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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913.
NO. 63.
CAN CLEAR
FOUR ARE NOW
MURDER MYSTERY;
Developments in Case Have Come Thick and Fast Monday
But No Evidence Has Yet Been Discovered Which Fixes
the Atrocious Crime - Mullinax Seems to Have Proved
Alibi and Will Soon Be Released
OF SCUTARI FORTS
Crown Prince Danilo and
Troops March Out of City
Toward North on Monday
Morning
Detectives expect to wring the secret of Mary Phagan's murder from
Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory, 37-39
South Forsyth street.
Their theory is that he is innocent of the crime itself, but that he
knows the murderer of the four£een-year-old girl, and is shielding the
man who strangled Mary Phagan with a piece of hempen cord on Satur
day and dragged her body into the pitch black cellar of the factory.
The negro will tell nothing, but from him and from J. M. Gantt,
the discharged bookkeeper, detectives expect to draw the story of how
Mary Phagan was beaten into unconsciousness, assaulted, and then
strangled to death.
FOUR ARE UNDER ARREST.
Four men are under arrest: Lee, the negro night watchman;
Gantt, who was discharged three weeks ago by the company; Arthur
Mullinax, of 62 Poplar street, and Gordon Bailey, a negro elevator boy
at the pencil factory.
L. M. Frank, superintendent of the pencil factory, was questioned
by the police, and spent the better part of Monday morning at police
station. But he was not placed under arrest, and at noon returned home.
An alibi has practically been established for Mullinax by Jim Ruth
erford, with whom he boarded, and the police have no direct evidence
against Gordon Bailey, the elevator boy.
'They are depending upon Newt Lee, the watchman, anc* upon Gantt,
the discharged bookkeeper, for a solution of the mystery whic^ shrouds
the murder of the fourteen-year-old girl.
SLEEPING COMPARTMENT.
An improvised cot, fashioned from
wodden boxes pushed close together and
covered with crocus bags, was discover
ed in a separate compartment in the
basement at the rear end near where the
dead body of the girl was found. The
compartment which is about eight or
t ^£' ee l Wld . e runs abou t half the length
of the building and the ground is soggy
with dampness.
Just inside, and to the left of the door
at the back end, is the cot. In the
ground near it were discovered two
small footprints, that are believed to
be tnose of a woman. The belief is now
that the girl was lured here, assaulted
and then murdered and her body dragged
to the spot outside where it was found
lying face downward in a pool of blood.
Through the discovery of this cot the
police are led to believe that it has
been used as a place of rendezvous.
The watchman discovered the place
Sunday and pointed it out to newspa
per men who discovered the tell-tale
footprints through the aid of lanterns
in the ill smelling, damp and dismal
place.
It is the theory of the police that the
negro, Newt Lee, knew of the place.
The negro fireman, William Nolie, who
has been in the employ of the company
for two months, denied most emphati
cally any knowledge of the existence of
the rendezvous.
Investigations Monday morning
proved that Mary Phagan was murdered
in the metal room, on the second floor
of the factory, and- that her body was
lowered in the elevator to the base
ment, and was dragged across the oozy,
slimy floor of the cellar to the corner
where it was found lying face upward
between 3 and 4 o’cluck Sunday morn
ing. /
They are not sure of the time at
which the child was murdered, but they
believe that she met her death at mid
night instead of Saturday afternoon or
Saturday evening.
BELIEVES WATCHMAN KNOWS.
The negro night watchman was on
duty during the later afternoon and
throughout the night, and they are com
vinced that he must know how the
crime was committed.. As soon as he can
be made to tell his story, detectives
believe that they will have the full ac
count of how the girl was murdered.
Blood upon the floor in the metal
roum, and strands of hair found in the
machinery of a lathe, establish the fact
that Mary Phagan met her death there
instead of in the cellar.
With inhuman ferocity she was at
tacked, beaten into unconsciousness and
her murder completed by the hempen
rope twisted about her throat.
