Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 11

* FINANGAL STORN \ y 5 Yoonr PASSING IN SOUTH Florida and Georgia Banking | Crisis Believed at End After 80 Closings. BY Abe- ;o_;iu-t AT ) J horfzon in, Georgia peared brighter tonight, following a cessation’ of ‘attivities which brought about closing ‘of more than 80 small banl &aflng the past week. Virtually of the banks “closed: were members of a chain for which the Bankegs' Trust Co. Atlanta or- ganization, against which benkruptcy proceedings ‘now ave pending, served as_fiscal agent. No_closings were _reported today and_State banking department of- ficials ssed the belief that there would'be few of the remaining banks in tHe string which would not be able to make arrangements permitting them to ‘tontinue business. Official Issues ;Statement. Coincident Avith the cessation. of « closing ivities in Georgia-came the first - offiela] nouncement of the that have closed in ‘Amos, comptroller, announced that 27 small State banks, 25 of them. menrbers of the chain for which the, Bankers’ Trust. Cd. acted as figeal agent, had closed their doors. _, Officers of the two States attributed them directly to the bankrupt ceedings against the Bankers Co., and. agreed that the influences were “outside the State.” Ofcials_ of the Qeorgia State BankingDepartment sald they had sent auditors to every bank In the State that had closed and instructed them to complete audits of the banks’ books as rapidly as possible, with a view to speeding reorganization and reopening of the institutions. Believes Worst Is Over. Mr. Amos expressed the béllef that thd financial storm had spent itself in Flarida. ‘“This does not mean,” Mr. Amos said, “that all those banks in Florida that have been with the eyftem at + some time or another are in trouble or @re necessarily involved. Several in Florida had broken connection with, the system in time not to be hurtiin the collapse, while others haveinot enough Georgia stuff to amount tofanything.” MELLETT SLAYING INQUIRY REACHES INTO UNDERWORLD (@ontinued from First Page.) Florida ap- Church called, the dead publisher- crusader “a martyr” and the Rev. Alfred Lee Wilson of the First Pres- byterian Church declared ‘“those on the battléfield never died more truly for & righteous cause.” Asks Reform of City. The Rev. Mr. Brundage urged the ¢ity to “turn not to sorrowing but to elimination of the evils that exist among us.’” The Rev. Mr. Wilson said Mellett’s death is a thlllege to us of Canton, of the State and the Nation.” All authorities and agencies work- ing in-the investigation are following the theory established at the first that in the Mellett He will’ be di- editorials and personal activity against Cantén crime and vice. C. B. MgClintock, Stark County prosecutor, : tonight “employed Ora Slater, Cincinnati “detective, to work in the Mellett case. Hhe will be ai- rectly responsible to the prosecutor. Slater was credited with solving the Nesbitt murdeg mystery at Troy, Ohio, four months ago. COX PRAISES MELLETT. Says Slain Publisher Was Actuated by Sense of Duty Only. DAYTON, Ohio, July 17 (#).—Don R. Mellett, slain publisher of the Canton Daily News, was character- fzed by former Gov. James M. Cox, owner of the paper, as a frank and loyal man of deep religious feeling in “a tribute to Don Mellett by his ems plo; " jesued today, The statément “I never knew a finer moral cour- age than his. He came to me many months ago with the recital of what he conceived to be fundamental wrongs in the life of the city of Canton. . Drive Nearing Success. “No one who reflects upon the sit- uation developed by Mr. Mellett’s re- tormative movement will question that he was each day approaching his ob- jective. * * * He was driving the agents and messengers of evil to their Jair.. Even in their hate, how they must have respected his continuing courage and the clarity of every diag- nosis of conditions that he made. “Driven to their extremity, these unfortunate persons decided that he must die. “He, and he alone, more than any citizen or any p of citizens in Canton, stood between them and the loot ‘which was dragging their souls to the very gates of hell. What cruel men they must have been. ; “In the shadow of his homg, with his four little children asleep in their beds, Don Mellett was cruelly mur- dered.. No @oubt the men who killed were professional gunmen.- Authori- ties ‘on criminal practices are con- vincéd that on enterprisés such as this they drug themselves in order that they may be steeled against human emotions. These drugs, per- chance were brought to Canton by the very ring which has despolled government and left its path of misery with-linfortunate addicts. Moved By Sense of Duty. “Don Mellett was not a crusader bent upon adventure. He sought neither to exploit himself nor -his newspaper. He was moved purely by & senseé of duty. $ “How foolish Ware the dssassinsand those who goaded them on. The tak- ing of @ single lifé in the present cir- cumstanges is of /no gvail. The soul of Don Mullett wiil §o marching on.” KILLED IN NEW TONG WAR. e ———— Death of Frank Lee of Los Angeles ‘Starts Hunt for Guaman. 1LOS - ANG] UP).—Frank . shot down. 8.,q! of ‘Lo’ and neighboring! citles for. i imported an effort to. prevent ‘The Hoj and Bing Kong tonge aré the ones said to be at odds. among fash- dressers; in i country is Press Aow uly 17.-The financial & A B e | to bring the package Jose Albert B. Creed*of the Department of Agriculture, with hoh.lnheolwb’iumnh:t‘l’m%ummeriynnb&m the plant under it in the box receives U. S. Jazz Players Must Be “Artists” To Escape French Ban on Their Kind |- By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 17.