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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 38
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HEAVY FIGHTING AGAIN RAGING IN SOUTH°OF GERMANY
GLENN YOUNG, HERRIN DICTATOR *g
ONCE STALKED GEORGIA CRIMINALS
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HE IS W 18IDINS.
BUT HE PUS PISTOL
*1 Can Knock ’Em Over at 600
Yards With This Sweetheart,’
He Says of Automatics
WHOLE WORKS’ IN TOWN
Recently Young Killed Two
Men in Qalconda, and Es
caped* Arrest for Deed
HERRIN, 111., Feb. 13.—Here’s
a one.-niinute conversation with S.
Glenn Young, whom the Ku Kltix
Klan imported for a bootleg clean
up of Herrin, center of troubles in
‘‘bloody Williamson” county.
Q. Where’s the mayor?
A. Locked up.
Q. Where’s the sheriff?
A. In jail charged" with murder.
Q. Where’s the council?
A. I haven’t •. seen them. They
haven’t been bothering. x
Q. And the constable is dead and
the chief deputy sheriff seriously
wpundcd?
Pes.
Q. Well, you are jusjt about tho
whole works then? "You hear com
plaints about dangerous sidewalks,
gather evidence in criminal cases
and enforce the law?
A. That’s just about-it.
Young was appointed chief of po
lice by the assistant chief of pb-’
lice. He is-<irtual dictator here.
Young’s cleanup began three
months ago. More than 400 cases
are awaitihg trial as result of his
raids.
“Don’t get it in your head that
I am a fanatical prohibitionis,” He
explains. “I believe in honest laW
enforcement. Every raid I made
was legally made. The best citi
zeps ans 1 have been doing what
the regulalry constituted authorities
failed'to do.
“Everything went along fine un
til they brutally murdered Consta
ble Cagle. If we were ndt decdnf,
lawabiding citizens we wou|d*have
real trouble here right now. Efut we
preferred to let the law take its
course.’’
Young is “the toughest man in
the United States,” or ‘the bravest
best loved law enforcer in the
country,” depending upon who ;s
talking.
A few months before he Was
(failed here, the sheriff at Gblcoridh
sent for him. The sheriff feared
to arrest a father and son \ who
were considered “bad actors.” ‘
Young grew tired of waitingjn
ambush. He walked into tJid
house just as the “bad actors” open
ed fire on him. Young killed them
both, and he was not
The townspeople presented Him
with S6OO.
They made quite a stii. over
Young in Georgia a few years ago
when alone he stalked three mur
derers into the mountains, broke
into a cabin, arrested and dis
armed his men. ate breakfast with
them and then marched them to
jail.
The Bill Hart pattern of a twd
gun man" is not quite followed in
Young’s case. He is not silent.
' Without being a braggart, he is a
talker.. Whoever is with Young
must listen.
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall; of wiry
athletic btiild; slightly bowßggid.
His street corner manner is mild
hut grim. His eyes are bluish gray,
of mournful expression, his hair is
getting thin, and from his right
ear down the jaw runs a four-inch
.scar which he Says he “didn’t get
from shaving.”
He is 40; was born in Phillips
county, Kansas; studied medicine;
ranched in Texas and adopted man
hurtting as a profession.
Young will pat one of the pearl
handled, long-barreled, blue-steel
automatics on his hip and say,’ “I
can knock ’em over at 600 yards
with this sweetheart.’’ .
The guns he carried sak an inch
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And in Her .iCet today—:
Klai '.stntn pre .earing stars,
home-made r uii, stand on corn
ers. They arc '• <ung’s police force.
Boy soldiers ciom Springfield,
Decatur and Cairo wear heavy re
volvers arid carry loaded rifles.
Miners gather at corners and taty
in whispers. Leading questions
from strangers always bring the an
swer “I don’t know.”
With the klan in control, t'. anti
klan faction stays home. -
Herrin, with its soldier ar.. civi
lian guard, is the quietest tov>n‘ in
Illinois.
But the backfire of an auton
bile sqnds threescore ' militiamc .
and klan police on the run. Tri
town isx.ready for anything that
may happen.
