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IDaih? Journal. VOL. til- NO. 223 JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927. TWELVE PAGES THREE CENTS DUVALL GIVES TESTIMONY IN BRIBERY CASE Takes Stand In Own Defense in Probe Of Politics INDIANAPOLIS.

Sept. 19 (AIM Mayor John L. Duvall, tlfying in his trial on a charge of violating corrupt practice act, admitted under erosa examlna tlon tod AY that he had endorsed a note of $1.000 for George 8. Elliott and Harvey Berford who disappeared three after the Marion county grand jury began investigation of alleged political graft in Indiana. Elliott formerly wan eialted of Marion copnty Klan No 3.

Bedford, a former Indianapolis policeman, also was active in that order. Duvall in charged with bartering away a position for money and support at the 1925 election. Duvall let It he known that he had appointed Bedford tor of police and Klliott superintendent of parks on October 192 before they disappeared. The appointment never had been disclosed until today. A nationwide anarch was made for Klliott and lord after they had been subpoenaed by the grand Jury.

They re- Hppeared voluntarily several weeks later IJo Duvall said he had endorsed their note, but he did not know they were to leave town. I had I sure wouldn't have signed their he declared Duvall earlier had flatly de- ned that he offered for sale offices in his administration or that he agreed to accept the dictation and instruction of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in political matters and branded as lies the testimony of prosecution witnesses. The state vigorously attacked his testimony on cross-examination. attempting to show that while Duvall had not kept an alleged agreement with William Armitage, local politican, he appointed klansmen in accordance with a contract purported to have been made prior to the election. Taking In turn Duvall denied the fol- towing he had taken $10,000 and the support of Armitage with tht understanding that was to be permitted to name two members of the board of public works and the city engineer; that he offered to sell the city market- ship for 93.000 and a place on the board of public works for that he promised another man an automobile to obtain the support of George Coffin, chairman the Marion county Republican committee alls Kliin Mayor Duvall recalled the ion when he met with nearly oOo la tinmen in the community house of East Tenth street church and was alleged to have taken a klan oath.

He denied he (Continued On Page FOUR PILOTS HURT IN DANVILLE RACES DANVILLE. Ill, Sept. 19 lAIM Charles Bane, Ellsworth, most seriously injured of four pilots who In accidents during dirt track automobile races here Sunday was retoveriug at a hospital today. Mis left thigh was crushed by a timber that crashed through the dashboard of his car when the machine hurtled into a fence after locking with another car on a curve. He also suffered severe cuts on the face, neck and shoulder Three other drivers received minor injuries.

I EVIM; HEADY TO MOP OFF ON M)N(f BN El PARIS, Sept. 19 Charles A. Levine, who has been contemplating a long air flight, came here by train yesterday and announced today that he will attempt from London an endurance long distance flight to the orient. Hit) present purpose is to land at Karachi. India in 65 hours flying time which would give him records for both distance and endurance.

Mr. Levine declared would return to London tomorrow bv air alt ho. his friends doubt he will fly since the French pilots at Lebourget field have expressed great hostility to him. Legionnaires Capture Paris When Parade Swings Thru Streets With Wartime Music Pit EH TI NNEY IO PI SII II HOME TOWNERS ON STAND FOR SWEETIN CASE Relate Incidents Of Ina Life Before Poisoning. MOUNT VERNON, III.

Sept 19 (API-The people of ihe village of Ina had their day in court today the second week of the trial of Mrs. Elsie charged with the poison murder of her husband. Wilford, began. One after another men and women of Ina were called to the stand to tell what they had seen or heard concerning Hight. then pastor of an Ina church, and of the pretty young wife of Wilford Sweetin.

Some willingly and glibly, some reluctantly and hesitatingly, they told their stories. By piling up a mass of such evidence the state hopes to convince the Jury that there was an affair between Hight and Mrs Sweetin and that this the motive for the poisoning of the husband. Waving; IlMt One witness had seen Hight on a pile of lumber waving hat energetically In the direction of the Sweetin bungalow a short dis tance away. There was laughter In the court room and Attorney R. K.

