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VOL. XXII. NO. 58
HOKE SMITH TO OPEN
CAMPAIGN SATURDAY
ST GAINESVILLE
Senator in Fine Fettle and
Plans Vigorous Reply to
Critics —Will Discuss Pal
mer’s Record
Senator Hoke Smith will open his
campaign at Gainesville Saturday
morning with a speech replying to
some of his critics and dealing with
the record of Attorney General Pal
mer.
At Hoke Smith campaign headquar
ters in the Piedmont hotel the predic
tion w’as made Friday by J. R. Smith,
H. Y. McCord and others that his
opening speech will ring throughout
the state. They have had from the
senator an indication of his line of
attack and they are certain it will
put some real fire into 'he presiden
tial primary.
Senator Smith, it was said, will
make an aggressive beginning and
continue his fight along that line
with —■■eeches in every part of the
state. He will present some aspects
of Attorney General Palmers record
that have not been discussed in Geor
gia and are not well He 'll
throw some interesting flight upon
t). P finer platform of unqualified
endorsement of every afiase of Pres
ident Wilson’s administration. Sen
ator Smith has supported many
phases of the administration, but has
differed with the president in some
nptable matters likhe the Leagv' of
Nations, the fixing of the price on
cotton, -the veto of the bill requiring
immigrants to be able to read and
write some language, and others.
Senator Smith was feeling fine Fri
day. He said he would like to speak
in Gainesville at once instead of
waiting until Saturday morning.
From Gainesville he will go to Com
merce and speak in the afternoon.
3n hearing that the Hall count” pri
mary was to be held Saturday, Sen
ator Smith suggested a change in his
speaking date at Gainesville, but his
friends insisted that he come there
Saturday.
Next Monday morning Senator
Smith will speak at Dalton and Mon
day night at Rome. Tuesday night
he will speak in the Macon audi
torium. Wednesday he will speak at
Americus and confer with his friends
from adjoining counties. He may
speak Wednesday afternoon at Perry
Friends: of Senator Smith are plan
ning to give him a gieat ovation
when he speaks next Thursday night
m the Atlanta Auditorium. Colonel
Walter P. Andrews is in charge of
arrangements. He requests out-Oi.-
;own parties to communicate with
tim for reservations. Beyond Thurs
iay night the senator has made no
engagements, but will have a num
>er in different parts of the state.
:n the last ten days of the campaign
.here will be a corps of speakers
whose dates will be arranged by a
speakers* bureau in charge of Wil
liam Schley Howard.
Attorney General Palmer's cam
paign will also get under way in
earnest next week with his opening
speech to be delivered in Gainesville
Tuesday morning. He is reputed to
be a speaker of exceptional magnet
ism and power and his campaign
committee expect him to have big
audiences everywhere he speaks. His
Gainesville speech will be followed
by a speech ih the Atlanta Audito
rium Tuesday night. As will be ob
served, Senator Smith precedes At
torney General Palmer at Gaines
ville and follows him in Atlanta.
From Atlanta the attorney general
will go to Savannah for a speech next
Wednesday night. His campaign
headquarters are pleased with re
ports from Chatham county. They
expect him to have a rousing recep
tion there. He will go from Savan
nah to Macon and speak in the Ma
con Auditorium Wednesday night.
Whether his duties, in Washington
will permit him to speak any more
in Georgia is not certain. His head
quarters hope he can make several
more speeches.
Tt was reported in Atlanta Friday
that Senator John Sharp Williams
was dated for a Palmer speech at
Waycross on next Friday, April 9.
Whether this speech was to be deliv
ered under the auspices explicitly of
the Palmer campaign committee was
not clear at Palmer headquarters, as
they had been advised of it only by
hearsay, they said.
