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He asked for an opportunity to speak "How many of you speak French?" he queried There were only a few affirmative replies from the official witnesses and newspaper men and the sheriff advised him to make his address in English Vidrine fared badly in English and the priest standing beside him urged him to speak in French "Surely there's some one berg who will translate your words for the newspaper men" he said Vidrine then adopted the tongue of his parents while a school mate jotted down the rapid flow of words in English He spoke thirty minutes urging his hearers not to gamble or drink whiskey Vidrine asked that another plc- Steps Taken to Obtain Release of Man Sentenced for Killing Lee Duke Cut in Pay Is Requested by Employes of Feebleminded Colony Air-Service Not Informed WASHINGTON Aug air service ofilcials declared today that no 'dispatches had been received ircm the army advance party Larty accompanying the world fiW or'from the naval convoy which indicated any necessity for abandoning the army's world flight The latest official reports recelv ESTABLISHMENT OF COTTON EXCHANGE Is CHICAGO PLAN gliPEED WITHOUT A PARALLEL IN POLITICAL ANN ALS Continued on Page Seven Contin-4ec1 on Last Page 0 Mississippi Plans to Observe Defense Day Copyright 1924 by the Consolidated Press Association NEW YORK Aug Democrats are staking their all on John NV Davis' speech of acceptance to be delivered at Clarksburg next Monday The action of William Wilson former secretary of labor In writing to Samuel Gompers asking him to make no presidential indorseraent until after he had heard Mr Davis is a reflection of the attitude of all the party leaders They are in effect asking the country to wait until Mr Davis speaks No candidate perhaps ever had so much at stake on a single group of utterances as Mr Davis has on next Monday There is plenty of evidence that the country at large holds Mr Davis in high regard as a man The people are waiting to take his measure as a statesman and possible chief executive Much of the burden which comes to Mr Davis at this time is due to the fact that as the campaign develops it is becoming more and more evident that it is to be a battle of personalities rather than of parties Party ties it is generally admitted were never so loose as today The Republicans are raaking a special plea to the people to elect Calvin Coolidge because he is Calvin Coolidge and not because he happens to be the nominee of any particular party They realize that senators and representatives of the party were at odds with Mr Coolidge on nearly every one of the important measures he urged during the past winter and that a straight-out party appeal would not have the same weight with the people as an appeal for Mr Coolidge personally The Republicans are saying that Calvin Coolidge is his own platform Ms own pledge for the future The Democrats of the country are hoping to say the same thing for Mr Davis The assumption that Mr Davis might be too "high-minded" to touch upon the "scandals" seems to have been a mistaken one on the part of the Republicans The Democratic candidate is going to drag every grinning skeleton out of the Republican closet that he can lay his hands on His friends are urging him to take an aggressive attitude in this direction and from present Indications there will be a great rattling of dry bones irom the very start of the can2palga The scan-1 dais will make fine fuel for the minor speakers of the campaign and there will be as many of these as the slim purse of the Democrats will permit Impeached Governor Nominee for Highest Federal Office State Can Give Department of Commerce Investigates Feasibility of Project LA FOLLETTE STATES HIS POSITION ON THE KU KLUX KLAN ISSUE -JACKSON Miss Aug Barksdale president of the Reserve Army Officers' Association of has sent out a letter requesting all offictrs in Mississippi to participate the national defense test day" on September 12 The American Legion at the state convention here endorsed "test day" and the national defense act by resolutions The Mississippi Reserve Officers' Association in separate state convention did likewise Plans for participation Ain Jackson are being worked out by a committee appointed by Governor Henry Whitfield and subject to the approval of Adjutant General Curtis Green Mississippt national guard Says It Is Unfortunate That Religious Question Should Be Brought Into Race ALEXANDRIA La Aug request of the officers and employes of the state colony and training school for feeble-minded for the voluntary reduction of 10 per cent in their salaries and wages has been granted by the executive committee The committee declared it appreciated the self-sacrificing act because of the pressing needs of the state institution The reduction which will be temporary will save about $S00 a month The institution is located near here The legislature did not provide any additional building program and limited its maintenance fund The institution has 230 innaats and 300 applications for admission There is room for 20 more white girls but not a cant on which to maintain them Judge White members of the board of administrators said today There is no more room for white males or negro es "This is not made public in any spirit against the legislature but to let the people of the state know two things" Judge White said first there are -still in our state institutions self-sacrificing officers and employes both high and low who prefer the interests of the unfortunates committed to their care to personal gain second that the crying needs of the feeble-minded those most unfortunate of the state's wards may be known to the generous people of this great state" Continued -ou Page Seven CHICAGO Aug of commerce investigations will determine the feasibility of establishing a cotton exchange