Newt Lee, the watchman, remained in
the building throughout the night, but
he says that he heard no screams, that
lie knew nothing of the murder in the
metal room, and that he neither saw
nor heard the murderer as the dead
body of Mary Phagan was placed, in the
elevator, lowered to the cellar, and drag
ged across the wet damp floor to the
corner where it was found.
The police place no belief in his pro
fessed ignorance. They think that he
must know who murdered the girl, and
who bore the body to the cellar.
They are also entertaining the theory
that the murderer must have had as
sistance in lowering the body to the
basement, and that perhaps the negro
watchman lent his aid.
NEGRO KEEPS HIS TONGUE.
The negro’s silence has been proof
against all questions, but the police are
confident that he has the whole story
at his tongue’s end and that he will
eventually clear the. mystery.
The third degree Tor the watchman
and an examination of Gantt, the dis
charged bookkeeper, are the means
through which .the police mean to dis
cover the murderer of Mary Phagan.
Their efforts Monday morning bore
fruit chieffiy in the arrest of Gantt, and
the discovery of facts which seem to
tassure the negro’s knowledge of the
murder.
They first discovered that the girl had
been murdered upon the second floor
and tier body lowered to the basement;
they next found that Gantt had visited
the factory on Saturday afternoon, and
they finally effected his arrest at Mari
etta.
SL'PPTRINTENDENT IS QUESTIONED.
Other developments of the day were
chiefly random investigations. L. M.
Frank, superintendent of the pencil fac
tory, was questioned at police station
during the gerater part of the morning
and a stenographic record was kept ot
his answers. So rigid was this exam
ination that Mr. Frank employed Lu
ther- Rosser and Herbert Haas to repre
sent him in his appearance before the
police. But no charges w-ere made
against him, and at the conclusion of
his examination he returned home.
The coroner’s jury met and made a
personal investigation of the metal
room where Mary Phagan was murder
ed and the cellar where her body was
(By Associated Press.)
VIENNA, Austria, April 28.—Crown
Prince Danilo, of Montenegro, and his
troops have marched out of Scutari to
ward the north, according to official
dispatches received here today. Only
five batteries of Montenegrin artillery
remain in the city.
Montenegro Terms Demand
Of Europe Cruel and Unjust
LONDON, April 28.—The representa
tive of the Montenegrin government in
London received instructions today
from Cettinje ordering him to protest
formally against the demand by the
European powers for t he immediate
evacuation of Scutari by the Montene
grins which is described by the govern
ment of King Nicholas as “unjust and
cruel.”
The demand of the European powers
is couched in the following terms:
“We have the honor to declare col
lectively to the royal government of
Montenegro that the taking of the fort
ress of Scutari does not any way modify
the decision of the European powers rel
ative to the delimitation of the fron
tiers of northern and northeastern Al
bania and 'consequently the city of Scu
tari must be evacuated with the brief
est possible delay and must be handed
over t > the European powers represent
ed by the commandants of the interna
tional naval forces lying before the
Montenegrin coast.
“The royal government of Montenegro
is invited to give a prompt reply to
this communication.”
The Montenegrin representative in
London, to whom this'' demand was ca
bled back from Cettinje, said today:
“I have been ordered by my govern
ment to protest formally against this
unjust and cruel demand and once more
to ask the European powers to examine
in an equitable manner the vital ques
tion of Montenegro’s future and to place
that nation on an equal footing with
the other Balkan allies.”
found. But the examination of wit
nesses* was deferred until Wedensday.
FRANK LEAVES STATION.
At 12:15 o’clock Leo M. Frank, super
intendent of the National Pencil com
pany’s plant in which fourteen-year-old
Mary Phagan was murdered some time
Sunday morning, left police headquar
ters in the company of his lawyers and
a number of friends. Before leaving,
he had confronted Arthur Mullinax, the
street car conductor, whom the police
were holding under suspicion, and had
declared that he never saw* Mullinax
before that moment. Also, he had
helped the police to clarify the recollec
tions of Newt Lee, negro night watch
man,* relative to one incident upon the
evening preceding the crime. Lee had
told the detectives that J. M. Gantt,
formerly a bookkeeper at the plant,
calling there Saturday afternoon and
being admitted, had stayed in the office
only three or four minutes. Under
questions by Mr. Frank, the negro said
Gantt stayed inside longer than that—
long enough to wrap up his old shoes
that he had called to get, and to tele
phone to some girl.
