Bluefield Daily Telegraph from Bluefield, West Virginia • Page 1

WEAWER West ParU ly Cloudy and tllghtly WAcmer, possibly thun. dershowers In west portion Wednesday; on Thursday showers. Volume XXXIV. No. 213, Bluefield, W.

Wednesday Morning, September 1, Ctwtt. A- PRESIDENT WILL DISCUSSMEXICQ II'IM HEAP Reaffirms Policy as to Foreign War Debts and the World Court. TO PRESERVE PICTURIZED RECORDS HISTORIC VALUE Will H. Rays, Czar of Movies, Lays Plan Before Mr. of the Industry Made Available During Visit to White Pine.

Paul Smith's. N. Aug. 31. (JP) Coolidge tomorrow will receive James A.

Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, at the latter'a request, for a talk on the Mexican situation. The'Knights of Columbus recently sent a resolution to Washington calling for American Intervention in Mexico to protect the Catholic Church In the relibfous dispute With President Calles. Meanwhile, the "hands off" policy of the Washington government will continue until American persons are Injured In person or property in Mexico, It has been reiterated in behalf of the president. But one specific complaint agaist Americans during the religious controversy, has been 'announced, and that, it was added, the Mexican government-promised to adjust. the president on other questions verevmado known today ft the summer White House, including reaffirmations as to the foreign war debts policy and the world court.

It was made clear that the president knew of no, reason for a change in government policy toward revision or. cftcellation of war debts. All the greatjipowers hut one have funded their dents to the United fwij the president believes Prance.will adjust its debt in accordance with the Washington agreement. The money, It was emphasized, will have, to he paid by American taxpayers or by the taxpayers of the that borrowed it. Coolldge believes that question of American." world court membership has.

been fettted by the senate "ltfeVbnco "by several senators was said'to be known to him. and Mrs. Frank Stearns, of Boston, who have been guests at the summer White. House for several weeks, left today for their summer home at Sw'ampscott, Mass. Mrs.

XHmyra Goodhue, of Northampton, mother of Mrs. Coblidge, arrived far a visit. Will H. Hays, movie "czar" today laid before'President Coolldge a plan for preserving Iplcturized records of historic value by placing negatives of such events as the signing of the Versailles treaty, the first airplane flight, and presidential inaugurations, in the national archives building to be erected in Washington. The plan, formulated during President administration, has the favor of 'President Coolldge, was' indicated.

Hays said it was proposed to arrange storage space for 50,000 reels of film which would be the camera's record of changing scenes and customs of national life well as historical events. Sta'tlffics of the movie Industry, made available tc-day during Hays' visit to the summer White House, showed American movie fans spend approximately $1,000,000,000 a year in admission fees a tthe 20,233 picture theatres in the country. The averago weekly attendance in 1925 was 90,000,000. persons. News reels were seen by 51 ,000,000 people each 1 Production, costs of American films annually, while studio salaries amount to $60,000,000 a year.

Tweuty-flve thousand miles of film are shown in the United States daily. Bight hundred and twenty-three pictures woje made last year, in addition to 20,150 short subjects. NO TRACE IS FOUND OF ESCAPED PRISONERS SOVIET RUSSIA WOULD DOMINATE THE BALTIC Moscow, Aug. 31. Soviet Russia today, through one of its highest government authorities, adopted an attitude toward the Baltic states suggestive of the protection exercised by the United States over South, American countries through tho Monroe doctrine.

Poland's recent policy of penetration in the Baltic countries and her alleged imperialistic design In other directions prompted the Soviet foreign office to explain Russia's precise attitude toward Poland as regards the latter's domination In the Baltic states. Poland's attempt to gain supremacy in Lithuania, Esthonla, Latvia and Finland was a menace to Russia's moat vital Interests and a direct threat to her frontier and maritime boundaries, the government's spokesman said. SMITH'S SMALL LEAD SLIGHTLY INCREASED Eichards Showing the Way to Eight Other Candidates for Governor South Carolina. AT mis AS YET UNKNOWN Capital of Fayal Island, in Central Group of Azores, Partly Destroyed. ALL OF GREECE SHAKEN BUT DAMAGE NOT GREAT Clarksburg, W.

