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.. rnrs-.UNTiv September so '
Two thousand-dollar trarel pedes
trian accident insurance policy upon
; payment of one year's subscription in
. advanc . to tba Dally and Sunday
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PLAN VOTE
French Deputies Ad-
. journ Before Dis-
cussion of London
Pact Is Heard.
. (Associated rress.)
' PARIS. Aur. 21. The Dawn
reparation plan and the steps taken
f ? at the London conference to make it
. at at i I- . BMakailnna1 K !.
v . lent comtnuniot demonstrations in the
f cnauner or opuues jourmiij wmh
Premier Herriot went before the
chamber and aenate read a long
: .declaration embodrinc the covern-
. meat's case and asked for it the ip-
.'' proral of the leiislaturs.
The commonista monopolised the
debate and maneuvered in such a fash-
" i fcin that the entire afternootf was de-
''TOted to their motion for an ad-
V"' Janrnment until the senate rotes the
amnesty bill. Not a wnd of dfsois-
' i aloti abont the work of the London
v ;imference was heard.
- When M. Herriot returned from the
nenatt. Louis Lucien tuota deputy
'anil former minister becan a maneur-
MAjpr to have the chamber adjourn until
-'" th accord is sianed. contending that
.' parliament must ratify the London
v cceord beranta H is outside the treaty
yrVwf VaraaiUea. '
ritf :tha nremler. anrwerina thw eon-
t4'toMertcs1 that jurists bad eo-
iTfiraiedhe rovCrnmeat's theory that
9' (ha landop reenjt was merely an
vtfe.-jtanaton. Af; the treaty. He added
?V .. toawwa Pm a aeouta ana a
?rc'v3rtwt of onfidenea.alnee he would not
"r5i-.e1rt tha aareement until his policy
"been appro red.
-iv' ' Meantime the senate aajourneo mv
f '- -) Friday and will dtscusa other bills
trattl L Herriot is free to appear be
fore it
.;
IKE HELD
IN 'SUICIDE'
il;Year.01d Woman
Found Dead on
Sidewalk
(Associated Tress.)
OMAHA. Neb.. Aug. 21. Mlns
Rose Carerilli. private mire to Mis
Catherine Ford. 51. of Santa Bar-
bara. Cal. Is being temporarily de-
tained at police headquarters here
following the finding of Mins Ford's
body on the sidewalk near the Fon-
tanels hotel here early Thursday.
According to the nurse. Miss Ford
jumped from the window of theiT
room. Detective Walter Lickert who
examined the body 10 minutes after
It was found declared that the body
was cold. The chief of detectives
said an autopsy would be held.
Miss Ford according to Information
Wen the police by the nurse had heen
m a' private hospital at Snnta Bar-
bara for severol months and was en
route to Independence Iowa near
where her brother a farmer resides.
Doctora. who examined the body
after the detective snid the body wns
warm and the chief of detectives later
declared It waa a "plain case of sui-
cide."' Efforts are beina made to
communicate with Miss Ford's broth-
er. Eugene Ford of Independence.
Iowa.
Miss Ford jumped from the eighth
story of the hotel at 5:45 a. m.. the
nurse told police adding that the for-
mer had been a mental patient for
three months in a private hospital at
Ranta Barbara. Verification of the
nnrse's story is beina- sought police
said before she would be released.
BALLOON USED IN
UNUSUAL FLIGHT
PAYTON. O- Aug. 21. Four air-
men officers of the United States
army air service ascended from Wil-
bur Wright Field at noon Thursday
in a free balloon to play a unique
and hazardous game.
" With the aid of a number of Instru-
ments seversl of which are new the
aviators will try to make use of the
rarinns winds found at different
levels to sail away from the field and
without means of locomotion land the
bag again at Wright Field.
Captain M. B. Stone. MoOook
. Field: Captain J. B. Powers and Llcn-
tenant Ira Koenlg of Wilbur Wright
Field and Lieutenant Max Moyo of
4 Akron were aboard the balloon. It
bended northeastward.
The flight is to be of about four
hours' duration.
- Recently the feat was accomplished.
