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VOL. XXXIV. No.
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THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 6, 1922.
ISM PER ANNUM
| THREE NEGROES BURNED
I FOR MURDER OF YOUNG [
r I. OF S. C. THIS A. M.j GIRL at KERWIN, TEXAS]
—— [One Admitted Guilt and!
Columbia Stirred by Death of j Implicated Others and the
Professor Homes Who Was' Grandfather of Girl Gave
Killed by Marshall Beni His Consent to Striking
Haile in College Offices,: Fire to the Victims -
(By Associated Press)
p. I Kerwin, Texas, May 6.—Three ne-
Good Holmes, of the University of gr06 “ were burned to death at the
South Carolina faculty and Ben Halle j“ ame atatke hBre at ,lve o’clock this
University Marshall, were shot to morning by a mob of five hundred
death this morning In the Treasurer's men i following their alleged lmpllca-
offlee at the University. tlon >“ a crlmlnal assault and murder
W. T Holland, Junior law student '° r a 17-year-old white girl, whoso
IP.
AFTER OPERATION IN NEW YORK
IN TEXAS 61 PLAT
PEKING GOVERNMENT
| CHANGED INLINE WITH
I CONQUEROR’S DEMANDS
(By Associated Press)
Columbia, S. C., May 6—Prof.
j —[General Chang Moves Away f
Prominent Member of J. P. Mor gan Company, Resident ;OnIv One Month in Office, With His Forces and is Be* Reply
of Thomasville During the Winter, Died On Operating j Came in Contact With
RUSSIA WILL REFUSE
THE ALLIED DEMANDS
Table While Efforts Were Being Made to Remove a j Quick Gun Man and Shoots
Tumor of the Brain.—Was One of the Most Promi-1 Five Times Before the Oth-
nent Financiers in the Country. ' j er Man Draws.
(By Associated Tress)
Wichita Falls, Tex., May 6.
(By Associated Press)
New York, May 6.—Henry P. Da
vison, or the J. P. Morgan firm, died
on the operating table about one-thirty
this afternoon. The announcement
ine Pursued.—General Wu
in Command of City and
Former Officials Ousted.
(By Associated Pross)
Peking, May 6.—Sweeping govern
mental changes today followed the
the streets of New York loosing tor j _
a job directed the first ’’drive’’ of the Mc cZTcV Met‘of'po“ ce herelew *<*•"*. Pobru j? t "L n “ ln,f
American Red Cross for funds, rais- ... . .. . „ Peking. President Hsu Shln-Chane
than a month was the cynosure of all | 6
Will Not Be in
Harsh Terms, But Concili
atory, It Is Stated.—Inabil
ity to Comply, the Soviets
Claim.
(By Associated Press)
Genoa, May 6.—Russia’s reply to
the AlUied memorandum was expect
ed -to be ready Sunday or Monday,
ed $114,000,000 and within a few
eyes for yesterday he' matched the
issued a mandate dismissing Premier j and be a distinctly conciliatory doo
. _ san offices.. He was undergoing a
heard the shooting while passing the mutilated body was found near here i se cond operation for the removal of
bnlldlng and found the bodies of the .Thursday night. "8nap” Curry, (ho . a tumor resting on the auditory nerve,
two men. A pistol was found near i first negro burned, Is alleged to have j ___
Halle's body, but prior to the Coron- confessed he assaulted and murdered Winter Resident of Thomasville
er'a visit, no other weapons had been tb ® * lrl> and Implicated the other two Mr. Davison has been a resident of
found. There were no eye witnessee negroes, J. H. Varney and Mose Thomasville during the winter for
to the shooting. j Jones. Jmore than two years, having purchas-
Marshall Hallo shot and . killed | The negroes were employed on the j t ]j e beautiful Thorne place, eight
was made at two o’clock it MiV Mop weeks had Red Cross workers at their ^ ;” d ™ w ' wl £ D.'jT’Wd’’ : Uang Shlp - Yie and orderlnB btB ar ' j'"T*’ not Idended to break off no-
tasks in Italy, Belgium and Switzer- „ , h . rcmalnlne tvo- rest and tbe 8ame action was taken ( gotiatlons. Foreign Minister Tchlr-
land as well as wai-tom France. n i’d.tim« n»r» officers of the ! in the ca9e “ of Finance Minister .cherln said today. It will, however,
[Chang-Hu and Minister of Communl-1 firmly state Russia’s Inability to
leal old-time peace officers of the
H. P. Davison was one of the most Southeast, and Ballew died with his ■
trusted lieutenants of the elder J. boots on, Just as he repeatedly had W ^ ' h ® **
Pierpont Morgan, who commissioned predicted he would,
him to represent the firm in numer-j
ous financial negotiations abroad, to shoot up towns, and yesterday Me*
jwas charged with conniving with clef ed.