Aug. 31. Fosses searching late tonight had found no trace of the seven prisoners who sawed their way to freedom from the Harrison county jail early this morning. Rewards totaling $350 have be.en offered by Sheriff Isaac L. Davlsaon for information leading to the arrest of the men, and ''trtjstles" inside the suspected gf complicity, have been plapetl in cells.

Charles Lane, of Grafton, said to be ringleader of the plot, had'been- placed here for safe keoplng from tho Taylor county Jail, Two previous attempted deliveries under bis direction haVe been frustrated within the last month, NINETEEN STORIES CUT OFF PROPOSED CATHEDRAL Ptttsburft Am, 8J. proposed cathedral of learning of the University of Pittsburg will be thirty-three stories high instead of fifty- two, as originally planned. This was revealed, today- when revised plans for the structure were tiled with (lie bureau of building inspection. When cpnstruetion would bo started was not indicated. Changes in the plans were announced two months ago by Chancellor John G.

Bowman, but at that time it was r'Hxftnnounced bow much the height of the proposed structure woujd be Columbia. S. Aug. 31. With 1,118 of the state's 1,371 precincts heard from, United States Senator Smith had a lead of about 6,000 votes over Edgar A.

Brown Jn the for nomination in today's Democratic primary. Tabulations were: Smith 65,194. Brown 49,225. Former Senator Dial 26,029. Columbia, S.

A UK. 31. The small lead that S. Senator Ellison, D. Smith has maintained from the first in his fight for re- nomination in today's Democratic Drimary increased slightly late tonight with returns from more than two thirds voting boxes.

Returns from 844 of the 1371 boxes gave: Smith 40.601. Edgar Brown. 37.043. Former Senator N. B.

Dial. 16,567. If no candidate receives a majority a run-off promary for the two highest will' be held tow weeks hence. In the governorship race. John G.

Richards held a lead in a field of nine. The same number of boxes gave him 22.100, with Ira C. Blackwood aecond with Both former Senator Dial and Brown, who is speaker of the state house, attacked Senator Smith's vote in favor of American narticlpa- tion in' the world court. Brown assailed -the court as a "Republican proposal 1 with no resemblance to that Indorsed by Woodrow Wilson or the 1924 De- fn Tace; Governor McLeod was not a candidate for reelection. Columbia.

S. C'Aug. 31. Returns from 426 boxes otu of 1.371 in South Carolina from today's Democratic primary gave for United States senator: Brown 15,154. Dial 8,299.

Smith 18,154. The returns represented figures from thirty of the state's forty-six counties. A majority is necessary for nomination. In the contest the gubernatorial nomination. John G.

Richards, assemblyman, Liberty Hill, 356 on returns from 415 boxes had forged ahead of Ira G. Blalckwood of Spartanburg, with 8,884. Lieutenant Governor Jackson, 7,317, was third in the field of nine candid, ates. LEOPOLD AND LOEB MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE First Shook That Affected Islands Followed by Series of Trem6rs of Minor Nature and Tidal Wave That Swept Lisbon. Portugal.

Aug. 31. The island of Fayal is described in a message from the mayor as "a mass of ruins, especially the city of Horta." The injured In the earthquake are estimated by him at 400. No mention Is made in the message of tho number of killed. A sanitary column left for the Azores this morning on a merchant steamer commandeered by the government.

This was to be followed Immediately by troops, and engineers corns a.nd three warships. London. Aug. 31. UP) dispatch from Horta.

Agora, to Lloyds, says that ten deaths are known to have occurred in the earthquake there today. London Aug. 31. The town of Horta, capital of" the island of Fayal of the central group of the Azores, was partly destroyed by an earthquake today. The first shock, brief advices receives here say, occurred about 11 a.

m. This was followed by a series of shocks, some of a minor nature, which affected both Fayal and the neighboring islands, accompanied by a tide wave that swept the small village of Feteira. The governor of the Horta-district, cabling -to Lisbon the island being a Portuguese the total, casualties at about fifty, which is believed to include killed and injured. The governor's dispatch however, which was sent in French. employB the term "victims" and this may Bosl- sibly imply fifty killed.