SAW MAN WITH GIRL.
L. T. (“Charley”) Hall, in charge of
the automobile trucks of the city sani
tary department, told the detectives
that he took his brother-in-law to the
corner of Forsyth and Alabama streets,
a block north of the pencil factory, at
midnight Saturday to put him aboard
the last East Point car. After the car
left, Hall entered the soda and cigar
establishment on the opposite corner,
west side of Forsyth, and while there,
at about 12:05 o’clock, he saw a couple
going down the street toward the pen
cil factory. The man, said he, seemed
to fit the description given to him of
Gantt. He had seen the man before
around the plant, said he. when he went
there with the sanitary trucks. He
had looked on him as some sort of an
official. Recently for a couple of weeks
DAY 111 DEBATE ON
Underwood Hopes to See Bill
Finally Disposed of by the
House in One Week From
This Monday
THE WAY THE WEND BLOWS!
FROM MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
Tensas and Concordia Parish
es of Louisiana Flooded by
Break in Levee at Gibson
vm .T T pyAaaociated Press.)
VIDALIA, La., April 28.—Vidalia to-
d ? y m is fll,ed wlth refugees from sections
of Tensas and Concordia parishes north
of here which are being rapidly flooded
by the waters from the crevasse in
the Mississippi river near Gibson’s land
ing. which occurred early Sunday morn
ing.
More than 4.000 persons were taken
from the overflowed section yesterday
to Natchez and other places across the
river in Mississippi. Several thousand
head of cattle also were transferred to
points across the river and last night
and today there was a continuous
stream of cattle passing through the
streets of Vidalia to the ferry where
they are being taken to Natchez.
There are eight river steamers and
a number of launches engaged in the
rescue work between Vidalia and Gib
son’s landing, under the direction of
the United States army relief corps.
The levees n^rth of Vidalia are lined
wfith people, many of whom have
brought what few household goods and
wearing apparel they could hurriedly
assemble.
Horses and cattle also are being driv
en from the levees, awaiting steamers
to take them across the river.
Reports received this morning say
that the crevasse is almost a half mile
wide and thousands of the broken levee
continue to fall away rapidly. For a
distance of about fifteen miles just
back of the break, and south, the wa
ter ranges from a depth of two to three
feet on the outer edge to twenty feet in
the Immediate vicinity of the crevasse.
The water had spread over the towns of
Water Proof, Goldman. Gibson and Azu-
buma this morning and was rapidly ap
proaching Clayton which is expected
to be covered within the next two or
three days. The St. Louis, Iron Moun
tain and Southern railways which skirts
the west bank of the river from Fer-
riday north to St. Joseph js covered
with water a distance of several miles
and the tracks just west of the crevasse
have been washed away. About twenty
miles of the tracks of this line will be
under water within the next few days.
Another of this company’s roads, which
extends north from Ferriday via Ray-
ville, La., will be put out of commission
by the middle of the week.
CHEATS HANGMAN’S NOOSE
IN WILD DASH IN AUTO AFTER
WIFE HELPS TO OPEN CELL
he had not seen him. He was with a
girl, whose dress reached just to her
shoe tops. Hall thinks the girl wore
white shoes. He thought no more of it
until he read of the murder.
A woman whom no one could identify,
called detective headquarters upon the
phone Monday morning and asked if
Mullinax, the trolley car conductor, was
under arrest. Detective Hollingsworth
informed her in the affirmative, and
asked if she knew anything of the case.
She answered “Yes,” said he, but hung
up before he could get any further re
plies from her.
FACTORY IS CLOSED.
