six Western conference team* clash Saturqny. Stribling to roturn to ring on Armietic# Day. Mandell battlaa Bernatain in New York Friday night. Indoor basehsll aueceas at local mill. Newberry loses to Rollins College. LOCAL. Plans complete for Fall Faatival hare. Augusta ia facing a booze famine. Two tent up on car breaking charge. House it dama-/i SI,OOO by flame*. Scotch bad acore* big hit hare. Central Railway officials visit city. Ceotch musicians entertain Lions Club. Came here to vieit father; both dead. Sentence man who broke up wife’s party. Rain it axpactsd her* Saturday night. AUGUSTA GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1924 “Ma” Ferguson Says She'll Take Advice of Husband Just As That of Any Other Citizen of Texas TEMPLE, Texas.—Advice of her husband will be taken by Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, gover nor-elect of Texas, “just as I will take the advice of any citizen of Texas, Interested in the welfare of the state,” she said at her home here. Her happiness unconfined, un flurried by the round of gaieties and congratulatory celebrations of which she has ben the center, yet cognizant of the responsibility that will bo hers for two years, "Ma" Ferguson Is looking forward to her inauguration day. To Mrs. Ferguson, wife of for mer Governor James F. Ferguson, apparently has come the peculiar distinction with Mrs. Nellie Taylor Boss, of Wyoming, of being the first woman elected chief executive of a state. Mrs. Ross, it is under stood, will he inaugurated before Mrs. Ferguson but friends of the Texas governor-elect retain for her honor of being “first” because her candidacy was carried through three bitter campaigns while Mrs. Ross was nominated in convention about a month ago. “I expect to be governor, Just as any man,” Mrs. Ferguson said as she talked her drawing room was heavy with the odor of roses emanating from many large bou quets sent by jubilant friends. “I love flowers from the humblest posy to orchids,” she said. I can’t live without them and I look at them they seem to talk to me, a language more beautiful thSn any thing I know.” She said she would see that there Rre plenty of flowers around the governor's mansion at Austin. Her title, she said, would he “Just governor, I guess, for no other titlo would do.” WON’T BE CALLED “MADAM GOVERNOR” “The title ’Madam governor’ would be out of place, because one does not say ‘Mister Governor' to a man,” she added, then smiling broadly, "You would’nt call me ‘governess’ because that means a wholly different thing." With Mrs. Ferguson will go to Austin her daughter, Dorrace. "‘I guess Dorrace will be the first lady of the state’ and will be supervisor of the mansion and Jim will be an Interested spectator" Mrs. Ferguson said. There will be no material change In the family routine, she said. "There will be entertaining but Dorrace will be hostess. ”1 know there is a responsibility to be shouldered,” she said "for I recall how hard Jim worked when ho was governor and the office lias Its cares and trials but I am not worried. I expect to take the ad vice of my husband Just as I will take tho advice of any citizen of Texas interested in the welfare of the state. No one should he so foolisii as to believe that one could tackle such a task alone. Jim took advice while he was governor, Just as our presidents have done.” Mrs. Ferguson punctured another fallacy about herself when she declared that she does not do all tlie cooking for the family and does not Intend to do it while sh* is governor. "Yes, I belleVe Jim 4 has been vindicated by the election,” she said with reference to her husband’." impeachment from the office, “or rather I believe that he has been vindicated of tho wrong that they have tried to accuse him of.” , She has a large number of appli cations for state positions, she said including every office at her com mand. NEW BOSS OF LONE STAR STATE EpßhPwSl .*. ■ •" 3£Bk * ,iv i s Mrs. MIRIAM A. FERGUSON Radio Flashed Across Ocean Produces Photo at New York NEW YORK.—A radio wave flashed across the Ocean from England, Thursday night set off a powder flashlight, clicked a cam era and made a photograph in the Grand Central Palace at a radio exposition. Major .1. C. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, Helen Keller, and the director of the exposition, wero pho tographed by the unseen radio photographer who was stationed in Carnarvon, Wales. Georgia Girl on Hunger Strike After Attempting to End Her Life In Jail JESUP, Ga.—“ You can’t keep tru> here always—anjl when you do let me go. I’m going to finish the Job." Mary Madden, 20, described by local authorities as a "beautiful little slip of a girl’’ thus warn* her Jailor here. She has tried various ways to end her life—once by taking poison, but the ever watchful officers have pre vented the act so far. Just now, she Is attempting the starvation route. Since Sunday, she has not taken food but Sheriff Rogers Is quite certain she will not be able to hold out at this long drawn method. Mary’s outlook became evfn black er Thursday when a deputy sheriff from Philadelphia, her home, came to take KHa Evans, 16, her companion who ran away from home with her, ISSUE WARRANT For Arrest of Head of Oa. G. O. P. Committee ATLANTA, Ca.