Another private report gave the number of killed as six, with nume'r ous injured. Although early dispatches etatlng that Horta was in ruins seem to have been an exaggeration. It would appear from all that Horta Gpopttlace; shocks and afraid to tor.tbeir homes, are living In the 'open, the Portuguese government has sent assistance by fast warships. Greece today was shaken by a strong earthquake, The entire country felt the shocks, but the damage Is said not to have been great and casuaUiae were reported. The Azores Islands are of volcanic origin and at various times have been shaken by earthquakes.

Today's disturbance was described as one of the heaviest In many years. WILL PRESS CHARGES AGAINST DRY AGEHTS Prosecutor Will AI BO Seek Indictment of Clergyman on Murder Charge. COMMANDER JOHN RODGERS SLEEPS WITH NATION'S ILLUSTRIOUS DEM) IN BUI NATIONAL CEMETERY Gathered at Grave as Episcopal Burial Service Was Read Were Kis Aged Father, Mother and High Officers of the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps. Washington. Aug.

31. OMMANDER JOHN RODGERS, who gave bis life in the development of the science of aviation, WSB burled today among the illustrious dead of the nation in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors. Gathered at the grave as the Episcopal burial service was read were his father, mother and high officers of the navy, the army and the marine corps. When the body had arrived from the Rodgers home at Havre De Grace, It was, taken to Ft. Myers and the casket transferred to a caisson drawn by six horses.

Led by a naval band, tho cortege moved to the Bpot picked ns the last resting grave in the midst of four towering oaks nifir that of William Worth seoretary of War under President Grant. Five naval airplanes soared overhead in blank file formation, the flyer's Bymbol that one of their number was missing. A company of marines and two companies of sailors acted as honor guards. Three volleys fired by the marines followed the reading of the burial service. And then a bugle sounded navy's farewell to its dead.

DRY ADMINISTRATOR AT BUFFALO HAS RESIGNED Washington, Aug. 31. Roberts, prohibition administrator at Buffalo has' resigned. J. S.

McGovern, counsel in the administrator's office at Buffalo, was named acting administrator by Assistant Secretary Andrews until a successor for Robert is appointed. Roberts assigned an immediate busl.nes opportunity as the reason for his action. FIFTEEN ADDITIONAL 1PP0SED BY HIRAM JOHNSON LEADS McAdoo Men Trail Races for Senator and Governor. Bond of $100,000 Will Be Asked in the Case of W. D.

Manley, of Atlanta. Chicago, Aug. 31, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. who were given lite terms- and ninety- nine years sentences in prison for slaying young Robert Franks, more than two years ago, may be eligiblej for application for parole, in eleven years after their sentences; started. HUjton ciabaugh, newly an-! pointed supervisor of pardons and' paroles, announced today after an I Investigation.

The slayers may be able to apply for parole by December. 1935, baugh said, expainlng there was no specification that their sentences were to run consecutively, in which case they automatically would run concurrently. The longer sentence, in cases of concurrent sentences, takes precedence, Ciabaugh said, adding that life would be considered a longer sentence than ninety-nine years. NO PROGRESS TOWARDS SETTLING COAL STRIKE' London, Aug. 31..

Parliament's short session closed this afternoon with nothing achieved ward a settlement of tho coal strike. Should the strike continue another, month parliament roust reconvene to renew the emergency regulations. Winston Churchill, chancelor of the exchequer, today Intimated the government might support a national settlement even against the wishes of the mine owners, If the workers would only be reasonable on the question ot wages and hours. Nothing has come of the joint meeting today ot executives, miners and labor leaders called by Ramsay MacDonald to promote a renewal ot the regulations, the leaders voting to' formulate no new Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 31 the release of three federal dry officers on own recognizance of the federal court at Seattle today, Prosecuting Attorney J.

W. Selden, of Pierce county, announced that first degree murder charges would be pressed against tho agents and Rev. George Seeley, of Ort- fng, for the killing of Emile Matsumoto, alleged moonshiner, yesterday. The action of the federal court makes it necessary for the prose, cutor to go before a federal grand jury with his evidence, and seek an indictment of the officers, Mark Y. Croxall, R.

