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Atlanta Wi-WeddM Sounwl VOL. XXIII. NO. 24 Parents of One Os Boy Bandits Reaches Atlanta Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, of Minneapolis, Come to Help Extricate Wayward Son Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, par ents of Stuart Taylor, one of the "boy bandits” arrested here last after robbing two Peachtree •treet drug stores in startling fash ion, reached Atlanta Monday night from their Minneapolis home, and Tuesday were consulting with vari ous authorities how best to cope with the situation tha< had lodged , their son and Eric May, his com panion, in the Fulton tower under a bond of $5,000 each. Mr. Taylor said that his princi pal hope lay in the leniency of the Georgia laws toward juvenile offen ders, and hoped that his son might be put on probation. He said the boy was only sixteen, Instead of nineteen, as the boy stated when he was arrested. May gave his age as seventeen. “ * The Atlanta police, following a Communication from the police de partment in Minneapolis, are in clined to connect the boys with a series of “handkerchief holdups” in Minneapolis and St. Paul, in which many shops and individuals were robbed by “a tall man and a short man,” wearing handkerchief masks, the series ending November 13, the Minneapolis police say, which is the day before the boys are said to have left their homes. Taylor, his parents said, left a note informing .them that he was going to San Fran cisco. letter to Mother This note, which was the last word the Taylors had of their son •until they heard he had been arrested in Atlanta, was as follows: Dearest Mother: Knowing that you would not let me join the navy, have decided to join with Red. Received a letter from Ralph Bartz telling about the openings in Frisco, so we decid ed to go there. ' I am not leav ing for any reason of treatment at home, but because I want to get out and because I do not want to go to that school any more.. I hope you will not at tempt to follow’ me. I will try and write to you as often as I can safely. Please do not wor ry about me. because it will only be a waste of time. With lots of love. . SAM. The parents of young May. un able to come to Atlanta, gave to the Taylors a note left by their boy at the same time, both having dis appeared simultaneously. It read: Dear'Mum: I knew that if I asked you, ’ you wouldn’t let me join the navy, so 1 am leaving for San Francisco tonight. Will write to you in the very near future, and will help you out financially as soon as I am in and receive my first pay. I am not doing this on account of any bad feeling, but I think I w’ill get a lot of good experi j ence. and you always w r ant to depend on me to be ready to help you at any time. I sincerely hope that you will not try and prevent this step I am taking, as it is in your power * to do, as 1 will not acquiesce without a struggle. I will write you in a day or two and I will give my address , on arriving at the tow’n I men tioned. I am going to join for ship service, but am going in ' for air. Your loving son, ERIC. Say so-long to everybody. Mr. Taylor said ne feared bad com panionship was responsible for his son’s trouble. He said he had taken ; the boy on a number of business j trips with him, to teach him sales-1 manship, and had taught him also j to play pool with him in the eve- | nings. Returning to Minneapolis, I he said he had selected a pool room ! and made a special request that his [ eon might play there occasionally, j although a minor. “It seems I unwittingly picked a j bad place,” said the father. “In this pool room, I understand, the boy fell in with gamblers who taught him things besides pool.” Wanted to Join Air Service Mr. Taylor added that his son and Eric May seemed to have become fascinated by the idea of joining the aerial division of the navy service; had started for San Francisco, and, on reaching St. Louis, had decided to go to Florida instead, possibly to try to enlist at one of the aerial Stations in that state. The “hunger strike” on which tjrdung Taylor embarked Sunday. W'hen he said he couldn’t “go” the food supplied him at police head quarters, was effectively broken ■ Tuesday morning when Mrs. Taylor produced a box of Minneapolis “Cookies” and other home-cooked ! delicacies. Stuart promptly demon strated that his fast was not a mat ter of principle, and enjoyed a square meal. May also came in for a share, and both boys announced that they felt much improved afterward, and that the world looked brighter. Reports from Minneapolis and St. Paul indicate that the operations of the mysterious “handkerchief ban dits” were amazingly bold and at the same time crude. It is said they were always together, "a tall one and a short one:” th j never lost their nerve—on occasions they closed stores and lined up the employes and ; patrons, or made them lie face down I on the floor —they robbed motoristsl and pedestrians; decoyed taxicab! drivers to lonely spots and robbed i them, and “stuck up” drug stores, groceries and laundries with perfect I impartiality. In one night they are ! charged with seven robberies. 