Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, October 17, 1921, Monday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY EDITION VOL. XXVI, NO. 126 NATION-WIDE RAIL STRIKE SET FOR OCTOBER 30 Railway Representatives So Announce At Chicago Meeting CONFER WITH UNION MEN Further Reductions To Pass Along To The Public CHICAGO, Oct.,, 14—Represeata tives of the nation’s railroads today after announcing that they cannot re duce freight rates at present without going ino bankruptey and that they would immediately seek further re duction in the employes wages from the United States Railroad Labor Board went into futile conference with union leaders in an effort to reach an amicable settlement of wage difficul ties, which at times have threatened to tie up the transportation system of the country, At the conference union leaders ask ed reconsideration of their request of fast July that a 12 1-2 ped cent wage reduction granted by the Labor Board be not put into effect immediately, that no further wage reductions be sought at presen and that no change be made in the overtime pay rates, This request was refused and he rail heads presented heir statement an nouncing the proposal to seek new re ductions and not to reduce rates un til further reductions were granted, The labor leaders left the confer ence immediately and few of them would discuss its proceedings, or pre dict the resulty, “I am no prophet,™ said Warren S Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, “What will happen is more than I can say.” W, G. Lee, president of the Train-‘ men, refused to discuss the situation after the meeting, but previous to it had said that the roads must be crazy to seek a new reduction when the men have just authorized a strike over an old wage cut.” R, S, Binker of the Association of Railway- executives, - said that the transportation system was facing one of is greatest crisises but also refused to make predictions, . Union leaders freely admitted that there had been little harmony between the committees in the conference, The executives announced however that the proposal to pass future wage reductions on to the public by apply ing to the Interstate Commerce Com mission for a reduction in freight and assenger rates had been accepted and that all future wage reductions would be met by corresponding rate reduc tion_ The conference was begun at the suggestion of the union leaders, their invitation for a meeting being accept ed by therailroad heads, following an announcement concerning freight rates As the meeting started, the committee appointed by he Association of Rail way Executives declared they believ ed it would settle most of the immed iate difficulties between the carriers and their employes, The union leaders were backward about discussing the meeting although some indicated its purpose migt be almost nullified by the announcement that a further wage reducion would be sought. W. G. Lee, president of the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen said that since the union men already had au ‘thorized their leaders to call a strike rather than accept the recent 12 1-2 per cent reduction in wages, I do not sce how the roads can have the nerve to suggest another cut. Deputy Roberts Off After Fred Stubbs Deputy J. B, Roberts left Saturday afternoon for Daytona, Fla, in re sponse to a telegram received by Sher iff Dorminey that the authorities at Daytona, had taken Fred Stubbs, for mer engineer on the A, B, & A, into cutsody. Stubbs is wanted here on an indictment for the murder of W, T. Reed. Stubbs is already under a bond for intimidation and conspiracy of employees of the A, B, & A, He also was indicted last week by the Cof fee County Grand Jury, on evidence given by O, C, Fairfield in connec ‘ion with the wreck of a freight train near Ambrose in July, ; Mr, Stubbs offered to return without extradition papers and will probaby arrive in the city today or Tuesday, Solicitor General J, B, Wall and Attorney H, J. Quincy left Sunday for McDonough to attend Henry County Superior court on important civil bus iness, Miss Rosalie Patterson of Unadilla spent the week end with her parents Mr, and Mrs, J, P. Patterson, THE FITZGERALD LEADER e« “GEN” TROTSKY TAKES THE AIR tol o B R L o R ¢ 3 = 2 SN N R%‘ R e Ce z<§y gs*? o AR g SRR .SR i R N S B e 3 e % { '3\" LR \ 5 “%r ?3\», 3 Ay )-R e S k\‘- - R SEsns w:' e i 3 BF ; : SRR BT SRR W S S / el 08 S T o AT eR R SRR . 