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ASF" (onal Newspaper est Morning Circulation 14 Pages Today ny Kentucky Newspaper NEW SERIES NO. 20,324 LOUISVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1924. PTTVTTQ on trains ni betont J. IJ. AVi-JU TB1RO ZONE FITS CENTS.

NAME jAVIS FLAYS KU KLUX KLAN Possible Mars Flash By Radio Is Repeated Roars of Battle Are Radiocast As Mimic Warfare Rages Near City OVATION SALLY GIVEN i jf RICH FOUND til IN BOX APHELION I AUG .2.2. I f-w SfenjpiSaStf Hail tm '3i-' -fr-" R.C. MUSICK IS VICTIM OF MOTOR CRASH Jackson Lawyer Dies In Automobile Accident In Virginia. WAS CLAYH0LE ATTORNEY Served In Legislature; Ran Three Times for Democratic Nominations. Special to Tho Courier-Journal.

Jackson, August 22. Ryland C. Mustek, 39 years old, attorney and candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Ninth District in the August primary, wae killed this morning in an automobile accident near Lebanon, Va. Mr. Mustek was on a business trip in Virginia.

At Lebanon, according to reports received here, he hired an automobile to take him to Tazewell, Va. A short distance out of Lebanon the driver lost control of the car, which turned over several times, pinning Mr. Musick beneath the wreckage. He was taken to a hospital, where he died at 11:30 o'clock. On receipt of first reports of, the accident, Mr.

Musick's wife left for Lebanon, but arrived after her husband died. The driver was not injured. Mr. Musick was one of the best known attorneys in the mountains and was active in Democratic politics for a number of years. In 1919 he was a candidate for Attorney General, but was defeated by Frank E.

Daugh-erty. In 1923 he was defeated again for the same place by the same man. In both cases his defeat was by a small margin. He. wae a member of the Legislature in 1918.

As attorney for the Democrats in the famous Clayhole cases Mr. Musick gained his greatest prestige. He also represented parties in several of the famous cases in the nountains, the latest being prosecution of Bud Combs for murder several weeks ago. For a number of years Mr. Musick was correspondent for The Courier-Journal In Jackson.

Mr. Musick Is survived by his widow; three sons, Arthur, Walton and Dalton Musick; a brother, Judson Musick of Pennington Gap, and a sister, Miss Ruth Musick of the same address. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon in Jonesboro. Tenn. 3 Drown As Car Falls Into Creek Motor Party Was Returning Home From Kenton Fair At Erlanger.

Covington, August 22 Three persons were drowned and two others ere injured tonight when an automobile in which they were riding went through a bridge into Decour-sey Creek, eight miles south of Covington. The dead: Harry Irvin, 32 years old, Gardnersville, Leonard Turner, 45, Gardnersville, and William Greeg, 14 months old, Cincinnati. The injured: Mrs. Hazel Greeg, mother of William, and Frank Barton, 35, Gardnersville grocer. The victims were returning from the Kenton County Fair at Erlanger to their homes in Pendleton County.

According to meagre details gleaned the survivors of the wreck, Irvin failed to make a curve that leads to a bridge over Decoursey Creek and the car overturned and its occupants were thrown into three feet of water. R. S. Huff. Covington, and L.

B. Caldwell, who were following Irvin in another automobile removed all the victims to Covington hospitals. Top Diagram showing orbits of earth and Mars. The position of each during the perihelion opposition. Rottom Relative siie of Mars and earth on same scale, left, and telescopic view of Mars.

e.liowlng Canal of Lethes. MOB CAUSES RIOT AT FRANKS TRIAL Veteran Lawyer Says Leopold, Loeb Killed Youth for "Experience." Top An air view of troops at Camp Henry Knox passing In final review before the march to war. Middle (Ioft) Laying the linos of communication, one of which leads to a tiny microphone which carried to WIIAS, and to a va.t audience, the cannons' roar and a war correspondent's description of each mrtve as it was made. (Right) Group of officers and men discussing plans. Botton (IiCft) The battlefield as an alator sees it.

The final battle will be fought at the spot designated by a white (Right) The most important port of It movable kitchens on the march. PARTY Nominee Challenges Coolidge to Take' Stand and Kill Issue In Campaign. FIGHT "WITHOUT GLOVES" OPENED Attempt of G. O. P.

to Gloss Over Charge of Corruption Also Target of Attack. Seagirt, N. August 22 (AP) The Ku Klux Klan' was denounced by name here today by John W. Davis, the Democratic Presidential candidate. 1 In a fighting address to the Democracy of New Jersey; Mr.