. bat waa said to have been more or
less accidental no particular method
having been followed to bring It
about
a ... t
Argentine Flier's
pPlane Beyond Repair
JWn I nANlbrr'ranch- India Aug. 21-
Yajor Hanni'e airplane which over-
. . . terned on his attempted bop off for
. -Canton was ao badly damaged that it
r ia not ba repaired it has been s-
. -Wished. The Argentine flier af
i h" present la-at IIong.Koug n waiting In-
atnietiona from hi manaxer.
j WOULD SAVE
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ttwrafaniaaraMaaMatawaaaaa imi iffu.auuuu
rMra. Anna K. willow lajiown
effort to aave the life of Ralph Shadle 17 (upper left) eonfeaaed to Dia-
triot Attorney Miller atMiddieburg
Mil har iNiaband Harvey Willow.
Shadle had confaeaa'd the killing In
electric chair. The lower photograph
Iva yeara old and Glenn 11.
SPECULATORS
State Official Says
Tricksters Would
Steal Crop
AUSTIX Texas. Aug. 21 Specu-
lator are trying to steal the cotton
crop Texas Agricultural Commissioner-
George B.' Terrell (barged
Thursday.
Gamblers' manipulation and not a
prospective oversupply has pushed
the price of cotton below the point
where the farmer will mgke a profit
from his crop the agricultural com-
missioner asaerted.
Cotton should stand at or above
30 cents based on all estimate of the
crop he said.
Manipulation together with regula-
tions by the federal reserve banks
which "is another long step toward
centralising authority whic!) rightfully
belongs to the fetaton" hns put cotton
down below a price which will permit
the farmer to share in its profits he
said.
The rapid marketing or duinpuig of
cotton on the market as fast ss
ginned will further demoralise the
price. Mr. Terrell said; He urged
warehousing and orderly mnrketlng.
Federal encroachment he said was
shown in the announcement of .1. IV
Brown in churge of administering the
t'nlted States warehoune act in Vir-
ginia. North and South Carolina that
the federal rcaerve bank of St. Ixwis
will not. after September 1 accept
cotton warehouse receipts except
from United States warehouses as
collateral for loans.
"It is to be hoped." Mr. Terrell
said "that the action will not be ap-
proved by the federal reserve board
and that the federal reserve banks at
Atlanta Qa. and Dallas Texas in
the heart of the cotton belt will not
refuse to make loans on cotton stored
in other than federal Warehouses."
The present cotton crop ia beins
produced at a higher cost than last
year owing to larger acreage un-
favorable weather conditions and the
larger amounts of high priced fertil-
izer used Mr. Terrell reported.
Russ General in Pursuit
Of Fortune as Watchman
CHICAGO. Aug. 21. As com-
mander of tho imperial cavalry .of
his late majesty. Nicholas Romanoff
cxar of all the Russians Major Gen-
eral Kir Banil Trheslavsky knight-
commander of the order of St.
George learned to keep nn eye ou
people and events.
His knowledge lately has proved
useful. Now be Is a night watchman
in the Western Electric company's
plant here. He is a good one too
according to company officials .ana
he is dne to get a salary increase of
$10 a month soon. Just what he re-
ceives in the way of recompense for
his 'present labors .company officials
and Sir Basil both decline to- aay.
All the general's fortune mid es-
tates hare van I shed. His wife and
children virtually are stranded in
Rntiand. where he left them when he
decided to come to the United States
where friends told him. he surely
would recoup hi fortunes. Once he
lived in a palace now he occupies a
BOY SHE LOVES
'SCSI
at upper right) 83 yeara old. In an
Pa. that ahe forced the youth to
She made this statement after
the hope of aavihg him from the
ahewa Mrs. Willow" two children
COTTON BAN
ONiraiEY
Special Agents Will
luard Against
Smugglers
(Tost-Dispatch- Special)
BROWNSVILLE Texan Aug
A number of citizens of the
21.
ltio
Orande Valley will be annotated sne
cial customs officers to serve with-
qut pay in order to guard the border
against smuggling of cotton from
Mexico according to William A. Neale
deputy collector of customs at
Brownsville. Mr. Neal bawd this
statement on action of the secretary
of treaKury in uruuting the request
for more men along the border.
