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FRONT HME SUCCESS
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During Battle Which Started
at Daybreak the Defending
Forces Drove Back Invad
ing Kiangsu Forces.
LINE STRENGTHENED *
DURING BATTLE,
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Battle Described as Major At-;
tack by the Shanghai De
fenders—Wounded Carried
' to Shanghai.
Shanghai, Sept. 20 (By the Associated
Press). —In an engagement which started
at daybreak, reinforced Chekiang troops
on the front between the Shanghai-Nan
king railway line and Kinting, pushed
the invading Kiangsu forces back,
strengthened ' their lines, nnd regained
positions near Heungtu, 15 miles west
of here. 1
Wounded Chekiang soldiers arriving
here this morning said the fighting was
described as a major attack by the Shang
hai defenders. Fifteen hundred Chekiang
troops to reinforce the line west of here,
arrived in Shanghai at daybreak from;
Nanking, 75 miles south of here. Ob
servers said the heaviest shipment of
arms sent to the western front in a sin
gle day was moved from Shanghai this
morning. Arsenal is working day and
night refilling empty shells.
Manchurian Troops Victorious.
Mukden, Manchuria, Sept. 20 (By the
Associatede Press). —An engagement be
tween the second army of Chang Tso-Lin, 1
war lord of Manchuria, and the enemy .
forces of the Ping government, took plape
near Jehol. north of Peking, near the
Chili border. An entire mixed brigade
cf the Chihli forces was declared to have
. been put to flight by the Manchurian •
troops.
ADDITIONAL. EVIDENCE
IN THE HIGHT CASE
State’s Attorney Says He la Now Ready
to Charge Minister With the Murder
of His Wife.
Mt. Vernon, ID., Sept. the As
sociated' Press).—-Important *"additional
inb.»malaan’: -h4B» .light within
the*' last few hours in the , T»w‘~o'f the 1
Rev. Lawrence Right. Ina clergyman, in '{
jail here charged with the murder by :
poison of his wife, E. G. Thompson, the
state’s attorney announced today.
“We have the evidence now to go to
trial on a murder charge." Mr. Thompson 1
said. “I do 'not care at this time to' dis
close its nature, but at the proper time ,
we will be able to show that the Ina ‘
was in the market for poison '
on a rather extensive scale this summer'.” ;
PRINTERsToiVE PRINCE
MEMBERSHIP IN UNION
Called at Temporary Home of Royal 1
Visiters Bi|t Were Unable to Get Au- i
(Hence With Him. <
(By trie Associated Press.>
Syossett, N. Y.. Sept. 20.—The Prince
of Wales today declined to see a depu
tation of four members of a New York
printing pressmen’s union, who called at
the lames A. Burden home here to pre
sent to the royal visitor personally an
engraved certificate of honorary member
ship ip the union. The Prince, however,, ;
did not reject the \ membership to which
he had been elected, after he pressed the
button starting the presses of tile New
York Herald-Tribune on Wednesday.
The Prince’s Long Island visit will end
tomorrow night.
First Cotton Shipment Is Being Made
to Russia.
New York. Sept. 19. —First shipments
of new crop ’cotton by the All-Russion
Textile Syndicate, incorporated, are now
on their way to Russia. Consignments
of 12.000 bales have gone forward with
in the past fortnight, and cargoes ar
gregating 23,500 bales will leave from
Galveston and other southern points next
/'week. The exports, which previously
have been routed to Russia through Ger
many or other European countries, will
go to the port of Mummansk. Cotton
purchased by the Russian syndicate in the
United States since the first of the year
is said to hnve represented an outlay
of more than $40,000,000.
The depression in the textile Co., says
Springs and Co., is not helped by the
persistent decline in the price of Cotton,
for until it Ib evident that a fair price
lias been established—that the market
lias found itself—the mills will find it
impossible to fix fair prices for goods,
the distributing trade will be unwilling
’ to buy aud the consumer’s opposition
will continue.