A
Abbeville Citizens
Favor League With
Sane Modifications
ABBEVILLE, Ga., April 2.—The
following petition was circulated in
town just for a few hours Thursday
afternoon, and the following gentle
men signed it at once:
“We, the undersigned citizens of
Wilcox bounty, Ga., hereby pledge
our support to the Honorable Hoke
Smith in his efforts to give the peo
ple of Georgia an opportunity to
express their views at the polls on
April 20. We favor a League of
Nations with sane modifications, but
not as enunciated by President Wil,
son s canuidate A. Mitchell Palmer.
Oscar Cannon, president Farmers
bank; S. F. Reid, ex-mayor; W. F.
Vansant. Chas. C. Fulghum, L. H.
Crump, G. W. Oliver, G. W. Handley,
W. 11. Wilkinson, M. S. Bowen, Dr.
M. S. Smith, B. C. Smith, cashier
Farmers bank; W. S. Tomberlin, L.
C. Goodin, chairman Democratic
executive committee, Wilcox county;
E. H. Harp, aiderman, city of Abbe
ville; G. T. Tomberlin, F. Y. Garri
son, G. A. Hough, A. A. Stubbs. S. G.
Carswell, W. T. Bush, G. W. Doster,
G. A. Ewing, W. H. McDaniel, D. D.
Hamilton, J. R. Monroe, mayor city
of Abbeville; A. W. Coble, Geo. F.
McLeod, ex-commissioner of Wilcox
county, T. J. Outlaw, Fred Ewing,
cashier Bank of Abbeville; W. C.
Oliver, president bank of Abbeville;
J.uA. Stone.
£be Atlanta uvnal
SMALL PIPERS OF
STATE THREATENED
GY PAPER MORTAGE
Some Publishers May Have.
t to Suspend or Else Print
on Wailpaper Editors
Discuss Remedies
The paper shortage among the
smaller newspapers Os Georgia -s
so serious that some of them are
going to have to close down or else
print on wall paper, as was done
in the Civil war, declared speakers
at the meeting of the Georgia- Press
association Friday morning in the
pine room at the Hotel Ansley.
While othere topics came before
the meeting this was the first and
most important considered when the
meeting was\ called to order at 11
o'clock by President J. Kelly Sim
mons, of the ’telfair Enterprise, with
ebout thirty editors and owners pres
ent, nearly all of them publishers of
weeklies.'
The discussion was precipitated
when Royal Daniel, editor f>f the:
Q.itman Free Press, made the re-L
port of the newsprint committee, ofT
which he is chairman. Mr. Daniel |
read answers totelegrams he had
sent to newsprint dealers all over
th? country, questioning them in de
tail on the paper situation. The sub
stance of their replies, as summed
up by Mr. Daniel, was that there is
not a sheet of newsprint available
to the small publisher in the open
market unless he pays a prohibitive
price for it. \
Crisis Faces Owner's
“There' is a crisis in every small
newspaper shop in Georgia,” said I
Mr Daniel. “Some of them may be !
able to borrow limited bundles of
paper from mbre fortunate and gen
erous competitors, but this is only
staving off the inevitable. There are
2,600 small paper plants already
closed down in the country because
of the shortage and I know of pa
pers in Georgia that ar. printing
now, from week to week, only by
borrowing. I. for one, am opposed
to borrowing because ! t does not
really help the situation, and while
I have a four month’s supply of pa
per on hand, I am ready to close
down the Quitman Free-Press today
If it will relieve the situation any.”
Mr. Smith purposed to ask for the
support of the editors—“no money,
just your influence and your support
of a great project for the state,” he
intended to tell them. And it was
understood that the editors then were
framing a strong indorsement of the
the Ad. club and were in
tending to work and write for the
project when they got back home.
The dash toward the firdt goal of
the campaign—a $50,000 fund —con-
tinued Frida.- with meetings of the
publicity committee at 11 o’clock in
the morning and of the executive
committee 'in the afternoon. Plans
also are made for the biggest lunch
eon the Ad. club ever has had, next
Thursday, when the 300 members of
the club and the 200 members of the
advisory co- mittee will meet, with
others, and devote the whole session
to convention plans.
