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Evening star., 1928-10-29
WEALTHY YOUTHS
HELD IN MURDERS
OgIethorpe Students Confess
Killings in Series of Hold
Ups, Police Say.
r.y the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, october CA couple of
college boys who were enjoying their
usual carefree week end Saturday we're
fighting for their lives from jail cells
today, knowing full well the police held
a confession of two killings in a series
of seven hold-ups.
The struggle was revealed not by
their calm. serious and even polite ac-
ceptance of unusual surroundings, but
by an array of six lawyers retained by
wealthy families to confront what the
police said was IAN alright murder
case"
George Harsh-"Junie" to his fellow
students at Oglethorpe University here
was the author of the confession in the
hands of police. The document was
withheld, but Chief of Detectives A.
Lamar Poole said it was clearly a case
of killing for a thrill that money
couldn't buy. Richard Gray Gallogly
was the other young fellow-but he re-
fused to comment on his companions
story that he drove the automobile used
in the hold-upS. The confession said
Harsh was the killer.
Willard Smith, druggist, and E. E.
Meek, grocery clerk, were slain when
they resisted two determined bandits.
Both of the killings occurred this month
during a series of daring crimes of
similar nature, which police had at
tributed to Roy Dickerson, nationally
notorious bank robber, who escaped re-
Gently from prison in Alabama.
"Junie" Harsh is a well turned out
young man of medium height and
pleasing countenance, while Dick"
Gallogly is a tall youth of lowering
brow and the aggressive swing of a
foot ball lineman. Both are in their
late teens and members of socially
prominent families, Gallogly the son of
Mrs. Worth E. Yankey, prominent At
lanta physicians wife, and Harsh,
scion of a Milwaukee family whose for
tune was accumulated in the shoe in
dustry.
Police first trsiled the suspects last
week end when through a physician
they obtained information that Harsh
had been treated at hospital here
for bullet wound in the right hip.
A cleaning establishment gave them
clues to bloodstained trousers in Harsh's
home and his arrest followed. Within
two hours police had a full confession.
tGallogly was arrested at Athens, Ga,
the same day. where he had gone to
see a foot ball game. The confession
was supplemented today with. state
ment from j. D. Wright, resident man
ager of a national finance corporation,
who said as a friend of the Harsh
family in Milwaukee and here ne had
received confession from young Harsh
and had aided the youth in obtaining
hospital treatment for a wound in
ficted during hold-up
Willard Smith, the druggist who was
slain in hold-up on October Is, fired
at his aSsailant just before collapSing
from a mortal wound.
Only two weeks before his death
Smith boasted to a fellow employe that
nobody was ever going to hold up his
store "and get away with it,"
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Evening star., 1928-10-29
SENATOR AND MRS LEE OVERMAN TO CELEBRATE
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OCT. 81
To Spend the Day Quietly at
Home, Without Formal An
nouncementS or invitations.
CAPITAL is INTERESTED
Salisbury Couple Possess
Many Friends in Congress
and Washington.