Defenders Admit They May Surrender
Shanghai
• Shanghai, Sept. 20. —3:20 a. m. —Sur-
render of Shanghai ’to the Kiangßu
armies seeking* to capture it was admit
ted this ’morning at headquarters,of the
defenders at Lungwha to be a possibility.
It was asserted, however, that contrary
to common reports, the defending Che
kiang soldiers were not in retreat.
Prominent Man Marries Shoe Worker
(By the Associated Press.)
Salem, Mass., Sept. 20.—William Sid
ney, Felton, Harvard graduate, attorney,
and world war veteran, was married at
noon today at the home of bis parents,
, tine, of the leading families of Salem, to
Miss Posia Szcychovics, pretty 18-year
old shoe worker.
In the hills of Sicily mail la carried
nnder armed guard on the backs of
burros.
The Concord Daily Tribune
DAVIS ELECTRIFIES
HIS GREAT AUDIENCE
Washingtonians Listening in Shout “It’s
Woodrow Wilson Come to Life." I
Washington, Sept. 19.—The mese strik
ing political phenomenon here at this
moment is the wonder and astonishment
at the metamorphosis of John W. Davis.
Thousands of people in Washington last
night heard Davis’ Chicago speech over
| the radio nnd friends as well as oppon-i
ents expressed (heir astonishment. Some
of them could scarcely believe their ears.
One old war horse Democrat shouted:
,“It is Woodrow Wilson come to life!”
* Those who ai*e familiar with the Wilson
: style cf oratory did not have to stretch
their imagination.
Rut many persons could not imagine
how a suave, amiable gentleman could
SO transform himself as to move 15,000
people into a state of howling enthutn- j
asm. This radio audience sat at the
| instrument for ten minutes with Chicago
I sirens screaming in its ears. It sound- i
ed for ail the world like the New York j
1 convention with the A1 Smith demonstra-,
tion repeated except it did not have the ;
cut and dried A1 Smith stamp on it. j
. It was real human emotion at high tide. I
I Mr. Davis entered the west two weeks 1
• ago a great Supreme Court lawyer with
the mantle of Wall Street on his shoul- J
ders, the mantle which W. J. Bryan has;
fastened there. Thousands cf peopie out j
of curiosity went to see him and hear ■
What he had to say. In his two weeks |
campaign in the west he had so vividly
impressed the public that when he reach
ed Chicago yesterday the city was on
’ fire with enthusiasm. " ■ i
.The transformation of Mr. Davis at
this late hour has caused some Demo
crats here to bemoan the fact that the
election is only about six weeks off. They
, declare if he had only ten weeks he
| eould transform the public mind of the
country as he has metamorphosed him
self. They dolefully admit that the
winning of a majority of votes in the
electoral college is well nigh impossible
even for Crusader Davis. It is re
marked that the campaign ought to have
been begun when the party was wasting
its time balloting in the New York con
vention,
COUZENB TO VIEW
ALL TAX RETURNS
Secretary Mellon Agrees to Examination
of Records by Senate Committe.
Washington, Sept. 18. —Senator Cou
zens, of Michigan, won bis fight today
to have ail income tax returns and other
records of the Treasury Department
thrown open to the examination of his
special investigating committee, a course
which President Coolidge and Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon have hitherto op
posed:
Secretary Mellon was in private con
ference with the-senator for an hour and
a quarter this noon, after which the Cou
sens committee announced agreement had
been reached whereby agents of the com
mittee are to have free access to all
tax returns the committee witshes to
see, with authority to copy therefrom
all such information as they deem nec
essary to the conduct of the investiga
tion.
This is the finst time Treasury records
have been turned over to the inspection
of a Congressional committee, and while
no general publicity is to be given to
them. Chairman Couzens will make pub
lic during subsequent hearings such facts
and information as he may consider rele
vant m connection with irregularities,
Treasury practices or methods and other
matters to which his inquiry is direct
ed.
MAKES VISIT TO MIL
FINDS FUTURE WIFE THERE
Romance Started Several Weeks Ago
When Body of Christian Workers
Visited Jail Ends InriYlarriage.