Ballow’s habit, when drinking. ^ rivH war MOST CRITICAL STAGE
civil wap appears to havoj
| ended with the flight of Gen. Chang i
OF GENOA CONFERENCE
APPROACHED TODAY
(By Associated Press)
Genoa, May 6.—The most critical
He made many trip to London, Paris Cormick feared such an outbreak, he
is • • * w, v. - . . - and Berlin. He made a study of the said, He went to a soft drink placo . „ .. ... ..
Homes, and then committed euic!de| farm of ’'^‘ n *'/., pr0 “ en \“ j mlles ,rom the clt J r - He “Pent six jf inan cial system of Germany in 1908 and tapped Ballew on the shoulder, j ent.lnm , ,
after shooting Indiscriminately In the |£" of J* 1 ® ‘^ “irt wki there dUr ‘ nS PaSt 8eas0n ’l a nd, three years later, in that city,’and charged him with drunkenness, ; wu as mMtOT ot the aiTuatlon^
university offices. President W. S. * a “\ er of ^ e *‘ rl * 1 ‘ h ; lea '' ln B only a few weeks ago for New presided at a conference of inter- and demanded that be hand over his j ' * “““ . .
Cnrrell of the university, said in a lived > her parents being dead. With York, with his family. He recently national bankers regarding tne Pistol. Ballew had turned with the 0 ChanR aho brought a hundred
statemeut this afteruoon. There la [ K1 ”S » r88eat ’ the mob l“d<* a a ™ Joined with Messrs. L>. S. Thompsdn.! H a TowSze Chue” JCy Tan in remark, ’Heir you’reo luck,’’! ,hoU8and troops south ° f tho great
said to have been bitter feeling be-?' 8 »• Baker. Jr„ and Hairy Payne j “hTch t h e so-called ,L powers £oup before he had his pistol haf out, Me [^^“ing To'XTrt ^ched
jitney in purchasing the maghificent i was ta terested. In .1915, he was one Cormick shot him five times. I^aice Halt o hi, amy ta ro^ lT(n
estate of S. E. Hutchinson, on the lake. of the negotiators of the *600 000-' i, Half ol his army laroam ones in the ranks of the allied dele-
For more than a year Mr Davison a negotiators of the ?5UU,000,v BUD BAL ,_ EW B|tE8 :ing over the country between Peking gates over the memorandum of Rus-
has been In a precarious condition due m ° America " ° an to thc AI “ e *’ F °! THE DU8T IN BRAWL | an d TIen-Tsin, all trying to roach the sl a and through the attitude of the
to a tumnr 111 fv! vi hls war work aboad he was honored letter place or a point northward on Russians themselves, It was declared
mor on tne Dase or tne Drain. by many governments and Columbia'|j Ardmore, Okla.. May 6.—Bud the Mukden Railroad. A - message this afternoon by the offleial Italian
An operation was performed in New . and oth er universities conferred ! Ballew, known for years as one of the from Tien-Tsin through official chan- spokesman.
_ ____ York ' ast J ear which the skull wa8 up0n him the honorary degree of i fastest and one of the most fearless : nels said that thousands o soldiers, "This crisis,’’ he said, “Is more
BATHING SUIT DIVORCEES lirmmlled oVlirtl nsTritlcal ira^ dOCt ° r ° f lawa ' | one-gun men of the Southwest, was were observed outside the city on grave than the one the conference
SIMMONS ATTACKS FOUR
tween Carrabelle and Apalachicola,. 1,Bhtlne ,he torche8 ’ The « ,rl waa
| riding a horse home from school, sev
I eral miles from Kerwln late Thursday
!when attacked. The body waa later
Dniinu T A DICE TAVCC found near the road, with twenty-
OILLIUN lAnlrr lAACa three knife wounds In her head, neck
' and chest.