Various remedies were oiscussei
by the. editors. W. C. Sutlive, of the
Savannah Press, suggested that it
might be possible for smaller papers
to borrow from the big dailies waste
paper, but he did not know if this
was practicable and the statement
was made that the cost of getting
this paper cut to the proper size
might be prohibitive. .
President Simmons said that one
practical plan that, would help some
would be for ail papers to cut out
their /complimentary list absolutely
and to ce„se printing papers for sub
scribers in arrears.
Aid Suggested
The possibility of getting the
larger papers to abolish their comic
sections and their magazine sections
was discussed, but it was agreed
that it was not fair to ask them to
do this unless there was a concerted
agreement and a concerted action on
their part.
Jack D. McCartney, editor of the
Rome Tribune-Herald, pointed out
that the New Yqrk newspapers were
doing this. He said the New York
Times, by cutting out its book sec
tion on one Sunday, saved paper
that would have printed the Tribune-
Herald for a year. The statement
was also made that the New York
Herald had cut out its early edition
and that other papers were doing
likewise.
“I would not ask the larger dailies
to turn down a single line of adver
tising,” said Royal Daniel, “although
I know some of them .are doing nils,
or to make drastic cuts unless there
was a concerted agreement. But 1
think it is a recognized fact that the
shortage of newsprint is due largely
to the great amount of paper being
used by the larger newspapers and
that somethings should be done
about it.”
Mr. Daniel said he had been talk
ing just before the meeting with Sen
ator William J. Harris, who is in the
city, and that Senator Harris had
offered to do anything in his power
to z help. Mr. Daniel suggested that
the association might take up the
problem, through Senator Harris,
with the federal trade commission,
with a view to getting government
control of newsprint and a govern
ment investigation of prices, which
he declared, were prohibitive in many
instances.
No American Member
For Russian Probe
WASHINGTON, April I.—The
United States has refused an invita
| tion from the allies to send a mem
ber on the League of Nations’ com
mittee which is to investigate con
ditions in Russia, it was learned to
day at the state department.
Merchant Lost 38 Cents
In 22 Years’ Business
WAYCROSS. Ga. April 2.—J. W.
Gray, of Lenox, has sold his large
mercantile business to M. E. Levy,
of Tifton, after a career of twenty
two years. Mr. Gray is a firm, be
liever In cash buying and makes the
statement that it benefits the public
as well as the merchant. During the
twenty-two years he lost only 38
cents on bad accounts. Practically
all of his business was done on a
cash basis.
$825,000. Memorial Nears Completion
’i
"""I L t w IxT IT
WASHINGTON.—The great amphitheater at Arlington, begun
five years ago, is fast nearing completion. It is built of American
marble and cost $825,000. Above picture shows the entrance, on
the eastern shore of the Potomac, which will be opened July 1.
DANIELS DENIES
TERMING JAPAN
PACIFIC MENACE
WASHINGTON, April 2. —Secre-
tary Daniels denied today that he
had told the senate naval affairs
committee that Japan’s naval activi
ties in the Pacific were a menace
to the United States and that he had
urged the committee to authorize
fortification on the w’est coast
against that empire.
Mr. Daniels said he urged the com
mittee to make appropriations for
a large naval base in San Francisco.
The sum of $10,000,000 was asked.
He that while the testimony
was on the question of a base for the
Pacific the question naturally turn
ed to some extent to Japan’s naval
program.
Futher hearings before the senate
committee investigating the navy’s
conduct of the war were postponed
today until Tuesday. Admiral Rod
man, commander of the Pacific fleet,
will testify then and will be followed
hy Admiral Wilson, commander of
the Atlantic fleet.
Other witnesses will include Ad
miral Benson, former chief of naval
operations and now chairman of the
shipping board; Rear Admiral Nib
lack, chief of naval intelligence;
Rear Admiral Badger, head of the
navy general board, and Rear Ad
miral McKean, former assistant chief
of naval operations.