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Also ask him to explain how you can get the agency, and without experience or money; make $250 to SSOO per month.—(Advt.) | CITY DETECTIVES ! ARE INDICTED ON LIQUOR CHARGE City Detectives Alonzo G. Terry and Oscar M. Howell and Clarence Hart, of the Corinthian apartments, were indicted by the Fulton county grand jury Tuesday on a charge of violating the state prohibition law. The action of the grand jury fol lowed an investigation conducted by Solicitor General John A. Boykin of testimony introduced in a recent trial of Henry Reed, an alleged notorious negro bootlegger, who was convicted and sentenced to from seven to twelve years for murder. During the trial, Clarence Hart, a witness, made a statement in which he accused City Detectives Terry and Howell with having conducted a raid on his automobile and seized ten cases of bottled in bond liquor, two cases of which Hart claimed were turned into the police station and the other eight disposed of at the in stigation of the two detectives. De tective Terry, w’ho appeared as a witness for Reed, was questioned by Mr. Boykin relative to the accusation and he denied the charge. Later he is said to have gone to the' witness room and abused Hart for making the statement, threatening to shoot him. The two men were separated by Deputy Sheriff J. Gordon Hardy and Terry was sentenced to twenty days in jail for contempt of court. Judge John D. Humphries, who imposed the sentence on Terry, or dered a copy of the record of the case furnished to the police commis sion with a request that the board investigate certain statements made on the witness stand involving the detectives. A meeting of the board of police commissioners will be held Wednes day night at which time the two de tectives will be given a hearing on the charges made in the indictment and also at the Reed trial. The two officers were indicted jointly with Griff Freeman, it being claimed by Hart that. Howell and Terry conspired with Freeman to dis pose of the eight cases of liquor. Hart also was indicted with Dick Messer and F. M. Corley on charges of violating the state prohibition law. s2o,oooinSubscriptions Are Received Here for Banking Corporation Subscriptions exceeding $20,000 were received Wednesday morning to the capital stock of the Federal International Banking corporation, which was recently organized at New Orleans. Announcement to this ef fect was made by Robert E. Harvey, field agent of the Georgia campaign committee, who stressed the fact that the subscriptions came from banks that heretofore have not signi fied any purpose as regards the ex port bank. 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Two Are Killed in Cork Bomb Explosion LONDON, Nov. 24.—Steps for the immediate establishment of peace in j Ireland were urged in the house of commons Wednesday by formerjPre mier Asquith, supported by labor members. tlohn Clynes and Arthur Hender son joined Asquith in a motion con demning outrages and police repris als in Ireland. The motion opened debate on the entire Irish situation. Asquith opened the discussion and Premier Lolyd George was expected to follow. H. H. Asquith, former premier and leader of the opposition in the house of commons, was pre pared Wednesday to move a res olution condemning outrages against crown forces and civilians in Ireland. The resolution he had written expressed abhorrence of the brutal assassination of officers in Dublin last Sunday, deplored and condemned the action of the Irish executive department in attempting to suppress crime by methods of ter rorism in reprisals Involving the lives and property of innocent persons, and declared the urgency of taking im mediate steps to bring about the pacification which is demanded in the interests of Ireland and the em pire. The government has indicated there is no objection to debate on the sub ject, but fear was expressed Wed nesday that further excitqd scenes might develop during the discussion. The debate on Irish affairs was fixed for Tuesday, but it was postponed because of the disorder on Monday 'during the speech of Joseph Devlin. It was believed the temper of the house, after Sunday’s occurrences at Dublin, was not suited to calm pres entation of the facts. Viscount Grey was expected to come forth from his semi-retirement and speak in the house