Owing to the feeling of unrest and
intense excitement that prevailed
among the women employes at the Na
tional Pencil company’s plant Monday
morning while detectives were making
further investigations into the brutal
murder and assault of little Mary Pha
gan, Assistant Superintendent H. G.
Schlff. ordered the machinery stopped
and the place closed for the day.
The girls and women lost no time in
getting into their wraps and hats and
leaving the scene of the mysterious
tiagedy that still baffles those inves
tigating the case. All were told, how
ever, to be sure ana report on time for
work Tuesday morning.
HAIR IS IDENTIFIED.
It is the belief of detectives that an
important witness has been discovered
in Magnolia Kennedy, the young girl who
worked next to Mary Phagan in the
metal or pencil tip room. She will testify
that the hair 'found wrapped around a
part of a lathe in this department of
the factory was that of Mary. L. A.
Quinn, foreman of the room, was also
positive that the strands of hair had
come from the head of the dead girl.
Woman Brings Condemned
Husband Hacksaw During
Religious Services—Prisoner,
Bars Window, Scales Wall
and Steals Automobile
(JBy Associated Press.)
TAMPA, Fla., April 28.—Speeding
through the country in a stolen auto
mobile, E. F. Andrews, condemned to
be hanged for the murder of J. W.
Alexander at Palmetto, eight months
ago, is making a dash for liberty. In
the county jail here is hife wife, who
is under charge of furnishing the hack
saw with which Andrews last night
sawed his way out of the cell in “mur
derer’s row,” and then through the
barred outer window into the jail yard,
after which he scaled the wall and got
away without arousing the guard.
Mrs. Andrews was admitted to the
jail yesterday to see him while religious
services were being held and it is
charged she slipped the hacksaw to
him then. The tool was found at the
morning where Andrews had
aropped it.
Andrews killed Alexander during a
drunken brawl at Alexander’s home
near Palmetto, in Manatee county. He
was tried and convicted in that county
and brought here for safe keeping, the
jail there bing insecure and therealso
being much popular feeling against
Andrews.
The man came from near Greenville,
Ala., and it is thought he is headed in
that direction in the automobile. Sheriff
Spencer sent out news of the escape and
offered a reward for Andrews’ capture.
HOKE SMITH ASKS MORE
PAY FOR RURAL CARRIERS
Georgia Senator Would Allow
$300 Annually for Care
of Their Teams
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—A bill in
creasing the salaries of rural carriers
from $1,100 to $1,400 was introduced to
day by Senator Hoke Smith. The in
crease is intended to cover the expenses
incurred by the carriers in maintaining
their teams.
The senator introduced also a bill
increasing the rate of interest paid by
banks on postal saving deposits from
2 1-4 to 3 per cent per annum. The
government pays depositors 2 per cent
interest on their deposits and it Is es
timated that it will require an addi
tional 1 per cent to bear the expense of
the government maintaining postal
banks.
DIAZ AND HUERTA SPLIT;
ROTH KEEP ARMED MEN
Diaz Has Artillery and Huerta
the Infantry, According
to Reports
Stabbed to Death
WEST POINT, Ga., April 28.—Mike
Morris, a mill hand in the Lanett cotton
mill, was stabbed to death Saturday by
David L. Adams, Jr. Walter Smith and
Jesse Allen are being held as witnesses
in the West Point jail.
Other operatives were of the same opin
ion but not being in the same part of
the place were not so certain.
But the little girl who worked with
Mary sai dthat she was not ipistaken.
She was asked point blank if she would
sweat the strands came from the head
of her companion. “I am positive of it,”
she said, “and will swear to it if neces
sary.”
While detectives, newspaper men and
employees gathered about the lathe lit
tle Magnolia tiptoed up close to the ma
chine and stared intently at the golden
strands. She shuddered. Awe-stricken
women stood away from her. Then her
voice broke the silence. “It’s Mary’s
hair,” she almost whispered. “I know
It.”
BLOOD SPOTS FOUND.
