The Montgomery Advertiser
- QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
- STATE FINANCING COTTON BODY GIVEN COOLIDGE APPROVAL
- SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA
The Advertiser's front page of October 20, 1926, gave prominent display to Queen Marie of Romania's formal welcome by President and Mrs. Coolidge: a brief Blue Room reception, a return call at the Romanian legation and a state dinner, capping a day at Mount Vernon, Arlington and the Lincoln Memorial. From Washington came the President's cotton committee's plan for state financing corporations to help market a record crop, with growers urged not to dump their cotton. From Indianapolis, Senator Reed's committee joined the search, already pressed by a grand jury, for alleged Klan corruption linked to D. C. Stephenson. Shorter items covered fire chiefs meeting in New Orleans, Henry Morgenthau promising eastern capital for the South, a Pittsburgh Liberty bond bank case, seamen suing over a raid on Nicaragua, two missing Crenshaw County girls and H. L. Mencken's brief stop in Montgomery.
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QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
FIRE CHIEFS CONVENE Screaming Fire Sirens Welcome Delegates To New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Oct. 19. - (AP) - Screaming fire sirens, the music of bands and coveys of red, fire chieftains automobiles today bespoke the presence of the International Association of fire engineers in New Orleans for their 24th annual convention. The convention formally was opened this morning in the Roosevelt hotel with a special prayer by Archbishop John M. Shaw, followed by an address of welcome by Mayor Arthur O'Keefe and the annual address by Fire Chief Armstrong, of Toronto, Canada. A memorial service during which tribute was paid to members who died during the year, followed. Automobile traffic and the fire department comprised a subject discussed during the afternoon session with John Kenlon, chief of the New York fire department as the principal speaker.
Average sleepers move every 11.26 minutes, according to tests at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research.
[?] was continued for Charles E. Knapp, elusive bond salesman who dropped out of sight last Friday, after he was given the cash, raised in a pool headed by McCrady to buy Liberty bonds at bargain prices.
SHANGHAIED SEAMEN SUE Claim Damages As Members Of Nicaraguan Rebels. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. - (AP) - Eleven seamen who alleged they were shanghaied as members of the crew of revolutionists that manned the former steam fishing trawler Foam and bombarded Nicaraguan coast towns, today filed affidavits as an overture to a suit for $110,000 damages. They also alleged they were shipwrecked for many days on a small island off the Nicaraguan coast with nothing to eat but cocoanuts. Summons was issued for Dr. T. S. Vaca and others. Dr. Vaca, the affidavit said, produced the articaling of the seamen. Questioned by reporters, Dr. Vaca said he lived in Philadelphia, that he was a poor man and that he knew nothing about the suit.
QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE State Dinner is Held at White House; Bright October Day Brings Exclamation of Pleasure From Royal Party; Visit Tomb of Unknown Soldier WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - The queen of Rumania tonight exchanged the privilege of being the guest of the nation for that of being the personal guest of its chief executive and its first lady. Forty-one hours after her triumphal entrance through New York, the gateway to America, and 22 hours after her arrival in the nation's capital, Rumania's queen was formally received by the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Her reception at the White House this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the famous blue room, that has witnessed a century of presidential receptions, the return call of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at the Rumanian legation shortly afterwards, and the queen's entertainment at a state dinner at the White House tonight, discharged the traditional amenities of nations. The functions came as the climax to a day in which Queen Marie delved deep into American history, visiting as preliminaries to her White House call, Washington's home at Mount Vernon, the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery, and the Lincoln memorial. The reception ceremony at the White House was brief and formal, two official cars bearing the seal of the United States, called at the legation which is for the moment a royal residence Under escort of J. Butler Wright, personal representative of the president, and Radu T. Djuvara, Rumanian charge, the queen and Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana, were taken swiftly to the White House where a fringe of government clerks from the big, nearby departments lined the railings for a glimpse of the visitors as they passed into the grounds. Secretary Kellogg had joined the President and Mrs. Coolidge in the blue room, as is customary on such occasions. Mr. Wright announced the queen. A moment later she presented her children to the chief executive and (Continued on Page Eight)
afternoon, the visitors were taken on an automobile tour of the city and vicinity. The motorcade originating at Asheville, N. C., yesterday and increased in size by additions along the route, arrived at Stone Mountain, where a brief [?] rogram was held, about noon today. Welcome addresses and responses by the visitors made up the program at the foot of the mountain where the huge Confederate memorial is being carved. Following this, the highway boosters were entertained at an amusement park here, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, made a brief address. Mr. Morgenthau, noted for his diplomatic service in Turkey and recognized on economic and financial affairs, viewed conditions in the south with optimism. "Eastern capital no longer hesitates to make large developments in the south," he said. "The southern section of the United States is showing to the world and to the investing public that it offers substantial returns to capital on a practical, business basis." Principal business of the highway convention will be transacted at tomorrow's sessions. One of the important questions to be considered is the selection of routes to Tampa, Florida and New Orleans. The convention ends tomorrow afternoon.
