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-znf i i-r-t lint, National Newspaper '1 Largest Morn ing Circulation 18 Pages Today Oj A ny Kentucky Newspaper "yOL NEW SERIES NO. LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. THREE CENTS V.S. "SKS IT TTfHF5 i i i Father, Girls Heroes MARGIN FOR Cornerstone For Firs Unit Of New Baptist Seminary Is Laid 3 DOUBTFUL STATESCAN Of Fire That Kills Boy LODGE, VICTIM OF A RELAPSE, UNCONSCIOUS Senator Sinks After Second Operation In Massachu- setts Hospital. 'ft At 4 Top House at 2717 Howard Street, showltiff window from which John llcst fell wlille tn-lnjr to rescue lUs crippled son.

Ixjwer Miss Bertha Christian, 2718 Howard Street, who awakened the Best family by throwing rocks through the windows ancT later placed a ladder against t-secoud-story window. Top, Ijeft to Right Crowd at ceremony which marked the laying of the cornerstone for Norton Hall, and the Rev. Dr. JC. Y.

Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Bottom, Left to Right Ileizo Komaki and Louis Balint, two seminary students; MIns Lucie Norton placing the cornerstone, and the Rev. Dr. Thornton Whaling of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Bond Plan Defeat Held Rebuke To Legislators JSL.

BASKETT NAMED CITY ATTORNEY Quin Appoints Veteran of Legal Department to Succeed Dietzman. The successful race of Richard P. Dietzman, City Attorney, for the judgeship of the Court of Appeals, yesterday caused Mayor Huston Quin to announce his successor, who will be W. T. Baskett, city departmental counsel.

Mr. Baskett is a veteran, in the city's legal department, ife was ap pointed second Assistant City Attorney in December. 1317. He will take his new position as soon as Mr. Dietzman is sworn in as judge.

Mr. Quin also announced the appointment of Graver Sales as second Assistant Attorney, effective November 10. Joseph Conkling is first Assistant City Attorney, and his promotion several months ago resulted in a vacancy which has never been filled until Mr. Sales' appointment. Another change which wl.l result because of the election is the selection tonight by the General Council of a successor to Don Warren, elected magistrate in the Seventh Magisterial District.

Thomas D. Symp-son, former councilman, will be chosen to succeed Mr. Warren. Mr. Warren will succeed John J.

O'Brien, appointed following the death of Magistrate Levy last June. Mr. Baskett will be the fourth City Attorney to serve during the Quin administration Clayton B. Blakey and David W. Fairleigh died while serving.

Mr. Baskett is 40 years old and lives at 2016 Murray Avenue. He is a graduate of the Louisville Male High School and the University of Virginia. He has taken part in most of the city's most important legal matters. Oklahoma Again Goes Democratic Davis Gets Electoral Votes, But Walton Is Defeated By Republican.

Oklahoma City. Nov. 5 (P) Oklahoma will send delegates to the electoral college pledged to John W. Davis, as the result of yesterday's election, in which party lines were forgotten to the extent that a Republican for the second time gained a seat in the United States Senate. The State swung back to the solid South on the basis of returns compiled early today, deflecting only In tha Senatorial race.

The fight waged by J. C. Walton, former Governor, upon the Ku Klux Klan, failed to overcome his opposition. Hi3 reputed attack upon the Protestant ministry of the State was regarded as having a direct bearing upon his defeat. ft I -JKl fFC President Receives Largest Popular Plurality In History, of United States.

VOTE FOR DAVIS REMAINS AT 136 Issue Is Undecided In North Dakota, New Mexico and Montana. Latest returns from Tuesday's election, based on Associated Press reports, shows the electoral college divided as follows: Coolidge, 370; Davis, 136; La Follette, 13; doubtful, 12 (in three States). Returns also indicated a paper majority in both Senate and House for the Republicans, but no certainty, that the Administration would hold the whip hand in Congress. 1 Washington already is dis-cussing possible Cabinet changes when President Coolidge is inaugurated, several members having indicated they will retire. Resignation of C.