Senator and Mrs. Lee Slater Overman
of Salisbury, N. c., will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary october 81.
Despite requests of friends, they will
spend the day quietly at home, without
formal announcements or advance in
vitations.
The event will be Of much interest in
Washington. During the sessions OF
Congress Senator and Mrs. OverInan
make their home at the Powhatan Hotel
and have numbers of friends among
congressional and Washington groups.
Their youngest daughter, Mrs. Edgar
Snow, makes her home in Washington
the year round, her husband being
director of sales for Southern Diaries,
Inc. Their oldest daughter, Mrs Edwin
c. Gregory of Salisbury, N. c., Is also
prominently and popularity known there,
particularly as the former regent of the
North Carolina Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Their third daughter,
Mrs. Gilbert Hambley of Salisbury, also
is well known there, visiting her parents
frequently.
Miss Mary Paxton Merrimon, daugh-
ter Of United States Senator Augustus
justice of North Carolina, was mar
ried to Lee S. Overman, then private
secretary to Gov. zebulon Baird Vance
of North Carolina, at 5 o'clock in the
evening on October 81, 1878, at Raleigh,
N. c. The wedding was one of the
most brilliant social events of the sea-
son, with twenty-five attendants and
four ushers.
Senator Overman is now the second
ranking Democrat in the United States
Senate, standing third among the Sen
ators of both parties in point of time
service. His first term began March 4,
1903. A fifth consecutive term was
started in 1927, so that he has served in
the Senate for over a quarter Of CEN
tury.
While the Democrats were in power
he was chairman of the rules COM
mittee, acting chairman of the judiciary
committee and ranking member OF the
appropriations committee.
For his work in assisting the passage
of wartime legislation President Wilson
wrote to Senator Overman:
"It is admirable the way you have
been handling these important bills, and
thank you with all my heart for stand
ing by the bill which bears your name
without any compromise of any kind.
You are splendid fighter"
A tribute paid him by Arthur N
.Gething in the Portrait of a Gentle
man. read in part:
There is Salisbury looked into a
mans eyes which held the kindliness of
a century of suffering plus the radiance
of an immortal; body which reflected
the erectness of meditative mind;
heart brirnming over with sympathy.
I realized suddenly that the gen.
tleman before whom I stood was indeed
truly representative of the lofty idealism
of the old South = Democracy
that is, Christian democracy-will never
fall while the faultlessly groomed calm
eyed Senator from North Carolina is in
the saddle.
"The name of Lee S. Overman is a
synonym for ability, 1oftiness of mind
Evening star., 1928-10-29
KING ASKED TO INTERVENE
British Ruler Appealed to in Row
Over Wailing Wall.

JERUSALEM, October 90 CP).-King
George has been appealed to directly to
settle the controversy between the Jews
and the Mohammedans over the wailing
wall
The chairman of the Supreme Mos
Aem Council had cabled to the King
a statement that the Jews were trying
to take the Mosque of Momar, erected
on the site of Solomon's Temple.
Evening star., 1928-10-29

derly and impartial quadrennial elec-
tionS in the island November g. He
stressed the fact that, due to the hur-
ricane disaster, the elections this year
are of unusual Importance, and said it
would be unfortunate If the admirable
conduct the people had shown under
the most trying conditions should be
counteracted by lawleSsness or disorder.
Evening star., 1928-10-29
ASKS ORDERLY ELECTION.

Gov. Towner Issues Proclamation
in Porto Rico.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, October 20
[R.-Gov. Horace M. Towner yesterday
issued a proclamation calling for or
Evening star., 1928-10-29

In spite of the high cost Of living
and comparatively low wages in Italy
the people are increasing their savings
in government institutions.
Evening star., 1928-10-29

So many garages are being built ad-
Joining city residences in Switzerland
that lumber for the purpose is being
brought in from other countries.
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and heart, purity of purpose, justice and
fairness, devotion to principle, loyalty
to friend, fairness to foe. Few in the
Senate chamber are so sought, so re-
vered and admired"
Evening star., 1928-10-29
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
Catch Law VioIat0rS

The National Economic League
has voted favorably on several le-
gal reforms.
1. T. would have judges appointed,
instead of elected.
2. 1t would have judicial councils
created to study the crime situation
in all our larger cities.
8. It would like to see the judi
cial system unified, and special
branches established to deal with
such cases.
4. 1t believes that jurieS should
be allowed to render majority, in
stead of unanimous verdicts.
Fifth, though doubling the wis
dom of compelling a defendant to
take the stand, it believes that the
prosecution should be permitted to
comment on his failure to do so.
Such reforms sound sensible, but
they hardly touch the most critical
problem.
Arguing about what ought to be
done with criminals seems prema-
ture until we have shown more
ability to catch them.
At present we are only rounding
up small minority, and what we
do with that minority is of less con-
sequence than the vastly greater
number who escape.
Law, when you come to think of
it, depends largely on the way it is
enforced, and the basis of its en-
forcement is an ability to catch
those who violate it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18