(By Associates Press)
’Washington, D. C., May 6.—Taxes
that are. to be Imposed by the pend
ing tariff bill will be as real as those TOWED
Imposed by the revenue bill and prob
ably as great and from three to four
Ibllllons, Senator Simmons, ranking
Democrat - of the Finance - committee,
(By Associated Press)
Oklahoma City, May 6.—The bath-
’ing suit bride and groom, over whose
declares in his minority report filed .marriage In a swimming pool at
today in the Senate. [Medicine Park last summer. Rev.
“They must be paid by all .the peo* _ Thomas J. Irwin, of Lawton, became
pie,” the report says, Just as those In embroiled with part of his congroga-
the revenue bill must be paid by all’tion, are to re-tp&rry. This unnounce-
the people, Sod not by the heneflciar* ment was made today by Frank L>
ies who have demanded and got them., wall, the bathing suit bridegroom.
The people must not only pay taxes ( Thirty days after their first wedding
on Imports which go directly Into the brl|e who wa, Helen Brinsfield,
the treasury, but they must pay the ueventeen years old, returned to her
resulting Increase 111 prices of all home In Atlanta and a divorce was
things they buy and consume. j granted here last week, on application
In the report, Simmons undertakes ot tbe girl’s mother,
to answer the main contentions of
the majority reporL which embodies MOTHER DENIES INTENTION
the main points made by him In his ; (>p DAUGHTER TO RE-WED
recent address In the Senate attack-
ing the tariff measure. ! ,B y Associated Press)
; I Atlanta, Qa., May 6.—Mrs. E. J.
jjan|\|M/i CTimVIUr 'Brinsfield, mother of Helen Brlns-
tlAKUlIsU ulUUIllsU [field, bathing suit brld.e today denied
Tin? DilUlIC DI A DIG tbe re P° rte d announcement of Frank
ItW DUrlUj rLANd L. Wall, at Oklahoma City, ot her
[daughter’s intention to remarry him.
(By Associated Prws) |Shc declared there Is “not a word of
Washington, D. C, May 6.—^be i trlltb ln ‘he announcement that my
President after a conference today .’daughter Is going to remarry him.
with Senate finance committee Re- ‘ She has no auch Intention.’’
ZZZX22LZ: £!?£ METHODIST CONFERENCE
study the various pans proposed. j IS MAKING PROGRESS
I (By Associated Press)
! Hot Springs, Ark, May 6.—Entering
i Mr. Davison was especially interest-1 borne home last night in an airplane, their way east. Military attaches sustained after the signing of the Rus-
tlon but physicians hoped that it would j e(J in the conscrva fion of child life the victim of a man who beat him to here learn that Gen. Wu sent a force so-German treaty at Rapallo.’
be absorbed. The tumor was pressings Europe after the war an d, with] the draw. ;to attempt to capture and disarm the - He aald the Russians are demand-
the medulla oblongata, which
caused Mr. Davison excruciating pains.
The operation relieved the pain ma
terially and he was considered great
ly Improved by physicians from
Johns Hopkins and New York, who
Herbert Hoover and others, planned
a world-wide campaign in behalf of
the children abroad. He also direct
ed Red Cross relief work in Russia,
Poland and other countries in East-
. _. em and Central Europe. Shortly
visited him here last winter. The op- • .. . j _ . . . ..