(By the Associated Press)
Charlotte, Sept. 20.—A romance which
began five weeks ago when a group from
the Chris’tian Men’s Club visited the
county jail to conduct religious services,
ended in a marriage ceremony Friday
night when 20-year-old Pansy Thacker
became the bride of 24-year-old La mi is
R. Silver, salesman for a local store.
The marriage ceremony was performed
after Superior Court Judge W. F. Hard
ing ruled that a year sentence being
served by the girl should end if she got
married. Mr. Silver announced today
that he and his bride who is said to he
from Burlington, would leave for Wash
ington or New York, where they will
make their home.
Man Faster Than Machine.
Paris, Sept. 20. —A French lightning
calculator, M. Inaudi, was recently pitted
against twelve of the latest types of cal
culating machines. The human machine
carried off all but one,of the honors. |
M. Inaudi easily beat his mechanical)
; competitors in the speed with which he I
solved problems in addition, subtraction,!
division, and finding the square or the]
cube, but in the first round—extracting!
the square root of a number —a machine
came out first. In the third round,
which consisted of complicated prob
lems, the man won easily.
Oldest Almanac in World.
London, Sept. 20. —Among the treas
ures of the British Museum is an alma
nac that is 3.000 years old; it is sup
posed to be the oldest in the world. It
is written like all other Egyptian manu
scripts, on papyrus, and was found on
the mummy of an Egyptian, who had
treasured it apparently as something sa
cred, for it is of a strong religious
acter. Under the days, which are writ
ten in red ink, there is a figure followed
by three characters, signifying the prob
able state of the weather.
Bennett Completes Another Long Drive.
Greensboro, Sept. 19.—Ralph Bennett
this afternoon completed here a 109-hour
non stop.drive of an automobile drive be
tween here, Burlington and High Point.
He was chained to the steering column
throughout the drive. Today, as he ap
proached exhaustion; a nurse and phy
sician attended him and an ambulance
followed the car.
When the drive ended be was taken
■to Burlington to sleep awhile. He will
be brought here asleep and be shown
sleeping, then sleep awhile at High Point.
CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1924
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rend the alphabet as good as the average adult. This picture here was
taken during a test judges, educators, newspapermen and orhera gave her
CHICAGO OVATION FOR DAVIS.
Cheering Thousands Attest His Gain in
Popularity Since Previous Visit.
Chicago, Sept. 18.—This is a story of
contrasts. Exactly sixteen days ago
John IV’. Davis came to Chicago. Except
for members of the Cook County Demo
cratic Club, who had drifted down to the
station, he was almost unheralded and
unnoticed. ‘
Today, after ten days west of the
Mississippi, he came again. Horns toot
ed. paper fluttered down from big office
windows to clutter up the streets, bands
played, the jiopulace got out and yelled,
peopie surged arouud him on every side
and plunged oafter him as he made his
way to the City Hall for a Call on the
Mayor. Chicago showed that when she
is in a _ mood to give a re,coition jk
.knows lib*: „ ' ' ‘ .iw
The band played “It Will Be Hot Time,
in the Old Town Tonight.” This was
truly phephetic, for there was a hot
time tonight when half a dozen parades
descended on the Dexter Pavilion whieli
is out stockyards way, and crammed that
building until its 15,000 seating capacity
was exhausted. The man who got the
corner of a window ledge to stand on
was lucky.
COTTON SEED CRUSHED
During August 09,521 Tons Were Crush
ed.—lncrease Over Last Year.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 20.—Cotton seed
crushed during August totalled 419,521
tons, compared with 56,09* tons in Aug
ust last year; and on hand at mills Aug
ust 31st, 93,949 tons, compared with
123,008 tons on August 31st last year,
the Census Bureau announced today.
Indicted for Murder.
(By the Associated Press.)
Cattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 20.—Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Bennett, of Rome, Ga., were
indicted by the Hamilton County grand
jury here this morning for the murder of
Miss Augusta Hoffman. Miss Hoffman
was a spinister modiste, whose skeleton
is alleged to have been found under the
floor of the home occupied by the Ben
netts here several months ago.