Bascom Slemp, the President's secretary, is forecast. New York, Nov. 5 UP) The full measure of the Republican victory" at the polls could not yet be taken to night, but the returns continued to show that President Coolidge would have at least 100 votes to spare in the electoral college, and the larse popular plurality in history. The showing made by John W. Davis remained unchanged through out today and although Senator La Follette began to creep up a little in one or two Western States, there wa no certainty tonight that he would receive the electoral vote of any State group except that of Wisconsin.

How Vote Stands. On the face of the day's con rres. sional returns the Republicans made certain of a paper majority, at least, in both Senate and House, but doubt remained whether the margin would be great enough to give the Administration the whip hand over the combined opposition of the Democrats and the La Follette bloc. AS the nrpsifipnfi.il mtnnt tonight with only a handful of elec toral votes sun doubr, the indicated strength of the three candidates in the electoral college was aa follows: Cool-iilfta I- DouM-Davig Follett Jul 12 Stato Alabama Arizona 3 Arkansas California 13 Colorado 6 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida Georgia Idaho 4 Illinois 23 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana Maine 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts IS Michigan 13 Minnesota 12 Mississippi Missouri IS Montana 9 6 14 10 10 Nebraska 8 Nevada 3 New Hampshire. New Jersev 4 14 New Mexico Representatives and Senators Who Favored Submission Misjudged Sentiment.

CONDITION IS SERIOUS Physician Refuses to Make Statement; Patient Was Recuperating. Boston, Nov. 5 UP) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who was oDerated on October 20 at the Charlesgate Hospital, suffered a shock at noon today and has been unconscious since, his secretary said tonight. At midnight Senator Lodge's condi tion was said to bo serious. Dr.

John II. Cunningham, who had performed two operations on the Senator and who has attended him daily, made no statement tonight. Senator Lodge first underwent an operation July 27-. It was thought he had fully recovered from this, and a second, less serious, was performed last month. Until today his convales cence had progressed favorably.

He had been able to sit up dally and was in apparent good health. Fields' Brother Loses to Yates Republican Is Winner In Race for Commonwealth's Attorney In Ninth. Special to The Courier-Journnl. Grayson, Nov. 5.

Caught in the Republican upheaval, Austin Fields, brother of Gov. William J. Fields and Democratic candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney in the Thirty-seventh Judicial District, was defeated by Thotnas H. Yates, Re-pullcan, by 100 votes. Judge Leonidas Redwine, Demo cratic nominee for Circuit Judge, and a Fields' appointee, was defeated by Thomas T.

Theobald, Republican, by 300 votes. The judicial district composed of Carter, Elliott and Morgan Counties, is normally heavily Democratic. It was created during the last session of the General Assembly. Govenor Fields appointed Mr. Redwine as the new Circuit Judge.

Austin Fields became a candidate in the Democratic primary for the position of Commonwealth's Attorney. Early in July dispatches from Frank fort said Governor Fields was going to North Carolina to study road conditions in that St.ite. He left Frankfort. A few weeks later it was learned he was in the Thirty-seventh Judicial District, working in the In terest of his brother. Michigan Ban On Schools Lost Special to The Courier-Journal.

Detroit, Nov. u. Michigan electors for the second time yesterday buried under an avalanche of votes the proposal to close the private and parochial schools of the State. Returns onay from 1,533 out of z.iio precincts on souooi amendment give: Yes, No, 461.423. Despite the campaign in behalf of the amendment waged by the Ku Klux Klan, an organization unknown in Michigan when the proposal first ap peared on the ballot, the bill apparently has gone down to defeat more decisively than it did four years ago.