FARMER LOSES BOTH
ARMS IN ACCIDENT
ROCKMART, Ga., Feb. 13.
Both arms, of Hugh Morgan, Polk
county farmer, were almost entire
ly severed from his body early this
morniug when the blade of a circu
lar saw with tghich he was cutting
wood was thrown from ■■ its bear
ing, striking the operator.
AMERICUS. GA.-WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY U, 1924
ffl SWEET POTITOES
SENT 18 BIRMINGHM
Eight Farmers to Co-Operate in
Despatch of 500 Bushel Car
Hill-Cured Tubers
George 0; Marshall, farm
demonstration agent, today for
warded to Birmingham a carload of
hill-cured sweet potatoes, which
brought the producers a round
price ,of sl.Be per hundred pounds
for the lot. The tubers wete all
'f the Borff> Rieo variety, and had
■ n cured in hills on farms where
.icy were produced, eight farmers
contributing potatoes embraced in
the shipment,
Tho car is the second to be sha
ped from Americus this season, and
the i price the best realized for po
tatoes shipped from this point..
There is an excellent demand, Mai
chall safd this afternoon, for No.
1 sweet potatoes, with buyers will
ing to pay cash f. o. b. cars here
and few farmers having tubers on
though a scarcity of potatoes exists
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• Above at right S. Glenn
Young; left, (tbove: 'Machine
gun mounted on balcony across
street from Herein’* city hall.
Other maohi*te guns are on
trucks, ready to be dispatched
to. any trouble zone; bottom,
left, Illinois militiamen petroll
ing Herrin streets.
NORWAY RECOGNIZES
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
MOSCOW, February 13.
Norway has given the Russian
Soviet; government recognition
de jure, the foreign office Was
informed today by telegram
from Madame Kollantayy Soviet
representative in Norway.
HAD HUF MILLION IN
OMK MB FORH
TIIDIBB SURPLUS
Capital Stock of Embarrassed
Irutituticn $200,000, State
ment Shows
DEPOSITORS NQT TO LOSE
Over-Extension of Credit and
Shrinkage in Deposits Cause
of Suspension
ALBANY, Ga., February 13.
Citizens First National Bank of
Albany, for years one oY the lead
ing finanrfal institutions ,of this
city, failed to open its doors for
business today.'' ,
The decision was taken at a con
ference held last night by officers
and directors of the bank with fed
eral reserve officials. The bank
had half a .million dollars on de
posit with a capital stock of $200,-
000, and s4°>ooo surplus.
The bank’s difficulties, officers
of the institution said, were caused
by over extension of credit and a
severe shrinkage in deposits.
The opinioi) is expressed that ffil
depositors will be paid intfull.
WHITE TO AGAIN BE
SOWEGA SALES MANAGER
f ADEL, February 13.—Southwest
• Georgia melon shippers, will be glad
: to know that Mr. J. B. White will
I again be the Sowega sales manager
. at this end of the line through
coming season,
NATIVES UNABLE I!
EElffl AGREEMENT
Elm IS RECALLED
American Authorities Act to
Compel Honduranians to Ad
just Internal Affairs
CONTITUTION IS SUPREME
Government Under Basis Au
thority Must Be Restored
Coolidge Decides
WASHINGTON, February 13.
Diplomatic relations between the
United Stites and Honduras have
been severed by the state depart
ment. ‘ ~
This step wtas taken because of
the failure of the throe political
factions to reach an agreement un
der which tho constitutional gov
ernment can be restored by peace
ful means.
ITTOW GENERAL
PULESM POLIEffi
Judge James B. Park, of Ocmul
gee Circuit, Secures Official
Ruling From Napier
ATLANTA, Feb. 13.—1 n re
sponse to an inquiry from Judge
James B. Parks, of Ocmulgee cir
cuit, Attorney General George M.
Napier Tuesday issued a statement
in which he holds that Georgia wo
men who have not pfeviously reg
istered, may register and vote in
the county primaries and the pre
ferential presidential primary on
March 19, without paying poll tax
for either 1922 or 1923.