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Trotsky in froat Roger Gatlin Kills Mother-in-Law And Is Then Killed By Her Son Woman Shot Through Head While Sitting On Her Own Front Porch WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga, Oct, 16— Roger Gatlin, 40 years of age igesage owner of Fitzgerald, Ga,, drove up to the home of his mother inlaw, Mrs, William Snell, at 5 o’clock tlm noon and then .after calmly waiking from his automobile to the front porch drew a pistol and shot Mrs, Snell through the head, She died in stantly, - A moment later Gatlin and Mrs, Snell’s son, Marvin Snell engaged in a duel, in which Gatlin used a pistol and Snell a shot gun Gatlin being kil ed before he had tlme to leave the front porch, The shooting ocurred at the Snell home, a mile and a half from Wrightsville, and the shots could be heard in the city. The bodies were brought here tonight and both are at the Tanner Undertaking Parlors. There was no inquest held and no ar rests made, nor will there be any offi cial action, it was declared by offi cials tonight, Trouble of Long Standing There had been trouble between the Snells and the Gatlins for many months, according to stories that are told by friends of both families to night, The Gatlins finally moved to Fitzgerald where the son in law of Mrs, Snell opened agarage about three months ago, Mrs, Gatlin would not go with her husband to Fitzgerald it is said and her husband blamed his mother-in-law, Mrs, Snell, for her re fusal to leave Wrightsville, On Friday Gatlin appeared here and he has made several trips to the Snell home in an effort to persuade his wife to rejoin him, it is said but she still refused, This afternoon at 5 o‘clock when Gatlin drove up to the Snell home in a Ford car Mrs, Snell was seated on the front porch reading a newspaper, She glanced from her reading and ob served Gatlin as he stopped. Before he had time to leave the car she told a negro boy who was in the front yard to tell Gatlin that Clio (Mrs. Gatlin) was at her brothers home two miles away, “He’s been drinking and I’m afraid to tell him*, the negro boy is quoted as saying, : Son Avenges Mothers Death Gatlin approached the house and climbed the steps to the veranda where Mrs, Snell was seated, As he reached her side he drew a pistol from his hip pocket and placed the muzzle close to her right temple, pulling the trigger at the same instant, The bullet passed entirely through the head com ing out at the left temple, Mrs, Snell fell dead from the chair, Marvin Snell a son of Mr, and Mrs, William Snell heard the shot and then grasping a shotgun, he ran out the rear door of their home and around the the side of the house, where he took up a stand in a clump of shrubbery. Gatlin observed him and emptied his pistol firing five times, missing Snell each time, ~ Snell was returning the fire all the FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1921 while with the shot gun of the pump gun variety, He shot three times with the shot gun before Gatlin fell dead, ~ Mrs, Snell was 43 years of age, Her daughter Clio is much younger than ‘Gatlin, | ‘ A e D L""‘"‘ﬁbcal observors report a partial eclipse of the moon in this section last night, ‘ e A —— Editor- L. M, Rhoden of the Tattnal Journal published at Reidville, stopped over in the city today enroute to his home from Moultrie to visit with his former townsman, M, Marcus, ‘ WILEY WILLIAMS, J.M. MAYS, J. KASSEWITZ, President V-Pres. Sec. & Tr&is:_ Extra! Extra! Extra! Blankets and Comforts A large and assorted line to select from---Special for this week only, 200 $5.00 64x76 double Blankets at $2.49 Other Blankets from $3.50 to $15.00 ~ Comforts “ $2.75 to $7.50 Furniture | ‘Bed Room Suits, Living Room Suits, Dining Room Suits, Library Tables, Rockers, Chairs, China Cabnets, Buffets, Stoves, Heaters, ete. Also Iron Beds, Springs and Mattresses, at a Reduction of 20 per cent Fitzgerald Furniture Co. Corner Main and Pine .. - - - Phone 49 ENTERPRISE AND PRESS Judge Paulk, Colored Murdered Yesterday Called To Door and Shot To Pieces By William Bell Judge Paulk, a highly respected colored man, living on Walden Ave,, was called to his door about 4 oclock Sunday morning and upon opening it was shot to death by William Bell, according to a verdict reached byl a coroner’s jury yesterday aftemoon,! Some weeks ago Bell severely cut onc! of Paulk’s nieces and a warrant was taken out for him by Paulk, Bell! made a number of threats as to what! he would do if the warrant was not withdrawn and is supposed to havel made good Sunday morning, Prior to the shooting Bell went to anothorf one of Paulks daughter’s house an&de-l manded admittance ostensible to ’f!alkt this matter over with her, On being refused admittance he secured an aXe and broke down the