Collector of Customs Roy Camp-
bell of San Antonio asked permis-
sion from the treasury department
to appoint temporary customs inspec-
tors along the river to aid in the
work of patrolling to prevent the
crossing of cotton from Mexico. The
telegram brought n favorable answir
and Mr. Campbell was given authority
to appoint nil the men needed
The telegrnm follows: "Weed cot-
ton is being smuggled into Texas be-
tween Koma and Brownsville 'from
Mexico. Citizens of that section are
afraid of the introduction of pink boll
worm which exists in Mexico. If
this pest secures a foothold in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley the cotton
industry will ba ruined there snd
probably cost Texas millions of dol-
lar. "Customs inspectors nre working
diligently to prevent cotton smug-
gling but the character of the river
front and Ion meandering course of
nearly 200 miles from Roma to
Brownsville makes proper policing im-
possible with our ismall corps of in-
spectors. "Will you give me authority to ap-
point responsible citizens temporary
customs inspectors without compen-
sation to assist ns in patrolling the
river? This matter is of vital inter-
est to the whole cotton industry."
MAN MAKES BOND.
CORSICANA Texas Aug. 21.
Porter Ijiwson. who surrendered here
Tuesday night in connection with the
killing of Fred Dndson in the Powell
oil field made bond Thursday in the
sura of $2000.
little furnished room which he keeps
immaculate.
Is the general downhearted over
his change from wealth and power t
comparative poverty nnd loss of
position? He is not. But he docs
want to save enough moucy to bring
hiH'fnnrily here". '
The gener.il has not succeeded In
making many friends in his new-
country. He Mtill retains the polished
and rather abrupt manner of the im-
perial soldier coiirie. Once he was
attached to the cxar's court.
Lnter be became n friend of Keren-
sky and he ws oue of the men
chosen to represent Russia on the
inter-allied reparations counsel.
The revolution and the Soviets
drove him from his homeland. He
took his family to Knglnnd. There
he found no betterment of his con-
dition. He had heard of America the
frolden land of opportunity. He came
irre but he did not find the pot of
(old at the rainbow's end.
FELIX BRANDS
STORIES TOLD
HEREAS LIES
Dallas Man Declares
Falsehoods Used to
Discredit Him Be
fore Public.
Branding statements made against
his character by . opponenta in the
run-off primary campaign aa "infa-
mous lies" and predicting that he will
be nominated for governor Saturday
by a majority of not less than 90000
otes Judge Kelix D. Robertson of
Dallas Thursday turned a verbal bat-
tory on the Ferguson forces and
launched an intensive attack Thurs-
day night at the city auditorium.
He made the last addresa of bis
South Texas campaign at a mass
meeting held in the city auditorium.
Judge Robertson arrjved early
Thursday and was met at the station
by a crowd of enthusiastic followers.
He was escorted to the Rice hotel
where h wns guest at a luncheon ar-
ranged hy a "committee of 100" from
the Robertson club. .
In a statement to the Tost-Dis-patch
a short time before the opening
of the night meeting he said:
"There is but one issue to this
campaign. The vital question at
stake is whether or not the 8tat
wilt return to the power of the old
whisky ring with all the crime de-
bauchery evil and corruption which
have been .concurrent with their eras
of governing control in Texas.
"When that bunch of sorry rotters
and party bolters saw they could not
intimidate n man who was not a quit-
ter they started indulging in infa-
mous and false personalities. In
spite of nil their crooked work I shall
carry the State by a majority of
more than 1)0.000 votes.
"All attacks of immorality drunk-
enness and debauchery launched
(Cont'g on Fage 2.)
VISITS CITY
Army Engineer Is
Tendered Banquet
Thursday
As guests of the port commission
nnd the Chamber of Commwct
jor J. I. Schley I'. S. army engineer
in charge of the (lalveston district
and Major B. B. Browne and Lieu-
tenant J. C. Counts bis aides were
tendered a banquet at the Rice hutel
roof Thursday night when the offi-
cials became acquainted with Houston
business men and officials.
After an all-day inspection of the
city the ship channel and a luncheon
Thursday noon with the Itotary club
the engineers were made to feel that
Houston is their home although they
reside in Galveston.
The officers are the officials in
chnree of the government work on
the Houston ship channel.
Lieutenant Counts is to be sta-
tioned in Houston after September 1.
in rbarge of the operations in this
part nf the district establishing a
new office for the district. He is ex-
pected to open an office on the fifth
floor of the court house with the
navigation district( where he ran be
in close touch with work which is
going on.