' after his return from Pans m April
eratlon was probably resorted to by
reason ot a local Infection, which
seemed to show itself at stated Inter- „ ... ...
vals during hi. stay here but which fonpes* approp^atc j$500,000 000
1920, he emphasized the gravity of
conditions abroad and suggested that
was not believed to be of a dangerous ,
nature. During his stay in Thomas- ever ’ was c0,d to to atf “ L “
for European relief, ^ongress, how-
vllle, Mr. Daylson was under the care
of Dr. Little and visited his office reg-
In 1919. he was one of the advisers
of President Wilson at the Paris
ularly every few days to have his head Peace conference. Tfiat same year,
CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS
mTtnr upon tbe fourtb day’s sessions, dele-
NEXT WEEK gates of the general conference of
(the Southern Methodist church were
(By Associated Free.) ‘°d«f «* cl « th ®
Washington, D. O., May 8.—Conald- ot minor lelslatlve matters and open-
erable cloudiness frequent showers Ing the way for final debate on some
and normal temperatures are forecast of the more important problems
(or the Southeastern states for the which have been, brought to their at-
coming week. tention.
dressed.
Noted Financier
A notable financier, Henry Pome
roy Davison will best be remembered,
perhaps, as the man who at President
Wilson’s request directed the work
of the American Red Cross in Allied
countries for the two years the
United States was at war with the
Central Powers. Taken out of the
hurly burly of Wall Street, one of the
most active of the 15 partners in the
firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, the
man who 28 years before had walked
when the war council’s work had
ended, he was elected chairman of
the governing board of the World
League of Red Cross Societies at its
meeting ln Paris.
New York career of the man who
was to figure so prominently in its
financial district began in 1888 when
young Davison, then 21 years old,
went to that city from Troy, Pa.,
where he was bom on June 13, 1867,
Unable to find a position in New
York, he went to Bridgeport, Conn.,
(Continued on Page S.)
Ballew, former deputy sheriff here retreating army, and the Peking gen- tag “billions and billions of gold
the notches on whose gun bore tes- i darmerie disarmed eleven thousand francs and they don’t ask them In
timony that he had killed at least 0 Chang ’ H soldiers outside the city thO form of credits with which they
eight men and had been the victor or; Wa1 ! 8 ’ , Goa ’ Wu 18 said hav « P ald can buy goods but ln ca,h-in gold.-
countless other gun fights, -was re- , each of hl8 ” ea 88 dollars for ex-
. , - .. 7. . ipensea on their trip home,
puted for his quickness on the draw :
in the early days of outlawry in the DAIL EIREANN TO
Southwest.
Yesterday, J. W. McCormick, for- j
mer Texas runger, and now chief of!
police at Wichita Falls, Tex., drew -
and fired first. “Bud took in too
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A new dress of pain' on your house makes
you feel proud to o wn the place. To clean
up and neglect to paint up makes you feel
like any decent man feels with a clean
shave and dirty collar.
Now is the time to paint and our prices are
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we sell Sherwin-Williams Paints
MASH-MILTON DRUG CO.
*A Good to Trade."
Fko
$490,000 OFFERED
DEMPSEY TO FIGHT
CARPENTIER IN PARIS
(By Associated Press)
Paris, May 6.—A purse of four
hundred and ninety thousand dollars,
seventy-five per cent, to the winner
and twenty-five per cent to the loser,
was offered Jack Demsey this after
noon for a return match with Carpen-
tier, to be held at the Pershing atam-
lum sometime next autumn.
H. J. FOSTER WINS STATE
TRAPSHOOTING CONTEST
(By Associated Press) .
Atlanta, Ga„ May 6.—H. J. Foster,
of Atlanta, won the championship In
the state trapshooting tournamenL
which closed here today. Arthur Cus-
caden, also of Atlanta, won the profes
sional championship.
Foster, and Henry Jones, of Macon,
both broke one hundred and ninety-
five targets out of a possible two hun
dred, hut Foster won the shoot off
by breaking twenty out of twenty.
HOOD RELIEF PLANS
MORE EXTENSIVE IN
SOUTHERN SECTIONS
. (By Associated Press)
Natchez, Miss., May 6.—Mrs. Myr
tle Roberts, of the Louisiana flood re
lief committee, has returned from a
three-day survey of flood conditions
In the portion of the Concordia par
ish north of the Loulslana-Arkansas
Railroad, where ehe reports twenty-
six hundred persons In need of relief
as a result of the breaking ot the
levees of the Mississippi river,
Lieut. Warren Jefferson of the Lou
isiana National Guard, arrived here
to take charge ot the distribution ot
food supplies to the flood sufferers ln
the territory adjacent to tbe Wee-
cuma crevesses. A barge has been
secured to carry supplies to Ferrlday,
Vldalla, and Forest, In the Rood zone.
