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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ AUGUST 20, 1920.
PINZI CLIENTS HEAVY
Forty Thousand People Paid Fourteen
Million Dollars To Famous
Boston “Wizard”
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Boston.—An Infuriated crowd of In¬
vestors stormed the ofices of the Old
(Colony Foreign Exchange company
here and sought to attack (': M. Bright
well, president of Ihe company, which
(re admitted was insolvent.
The crowd, which had been gather¬
ing some time, demanded return of
Its money.
Cries of "Kill lirightwell! Lynch
pim!” went up.
Charles Ponzi, whose net of "iifty
per cent in forty-five days" enmeshed
to many customers that lie had to
use bushel baskets to hold their money,
was nearing tlie end of Ills rope on
the 13th of August.
The self-claimed financial “wizard'’
was at liberty on $35,000 bail- $25,000
the federal charge of using the mails
to defraud and the other $10,000 on a
state charge of larceny.
The report of the audit of his hooks
by federal officials wus expected to
he mude public, Forecasts were that
the report would show Ponzl had 10,
000 customers; that they had “iavest
ed" as high u« $14,000,000 in his
scheme; that lie repaid approximately
$0,000,000 before I lie doors of the Han¬
over Trust company were closed, and
that he still owes the remainder.
Federal officials declared that there
was no question hut that the savings
of thousands were tied up in the Ponzi
venture.
Bunk Commissioner Allen stuck to
bis statement thut the capital of tiie
,Harover Trust company was ‘‘badly
Impaired if not wiped out,” despite de¬
nials of officials.
Rose Ponzi, pretty, dark-eyed 'Ital¬
ian girl, proved her love and faiili
by the simple statement: “He is my
husband.”
After his surrender to the authori¬
ties, Ponzi rushed home to his wife;
she waB waiting for him on the lawn
p£ their beautiful estate, and received
him as tenderly us if nothing at all
had happened.
GIVE WOMEN VOTE,
NORTH CAROLINA
GOVERNOR URGES
FThls Country Is No Longer an Asso¬
ciation Of States, But
A Nation. M
Raleigh, N. C.—-Declaring that wom¬
en should have “the first right to
speak when the issue Is whether or
pot the world shall henceforth be ruled
by reason and righteousness, or by
blood and iron,” Governor BicUett, in a
special message, called upon the North
Carolina legislature to accept the in¬
evitable and ratify the federal woman
suffrage amendment.
The governor warned Uls Democrat¬
ic friends that the most they would he
able to do by defeating the ratification
to defeat. ’ i He urged them to accept
Resolution would he to delay "for six
months a movement you are powerless
It as the part "of wisdom and of
grace,” adding that within the period
of a fdw months “some other state will
open the door and women will enter
,the political forum,”
We may just ae well realize, gen
tlemen, »• the governor continued, “that
this country Is no longer an association
!of states, but a nation. Whatever a
jnajority of the people of the nation
Iwant is going to be the supreme law
'of the land.
“Whenever 1 really want to think
seriously about states' rights, 1 go
and muse for an hour over the grave
of my Confederate grandfather, for
I realize now more keenly than ever
before that states’ rights have passed
away.
INCOME $10,000 A DAY,
LIVES IN 2-ROOM FLAT;
i GOES TO WORK AT 9:0C
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New York.—Arthur T. Walker, for¬
mer clerk, is having quite a run on the
front pages of Now York newspapers
AValker recently left the fifty million
dollar residuary estate of Edward E
Searles of Masacliusetts, and New
York is unable to understand how it
happens that a man with an income
of round ten thousand dollars a day
should continue to live in a two-room
flat in Brooklyn and go to work every
morning at nine o’clock. $
Hopeless Love Makes Couples Suicide
Washington.—The tragic romance
o fa wealthy man of the world and a
couutry miss was unfolded here re¬
cently through investigation of the
deaths of J. Ford Thompson and Mary
(Sneeringer. The bodies of the 4’J-year
old man and the pretty 16-year-old girl
were found in the woods near Em
Miitsburg, Md„ not far from here. Both
had been shot through the head; near¬
by lay two revolvers. The girl was a
waitress and had been absent from
home since the night of August 10.
Body Of Gorgas Reaches Washington
The^hody of the late Maj. Gen. Wil¬
liam Crawford Gorgas. former surgeon
' general of the army, whose death oc
cur red in London, lay in state a day
at the parish house of the Church ol
the Epiphany. It arrived in Washing
ton from New York and was escorted
to the parish house by two .troops ol
cavalry. Brief services were held foi
the members of the immediate family
The body will lie in state until Augus:
16,/when burial will be made in the
Arlington cemetery.