The banquet was attended by a
large number of business men. Ma-
jor Schley addressed the gathering
on the government's work and the
interests in the Houston ship chan-
nel. He in the new official of this
district having taken office but a
few weeks ngo.
AUTOS INJURE
TWO SMALL BOYS
Benjamin Miley. eight years old. of
itHiy Main street received body
bruises and a cut on the left arm at K
p. m. Thursday when he was knocked
frcen his bicycle hy a truck at Milam
and Capitol streets.
A Houston I'nilerlakinr company
ambulance took him to HI. Joseph's
Infirmary tint he was Inter removed
to his home.
A negro was driving the ear. ne
was turned over to the sheriff by
standers-liy.
Charles Harvey M years old of 70.l
Clmrtres street was slightly injured
at 4:10 p. in. Thursday when he wns
struck by an auto at Texas and Caro-
line streets.
He was taken to St. Joseph's In-
firmary in a Wrstheiiner ambulance.
The driver of the car wns arrested.
La Follette Ticket
Filed With Secretary
At STIN. Texas. An.. 21. The La
Follette-W'heeler independent party
Thursilnv fiIfW with Ailtn ttaai
of Slate Henry Hutching a certificate
containing the names of electors for
this port to be included on the ballot
ror tne general election In rnvemlr.
The Dimes will be printed on the offi-
cial ballot
filAJORSCHLEY
Stranded Vet
Asks State Aid
To Reach Trial
(Post-Dispatch Special.)
AUSTIN. Texas. Aug. 21.
8. B. Young of' Goose Creek
Confederate veteran Thursday
appealed to the attorney gen-
eral to help him get bark to
Harris county. He said he
was a defense witness in the
rase of his grandson Joe
Young who is to be tried in
Harris county on a charge of
assault to murder and hid
been brought by automobile to
the Confederate reunion at
Driftwood and abandoned
there without funds on which
to return.
PROBECHARGE
Alleged Beating of
Mexican Will Be
Investigated
The Ilarria county grand Jury
Thursday began an investigation Into
charges brought by J. l'rieto Laurens
atudent refugee from Mexico that be
was beaten by Deputy Constable J.
E. Namiin at Luna Bark Wednesday
night after being placed under arrest
when he entered the park dnnce hall.
Laurens appeared before the grand
jury Thnrsday. Naqnin nlso was
questioned it was reported.
"I went to the dance hull wiih s
Mexican friend and two Mexican
girls" Laurens sfid. "My com-
'paniens had entered the gate and I
started in when an attendant as'ied
me about my nationality. I told him
I was a Mexican sad he refused me
the right to dance. I had already
bought our ticket! and asked that I
be shown the manager. A woman
came'ind said ahe bad charge of the
dance Nil. I thought I could settle
my affair with her and started In to
explain thit I had never before been
refused permission in dance on ac-
count of my nativity."
Lauren sayt that a man In plain
clothes then stepped np and offered
to take him out. "As he grabbed
for me." Laurens continued. "1 hit
hiin. . Then an officer in uniform
came and helped tnke me to an au-
tomobile. When my brother former-
ly Mexican couaul in Houston at-
tempted to go with mc to the car
the man in plain clothes displayed his
pistol and told my brother to leave."
After getting in the machine
taurens says he was struck several
times by the officer in plain clothes
whom he identified as Naquin.
The latter denies hnvinn struck
Lauren' after reaching the car.
A rbarge nf simple nsssult was filed
against Lauren in Justice Campbell
It. Overstreet'a court. The refugee
wis released on his own recogni-
sance. Ijiurens is s brother of .Tnrao
Trleto Iaiirens. former governor of
Hon Luis I'otosl
GRAND JURY TO
PROBE SLAYING
While it is temporsrily occupied
with other matters the Harris county
grand jury has not completed Its in-
vestigation of the murder of K. O.
Wilson nlias R. O. Workmen por-
trait salesman slain June 21 as he
was riding in an automobile with
Robert Don Carlos now held on a
charge of murder.
According to reports Thursday the
investigators were awaiting arrival of
additional witnesses. It ia thought
that these witnesses nre in central
Texas.