Smith objected strenuously det Luring this in not a vaudeville Judge Pierce threatened to cleaf the court room if there were further disorders (Continued On Page ON WAY HOME GREETED BY SCHOOL FRIENDS Chicago Union Station Is Scene of Welcoming by High School Band. A Illinois: Partly day. unsettled in Wednesday. Missouri Wednesday, cloudy Tues- north portion: cooler Tuesday, Wednesday fair and I I a a Showers Tuesday, cooler by afternoon or by night; Wednesday fair and cool. Wisconsin Fair and continued cool on Tuesday a JOLIET, III Sept 19 (API This city today welcomed home another its national tilleholdcr with cheers, flowers, gifts and protestations of pride One of Us high school pupils, Delunder.

bearing her new crown won at the Atlantic City beauty contest, arrived cn a ten car special train accompanied by 5u0 of -her home town friends and clan ea who had gone to meet lur. Fifteen thousand thronged about America" as she alighted from the train and followed her as a ga 11 decorated motor truck bore her over the main streets of the city and up to th" stand erected on the lawn of county court hous i. cl flowers by the dozens wort 'ire sated brown eyed. daughter ot County Clerk Vlbion Dcdander until she was almost hidden from wight Packages containing gifts from her admiring friends almost equalled the flowers in number. processio i from the station was headed by the Joliet High school band, three times champions of Illinois and twice national champions and following marched the National Catholic High school basketball champions, the.

De LaSalle A diamond ring was presented by Mayor lit r- ring as a gift from the city and at the dose of the ceremonies she made her first professional appearance at a local theater. (Continued On Page Two) I'ASTOR ItEt.l NS IES PARIS, Sept 19 (AIM The American Legion marc hed into the hearts of the French today The men who fought for France "cairte back home" and hundreds of of the French populace, their eyes dim as they thought of the war times, cheer ed the Americans as they marched along. Kach of the fourteen thousand men of the legion and several thousand of their mothers, sisters and wives passed under the Arc de Triomphe. In silent tribute the French I nknown Soldier buried there, the legionnaires passed with their hats off and their colors dipped In salute. As each passed he drop ped some red.

white and blue flowers around the grave Ha In fell the procession was being formed and came again as It started, but soon the weather brightened. There was a guard for each of the 14.000 legionnaires in the line of march, but none was needed, the 14,000 soldiers and policemen were grouped along its route or waiting in reserve, but there was no disorder. Mourning Many of the wore mourning hands and many saw the parade with quickened hearts they remembered again the of the war and visualized these men in tiu hats trudging along for the line of fire where their own kin fought and died Thruont the whole of France and her colonies It was American Legion day Every city was flag bedecked and often little ceremonies marked this, the first official holiday ever declared by France In honor of her foreign friends. The convention opened this morning in the Calais du Trora- dero At Its session which lasted two hours President surrounded by most of his cabinet, welcomed the American soldiers to France, Wartime friendships and good will were voiced again in the message of President Coolidge and in the addresses of General John Pershing. National Commander Howard P.

Savage, Julian Thomas, legion department commander of France and Sheldon Whltehouse. American charge d'affaires I' ji Whole Thing For Paris was the whole thing At one million Parisians were packed along the four mile line of march behind the bayonets of the Poilus, the hite batons of the police and the sleek of the mounted Republican guard Rooms and windows everywhere along the route were filled with French As the American Legion met, the women of the auxiliary started their convention in a similar spirit General Gouraud to them in behalf of the army and Andre Tardleu in behalf of the government told the women how grateful France still is to them not only for giving their men to France, hut also for the work in the war and above all for the spiritual influence thcv exerted during the war. American women, thru Mrs. Adalin (Continued On Page NURSE CLAIMS "PUZZLE BABY" IS A MISTAKE Gave Doctor Wrong Information, She Declares. CHAMPAIGN, Jack the heavyweight half over ms far Sept.

lit a conquest of champion is as his popularity with the sporting public is concerned but It will be complete if Tunney tries to carry the fight to him Thursday night at Chicago, Paul Prehn. state boxing commissioner predicted here today. thrust at his old title doomed to failure however, If Tunney to mix it with him. the commissioner said, huf friendliness, sincerity and enthusiasm have already brought him the popularity crown. EX-ARMY PILOT HEADS FIELD IN AIR DERBY; OTHERS HOPOFF TOD A EKVELAND.

O. Sept. (APi Miss Ruth Meyer, a nurse at Fairvlew hospital is certain that Mrs Sam "puzzle baby' a girl and has assumed responsibility for saving it was a Philip Vollrner. superintendent of the hospital declared tonight. MN- Meyer returned tonight from Detroit where she had been spending a vacation.

