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Monday, November 24 , 1924 .
12,000,000 BUNCO
IN NOVA SCOTIA
Halifax, N. S., Nov. 24—De
scribed by Assistant State Attor
neys Scarboro and McHiggins, of
Chicago, I1L, as the “smoothest
and most dangerous confidence
man in the United States,” Lee
Koretz, alias Lou Keyte, was ar
rested at a hotel here last night
■on a charge of using the mails to
■defraud to the extent of 22,000,
000 and will leave for Chicago to
day. He waived extradition.
According to the two attorneys,
who arrived here from Chicago
last night, the prisoner left Chi
cago nearly a year ago with $2,
000,000 in cash carried in a hand
bag.
Historic Residence.
Since last March he has lived
:in Nova Scotia, where he pur
■chased “Pine Hurst, an historic
residence near Liverpool and has
:since made additions to the ex
tent of $35,000.
He represented himself as a
man of wealth, who had recently
suffered a severe illness. He
wore a full beard, which he ex
plained was necessary owing to
an infection of the teeth and paw.
With his evident wealth, his
generosity and interest in the
country he at once become popu
lar and had even agreed to
preach a sermon shortly in a
local church. He made frequent
visits to Halifax, where he be
came a member of the Novia
Scotia Yacht squadron and his
entertainments were always on a
lavish scale,__j
When informed-in the hotel by
officers that he was under ar
rest, Koretz said, “All right, boys,
you’ll have no trouble with me.”
He admitted, the officers said,
that he was the man described
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R° un d-WorId Flyers’ Reward
Will Be Left to Congress
Washington, Nov. 24.—Unless
congress acts voluntarily in the
matter, the six aviators who made
the first flight around the world
will go unrewarded either by pro
motion . or by the bestowal of
some • emolument.
Secretary of War John W.
Weeks believes these men should
be treated generously by their
government and their achieve
ment—the greatest in the history
of aviation—should be appropri
ately recognized. But Mr. Weeks
is undecided whether to make N a
fight in behalf of the heroes of
the air service.
No Legislation Drafted.
So far, the secretary has draft
ed no legislation for the consid
eration of congress and has pre
pared no recommendation to ap- [
pear in his forthcoming (
annual k
report. Should he be asked by
the military affairs committeemen
of the house and senate, however,
to give his view, he will urge
that something be done.
What Mr. Weeks would prefer
to have and what he thinks a sec
retary of war should have is
blanket authority not only to ac
cord suitable recognition to air
men whose military achievements
stand out but authority to deal
with all individual cases of hero
ism of special merit as they come
up in any branch of the service.
Secretary is Helpless.
The secretary admits that at
present he is unable to do any
thing that is substantial for the
round-the-world flyers, He can
recommend them, as he has done,
and his commendation will become
a part of their official records,
but he is not empowered to pro
mote them, even to the extent of
in a circular as Leo Koretz, want
ed for a $2,000,000 fraud in Chi
cago and for whose arrest $10,
000 reward was offered.
At the jail he waived extradi
tion and announced himself. ready
to return at once to face the
charges. r
SISTER OF AMERICAN
FLYER WEDS HUN HE
WOUNDED IN FRANCE
Omoha, Neb., Nov. 24.—Two
air pilots, a German and an
American, fought a thrilling duel
in the air over Dijon, France, in
the world war.
The German was captured after
being wounded by gunfire from
the American plane.
The German, Baron Hans Von
Ringhausen, former German avi
ator, came here to marry Mrs.
Bertha M. Wendell, sister of the
American, Charles E. Cummings,
former air pilot of the foreign le
gion.
Mrs. Wendell nursed the baron
back to health while she was a
Red Cross nurse in the American
prison camp.
The baron and Mrs. Wendell
will make their home in Omaha,
he having disposed of his hold
ings in Germany.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
advancing, them to the head of
the list in their respective ranks.