Don Carlos after his arrest In
San Antonio with his wife who had
lived with Wilson six years previous
to his murder made a statement In
which he confessed sole resHusbility
for the slaying nf Wilson.
Carlos wns held without bond.
WHEELER WECOMES
'COURT CAMPAIGN'
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.-Senator
Wheeler independent candidate for
vice president declared here Thurs-
day that he would "welcome" trial
during the campaign In Motitnnii.
where he has been indicted on a
charge of having improperly appeared
ns an attorney before the federal do-
partmeul after his election to the sen-
ate. Mr. Wheeler said he had no In-
formation that the district attorney
in Montana intended to bring his case
to trial about the middle of Septem-
ber except from press notices. lie
said he would under no circumstances
ask for a continuance nnd would be
"glad. to conduct bis campaign from-
a court room."
Phil ippine H ouse
Passes Relief Bill
MANILA Aug. 21.-"-Tbe house of
It I'k'.lll.nlna I. .iul.h... Tl....l..
again pn ed the hill appropriating
I'MUMM) f he relief of sufferers
from typho which was vetoed by
Governor Giyral Wood during the
but session Oithe legislature.
GRAND
JURORS
ONE KILLED
AS TORNADO
SWEEPS TOWN
Yale S. D. Virtually
Wiped Out; Several
Injured as Storms
Rage in Northwest.
HCRON R. P. Aug. 21. Reports
received here Thursday morning say
s tornado struck through u district l'i
miles east of here killing one man
at Yale northeast of Huron and in-
juring several persons in the towns
of Iroquois and Caour. Yale accord-
ing to these unconfirmed reports was
virtually wiped out.
Newspapermen art sccompanying a
party of doctors and nurses to Yale
where unverified reports said prac-
tically every building; in the town was
demolished.
All wires Into the affected area are
down making direct communication
impossible but linemen are being
rushed to the district to repair the
breaks.
TEORIA. III.. Aug. 21.-The Illinou
river nt a stage nf 20.0 feet today is
still rising rapidly after a rise of
more than two feet in 24 hours Is
forecast to reach the dangerous stage
of 22 feet here by Hunday.
Rail snd road traffic is seriously
handicapped to all points north and
east but rapid progress is being
made toward rleariug up the wreck-
age which is the worst in memory.
No trains were opersting over t!ie
Chicago Kurlington and (juincy lines
to Oaleaburg. due to washouts in the
Klckspoo valley. The Toledo I'eoria
and Western I'nes east were reported
out at seversl points. Chenoa lines
of the C. and A. were still impass-
able. The Rock Island lines are entirely
out and traffic will not be resumed
for several days between l'eoris nnd
Chicago and I'eoria nnd Rock Island
over its lines. The Rock Island de-
(Cont'g on Tige 2.)
CITY POLL
Democratic Party
Can Demand . Re-
ceipt Opinion
(I'ost-Dispatrh Special.)
AI'STIN Aug. 21. The attorney
general' depart inent. in an opinion
Thursday to Representative It. K.
Quinn of Iteaumont. upheld the right
of a coimty democratic executive
committee to require a city poll lux
receipt ss well as cuuuly poll tax us
condition to voting next Saturday.
The opinion pointed nut Hint a rul-
ing to which he .referred holding a
cilixen could not he prevented from
voting because of failure to pay the
rity poll tax applied only to general
election and that n separate statute
covered the (liscnni untiidi against
men so far as primaries were con-
cerned. The department pointed to
previous opinion declaring the dem-
ocratic party has the ni;lit to pre-
scribe voting iuiil.ficatioiis in primary
elections.
RANGER TO PROBE
DEATH OF DWIGHT
AI'STIN Texas. Aug 21. A Slate
ranger has been sent to Childress to
invest igutlng I he killing of Mel J.
Dwight candidate for sheriff. Adju-
tant Oenernl Ilurton announced on
Thursday. Iicnl officers had not
asked for Stntc assistance (lenerol
llarton said hut be decided to mnke
an independent investigation and sent
a ranger from Wichita Knlls to Chil-
dress to probe the shooting ot Dwight.
TAX LEGAL
Georgians Fume Over New
Law; Marriages Illegal
(Culled News.)