Judge Park, in his letter seek
ing an opinion on this pojnt de
clares the act of the state legis
lature at the special session in the
fall of 1923 changing registration
rules for women voters, has caused
considerable confusion throughout
ttye state. ■
In his reply, the attorney general
quotes evtracts from Judge Park’s
letter and also the latest amend
ments to the registration law. He
then Says: f. ,
“My conclusion is thijt a wom
an who has not heretofore regis
istered to voter ean now register
for any approaching election with
out playing any poll tax for either
1922 or 1923, and the law allows
her until December to pay her poll
tax for the current year.
“A women to, pay ad
valorem taxes accruing prior to
January 1, 1923, just as men are
required to pay suclf taxes.
“And if a woman had registered
to vote for the year 1922 or the
year 1923, she would need pay her
poll taxes for that year or years in
which she registered to vote, She
could not legally vote this year
without paying such taxes.
“However, she can register off f-J
a voter and be relieved of the taxes
byt she would then be a non-voter.
“It may be possible that the pro
vision- that women can register off
and avoid tho payment of taxes is
is an unconstitutional provision, as
you suggest, because of the lack of
uniformity in its operation; but, in
asmuch as_the law says these wo
men may be relieved of payment
of poll "tax who have heretofore
registered for voting, the opportun
ity is uniform as to women; and
blind persons and others are ex
empted. This exemption will not
be allowed, apparently, to those
women who register for voting
hereafter. In other words, it would
sepm that this privilege is to be ex
hausted upon such women as hyve
heretofore registered for voting
who should now wish to register off
and thus avoid the payment of p»U
tax.
1 “As 1 see it, the payment of poll
riyxes by all citizens who are allow
|ed the exercise of the elective
I franchise, is an obligation and not
I art option. ,
“Our law-makers, however, seem
to have been inclined to encourage
only those women to register for
voting who are able and willing to
pay poll tax.
ATLANTA TO START
NEW PAVING PROGRAM
ATLANTA, February 1.1.--Way
was cleared Tuesday for asking
bids on 24 new street paving pro
jects estimated by Max Hall, as-'
‘sistant to Chief Construction Wil
liam A. Hansel, to cost about
573.73. The paving is to be in ad
dition to the nearly $2,000,000
worth of public improvements pro
vided in the January finance sheet.
Council Monday will authorize
advertising for bids on the work.
17 EETInIOTS
IN MTMmi
NIGHT; 20 WOUNDED
Pirmasens is Scene of Heavy
Fighting Between Separatists
and Inhabitants
BUILDINGS ARE FIRED
Fighting Centered About Gov
ernment Structure Where 14
Separatists Were Killed
CpBLENZ, February 13.
Two companies of French troop*
have been ordered to Pirmasens,
where officials report 14 dead
as a result of fighting with the
Separatists.
SEPARATISTS UNDER
SEIGE ALL NIGHT
DUSSELDORF, February 13. -
Separatists of Pirmasens, southeast
of Zweibruecken, were besieged
ov6rngiht in the government build
ing which was finally set afire.
Pirmasens Mispatches say that, eight
Sparattsts and six attackers arc
dead, but a telegram from Kaiser
lautern estimated the dead at more
than 60.
The Inter-allied high commission
today declared a state of siege in
the Pirmasens district and ordered
dissolution of certain nationalist
organizations.
BERLIN, February 13.—Fighting
between the separatists and the in
habitants of Pirmasen, in the Ba
varian Palitinate, last night result
ed in the killing of 17 persons and
wounding 20.
According to dispatches received
from Pirmasens this morning, the
casualties occurred during the
fighting for possession of the gov
ernment building, which eventwil
ly was set \on fire. Fourteen of
those killed were separatists.
GEORGIA EDUCATORS TO
ATTEND MEETING
ATLANTA, February 13.-*-Many
officials of the, department of Edu
cation of the state of Georgia and
pi eminent educators from the vari
ous state institutions arexexpccted
to attend the fifty-fourth convention
of tke Department of Superintend
ence, National Education Associa
tion, meeting in Chicago, February
23-28.