Davis condemned that and any other organization1 raising the standard of racial and religious prejudice. Then he called upon President Coolidge as the standard bearer of the Republican party to join him by, "some explicit declaration" in "entirely removing this topic from the field of political debate." In naming the klan in this, the second address of his campaign, the Democratic nominee again brought into the open an issue which rent the Democratic National Convention that nominated him and led to the memorable Saturday night battle in Madison Square Garden which culminated in a record vote and a majority of four against denunciation of the klan by name im the party platform. Asked for Views. Having discussed it rather fully in his acceptance address, Mr. Davis apparently did not intend to refer to it again in his address here.

He told his audience that since his arrival here from New York last night he had been asked by more than one person as to the views he entertained toward the klan. Decision to state his position clearly, once and for all, as he put it, is understood to have crystalized at a' conference which Mr. Davis had last night with several party leaders at the home of Governor Silzer. Besides the Governor those reported to have participated Included Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Democratic National Committeeman from this State: Joseph P. Tumulty, former Secretary to President Wilson, and Thomas J.

Spellacy, director of the Eastern Headquarters of the National Campaign organization. Mr. Davis voiced his declaration regarding the Jlan at the conclusi--i of a genera address in which he vigorously scored thi Republican party or. the record of the scandals disclosed at Washington and pointed out th chief points on which the two parties differ. Apparently few in the audience looked for such a declaration.

When the nominee, with outhrust jaw and vigorous gesture first named the klan there was a hiss only fnr an instant. Cheers broke from the gathered on the Camp Silzer parade grounds and hats, handkerchiefs and pennants were waved enthusiastically. Again and again he was stopped by cheering and there were cries, "Good boy:" 'That's the stuff." from his audience. Mr. Davis said at the outset that the issue was one that had no proper place in this or any other campaign (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) Mercury Record Here Is Smashed Thermometer Jumps to 95 In Hottest Day of Year; Cooler Is Promise for Today.

A huge and rapidly moving black cloud northwest of the city at 7 o'clock Friday night led many persons to fear a cyclone was passing over Southern Indiana. Inquiry by telephone failed to reveal anythi" more than hard rain and lightning at Salem and other towns. In Louisville the thermometer jumped from 91 degrees at noon to 95 at 1 o'clock, again breaking the mark for the summer, and going to within 2 degrees of the record, which was made at 97. degrees August 22, 1872. At 7 o'clock Friday night it had declined to 87 degrees and the forecast for Saturday was for cooler weather.

Topeka, Aug. 22 UP) Rain In the north and eastern portions of Kansas last night brought relief from a week of torrid Western Kansas remained arid. IfanUawo. Wl Alter 9 4 One person is dead, many injured ana many are nomeiess as renuii 01 a cloudburst which occurred nere shortly after midnight. WH AS Programmes on The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times broadcasting station for today and Sunday and other stations throughout the United States, will be found on paga I.

EAD From Base -v 'sadsNew York Po-Mf to Corpse. fj3 "three weeks; TOOWtTerTLast jie ieust dis iem-71- who I 4 Aarn A. Graff, I dealer, I ,20 his home August tin pockets, was fou in the Greenwi i v.miAtieally sealed 1. rich ha hermetically sea. in i tyton box.

four feet lo ng. rJ tw0 feet deeP" writ later. Inspector Fay general alarm for the i 1 57 vpars old. who made cabinets i floor- '5si been reported missing by August 9. and detee weusht both men might Lr-h foul play- vr was found by Detec- Gannon ana nouns jCtenon, manager iu -s company, reported two t-Ui.

iit in oaor peivaut-u Kiy clothed body was cov a blanket and cardboard. A Blaster cf paris came gjwfr this a coat of tar or vor a mixing tank tor Uj air-tight, except for a bottom, through whien the is escaped. had been caused vr lenn ct clothes line uric about Graff's throat Am the left side, tciets and a saw were found lici, bearing what appeared isdstains. but police believe iu tuocKea unconscious the tools being used fceber the body. VtMn in i Mirer piFigAf Func 7 County Farmer Will lad Department of Finance for Body.

rjmnt of John E. Bria of farmer and former lecis the post of Director of Fi i 'it Kenttvky Pay-As-You "'alien, was announced Frl I Guthrie Coke, of Auburn. department will ir.d distinct, Mr. Coke said is actively engage i at is cultivating a lartre acre of Shelby County. Pe-' by members of his party he county in the House of styveg at the General As introducing the Marketing Act.