ACCEPT BID ON SHIP Three Tankers Are Sold to Oil Companies WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - The shipping board today accepted the bid of $683,000 by the Beacon Oil company for the tanker Hoven, and the bids by the Oil Transport company of $489,600 and $550,800 for the tankers Cecil County and Hampton Roads. It also accepted the bid by the Standard Oil company of California of $174,762.50 for purchase of the tanker District of Columbia for Diesel electric conversion.
MENCKEN VISITS CAPITAL Mercury Editor And Baltimore Sun Head Guests Grover C. Hall Few Hours. H. L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury and Paul Patterson, president of the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore Evening Sun, visited Montgomery last night as the guests of Grover C. Hall, editor of The Advertiser. En route from Columbus, Ga., to New Orleans, they remained in this city but a short time.
mittee at Chicago to planned to leave to no other Hoosiers hav Chicago, although several former Ku K might be subpoenaed Adams has declared gation developed while he headed the entered into corrupt officials high in state governments. The long examinati was in the grand jur out the afternoon with the fact that o ciates of Stephenson subjected to length was taken as an ind investigating body thoroughly into the e activities. However, surrounds a grand j vented any authorita as to the progress o tion. Margaret Reynolds (Continued on P
WANTS RECALL EXECUTIVE OF Charges Hartley Wit Office As G SEATTLE, WASH., Charging Governor ley with malfeasance in office, petitions to first gubernatorial rec ed in Washington w buted over the stat charges were approve J. Grant Hinkle, secre Olympia today after by a committee yest The ballot titles f were telegraphed to mittee here and prin was begun at once. headed by E. F. Bl manager, announced fixed for each of the ties in the state to o signatures necessary a recall election. The charges agains ley are divided into th he prevented, throu regents of the Univer ton and Washington S the state board of penditure of funds ap last legislature for e ings and equipment liciously and without four regents "falsel of them with miscond ance in office; and t six members of the to lucrative state po to obtan their suppo lative policies.
STATE FINANCING COTTON BODY GIVEN COOLIDGE APPROVAL
Montgom MONTGOMERY, ALA., W TATE FINANCING OTTON BODY GIVEN OOLIDGE APPROVAL ggests Plan to Committee as Means of Aiding in Long Time Marke [?] ing of Sta [?] NFIDENC [?] [?] GED IN ULT [?] CROP'S VALUE d [?] ilable to Retire Sev - [?] Million Bales Through Banks is Report ASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - New e financing corporations were gested today by President Cool - ' s cotton committee as a means iding in the long time marketing his year's record cotton crop. he committee would have these porations make advances to be disntable at the federal intermediate it banks and at the larger banks outhern cities. statement embodying this proal was issued by the committee r another day of conferences with resentatives of cotton cooperative ciations and cotton shippers. was decided also that Eugene C. er, chairman of the committee, uld go into the south to make a onal survey of conditions. rowers were urged to have confice in the ultimate value of their ano to refrain from "dumping it er present conditions," while a ning to adjust next year's rcreage the light of the existing supply probable consuming demand" also issued by the committee. he committee of cotton shippers ed on Chairman O'Connor of the ping board to urge the assignt of additional ships for handling cotton crop and were assured that ships are now being put into conon for cotton purposes. fter a conference with Mr. Meyer, onel Harvey Jordan, managing dior of the American Cotton asation and J. O. Thompson, iceGoing In For th THE OF TH AN WELC T MONTGO
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA
conditions," while a st next year's rcreage of the existing supply onsuming demand" also the committee. ee of cotton shippers rman O'Connor of the to urge the assignnal ships for handling and were assured that w being put into conn purposes. erence with Mr. Meyer, Jordan, managing diAmerican Cotton asJ. O. Thompson, iced, the following statethat ample funds for o four million bales of e available through the es of southern banks nediate credit banks, will be able to supeds of their respective rough loans on cotton red by farmers for pesix months to three tes of interest not exnt. ion of cotton acreage [?] determination [?] farlocal banks. In this [?] on Page Three)
RGH BANK RS ON BOND Labor Institution Search ConFor Knapp Oct. 19. - (AP) - WilJohn L. Nelson, offid Brotherhood Savings any, are at liberty on various charges growsburgh's $320,000 Lib - [?] Frank T. Redman, ted with Kelly and d in jail after a futile cure a bondsman. of bail for Kelly and ed at $25,000 each by Judge A. B. Reid at a earing today and their the posting of the reof bond. R. A. Mcof the bank, who was e others Saturday aftas disclosed, had preleased under $175,000 charges. rch was continued for pp, elusive bond salesped out of sight last was given the cash, headed by McCrady to nds at bargain prices.