Across the room from the lathe,
spots of blood were found on the floor
near a wooden closet built out from the
wall near a door that opened into an
other department of the factory.
The largest spot was four or five
inches in diameter ana around it were
smaller spatterings. Detectives and
Chief of Police Beavers chiseled up
shavings of the flooring to get a better
light on the wood. An alcohol test
was made by dipping the stained piece
of wood into the liquid. It was not
soluable as paint or grease would have
been, and did not discolor the contents
of the glass. This test satisfied the
officers that the stains were blood from
the body of the murdered girl.
Employes of the factory stated posi
tively that the spots were not there
Friday afternoon when the room was
swept out.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 28.—A rapidly
growing situation in Mexico City,
fraught with friction between the Huer
ta and the Diaz factions of the pro
visional government is reported in con
fidential advices and these reports are
augmented by agents of the Carranza
constitutionalists arriving here.
Robert Pesquiera, a member of the
Mexican house of deputies .arrived here
today to succeed Gonzaies Gante as con-
dential agent of the Carranza forces.
Gante has been assigned to a special
mission, the nature of whicji is not dis
closed, but it is believed he is going to
Europe.
Reports of the situation in Mexico
City confirm earlier advices of the tens
ity of the relations of Diaz to Huerta.
Between the two officials practically all
government forces in the federal dis
trict have been divided Into two armed
camps. Huerta hasadded to the infan
try at the national palace and Diaz has
encamped much of the artillery on his
estate, Hacienda del Cristo, about thirty
miles away. Mondragon, minister of
war, is in practical possession of the
citadel, where other artillery forces are
quartered.
, (By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 28.—A rush of
speechmaking on the final day of general
debate on the tariff bill made lively pro
ceedings in the house. Most of the
members had held back with the aim of
getting larger audiences expected with
the closing of the general debate and
the shifting of consideration of the re
vision measure to a reading under the
five-minute rule beginning tomorrow.
Leader Underwood has not changed
his view that the bill should be dis
posed of in the house within a week
from today and that the sugar schedule
is not likely to offer much real trouble.
He hopes that unless the fight of the
anti-free wool advocates spreads, the
bill will emerge from the senate’ sub
stantially in the form in which it
stands.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois,
who has charge of the agriculturai
schedule of the bill as a member of the
ways and means committee; Represent
ative Murdock, of Kansas, leader of the
Progressives, and others of that party,
and some of the big guns of the Repub
licans were on today’s speaking pro
gram.
Mr. Rainey declared that the bill rep
resented the dawn of a new era in the
government’s fiscal policy, “making
lighter the burdens of taxes upon con
sumers and compelling great wealth to
contribute its fair share toward pay
ing the government expenses.”
He pointed out that no government
that adopted an income tax system
and given it a fair trial had repealed it
INCOME TAXES.
“We hake the tax highest upon the
great incomes and lowest upon the
small incomes, taxing 425,000 in all and
expecting to collect from them at least
$70,000,000.
He said the tax would reach 126,000
incomes that amount to between $4,000
and $5,000 a year, from which the gov
ernment expects to collect only $630,000,
an average of $5 per income, and would
reach 100 incomes amounting to more
than $1,000,000 each per year, from
which a collection of nearly $6,000,000
is expected.
Mr. Rainey said he knew of no swol
len fortune which had not been made
possible by the favors of government,
and that a protective tariff conferred
upon protected interests the right not
only to levy taxes but to collect and dis
tribute the dividends to the holders of
watered stocks.
He declared that the revision would
end the alliance between the protected
woolen mills of the east and the wool-
producing states of the west.
“This,” he concluded, “is not a free
trade bill, but it will fail of its purpose
if it does not bring about a freer ex
change between the products of this and
other countries, each nation, each sec
tion producing what it is best adapted
to produce and trading its products for
the products of other sections and na
tions.”
Democratic Leader Underwood, fram
er of the new tariff bill, contends that
the United States is entirely in its
right in the provision of the bill in
which foreign nations have protested.