of lords on Wednesday on the Irish home rule bill. It has reported that Viscount Grey and Mr. Asquith have reached an understanding as to policy rela tive to Ireland and in future will work together. It is said the govern ment is rather anxious over the fate of the home rule bill in the house of lords, where threats of rather dras tic amendments have been made. Op ponents of the government do not hesitate to attribute anxiety to the cabinet to get the bill passed at once, because thereby the 1914 home rule bill will be automatically repealed. The opening speech of Lord Birken head, it is remarked, seemed to re flect this anxiety. TWO PERSONS KILLED BY BOMB EXPLOSION CORK. Nov. 24f—Two persons in jured by the explosion of a bomb in Patrick street Tuesday evening died later at a hospital, and two oth ers are reported to be in a critical condition. Sixteen persons were in jured by the bomb. SINN FEIN PLOTS ARE REPORTED IN ENGLAND LONDON. Nov. 24.—Extension of Sinn Fein plots to England was re ported here Wednesday. It was declared the secret service uncovered plans for violence in Lon don, Liverpool and Manchester. In criminating documents were said to have been obtained in many raids in southern Ireland. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1920 I THANKSGIVING PUZZLE WHICH IS THE TURKEY GOBBLER? a s ? / / M On Thanksgiving Day The South Is Facing An Era of Prosperity Thanksgiving day comes this year at the close of a period of strain and stress that has challenged the patience and courage and faith of America. Particularly heavy has been the burden which the passing aftermath of war and destruction allotted to the great army of producers whose labor makes the fabric of the nation. Yet, if only by comparison, there is much to be thankful for today. Three years ago today, this country’s people knew that an immediate and undetermined future would bring misery and death to thousands of America’s finest young manhood. Two years ago today, when the thunder of the guns had so lately hushed, the world faced an era ominous with uncharted dangers and disasters. One year ago today, with inflated prosperity and unchecked extravagance near their peak, the doldrums of depression were not far ahead, even if unseen. Today, the wisest of minds that study and direct and share in the nation’s business, foresee, safe, sane and certain good times just around the corner. The pendulum, accelerated by a cataclysm, has swung back and forth through an arc measured by abnormal limits at either end, say the keenest thinkers of America. From now oM it will oscillate with a stability that means steady, healthy progress and properity, they maintain. Why not be thankful. Thanksgiving day in 1920 may not be a time for feeling grateful for the recent past. But it is assuredly and emphatically a season for rejoicing over a brightened future. ’ ’ Harding Is Ready To View Sights Os Panama Canal CRISTOBAL, C. Z„ Nov. 24. President-elect Harding today expect ed to make an inspection trip through the Panama canal. He was> to tra verse the canal by a mine-layer, and will be shown the workings of the gigantic locks. Two Killed, Nine Hurt In Mine Explosion At Parrish, Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala., yov. 23. Two men were killed and n'ine injurs ed. four seriously, in an Explosion this morning in mine No. 2 of the Railway Fuel company, at Parrish, Walker county, adjoining the coal fields of the Birmingham district. fIUSTRIH. BULGARIA fflS OTHER WONS MAY ENTER LEICUE X Petitions of Latvia, Lithu ania, Ukrainia and Es thonia Held Over Because of Baltic Row GENEVA, Nov. 24. —Immediate ad mission of Austria and Bulgaria was recommended to the League of Na tions assembly today by the commis sion on membership. The commission reached favorable decisions on the former enemies of the allies, but withheld recommenda tions for a number of small Euro pean states until conditions are sta bilized and recognition has been ac corded by nearby powers. Those states favored for member ship in today’s report are Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Albania and Lux embourg. The petitions of Latvia, Lithuania, Ukrainia and Esthonia were held over. Affairs in the Baltic region are too chaotic to permit favorable action now, the commission decided. France Not Ready to Disarm Speaking before the sixth commis sion, Leon Bourgeois, France, de clared France cannot disarm until Germany has been compelled to ful fill all conditions of the Versailles treaty. Germany, he admitted, has begun disarmament, but has not com pleted It. Before disarming, France will await the report of a military com mission which will meet in Geneva to prepare a disarmament plan, he said. This plan will take into considera