door and the fam-= ily made their escape to a neighbor’s house, Bell ransacked the house and is aleged to have taken a small sum of money which was in the house; l Later in the night, according to 6 all circumstances brought out at the hearing, Bell awakened Judge Paulk. ‘and shot him without warning, On be | ing asked as to who done the shooting teh old man is alleged to have stated, that it was a colored man, just before he died. City and County officers were search ing the neighborhood during the en tire day Sunday, but failed to round-up the murderer. Coroner T, 1. Griffin had the fol lowing citizens as his jurors: D, P, Adams, foreman, and Burr Stokoe, C, T, Owens, H, O, Owens, G, C, Play er, Floyd Eads and Dr, J. G. Eddie, | ® .0 }Clmshan Church Plans I College at Wadley, Ala. i ATLANTA, Oct., 17—Rev, G, O, Lankford, Burlington, N, C,, Dr, W, A, Harper, Elon College, N. C,, and Dr, L. E, Smith, Norfolk, Va,, passed through Atlanta today enroute to Wadley, Ala, and were accompanied by W. W, Croxton, passenger traffic manager of the A, B, & A, Railway. The party is acting as a location committee of the Christian Church which will establish a college at Wad ley, Ala, | ’Rural Teachers . o ~ Form Organization !Institutes To Be Held Monthly Dur | ing School Term ~ The rural teachers held an interest ing meeting at the Carnegie Hall Sat urday morning in response to a call by Supt, J. H, Bullard, who briefly stated that it was the wish of the county Board of Education in the in terest of greater efficiency of teach ing force of the county, for the teach ers to hold monthly institutes in the city. Practically every white teacher of the county responded to roll call and on motion elected Prof, Z, D,f Pendleton of the Lynwood School, as president and Miss Adeline Lcdbet-‘ ter, secretary of the County Teachers’ association. This being the first gathering general discussions of‘ the objects of institutes and the work of teachers were indulged in and ar rangements made through a program committee for special features for the next institute which is to be held on December /3rd, Sewperd] 'visitors made brief talks to the teachers and an invitation in behalf of the Rural School Committee of the Woman’s Club for luncheon was extended by Mrs, L. A, Turner, president of the Fitzgerald Woman’s Club, Others who spoke were Mr, C, T. Owens, Dr Louis Turner and I, Gelders, Mrs, O, L, Bradshaw and Librarian Miss Louise Smith Attempt To Settle - Strike On M. & N. A. HARRISON, ARKANSAS, —The ' Receiver of the Missouri and North liem Arkansas Railway invited tHe strike committee of the M, & N, A. Road to meet with him and the offi cials of the road at St, Louis at the company’s expense and with the com mittee proceed to Chicago to at tempt to arrive at a settlement of the (strike which has been in effect on this road since January, No announcement of the result of the conference has yet been made but it is thought by those well informed that satisfactory settlement will be made between the strikers and the re ceiver of the road, This road has suspended operation since July 30 and; a settlement of the difficulties of the; road is anxiously looked forward too by the people of the section served by the M, & N, A. | o+ —— e ———— l s, OF OCEAN AmEN ‘9 g 132 | 30l ‘s3,\{\ o A % Lk s RES ! /o 4’-,(; ik s L 3 N REaa P e { 3 ot oN S G S éw* L) & &;gi; R 4 o W»ﬁ\. BAI , b SN R N R BN Ui R R e A S JER Phuetß RV B SRR TN e & bR ]%, P »\)r‘.jp g‘\ "k MT% g m&s KR A %w‘?* *\‘ TLR RS R SRR i AR L ShieiesiNG g e b"&*&‘ ¥ [ "%\6 GESESRNESREE §i AR % BvRS B ORGSR . R et i i O ; eI A German submarine torpedoed a tip near the English shore in 1917, teuring out its bottom and- scatters ing its cargo of millions of steel nails over the ocean bed. Now Eng land's salvage department is rescu ‘ng the nails with a giant magnet ai shown in the above r-nure from Vgpular Science Monthly. Strikers Cases Are Not Called Today | g Expect Cases To Be Called Some Time During The Week On account of the absence from the city of Solicitor-General J, B, Wall, who is engaged in trying a civil case in the Henry County Superior court, none of the cases against the strikers were called today. The cases of the men charged with the murder of W, T. Reed may be called some time dur ing this week, but no date has been agreed upon by the attorneys, ‘ Until Col, Wall returns no announce ‘'ments in the cases can be made, The IGrand Jury was in session only a 'short while this morning, but no new cases were ready for investigation. A ifew minor cases were disposed of by assistant Solicitor. General Jesse Gran