Pttitioned. he refused, for reasons, to stand for elec Genera! Assembly. County farmer is a di- i'--eBurley Tobacco Groovers' a director of the Citi- of Shelbyville, and a di--1 tr- Emmart Packing Com- Louisville. h'brof the Executive Com- Board of Trustees of -ersitT (if TTont, a 'ttnt of the alumni asso- tame university. tor Will Have Hey In Pulpit Be Set for sermon He Will Oliver Sunday.

Aug. 22 VP) The 0Tarrell -will share his monkey when he de-3. rion evolution at the Church here Sunday bounced today. (:. nis tneme would an Was evolved from a -s came from the ass, "fOO th wiu ine he said.

I iBir iW f011 22 VP) iWe eraUy fair Sat- doudjr' prob- Nulft "'undershowers Satur- bb Urd3y: Sun' nange in temp- Chicago. August 22 OP) "The killing of Bobby Franks was a senseless thing, an unreasonable, unexplainable and foolish act that could have been conceived and executed only by a diseased mind." said Clarence S. Dar-row. 67-year-old veteran of criminal court battles, in his plea today before Judge John R. Caverly for the lives of Nathan F.

Leopold and Richard Loeb. "Why did they kill little Bobby Franks?" asked the gray haired pleader, pointing a shaking forefinger at the Judge. "Not for money. They had that. Not for spite; not for hate.

They killed him as they might kill a fly or a spider for the experience. The appeal proved too much for the self-control of the culprits. Throughout most of the afternoon they sat tense, Loeb following every movement of the pleader. Leopold growing pale beneath his customary ruddy flush. Camp Knox Officer Overcome By Heat Camp Knox, August 22 Lieut.

Donald F. Hall, Kokomo, with the 150th Field Artillery, was overcome by heat late yesterday following the review of troops here. His condition was reported as improved today. LETTERS ON BIRTH PLAN FILL OFFICE Larue Postmaster Says Heiress Takes Mail to "Mrs. Baker." Pproial to The Courier-Journal.

Hodgenville. Aug. 22. L. M.

McCubbin, postmaster, tonight said he knew nothing of a Government investigation of letters addressed to "Mrs. Baker," relative to a plan for birth control. For the last few weeks the post-office here has been flooded with letters addressed to Mrs. Baker, resulting, it is believed, from a letter published in the "Point of View" column of The Courier-Journal. Miss Alice Lee Davie, society girl, and heiress of this city, obtained the letters from a postoffice employe, Mr.

McCubblns said, to be delivered to Mrs. Baker. The Baker name is a nom de plume, Mr. McCubblns added, saying the woman who wrote the letter would not sign her real name or call for the letters because of family connections here. Mr.

McCubbins denied reports that Miss Davis had herself identified as Mrs. Baker, saying all she did was to call and ask for the letters, which she she was to deliver to Mrs. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Mysterious Dot and Dash Signals Are Reported From 3 Cities. Vancouver, B. Aug.

Z1 C3) Radio signals of such a nature that they yesterday caused veteran operators in the Point Grey wireless station to believe that Mars was sending were repeated today. A radio operator at the Merchants' Kxchange of this city, a marine information distributing agency, reported that he also heard the same sort of signals today. The strange rounds were caught at 6:20 and 7:12 this morning. At these same Instants they had been heard on previous days throughout four weeks. London Hears "Signals." London, August 23 (A) An attempt by British wireless experts to "listen in" on Mars resulted in strange noises being heard at 1 o'clock this morning.

The source of the noises could not be ascertained by the experts. The attempt was made on a twenty-four valve (tube) set erected on a hill at Dulwich. Representatives of the Marconi Company and of London University were present. Tuning started at 12:30 o'clock a. and at 1 o'clock on a 30.000 metres radius sounds were heard which could not be identified as coming from an earthly station.

The sounds were likened to harsh dots, but they could not be interpreted as Morse code. The noises continued on and off for three minutes in groups of four and five dots. Mysterious Code Used. Newark. N.