ATLANTA (ia.. Aug. 21. Count-
less honeymoons have been inter-
rupted In this Stale in the Ir.st four
days by the awful realiznt ioi. that 'he
happy honeyiiKionei s were not mar-
ried. Owing to the official 'gii'iruijce
of the full morning of a nvent i.iw
passed by the (ienixiu IcgKlaturc
every marriage contracted williiu 'he
Htate since the iminiing of AiikusI IS
is void and scores of hone) moons nre
linwnrrinted according to 8. (I. Mc-
Lendop secretary of Stale.
The worst of it is that the honey-
moons If they are to continue legally
must wait a full five days before re-
suming and that is a tremendous gap
in a honeymoon.
Hcores of couples are affected by
the decision. Mcl.endon believes but
he refused to even hatiird n guess at
the number. He was positive that it
is "very Urge."
(Jeorgla has thus become the only
State in the Union in which marrlaee
ia not legal at lent in which mar
I ACCUSED
1 n
Dltcovsry of a shortage attlaiited
at from $262000 to $400000 followed
the attempted suicide of O. Harold
Cilpatrlo cashlar of the First N.
tional bank of Potnam Conn. and
Cosnectloat Stats trenorer. Ollpat-
rlo shot himself I tha head liter
placing ths photo of hi wlfs daugh-
ter and two ton bold him. It was
said that If h recovered h would ba
blind.
VERYSLOWLY
Disturbance Repovted
300 Miles From
Florida Coast
The troplcul storm which has ben
Tinder nhserrn? tun hv thfl weather hit-
rcau service fines Monday was still
holding to its northwesterly course
Thursday apparently beadkug for tba
Southern Atlantic coast.
The position of the storm in the
Wtahlngtan report received here at
10 a.'m. was latitude 20 degrees
BOrth lObgHud 7o degrees west
near .Great Ahaco Island and (bout
S00 uilloa from I'alm Beach Kla.
Wenther condition m the Florida
coast were nt (bat time atill unaf-
fected. No detailed reports on the Inten-
sity of the storm hive been received
since no ships nor islands hare been
directly in its pitli.
The point where the storm will
stiiko probably will be determined
within the next 24 hours unless it
should turn westward nnd enter the
(tiijf which at present seems uu
likelv
Warnings have been issued to nil
boats departing for toe boutu At-
lantic. M. Sprague is in temporary charge
of the weather bureau while Law-
rence f)aingerfield observer Is on a
vacation trip in Illinois. lie left
cdncsday evening.
Father of Slain
Lad Asks Mercy
For Smith Boys
CIUCAgo. Aug. 21. Jacob
Franks father of the kidnaped mid
slniu Robert r ranks for whose slay
ers Nathan Irfopold and Richurd
l.oeb Mr. r ranks lias advocated
death. Thursday asked mercy for the
11-year-old and ID-rcnr-nld brothers.
Earl and Fielding Hinith who were
arrested Y ednesdav night arter send
ing him two extortion Tellers.
Mr. Franks Thursdsy had s long
talk with tli (i boys who confessed
they had written the letters demand
Ing $N000 or threatening death to Mr.
Franks' wife nnd daughter. He told
them they were misguided hoys seek
Ing money In such a manner to open
u grocery.
The letter Mr. Franks told them
hud caused him uiilrli anguish but
that he would recommend leniency
for tliem niiil ask that thev be re
leased and given another chance to
live straight lives.
riage has not been legal for the Inst
four days and will not be for the next
four.
The difficulty was brought about
by Ihe recent legislature which passed
a Ihw requiring the Kistiug for five
days of applications for mirr'uik'e
licenses before they enn be granted.
Officials are somewhat confused over
the law- and have fulled to comply n it li
the five-dny nsting ropiiremcnt.
Licenses have been granted and
couples married for three days only
to he told Wednesday that the mnr-
riages were illegal and would liuve
to be performpd again.
Rut there is another cateh to it.
ihoulil an application be filled out and'
liosted today licenses could not be
granted for five day. Thus tjoor-
gians are slated for at least snot her
week In which no legal marriages can
be performed.
McLendon declared that the law
was certainly a law anil that he could
see no means of getting around its
provisions. Marriage ceremonlca- be
said must ba repeated.