The clause which would grant a 5 per
cent tariff on goods imported in Ameri
can vessels and which has caused pro
tests from a number of nations, Mr.
Underwood says, is to encourage the
building of American ships and he be
lieves it violates no treaty.
The French protest is against the pro
vision that foreign manufacturers and
exporters shall submit their books to
United States agents when demanded.
This clause, Mr. Underwood declares,
does not mean that the United^ States is
going to try to learn the secrets of for
eign manufacturers, as it would be used
only in cases where there is reason to
suspect that goods have been under
valued.
Representative Payne defended the
Payne -Adrichtariff law and declared
the Underwood bill as a tapi^ Rev
enue measure “ a signal f« “If
this bill becomes a law as it now stands,
the next four years will be years of
weary waiting,” he said.
“That the proposed bill is a revision
downward, I frankly admit,” Mr. Payne
concluded.
Aviator. Stops Only
Twice on 1,000-Mile
Trip; Time 22 Hours
Girl Weds Father’s
Slayer After Seeing
The Death Struggle
(By Associated Press.)
CAMDEN, Tenn., April 26.—With the
bride-to-be an onlooker, her brother and
father, George Cole, and her intended
husband and his father, Alonzo Smith,
fought with knives in the roadway near
Camden, late last night until the elder
Cole was killed and his son probably
fatally wounded. Three hours later
Smith and the girl were married. The
elder Smith was arrested.
Cole, it is said, protested that his
daughter was only fourteen years old,
and for this reason objected to the mar
riage.
"War Speech" Is Delivered in
Congress*Monday by Repre
sentative Sisson, of Missis
sippi on Jap Land Ouastiorn
WASHINGTON, April 28.—A “wap
speech” in support of the proposed
California anti-alien land law was de
livered in the house today by Repre-1
sentative Sisson, of Mississippi,
“If we must have war or submit to-
this indignity, I am for war,” cried Mr.
Sisson. "I am with the people of Cali
fornia in their efforts to prevent these
aliens from acquiring land.”
SHADES OF WASHINGTON.
"I believe," said Mr. Sisson, “that noi
non-residental citizens should be al-
lowed a single foot of land in the ter
ritory of the United States. What would!
Washington say in answer to the ques
tion, war or submission? What would,
Jackson say? What would Cleveland
say? What would McKinley say?
“I resent the efforts of Japan to foroe ■
us to submit to her demands.” ’
Mr. Sisson took the position that the..
Japanese government in protesting
against alien land, legislation was en
deavoring to exempt its citizens from
the operation of the laws of states.
"The president and secretary of
state,” said Mr. Sisson, "should only as
sure an alien government that the peo
ple of that alien nation would be dealt
with fairly in accordance with the law
ofv the state. Any other position would
lead to the federal government taking
opt from under the laws of the states
the citizens of another nation. But ail
citizens or aliens resident in a stata.
must be held subject to its laws, and to
exempt the alien would give him privi
leges over and above those accorded to
American citizens.”
Representative Mann, the Republicart
leader, suggested the United States had
the constitutional right to treat with
foreign governments to secure for
American citizens property rights
abroad and that Mr. Sisson was con-
tending that the foreign governments i
did not have a similar right.
Mr. Sisson contended that the people
of California had the right to pass,
laws regarding alien holding of land as
in their Judgment seemed best when
such laws did not infringe upon federal j
constitution.
Secretary Bryan Arrives
In Sacramento for Conference
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 28.—Wil
liam J. Bryan, secretary of st»te, ar-(
rived in Sacramento today to conferl
with Governor Johnson and the Cali-,
fornia legislature on the proposed anti- 1
lien land holding laws. Governor John
son met the visitor at the train at
which many Democratic legislators had
gathered.
An hour after Secretary Bryan’s ar
rival it was announced by Governor
Johnson that he would call the two
houses of the legislature in a joint
executive session this morning to allow
Mr. Bryan to deliver his official message.
The meeting was called at the request
of Mr. Bryan, said the governor.