tham, . Mr, R, J. Prentiss was able to get out to Sunday school again Sunday morning and gave the first talk to the' Sunday school that he has made in a long time, The Sunday school was delighted that he was again able to be with them_ PUBLISHED ON MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Organ City Of Fitzgerald { ORDER 2,000,000 MEN First Group To Be Tied Up Includes Southern and A, C, L, ACTION TAKEN BY BIG FIVE Four Groups Will Walk Out Pro gressively, 48 Hours Apart CHICAGO, Oct, 15-—_More than a half million American railroad men were ordered to mitiate a strike Oc tober 30th, while other unios whose membership Liings the total tc about two million a=lounced nnofficially that they were tonight prepa‘ng to follow suit and make the walkout genera on the same date, Under :bhis program the tie-up would be complete, according to union pre dictions, by November 2. The hour was fixed at 6 a, m,, Oc tober 30, except for one Texas line, whose trainmen were authorized to g 0 out October 22, R The railroads listed in the first : on which the st-ike 1s to become W= fective, touch 42 of the 48 states w a trackage of 73,000 mftes out of the total United States trackage of ap proximately 200,000, The New England States comprise the group that is virtually untouched in ‘the first walkout Warned Against Violence The strike orders were issued to the big five brotherhoods, oldest and most powerful of the railway unions, and they specifically included mail trains in the walkout, Their provis ions instructed strikers to keep away from railroad property with a warn ing that violence of any nature will not be tolerated hy the organizations, } The strike was annonced follow ing an overwhelming vote, said to be upwards of ninety per cent favoring a strike because of a 12 1-2 per cent wage cut reduction authorized by the United States Railroad Labor Board of uly 1, and after it was declared by the Associaticn of Railway Executives in session here yesterday that a furth er reduction would be sought by the railroads, Tt was said that the strike decision was made before the announce ment of this further intended cut. Printed instructions as to the con duct of the strike issied in Chicago, were dated yesterday Oct, 14th, The strike call for the rairoad walk out outlines the following duties of “Members and Officers” in conduct of the strike. It is dated at Chicago October 14th, . Duties of Members { I. No man in road service involved in the strike -will perform any services ‘after the hour set to strike unless he ‘has already begun a trip and has ac ‘tually left the terminal, If the train has left the terminal he will complete the trip and deliver the engine and train at the end of the rum, or tie-up point if tied up under the law, after which he will perform no further ser viceuntil the close of the strike, Men in other than road will leave the service at the appointed time, Sc far as your legal right to strike is concerned there is no difference between a 2 mail train and a freight train, You have identically the same right to refuse to perform service on a mail (rain as you have to refuse to perform service on a freight train, 2. All men ou strike will keep away from the company’s property, except such men that are designated certain duties to be performed by authority of the organization, 3. Every man thould understand that the laws of the organization in volved must be obeyed. Acts of violence of any nature will not be tolerated by the organization. 4. The local representative will ar range for a hall for meeting purposes at all terminals using one of their own lodge rooms if available, Im mediately after strike becomes effect ive, all men will assemble at the hall securcd for meeting purposes, When thus assembled, an organization will be perfected by the election of a chair man, vice-chairman and secretary, No person will be permitted to be present in the meeting halls other than those who are on strike except by permis sion of the assemblage, Roll Call Twice Daily 5. The secretary will arrange a roll call (alphabetically) with each organi zation on a separate sheet, Roll will be called twice daily, morning and afternoon, The names of the nom members will be kept separate on the roll from the names of those who are members of the organizations, All strikers will be required to ame swer the roll call and also be in the halls, where halls are provided dur ing the day at all times unless excused by the committee action or by chair man of the meeting, The secretary will also keep 3 record of the proceed-. Pl ings from day to day, e (Continued on Page 2) .