D SEAMEN SUE As Members Of Nican Rebels. Oct. 19. - (AP) - Eleven eged they were shangrs of the crew of revmanned the former rawler Foam and bomuan coast towns, toavits as an overture $110,000 damages. eged they were shipdays on a small
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA
EASTERN CAPITAL READY FOR SOUTH Henry Morganthau Addressing Appalachian Highway Body, Says Investments Waiting ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 19. - (AP) - Unlimited eastern capital is waiting to be poured into the development of the south as fast as investments in accord with good business policies are revealed, Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, declared here today on his arrival with a motorcade from North Carolina for the second annual convention of the Appalachian Scenic Highway association. Mr. Morganthau was the principal speaker at a dinner tonight for the visitors from several southern states and prominent men from the east, here for the convention which opened this afternoon. Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, a native Tennessean, is another important figure at the convention. Following appointment of committees at a short business session this afternoon, the visitors were taken on an automobile tour of the city and vicinity. The motorcade originating at Asheville, N. C., yesterday and increased in size by additions along the route, arrived at Stone Mountain, where a brief [?] rogram was held, about noon today. Welcome addresses and responses by the visitors made up the program at the foot of the mountain where the huge Confederate memorial is being carved. Following this, the highway boosters were entertained at an amusement park here, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, made a brief address. Mr. Morgenthau, noted for his diplomatic service in Turkey and recognized on economic and financial af
Republican and Democratic Chairmen Are Called On For Testimony Publisher Renews Charge That Klan Dragon Corrupted Officials of State INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19. - (AP) - Senator James A. Reed's senatorial committee today joined the search for the corruption that is alleged to exist in Indiana politics. The decision of Senator Reed to go on the trail of the corruption charges was made public at Chicago while a grand jury here pressed its inquiry into the same matter with a three hour examination of Fred Butler, former secretary of D. C. Stephenson, who as grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is reputed to have held sway over high officials. Meanwhile, Thomas H. Adams, publisher of the Vincennes, Ind., Commercial, who with several associates has pursued an independent investigation continued in Columbus, Ohio, his search for evidence to substantiate charges that he insists he can prove before a fair investigating board. Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman, and R. Earl Peters, state democratic chairman, were summoned today to appear before the Reed committee at Chicago tomorrow and they planned to leave tonight. Thus far no other Hoosiers have been called to Chicago, although dispatches said several former Ku Klux Klan leaders might be subpoenaed. Adams has declared that his investigation developed that Stephenson while he headed the klan in Indiana, entered into corrupt agreements with officials high in state, county and city governments. The long examination of Butler who was in the grand jury room throughout the afternoon session, coupled with the fact that other close associates of Stephenson have also been subjected to lengthy interrogation, was taken as an indication that the investigating body was going thoroughly into the ex-grand dragon's
GIRLS DISAPPEAR FROM FARM HOME Officers Seeking Hired Hand and Married Barber, Who Are Also Missing LUVERNE, ALA., Oct. 19. - Special to The Advertiser. - Crenshaw county authorities are seeking Wesley Haws and Otha Hooks, both 27, who are alleged to have disappeared Monday night with Ruth, 14 and Olvia Morrison, 16, daughters of Zebe Morrison, farmer, of near Luverne. Investigation of the marriage record at the Crenshaw county court house late Tuesday revealed that a marriage license was issued to Teddie Castlebury and Ruth Morrison, Monday. The license had not been returned late tonight, and no trace of the party has been found. In addition to being wanted for alleged implication in the disappearance of the two girls. Haws has a charge of grand larceny against him in a warrant sworn out Monday afternoon in connection with the alleged theft of automobile tires, officers say. The two girls left their home, four miles from Luverne on the Troy road, about 12 o'clock Monday night and are said to have joined Haws and Hooks who waited some distance from the house with an automobile. They are said to have left Luverne in a 1926 Ford touring car on which was attached an exhaust whistle. Officers say that it is their opinion that the party left immediately for Florida. The two girls had been gone several hours before the father discovered their absence, he told county officers. Mr. Morrison said that the two men probably parked the car a short distance from the house and signaled to his daughters with the exhaust whistle. It is not known how they left the