Klan Iioses In Washington. Seattle, Nov. 5 UP) An initiative measure, designed to compel parents to send their childz-en to public schools instead of to private or parochial institutions, sponsored by the Good Government League, affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, apparently was defeated in yesterday's election. WOMAN INJURED BY MOTOR; DRIVER HELD Mrs. Julia McCarty, 43 years old.

was struck at rsmtn and Market Streets last night by an automobile driven by Lawrence F. Bergamini, 23, 150fi West Market Street. Mrs. McCarty, the wife ot Frank McCarty, restaurant keeper at S03 West Market Street, suffered scalp wounds and a possible fracture of the skull. She is at the City Hospital.

Bergamini was arrested and charged with assault and battery. SACKETT IS Coolidge Ahead In Kentucky With Only 93 Precincts Unreported. WILSONWONT ADMIT DEFEAT Republican Manager, However, Asserts G. 0. P.

Lead May Reach 30,000. 1 The Coolidge lead over I Davis in Kentucky was increased to 23,376 last night, as the Associated Press recapitulated election returns, land the Sackett lead over Stanley was increased to but Judge Samuel M. Wilson, Democratic State Campaign Chairman, continued firm in his refusal to admit defeat. With only ninety-three precincts mlsing, the- vote at midnight stood Coolidge Davis La Foi-htte 33,676. a Coolidge plurality of With 105 precincts missing, the vote tor Senator stood Sackett 3S3.8S6; Sanlev 363,673, a Republican majority of 20,213.

i feature of the vote from i Breathitt County was that the vote for both the Democratic and Republican 1 candidates in each race were identical, -Seating that straight tickets were voted unanimously. The total vote i cast on the bond l.sue likewise was 5 :r.e total cast on the Presidential and 1 Senatorial ballots. Will O. Mays of Richmond, State Campaign Chairman, is-1 lued this statement: Ti election is over and the Re-I publican party has won the grand- est victory in its history. We thought four years ago, when the i Republican majority for Harding and Coolidge was 7,000.000.

that we would never live to see such a ma-J jorlty recorded again. We will, be i surprised if the plurality for Cools': Wge and Dawes last Tuesday does i not pass the 10,000,000 mark. As a climax, to fill our cup to overflowing, Kentucky swings into Republican column by more nan :a.uu tor coonnge ana sacKett i and this splendid victory for the people Is being increased as the late returns come in. The Republican 4 majority may exceed 30:000. 5 I take this opportunity to thank tut only the Republicans who work- ed so faithfully to bring about this i reat victory, but I want to thank I also the many thousand patriotic Democrats who, loving their untry more than they do party joined in to make this gTeat I ctory possible.

Earlier laying claim to the State ty a plurality of from 5,000 to 7,000 for Davis and of 10,000 for Stanley, Judge Wilson later declared: I remain firm in my belief that Kentucky has gone Democratic, i 4 I am not bluffing. Statement By Wilson. Abatement issued by Judge '2 yesterday morning, supple- tented only by reiteration, was: ji In spite of the closeness of the election in Kentucky, it is absolute- certain that the State has gone A mocratic. Xo matter what claims 5 made to the contrary, the final recapitulation of tha results will :4 tha both Davis and Stanley iav won by majorities. On present information, which is I regarded as authentic and rep- the Democratic majority in (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) Johnson Trails Minnesota Tab Froer-Labor Senator Says Republican's Election Is Not Certain.

I Paul. Nov. 5 OP) In-I for CoaJldge and I Publican state ticket in Mlnne-, Wer shown in additional late re- tonight pointed to I Possible defeat of Senator Mag-I Johnson, Farmer-Labor. Thomas D. Schall, Re-I Iea3in Senator John- I Vtes in of the i cut Precincts.

but the Farm-1 B. Senator refused tn Iaaa, fhall 131,. verting he "still I 'lt I 80,000 vote. 71Q un vi fio-iiiv-Lo cote. 2S1-36S- The Senatorial h3j.m.

330,822 and John THE WEATHER. 0tM tcloudlness Tliursday Bd rain Thursday riday. in east rti Friday- fair Thurs" iltj Friday. but with con-r cluUnesS; much cool-nursday and Thursday OVER 20,000 i I- I' I I I f1 8 i i i i 5 Margin of 90,000 Against Issue Indicated By Latest Returns. 2 DISTRICTS FOR PROJECT Defeat of the $75,000,000 bond issue by more than 90,000 majority was indicated last night when returns from 3.S24 precincts, tabulated by the Associated Press, gave 254,069 votes for bonds to 346,249 against the issue.