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SECRETARY WILBUR HAS
TALK WITH PRESIDENT
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Technical Details of Budget in Relation
to Balanced Navy Discussed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 20.—Secretary Wil
bur, whose western speaking tour was
out short when he was asked to return
to Washington by President Coolidge,
visited the White lipuse today and at
the termination of hfs his visit with the
President announced that a special board
would be apointed to iuvestigate the rel
ative importance -of air, submarine and
surface craft in the-navy. Secretary Wil
bur declared that the speech
es he made on his four were not brought
up at the White House conference. Only
the technical details of the budget in re
?;i«tM»-to-a balaaeeOiifcgy were Consider
ed, be said. ‘-i -
AVIATORS NOW FLYING
FOR, EL PASO. TEXAS
Facing Stormy Head Wind Which Was
Expected to Affect Their Speed.
Love Field, Dallas, Texas, Sept. 20
(By the Associated Press).—With Lieut.
Lowell H. Smith, flight commander in the
lead, piloting the Chicago, the army world
fliers took off from Love Field. Dallas,
at 9.40 a, m., for El Paso,- 645 miles
away.
The fliers will follow the right of way
of the Texas & Pacific Railroad. They
headed due west into strong head wind
which' Lieut. Smith declared would les
sen their speed materially, reducing it to
approximately 65 miles per hour.
To Survey the Seas.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 20.—Plans
for the most complete survey of the
ocean ever attempted have been inaug
urated by a conference representing scien
tific branches of the United States 'gov
ernment .and allied institutions.
One or more ships will be fitted out
with a complete laboratory and equipped
with the latest scientific apparatus for
the first cruise. The sea bottom will
not only be mapped, but the composition
of the water, its density, temperature,
and currents which ’affect the distribu
tion of marine plant and animal life,
wil lbe studied at all depths.
Five-sevenths of the surface of the
earth is covered with water. This water
area can produce more food than all the
land can ever be made to yield, and one
of the puropses of the expedition iwll
be to take an inventory of such food
possibilities.
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Here~Ts a young woman wTio “on?e
turned down a dance "bid” from the
Prince of Wales. She is Mrs. Bessie
Allen of Los Angeles. Five years
ago she was visiting in Lethbridge.
Alberta, end so was the prince.
"Eddie” spotted her and asked her
for a dance. Dressed only in her
’ street clothes, she demurred. But
the prince persisted, so she changed
her mind and stepped out with him
for several numbers
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THE COTTON MARKET
j Reports of Rain and Encouraging Re-
I ports From Goods Trade Affected the
Market.
(njr the Associated Press, >
New York, Sept. 20.—Reports of con
tinued unfavorable weather in the South,
coupler! with more encouraging reports
from the goods trade and relatively steady '
Liverpool cables, appeared responsible for
a firm opening in the cotton market to
day.
Despite active covering for over the 1
week-end, and some trade buying on the
initial advance of 14 to 10 points, the 1
market met considerable realizing and '
some hedge selling around 22.25 for De- 1
cember which checked the advance and 1
caused reactions of 10 or 12 points from ;
the best. General business was not ac- '
tive. •
Cotton futures opened firm. Oct.
22.85: Dec. 22.25; Jan. 22.23; March 1
22.60; May 22.82.
t Closed Steady.
Cotton futures closed steady: October
22.55 to 22.58; December 21.05 to 22.00: !
January 22.05 to 22.08; March 22.28 to
22.0; May 22.46 t» 22.50.
DAVISt TO MAKE WHIRLWIND ;
CAMPAIGN THRGTGfI RAW
Nominee to Speak in Boston,’ Providence, 1
New York and Again Strike West.
Chicago. Sept. 10.—A whirlwind cam
paign through the east is to be conducted
by John W. Davis, the democratic presi- ;
dential nominee, before he strides back
into the west for a second drive for votes >
in that territory.
This was decided upon today at a
conference the nominee had with his field ■
marshal, Clem L. Shaver. The only
eastern dates fixed are at Frederick and
Baltimore, Md.. both on October 1, but
under present plans Mr. “Davis will speak
at Boston, Providence, New York City,
and in Delaware.