compared with the first day of the drive last year showed a nice gain. Last year the first day netted only about $14,000. Marion Rushton, campaign director was delighted with the showing made on the first day, but reiterated his statement that every person in Montgomery must be given an opportunity to subscribe if the goal is to be reached. "Experience has taught us that its the last few thousand that are the hardest to obtain," he said, "and while this showing reflects a generous disposition on the part of contributors and hard work by the workers, we must not become overconfident or relax." Many of the workers reported that subscribers were increasing their donations while others decreased their contributions under those of last year. All of the workers reported that they were given a cordial reception throughout the city, and were convinced that all that is needed to put the campaign over is to give every Montgomerian a chance.
UNDERWOOD URGES COL. A. P. BRINDLEY Alabama Senator Wants Gadsden Man on United States Trades Commission WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 19-Special To The Advertiser. - Appointment of Col. A. P. Brindley of Gadsden, as a member of the federal trade commission to succeed Houston Thompson, whose term recently expired was urged upon President Coolidge today by Senator Underwood. Col. Brindley is now one of the counsel for the commission. The office for which the senator recommended him pays $10,000 a year. There are more than a half dozen applicants for the commissionership which will go to a democrat. The south has been insisting upon representation on this agency, as it has had no member in some years. It is probable that a southerner will be named, but inasmuch as Alabama, last winter was recognized by the appointment of R. V. Taylor, of Mobile, as an interstate commerce commissioner, the naming of Col. Brindley will be opposed by delegations from other states which have no representatives on important commissions in the federal government, however, the president has been seeking a way out of an embarrassing situation created by a contest between Virginia and North Carolina.
JARDINE ASKS O'NEAL FOR SUMMARY ON COTTON Desires to Keep in Close Touch With Situation, Secretary Writes Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine is giving a great deal of time to the cotton situation, both from the standpoint of the department of agriculture and as a member of the president's committee, and wishes to be kept advised of developments, a communication received by Edward A. O'Neal, president of the Alabama farm bureau, from F. M. Russell, assistant to the secretary, states. Mr. O'Neal has, accordingly, advised
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Why a Romanian queen's visit was a diplomatic event
The White House reception described here was more than a social call because Marie stood for postwar Romania itself. After the First World War she became queen of an enlarged Greater Romania, and she attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where she campaigned for international recognition of the enlarged kingdom. Her 1926 journey was a diplomatic tour of the United States made with her children Nicholas and Ileana, the prince and princess whom the Advertiser shows being presented to Coolidge. That background explains the language of state ceremony in the article, which says the Blue Room reception, the Coolidges' return call at the Romanian legation and the state dinner "discharged the traditional amenities of nations."
What brought Marie to America, and how the Coolidge meeting really went
The tour also had a private origin. Marie arrived in New York on October 18, 1926, to cheering crowds and a ticker-tape parade, the "triumphal entrance" from which the Advertiser counts forty-one hours to the White House call. Sam Hill wanted her to speak at the dedication of his new Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State. The AP account printed here is formal and cordial, but a later account calls the meeting with the Coolidges awkward and says the reserved president was not overly fond of his flamboyant guest. Crowds met her wherever she went, and she has been described as one of the first royals to become a modern celebrity. The tour ended early: on November 17 she learned that King Ferdinand was ill, and back in Romania she found him gravely ill. He died a few months later.