Secretary Daniels said today he
would be the last witness to appear
in the presentation of the depart
ment’s case. - . . .. ... ■
" Captain Byron C. Long, former'
aide for operations on Rear Admiral
Sims’ staff at London, refused today
to modify his previous testimony that
Rear Admiral Wm. B. Fletcher disre
garded Sims’ instructions that he
formulate a safe dictrine for convoy
operations. He was cross-examined
at Length by counsel for Admiral
Fletcher before the naval board in
vestigating Fletcher’s removal from
the Brest command.
Captain Long said a general doc
trine of convoy operations was for
mulated at Queenstown for the de
stroyer force there as early as May,
1917.
Declaring in his direct testimony
that Admiral Fletcher, in disregard
of instructions .permitted the con
voy which included the Antilles, to
sail in “column formation,” Captain
Long, who was operations officer on
Sims’ staff at London, assorted :t
should have been “evident on its
face” that this was the “most dan
gerous possible formation.”
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ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 3, ,1920.
PALMER WILL
BE QUESTIONED
ON SUGAR PRICE
WASHINGTON, April 2. At
torney-General Palmer is to be
questioned next week by a senate
sub-committee concerning alleged
sugar profiteering. Mr. Palmer, ac
cording to some senators, has all the
laws h® needs to curb profiteering,
but in spite of that, they assert,
these things have been going on un
checked:
1. Cuban sugar has been shipped
to New York, refined and then sold
to speculators who have obtained
sane” prices for it.
2. Cubail sugar has been shipped
to L uisiana, and sold from there
to Louisiana sugar, in order to ob
tain the 17 cents per pounf -which
was the government price for it.
3. Beet sugar prices in Oregon and
other western states have gone way
.up, in spite of large supply.
Senator McNary, chairman of the
subcommittee which recently inves
tigated sugar conditions, today call
ed a meeting of the sugar committee
for Monday to go into these charges.
He has summoned Mr. Palmer,
George A. Zabriskie, who was head
of the sugar equalization board, and
a number of sugar refiners.
Senator Cappbr, Kansas, comAient
ing today on the situation in his
state, said profiteering was ram
pant. He said if Mr. Palmer lacks
legal power io punish profiteers he
should ask congress for necessary
authority. The lawsf'appear .suffi
cient, however, Senator Capper said,
but there is no effort to enforce
them, he declared.
Father on Trial in
Marshall Murder Trial
TUPELO, Miss., April 2.—J. E.
Marshall, father of Charles Marshal)
was placed on trial here Thursday ..on
a charge of having been an accessory
before the fact to the killing of Wil
liafm Miller, youngest of the four
members of the Miller family who
were killed at their home near Amory
January 15 last, and of whose murder
Charles Marshall was convicted yes
terday and sentenced to be hanged
May 14 next.
The elder Marshall is sixty-nine
y- —• old. It was stated that Felix
Marshall, another son, also charged
with complicity in the quadruple
murder, probably would be placed oh
trial immediately after his fateher is
concluded.
PEACE RESOLUTION
OF G.D.P. DOOMED.
DEMDCROTS ffl
Leaders, After Canvass, De
clare Republicans Will Not
Be Abie to Override Wil
son’s Veto
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Republi
can leaders in congress will not be
able to muster enough votes to pass
their peace resolution over veto of
the president, leading house Demo
crats declared today after a can
vass!
Both. Champ Clark, Missouri, Dem
ocratic floor leader, and Representa
tive Flood, Virginia, ranking minor
ity member of the foreign affairs
committee, stated it w’onld be impos
sible for the Republicans to force the
resolution through by .a two-thirds
majority necessary to override a
veto.
President Wilson has indicated to
close advisers that he will not sign
the resolution, which, if Democratic
predictions as to the lipuse vote are
true, means that a l§j£il peace will
not come until the "senate and the
president have agreed on some kind
of a treaty. This probably will not
be until after the., elections, unless
the president yields to the senate
reservations.