A. Lambert and W. H. Kinnalrd. The dry agents and the clergyman are to post $500 bond each tomorrow, according to Carroll A.

Gordon, assistant United States attorney. The agents asserted that- Matsumoto and a bidden marksman had fired upon them and they had shot in self defense in the course ot a raid on a moonshine still, twelve miles out of Ortlng. Government attorneys will present a strong defense against any attempt to prosecute the agents, Gordon said. Seeley led the agents to the still, according to the story. TiUTHERAW SYNOD Columbus.

Aug. 31. The Lutheran joint synod ot Ohio In convention here today, elected Rev. O. J.

Loehr and Walter R. Domm- lor, both of Pittsburg to the Mars, home board, Elected to the board of St. Johns Academy. Petersburg, W. were Rev.

A. P. Ebert, FuJJerton. Rev. G.

D. Slmen, Pittsburg, David Getae. Rough Run. W. and George Mallow, Petersburg.

Va. BOTTOM OF OHIO RIVER EXPLORED TO SECURE EVIDENCE IN A LIQUOR CASE A Wheeling. W. Aug. 31.

K. McCMTSICBV, chief of police ot- Glendale, Marshall county, today was forced to explore the bottom of the Ohio river in eight feet of water to secure the evidence on which Glen Moran, of Glendale, was hold to the Marshall county grand Jury on a charge ot second offense possession of liquor. A house boat, moored on the river bank at Glendale, and occupied by Mwan was Waited today by MoCluskey and Deputy Sheriff Earl Parka, As the pffJcers boarded the boat tney say Moran tossed a Jug over the side. JloOluskey borrowed a bfttWns suit from a nearby camp, dtyefl ja eight feet ot water and brought the jug to the surface, fljied with what the moonahluo whiskey, Moran waif arraigned before Justice of the Peace W. 0.

Lewis held to the grand Jury foil. Atlanta, Aug. 31 the Fulton county grand jury returned fifteen additional Indictments today against officers and directors of the recently, closed Bankers Trust of Atlanta, Assistant Solicitor General John Hudson, acting under instructions of John A. Boykin, solicitor general of Fulton county, asked the state banking department tq manley, president off the aeftfiSot Bankers Trust in each of the! Georgia counties where Afenley had financed banks that closed' after the trust company crash. Assistant Solicitor General Hudson stated the apparent losses is deposits, capital and surplus in Georgia banks forced to close when their fiscal agent crashed: are approximately $20,000,000 and in the members of the chain Named in the indictments returned today were: W.

D. Manley, president of the company; J. A. Sasser, vice president, L. R.

Adams, secretary and trustee; Paul Baker, treasurer; and John D. Russell, assistant secretary, and trustee. The larceny after trust indictments 'chaTge that the various officers of the banking company converted to their own use money in- truBted to them by banks througbr out Georgia and Florida while the other felony true bills allege the officers allowed the Farmers and Traders Bank to "become fraudulently insolvent, during their administration." W. D- Manley. and Paul J.

Baker were each indicted on misdemeanor chaTgcB, it being alleged that each overdrew his account at the Farmers and Traders Bank. Another indictment charging misdemeanor was placed against each Manley, Baker, Russell, Sasser and Adams alleging that they, advertised that the deposits in their institution were insured, whereas no insurance was carried on the depostis. Manley, Sasser, Baker and Russell also were Indicted for a felony on the charge that they permitted the Georgia State Bank' to become fraudulently Insolvent duMng their administration as officers. Late today Solicitor General Boykin said that bond of $100,000 will be asked for W. D.

Manley; $20,000 for J. A. Sasser, and L. R. Adams, and $llr000 for P.

J. Baker and John D. Russell. TO SAW! ASPIRATIONS OF SPAIN A NO POLAND Lord Cecil's Scheme With Slight Modifications Adopted by League Committee. San Francisco, Aug.