The cotton glut behind Coolidge's committee
The committee in this article grew out of a recent price slump. TIME reported that cotton had dropped 40 to 50 points after the Department of Agriculture published its estimate of a superabundant crop. Coolidge first announced a $30,000,000 credit to cooperative marketing associations, then appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., managing director of the War Finance Corporation, as a commission to devise orderly methods of selling the large cotton stock on hand. The Advertiser's report records that commission's next move. It proposed state financing corporations whose advances could be discounted at the federal intermediate credit banks and larger southern banks. It also urged growers not to "dump" cotton, announced a plan to adjust next year's acreage, and sent Meyer, whom the paper calls the committee's chairman, to survey the South in person. On the same page, Jardine asked Alabama farm bureau president Edward A. O'Neal to keep him informed.
Stephenson, the Klan and the Indiana corruption charges
The Indiana inquiry centered on a Klan leader who was already behind bars. D. C. Stephenson was appointed Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan in 1923 and head of Klan recruiting for seven other states, and he had close relationships with many Indiana politicians, especially Governor Edward L. Jackson. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder on November 14, 1925, which is why the article calls him the "ex-grand dragon" and reports the questioning of his former secretary, Fred Butler. Charges of the kind Thomas H. Adams was pressing, that Stephenson made corrupt agreements with state, county and city officials, later led to prosecutions. After Governor Jackson denied him a pardon, Stephenson began talking to Indianapolis Times reporters in 1927. The state then indicted top politicians, Jackson among them, and Indianapolis mayor John Duvall was convicted and sentenced to thirty days in jail.
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QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
FIRE CHIEFS CONVENE Screaming Fire Sirens Welcome Delegates To New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Oct. 19. - (AP) - Screaming fire sirens, the music of bands and coveys of red, fire chieftains automobiles today bespoke the presence of the International Association of fire engineers in New Orleans for their 24th annual convention. The convention formally was opened this morning in the Roosevelt hotel with a special prayer by Archbishop John M. Shaw, followed by an address of welcome by Mayor Arthur O'Keefe and the annual address by Fire Chief Armstrong, of Toronto, Canada. A memorial service during which tribute was paid to members who died during the year, followed. Automobile traffic and the fire department comprised a subject discussed during the afternoon session with John Kenlon, chief of the New York fire department as the principal speaker. Average sleepers move every 11. 26 minutes, according to tests at the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research. [?] was continued for Charles E. Knapp, elusive bond salesman who dropped out of sight last Friday, after he was given the cash, raised in a pool headed by McCrady to buy Liberty bonds at bargain prices. SHANGHAIED SEAMEN SUE Claim Damages As Members Of Nicaraguan Rebels. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. - (AP) - Eleven seamen who alleged they were shanghaied as members of the crew of revolutionists that manned the former steam fishing trawler Foam and bombarded Nicaraguan coast towns, today filed affidavits as an overture to a suit for $ 110, 000 damages. They also alleged they were shipwrecked for many days on a small island off the Nicaraguan coast with nothing to eat but cocoanuts. Summons was issued for Dr. T. S. Vaca and others. Dr. Vaca, the affidavit said, produced the articaling of the seamen. Questioned by reporters, Dr. Vaca said he lived in Philadelphia, that he was a poor man and that he knew nothing about the suit. QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE State Dinner is Held at White House; Bright October Day Brings Exclamation of Pleasure From Royal Party; Visit Tomb of Unknown Soldier WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - The queen of Rumania tonight exchanged the privilege of being the guest of the nation for that of being the personal guest of its chief executive and its first lady. Forty-one hours after her triumphal entrance through New York, the gateway to America, and 22 hours after her arrival in the nation's capital, Rumania's queen was formally received by the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Her reception at the White House this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the famous blue room, that has witnessed a century of