It was explained that the
retary was not even in a position
to keep Second Lieutenants John
Harding, Jr., and Henry H. Og
den any longer in their commis
sioned ranks. Both these men,
expert mechanics, have been *u>
tually demoted since they com
pleted the long and perilous
flight.
Harding and Ogden Demoted.
Lieutenant Harding has resum
ed his status as a civilian me
chanic at McCook Field and: Og
den has returned to his non-com
missioned, rank as a sergeant at
Selfridge Field. Bothe were mem
bers of the Officers’ Reserve
Corps, and as such were called to
active duty with commissioned
rank during the globe-girdling
flight.
It is regarded here as probable
that congress, on its part, will
take up the cases of the six avia
tors of the army air service who
have signally distinguished them
selves and that some action will
be initiated in that body to re
ward them for their work..
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR SENOIA WOMAN
ARE HELD SUNDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Sara
Margaret Thompson, 68, wife of
J. Thompson, who died at the
near Senoia, Saturday after
noon at 1:3d o'clock* were beM
the Lutheran church in Har
alson Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock.
Rev. B. S. Dasher, of Senoia,
officiated. Burial was in Mt, Pil
grim cemetery with Haisten Bros,
in charge.
In addition to her husband she
is survived by six daughters, Mrs.
J. A. Todd, Alverton; Mrs. A. H.
Callahan, Mrs. H. N. Gable and
Misses Bessie, Mittie and Estelle
Thompson, all of Senoia; four
sons, M. S. Thompson, of Atlanta;
B. H. Thompson, of Newnan; and
O. L. and E. W. Thompson, of
Senoia; one sister, Miss Henri
etta Swygert, of Senoia; and two
brothers, Arthur D. Swygert, of
Riverside; and E. C. Swygert, of
Senoia, also survive.
MILITARY FUNERAL FOR
BARNESVILLE YOUTH
WHO SHOT HIMSELF
Barnesville, Nov. 24.—Lieuten
ant John Lifsey, who accidentally
shot himself Tuesday at Ether
idge’s pond, near Milner, was
given a military funeral at 10
o’clock Sunday morning, a vast
concourse of friends assembling
in Gordon auditorium to pay last
tribute to the young man.
A sextette of Gordon cadets
acted as pallbearers and the Gor
don battalion and Bernesville
Blues, in both of winch Lifsey
was a member, acted as honorary
escort, and all church services of
the city were suspended for the
funeral.
Rev. V. E. Lanford, pastor of
the First Methodist church, of
which Lieutenant Lifsey was* a
member, and Mps. Augusta Lamb -
din, repr ing Gordon faculty,
paid tribute to the character of
the young student and soldier
whose accidental death has cast a
gloom over this section.
TWO CARTERSVILLE YOUTHS
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK
Cartersville, Nov. 18.—Frank
Smith was instantly killed, and
Dwight Powell, 19, was so badly
hurt that he died at the home of
his parents here about noon Sun
day as the result of an automobile
accident late Saturday night on
the road leading to White, 7 miles
north of Cartersville.
MAN AND WOMAN KILLED
WHEN AIRPLANES COLLIDE
Clover Field, Santa Monica, Cal.,
Nov. 24.—A man and a woman
were killed and two other persons
were seriously injured here when
the airplanes in which they were
flying collided in mid-air.
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RAGE WAR
Ptois, Nov. 24.—Albert Sarraut,
former minister of the colonies,
former governor general of Indo
China and a member of the
French delegation at the Wash
ington arms conference in 1921,
sounded a note of alarm before
a distinguished audience in Paris
Sunday, declaring that the real
menace of the future lay in the
non-white third of the world’s
population.
“No one can think without mis
giving, he said,” of the prepar
ations Japan is making toward an
Asiatic bloc against the Europea n
bloc..”'
Terrible.
. He hoped that the leading spir
its of Japan and the United
States would avoid a conflict, “far
more terrible than the war of
1914.”
