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VOL. XXIII. NO. 25
GAMBLING PROBE
HAS JUST BEGUN.
solicit™ claims
Grand Jury Will Consider
Other Cases Concerned
With Alleged Swindling
Syndicate in Atlanta
No new indictments in connection
with the alleged gambling and wire
tapping syndicate were returned by
the Fulton county grand jury Friday,
according to court officials.
Solicitor General John A. Boykin,
\ who is conducting the presentation of
evidence before the investigating
body, declared that the probe had
barely “scratched the and
that disclosures of a sensational na
ture would be made before the state
had completed its case.
’ Coincidently the special committee
of three police commissioners was
busy looking into the situation de
veloped by the controversy between
the solicitor general and Chief of
Detectives Lamar Boole. The so
licitor general has asserted that the
detective department has failed to
suppress gambling, while Chief Poole
has replied with recriminations
against the methods of the solicitor
general.
Private Settlement
That the police commission may
not hold a public hearing to probe
the charges and counter-charges
made by Chief Poole and Solicitor
General Boykin has been indicated
by statements from the three mem
bers of the special committee ap
pointed by the commission to make
the Investigation. Aldine Chambers,
W. R. Johnsort and W. C. Stradley.
composing the committee, have de
clared their belief that the matter
may be settled privately. One mem
ber of the commission, Andy King,
has declared for a public hearing.
No date has been fixed for the be
ginning of the police commission in
quiry, but it is expected that the
special committee will meet some
time Friday and decide this<ques
tion.
Investigation of the of
the wire-tappers has disclosed the
fact that N. L. Davis, of Lafayette.
Ind., lost $5,000 in an alleged stock
deal in which the fake brokers prom
ised him winnings of $104,000 on
“Crucible Steel." Mr. Davis told the
xuthorities that tthe wire-tappers.
{ working swiftly and with every sem
' Mance of reputable stock operators.,
sent him to Terre Haute, Iqd., to
“await news" after they had taken
his money. He is sixty years of age,
and. with his family, was preparing
to spend the winter in Florida.
, The solicitor general’s department
has been working to get the names of
the various victims of the fake pool
room and bucket shop operators, so
that the grand jury might have every
possible bit of evidence relating to
the case. That the probe will con
tinue for several days is now indi
cated.
O. O. (“Shot”) Marks, of 246 Court
land street; W. E. Grogan, 52 East
Cain street, and James R. Smith, of
89 Larkin street,* were arrested Fri
day morning by order of Chief Poole,
who told newspapermen that he was
acting at the request of Solicitor
General Boykin. The men were
taken into custody on a blanket
charge of “suspicion.” They were
later released under bond of SI,OOO
each, charges of disorderly conduct
having been docketed against them.
Solicitor General Boykin denied
• having requested Uie detective de
ipartment to make the arrests, say-
• ing that he had asked Chief Poole
to investigate the activities of the
four men with a view to ascertaining
whether or not there was evidence to
connect them with the gambling op
erations alleged to have been carried
on more or less promiscuously in At
lanta during the past few months.
Columbus Woman
Convicted on Charge
Os Shooting a Child
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 26.—Miss
Augusta Howard, member of one of
Columbus’ most prominent families,
was found guilty by a jury in the
superior court today of unlawful
shooting in connection with the
shooting- of little ten-year-old Willie
J Lee while the child was in a mag
■ nolia tree in her yard gathering
blossoms last May. The penalty is
from one to two years in the peni
tentiary. The jury was out some
thirty-six hourse.
T. T. Miller, counsel for the de
fendant, made a motion for a new
trial immediately following the re
port of the jury.
It will be heard January 15 before
Judge John D. Humphries, of Atlan
ta. who heard the case here.
Boy Bandits Indicted
For Holding Up Two
Drug Stores Recently
Indictments were brought by the
Fulton county grand jury Friday
morning against Eric May and Stuart
Taylor, alias Dick Keir, the two boy
bandits who on the nights of Novem
ber 1 and 18 are charged with hav
ing held up and robbed two drug
stores.