A habeas corpus action brought by Mr. and Mi- Smith against the hospital wasdelajed week pemtlng her leturn. When the hearing is resumed Tuesday. Meyer who assisted in delivery of the will testify that she distinctly re membered it was a girl and re called that tinder the stress? of the moments after Its birth she formed the family physician by mistake that it was a boy. to Mrs Smith has refused to leave the hospital until is satisfied that the baby girl she if nursing in her own child.

She uas maintained all along that her bo by was a boy be ause the docto- snd nurses told her so. The hospital superintendent refused Miss Meyer permission to grant an interview until tho hearing Is resumed. Earlier today leading Cleveland physicians and blood specialists had announced after a conference that blood tests and other medical would be applied to the mother and child in the hope th-it some clew might be found to establish the baby's parentage. Whether the will In- made in view of Miss Meyei's statement fliai she is positive that Mrs. Smith now nuist her own child, ecu not be learned RAID MEXICAN GROUP PLANNING CAPTURES LOS ANGELES.

Sept. 19 'APi Police and federal officers late today raided what thev de- POST-OFFICE ROBBERS GET PRISON TERM Danville Court Busy Cleaning Docket; Seek Sheltons. LEGIONNAIRES HOLD BANQUET WITH FRENCH PARIS. Sept (AIM Napoleon. looking down from his pedestal in the court of honor of the Hotel Dets invalided this evening was the presiding genius at the banquet of the French and American veterans of the great war Four thousand ex-service men gathered in the court tar a plain and intimate dinner together.

They made it clear from outset that it was a soldier's (Puller Marshal Foch. General Pershing, Captain Andre Tardleu. National Commander Howard Savage and M. Bokanovski. minister of commerce, were present.

Rain which set In during the banquet, put a damper on some of the guests but faili'd to check the spirits of the legionnaires and French veterans, who, massed in front of the table of honor, sang There" and other popular war airs, which did much to down the voices of the speakers. AV1ATRIX DECLARED REAL AMERICAN GIRL was the meeting pit an organization of Mexican ting the capture of Tit. Mexicali, and other at points in Lower Cali! Mexico. Four sub-machine guns, shot guns and ammunition seized, the officers, smashed down the plate upon a report a was in progress teen men. all Mexicans, taken into custody on conspiring against a lion violation I nit neutrality laws, but latei Uce announced that all had been released The refused the names of the four held they accused of ha' be leaders In a of uana, St ral- urlila.

were is, who of a war Six- s. were picion of nellv ni States 1 he po- hut four reveal whom en the plot. LITCHFIELD CROSSING TRAGEDY KILLS WOMAN LITCHFIELD, II Sept 1 it i I Rice, 3S. wife of cashier of Ule Rank, was killed this at three women i Sept 1 (A Mrs. Hugh 'the assistant spie tonai shortly after 3 noon and er i panions were Fair Tuesday and except somewhat un- net tied Tuesday; cooler Tuesday.

Iowa: Fair Tuesday with cooler in extreme southeast portion; Wednesday fair and continued cool. urea The current, maximum and minimum temperatures as recorded Monday were: Jacksonville, 111. New York Jacksonville, New Orleans Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Omaha Minneapolis Helena San Francisco Winnipeg Fla. 66 82 76 (id 60 58 60 4 58 64 4 1 73 72 SS SS 66 70 6 2 72 5 4 6 4 6 6 50 -si 6 6 74 7 47 52 50 48 4 0 40 56 6 Galesburg. 111., Sept.

lit. (A P) at the legal move of a moving picture theater owner which opened Sunday movies here, local have appealed to their cognregations to avoid movies on that day. Sunday shows yesterday were condemned from the pulpits as unholy. Packed houses witnessed both afternoon and evening performances at the first Sunday movies here, lilRNFO TO BE ATI I Rock Island. Sept.

(A Pi Mrs. Louis Vetter, of Milan, 111., was burned to death (his morning when her clothes became ignited as she was starting a fire in the kitchen stove with the a ill of kerosene. Her husband, 6n, was seriously burned in trying to save her. NEW YORK. Sept.

(AIM Miss Ruth Elder, winsome Dixie aviatrlx, who insists she is going to fly the American Girl to Paris, is a real American girl physically, in the opinion of physicians. They so pronounced her after examining her preparatory to a solo flight in order that she may qualify for a license. The projected flight to Paris with Captain George Haldeman as co-pilot, apparently cannot start until after Wotlnesday. because Curtiss and Roosevelt Fields are crowded with air derby planes. LEGION DIES Paris.