here it was learned today The project of cotton futures trading here has been discussed for the past few years but a dispatch from Houston disclosed last night that the department representatives actually are investigating the port ana market possibilities of both Houston and Galveston with respect to a port of delivery for cotton trading in Chicago Officials of the Chicago Board-of Trade in which it has been proposed to establish a cotton pit along with the grain and provisions trading of the board declined to comment on latest activities pending the findings of the department of commerce VILLE PLATTE La Aug 8 Initial steps to obtain the release from the Texas penitentiary of Frank Smith serving fifteen years for the murder of Lee Duke taxi driver near Orange Texas December 12 1921 and for which Euzebe Vidrine was hanged here today for the murder of Robert Wiggins cent were launched this forenoon by Texax citizens who came here from Orange to interview Vid- rine Sraith was convicted on circumstantial evidence and largely through the testimony of Charles Harris of Crowley La Duke's body was found near his abandoned car on the highway between Orange and Beaumont Harris told the authorities during the preliminary investigation he saw two men enter the vehicle and while he knew neither he could identify them if they appeared before him Smith was arrested as a suspect and Harris said he apparently was one of Duke's two passengers Since his conviction for the murder of WiggIns Vidrine has written a book describing his life and telling of five murders committed since 1921 Duke was one of his victims Vidrine shooting him while riding as a passenger from the oil fields into Orange He never was suspected Harris learned of Vidrine's story of the crime and communicating with Texas authorities asked that the case of Smith be re-opened since he felt the conviction resulted largely from his testimony Sheriff Helton of Orange accompanied by Kinnard an attorney and Denman of that city arrived here early today nd this forenoon Interviewed Vidrine Vidrine dictated a statement in great detail telling of the murder of Duke The Texans declared apparently an injustice had been done Smith and upon their return home steps would be taken irame diately to effect his release from the penitentiary REGISTRATION FOR PRIMARY IN SEPT TO END SATURDAY Funds Offered to Fight Citrus Disease OKLAHOMA CITY Okla Aug 8---(By the Associated Ousted by legislative impeachment from the highest state office and then nominated at the next primary election for the hIghest federal office a state can give one of its citizens Is the experience of John Walton an experience believed without parallel in American politics 'After a short term the governor's chair Walton was impeached and removed from office last November the charges against him involving corrugtion in office' wilful neglect of duty incompetency and moral turpitude Undismayed he started his effort at a political comeback several months later announcing his candidacy for the democratic nomination for United States senator and carrying his cause direct to the voteetr charging his impeachment had been "framed" and it was largely the result of the bitter fight he had waged against the Ku Klux Klan In his campaign he said he recognized the klan as "the only issue" and denounced it in all his speeches Returns from Tuesday's primary election shows he has won the nomination by a plurality of more than 7500 votes over his nearest opponent Howard- klan endorsee Walton's republican opponent in the November election will be Pine Okmulgee oil millionaire who led his ticket more than 2 to 1 Pine had the endorsement of the klan and in the coming campaign the klan is expected to be the predominant issue with party lines relegated to the background Books to Close Saturday at a M-17500 Registered in Caddo Parish LAKE CHARLES La Aug Anderson state entomologist has agreed to give the sum of $3- 000 to the parishes of Beauregard Allen Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis to be matched by a like amount to be raised within thb parishes for the employment of two men for the eradication of citrus diseases it is announced COLLEGE CHUMS OF RICHARD LOEB ON STAND AT HEARING WASHINGTON Aug La Follette of Wisconsin independent candidate for president in a letter made public today declared he is "unalterably opposed to the evident purpcses of the secret organization known as the Ku Klux Klan as in its public acts" "It cannot long survive" continued the senator "Relying upon the aound judgment and good sense ofour people it is my opinion such a movement is foredoomed It has within its own body the of its death The letter addressed to Robert Scripps newspaper publisher was given out for ptiblication at Senator Larollette's office Declaring it unfortunate questions involving- religious opinion and other questions unrelated to the vital issue of the restoration of the government to the people have been raised in this as in other critical years of our national history" the letter added: "Other controversies feed upon and inflame prejudice and passion to the exclusion of issues involving the very life of the government itself" Senator La Follette declared at the outset of his letter "the one dominant all-firnbracing issue in this campaign is to break the combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the Amsrican people" "This power" he continued "controls every important branch of manufactur Shreveport Weather TYSON LEADS IN TENNESSEE RACE FOR UUS SENATE DAVIDSON IS STRONG FOR CANDIDACY OF Hitt FERGUSON Evidence Intended to Further Plea for Mitigation of Punishment Is Heard ANYONE CAN DE 10 ANYONE CAN DE Over 12000 Ahead of Nearest Is Nominated for Governor WAITED 0P49(JTIT r4ftE ILL ANO To aEtivE WAITED- ON 131IT II T4KE6 WIILL ANO Lieutenant Governor of Texas