Democrats Massing Forces
Democrats are massing their forces
for an attack on the resolution, when
it comeS up in the house.
Pressure is being exerted by ad
ministration leaders outside congress.
Homer Cummings, chairpan of the
Democratic national committe. Is ex
pected to confer with house leaders
during the next few days and urge
them to stand by the president.
The determination of Democratic
party leaders to use the Republican
peace resolution against Its authors
as campaign material was evidenced,
Democrats said today, by the state
ment of Homer Cummings, chairman
of the Democratic national commit
tee, with regard to the resolution.
Attempt to Usurp Powers
Mr. Cummings, who said he “had no
difficulty” finding out what Presi
dent Wilson thought about things,
declared the peace resolution was
the “lowest ebb of moral incapacity
to which Republican leadership has
yet sunk.” t
He said it was an attempt to sur
i render American honor and to usurp
powers which congress does not pos
sess.
Both parties therefore count on
making the peace resolution one of
their strong talking points In the
campaign. The Republicans intend
to pass it and then, if it is vetoed—
as Mr. Cummings said it would be—
they Intend to make the veto the ba
sis for a campaign slogan against
the Democrats—“they kept us out of
peace.”
Republicans Will
> Report Favorably
On Soldier Bonus
WASHINGTON, April 2. —Renubli-
can members of the house ways and
means committee have decided to
report favorably a soldier bonus bill
at this session, it was learned today.
Democrats on the committes tire
opposing such action, claiming the
government cannot afford it at this
t : me
Markets Closed
AH markets were closed Friday
in observance of Good Friday.
GERMAN RED AM
MOST GIVE DP ITS
AMjmil ID
Commander in Ruhr District
Is Handicapped by His
Lack of Military Supplies
and Equipment
DUSSELDORF, April 2.—(By the j
Associated Press.) —Soldiers of the j
workmen’s army in the Ruhr dis
trict must make a delivery of their
arms to local authorities before April
10 under the agreement reached be
tween the government and the cen
tral committee . < " ' the workmen's
general conference at Essen today—
They will not be considered rebels
if fighting ceases throughout the
district by noon tomorrow.
The commander of the communist
troops before Wesel gave a pledge
to the conference for the strict ob
servance of the agreement. He de
clared he had really a good array,
but could not continue fighting be
cause he lacked ammunition and as
serted all looting had been sup
pressed and that all looters had
been shot.
“I -drill shoot with my own pis
tol,” he said, “any communist sol
dier who disobeys trip order to with
draw and disarm.”
Assurance was given the delegates,
however, there would be no trou
ble. There is some apprehension
felt as to a few extremist groups,
particularly as they have Jparned of
a report that government troops
have entered the edge of the Ruhr
district at several points and that
two workmen’s dMijgates were ar
rested iVhilo going to Essen for the
conference.
WILSON’S NAME
WILL NOT GO ON
STATE BALLOT
Woodrow Wilson’s name will not
go on the ballot of the Georgia pres
idential primary to be held on
April 20.
Eight of the signers of the Wilson
petition withdrew their names
Thursday afternoon, leaving a re
mainder of less than 100 as requir
ed by the rule. The petition origin
ally contained 105 names led off by
Henry B. Baylor. Eight withdraw
als left 97 names.
Those withdrawing their names
were T. M. Armistead, T. M. Arm
.isted, Jr., A. J. Shropshire, A. J.
Shropshire. Jr., H. H. Cha»dler-,- C.
J. Keith, P. H. Snook and P. H. Cal
houn.
The Wilson petition was circulat
ed by Mr. Baylor, an Atlantian, and
was signed by Atlantiaii®. The fol
lowing letter was sent to Hiram L.
Gardner, secretary of the Democrat
ic state executive committee, by six
of the signers:
“We note that our names appear on
a petition urging President Woodrow
Wilson to enter the presidential con
test In Georgia. This petition was
signed by us i ider a misapprehen
sion and we are writing to ask that
you strike our names from the peti
tion.”