The indictments charge hold-up and
robbery in two instances. The lads
• ’ are now being held at the Fulton
. county Tower iji default of $5,000
• bond, and it is expected that they
will be given a speedy trial.
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Boy Scouts Will
Expand Activity
Over Southeast
Splendid Organization Plans
to Recruit Members in All
Districts of Four States
At a meeting at the Piedmont hotel
in Atlanta on Thursday, December 2,
a program will be formulated which
will extend the activity and member
ship of the Boy Scouts of America
to every company in Georgia,
Florida and the Carolinas.
Eli R. Callaway, state president of
the Scout Organization, has called the
conference. Its object is to assem
ble the leaders of the Scout move
ment for the purpose of organizing
a committee which will promote and
lend direct assistance to new units
of the Scouts throughout the south
east.
In general, the plan will be to es
tablish a Scout council in every con
gressional district of the states
named. Each of these councils will
maintain a traveling representative
who will visit all towns and commun
ities appointing Scoutmasters and
helping to organize troops.
Then will follow training courses
both for Scouts and Scoutmasters,
field day rallies, camps and all the
other features that go toward build
ing up links in the Boy Scout chain.
According to statistics, Georgia is
far behind in its percentage of boys
who wear the uniform of the Scouts.
The campaign that will be launched
on December 2 will give the state a
wonderful opportunity to overcome
this handicap. The Tri-Weekly Jour
na is keenly interested in the success
of the constructive plans of the Boy
Scouts and recommends the careful
consideration of its readers, young
and old, to the movement.
This paper will keep its readers
fully posted concerning the progress
of an undertaking vitally important
to the present boyhood and the fu
ture manhood of the state.
Following is a statement issued
by A. A. Jameson, Scout executive,
explaining in detail what is expect
ed to be accomplished at the organi
zation meeting next Thursday:
“An exceedingly significant meet
ing from the standpoint of the boys
of Georgia, is to be held in Atlanta,*
December 2nd. At the meeting will
be organized the committee to have
direction and supervision of the Boy
Scout work in the four southeastern
states, Georgia, South and North
Carolina and Florida. At the same
time, the organization committee
which is to have charge of the work
of the development in Georgia will
meet. The meeting is called oy Mr.
E. R. Calloway, of LaGrange, chair
man of the organization committee,
on behalf of the National Council,
Boy Scouts of America, and will J»e
under the leadership of Mr. E. R.
Calloway, Dr. George J. Fisher, of
New York, the director of field work
for the Boy Scouts of America, and
Stanley A. Harris, of Memphis, na
tional field executive.
“Great progress has been made in
scouting within the past few years.
More than five hundred thousand
Scouts and Scout leaders are defi
nitely registered with the National
Council. Councils have been organ
ized in Georgia, at Atlanta, Macon,’
Savannah, Columbus, Rome, Augusta,
Valdosta and Waycross. But still,
the majority of the boys of Georgia
have not been touched, because Geor
gia is decidedly a rural state. There
are now one hundred sixty-seven
troops outside of these cities, all
doing more or less effective work.
Still, only one boy in every sixty
one in Georgia is a Scout, while in
Florida there is one Scout for every
twenty-seven boys, in North Caro
lina, one for every forty-one, in
Texas, one for every twenty-eight;
(Continued on Page 7, Column 5)
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BOILER EXPLODES
AT DUNWOODY;
3 KILLED, 1 HURT
DUNWOODY, Ga., Nov. 26.—Three
men were killed and another seri
ously injured when the steam boiler
of the Dunwoody Milling company
exploded at 8 o’clock Friday morn
ing. The plant, which embraces a
flour mill, a lumber mill and a gin
nery, was badly damaged, and parts
of the boiler were found a half mile
from the scene. No cause for tne
explosion has been determined.