Sept. 19 (AIM The first death among the visiting Legionnaires occurred today when Wayne Schwennsocker of Des Moines, la. died at La Riboisiere hospital. He fell Into a state of coma when coming from Antwerp by train seriously hurt when their automobile was struck by a motor passenger trail on the Rig Four railroad three miles south of this city The injured women, all socially prominent at Gillespie are: Mrs. W.

Schmidt, Mrs. Fred Behrenu and Robert Henderson. The quartet, on their way to this city on a pleasure trip, apparently did not see the motor rain as it rounded a curve. Mi Henderson, driver of machine stilled her motor she attempted to shift The motor train struck the automobile iuarely knocking it a considerable distance down the track Mrs. Rice was picked up dead MADISON Alt PLANT SAFE BI BOBBEO St.

Louis. Sept. IN (AIM safe in the American Car ft Foundry company plant at Madison. a suburb. was blown open and robbed $5,000 early today by four armed and masked men who overpowered six employes and oned them In the basement.

NEW INTRAME 111.. Sep! 19 A record number of entrance permits to new students was announced at the University of Illinois today when the total ed 4 exceeding the 1026 figures by 14 7. DANVILLE. Sept 19 (A Pi Hubert Massie and Harry R. Edmonds of Murphyshoro.

111., pleaded guilty in Pnlted States district court today to robbing the post of ice at Pinkstaff. 111. They were sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary for five and three years respectively and fined 55.000 each. Oliver Johnson. East St.

Louis, pleaded guilty to violating Mo- narcotic law- and was given three years at Leavenworth. Charles Poston. East St. Louis, pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition act and drew a jail sentence of 60 days and £20n fine. The trial of Elmer hu and Harry Mutidale of Waterloo.

In for violation of the Dyer act. scheduled for tomorrow, probaiily will he continued at the instance of the government. MKniiig Bernie and Shelton, Southern Illinois wanted by the as witne ses against the two alleged bombers of Charles Williamson county roadhouse, have not been located by federal officers bearing subponnaes The Sheltons are allegod to have given the accused men a stolen automobile as part of their pay for the bombing stunt, the transportation and possession of which constituted their offense. Warren Hamilton, of East St. Louis, organuer of the Jefferson Mutual Cnion at West Frankfort, Central Mutual Cnion at MeLeansboro.

and Pacific Protective League Wayne City, Mutual Benefit Insurance company, pleaded guilty late today to a charge of using the mails to defraud and was sentenced to Leavenworth for two years. He was indicted on counts March It is claimed that three companies l.ave $20.000 worth of unpaid claims ALKY MAKERS TO GET RIGID REGULATIONS WASHINGTON Sept. 19. (AIM Rigid iemulations to control the ndustrial alcohol each manufacturer in the Cnited may produce as a step to off in this fie d. will be Issued soon by prohibition Commis net Doran The new regulations will great ly lengthen those now in force which have to do with the quality of alcohol anti will be teady for issuance by Saturday.

Coincidentally, announcement made of the appointment oi 1 Keddy and E. Barney, as tield supervisors of prohibition SIX HURT WHEN BUS SKIDS NEAR FREEPORT FREEPORT. 111. Sept. 19 (AIM Six were injured, two seriously yesterday near Lena, 111., when large mofot bus skidded from the pavement and overturned after striking a telephone pole The most seriously hurt were Emil J.

Schneider and Ijoretta Farger of Dubuque, Iowa. Schneider fractured several ribs and sustained Infernal injuries Miss Farger Incurred collar bone fracture and lacerations about head and face. MASONIC BARN BI BNS OLD FOI.KS HOME Sullivan. Ill, Sept. 19 (AIM The dairy barn of Illinois Masonic old folks home burned here Sunday midnight.

It cost and carried some insurance The barn was modernly equipped with automatic is Two hundred tons of hay were lost. YCKE FATAL TO ST. Ull IS MW Casey. 111., Sept (AIM George Stevens of St Louis was futaily injured when his motorcycle exploded here this morning Ills body was mangled nid in a nearby school re broken. The explosion was felt for ten blocks.

Stevens was taken to Effingham where il said he could not live. FIFTEEN AIR MEN TO TAKE OFF IN RACE Overnight Stop For Pilots Allowed For Tonight. ROOSEVELT FIELD. Sept. lit: (AIM Fifteen pilot- had their planes ready tonight hop off tomorrow morning on second of the trans-continental air races held as part of the vi- tlonal air meet at h- ington.