—A warrant charging assault and battery was Issued here late Thursday against Dr. W. Y. Gilliam, chairman of tho state republican central commit tee, by Judge Luther 'A. Rosser of the municipal court. The warrant was sworn out by F. Marlon Thom ason, a member of the committee following nn alleged flst-flght at a meeting of the committee In which Dr. Gilliam said to have struck Thomason In the fare. The warrant, however, was not served as Dr. Gilliam could not be located. It was repeated that he left Atlanta for hi* home In (topper Hill, Tcnn., Immediately following the meeting. The trouble Is said to have arisen •ver a dispute about party matters. (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) back to Pennsylvania. Ella’s family Is willing to take her back, and sent money to pay for she transportation. Mary’s family declares they wont have her back, neither will they send money. Ella was persuaded by Mary to leave home. The imprisoned girl declares she wus forced to leave home because of the treatment she received there. Her mother, she said, was cruel to her. Mary is sn intelligent girl. She lack ed only 18 months in finishing her course as a trained nurse. Just what to do with her Is a prob lem facing Sheriff Rogers. For the time being, st least, he says he will hold her. Perhaps her frame of mind will change. ‘‘Rainmaker” Signs $4,000 Contract BAKERSFIELD, Cal. —"Ra In maker” Hatfield Thursday night closed a contract with the Kern County Cattlemen’s Association and the Sheepmen’s Association where by he promises to produce one and one-half Inches of rain In Kern county between November 20 and December 2D. If rain Is produced Hatfield is to recelvo 14,000, the money being guaranteed by the cattlemen and sheepmen. SNOW IN NORTHWEST I HT. PAUL, Minn.—The first gen eral snow of tho season was re ported over tho northwest Satur day. Temperatures below freezing ac companied the flakes in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. 18 CENTS A WEEK, Dublin Man Declares He Was Taken to Florida Where Captors Made Ghoul of Him ORLANDO, Fla.—One of the weirdest tales of arrest and its preliminaries was disclosed Friday fol lowing the arrest of E. P. Dominy, of Dublin, Ga., who says he was kidnapped early Thursday morning in front of his father’s home in Dublin, and carried to Orlando by three men, who forced him to accom pany them to the cemetery, where, in the presence of nearly 25 men, he was compelled to dig up the coffin of his wife, who was buried here on Wednesday. ORLANDO, Fla.—E. P. Dominy, 21, «on of A. J. Dominy, prominent Laurens county, Georgia, farmer, who was believed kidnapped early Thursday morning is being held in jail here on charges of kidnapping his young thild following the death here of his wife last week. Dominy told the police here that Ithe men who kid napped him from his father's home in Dublin brought hl ® to Orlando and Thursday night carried him to the ceme tery where his wife is buried, dug up the body and forced him to look at her. SEN. BROOKHART HAS LEAD OF IJIS PER OPPONENT DEH MOINES, lows —With In dications pointing to a contest in the United States senate over the sent of Senator Smith Brookhart, republican, preparations were being made throughout lowa Friday for the official count, to be atarted Monday. The lead of Senator Brookhart over Danlql F. Steck, democratic candidate Friday remained at 1,116. This figure probably will remain unchanged as the unofficial ma jority unless county auditors who still were scanning their records for possible errors find discre pancies that were not uncovered in the thorough re-check made yes terday. The first definite word of a pos sible contest came Inst night with the announcement by Secretary Itamsny that he had been advised b* Democratic National Chairman llerring that the race would be con tested. Secretary Itarrisay had no tified nil county auditors to take great care in preservation of the ballots preparatory to the official count. Neither Mr. Herring. E. J. Feullng democratic state chair man, nor Mr. Stock could be reached last night. Hehator Brookhart considers himself re-elected. He arrived here early Friday for the purpose of tnking a personal hand In tho check of the state being made by his campaign headquarters. 