The steady increase in the col
ored people had located the cen
ter of the world’s importance
somewhere in the Pacific ocean
he continued, and a collossal
struggle between Japan and the
United States is going on for
control of that ocean.
The colored element in the
world’s population he placed at
550,000,000, of a total of 1,750,
000,000 and described them as
having been taught their power
by the world war, in addition to
being worked upon by religious
hatreds and Russian bolshevism.
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Slave Who Stole Turkeys
Yorktown, Va., Nov. 24.—No
more fertile field for human in
terest stories of bygone days can
be found than the records of the
“Ancient and Honorable County
of York,” Virginia.
One story is found In the last
page of the court records of 1774.
In the trial of one Hannibal, a
negro slave, accused of felony,
there sat upon the bench the
Gentlemen Justices Dudley Diggs*
Thomas Nelson, Jr., David; Jami
son, Ichabod Ambler and WIlliam:
Reynolds.
Hannibal was accused of lar
ceny of eight turkeys, and the
punishment meted out to him was
hanging.
Earl Owned Birds.
The owner of the birds was
the Rt. Hon. John Ear! of Dun
more, his Majesty’s Lieutenant
and Governor General of Virginia,
so that it really was a case of
lese majeste. The record of that
day’s proceedings, in part, reads
as follows:
“At the court of Oyer and
Terminer, held in the courthouse
at the town of York, the eighth
day of March, 1774, for the trial
of Hannibal, a negro man slave,
belonging to James Shields,, foar
felony.
“The said Hannibal' was set to
the bar, and Benjamin Walter,
attorney for our lord the King,
comes into court and! gives the
justices aforesaid to understand
and be informed 1 that the said
Hannibal, the 13th dhy of Feb
ruary last, with three and arms
at the Parish of Brtuton, in the
county of York, eight tur
kies of the value of twenty-five
shillings of the Goods and Chat
tels of the right Honorable John
Earl of Dunmore, his Majesty’s
Lieutenant and Governor-General
a£ Virginia, there and then found,
feloniously did take, steal and
carry away, against the peace of
our lord the king, his crown and
dignity, to which the said Hanni
bal, upon this arraignment, plead
not gtrOty and for his trial put
himself upon the judgment of the
Court.'’
Hanged for Theft.
Hannibal was found guilty, and
as the James City Court record
of December 4, 1773, shown in
evidence, recited that the same
negro was convicted of felony
and was “burnt in the hand, »■ he
was denied the benefit of the act,
and the judgment of the court
was: “Therefore, it is considered
by the court that he be hanged by
his neck until he is dead, and he
is thereupon remanded to God,
and it is ordered that the Sheriff
cause Execution of this Judgment
to be done on Tuesday, the twen
ty-second day of this instant
March. The said Hannibal is
valued by this court at twenty
five pound sterling money. »
Sixteen days later Hannibal
paid the penalty of his love of
turkeys and his owner was reim
bursed 25 pounds sterling.
The same court found one of
the gentlemen settlers guilty of
not attending ‘church. For this
he was reprimanded and sentenc
ed to pay four pounds of tohains*.
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SATURDAY’S FOOTBALL
RESULTS
Oglethorpe 25; Mercer 0.
. Yale 19; Harvard 6.
Michigan 2; Iowa 9.
Notre Dame 13; Northwestern
6,
Illinois 7; Ohio State 0.
University of Louisville 10; Un
iversity of Chattanooga 0.
Purdue 26; Indiana 7.
Howard 0; Birmingham South
ern 0.
Peim State 28; Marietta 0.
Vanderbilt 16; Minnesota 0,
Chicago 0; Wisconsin 0.
KILLED FOR SNORING
Manchester, Bng., Nov. 24.—
Thomas Kelly, aged 71, has been
held for killing Peter Jackaon,
aged 82, in the poorhouse because
Jackson snored.
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