31. United States Senator Samuel M. Shortridge, Coolldge Republican, running tor renomlnatlon In today's primary on, a platform ot protective tariff and support of the administration, tonight was leading his antt-world court opponent, Robert Clarke, by about 2,000 votes oa returns from 352 out ot 8,274 California precincts. The vote for Shortrldge was Clark, 6,685. Representative Walter fF.

Lineberger, also an anti-world court candidate and bearing the-'endorsement of the Anti-Saloon League, had polled 1,332 votes. The candidacy of Senator Shortridge, who stressed his pro-Coolidge record in the senate and described his opponents as "antl-Ooolidgemen," was opposed by Senator Hiram Johnson, his colleague in the senate. Dockweller, antl-McAdoo candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, with 940 votes, led John B. Elliott, with 7G4; Elliott, ran on an anti-Tammany platform. Lieutenant Governor C.

C. Young was leading his opponents for the Republican gubernatorial nomination on returns from 70S precincts. Registrar ot Voters Harry Zertmn- sky said an early tabulation ot votes indicated that Mrs. Florence Kahn, congressional incumbent In the fourth district, who urged modi- pitKfn nominated. VJustuj S.

Wardell, the antl-Mc- A'doo candidate for. the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, was leading Carl Alexander Johnson, San Diego dry, endorsed by "McAdoo, 1,437 to 602, in 132 San Francisco precincts. RUDOLPH VALENTINO IS STILL EARNING MONEY REV.EOW. W. HALL IS IN CONSTANT FEAR FQRJIS LIFE Did Not Know What Would Happen to Him When Out With Mrs.

Mills. RECTOR'S FEARS TOLD OF BY A MINISTERIAL FRIEND Afore Than Fifty Dead Mexican Toll N'OBtilcs, Aug. 81. UP)r- lompilntlons of the Herald ilny placed Hie flood toll In the Ktntcs of IVnjnril nnd Jnlisco, nt more thnn flfty known dend, untold property loss nnd nlth prospects of further Inundations ns the Santiago nnd l.ernin rivers overflow their banks. A dispatch fn flie Herald day sold the town of Santiago fxciilnllii now nn I I HIH I.

Harms, In Jalisco, Is threatened with Inundation, nnd six siitnll towns the conrsc of the Rio l.rrnin nlrendy bnvo been linimlnlod with roll- sldcrnblR loss of life. Additional Arrests Year-Old Double Case Are Promised spector Underwood- Stevens Questioned, rour- by In- Willie SomerviUe, N. A UK. 31 The Rev. Edward W.

Hall, who was slain with, his choir singer. Mrs. Eleanor Mills, four year? neo, was SPECIAL GUANO JURY AT WYTHEVILLE Lynching of Raymond Bird, Negro, in County Jail to Be Investigated. Wytheville, Aug. 31.

IWythe county nnd other parts In "constant fear for his life nnd I or Virginia await the convening of did not know what might happen to special grand Jury Wednesday ho was out Willi 'Mrs. morning nt 9 o'clock at Wytheville hiis be him when Mills." I -'h irh hiis I MVII lo nrohe The rector's expressed jibe lynching of Haymond Bird, Negro to the Rev. Paul Hamborsky, a friend. Hamborsky. affidavit made public today by those In in tho county jail on August 15, The names of the jurors sum niqned to assemble In the court UUVll IJlHUe ULIUllU lUllUy UJ LUUan nr.

til vestlgating (he murders, asserted l' 0 30 16 kG nl 'V a Geneva, Switzerland. Aug. 31 (JP). sub-committee of the commission charged with examining into the reorganization of the league council, after a six-hour discussion, finally adopted Lord Cecil's scheme with slight modifications. This is calculated to satisfy tho aspirations of Spain and Poland for semi-permanent seats in' the council.

Under the draft approved by the sub-committee the assembly can by a two-thirds vote give ft re-ellgl- blllty to any non-permanent member whose term expires in 1926 and this year can also, by the same vote, endow tbe new non-permanent members with re-eligibility in advance. Hereafter, however, tbe re- eligibility of outgoing nop-perma- nent members will be voted on by the assembly only after the expiration of their three year mandate. M. De Bropkere, of Belgium, expressed the opinion that both Poland and Spain should be content with the solution reached it met their deilres. New York; Aug.