From Baltimore the nominee again
will strike eastward to West Virginia, i
Ohio, Indiana, southern Illinois and Mis
souri. There also is a possibility that he
will speak again in Kansas and will i
carry his fight into Michigan.
WOMAN KILLED BY MAN
SHE HAD BEEN KIND TO
Mrs. Clifton R. Hunn, Police Say, Was ,
Killed by an Ex-Convict She Had Be
friended.
(By the Associated Press.)
Pasadena, Cal., Sept. 20. —Mrs. Clif- t
ton R. Hunn, wife of the wealthy busi- ,
ness man, was killed last night by an ex- ]
convict she once befriended, who the po- ]
lice say, smashed her head with a ham
mer, shot her through the heart and i
looted her apartment of gems valued at ]
$20,000. The police today were seeking -
as Mrs. Hunn's slayer Harry Connor, -
alias Harry Carbutt, who, according to ]
detectives was released from an Illinois ;
prison through her influence after sert- 1
ing part of a sentence for robbery, and i
who was aided with her money to start j
| nife anew after leaving the cell.
} Anti-War Demonstrations.
i Amsterdam, Sept. 20.—The 19,000,000
1 workers in twenty-two countries organiz
j ed in unions affiliated with the intermi
i tional Federation of Trade 'Unions are
called upon to join in mass anti-war dem
onstrations tomorrow, in a manifesto
i sent out from the headquarters of the
. Federation in Amsterdam. The deinon
-1 B|.ration are to be in the nature of u
solemn observance of the. tenth anniver
sary of the breaking out of the World
War, although timed considerably later
than the actual date of the beginning of
the conflict.
Guilty of Fifteen Burglaries. ,
1 Atlanta, Ga., "Sept. 17.—Hober Wil
[ son, 17, who pleaded guilty to fifteen bur
i glary charges before Judge John D.
1 Humphries in TFulton Superior Court, 1
i was sentenced to serve from 10 to 100,
years in the convict camps of Georgia,
j Detectives who forked bn the case said
i that the youth had stolen more than
$25,000 worth of jewelry.
K. K. K. Officers Indicted.
Fairmont, W. Va., Sept. 19.—Sixteen
persons among them several men credit
ed with being state officers of the Ku
; Klux Klan were indicted by the Marion
county grand jury yesterday upon vari
ous charges growing out of the shooting
last February of Daniel' Washington, a
negro, after he bad been attacked by a
band of hooded men. »
. Anna Moskowitz Kross, who first set
foot in Newt York an a Russian immi
grant, is now one of the leading women
lawyers practising in the metropolis. -
WILL BE NO SAFE PLACE IF
< ANOTHER WAR SHOULD COME
Can Put Whole Nation to Sleep, Bomb
( Cities and Blow up Battleships With
Manless Airplanes and Do Other
Things to Make World War Methods
Obsolete.
Philadelphia. Sept. 20.—New develop
ments in aerial warfare that render cer
tain World War methods of strategy ob
solete were described yesterday by gov
ernment experts before a -gathering of
scientists here in honor of the centenary
of the Franklin Institute.
The end of transportation of great
armies overseas, bombing of cities by
unmanned automatically operated air
planes, a new camera that “nullifies
camouflage.” wiping out a battleship
with a single air bomb, and the possible
paralyzing of an entire nation by a com
bination of new chemical discoveries were
among the new weapons of war discuss
ed.
The session, presided over by Rear Ad
miral W. A. Moffitt, had as speakers
Major General Patrick, chief of the Army
Air Service; Major General Squier, sig
nal corps sxpert, and Dr. Joseph 8, Ames,
of Johns Hopkins University, member of
the government advisory council on aero
nautics.
Referring to the “manless” airplane,
General Squier asked. "Who shall say
what limits to impose upon new ideas as
attack, if, unhappily war should come
again?”
“Just ns we now give a harmless anaes
thetic to an individual for a surgical
operation, so we may be able in future
to put a whole nation to sleep for 48 ;
• hours by a combination of new chemical
discoveries with radio controlled, man
less airplanes.”