differs from cannon. For cannon will hurl a
projectile few miles at most. But this telescope
will project the eyesight of the astronomer out into
space for thousands and millions of miles.
1t is worth thinking of astronomical distances.
They make you realize the size of the universe and
the magnitude OF what astronomers have accom-
plished in penetrating the secrets of the sky.
1t is 100000 miles to the moon.
1t is 100000 miles to the sun.
1t is 25,000,000000 miles to the nearest star.
Only few stars close as that. Many stars
are ten times, hundred times thousand times
urther away
The globuar clusters are more than 10000 times
as far away.
Many of the spiral nebulae 100000 times as
far away.
The secrets of the spiral nebulae would have
been revealed without large telescopes.
They ar eentrely invisible to the unaided eye.
They only faint patches of light in fairly large
telescopes 1t is only with the largest telescopes that
their real nature is revealed
We know today from the work with the big Mt.
Wilson telescopes that the spiral nebulae are great
collections of stars like own Milky Way.
The FsalmSt said, 1.-THE heavens declare the glory
OF God and the armament showeth His handiwork y
The big telescopes confirming the truth of that
statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
THIS INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC-NO. 1 -
History Repeats Itself I'm Fin Epidemic

enza seems to have begun on the
west coast and to have spread east
ward over the rest of the United
States, so that by the middle of
December the entire country was
involved.
Cases began to be reported from
the Pacific coast early in September
and in the early part of November
there were 1890 cases in the entire
country. These reports must not
be taken too seriously, since thou
sands of cases are not reported.
The U. S. S. Idaho had an out
break of influenza among its crew
while lying in San Francisco from
April 10 to April Is, 1928, and it
was the belief of the ships officers
that the men had acquired the dis
ease while ashore on liberty parties
In September, Doctors E. F.
Hirsch and E. R. LeCount of Chi.
cago reported a post-mortem ex
animation made on man who
had died in the hospital, and the
fact that they had found his lungs
to resemble the typical condition.
found in persons dying of influ-
enza in 1913.
They said at the time of their
report that this might be fore
runner of a serious outbreak in
volving the entire country.
When epidemics of influenza
sweep communities they are likely
to attack a definite portion of per-
sons who are apparently without
resistance to the disease.
In schools, asylums and other
places in which any considerable
number of persons liye there are
usually a certain definite proper
ton attacked.
NEXT: Course of the Disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18

better than the pacfstS who protest-not mean
ing deny that the fighters and the pacifsts often
are the same persons.
No. it seems stupid and cruel business, no mat
ter how high the hearts of the young men who march
away to fight.
Among the Bolivian dead was a second lieutenant,
Chavarria. MANY, many second leutenants will die
if this war is fought as the World fought
Three brothers of Chavarra, so the dispatches tell
called on the Bolivian president asking permission to
join the army to avenge his death. 1.-THE president
embraced them with deep emotion. The chief Of staff
told them, Your brother has died gloriously con-
graduate you in the name of the, Bolivian army!"
War has begun. Reason has departed Tomorrow
Bolivians will tell one another that the Para
guayanS use poisoned bullets. that they murder limo
cent Bolivian babes and in their beds, that
they cut off the hands of boys and girls. And fren
zed fresde patriots of Paraguay will spread the same
view OF the Bolivian troops throughout their own
cities, towns and villages.
The cause of all this is strip of forest country,
containing OIL which each nations government claims
as it's own. Their presidents and ministers may
call it national honor, but it remains in fact, just
great strip of appropriated land-containing OIL
Whose it is by right it would be foolish I'd attempt
to say Ten years from now may be able to get at
the truth of the matter, have begun to get at
the real World war causes
Death for ones country is glorious thing. The
purposes that send men to die for their country
often not quite so glorious small number of Be-
vians partook them of glory in this first battle One
hundred Paraguayans did the same.
It is also glorious to live for ones country. Many
boys Of Paraguay and Bolivia will be denied the latter
glory
Our sympathy is with neither of the governments.
One of them has case that not stand without
the support of arms. One of them has case it fears
to leave to impartial justice One is using
instrument of national policy. Recognize that last
phrase? 1t occurs in the Kellogg peace pact now
struggling in the foreign relations committee of the
United States senate.
The pact renounces war as an instrument of
tional policy.
It does not say, of course that the United States
never will go to war under any circumstances 1t says
that the United States solernnly agrees with the
other signatory nations that it will substitute
war for reason and peaceful persuasion 1t declares in
effect that the United States will commit itself
to national policy that must be maintained by arms,
in defiance Of justice.
The United States at this moment is free from
outside threats. It is free from jingostic leadership
It is free from hot emotion. 1t is free to look the
question of full in the face and decide what safe
guards against it may be taken.
Two paths lie beore us. One is the path of
international craftsmanship as represented by the
peace pact. The other is the path that leads back
to the jungle back death and destruction back to
the fields beneath the hot sky where the hungry vu
lures hover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
Now-while Our Heads Are Cool