31 Rudolph Valentino's figure still moves across the silver screen, earning approximately a day as royalties for his heirs. Interest aroused by his death sent booming the box office receipts from his last "The Son ot the Sheik." George UUman, who was Valentino's manager, today estimated that royalties of approximately 1300,000 have been oarned by this picture alone since his death. The royalties will go to Valentino's brother Alberto and sister Marie Gugllelml, end to Edward S. Gilbert, a friend, of Los Angeles, named as. heirs In bis will.

After the actor's death, the. brother and sister were Informed that their brother's estate, while solvent, contained no surplus tor the heirs. This has been altered by the- posthumous earnings of the actor. Alberto will arrive here tomorrow from Italy and it will be decided then whether tbe body 'shall be buried In Hollywood or taken to Italy. REV.

GEORGE A. SEELEY CHARGED WITH MURDER that Dr. Hall told him he feared Henry his wife's brother, who had threatened him. Stevens was questioned at hlB homo in Lavalelto today by two Jersey City police'officials. They said he maintained he was on a fishing trip the night of the murders and returned home and retired at 9:30 o'clock.

That was the same story he told during the original Investigation four years ago. Additional arrests were promised by Inspector John Underwood, to State Senator Simpson, special prosecutor. He declared tbe prosecution would nuMu other persons as at the old Phillips farm when the clergyman and "his companion were shot down. William Fitzpatrick, who In 1922 was a Middlesex county detective and a finger prlut student, told Mazie Clements, reporter for a New York newspaper, that the late Prosecutor not permit him to photograph finger prints which were evident on the calling card against Dr, Hall's Simpson, at the hearing last week Stevens' 'and'" weriry 1 brother and cousin of Kirs. Frances Stevens Hall, the slain rector's widow, declared the prints on that card were those of Stevens.

Stevens and Carpender are both i In the county Jail here charged with the crimes and Mrs. Hall is free In' bail on like charges. ClothUis worn by the couple on the muruer night is held at Jersey City police, headquarters for examination by finger print experts. KLUN TICKET TRIUMPHS ELECTION AT Despite Rumors of Impending Trouble Day Passed Off Quietly. SIIEPOLICEH STAGE 1 BATTLE Tear Gas Bombs Used to Drive Back Crowd of 1.805 at Mannville, R.

I. 9 SEVERAL VOLLEYS FIRED WHILE FIGHTING WAS ON Troopers and Deputy Sheriffs Numbered Two Scores- Striking Mill- Operatives Were Backed Up by a Great Number of Sympathizers, I Tacoma, Aug. 31. The Rev. George A.

Sheely, pastor and editor ot Orating, WIB arrested today on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the death of Emile Matsumoto, thirty-one, who was killed in a raid on a liquor still yesterday. NETHERLANDS JURIST SLATED FOR PRESIDENT World Court Meets at Geneva Today to Discuss American Reservations. Aug. 81 Professor Van Byslngs. Netherlands jurist, is slated tor the presidency of the world court, which meets tomorrow to discuss the American reservations.

The vice presidency will probably go to Dr. J. C. Clanco, Uruguay foreign minister. Tbe American reservations are Interpreted here as designed to prevent the court from making possible I the rendering ot opinions ton matters effecting the United States, unless Washington say.s "Yes." Tbe fifth American reservation provides that the court shall not, ''without tbe consent of the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question In the United States has or clllms an Interest." It is the' impression fcmlght that the conference will accefct tbe first four American reservations, but opinions are divided regarding the fifth.

7 A. Cook, P. C. FoIU, C. nnutngtirdner, D.

B. Blair, J. G. Davis, C. M.

Otey, O. Al. Johnson, S. B. Crockett and W.

O. Shores. Joseph H. Chltwood. of Roanoke, has been named by Governor Byrd (o assist Attorney General Bazllle in tho prosecution of members of the mob which killed Bird and left his mutilated body hanging from the limb of a tree attcr dragging it sovcral miles behind an automobile.

The governor's special investigators were named following conference at Richmond with Judge Horace Sutherland nnd Commonwealth's Attorney H. M. Heuser, ot Wythe county. The governor Issued the following statement: "I have today conferred with Judge Horace Sutherland and Hon. H.

