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men and women prisoners
forced to live in same
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STATE HEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Hera
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, Atlanta.—Startling conditions In
many of the county jails In Georgia
are disclosed in an analysis of ninety-;
five Georgia county jails, jugt rqceiy-
ed for. public information in a biiiletin
issued by the Georgia depaftWeUrttf
public welfare.
Boyce M. Edens, director of jail
inspection for the department, has
directed this work and the fjacts ahd
figures used in the report are j derived
from investigations of these jails urn
dertaken by volunteer workers, act
ing under his direction, . Question
naires covering every point in - Jail
location, construction,- condition and
management were sent throughout the
state. These ninety-five counties cov
ering in the report under consldera-
tion are the ones which responded
and it is believed they, represent, a
fair average of Georgia jails through-. Secretary Mellon's answer to one Mr.
out the state, » •• Pinchot sent the secretary recently.
The report urges the need for die- 1 In his first letter the governor qharg-
TERMS REPLY BY SECRETARY
MELLON AS DEFENSE OF
PRESENT EVILS
REFUSAL 6F PERMITS ASKED
Pennsylvania Governor Charges Secre
tary With Justifying Present Sys
tem Of Enforcement
Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Pinchot,
ip-a ^recent letter to Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon, characterized as “a
defense of things as they Are” the sec-
retary’s- reply to the governors’ letter
-criticising the federal- prohibition en
forcement system. What is needed,
he said) “ is .not a defense of present
evils, but the determination to abate
them, followed by effective action. Mr.
Mellon’s letter was received by the
governor promptly.
“It is a matter of sincere regret
to me,” the governor said, "that your
answer to my letter is merely an
effort to justify . the present federal
system of enforcement, which all
America' knows to be defective, ineffi
cient and a breeder of corruption.”
Governor Pinchot’s letter followed
by only a few. hours the receipt of
[WILLIAMS BARES ANOTHER AL
LEGED PLOT TO GET PRIVATE
| PAPERS OF MORTIMER
| We are On the Job from January to
g January, twelve months each year.
[Witness Claims Forbes Talked Ol
j Plan To Have Secret Service
| Agents Flog Mortimer
! Washington.—Charges that Charles
|R. Forbes white director of the voter-
[‘ana’ bureau still was seeking as late
[as September, 1922, to surreptitiously
[remove large Btoclcs of narcotics and
liquors from the government hospital
trict jails on the theory that to build ed what he termed "the breakdown!’
the number of new county jails acfual-j' of the federal permit system and de
ly heeded would be prohibitive as tq dared the state government was han
diest, and that proper places for the ' dicapped by failure of the federal
detention of accused persons could government to use all its powers. Mr.
better be erected on the basip of the Mellon, replying, said the governor’s’
thirty-one judicial circuits Or some statements are not "founded on facts.”
other statewide basts; i Replying to assertions of the gov-
j There are county jails in Georgia, I eriiof that permits'-had been Issued
■|jt was disclosed In the report, where] to certain breweries after they had
|men and women prisoners, of all ages; been detected in violations of the law,
(and of both races, are compelled to; j Mr. Mellon cited settlements made and
ilive night and day in‘the same-com-, explained permits had been issued
jpartment^ Committees^ reporting for, 1 only after a year or more had passed,
(the department found actual, instances! in certain other more recent cases,
{of women prisoners living in the Barnet
{cells with then prisoners and, in;
[eleven jails there are absolutely, no:
facilities for the segregation of prls-l
’oners, either by age, sex. or race. j
j Declaring that the conditions raj
vealed do not reflect any credit upon
{Georgia, gratitude is expressed for the
• fact that, with . few exceptions, Geor
gia jails are not used for punishment
purposes, but only for those persons
held awaiting trial, However, this
[consideration is qualified by the fact
Ithat nearly five times as Inany per-
jsons are held in the jails awaiting,
{trial, as are held in all chalngangs;
and^the state prison for punlehment.j
In connection with the frightful concll-
lions found in some of the jails it is,
pointed out that the prisoners in these]
[places are,-under,the law, presumed-
to be innocent until they are proven!
[guilty, and that many of them are
eventually cleared in the courts of the{
'crimes with which they are charged.
. More than 60,000 people were con- 1 ,
fined in Georgia jails in 1921. This'
is on the ratio of sixteeq out of each,
1,000 of the population. Of this 60,000,5
61 per cent were negro men, 31 per
cent were white - men, six per cent
negro women-and 2 per cent white
>n.
Mr. Mellon said, citations had been
issqed and revocation proceedings are
pending.
In his last letter the governor askr
ed the secretary to refuse to issue
permits tor the operation of plants
where the laws had been broken, and
declared there was no provision of
law compelling the treasury depart
ment to reissue permits after a year
to applicants “who are admittedly law
breakers.”
"I have no change to make in any
statement contained in my previous
letter,’v the governor concluded. "The
facts are as I there set them forth.