The dead: Mr. CUtaham Spruill,
twenty-four; Mr. John Manning, for
ty; Mr. Leonard O’Shields, forty.
The injured: Bency Spruill, twen
tw-two.
Mr. Manning and Mr. O’Shields are
survived by their wives and eight
children each. Mr. Graham Spruill
is survived by his wife. Funeral an
nouncements wilA be made later.
The bodie sos the three men killed
were taken to the home of J. U.
Cheek, while the injured man was
rushed to ,an Atlanta hospital.
New Subscriptions to
Export Bank Friday
Amount to $12,500
Robert F. Maddox, chairman of the
Georgia campaign committee, Friday
morning announced the receipt of
$12,500 in additional subscriptions to
the capital stock of the Federal In
ternational Banking company, re
cently organized in New Orleans and
designed to facilitate the exporta
tion and distribution of southern
products, chiefly cotton.
The following banks are included
in the list announced: Bank of East
Point, Liberty National, of Cedar
town; Rockmart bank. First Nation
al, of Covington; Planters’, of Ho
gansville; Bank of Pulan, Greensboro
National, Farmers and Merchants’ of
Douglasville.
The campaign for subscriptions is
progressing satisfactorily, according
to Field Agent Robert E. Harvey,
and the systematic work of the group
chairmen is beginning to bear fruit.
The chairmen are presenting the facts
in connection with the export bank
to the personal attention of the sen
ior officers of every bank in their
territory, and their efforts are being
rewarded by subscriptions to the cap
ital stock of the enterprise.
North Dakota Heifer
Breaks World Record
FARGO, N. D„ Nov. 26.—A North i
Dakota heifer, carnation pioneer
Segis No. 451,370, has broken the
seven days world record for but
terfat production in the junior two
year-old class, producing in seven
consecutive days 24,877 pounds of
butter fat, the equivalent of 31.09
pounds of eighty per cent commer
cial butter, it was announced today
by officials of the North Dakota
Agricultural college. ' ,
Bicyclist Makes Request
To Be Arrested
MANCHESTER, England.—Fine of
$3- was imposed on cyclist who, ac
cording to policeman, got off his bike
and asked to be summoned to police
court, because he had no rear light.
Cop accommodated him.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1920
“EVERYMAN’S LAND!”
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league of Nations
Takes Up Question
Os Disarmament
BY HENRY WOOD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
GENEVA, Nov. 26.—The League
of Nations assembly expected to con
clude its week’s work today with
the hearing of reports by commis
sions. The program then called for
adjournment until Tuesday.
Disarmament was the main topic
m the assembly today. A commis
sion to consider that question began
its sessions yesterday, practically
with instructions that recommen
dations for the present must be held
within reasonable limits.
Delegates declared the league must
give proof of its sincerity by re
fraining from extreme demand until
all large nations are members of
the Itague. It was expected the
commission will recommend prohibi
tion of private manufacture of war
materials, regulation of traffic in
arms and the exchange of military
information. |
The assembly was expected to take
up today the demand of the Aus
tralian delegation that a reply be
made to Germany’s mandate vote. ,
Widow of MacSwiney
Starts for United States
QUEENSTQWN, Ireland, Nov. 25.
Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow of the
lorld mayor of Cork who starved him
self in Brixton prison, leaves for
the United States Thursday aboard
the British steamship Celtic. She is
accompanied by her two sisters.
The purpose of Mrs, Macgwiney’s
visit to America is to testify before
the unofficial commission which, sit
ting in Washington, is investigating
the Irish situation. The British
government granted passports to
Mrs. MacSwiney and her sisters with
out, however, taking any official cog
nizance of the investigation.
Army ’Plane Pilot
Smashes Speed Mark
MINEOLA, N. Y„ Nov. 26.—Flying
at a speed of virtually 3 miles a min
ute, Lieutenant C. C. Mosiey, piloting
an American-made Veriile-Packard
army plane, won the first Pulitzer
trophy in the aeronautical race here
yesterday against a field of 34 start
ers. He covered the course of slight
ly more than 132 miles in 44 minutes
29 £7-100 seconds, an average speed
of approximately 178 miles an hour.