This letter was signed by H. H.
Chandler, C. J. Keith, P. 11. Snook,
P. H. Calhoun, T. M. Armistead and
T. M. Armistead, Jr. The signa
tures of A. J. Shropshire and A. J.
Shropshire, Jr., were withdrawn in a
separate communication.
The elimination of President Wil
son’s name from the ballot leaves on
it the names of A. Mitchell Palmer,
Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson,
and these are the names that will be
placed upon the ballot by the Demo
cratic state executive committee.
Preparing Ballot.
James J. Flynt, chairman of the
state committee, and Secretary Gard
ner were in Atlanta Friday for the
purpose of'preparing the official bal
lot. The committee has authorized
them to attend to this and other de
tails of the primary. The actual
printing of the ballots will not be
handled by the state committee or
by the chairman .and secretary. The
chairman and secretary will prepare
the form \of the ballot and send it
to the chairman and secretary of the
Democratic executive committee of
each county. The county committee
will then print the ballot according
to the official form. Where a coun
ty primary is held on April 20, the
day of the presidential primary, the,
presidential ballot will be a part of
the county ballot. The rules/ allow
the presidential ballot to be placed
at thp top or the bottom of the coun
ty ballot. All county executive com
mittees were requested to hold their
county primaries on April 20, ex
cept where such primaries had been
held previous to the state committee
meeting on February 6, when the
presidential primary was ordered.
But a good many county committees
not complying with this request,
have gone ahead with their county
primaries since February 6, and in
these counties it will be necessary
to have a special primary for presi
dential nominees on April 20.
The Wilson
The Wilson petition was sent to
i Secretary Gardner from Atlanta on
March 26. Immediately on receiving
the petition, Secretary Gardner noti
fied President Wilson that it had
been filed, and requested him to
state whether his name should be
placed upon the ballbt or left off the
ballot.
No reply was made by the pres
ident, either one way or the other.
At 12 o’clock Thursday, which was
the hour of the closing of the entry
list, an announcement was made
from the White House that President
Wilson had taken no steps to pre
vent the appearance of his name on
the ballot in Georgia.
Having received no reply from the
president, it was the intention of
Chairman Flynt and Secretary Gard
ner to place his name on the ballot.
In; other words, they construed his
silence as an acquiescence in the
placing of his name on the ballot.
After 12 o’clock Thursday, and
late in the afternoon. Secretary
Gardner receive^-the above-quoted
letter from eight of the signers of
the Wilson petition withdrawing
their signatures. Acting upon these
withdrawals, it was decided by Chair
man Flynt and Secretary Gardner to
leave the president’s name off the
ballot. , .
Family Picks Him
As German Ruler
cl
PPnsrCE WILHELM
At a meeting of the sons of
the crown prince of Germany, it
was “decided” that Prince Wil
helm, the eldest child, should he
the new ruler of Germany-.
limniE
DFU.S.EMBASM
MEXiCHTTAGKED
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Lieuten
ant Colonel Robert M. Campbell,
United States military attache at the
embassy in Mexico City; his wife and
an American wonian doctor named
Paine, were attacked by rebels a few
miles from Mexico City but escaped
through “quick work and quickness
of action,” the state department was
advised today.
The attack tnok place at Tres
Marias, a small station on the rail
way from Mexico City to Cuerna
vaca, to which place the atta-che was
going for an outing. The rebels with
dynamite wrecked thfc train and de
stroyed the track for some distance.
Colonel Campbell and the members
of his party escaped without injury,
the advices stated. The women of
the party hid in the woods near the
station until the rebels left. The fate
of the members of the crew and
other passengers on the train was
not stated.
Details of the attack are being
forwarded by mail from the embassy
in Mexico City.
RAILROADWAGE
DISPUTE BEFORE
WILSON AGAIN
WASHINGTON, April 2.—The
whole railroad wage controversy
was placed before President Wilson
today for the third time since rail
road labor filed Its demalnds for a
general increase in wages last sum
mer.