presidential receptions, the return call of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at the Rumanian legation shortly afterwards, and the queen's entertainment at a state dinner at the White House tonight, discharged the traditional amenities of nations. The functions came as the climax to a day in which Queen Marie delved deep into American history, visiting as preliminaries to her White House call, Washington's home at Mount Vernon, the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery, and the Lincoln memorial. The reception ceremony at the White House was brief and formal, two official cars bearing the seal of the United States, called at the legation which is for the moment a royal residence Under escort of J. Butler Wright, personal representative of the president, and Radu T. Djuvara, Rumanian charge, the queen and Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana, were taken swiftly to the White House where a fringe of government clerks from the big, nearby departments lined the railings for a glimpse of the visitors as they passed into the grounds. Secretary Kellogg had joined the President and Mrs. Coolidge in the blue room, as is customary on such occasions. Mr. Wright announced the queen. A moment later she presented her children to the chief executive and (Continued on Page Eight) afternoon, the visitors were taken on an automobile tour of the city and vicinity. The motorcade originating at Asheville, N. C., yesterday and increased in size by additions along the route, arrived at Stone Mountain, where a brief [?] rogram was held, about noon today. Welcome addresses and responses by the visitors made up the program at the foot of the mountain where the huge Confederate memorial is being carved. Following this, the highway boosters were entertained at an amusement park here, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, made a brief address. Mr. Morgenthau, noted for his diplomatic service in Turkey and recognized on economic and financial affairs, viewed conditions in the south with optimism. " Eastern capital no longer hesitates to make large developments in the south, " he said. " The southern section of the United States is showing to the world and to the investing public that it offers substantial returns to capital on a practical, business basis. " Principal business of the highway convention will be transacted at tomorrow's sessions. One of the important questions to be considered is the selection of routes to Tampa, Florida and New Orleans. The convention ends tomorrow afternoon. ACCEPT BID ON SHIP Three Tankers Are Sold to Oil Companies WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - The shipping board today accepted the bid of $ 683, 000 by the Beacon Oil company for the tanker Hoven, and the bids by the Oil Transport company of $ 489, 600 and $ 550, 800 for the tankers Cecil County and Hampton Roads. It also accepted the bid by the Standard Oil company of California of $ 174, 762. 50 for purchase of the tanker District of Columbia for Diesel electric conversion. MENCKEN VISITS CAPITAL Mercury Editor And Baltimore Sun Head Guests Grover C. Hall Few Hours. H. L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury and Paul Patterson, president of the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore Evening Sun, visited Montgomery last night as the guests of Grover C. Hall, editor of The Advertiser. En route from Columbus, Ga., to New Orleans, they remained in this city but a short time. mittee at Chicago to planned to leave to no other Hoosiers hav Chicago, althought several former Ku K might be subpoenaed Adams has declared gation developed while he headed the entered into corrupt officials high in state governments. The long examinati was in the grand jur out the afternoon with the fact that o ciates of Stephenson subjected to length was taken as an ind investigating body thoroughly into the e activities. However, surrounds a grand j vented any authorita as to the progress o tion. Margaret Reynolds (Continued on P WANTS RECALL EXECUTIVE OF Charges Hartley Wit Office As G SEATTLE, WASH., Charging Governor ley with malfeasance in office, petitions to first gubernatorial rec ed in Washington w buted over the stat charges were approve J. Grant Hinkle, secre Olympia today after by a committee yest The ballot titles f were telegraphed to mittee here and prin was begun at once. headed by E. F. Bl manager, announced fixed for each of the ties in the state to o signatures necessary a recall election. The charges agains ley are divided into th he prevented, throu regents of the Univer ton and Washington S the state board of penditure of funds ap last legislature for e ings and equipment liciously and without four regents " falsel of them with miscond ance in office; and t six members of the to lucrative state po to obtan their suppo lative policies.