Returns received Tuesday night showed a majority of 133,874 against the bonds, but mountain counties, reporting yesterday, cut the lead. All but four of the mountain counties now are In. The 92,180 majority against the bonds, on the face of these returns, probably will be reduced when 147 missing precincts are reported. Nine Congressional Districts gave majorities against the bond issue, ranging from approximately 2.000 in the Ninth, the home of Gov. William J.

Fields, to 38,880 In the Third District, the home of J. Guthrie Coke, chairman of the Pay-As-You-Go or ganization. Other district majorities against the bonds were: First, Second, Fourth, 2S.453; Fifth. Sixth. 14,643: Seventh.

20,218 and Eighth, 27,651. Eustace Williams, executive secre-tarv of the Good Roads Association, refused to make any statement Tues day night or yesterday, but said he might make a statement later. Arthur D. Allen, presiaent or tne as sociation, said he would have no statement to make. Mr.

Fields, in a telephone communi cation last night from Olive Hill, said he would have no statement to make on the results of the bond defeat until the- completion of the official count. Mr. Coke. Mrs. Charles B.

Semple, State chairman of the Woman's Division of the Pay-As-You-Go organization, and Dr. Harry R. Kettig. char-man of the Firm District organization, issued" statements after the defeat of the bonds was assured. Dr.

Kettig said he was particularly pleased with results in Jefferson (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) John Best, Unconscious Since Fall At Burning Home, to Recover. 1 ouua jiest, ou j-ears oia. is In a serious condition at the City Hos pital from injuries he suffered early jesteraay in a futile attempt to save the life of his crippled son after he had rescued his wife and two other children from their burning home at 2717 Howard Street. He is unconscious but physicians said last night he would recove. was at th top of a lad der, just about to enter through a second floor window, when he fell to the pavement.

Funeral Friday. Funeral services for his son. Earl Best, IS, will be held at 9 o'clock to morrow morning at the home of his uncle, K. P. Boehmlcke, 252S Griffiths Avenue, and at 10:80 o'clock at St.

(Continued on Tage 2, Column 5.) G. 0, GAINS 1 6 SEATS IN HOUS 3 Senators Also Are Added to Republican Column As Returns Come In. New York, Nov. I yUP) Belated returns gave the Republicans the best of It today in the upsets In both the Houee and Senate. But it appeared that final reports from all districts would be necessary before there could be a determination whether President Coolldge could expect a real working majority in the next Congress.

Returns from 330 of the 435 Congressional districts gave the Republicans an actual majority 21S but in this total are included nearly a score of the LaFollette insurgents. The Democrats. meantime, had made certain of 170 seats and the Farmer-Labor party of two. On the basis of these returns the Republicans had made a net gain of sixteen over the Democrats, recapturing twenty seats as against four now held by Republicans which were moved over into the Democratic column. Brookhart Is Defeated.

In the Senatorial contests the most surprising result was in Iowa where Smith W. Brookhart, Republican, who publicly repudiated his own national ticket, had conceded his defeat at the hands of Daniel F. Steck, a Democratic lawyer of Ottomwa. The Republicans, however, apparently had gained three Senatorial seats on the basis of returns received early tonight. These were In Massachusetts, Kentucky and Oklahoma.

Th Democrats had elected eleven Senators while seventeen Republicans had been chosen or had such leads as to make their election practically certain. In the six remaining contests, (Continued on Page 2. Column 4.) Issues, and fell too far behind to win. The vote was 27,257 for the Issue, and 17,988 against It. or 8,713 votes short.