In a letter to the president, B. M.
Jewell, chairman of the railway
committee, which constitutes the
labor party on the railway wage
board, said he regretted very much
“to advise you of our failure to ob
tain any beneficial results from these
coifferences/*
The employes. Mr. Jewell said,
were keenly disappointed at the po
sition taken by the railway execu
tives’ committee which*" announced
last night a deadlock and the with
drawal of the railroad members from
the conference.
Mr. Jewell did not ask the presi
dent to lay the wage controversy
before the railway labor board,
which is to be nominated* by the
president as provided in the trans
portation act and on which the pub
lic will have representation. '
Attached to Mr. Jewell’s letter
was correspondence setting forth the
attitude of the men and the execu
tives’ committee. E. T. Whiter, for
the railway executives, wrote that
while an agreement as to wages
might be reached by direct negotia
tion between representatives of the
roads and the men, the executives
did not believe congress contemplated
a settlement involving so great an
addition to transportation costs with
out the public being represented in
the conferences.
Replying to this letter, Mr. Jewell
said he believed the reason given
by the managers for terminating the
negotiations was “not in accord with
our understanding of the law.”
“The attitude of your committee
tn falling to eairy out the wis es
of the president of the United States
comes as a surprise to us,” Mr.
Jewell wrote to Mr. Whiter. “It
will result in keen disappointment
to our constituents as well as the
.general public, both of whom are
parties at interest and entitled to
more consideration from the bi-par
tisan board than you have elected
give. /
“We understand from this that
your committee has definitely de
clined to asume' the responsibility
and perform the duty which is so
clearly desired in the public inter
est, and which the transportation
act, as we understand it, contem
plates, that of agreeing in confer
ence upon rates of pay for railroad
employes which are just and reason
able.”
Union officials reiterated that, at
the request of the president, they
“were going along to give the trans
portation act a fair trial,’ although
they did not indorse any of, its pro
visions. They took the position that
with the breaking up of the joint
conference, the whole wage matter
was made more difficult since the
union membership was becoming
restive.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “1 had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee,
Wis.y and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”=—(Advt.).
Scents a copy*
$1.50 A YEAR.
». I. ALLEN OPENS
ARGUMENTS FOR '
GREEN'S DEFENSE
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Court to Hold Night Session,
if Necessary to Complete
Hearing—Many Present at ,
Close of Legal Battle .
—v- n
BY ED H. BRADLEY
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
FAIRBURN. Ga., April 2.—The
fate of William B. Green, former
vice president of the Fairburn Bank
ing company, on trial for embezzle
ment, will be placed In the hands of
the jury by 7 o’clock Friday night,
according to all indications.
Two of the four arguments by
counsel have been completed and two
were to be delivered Friday after
noon, after which Judge John B«
Hutcheson will charge the jury on
the law covering the case. Judge
Hutcheson has indicated that he will
give the case into the hands of the
jurors tonight, even though a night
session of court is necessitated.
Attorney H. A. Allen opened ths
argument for the defense, speaking
for one hour and fifty-two minutes
and discussing in considerable de
tail the various points in the evil
dence. He was followed by Solicitor
General George M. Napier, who made
the opening argument for the state;
outlining the position of the prosecu-i
tion.
Attorney Reuben R. Arnold will
follow the solicitor general at the
opening of the afternoon session,
miking the second argument for the
state, while Attorney George West
moreland .will conclude for the de
fense.
Courtroom Crowded
The little courtroom was jammed
with spectators w’hen Judge Hutch
eson convened the morning session.
Farmers from all sections of Camp
bell county had come to witness tho ’
final phase of the\ most sensational
criminal case that has been tried'*
here In a decade. A few ladies were,
to be seen in the crowd. Mrs. Green,
wife of the defendant, occupied a j
seat directly behind the counsel ta- 4
ble. Green’s mother sat beside
Neither betrayed emotion as the
torneys discussed the evidence
described the events leading up
the climax of the trial.