STATE FINANCING COTTON BODY GIVEN COOLIDGE APPROVAL
Montgom MONTGOMERY, ALA., W TATE FINANCING OTTON BODY GIVEN OOLIDGE APPROVAL ggests Plan to Committee as Means of Aiding in Long Time Marke [?] ing of Sta [?] NFIDENC [?] [?] GED IN ULT [?] CROP'S VALUE d [?] ilable to Retire Sev - [?] Million Bales Through Banks is Report ASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - (AP) - New e financing corporations were gested today by President Cool - ' s cotton committee as a means iding in the long time marketing his year's record cotton crop. he committee would have these porations make advances to be disntable at the federal intermediate it banks and at the larger banks outhern cities. statement embodying this proal was issued by the committee r another day of conferences with resentatives of cotton cooperative ciations and cotton shippers. was decided also that Eugene C. er, chairman of the committee, uld go into the south to make a onal survey of conditions. rowers were urged to have confice in the ultimate value of their ano to refrain from " dumping it er present conditions, " while a ning to adjust next year's rcreage the light of the existing supply probable consuming demand " also issued by the committee. he committee of cotton shippers ed on Chairman O'Connor of the ping board to urge the assignt of additional ships for handling cotton crop and were assured that ships are now being put into conon for cotton purposes. fter a conference with Mr. Meyer, onel Harvey Jordan, managing dior of the American Cotton asation and J. O. Thompson, iceGoing In For th THE OF TH AN WELC T MONTGO
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA
conditions, " while a st next year's rcreage of the existing supply onsuming demand " also the committee. ee of cotton shippers rman O'Connor of the to urge the assignnal ships for handling and were assured that w being put into conn purposes. erence with Mr. Meyer, Jordan, managing diAmerican Cotton asJ. O. Thompson, iced, the following statethat ample funds for o four million bales of e available through the es of southern banks nediate credit banks, will be able to supeds of their respective rough loans on cotton red by farmers for pesix months to three tes of interest not exnt. ion of cotton acreage [?] determination [?] farlocal banks. In this [?] on Page Three) RGH BANK RS ON BOND Labor Institution Search ConFor Knapp Oct. 19. - (AP) - WilJohn L. Nelson, offid Brotherhood Savings any, are at liberty on various charges growsburgh's $ 320, 000 Lib - [?] Frank T. Redman, ted with Kelly and d in jail after a futile cure a bondsman. of bail for Kelly and ed at $ 25, 000 each by Judge A. B. Reid at a earing today and their the posting of the reof bond. R. A. Mcof the bank, who was e others Saturday aftas disclosed, had preleased under $ 175, 000 charges. rch was continued for pp, elusive bond salesped out of sight last was given the cash, headed by McCrady to nds at bargain prices. D SEAMEN SUE As Members Of Nican Rebels. Oct. 19. - (AP) - Eleven eged they were shangrs of the crew of revmanned the former rawler Foam and bomuan coast towns, toavits as an overture $ 110, 000 damages. eged they were shipdays on a small SENATORIAL COMMITTEE JOINS INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED SCANDALS IN INDIANA POLITICAL AREA EASTERN CAPITAL READY FOR SOUTH Henry Morganthau Addressing Appalachian Highway Body, Says Investments Waiting ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 19. - (AP) - Unlimited eastern capital is waiting to be poured into the development of the south as fast as investments in accord with good business policies are revealed, Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, declared here today on his arrival with a motorcade from North Carolina for the second annual convention of the Appalachian Scenic Highway association. Mr. Morganthau was the principal speaker at a dinner tonight for the visitors from several southern states and prominent men from the east, here for the convention which opened this afternoon. Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, a native Tennessean, is another important figure at the convention. Following appointment of committees at a short business session this afternoon, the visitors were taken on an automobile tour of the city and vicinity. The motorcade originating at Asheville, N. C., yesterday and increased in size by additions along the route, arrived at Stone Mountain, where a brief [?] rogram was held, about noon today. Welcome addresses and responses by the visitors made up the program at the foot of the mountain where the huge Confederate memorial is being carved. Following this, the highway boosters were entertained at an amusement park here, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy, made a brief address. Mr. Morgenthau, noted for his diplomatic service in Turkey and recognized on economic and financial afRepublican and Democratic Chairmen Are Called On For Testimony Publisher Renews Charge That Klan Dragon Corrupted Officials of State INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19. - (AP) - Senator James A. Reed's senatorial committee today joined the search for the corruption that is alleged to exist in Indiana politics. The decision of Senator Reed to go on the trail of the corruption charges was made public at Chicago while a grand jury here pressed its inquiry into the same matter with a three hour examination of Fred Butler, former secretary of D. C. Stephenson, who as grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is reputed to have held sway over high officials. Meanwhile, Thomas H. Adams, publisher of the Vincennes, Ind., Commercial, who with several associates has pursued an independent investigation continued in Columbus, Ohio, his search for evidence to substantiate charges that he insists he can prove before a fair investigating board. Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman, and R. Earl Peters, state democratic chairman, were summoned today to appear before the Reed committee at Chicago tomorrow and they planned to leave tonight. Thus far no other Hoosiers have been called to Chicago, althought dispatches said several former Ku Klux Klan leaders might be subpoenaed. Adams has declared that his investigation developed that Stephenson while he headed the klan in Indiana, entered into corrupt agreements with officials high in state, county and city governments. The long examination of Butler who was in the grand jury room throughout the afternoon session, coupled with the fact that other close associates of Stephenson have also been subjected to lengthy interrogation, was taken as an indication that the investigating body was going thoroughly into the ex-grand dragon's GIRLS DISAPPEAR FROM FARM HOME Officers Seeking Hired Hand and Married Barber, Who Are Also Missing LUVERNE, ALA., Oct. 19. - Special to The Advertiser. - Crenshaw county authorities are seeking Wesley Haws and Otha Hooks, both 27, who are alleged to have disappeared Monday night with Ruth, 14 and Olvia Morrison, 16, daughters of Zebe Morrison, farmer, of near Luverne. Investigation of the marriage record at the Crenshaw county court house late Tuesday revealed that a marriage license was issued to Teddie Castlebury and Ruth Morrison, Monday. The license had not been returned late tonight, and no trace of the party has been found. In addition to being wanted for alleged implication in the disappearance of the two girls. Haws has a charge of grand larceny against him in a warrant sworn out Monday afternoon in connection with the alleged theft of automobile tires, officers say. The two girls left their home, four miles from Luverne on the Troy road, about 12 o'clock Monday night and are said to have joined Haws and Hooks who waited some distance from the house with an automobile. They are said to have left Luverne in a 1926 Ford touring car on which was attached an exhaust whistle. Officers say that it is their opinion that the party left immediately for Florida. The two girls had been gone several hours before the father discovered their absence, he told county officers. Mr. Morrison said that the two men probably parked the car a short distance from the house and signaled to his daughters with the exhaust whistle. It is not known how they left the compared with the first day of the drive last year showed a nice gain. Last year the first day netted only about $ 14, 000. Marion Rushton, campaign director was delighted with the showing made on the first day, but reiterated his statement that every person in Montgomery must be given an opportunity to subscribe if the goal is to be reached. " Experience has taught us that its the last few thousand that are the hardest to obtain, " he said, " and while this showing reflects a generous disposition on the part of contributors and hard work by the workers, we must not become overconfident or relax. " Many of the workers reported that subscribers were increasing their donations while others decreased their contributions under those of last year. All of the workers reported that they were given a cordial reception throughout the city, and were convinced that all that is needed to put the campaign over is to give every Montgomerian a chance. UNDERWOOD URGES COL. A. P. BRINDLEY Alabama Senator Wants Gadsden Man on United States Trades Commission WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 19-Special To The Advertiser. - Appointment of Col. A. P. Brindley of Gadsden, as a member of the federal trade commission to succeed Houston Thompson, whose term recently expired was urged upon President Coolidge today by Senator Underwood. Col. Brindley is now one of the counsel for the commission. The office for which the senator recommended him pays $ 10, 000 a year. There are more than a half dozen applicants for the commissionership which will go to a democrat. The south has been insisting upon representation on this agency, as it has had no member in some years. It is probable that a southerner will be named, but inasmuch as Alabama, last winter was recognized by the appointment of R. V. Taylor, of Mobile, as an interstate commerce commissioner, the naming of Col. Brindley will be opposed by delegations from other states which have no representatives on important commissions in the federal government, however, the president has been seeking a way out of an embarrassing situation created by a contest between Virginia and North Carolina. JARDINE ASKS O'NEAL FOR SUMMARY ON COTTON Desires to Keep in Close Touch With Situation, Secretary Writes Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine is giving a great deal of time to the cotton situation, both from the standpoint of the department of agriculture and as a member of the president's committee, and wishes to be kept advised of developments, a communication received by Edward A. O'Neal, president of the Alabama farm bureau, from F. M. Russell, assistant to the secretary, states. Mr. O'Neal has, accordingly, advised
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