New Orleans, May 6.—The con
gressional delegation touring the
flood swollen Mississippi area, for
first hand information on the ravagoi
caused by the flood, reached here to
day. The party will return to Wash
ington tonight.
CONTINUE TRUCE <By Associated PrtsiO
i Washington, D. C., May 6.—Further
(•By Associated Press) ------ modification of Henry Ford’s offer
Dublin. May 6.—The Dali Elreann for the Muscle Shoals projects waa
slow on the draw' was the opinion j peace commission after a session of asked today by Chairman Norris ot
expressed by many, here last night., j wo and a half hours today announced the Senate agriculture committee. He
Ballew’s prowess with a six-shooter j that two of Its members had been re- anked~lT W. Worthington, who waa
was reputed in this section as second quested to arrange with the respec- recalled as a witness for Ford, if the
only to thst of his chief, former I tive army headquarters a prolonga- manufacturer would consent to an
Sheriff Buck Garrett, unaor wnom ! tlon of the truce recently arranged amendment of the otiet which would
Ballew served as a deputy ten years, between the rival Republican army bring the 100-year proposed lease of
until Garrett was ousted from office factions. dams two and three to an automatic
several month ago. He was feared „ and coincident termination.
among the outlaws of the oil field, WILSON FOUNDATION r s D1?IIP Dft . T
and cattle country in the early days) TIMJ ATIANC T A V ADI E CARRABELLE BOAT
when this section of the state was: DONATIONS TAXABLE, MlWllI! iniunnUTh
headquarters for notorious outlaws, j j jWAY BE ABANDONED
Ballew was afraid of only one man I (By Associated Press) !
and that was his chief. Buck Garrett. | Washington, D. C., May 6.—Secre- [ (By Asaociated Press)
When Bud went on a rampage herc .tary Mellon today Informed Senator Washington, D. C., May 6—The
and in surrounding towns, it wa, usu- Olass byletter that the Treasury upon Georgia. Forlda and Alabama Rail-
ally Buck Garrett that took away his reconsideration reached the same road asked the Interstate'Commerce
guns. (Conclusion hold by Commlslsoner Commission today for permission to
About two weeks ago, while Ballew B,a,r ,hat contributions to the Wood- abandon service on its boat line be-
was still limping about, he shot up., row ™ ll90n Foun d a tlon wore not ex- tween Carrabelle and Apalachlcoa.
two town, near here in daylight. j cmpt tb « federal tacome tax. .Fla., because It failed to pay expenses-
During the trial of Clara Smith Ha-! RUSSIAN DENIES CHARGES Bakhometeff today In a statement fil-
mon here for the killing of Jake L. - (By Associated Presa) ed with tbe State Department, and
Hamon, Republican nationul commit- j Washington, D. C., May 6.—Cbarg- forwarded by Secretary Hughes to
teeman from Oklahoma, Bud was ap- os made In the Senate that Boris [the Senate.
pointed by Garrett as the personal ’Bakhmeteff, last accredited Russlan4 He said that none of the money
bodyguard of the defendant The 'ambassador here, had Illegitimately loaned the Kerensky government by
night Clara Smith Hamon was ap! use d money from credits extended by the United States had been need for
quitted, a dinner was given by the the United States to Russia, under [purposes other than thoee known to
defense and to celebrate the victory ,he Krensky regime, were denied by th« Treasury DepartmenL
Bud shot holes in the ceiling of the
restaurant, according to some of -J
those present. *r
Ballew had a permit f/om the gov
ernor to carry a gun.
DEATH OF MRS. GEORGE BRANAN
Cordeic. Ga., May 6 Friends in
Cordele and thraont Crisp county
were grieved this week to lean of tho
death of Mrs. Georgia Branan
Sheppard of UnadiUa'. She was
young matron, thoronghly active in
club and church work and was be
loved and esteemed. Her funeral
occured Wednesday. Her husband,
Binnast Sheppard and small son sur
vived her.
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