“The defendant is charged
stealing the funds of the
Banking company,” said Mr. <'
“When a man goes on trial
criminal offense the contest is
equal since society is more or
banded against him.
law requires that you must
his guilt beyond a reasonable
“Mr. Roberts, who was a wiM
for the state, is in a better
than anyone else to know w *
Green took any of the bank's ■'
Ho should* have known at
the conditio i of the bank.
v. as anything going wrong haM
have known it, yet Mr. Robe
not nesitate to tell you that /
of nothing wrong. He
bad heard rumors, that
“Mr Roberts stated thatJO
s'lf '•elected Alonzo RicllM * V’.T’
Co. to go over the books
This n.-in luuinl no shortag«M , . , T '
Green bad iron short in hisßgai
th-m certainly it would ha
cd in the report of this
G-ii-re iia I l.reri any siio rt a . • C.
t tie lon’t ou know they
j trodiic.d lite report as 1
Discusees Tostlma^B'
Mr. Allen, in his
(.'tided that t lie petition f^l 4
ship offered by the state
should be considered
merely as nil. gallons <l; ‘
the petitioners. ’
Ilf argil- d al.-o that
v.-tii Mis. I iradst reel
was u- r- of
i-rop- :i V made t
Hr.-' .atm not bc-c-anseH
of prosecution.
l>.sen -.-'.mr the test J’,./
la.m-i of
s.-rn--.1 from Gre-m mrd
Street, the attorney
s.-v-tal tiomaml do I laißß
from t’m- sale of part of^B ?»SMBMB
erty, has not. been e red I BBWBMBBmB
I", tihimr eomp.-m
Hoving Gremi of at. least
tho burden upon hint.
l.’rging the jury to
:ory of the tian!: robbery
•ireni. Attm-ney Allen polri^B'
■'•'H H. B. Longino, one of
nesscs for the state, testifi«BJ‘
he noticed bruises on
and arms afer the lire on
of October 9, 1919.
“It corroborates Green’s
merit,” said the attorney.
let’s see about all this jewelry
automobiles and fine clothes
they say Green bought for
Bradstreet. While I don’t undertaM
to justify his acts in doing
do say that he had a perfect Hgl«
to buy a whole jewelry store or
flock of automobiles If he wanted to,W
just so long as he didn’t use illiel
bank’s money, and they hUv&j’t 1
shown that he spent the bank’s mon
ey for these gifts. 1.7
Mr. Allen took up various points
of evidence and finally launched
a discussion of the testimony of ilirs.
Patterson, who conducts a Peacbtnpe
street boarding house, and who tbl-t
of Mrs. Bradstreet’s stay ner
house and of the visits of (‘.'OnSJe
Jack Spalding,” later tty-
B. Green.
“Another
“But if you remember,? continued
Mr. Allen, “Mrs. Patterson Said that
another automobile used torCcojne
around to get Mrs. Bradstreet-. ' |lt
belonged to a prominent Atfarita
busftiess man and the stafq. ;i Mks ' ‘
spoken his name in whispers. Th&y ‘
have been very careful to avoid
bringing him into this case.
“Mr. Cagle found nothing vfrong
with the bank’s accounts,” Mr. Allen
continued, “with two exceptions, and
these were mere matters of book
keeping which showed no attempt on
the part of Mr. Green to steal from
the bank, and fchich were easily cor
rected. Evidently they were corrected
to the satisfaction of Mr. Speer, for
nothing further was said of it.
“A great portion of tho) cash Mrs.
Bradstreet had was used and deposit
ed long before Alonzo Richardson’s
audit was made and a long time be
fore Cagle’s audit was made. A great
part of her jewelry was bought be
fore this time.”
Mr. Allen contended that these
audits were made when the auditors
had access to all the books of the
bank, whereas W. O. Martin’s audit,
which showed a shortage, was made
after some of the books were burned.
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