August 22 OP) Signals of mysterious origin, received with peculiar frequency, were reported tonight by radio operators of Station R. The station is keeping all-night watch in an endeavor to "listn in" on Mars. Chief Station Operator Poppele declared the signals were distinctly-heard on a wave length of 25,000 meters for more than two hours, commencing shortly after 7 o'clock. He explained the sounds were recorded quite faintly at first, the degree of loudness Increasing as they continued. Despite the clearness of the signals, the operator declared no known code could be distinguished.

DAItK SrOTS OBSERVED. Iowell Observatory Shientist Thinks SnX Areas Have Been Photographed. Flagstaff, August UP) Immovable dark spots on the planet Mars in observations from Low-ell Observatory here the last two nights possibly may be snow. E. C.

SUpzer, Photographic expert at the observa-torv said today. The spots covered an area of about amwanne on the lUUlU S'luo-iir br B-ht-colored areas of the planet, de-flnfd as desert regions by astronomers Mr Slipzer said. They were Seated 15 degres north of the equator and 135 degrees of longitude Observation last night disclosed (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) guarded, but a tho, ough search failed to reveal any sus plclous characters. Elevator operators could furnish no clues. diamonds, which were being shown to Wolin.

were in two wallets on The table. The door to the room had been left open, the said The bandits entered suddenly and one covered Feldenheimer with a revolver while the other bound and gaggeo Wolin They tfusseB Feldenheimer. Wolin was the victim of a similar robbery lato In 1923 when the amount rtolen was said to b. valued. at eoo.

-J. Radiophone Gives tails of Struggle to Millions. De- By THORNTON CON NELL. The days of the World War were recalled last night bright days and cloudy days, days of defeat and days of victory, days of sacrifices as Station A of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times made its pioneer experiment in war correspondence by radio. Which were pronoucced entirely successful.

From 7 to 7:30 o'clock there was radiocast for millions an auditory moving picture of the greatest battle since the Armistice the stand of the Thirty-eighth Division of the National Guard against imaginary attacking troops from north of the Ohio River. The scene of the engagement was two and a quarter miles north of Camp Henry Knox. Practically all the implements of modern warfare were brought into play. The defending troops consisted of National Guard units of Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia. Col.

Mack E. Hamer, staff officer to Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, division commander, acted the part of field radio correspondent.

He gave a detailed description of the problem facing the guards, outlined the positions of the combatants and, as the battle progressed, told how it was going. Machine Guns Rattle. Ac Colonel Hamer described the fighting there could be heard through the Louisville radiophone the constant rattle of automatic rifles and machine guns. As he paused at the end of a sentence a radio enthusiast tuned in on A could plainly hear the sound of the cannonading a peculiar sound over the radio, something like that of a big bell. The field correspondent concluded (Continued on Tage 2, Column 3.) bridge.

She said Miss Stickler told her Schildknecht jumped when she refused to marry him. According to Mrs. Merriweather, the girl telephoned her home and told her mother not to worry, that she would 'be right home. But no trace of Schildknecht could be found. The water in the creek is thise feet deep and the bottom is rock.

Campers from along the creek waded in the water for almost an hour, but he was not found. Neither had anyone seen him walk to the bank. Later, H. M. Davenport, operator of a one-man interurban car, said that a boy 'answering Schildknecht's description boarded his car at Mayfalr Station, which Is a mile from the bridge.

He said the boy was excited and walked with a limp. He said be rode to Louisville. Defendants Are Overcome. But when Mr. Darrow's eloquence pictured disgrace to the families, the grief- of mothers.

the sorrow of fathers, the blasted hopes for the boys themselves, Loeb flicked tears from his cheeks and Leopold stumbled from the court room with bowed head. So overcome was the latter that he struck blindly against a partition narrowing the entrance to the pen." The impact drove Mm side-wise, but he did not raise his head. With extended arms he plowed past the bailiffs and fairly plunged into the elevator that was waiting to convey him to tho approach of Cook County's "bridge of sighs." Judge Caverly leaned forward resting his chin upon his clasped hands and riveting his eyes upon the sPeak But what went on behind tne judicial mask was not IWe. Robert E. Crowe.

and his assistant prosecutors sat mo tionless. nnenlnK A small riot preceuu of the afternoon sess on. The ruge to gain admission to the lre crowded court room ended 1 only heme re-enforced police carried (Continued r-P3. Column Blue Army Will Attack At 8 O'clock This Morning; Artillery to Aid BULLETIN. Camp Henry Knox, August 23 The infantry is in position along the two anil a half mile front where it will remain until the zero hour at dawn.