Scores Klan in Statement to Press Two Alabama Blacks Hanged for Murder nmoili London Parley to Last Several Days Persons who fail to register before 43 o'clock Saturday afternoon August 9 will not be able to vote in the September primary according to Miss Jim Martin registrar of votes for Caddo parish who attnounced Friday that the books will be closed at 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon to remain closed until September 10 when they will be re-opened Approximately 17k00 persons in Caddo parish had been correctly registered Friday at noon Persons who voted in the January' election are not required to register new unless they have changed their residence since that time Miss Martin said "The impression prevails among a great number of people" she said "that everybody will be required to register before they can vote at the coming election but this is erroneous because only those who have moved since the January election or those who have not heretofore registered are required to register at this time" Because no appropriation has been made to pay the salaries of clerks in the registrar's office Miss Martin is compelled to do all the work alone and within the last week she declares that it has been quite difficult to serve tir4 crowds that have flocked to the registrar's office "Most of the visitors came too" she said "because they did not understand the law relating to registration" An unusually large number of women have qualified for voting this year Miss Martin said A ma jority of these in waiting for their' turn when 'the reporter visited tffa office Friday morning were worm-- OIL CHICAGO Aug 8--(13y Asso-dated Franks hearing was becalmed today in the doldrums of testimony by University of Michigan fraternity brothers of Richard Loeb who with Nathan Leopold Jr is awaiting sentence by Judge John Caverly for kidnaping and murdering 14-year-old Robert Franks In rapid succession sleek y9uths took the witness stand testified that Loeb at the university was childish argumentative read detective stories and adventure fiction and suffered from repeated fainting attacks Their evidence intended by the defense to further its plea for mitigation in the punishment of Loeb and Leopold followed closely that of four college fraternity chums who testified yesterday SEALE Ala Aug Myhand and his cousin Porter My-hand negroes were hanged here at 5 o'clock this morning for thq murder of Sophia Ingram aged negro woman They also were indicted for the murder of the woman's husband but were tried and convicted only on the charge of killing the negress It was said they confessed the crimes before the trap was sprang Special to The Journal MARSHALL Texas Aug following statement was issued to the press here late yesterday by Lieut Gov Davidson: "The klan is the only issue of this run-off primary The candidates themselves will be lost sight of and swallowed up All other issues will sink into oblivion The only question in the minds of the Continued on Pare Nine Wheat Yield to Be Less Than Last Year MEMPHIS Tenn Aug more than 130000 votes in yesterday's primary election counted General Tyson of Knoxville was maintaining a lead of 12319 votes early today over Senator Shields his nearest opponent in the contest for Democratic nomination for Senator Judge Bachman of Chattonooga was running third and almost 12000 votes behind Senator Shields Governor Peay had piled up an overwhelming lead over John Neal in the Democratic gubernatorial contest Peck was maintaining a comfortable lead over Thach and Beasley in the Repblican gubernatorial contest LONDON Aug the Associated the rapid progress being made toward an agreement with the Germans the International conference to arrange for putting the Dawes reparation plan into effect is not likely to end before the middle of next week it was stated by a British spokesman today 1 I 1 i0 i qkk ---t: -g-7------ ------zz Pi 'f l'Ivii 1 16 ti--- Ci 1 P- ag gi ottli 410 Ar 110110 --17 -------------7-3-- Ze Iv a Continued on Last Page Steps Are Taken to Aid Tornado Victims Morgan Line Would Acquire Another Road Short Vacation for President Proposed "Zimmie" WASHINGTON Aug 8--From 10 to 13 per cent less wheat than last year will be traduced this year In countries of the northern hemisphere the department of agriculture announced today on the basis of telegraphic reports and other Information confirming earlier estimates to that effect The production this year in 15 important producing countries including the United States and Canada and exclusive of Russia and China Is estimated at 2092976000 bushels compared with 2212901000 bushel' last Season's First Cotton Sold in Vermillion EAU CLAIRE Wis Aug S-- (By the Associated measures were under way today in three central western Wisconsin counties struck last night by two tornadoes which took a toll of at least five dead a score or more injured and caused property damage which may reach a million dollars 'according to linotticial reports WASHINGTON Aug for a short vacation for Coolidge immediately after the formal notification exercises here Aug 14 were among topics I Discussed today by the president 1 With some of his advisers No de-elision c-Ita reached WASHINGTON Aug Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship company today applied to the Interstate Commerce commission for authority to acquire control of the Franklin and Abbeville railroad by purchase of its capital stock TWO MINERS KILLED BIRMINGHAM Ala Aug Two miners were killed late yesterday when a charge of dynamite exploded prematurely in Dolomite Mint No 1 Besiezaer For Shreveport and Vicinity: Generally fair tonight Saturday somewhat unsettled about 96 for lowest temperature At Z2002 today -93 1 CROWLEY La Aug parish's first cotton was baled Saturday when a gin in Kaplan bought two bales paying 30 cents a pound for the lint 0.