Work of eliminating: Louisville's grade crossings will be pushed as soon as the Election Commission certifies the, passage of the bonds voted Tuesday, the Board of Public Works announced yesterday. A suit will be filed at once to test the validity of the bonds and then plans will be laid for expenditure of the money. The amount to be available will (Continued on Paje 2. Column 4.) Miss Luie Norton, One of Principal Contributors, Takes Part. Miss Lucie U.

Norton, daughter of one of the first and principal contribu tors to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, laid the cornerstone of the new Norton Hall on the Lex ington Road at services yesterday afternoon. Miss Norton, Miss Mattie A. Norton md George W. Norton, have given $100,000 toward the new structure which is to form the nucleus of build ings which will transplant the Semi nary to its new location. The Rev.

Dr. E. Y. Mullins. nresi lent of the Seminary, presided at the ceremony.

Speakers were the Rev. Dr. Thornton Whaling, professor in the United Presbyterian Theolotrlcal Seminary; A. Y. Ford, president of tire university of Louisville and a member of the executive committee the Seminary, and the Rev.

Dr. Cal vin M. Thompson, secretary of the Baptist State Board. I rges Old Traditions. The Rev.

Dr. J. F. Fraser. pastor of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church.

gave the opening prayer, 'and the Rev Dr. R. J. Pirkey, pastor of the Broad way Baptist Church, the closing prayer and benediction. 'The future of the race is wrapped (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) RADICAL BLOC'S HOLD IS BROKEN Borah Johnson Group In Senate Substitute for La Follette Clique.

By GEORGE F. AUTHIER. Spoi-ial to The Courier-Journal. New York, Nov. 5.

With Wisconsin standing out as a progressive island in the sea of votes for Coolldge and Dawes, the fate of the third party, today became the outstanding subject of national political speculation. Whether it fihall live or die, it was generally believed, depends largely upon the attitude of the Coolldge Administration and upon a small group of moderately progressive Senators who will hold the balance of power in the next Senate. Tjie stranglehold of the La Follette group appears to have been broken and in its place is substituted the group represented by Senators Borah, Idaho; Johnson, California; Howell, Nebraska; Capper, Kansas; Couzens, Michigan, and the new Senators, McMasters, South Dakota, and Schall, Minnesota. These represent the old Roosevelt progressive principle within the Republican party, as opposed to the more radical bloc represented by La Follette. Held Compromisers By La Follette.

Between these two groups there hafi been little sympathy in the past. Senator La Follette looking upon them as compromisers who would throw away the real progressive principle in a vain effort to harmonize the various elements within the Republican party as a whole. With from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 of (Continued on Page 3, Column 5 Donahey Elected Governor In Ohio Coolidge Carries State, But Davis, O. P. Nominee, Loses By 144,282.

Columbus, Nov. 5. (UP)) With approximately 200 out of a total of 8,400 precincts in Ohio yet to be heard from Gov. A. Vic Donahey, Democrat, had a plurality of 144,282 over former Governor Harry D.

Davis, Republican, on returns tubulated by The Associated Press tonight. The vote from 8,234 precincts was: Donahey, Davis 859,164. President Cooliclge's plurality reached 648,776 on returns from 8,275 precincts. The vote for President 'vas: Coolidge Davis ua Follette 34S.477, PATRONAGE PLAY LOSES Dy VANCE ARMENTROl T. The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau.

Frankfort, Nov. 5. The de-cisivenes of the defeat administered to the $73,000,000 bond issue loses nothing on analysis. The adverse majority was limited only by the proportion of voters expressing themselves. Unless Boone, Greene and Hickman are found in the bond column, not a county west of the mountains gave it favorable consideration, and eighty of the 120 disapproved.

The Second, Third, Fifth. Seventh and Eighth Districts were solid agafnst it. Only one county in each of the First, Fourth and Sixth gave it a slight majority. Even the Tenth and Eleventh Districts cid not come anywhere near up to bond proponents' expectations. The local appeal failed entirely, excepting in Rowan, seat of the Morehead Normal School, and Rowan's two-to-one vote for the bonds probably was geo graphical, rather than on account of the school.