He warned against the possible devel
opment of unique instruments of war
by a single country, and recommended a
world-wide net of inter-communications.
Unking radio, land lines and submarine
cables as “a powerful agency for pre
venting war” through rendering less like
ly development of new weapons. i
General Patrick, stating that the Ar- i
my already possessed an “automatic pi- i
lot” that flies airplanes without anyone t
aboard, expressed the belief that their i
control by radio was only a matter of
brief development and “that whole
flocks of such planes controlled by a man
in a distant airplane would in future
operate against hostile cities, attacking
at the will of the remote pilot.
“We have really gone so far.” Gen
eral Patrick said, “as to now believe
that transportation of an expeditional
force across the sens is an impossibility. '
If the Germans had known in the world
war what we know now. few of our mil- ;
lion men would have reached France.”
The general made a plea for conserva
tion of hellium gas for use in dirigible
airships, which, he said, was being wast
•ed by industries in this country pt the
rate of 560 million cubic feet annually. r
The air chief said that Great Britain was
about to build an airship twice as big as
the giant naval dirigible Shenandoah.
Before another sectional meeting held -
at the University of Peensylvania, DC.
W. D. Coolidge, assistant director of the
General Electric Company, described a
new type portable X-ray. weighing 30
pounds, about the size of an automobile
op radio storage battery, foolproof and ;
operating from the ordinary household
lighting circuit. The machine promised ,
to bring X-ray into much wider use, Dr.
Coolidge said.
It would prove useful, Dr. Coolidge
said, to the builder, the plumber, the
electrician, etc., since it would be just as
easy to look through walls and floors as
it is for the doctor to see the bones of the ,
human body. It also would prove a
great help to the customs inspectors and ,
jawelers. ,
KIDNAPPING STORY IS
BEING INVESTIGATED ,
Officers Want Information About Story j
Told by Mack Briggs.
(By ue Associated Press.)
Danville, Va.. Sept. 20. —Mack Briggs,
aged 12, was being held today by t|ie
authorities at Wentworth, N. C„ near
here, for investigation of his story that
he was “kidnapped” by a carnival com- i
pany from his home in Greenville, S. C.,
two years ago. The boy was found ex
hausted on a road, and added that he
was trying to make his way to Green
ville, though he expressed the belief that
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Briggs, are now living in Florida. The
boy is quoted as saying that he ran
away from the organization at Richmond
a few days ago. Efforts ye being
made to get in touch witli the parents.
Davidson Dedicates Her New Hostelry.
Davidson, Sept. 19.—1 t is safe to say
that Davidson—town and college—is as
proud of and as pleased with its new ho
tel, the Maxwell Chambers, in whose hon
or the building is named and to whose
memory the initial page' in its first reg
ister is dedicated, as is Charlotte in her
new million dollar hotel with its twelve
stories. At present the Maxwell Cham
bers is content with two.
Last evening was the formal opening,
when town community in general was
invited to come and see for themselves
and partake of light refreshments —punch
served in lavish abundance, and rake in
aecompanfryent.
Dry Goods Market .
New York, Sept. 19.—Trading in the
1 cotton cloth market ’ turned dull today,
, although quotations held firm and in
some cases were marked up slightly. Lin
en markets were more active with n
broader inquiry for household and dress
goods. Raw silk prices moved irregu
larly lower with most lines reduced from
5 to 10 cents. Burlap quotations were
unchanged.
Grant Get* Reprieve.
(Br the Associated Press.>
Springfield, 111., Sept. 20—Governor
Leu Small today granted a 90 day re
prieve to Bernard Grant, Chicago youth
awaiting the death penalty on a charge
of murder. The reprieve is dated to
January 16th.
Cotton on the Concord market today ia
21 1-2 cents a pound. Cotton seed, 45
• cento. '
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DAVIS WILL REM
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The Democratic Nominee to
Speak Three Times Today,
Twice in South Bend and
Once in Fort Waynejnd.