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Advertising in The Leader-Tribune
Bring* Results,
POLAND ASKS AID FROM U. S.
Po | and Wlth Back To The Wall, WII
Ask Immediate Material Aid
From United States
Washington. Poland, its back to
the wall In its fight against Soviel
Russia, will ask immediate material
aid of the United States, it is an
nounced by Prince Ludormirski, the
Polish minister, More than that, it
will seek to develop precisely what
Ihe United States meant hy the an
nouncement in its note to the Italian
government that it would employ "ali
available means” to maintain a free
Poland
' Expressing complete satisfaction
witli the United States note, the minis¬
ter declared lie was convinced that it
would inspire Poland with a new spir
jt of hope. He added that this country
was sorely In need of war materials
of all kinds, and that it probably
would seek credits from the United
States with which to purchase them.
Simultaneous with th eminister’s an¬
nouncement, the legation made public
a proclamation issued hy the
council of national defense at War
saw, warning the nations that a "new
world war hangs over the world,” and
that if Poland should he crushed hy
tile Boltdievlki it would he due ‘‘to
tiie indifference of a world which calls
itself democratic.”
Copies of the United Slates note to
Italy, it is said at the state depart¬
ment, have been delivered to the rep¬
resentatives of the allied and associat¬
ed gover •enls and distributed to all
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[ ising the new:- its centers widest dissemination, of the world, prom¬ even
in Russia itself. Diplomats generally
egard the document as having a three
fold purpose:
First, the extension of inoral support
to the Polish government and peo¬
ple.
Second, an appeal lo tiie masses in
Russia t<> throw off the Uolehevild
yoke and establish a constitutional
government.
Third, the influence of other nations
to refrain from recognition of the So
viet regime.
The dispatch of the note to Italy
followed a series of information con¬
versations that had been in progress
for several weeks between officials
of the state department and the Ital¬
ian embassy.
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ROOSEVELT HAS FIRED
HIS OPENING GUN AT
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G. O. P. NOMINEE
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He Lauds The Progressive Thought Of
Ths Country, And Takes Issue
With Republicans
Chicago. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
! Democratic candidate for vice preal
dent, has opened his campaign.
I Before a crowd of three thousand
at the auditorium theater here, he
' urged Republicans and Independents
to join the Democrats in support of
the platform adopted tit the San Fran
cisco convention, and of the ticket
nominated there.
II.- told the Republicans their party
gad been split hy a quarrel among
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ed hy Senator Harding was the “old
guard” which Theodore Roosevelt op
posed. Addressing himself particular
ly to those who are not Democrats. Mr.
Roosevelt said:
"The day is past when it is either
popular or useful to damn everybody
and everything connected with the op
position.
The Republican leaders, however,
show no signs of having taken to heart
the drastic lesson taught at that time, ■ •
he told the big audience.
Seven hundred women were given
the places of honor on the stage.
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Many Geor 0 lan» Accepted For Army
Atlanta.—Atlantans and Georgians
uuoug the 83 men who applied and
were accepted for enlistment in the
,rmy at the army recruiting station,
130 Transportation building, Friday,
August 13, us follows: Luther Poole of
Atlanta, Charlie 8. Durham of Atlanta,
William Williams of Crawford, Son
Drake of Crawford, Edward Watson of
Atlanta; James Madden of Atlanta,
lease Davis of Thomusvllle, Thomas
Drift: of Atlanta, Ronald T. Smith of
Atlanta, Lucius Smith u£ Atlanta,
Iamesj jj parr 0 f Augusta, William D.
Say of B’ue Rid fsmnie *4 Moore of
Beach, WardeH Clark
ft asco Martin of Atlanta, Homer
,f Covington, Willie Kelsey ol’ Oconee,
John Patterson of Macon, Itugon God
win of Rockmart, William Clark of Ma
| ;on Frank Graves of Atlanta, John
, James 1.
tv. Milton of Miiledgeville, .
[> ean of Balnbridge, Wllliant Kiser of
>darto\vn, Gains B. Miller of Barnes
‘ rilie, Silas F. Davis of Roystoa, WU*
j jj B jndson of Macon,
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“A ROSE TO THE LIVING. I *
“An interesting paper you are
putting out these days. J. W. Stokes,
(Lithonia, Ga., 8-13-20.”