MONDAY
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,
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whose chief thought is to conquer the world, out on the strect with
his staff. 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, |
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L""‘"‘fibcal observors report a partial
eclipse of the moon in this section
last night, ‘
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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,
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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
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~ 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
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tip near the English shore in 1917,
teuring out its bottom and- scatters
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nails over the ocean bed. Now Eng
land's salvage department is rescu
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Vgpular Science Monthly.
Strikers Cases Are
Not Called Today
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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
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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
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