In addition to N. H. Ballard, state
superintendent on public instruc
tion, Educators from all the institu
tion of higher learning in the state
together with many county superin
tendents and night school officials
are expected to attend.
Those attending the meeting will
have an opportunity, it is stated,
to get further insight into'the most
modern school systems, a valuable
feature of which will be an exhibit
prepared by the Division of Re
search of ' the N. E. A.'assisted by
the Research bureau of several
cities. It will include material
gathered in a nation wide study of
present curriculum practice.
Among other matter.-j that will
be discussed at the convention is
inchidcAd educational policies af
fecting juore than twenty million
boys and girts.
Eleven topic, conferences offer
ing thorough discussions of live
subject will be held, recording to
advance information on the meet
ing. and there will be fourteen al
; lied organizations meeting on
j specialized programs, covering
i kindergarden, primary, elementary,
' secondary, rural, vocation, col
lege, state and teacher training.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
OIL PROSECUTIONS TO
BE IMMEDIATE, SMS
COOLIOGE IN SPEECH,
President Appeals for National
and Bi-Partisan Support for
Mellon Bill
OPPOSES SOLDIER BONUS
Address Delivered At Lincoln’s
Birthday Dinner in New York
Last Night
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —President Cool
idge, speaking here tonight before
the National Republican Club,
promised immediate and unshrink
ing prosecution of the oil land lease
case, appealed for national and bi
partisan support for the Mellon tax
bill called for assistance fox' agri
culture from all resources of ttte
country, and defended the sale of
arms to Mexico.
The Chief Executive also re
iterated his opposition to soldier
bonus legislation declared there
was some promise of a European
I settlement and asserted the United
States stood ready to join with oth
er nations is further limiting arma
ment whenever there appears to be
reasonable prospect of agreement.
The address, which was made at
the Lincoln Birthday dinner of the
Club, was the first Mr. Coolidge has
•made outside' of Washington since
he became President. In many re
spects it was ah elaboration of his
message to Congress.
The President devoted much at
tention to taxation and agriculture,
but in concluding turned to the
Sensation of the present time—the
oil land lease investigation.
“Lately there have been most
startling revelations concerning the
leasing of government oil lands.” •
he said, “At the revelation of greed
making its subtle approches to (pub
lic officers, of the prostitution of
high place to private profit we are
■filled with scorn and indignation.
\Ve have a deep sense of humilation
at such gross betrayal of trust, and
we lament the undermining of pub
lic confidence in official intregrity.
But we can not rest with righteous
wrath; still less can we permi*' our
selves to give way to cynicism.
“We propose to follow the clear,
open path of justice. There w'-lf
be immediate adequate, unshrinking
prosecution, criminal and civil to
’ punish the guilty and to protect
every national interest. In this ef
fort there will be no' politics, no
partisanship. It will be speedy,
it will be just. lam a Republican,
but I can not on that account shield
anyone because he iS a Republican.
I r.m a Republican but I can not
on that account prosecute any one
because he is a Democrat.
“I want no hue and cry, -no ming
ling of innocent and guilty in un
thinking condemnation, no confu
sion of mere questions of law with
questions of fraud and corruption.
It is at such a time that the quali
ties of our citizenry is tested —un-
relenting toward evil, fair-minded
and intent upon the requirement of
due process, the shield of the in
nocent and the safeguard of society
itself. 1 ask the support of our
people as chief nmgestrate intent on
the enforcement of our laws with
out fear or favor, no matter who is
hurt or whaEJhc consequences.”
> Starting with the declaration
khat the “National Unity for which
Lincoln laid the foundation requires
I perpetual adjustment ‘for its main
tenance”, Mr. Cooledge asserted the
I observance of this principle makes
necessary that muth attention no’ t
I should be given to agriculture.
J It is obvious, the President said,
| that there is “something radically
wrong when'agriculture is found in.
its present state s>f depression when
i manufacturing, transportation, and
commerce are on a whole in a re
markable state of pi-osperity.” He
' analyzed the dificulty as due to a
| greater increase in production thun
!in the power of distribution and
consumption and added that be
cause of this the great food staples
were not selling on a parity with
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