NEWYORKWELLBE
HEADQUARTERS NOW
From There Candidate Will
Make Whirlwind Cam
paigns Into Rhode Island,
Delaware and Other States
(By the Associated Press.) !|
Chicago, Sept. 20.—John W. Davie,
Democratic Presidential candidate, was J|
ready today to follow up his campaign
in Indiana opened last night in a ring
ing speech at Gary where he declared
anew for the “principles of human equal- |
ity, personal liberty, and popular sov
ereignty" and pledged his party to do
battle “in very state in the union” in
assault agafnst “privileges in govern
ment." Mr. Davis was to make two
address today at South Bend and one
tonight at Fort Wayne. He planned
to leave Fort Wflyne tonight and will ar- ;
rive in New York Sunday evening. With »
his personal headquarters there as a base
lie will conduct a whirlwind campaign
in Massachusetts. Rhode Island, New *
York, Delaware and Maryland before
again heading westward. Early in Oc
tober he will speak in West Virginia,
Ohio. Indiana. Southern Illinois, Mis
souri, and perhaps in Oklahoma, Kansas
and Michigan.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
IS STILL IN THE RACE
Says He Wants to “Free Kansas From
the Ku Klux Klan.”
Topeka. Kans., Sept. 20 (By the As
sociated Press). —His slogan “free Kan
sas from the Ku Klux Klan,” William
Allen White in a statement issued today
in connection with the filing of his inde
pendent candidacy for Governor, declared
"I am in the race to stay and win.”
“The issue in Kansas this year is the
Klan above everything,” the veteran Em
poria editor asserted, adding that the
Klan has become a national menace.
He attacked the RijraHtem and Derao-
VFaft? gubernatorial nominees, charging
that the two major parties are “led ia
the race for Governor by men who had
Klan support in the primary, and who
will not disavow that support today.”
Mr. White referred to his petition as
“the largest independent petition ever
filed for any office in Kansas.
"None of these petitions came from
my home town or county,” he said. “I
wished honestly to test sentiment.”
GANGSTER FOUND DEAD
IN NEW YORK TENEMENT
“Dutch Louis” Killed by Unknown Per
son.—Sister Says Girl “Pestered Hfan”
(IK' eke Associated Press)
New York, Sept. 20.—Louis Cassaza, a
notorious East Side gangster known as
“Dutch Louis,” was found dead in the
rear hallway of a Roosevelt Street ten
ement house early today with two bul
let wounds in his chest. Nearby was
found a pistol with one empty shell. A
sister of the dead man told the police
Cassaza had been “pestered by a girl.”
The police were convinced, however, that
at least two men were involved in the
crime.
IRENE CASTLE SUING
HER SECOND HUSBAND
Charges Robert C. Treman Has $40,000
Worth of Her Securities.
(By the Aoaoclated Press.)
New Yorkj. Sept. 20—Robert C. Tre
man, who wa6 the second husband of
Irene Castle McLaughlin, former dancer,
was arrested last night in Ithica, N. Y., ' X
on a civil order obtained by Mrs. Mc-
Laughlin from Supreme Court Justice
Aaron J. Levy, it was learned today.
The order wns requested on the ground
that Treman had refused to return to
his wife $40,000 worth of securities.
Southern Wants to Issue Bonds.
(By the Associate*! Press.)
Washington, Sept. 20 —The Southern
Railway today applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for authority to
issue $7,280,000 of 4 1-2 per cent equip
ment trust certificates with which to pur
chase fifty locomotives, 25 passenger
coaches. 10 baggage express cars, 6 din
ing cars, 2,025 box care, and 296 stock
cark. the total cost of which will be SB,-
838,000.
$50,000 Picture for S4O.
London, Sept. 20.—While on a visit to
Rochester, a Kent novelist bought a
painting form an antique dealer for S4O.
At the British Museum the picture was
found to be a Rubens, and the owner
has been offered $50,000 for it.
WHAT SMITTY’S WEAVHEB CAT
BAYS
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Probably showers tonight and Sunday, ’i
1 preceded by fair in east portion tonight;
» warmer in west portion tonight; warmer 1
Sunday.