M. Heuscr. commonwealth attorney for Wythe county, with regard to the recent lynching of the Negro, Raymond Bird, With the approval nf Judge Sutherland and Mr. Heusor, the attorney general, aiutsu by Hon. Joseph H.

Chitwood, ot Roanoke, will assist in the prosecution and represent the state. A 'special grand jury will convene at Xtt'ffi and Attorhey 1 General Baziliei will bo present at that time." CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT WEEK-END ANNOUNCED Herrin, 111., Aug. 31 A Ku Klux Klan supported ticket triumphed here today In a quiet election for the selection of a judge of the city court, despite. recent rumors of impending trouble. Two Illinois national guard officers, acting as observers for Adjutant General Black, cooperated wtih Chief of Police George Griffith, who detailed twenty special police officers with autoinatlc rifles and sawed oft shot guns in or near all the polling places.

The Masonic temple, where six men were killed on election day last April 13, was not used as a poling place todaVj the voting booths being moved to the city library, R. T. Cook, former Judge of the city court, was returned to the office over Charles C. Murray and Judge B. N.

Boivnn, tho incumbent, both of whom were said to have support of the antl-Klan element. POLICEMAN MAYTACE A CHARGE OF MURDER Huntington, W. Aug. 31. (JP).

state warrant charging Policeman Sam Boothe with murder, will be sworn to in event a seventeen- year-old boy, shot and seriously wpunded by the patrolman early this morning, dies, Chief ot Police A V. Porter declared tonight. The shooting is Bald by police to have followed when the Vouth sought to 08cape after being caught in a stolen automobile. Hospital authorities said tonight they seriously doubted tbe boy would recover. The bullet from the officer's gun penetrated the victim's back and was Imbedded In the wall of the left lung, only about an Inch from his' heart.

New York, Aug. 31. (JP) A week-end cross country flight for the S-35, Sikorsky biplane, was announced today. Baltlmoxej Washington, Philadelphia and other eastern cities will have the opportunity of seeing tho ship which will make the. proposed New York to Paris (light, Captain.

Rene Fonck said today. The flight to Washington and back, about 500 miles, will be m'adp either Saturday, Sunday or Monday, and about ten persons will be passengers. In the office of the Argonauts, tbe company that Is backing the flight, steps word taken to protect Captain Homer Berry's claim to be, iuclude.d In the flight personnel, with Indications that arbitration would be used to clear up the squabble. Bernard Sandler, attorney, said that In an exchange of lettters the Sikorsky company reminded the Argonauts that delivery of tho plane would not bo made until completion ot the test flight, under tho charge of Fonck, and the Argonauts replied by accusing the Sikorksy Company ot delaying the flight. WITH NO ONE INJURED Mexico City.

Aug. 31. Prince Valerlo Plgnatelli, of Italy, descendant of Cortez, Ifll Universal Grafico says, fought a pistol duel yesterday near Mexico City with Albert Meade, member of a prominent Mexico City family. The reasons for the quarrel were not revealed. Neither mau was hurt.

They fired one shot each, and both missed. Their seconds then that honor was satisfied off the duel. GOV. SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION Watsoka, 111., Aug. 31.

Governor Len Small today asked the voters ot Illinois to support his administration by sending to tbe legislature the lawmakers who would support bis policies. The governor's ploa was made in an address at a county fair. The governor referred only Indirectly to his possible candidacy for a third term, making no positive an- nouueeemnt of his candidacy, as it bad been reported be expected to do In his speech hern. Manvllle, R. Sept.

1. tional guard troops commanded by Major Francis W. Rollins, arrived here early today and took up post- lions ftiiouf. iiie MaiiVllus-Juiickee Company mill In support of the state police nnd deputy sheriffs. They made no attempt to disperse the strikers and sympathisers across the brklgeon the Lincoln sldo of the- v'i Blackstone river crowd, which hnd numbered nearly 2,000 during i fhe rioting last evening, had dwln- tiled to a few hundred.