Although he will spend much of hia
time at the governor’s home, arrange
ments have been made for him to have
an office at the capitol building where
he will be accessible to callers.
Secertary Bryan made the following
statement on his arrival.
“I am visiting California at the re
quest ‘ of the president and wtitf the
consent of the legislature, to oonfec
upon an important matter which, while
local in its immediate effect, is inter
national in character.
“Each state occupies a dual position.
While it is the guardian of its domestic
affairs, it is a member of the union,
and therefore interested in all that con
cerns the nation’s relations with the
outside world.
“The president, upon whom rests th®;
constitutional duty of maintaining dip
lomatic relations with other countries,
asked me to come to California to con
fer with the governor and legislators
upon such phases of the subject as to/
touch this nation’s relations to other*
nations.
“Coming on such a mission, it would
be obviously improper to say anything’,
in advance upon questions which may;
enter into the conference.”
Secretary Bryan went to the capitol
with Governor Johnson shortly before
10 o’clock and spent half an hour in the
executive offices, where he was visited
by several legislative leaders.
It was arranged that Mr. Bryan should
take possession of Lieutenant Governor
Wallace’s ffices in the capitol. His firsto |
visitor was Dr. David Carr Jordon, of
Stanford university, who came at Mr^
Bryan’s request to confer on the aliei*
land situation.
(By Associated Press.)
J KOLLUM, Holland, April 28.—A con-
j tinuous flight of over 1.000 miles by
| aeroplane was completed here early
j tday by the French aviator, Ernest
> Francois Giullaux. He made only two
| stops during his ’flight from Biarritz, in
the extreme southwest of France, which
l he left yesterday morning, descending to
| replenish his fuel at Bordeaux and Vil-
lacoublay.
The entire trip was made in a little
more than twenty-two hours, the aviator
leaving Biarritz at 4:42 a. m. Sunday
and reaching this city before daybreak
today.
ROLLER SKATES HURL
BOY TO HIS DEATH
(By Associated Press.)
NEWBERN, N. C.. April 28.—Roller
skates claimed their victim Saturday
when Ellis Meekins, seventeen-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Meekins, a
prominent family of this section, died
as a result of injuries sustained several
nights ago while skating on the public
sidewalks.
NEWNAN CAMP FORMED
BY SONS OF VETERANS
MACON PEACHES POOR
CROPS WILL BE G00D«
MARSHAtzLVILLE, Ga.. Apil 28.—-It
is estimated that there will be one-
third of a peach crop shiped from here
this year. Planters have about finished
planting and are getting good stands of
cotton and corn.
Asparagus shipping is about over. The
asparagus industy has grown to such,
proportions that shipments have been
made in car lots, which was very ad
vantageous to the growers.
NEWNAN, Ga., April 28.—A camp of
Sons of Veterans was organized here
Saturday with over 100 charter mem
bers. The officers are:
W. C. Kinnard, commandant; J. A.
Stephens, first lieutenant; N. E. Powel,
second lieutenant; Lynch Turner, adju
tant; Dr. T. S. Bailej', surgeon; Dr. T.
B. Thomas, chaplain; B. J. Fry, quar
termaster; E. C. Goodwyn, treasurer;
C. J. Owens, color sergeant; T. M.
Thompson, historian.
James E. Brown presided at the or
ganization, which will be known as
Camp Coweta, Sons of Veterans.
COTTON OIL PLANT
BURNS AT BATESBURG
BATESBURG, S, C., April 28—Fire of
unknown origin Sunday destroyed the
oil plant of the Batesburg Cotton Oil
company here. The company’s ginnery
and fertilizer plants were also slightly
damaged, and 2,000 tons of cotton hulls
consumed.
The total loss is estimated at from
$50,000 to $60,000. Insurance amounted
to $25,000.
NOTICE
to Sheriffs,
Marshals, Etc.
LOOK OUT for R. War
ren, claiming to be agent for
Semi-Weekly Journal in
Florida. Wire information to
R. R. BRADLEY of
Journal, A tlanta, Ga.