SHOVES
NELSON AND
SMITH (ME
LONG JUMP
i ss . 4 -.t
Italian Aviator With
U. S. Airmen Not in '
Sight When Latter -Make
Landing. . V
a;.
" .
(ITnited News.) v'
FREDEK1KSDAL Green- -land
Aug. 21. The two Amer-
ican world fliers Lieutenantjj .
Smith and Nelson arrived here v
Thursday night at the end of' '-
their 852-mile voyage from
Iceland. .
Lieutenant Smith landed at;-
6:10 Greenwich mean time"
and was followed a few min
utcs later by Lieutenant Nel-.
son. Lieutenant Locatelli the ?
Italian airman who hopped off
from Reykjavik with the t
Americans had not been sight- -:d
when Nelson landed V
STATE SCORES; v
YOUTHS HARD
Savage in Argument;
Denounces Plea of T.
Insanity
CA.aociitd Pri)
CHICAGO All. 21. radars ' tat
hid sufficiently the boly; of ;Konrt .
Cranks was the fees kin point tartit
llot of Nathaa Leopold Jr. and EicV
ord Loeb. accofdini t ths Blatt a
analysis of tba eriai I Wei Thursday
befor Judge John It. Oaverly by Jo-
seph Savage assistant Htate i attur- '
Dry.
In Impassioned denunciation C
tha defendants. nd with wiring anua -'
and pounding fists Mr. Havage tali
Hie court tbat If Leopold bid foreedj .
tlit body well into the culrert Instead ..
of paining it with bis foot. It vakil :
not have been found.
"They would not hare been ppra t
hendrd iu 100000 yeara" said Mr.
Sarage.
lie described the attempt ta get
$101)00 ransom from Bobby' father
pointing out that the tdentlflcitloit t '
the body brcame. knuwu to Mr. ('rank
only five tninutm before he raceirvd
his last mfssige from "George John- !
son." the nam used to alga lh ran. . .
som letter. '
Mr. 8a rage inert ed that Leopold
and loeb had dnwn tbeir plan sss r
fine that if the father had followed
directions and lone to a drug stora in. ' -a
rah furnished by tha kidnapers ha
would hare been sent scurrying to v
railroad drpot. there to board train
due to le.i ve a fw minutes later.
Plan Wall Laid. '
In the parlor car the boy ha
placed a letter addressed to Mr.
Franks and giving full directions on
how to throw the money from thai i
moving train. .
"Tliey would hare reached thai .
deaiguatrd point in their automobile) .
nt that precie moment if the train.'
were on time." said Mr. Ravaara . v
"How could they have been traced T
No one knew whenc wine tha tale'
phone rail to Mr. Franks nor wha
had ordered the cab sent to his homf. . .
No one would have known who tl
phoned th dru morn and tha father
would have had no chance to aatlfr
the police in adranc of where he had
been told to go or how to dlipo of -
the moner. v
"It wnn s coldly Intellectual plan
devilish in Ita deliberation" laid Miw
Hinge.
He quoted Leopold as hiring MM
he failed In take proper prerantlnna "
ami tried to force the body ia wttfc ; '.'
Cont'g on Pag 2.) v'
W.J. BRYAN INJURED k
AS CAR OVERTURIIS
(AaaoHnteJ Pre.) .
TKKRK HAl'TB InA Aur. 31.
William Jenning Bryan was lnjar4 t
early Wednesday evening when an an- -tomobile
in which h was ipeeainc
from Tuscola to Mattooa 1)1 tnrned
over on the highway. 1 '
Mr. Hryan wis bruised lad eat ;
about the brad and face but waa able
to give a scheduled lecture upon a e
rival at Mattoos. News of tha -
dent waa withheld Wednesday (tight
nt Mr. Hrysn'a resjueat for the reason
Mint he did not want Mrs. Rryna. who
ia ill at her home in. Florida ta know v
of th injury: .
T
Holcombe Due Honie
From European Trip .
Myor' Oscar n1eoaibe ;w) f f
tended the Ad Mru'a convention in
London and hi K-n risking rela-
tive! ia Tennessee. waX)M taarrira
in Houston at 0:00 rvn Tbaradar.
Ilia wife lid danahtearil
will rtoaln la Tlnnaawe) kM p.V'y '
return later il taa nonuaev accN. ' v
Ioi hj relttlTU --1-
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