18 Men to Publicly and Deliberately Break Dry Law CHICAGO, 111 —John R Riley, sec retary of the 8010 Club, of Cook county, announced Thursday that IS men will publicly und deliberately violate the Volstead act on some date yet to be set to furnish a new test of the law’* constitutionality. Th* 8010 Club, composed of war veteran*, with, according to Its sec retary, (11,000 member* of Chicago, will sponnor the teat. The men. all of whom are of different religious de nominations. will he found with wine In their possession. They will de mand Jury trials, said Mr. Blley. MISSOURI G. O. P. Victorious In Nearly Every Contest FIT. LOUIS —Friday was for the Missouri republican* the day of "I told you so." for their predictions on the outcome of the election were shown, on the face of returns complied by The Associated Pres* to have come true. From president on down to the smallest state of fice with a few exceptions, the re publicans were victorious with the democrat* on the losing end. On the face of unofficial returns Sam A. Baker, republican, had a lead of 8,517 over Dr. A. W. Nelson, dem ocrat, with only 157 smaller pre cincts not Included In the count. President Coolidge. according to the unofficial returns will carry the state by a plurality of probably 60,- 000 figured on the basis <*f the re turn* from all but 157 of the state's 4,4180 precincts. HOME EDITION Augusta and vicinity: increasing cloudiness, probably rain late tonight. WEATHER YOUNQ MAN TELL* GRUESOME STORY. The young man fells a most grus snme story about the procedure whloh the men, unknown to him, w*ni th Domt l ny left his wife her. a few weeks ago and returned to Ms father’s home In Dublin. It Is said the young couple had considerable domestic trouble. ...... Dominy was picked up on the street Thursday night by local pollc* carried to the barrack* for Investi gation. Members of the girl well known here, swore out the war rant. The girl, before her marriage was tho daughter of R. C. Livlng eton. BEING HELD IN ORLANDO JAIL. DUBLIN, Ga.—E. V. Dominy, 81, eon of A. J. Poeslny, prominent Lau rens county farmer who was be lieved kidnapped early Thursday morning Is being held in the city Jail at Orlando, Fla., on order of the sheriff there, according to Sheriff L. L. Watson, of Laurens county. The Georgia sheriff Friday received a telegram from the chief of police of Orlando to that effect. TBe telegram from «ho Orlando po lice chief came after word had been eent to Waycroee, Valdosta and Or lando to watch for a large touring car with three young men headed for Florida from Georgia. The text of the message was: V L. F. Watson. Sheriff. "F P Dominy held in Jail here or der sheriff, and tells mysterious story. (SlgnsS) „ “CHIEF OF POLICE, Fla. FATHER SAW HIM CARRIED AWAY. Young Dominy, according to the story'told Sheriff Watson and Sheriff Player of Wilkinson county, by the elder Dominy. went to the assistance of two men in an automobile which had apparently broken down near the Dominy home. The automobile was seen to suddenly start rapidly in the direction of Hawklnsville and F. P. Dominy was In the car. The father says while he Is not cer tain that his son did not go of his own volition, he Is of the opinion that he wa* forcibly carried away. A warrant has been Issued for a man named "Williams, alias Job*} Doe," A J. Dominy having been told by one of the men In the car that his name was Williams. The warrant charges kidnapping. According to A. J. Doralny early Thursday morning he noticed *the au tomobile stop near his home and the men begin tinkering with the engine. Shortly he offered assistance and finding he could not help, he volun teered the Information that his son, F. P. Dominy, was somewhat of a mechanic and he would be glad to summrm him. The men says the elder Dominy, thanked him and ne then wakened his son who dressed and went to the aid of the stranded mo torists. The father says he was not near when the automobile suddenly sped away, carrying his son. LIVED IN ORLANDO SEVERAL MONTHS. Word was Immediately broadcast by telegraph and telephone to nearby cities and towns and points through out Oeorgla and Florida to be on the outlook for the automobile a de scription of which was given. A re port was received that it bad passed through Jlawklnsvlllo and then the Orlando authorities were asked to be on the lookout. E. F. Domlny had returned to Dub lin a few weeks ago from Orlando where he had been living several months. He had married in Orlando and after difficulties with his wife the couple had become estranged and h* had, according to the young man’s father, separated. F. P. Domlny re turned to Dublin shortly after the estrangement and Ills wife remained In Orlando. The young man has since been living with his father at the Domlny home, 16 miles from Dublin. In the opinion of Sheriffs Watson and Player, the men who are believed to have kidnapped young Domlny were sent here fur that purpose from Florida and tho breakdown of the automobile was only part of u pre arranged plan. The two sheriffs state that the men who took the youth away will be prosecuted If lb Is found that Domlny went against hie will. The father stated Ur' t he knew of no possible reason," such methods in getting his son' ~ack to Orlando unless It were In connection with th# estrangement of the couple. The sheriff and police chief of Or lando have both been requested to furnish the Oeorgla authorities with ull available information a* to th* case. ,