—American jazz mausicians must hereafter play on a stage as vaudeville artists and not as dance musicians solely, according to Billy Arnold, who been directing jazz bands in France for several years. Billy explains that the French labor ministry has banned American jazz, musicians in order to protect French players, but that players now in France who have been here since 1922 are exempt from the provisions of the ministerial decree. % Bands madé up of American musi- Chimney Swallows - Ordered Expelled From Dent School Scores of chimney ‘swallows which have unceremoniously ‘“‘en- rolled” for the Summer period at the Dent School, Second street and South Carolina avenue southeast, were yesterday reported to Acting Superintendent of Schools Robert L. Haycock and are threatened . with being expelled. - . - .~ ° W, B. ‘Allen, janitor, informs Mr. Haycock that the swallows are con- fining their classroom to the chim- ney but are proving themselves a nuisance nevertheless. Persons liv- ing in the neighborhood subsecribed to a petition calling for their oust- Acting_on the complaint of Al- len, Mr. Haycock referred the mat- ter to Maj. Raymond O. Wilmarth, business manager of the school system, who will be more success- ful than was the Fire Department in ridding Pennsylvania avenue of the starlings. Soiuis Aler a year of pumping, owners of the Santa Marina mine, a great silver producer of Mexico before it was flooded, report that they are able to again resume mining. clans recertly have been ousted from French cabarets and French players installed in their places despite the fact the Americans had valid con- believes there is a loophole in the decree. 4 “If such bands play from a stage as ‘artiss,’” Arnold declares, “there is no way of stopping people in the room leaving their chairs and dancing to such music.” INQUEST UNNECESSARY IN TRYON, N. C., TRAGEDY Coroner Explains That Sonner " Died of Self-Inflicted Wounds. Girl’s Body Removed. By the Associated Press. TRYON, N. C., July 17.—There will be no Inquest into the death of Q. C. Sonner, jr., 21 years old] of Saluda, who died.in the Tryon Hospital today of pneumonia that developed from two bullet wounds in his chest, sustained the might of July 7, when Miss Jéan Braswell, 17-year-old Tryon - society Birl, his companion, was killed by a | &1 pistol bullet that entered her skull. “No inquest is ne . because. Sonner died from self-inflicted wounds,” said Coroner R. B. Williams | c€] tonight. The coroner would not en- large his statement, and did not com- ment on the statement by authorities, shortly after the double shooting, that Sonner would be charged with killing Miss Braswell. No inquest was held over the body of Miss Braswell, because the body was moved to Char- lotte before he was notified, the cor- oner said. e L Insurance companies and business houses of New South Wales are fight- ing the government plan of issuing insurance policies at lower rates than those of private companies. ‘{any of NEW YORK, 'July 17.—A. Saavedra, vice president of ‘Bolivia, As he left passage on the American ‘had already been arranged before a search: by Federal agents revealed the pras- ence of oplum, existence of which, was not known to the Bolivian officlal or | M:_.rrty. Dr. Saavedrs was said to fesl the incident keenly, though there was no question guflt l_thclunc to his party. ] M" of Drugs Found. . Search of the rooms and luggage of Reyes , secretary of the vice president, was agreed to by the Bo- liylans as soon as the situation was explained to n_}em :lnd & 25-pound box of oplurh was found. ¢ that he had agreed o g e to New York for V. Claure, & ilallnt countryman t in Mexico. h’}l:‘?nm;lldntn have boasted of his verness in using an official Tols- not subject to customs inspec- tion, for smuggling oplum into thi o ed I the n whicl resul R m:u"t:fhfle ‘was held in jail in La- redo, Tex., today. Brought Thanks Message. ., vedra had come here to ex- w?:s sd'x: thanks of his country to Americans for having sent & special ntative to the iuu\m{ ‘cere- represe: Bolivian president. . 'l‘;:hdo:. Bolivian _consul- nounced tonight that Dr. mnmm discharged Oritz from “notwithstanding that the 1l as the American au- stigated the case. " the’ statement said, has sept Oritz to Bolivia on the steamer Eus.q\nbo 80 that the former secretary 'may ex- plain’ the matter to the Bolivian gov- ernment.” A R ADMISSION OF BRILLIANT FOREIGNERS ADVOCATED Princeton Professor Urges Letting Down Immigration Bars in Special Cases. Special Dispatch to The Star. i TL.TON, N. Y., July 17.~Should to ignore raphy in the’ case of unusually liant individuals who want to come into this country is made by Dr. Carl C. Brigham, associate professof ‘of peychology &t Princeton University. Dr. Brigham has for-some time been engaged in the dévelopment of mental fests for use with immigrants. Ina report on the progress of this work, to appear shortly in Industrial Psy- chology, he points ‘out that such tests might be put to good u;e ‘i:.:pobt;lni migrants, an ne vovision of quota law this BeOR- bril- light revision of the :r}:nt “would be assured of & con- stant supply of men and women of ex: value.” all languages xperimenters are try+ and dialeots. Rih ing to avoid the use of gether “in tlo)nlngr the foreigners, Dr. are . using pantomime only. 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Miller gave his address at 621 Rhode i & by Mrs. Henry W. Fitch of 1150 Con- pecticut avenue, $59 from an anony- mous giver and $10 each were given . by Miss Mary L. Reed of 1518 Kearn¢y | street northeast and Miss Annie K. Bawards of the Dupont Apartment. 3% . ‘The District Chapter of the Ameri: can Red Cross was 1 of the 79 nated to receive disaster relief fun . | for the victims of the New Jersey ex: plosions and their families, t Officials of the chapter are anxlous that a generous response be made to'l this appeal. Contributions may be sent to Victor B. Deyber, chairman, at the™ chapter headquarters, 16 Jackson® place. 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