Down in the great forest land of Paraguay per-
haps it is Bolivia as the title is dspuedone hundred
Paraguayans and a smaller number of Bolivians lie
dead according to cable dispatches. Many more than
hundred Paraguayans if this battle like all other
battles, lie wounded.
It may be that each battle victim fell with clean
bullet through his heart that his death instanta
neouS and without pain 1t may be that the wounded
were gathered up without delay and carried gently
to the most modern and sanitary OF hospitals where
skilled surgeons waited to dress their wounds and
CARRIED nurses to soothe their suffering; that
comfortable hospital trains stood by ready to take
them home to their adrnirng families.
Grand this seems quite likely-they may lie
suffering agones in the humid heat Of the sub
equatorial summer with insects crawling their
faces and verrnin attacking their open wounds they
may lie with stricken eyes gazing toward the sky where
vultures wing slowly searchingly, waiting to claim
their flesh when death has come
What the woods OF that southern world are like in
warm weather is easy to imagine. What facilities
these warning governments to furnish their
tyred patriots likewise can be guessed.
In any case. there not be anything very pretty
about this war. There never was anything pretty
about any war; as he meg who fight the battles know
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18

T LLOYD GEORGE tells British
l. audiences universal disarma-
ment would come if Great
Britain and the United States only
could agree about their armame ).
The fact Is we have built hardly
any war ships the last seven years
and our army has gone to seed. Yet
knowing this, Great Britain, Japan,
Italy and France constantly have
piled up fighting power.
Foreign nations fear American
imperialism almost as much as lions
fear the blood lust of the giraffe.
This proposed banking house of
Raskob and Smith should impress
the public with its Gibraltar-like
stability.
Raskob could bring to its man
agement the genius which enabled
him to achieve two million dollar
deficit in sixty days, while Smith
could bring to its assets seven dogs,
two grizzly bears, and one orang-
O. ng.
Since so many divorces are due to
the fact that loving mates bid
against each other while partners
at bridge whist, it might safeguard
the flreside for them to adopt a
complete set of signals such as we
used to have when we played
flipper at the fire engine house.
A collector of gas bills in Brook
lyn was held up by bandits, which
proves that the bandits were utter
ly destitute of fraternal feeling.
If you want to know what a navy
is worth, read the news that Japan
refuses to let China increase her
tariff duties. for if we we're helpless.
we would be the pincushion of the
world.
The naVy's value is in preventing
aggression; it does most of its work
while riding quietly at anchor.
We hope the government does not
send the marines down to Columbia
on account of this banana workers
strike. at least until the strikers be-
gin to throw banana Feelings in
front of American interests.
n n
A Chicago detective states that
crime runs in cycles, but what is
vastly more important, law enforce
ment runs in ciphers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
Getting Away With 1t