Manvllle, R. Aug. 31 This little mill town tonighi was a scene. battle and disorder as a mob J4 more than 1,800 striking 1 of the Manvllle-Jenckes sympathizers contended less than two score state police and deputy sheriffs for possession of the bridge connecting Manvllle with the mill. Five persons were reported shot by the state police, one seriously; Colonel Everltte St.

J. Chaffee, commanding the state police, asked: Adjutant leneral Cole for assists ance, and thirty-five picked men from the 104-th field artillery were being held In readiness for further, orders to rush t6 the scene -from Providence. The crowd assembled in Yelle, Square, at the bridgehead, with stones and.clubs, and many of-. its members went to their homes, top. arms.

They were to': the- of riot at the shooting by state police, who advanced now- -'anaVisa i again onto the bridge to tire a vpU 'jll i -ley and then retired to tho rrilll- sates. So. ffcr as could be A. none. of Jr -bad beeH-haBtsAl except by Those injured in the were: Aram.

Au Clair, twenty, of Cum-, bcrland, shot in the chin. Mamraaka, seventeen, of Manvllle, shot twice in tho left leg. Victor Rngeaud, of Manvllle, a grocer, shot In tho left shoulder. John Rymanskl, of Cumberland, a tJ striker, shot in the left band. The strikers apparently were not appalled by the casualties tvom'- thclr ranks.

They stood firm. In- Yelle Square, ou the village side ot the bridge spanning the Blackstone river and bombarded the troopers, with stones. Tho trouble began Sunday night when the mill was stoned and an.at­ tempt was made to iire it; The. disorders continued yesterday and last night, waning toward The trouble tonight began at 8:30 when the crowd assembled, at. tne bridgehead and taunted the troopers with abuse and stones.

A syni- pititiizer tried to force his way across tbe bridge and- was thrust-; back. The crowd then ruBhed barricade, and the state ed tear bombs. Into the mass, ing it back. A little later the fired their first volley from hen vy vi Ice revolvers, and one man -mas. car-' away bleeding.

wards one of the young men was shot. Au Clair, who was shot in the chin, is a nephew of 'Mayoivv Bdelard Soucy ot Shortly after 11 o'clock the detachment from the 103rd field tilery was ordered to Manvllle by Adjutant General Cole. They star.tfS ed In trucks. Detachments from'', the 118th medical corps 152nd ambulance company accompanied the artillerymen. Deputy Sheriff Percy Buterfleld: Providence was In the with buckshot when two strike sympathizers fired over the heads of the crowd from a vantage' point on the hill behind.

Lieutenant Balrd of the state police wag struck, on the foot by a heavy stone carried Into the mill. State Senator Russell Handy of Lincoln addressed the crowd, coun-i Belling abstinence, from further icjee. The Rev. Eustace Magnan, curate ot St. James' Church made a fervent plea tor peace, and at tbe close of his address a number departed and the tensity of situation seemed relieved.

ROOSEVELT IN FAVOR OF CONVENTION SYSTEd OREGON FACES THREE-CORNERED FIGHT FOR SENATORSHIP NOVEMBER ELECTION Portlund, Aug. 3X. REGON facos a three-cornered race for tbe United States senator- ship at the November election as a result of the- announcement today by Senator Robert M. Stauftold that he would be an independent candidate to succeed himself. Stanlleld, who was defeated at the May primary for Republican nomination, said be would accept nomination which is expected to be given him by a group of supporters at special meeting, Anf independent candidate can be named, in this state by 10Q voters.

The nominee is Frederick Stelwer ot Pendleton, and tho candidate is Bert B. Haney, -forjner shipping board, member. 1 Stuniield declared bo bad been toe victim of unfair tactics in the primary campaign through tbe eiiowlnUou (Continued on page TWO Milwaukee, Aug, 31. Cplqfi Theqdore Roosevelt, speakingV-Mffi fore the Harvard 'Club here toW 8 declared in favor of the couventf system, instead of tbe tern In selecting a randldatsifj public office. He attacked tftelte runt primaries in IJllnois as a result of thov system, and said that a under the convention J0 inatqd to office without-" with an Imiwasjpha exji' MellottU lam -Bury, MS.