The heavy artillery after 4 heavy bombardment ceased its fire at midnight. At 10:15 o'clock last night, when the enemy threatened a general advance every gun roared. At 8 o'clock this morning the Blue army will attack, the positions taken up during the night by the Red forces. By CHI RC HILL XKWCOMB. Staff Correspondent of The Courier-Journal.

Camp Henry Knox, August 22. A group of staff and field officers with two civilians in shirt sleeves gathered at dusk today around a small table on which rested an ordinary looking telephone transmitter. At the table sat Lieut. Col. Mark E.

Hamer acting as war corresondent by radio for WIIAS, radiophone of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times which for the first time in history broadcast the din of battle to a continent and told the story of war in war's own language. Officers and table were all but hid- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ership asserted itself when Washington had been attained. Congress met delay and the first act in the drama was the scourging from the capitol of the horde of lobbyists, hangers-on, seekers for privilege and representatives of special interests, who had infested its corridors. Then came, in quick succession, under his energetic impulse, the fairest tariff law since the Civil War; the Federal Reserve Act for which the country had w-aited half a century; the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton act curbing monopolies and establishing the rights of labor; and through this and succeeding sessions the pem-ocratic party under his guidance moved in solid phalanx, confident in his leadership. The great war broke.

There felt upon him burdens heavier than any that his predecessors had been called upon to Two years he struggles to keep America fVom the maelstrom, and then, when the' attack upon her rights was made he threw himself and hie country into the battle with a fiery energy that amazed the world Men and money and munitions came at his call, and his clear voice rang out like a trumpet across thi world, giving new meaning to the struggle and new life to those engaged in it. When the war was ended, he gave (Continued on Tsge 3, Column 3.) Davis Promises Honesty Democratic Nominee for President Makes Second Speech of Campaign At Seagirt. Youth Leaps From Motor Into Harrod's Creek As Girl Says 'No' Limps Home After Fall of 60 Feet From Bridge Into Shallow Water. Robbers Get, $100,000 In Diamonds In Raid On Maiden Lane Jewelers Seagirt. N.

7., Aug. 22 C) The following is the text of the address of John W. Davis, delivered at a mass meeting here today of New-Jersey Democrats: This Is my second appearance at You will not be surprised if 1 find my memory-turning at this time to the circumstances of my earlier visit. It happened on a hot July flay, twelve years ago. I was one of a party of 200 or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the Governor's house at Seagirt.

At our head marched that grand old Roman. Champ Clark, then the Speaker of the House. Among the party I recall a Jersey man, who was then my colleague in Congress and who- was soon to take a seat in the Senate the loved and lovable Billy Hughes. We were calling on a governor of New Jersey wno had just received the Democratic namination for the Presidency. Most of the company, including myself, had never made his personal acquaintance.

It was our euand to assure him of our hearty support and to place ourselves at his services. The impressions of that day were summed up for me by one of my colleagues as we tramped back to the waiting train. Said he. "When that man comes to Washington there will be a leader in the White House!" I recall how quickly this lead Unrequited love, refusal of the girl by his side in an automobile to marry him, was assigned by County Police as the reason for a sudden leaj from a bridge at Harrod's Creek into the water sixty feet below at 7:30 o'clock Friday night by a young man whose name police said was Charles Schild-knecht. 17 years old, Lakeside Drive.

The young woman whose refusal prompted the deed was said by jjolice to be Miss Margaret Stickler, also 18, Newburgh Road. Mrs. Isaac Merriweather, who lives near the Harrods Creek bridge, said that Miss Stickler asked to use her telephone soon after the boy was re ported to have jumpea irom the Watcneu 52. 0P Po ttcni hT werTng to how two robbers, after binding men with picture wire and gagging then, escaped with fi0 ot the at $100,000 from the nlntn building at roadway, a Lane, during the noon no Alexander Feldenhelmer Mark owners of the "VteUms of the holdup men. an(J pre roll to the wall of t.nhr,)mmunlcated against a button which eemnui the alarm to fntrj Within two minutes every.