The law-abiding citizens of Pennsyl^
vania are profoundly alarmed and
anxious for relief. The state admin
istration is doing its level best., If
the present situation represents the
best the treasury department can do,;
then my previous suggestion that the'
enforcement service should be placed,
directly under the president has great
er force than I suspected when
made it,”
;at Perryville, Md., were made at the
[continuation of the senat'e investiga
tion of the veterans’ bureau.
James W. Williams, a Philadelphia
jdairymnn, was the witness, his testi
mony being designed to support in
part the sensational story told to the
committee by Elias H. Mortimer, also
of Philadelphia, about his alleged re
lations with Forbes at a time when
he was seeking contracts for hospitals
from the director.
Williams testified that aside from
proposing removal of the narcotics
and liquors, Forbes with a man named
Bieber had fought to obtain from Mrs,
Mortimer certain papers belonging to
Mortimer and also to "embitter” Mrs.
Mortimer against her husband. This
was at a time after Mortimer, accord
ing to his testimony, had "broken”
with Forbes and when, Williams un
derstood, Mrs. Mortimer was contem
plating a divorce from her husband.
The witness also told of remarks
.by Forbes that $80,000 was “coming
to Mortimer, but that he would see
.that Mrs. Mortimer got It.” Williams
[explained that from what he could
gather from the conversation Mortl-
[mer-was ^"arranging contracts” with
jthe bureau. The witness also said
Forbes had stated that Mortimer was
.to'be arrested and that the reason the
former director sought his papers was
'that he did' not want them in Mrs.
Mortiiher’s possession at the time of
the arrest.
Forbes, accompanied by his attor
ney, James S. Easby-Smith, was pres
ent throughout the sessions. During
Williams’ testimony he made a num
ber of notes and conferred frequently
[with his counsel, who apparently had
•some difficulty in restraining him
{from Interrupting the examination as
ihe had on several occasions at the
[opening of the investigation.
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Embargo On Green Beans Removed j
: Jackson—Florida has amended her
You can buy One Sack or A Hundred
Tons, or More, any day in the year.
and get prompt delivery. I
Our Customers get this kind of Service without
any Extra Cost.
“IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK
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Judge Prescribes “Medicine?’ Needed
Chicago.—Judge Sabbath negotiate
ed a contract calling for six months
of happy married life when he induced.
Fred C. Hanson , and his wife, Mar
garet, to sign on the dotted line, Af-<
terward Mrs. Hanson withdrew her,
separate- maintenance suit to give the',
and regulations relative to the' written agreement a trial. Hanson;
promised to turn over his pay check,
to his-wife regularly, to quit drinking
moonshine and to stay at home every !
night. Mrs. Hanson also agreed to
spend ,the : evenings, at home and to
be economical, furnishing her husband
with a family financial statement ev-,
ery month. .
Bull* Of Mexico' Fight Different
Chicago.—Romano Muylindora, ma-
jtjiflor, who defeated all the bulls in Tia
Juana, found Chicago's brand of
{"bulls” too much. Romano came here
with $24,000 to spend, all accumulated
!ln his matadoring. He is as well
[known in Mexico for his prowess
Against the bull, he says, as Jack
Dempsey is in America for his figjjt-
! ing. But recently, when several them-
.sand shoppers and lunchers were mill-
jing around at the busiest corner in
the world,” State and Madison streets,
'Romano, decided that here was an an
dience worthy of the name and sought
[again to hear the plaudits of the mul
titude.
shipment of beans and peas from other:,
southern states, and will now permit!
;green beans. - and green peas -'to be'
shipped in, according^ information
received here by Representative J. L,
Lyons, who was the author of a bill-
placing an embargo on shipments of':
•Florida vegetables into Georgia.’ Flor-[
Ida, it was said,; has {^strict law 1
against the shipment UF vegetables
from adjoining states, fearing the In
troduction of serious disease and
germs.
jj plan Institute For Civic Tralnlrtg-
!' Macon.—Mrs. A. % P. Brantley ,of
president of the /Gbdrgia- ;
’Pjans.To Oust Berlin.As Power Center
Berlin.—Armed facist forces under
Blackshear,
Federation of Women’s Clubs, is re-;.
Adolf Hittler and Bavarian troops
massed on the Thuringian border re?
y;[:.-bently. Simultaneously, the federal
* ^cabinet in Berlin was confronted with
a socialist, demand that Chancellor
.gtresemahjjfi 4/>Iiplogize for ejecting
Saxon minister from office, Socialists
;Agaln To Decide On Reparations
. London.—Europe is to make another
effort to unravel the everlasting rep
arations tangle. The British govern
ment has decided to accept the French
[premier’s reservations and the Brit
ish charge d’affaires a.t Washington
{has been instructed by cable to, in
form Secretary Hughes of the deci
sion of the powers, to enter a confer
ence of experts such as Mr. Hughes
| suggested in his reply to Foreign Sec
retary Cmapn’s plea ■ for American
participation; •
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Athens.—Mrs. Margaret Gunter, 73,
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. Corn, Velvet Beans, Peanuts and
all farm^products.
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of-women, it is annoimced here. The yaria is planning to proclaim a new th e chalr M which she was seated,
institute;fewhich was first held last .''federal government” disavowing Ber- Gunter is survived by two broth-
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