America Repudiates
Anglo-French Pact
On Mesopotamia
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. The
United States having absolutely
repudiated the Anglo-French agree
ment on Mesopotamian oil, officials
here today Awaited -reception from
Europe to Secretary of State Colby’s
strong note of protest to Great
Britain.
The note is expected to have a
strong effect at the League of Na
tions meeting at Geneva, as the
question of methods of adminis
tration of mandates by the principal
allied powers is scheduled to be
taken up by the league. Great Brit
ain holds the mandate over Mesopo
tamia.
What effect Colby’s note will have
in the light of Germany’s recent pro
test against the distribution of man
dates over her former colonies by the
principal allies, also is awaited with
interest. Germany notified the
league she no longer felt bound by
the treaty clauses under which hei
colonies were surrendered.
SEEK FEDERAL AID
FUR HIGHWAYS IN
FORESTraVATION
Officials Will Ask for Expen
diture From National Park
Fund for Roads in North, 1
Georgia
Plans for obtaining the immediate
expenditure in the government fortfst
reservation in north Georgia ofl a
portion of the unexpected appropri
ation -for construction of roads ?,nd
trails in national parks, wer( : in
augurated Friday morning at a con
ference in the office of S. G. McLen
don, secretary of state, .whiten was
attended by federal, state and. county
officials.
As a part of its program flor estab
lishing vast forest reservations in all
parts of the country to«/ conserve
water powers, forest resofurves and
wild life, the government has pur
chased something over 1(|0,000 acres
of mountain land in norfch Georgia,
extending practically across the
state. This reservation! has been
mad© a national park. There is a
federal appropriation of $19,000,000,
no part, of which has been expended,
for constructing roads and trails in
national parks. The north Georgia
reservation is almost devoid’of roads
or trails. The object of the con
ference held Friday was to obtain
immediate approval by the secretary
of the interior, who controls the
fund, of projects in the north Geor
gia reservation.
It was decided by the conference
to concentrate as a beginning upojn
a road from Dahlonega, in Lumpkin
county, to Blue Ridge, in Fannin
county. This road would go throngh
the heart of the reservation ; and
would open a route which is now al
most impassable. ,■
Among those attending the •confer
ence was Senator William J 4 Harris,
who took the most enthusiastic inter
est in the movement, and pledged his
active aid on returning to'Washing
ton. Congressmen Gordofn Lee and
Charles H. Brand, ’ whoihe districts
embrace the reservation counties,
sent letters expressing; their regret
that they could not be. present, and
promising their active, aid.
Among others at th© conference
were th© following:
A. E. Loder, district engineer of the
United States buraa,u of public roads;
H. G. Spahr, forestry supervisor of
the entire reservation; W. A. Cross
land, United States-road’engineer; W.
’R. Neel, chief engineer of the state
highway department; Dr. W. S. Me-
Callie, state geoloigist; V. M. Wal
drop, ordinary of Union county;
James F. Smith, ordinary of Rabun
county; J. H. Robertson, ordinary of
Habersham county; J. C. Jirard,
county commissioner of Clarke coun
ty; Dr. Craig Arnold, prominent cit
izen and good roads advocate of
Dahlonega; W. Tom Winn and Frank
T Reynolds, president and secretary,
respectively, -of the- Georgia State
Automobile association.
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SINN FEIN HEADS ?
AND ■OTHERS
Methods Taken by
' Soldiers Believed That
Secret Documents Have
Been Secured
DUBLIN. Nov. 26.—Swooping
down on leaders of the Sinn Fein
British forces today ar
rested Arthur Griffith, acting “pres
ident of the Irish republic,” John
McNeil, founder of the Irish volun
teers and several other Irish offi
cials of the “republican” organiza
tion.