The effectiveness of punishment
depends on it's certainty, much more
than on its severity.
There is nothing like the knoWl-
edge that they can not get away
with it to discourage people under
taking anything. So long as they
think they can, and particularly so
long as they see others doing so,
they will take all kinds of chances.
This is true of children in the
home, of pupils in the school, of
soldiers in the army and of citizens
in the nation.
In bringing up my own boy and
girl, 1 started out with the idea
that the first essential was to i'm
press them with the fact that they
could not put over anything on
their mother or me, that they could
not evade the truth, take what did
not belong to them, or neglect any
duty without getting caught.
The results have more than justi-
fled the method. They never had
to be punished severely to see the
advantage of doing right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18

1SSO-1833, 1836-1837, 1847-1S48,
1889-1890.
Some twenty to fifty per cent
of the population were attacked
in all of these epidemics, and there
always were relatively few deaths.
Thus history is repeating itself
in that a severe epidemic Of in
fluenza in 1918 is being followed at
fairly frequent intervals by mild
epidenics which seem to build to-
ward a severe epidemic about 1850.
Epidemic influenza in contrast to
epidemics of colds shows remark
able lack of relationship to weather
conditions. When it begins it
sweeps the world from the tropics
to the north and south poles.
The pandemics of 1889 and 1890
and of 1918 were promptly followed
by occurrences of what appeared to
be the same disease in intervals
varying from a few weeks to
months and a year or more.
Unfortunately the symptoms of
epidemic influenza resemble so
closely those of common cold
and infectious diseases of the
breathing tract generally, that con-
fusion exists in many reports.
Indeed Mrs. Carlyle, wife of the
great philosopher, thus carefully
recorded all her ailments in her
diary: Medical men all over the
world have entered into tacit
agreement to call all sorts of all
ments people are liable to have, in
cold weather, by the same name,
so that one sort of treatment may
serve for all, and their practice be
greatly simplifled."
The word grip is used as indis-
criminately as is, of course, inf1u-
enZa.
The present epidemic of influ-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Basis of LGW En-
forcement Is an Ability
to Catch Those Who Vio-
late It."
SAYS:
22-YEAR-OLD taxicab drive

A 22-YEAR-OLD taxicab driver
L y and his 18-year-old wife were
shot to death at Franklin Square,
L. T., last Friday night. After in
vestigating the case, authorities be-
lieve that the crime was committed
to seal his lips as state witness If,
connection with a recent hold-up.
Just one more illustration of how
gangland maintains its rules.
The spelling Of evidence by muir
der has become an important fac
tor in organized crime.
Nothing balkS the administra-
ton of justice in this country to-
day like dead witnesses, or those
who have become too scared TO
talk.
Thousands of people living in the
slums of our great cities have
learned to fear the gang much
more than they fear The law.
The ruthlessness and success,
with which man after man and
woman after woman has been
killed, for no other reason than to
prevent the truth from coming out
in court, has had blighting effect
on evidence.
Evidence, as every one knows, is
the only thing that makes justice
possible. If we can not get at the
facts, we can get nowhere.
No one realizes this better than
the criminal, and ne has built un
the gang for no purpose so distinct
ly as to cover his tracks by an en-.
forced conspiracy of silence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-18
Criminals Chances

Hanging one murderer out OF fifty
or Seventy-five is not particularly
impressive so long as fifteen or
twenty go scot free.
Like every other human being,
the criminal weighs his chances,
and he weighs them by the laws
of average, not by any particular
case. Scanning the situation in
this country today, he not only finds
that a good percentage of law viola
tors never are caught, but that a
majority of those who are caught
find means to get out, or get off,
with comparatively light punish
ment.
Even measuring the result by
murder, which still is looked upon
as the gravest of all crimes, and
which is supposed to call forth the
most effective power of law enforce
ment, the criminal discovers that
many killers elude arrest, that many
others are given light sentences,
and that only a small percentage
are put to death, or shut up for
life.