tion the geographical and special con ditions in each country, Mr. Bour geois said. In order to emphasize the interna tional character of the -military ex pedition to oversee the Vilna plebis cite. the league council has Invited the Scandinavian countries to send small detachments of gendarmes. Germany has forced her way into the league discussions. The whole German situation will be canvassed | Thursday when her fittest against | the distribution of her colonies under ! mandate is to be discussed. The as -1 sembly put the question on the 1 Thursday calendar when E. D. Mil len. Australia, demanded a Millen. with the assistance of President Hymans, carried the fight through. Vivian!, of Tit toni, of Italy and Balfour, of Great Britain, usually at the forefront in any discussion bearing on the Ger mans. took no part in the debate. In an interview today Millen de clared: “It was necessary to call a show down on Germany’s impudence. “Berlin was inspired by two mo tives in sending that impertinent note threatening that she w’ould no longer consider herself bound by the colonies clause of the treaty. $13.95 GOODYEAR RAIN COAT FREE Goodyear Manufacturing company, 4208 Goodyear Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., is making an offer to send a handsome raincoat free to one person in each locality who will show and recommend it to their friends. If you want one, write today.—(Advt.) Nine Indictments AndßigShake- Up Come After Raids bWIY CHARGES 0. S. AGENTS 1 TRIILMRMERS WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Declar ing he understood “that federal agents are already going over Kan sas, lowa and other states trying to get evidence necessary to the indict ment of men who are asking farmers to hold their crops,” Charles S. Bar rett, president of the National Farm ers’ union, through a statement is sued today appealed to members of his organization to stand together and not sell their productions at present “runiously low prices.” “Show that you have the moral courage to go to jail if necessary,” Mr. Barrett advised members of the farmers’ union. “The word semes to have been passed around that farmers were to be taught a lesson— they were getting troublesome.” The farmers answer to claims of over-production, Mr. Barrett said, should be: "We will simply lessen production." This was “no idle threat,” he said, adding: "From ev ery part of the country comes the promise that this policy should be adhered to until the country wakes up to the fact that it must either go on short rations or pay you wages high enough to live on.” Efforts of the farmers toward co operation, Mr. Barrett said, have met with strong opposition from the first. He charged that “deliberate efforts” had been made to prevent them from buying collectively. “For seven long, weary years,” the farmers’ union president added, ‘‘the farmers of this country had placed over them a secretary of ag riculture not in real sympathy wtih. and with understanding of the needs of agriculture, and who now as secretary of another department, is being used apparently as a will ing and eager tool to enforce defla tion of farm products.” Mr. Barrett’s appeal further stat ed that the only course left to the farmers was to help one another and !by raising siTfficient money to fi nance more adequately “our business undertakings so that we can hold and market farm products ourselves in a business "like, orderly fashion.” League Emissaries Plead for .Peace In No Man’s Land LONDON, Nov. 24. —Stationed in no-man’s land with a telephone lead ing to both Polish and Lithuanian headquarters, League of Nations commissioners vainly pleaded with the opposing leaders to end the fighting, according to a dispatch re ceived here today. The commission invaded the bat tle field with a special train flying the League of Nations flag. The bat tle continued to rage with machine gun and rifle bullets whining past only 200 yards away. Amid that rattle and clatter he commissioners talked first with the Lithuarrias. Taking turns they pleaded that the league’s request for an armistice be heeded. Then they threatened punishment by the league. Later reports from Vilna were con flicting; Armistice plans were said to be progressing. It was also stated I that thle fighting continued with nn abated fury, Zeligowski’s forces still making progress to the north east. Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. Solicitor Boykin and Chief of detectives Poole fri ’ Verbal Clash as to the > Situation p Nine alleged gamblers were in dicted Tuesday by the Fulton county grand jury following the sensational - raids which Solicitor John A. Boy -1 kin declares uncovered a gigantic - swindling syndicate In Atlanta. o The arrest of four of the men, a - shake-up in the Atlanta police de s partment and a controversy between - Solicitor Boykin and Chief of De tectives Lamar Poole were the most important developments of the mat- f ter. r R. B. Kelley, Lonnie Allen and L. ' P. Cole, all white, and Americus Lee, colored, were the men arrested. The ;! names of the other five indicted will e not be divulged until they ar® ar s rested. t One of the most radical. shake- ups in the history of the Atlanta po f lice department and the only faci n’ dent of its kind to occur In the past e four years, was Inaugurated Tues- - day morning, when the officers on e the morning and day watches were s transferred to new beats and those 0 operating in pairs were given new s partners. The members of the evening watch 9 will be shifted in the same manner | as soon as Captain AV. F. Terry, com manding this watch, returns to duty. Captain Terry has been on sick leave , for a few days. The shift made Tuesday morning ■ was by order of Chief James L. Beav -1 ers, who declared that his action was ' in no way influenced by the sensa ; tlonal developments of the past few s days, in which three alleged gam ' bling dens were raided by the state • authorities, resulting in a heated con- - troversy between the solicitor gen- eral’s office and the city detective department. ■ The detective department Is not 3 included in the general shake-up. 1 About 175 policemen are affected by - the shift made Tuesday morning, « while the shake-up of the evening I watch will include 76 more. ; Change is Needed “It is a good thing to change the officers’ beats and partneis once in a, while,” said Chief Beavers, dis cussing the order which aroi sed con siderable interest at police head quarters and in city hall circles Tuesday. I Such a shake-up is made every few years. When an officer is shifted to a new beat he <ffiturally shows re i newed interest because of the . changed surroundings and I believe i my order will result in increased et -3 ficiency for the entire, denartryent ” •I U.S.BOAT STOPS ; WESTERN UNION’S i CABLE LAYING MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 24.—What was ; described as an attempt by the "Western Union Telegraph com . Pany to connect its South Amer -1 ■ ica cable at the west end of the 11 causeway at 10 o’clock this morning, was stopped by an armed force of the sub-chaser 154, the crew of which had been instructed by Washington to stop any move to connect the cable. Private Secretary of Vanished Millionaire Held at Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24.—John Doughty, former private secretary of “the vanished millionaire” Am brose Small, of Toronto, Canada, maintained silence today as to what had become of Small and of SIOO,OOO in bonds which disappeared with him. Doughty, who dropped out of sight in December, 1919, simultaneously with Small and the $100,OQj), was ap prehended yesterday at Oregon City, near here, and brought to Portland last night by Detective Austin Mitch ell, of Toronto. Mitchell said he would start for Toronto to<jay with hjs prisoner, with whom he appeared to be on friendly terms. He said he used to know Doughty quite well in Toronto. With reference to a report that Doughty confessed to having stolen the bonds, Mitchell said “That is all I silly rot.” John Henry garden Arrested Again for Violation Prohi Law With a conviction for attempted bribery of a federal officer hanging over him in the United States court, John Henry Harden. 50 years old, of Cherokee county, was arrested again Tuesday night for alleged violation of the prohibition law. Harden was arrested by Lieuten ant Carroll and Officer Dixon of the county police, who claim they found him wit han automobile containing liquor. He is said to have been on his way toward Atlanta. Known as the "King of the Moon shiners,” Harden is more or less familiar to the federal, state and city authoritie s. He was convicted a few weeks ago of attempting to bribe Prohibition Agent Tom Dixon and is now out on bond pending,an appeal to the higher courts. SELLS TAILOR MADE SUITS FOR $lB The Lincoln Woolen Mills, Division No. 638, Chicago, 111., will send interested reader of this paper (with out charge) a book of high-grade cloth samples in many different col ors and patterns. Their prices are extremely low and you will find it / to your advantage to send for this ■ free book and compare their prices with others before you order new clothes. An example of their values is a durable and attractive, smooth finished worsted at $lB for a three piece suit, worth at least S3O at «•- tail. Another big b?rir<ija < 3 thef.- heavyweight, pure Austra.'tan rirsta wool blue serge on which they guar antee to save you not less than S3O. 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