Griffith was arrested at his home
here at 2 a. m. today. The charge
against him was not made public.
Since the murders of 14 British
officers in Dublin Sunday there has
been great activity and hundreds of
suspects have been gathered in by
soldiers and police.
The attacks last Sunday were sup
posed to have been engineered ta
destroy evidence British officials
had compiled agains't Sinn Fein
leaders. Many documents «rere de
stroyed in the raids and most of tha
officers shot were connected with
the intelligence department of the
British army, it was said Sinn Fetn
ers hoped their deaths would pre
vent the Irish office from produc
ing evidence necessary to punish
Sinn Fein heads. '
Griffith is chief of he dall
eireann, the Irish parliament, and
acting president of die “republic”
in the absence of Eamonn De Valera.
The Irish volunteers. organized
y McNeil, have assumed some
strength despite the difficulty of
arming and training. Drills are con
ducted clandestinely in isolated
spots, a uniform was designed for
he army but British laws prevented
its being worn i n Ireland, a few
weie displayed by the honor guard
sent to London for the funeral of
Terence MacSwiney.
The a r resfs of Grlfffth an<J M(j _
bJi a as a sur P rise - Both had
been moderate in public state
?r:X and had heen al,owe(l —r
It was believed documents can
tured recently in t he wholeX
■S r miuTa lr ‘ S I h ° ff,Ce
the plot * them with
Plots of extremists or that tha
government had decided to make I
ers mZfl *' eP f °* a " S ' nn Feln
, moderate or otherwise.
res/ofTT?’ F Ascribing the ar
rest of her husband, said she was
InV bTl"' ' “ °' O '° Ck
ng by the crashing of a pane of
glass in the front door of the Griffith
I Jumped to the window of our up
stairs bedroom and called out,” she
continued. “The seven men compris
ing the party pointed revolvers at
me, shouting, ’Come down at once.’
I turned and called to Arthur,
Here they come; jump!’ and then
slipped on a dressing gown and ran
downstairs. The men, all (pf them
members of the auxiliary i police, al
ready had reached the landing. They
had smashed the window and cut th®
door chain. They rushed into Ar
thur s room with revolvers pointed
and placed him under arrest.
“When they took him away later, I
said, ’Where are you going to put
him?’ To this, one of them replied,
‘We are going to shoot or hang hiln,
as he jolly well deserves.’
“Our seven-year-old child who had
been sleeping by our bed heard th®
remark, began to scream and becam®
hysterical. As they drove off, how
ever, another man shouted back: ’W®
are taking him to the Bridewell.’”
Mrs. Griffith said her husband had
been sleeping at home for the first
time in a week. She recalled that
this was the third time he had been
arrested. The first was in the win
ter of 1916, when he was kept impris
oned for eight months, and the sec
ond in 1918, in connection with th®
alleged pro-German conspiracy in
Ireland, when he was held for ten
months.
“We had both been expecting thi®
arrest,” Mrs. Griffith, “and
really it is a relief.”
Mrs. Griffith said the raiders had
remained two hours, systematically
searched the entire house and carried
off an immense quantity of pam
phlets, letters and boohs.
“Arthur was not roughly handled,
but they threatened him any num
ber of times.”
TWO KILLED, 3 HURT
BY EXPLOSION IN CORK
CORK, Nov. 26.—Two men were
killed and three wounded in a bomb
explosion here today.
This was the second explosion in
Cork this week. In the confusion fol
lowing the explosion police were at
first unable to ascertain who threw
the bomb. The neighborhood where
the explosion occurred was surround
ed by a police cordon in an effort to
trap the perpetrators.
THIRTY-NINE PEOPLE
SLAIN DURING WEEK
DUBLIN, Nov. 26. —Thirty-nine
persons were killed and eighty-one
wounded in fights, bombings and as
sassinations in Ireland during the
last week, it was announced today at
Dublin castle.
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