The race, to at' 5:30 a mercial planes capable of lug a pilot and two ps.v erv Winners are to be t-t prize of second third fourth md fifth The competitors will fly approximately 2,275 miles to Felts field. Spokane, making overnight Mop af St. Paul ii.d five minute compulsory at Cleveland, Chicago. Aberdeen, S. Miles City, Mont Wetltw'da, They are dde to arrive at Spokane Wednesday.

Altho the rules require that their planes be heavy enough to carry two passe neers, the pilots are petmltted to tarry ballot instead. The first race, for lighter commercial planes c.a^atilfc of tarrying only one passenger the pilot, began here at a. eastern standard time todaj laut of the i- tal air derbies, a non-stop from Roosevelt Field to Felts Field is to start from here on Wednesday There are seven entrants In this race. A firsi prise of and a second of Is offered the wiuntrs Pllrs may follow any course they choose VlCARR 1. I on 1 ED DOW IN TREES LORE, Set 19 (AIM Mart Jen sen lion ca trying pi (tu Friday fl on Sati go York, i IS hen it came (Ml top i grovt of inTonto Bas iu hat a ertitMin.

(oldW nn to re from th H-B ir ant li se pea at (lit inchthis after- Board matt said Je ns esrap- edwit ot 1 ijury 3gC for a (ui overtherig ht and ilia la lion tig siili 1 is in his 1 ge in fhe kag e. en ten ltdd Boardm an thl Ida ne in'd when it stri te la rees and la nded onesidt He has en lost thr ee day? TAKE OFF IN NINTH PLACE Danger Threatens In Fog and Mountains First Day. (Ry Associated Press) All except one of (he 25 planes which yesterday morning took off trnm Roosevelt Field. New York, as entrants in annual air race YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING GIRL IN IOWA CITY Discussion In Jail Leads Lad Confession. Felts anted The type Field.

ton!) pokane were ac- cht. a Wa. ro No. entered in the air derby fled when it failed P.ellefonte, Pa the the derby at 4 1 Nothing had been r.h RAPIDS. (AIM overh prisoner in an adjolnin the county jail say that were held in the slaying of six yerr leen Forrest, to which confessed, Lyle Messner tonight confessed he body killing vavauf house here last Following the i ring cell pt.

a in hit par- tion dd Kath- he has age 14. hid the her in a uesday. RESENTS DEDUCTION OF SOME FROM TALK GIVEN IN CHICAGO Nullification of Laws Is Not Disrespect Says Peeved Judge. ROCK ISLAND. Ill, Sept.

to IT years of public service and a long record of preaching law observance, Justice Thompson of the Illinois supreme court today resent-d the deductions some drew from i Constitution night in Chicago way favored nuIP- excei of hit addtess Friday that he in any (cation. alluded four instances in which large groups of our have refused to reaped certain sections of our constitution an.l that in at least two (here has been effective nullifi he said. "I did not approve these st acts and certainly did not even -uggest nullification of other pro visions. point was: That nullilaa- tlon of one piece of legislation did not necessarily evidence disrespect for our constitution and that we need not be unduly alarmed because all tuir people do not at once respect everv provision of It and. that wo should take warning from the fact that nullification has heretofore occurred and should he exceedingly caution "'n making other additions to our ha sic law lest general lawlessness JILTED CHEF SHOOTS GIRL, TAKES OWN LIFE ST.

LOUIS, Sept. 1'i AIM Jilted for another man. William H. Linton, a chef, today and Miss Lena Hammer, IT year oWl divorcee, his former fiancee, and then ended his own life. The bodies were found in an automobile In front of the young woman's home where Linton bleeding from a fatal wound in the right temple crashed the machine into a tree and partly wrecked It as he died Miss Hammer was a cashier at a pharmacy.

sinn, Mr and Mr- it released from jail her thev been held as accessories fact, charged with aiding won to escape Young Messner tonight coii County Walter Barngrover that he dragged the body to the hole In the cellar wall the bodv was found and tried to hide her there. She was unconscious when ne fit from the scene, he placed my hands under her arms and dragged her to the hole in the wall," he stated "She squawked a little as 1 dragged her the cellar floor I crawled into the hole inyself and tried tof hide her but it was dark 1 got scared I think die was Previously the boy had denied ho had touched the body a ft In- placed his hand over her face ud attack her and turned to iheory that the eld er Messner, who in the vacant house after the had secreted the to help his son escape ttvtiou. WEEK-END REVELLERS ROBBED OF $28.000 10 type machlm entered as No. 4' in the air derby was dDquall- to report at first leg of 5 yesterday, lard from the ne early this morning and iiciaN at Foosevelt field said they believed the craft had been forced down at some remote point In the Allegheny mountains of Bel- Ifonte The plane was piloted by Tex Uigrone of Kansas City and carried J. Brock of Kansas Cltv as a passenger.