Calloway, seat of the Murray School, where Ralney T. Wells, tax commissioner, stumped for the bonds, voted against th-em. So did Fayette, where the State University, Eastern State Hospital and House of Reform are located; Franklin, with the Reformatory. Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute and Institute, for Feeble Minded Children; Christian with the Western State Hospital: Madison and Warren with the two big Normal Schools. Lyon with the Penitentiary, and Jefferson with the Central State Hospital.

Legislators Are Rebuked. The results in Senatorial and Legislative Districts also are interesting, because delegations from many districts made a pilgrimage to Frankfort to pretest against submission and thousands of petitions and telegrams were sent. Senator B. Davis, of the First District, who voted for the bonds and made speeches, may have saved Hick- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Wililam B. Ross, Wyoming, and whose election to the governorship of Wyoming on the Democratlo ticket was conceded today by Eugene Sullivan, her Republican opponent, this afternoon sent a message of congratulations to Mrs.

Miriam A. Ferguson, Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas. Congresswoman for Light Wines. Jersey City. N.

Nov. 5 UP) As "Ma' Ferguson picks up the gubernatorial reins in great Texas, Mrs. Mary Norton goes forth from little New Jersey to claim her chair in the House of Representatives. A Democrat, the first woman of the party to reach Congress, and the (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) New York 43 North Carolina. 12 North Dakota Ohio 24 Oklahoma 10 Oregon 5 Pennsylvania ..38 Rhode 5 South Carolina.

9 South Dakota 5 Tennessee 12 Texas 20 Utah 4 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Washington 7 West Virginia ..8 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 3 Totals 370 136 13 12 Women Will Govern Two States; Third Beats 3 Men For Congress Elimination of Grade Crossings In City to Be Pushed, Board Says Bond Issues for Rail Changes and Seicers Safe; Park Project Defeated, Ferguson Ahead In Texas; Mrs. Ross In Wyoming; New Jersey Woman Wins. SAM ADAMS LOSES FOR JVDGE BY 2,000 SDecial to The Courier-Journal. Cincinnati, Nov. 5.

Complete election returns as tabulated today In the office of the County Clerk for Kenton County, give L. T. Applegate a majority of nearly 2,000 over Judge Samuel Adams, his Democratic opponent. In the Circuit Judge race. Applegate polled 14,305 votes against for Judge Adams.

NILES IS FREED OF MILITARY CONTROL Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 5 OP) Governor Donahey at 6 o'clock tonight signed a proclamation lifting qualified martial law at Niles. The military had been In control of the city since last Saturday, when riots followed attempted parades by Klan and antl Klan forces. A. Ma Temple, Nov.

5 UP) Because, she said, her Republican opponent for Governor, Dr. George C. Butte, Austin, refused to concede her election and "is now making all sort of pre tended claims against the reguiaruj of the Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson today issued a statement to "the people of Texas" requesting them prqmptly to ascertain the vol-for Governor in their counties and "see that the full report is forwarded to the Secretary of State." The latest Incomplete count made early today, gave Mrs.

Ferguson votes and Dr. Butte 124.908. Mrs. Ross Wires "Ma." Cheyenne, Nov. 5 UP) Mrs.

Nellie T. Ross, widow of former Gov. Necessary to a choice 266. Coolidge Gaining In New Mexico. Virtually complete returns from Nevada seem to place the State in the Coolldge column with its three electoral votes.

New Mexico, one of the doubtful (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) WHAS Programmes on The Courier-Journal and LouUville Times broadcasting station for today and Friday and other stations throughout the United States will be found on. page U. Louisville's sewer and grade crossing elimination bond issues of each carried, and the park bond issue was defeated in Tuesday's election, on the face of return yesterday from all but thirty- four scattered precincts. With a two-ttirds vote required to carry the municipal bonds, the sewer Issue was approved, 35,843 to 14,365. This was 7,113 more than was needed.

Similarly, the grade crossing bonds won, 34.759 to 14,109, or 6.54X more than the required vote. The park bonds, however, failed to keep pace with the more popular.