The other planes were accounted for as follows: At Chicago were Nos. 4 1, 32. 4 9, 50, 60, 43. 44, ill, and Still east of Chicago and lauded for the night were planes Nos. 33.

34. 35. 37. 39, 48, a2. 55 and 59.

No 4tl was reported out or the race, having returned to Roosevel Field, as did also piano No. 53. whose pilot, R. F. Cantwell.

detlared that he would not make the rat in the face of auch unfavorable weather. CHICAGO. Sept. 19 (AIM A former army pilot characterized his (lying as the fellow In the f.o-die Miller of Des Moines to- winged wav thru perilous fogs and over mountain tops to the lead at the end of tlto fourth lap in the New York to Spokane air derby. Flying alone In an Eagle Rot plane, the Iowan took the lead after a close contest in which 24 others were entered Altho he left Roosevelt field.

New York, the starting in ninth place at a. eastern standard time, he arrived at Airport here where most of the contests over for the night flying pack at 4:4: daylight the miles in must stop ahead of the Chicago time, completing ten hours and 42 time average of time minutes with 71 miles an hour, includin taken for three stops Minnie latter A minute and a half I Miller came C. Meyer trolt. who led fliah diind, De- the way i ve i anti Meyers was fifth to Field iu flying a is carrying a pass- emcAc.o. were rom and jewe machine a few mo gambling what was gang and In witli the I ainot Re 1.1 and hnn i men lie Riot his friei guns ments later a North -tide resort was held up believed to be (lie same $15,000 taken the meantime police armed machine guns also raided do Inn and arre-ted men, them Thomas Smith, for the slaying of two women St.

Paul beer wav era ot lea Al ihat la id. Vu a ne. rom the 1 J. s. Charles In another He was the firs dt field this wt in stop at rri Br 1 thn (he In from leaders of the fit Bellefonte, of le to ing an.

aid 4 ht. th dangerous ide because robb k. lid. thousands of dollars Jewelry were obtained who held up David wholesale fruit dealer, their daughter and a tutor vl Many ral of a Iked I ility tit i tilled rain St a Behind the flying coutest- heavy winds and and rain, were On Page WEALTHY GALESBURG MAN KILLED IN CRASH GALESBURG. 111.

Sept. 19 (A IM Summer wealthy farmer, was killed instantly today when his automobile went into a ditch and overturned Witnesses said he lost control of the car Olaf Johnson a farm hand was killed in another accident to day when a motor driven by four boys ran him down The youths were exonerated by a cor Jury. MEXICAN RAIL CENTER ISOLATED BY FLOODS MEXICO CITY. Sept AIM under eight feet of water, Acambaro, railroad center in Guanajuato, has been isolated ince yesterday. Rushing waters from the flooded Lernia ilver carried down telegraph and telephone posts and destroyed houses making hundreds homeless NV wh from the flood area is king.

Reports from the west coast of Mexico Indicate that it is si.ill being swept by storms which ate moving northward WOODSON FARMER DIES HERE EARLY TODAY Charles Virgin. 70, lifetime resident of Morgan county, pass ed away this morning at two at Our hospital two weeks illness, Mr, home was easf of Woodson Funeral are in; complete. SAYS DRY SHOULD PICK LEADER NEW YORK Sept Dry progressiv es of cratic party should a new leader 19. (AIM the Demo- on place William (I McAdoo, within the next days, said Edwin Meredith, former secretary of agriculture, commenting today on Mc withdrawal as a candidate for the presidential nomination. Declaring that the forces under the leadership of Gov nior Alfred Smith of New York had been heuefittad temporarily by Mr move, Mr Meredith added that the advantage ly would disappear if the dry Democrats concentrated on a new leader promptly Mr.

Meredith was one of McAdoo's at the 1924 National Deinoi-ratic convention. Among tho who would acceptable to the Mr. Meredith suggest'd New Baker, former secreta of war. Senator Thomas of Montana; Representative delt Hull of Tennessee tind senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas. Selection of Walsh, he pointed out would be looked upon ms proof that religion not I.as been a real in (wirty,.