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VOL. XXIII. NO. 49,
CHARGES AGAINST
G. 0. P. OFFICIALS
ARE INI/ESJIGATED
Republican State Central
Committee Takes Up
Charges Against C. P. Go
ree and M. H. Karnes
For the purpose of investigating
charges made against C. P. Goree
and M. H. Karnes, chairman and vice
chairman, respectively, of the Re
publican state central committee,
members of that body convened Fri
day at noon at a called session in
the colored Odd Fellows* hall, on
Auburft avenue.
The meeting was called over the
heads of Mr. Goree and Mr. Karnes,
and promised to be teeming with ex
citement before its conclusion.
The list of charges preferred
against ■ Messrs. Goree and Karnes
deal with their loyalty to the party
and with the alleged collection and
disposition of funds, as well as their
alleged activities in the bestowal of
public offices.
The meeting was called on petition
of seventy-one of the ninety-four
members of the committee, and has
taken the aspect of a formal trial.
During the early afternoon hours of
Friday, witnesses were being sworn,
with a view to taking u pthe charges
item by item.
Several Hundred Present
Several hundred spectators, both
white and colored. Crowded the hall
where the meeting is being held, and
although two sergeants-at-arms were
appointed, no evidences of disorder
were apparent.
A great deal of interest was caused
early in the session when Henry
Lincoln Johnson, national committee
man of the Republican party, from
Georgia, unexpectedly entered the
hall. He was accorded a rousing
ovation, and it was stated that he
would address the Republicans later
in the day.
Neither Mr. Goree nor Mr. Karnes
were present. They did not have
•epresentatives or witnesses in the
tall.
Charges Bead
The meeting was called to order
>y Harry H. Pace. The charges were
•ead in detail. It was alleged th,at
Mr. Goree and Mr. Karnes posed as
personal representatives of Harry M.
Daugherty. Mr. Harding s personal
campaign manager. That they vis! e
•arious cities and collected funds.
Other charges read at - the mecting
were to the effect that Goree and
tames offered J. i. Foster, of Col
ege Park, the postmastership of
hit city; that a similar offer was
nade to S W. Estes, of Union City,
md W J Campbell. of East Point.
Moving picture cameras were ,
ividence at the meeting, and the
licking of the machines was heaia
t frequent intervals. The meeting
iaving taken the aspect of a formal
rial, will continue until a finding m
he case has been reached.
\IRS. C. M. COHEN
IS ABSENT WHEN
CASE IS CALLED
Mrs. Caroline M. Cohen, of Fort
.IcPherson. recently indicted on shop
ifting charges, was absent when her
’ase was called in superior court
?hursday, and investigation by court
>fficials developed the fact that she
est the city several days since with
out posting bond for her appear
nce. .« .1
Attorneys and court officers differed
harply concerning Mrs. Cohen’s non
tppearance, and a spirited contro
ersy relative to an alleged agree
nent for the continuance of the case
was in progress Friday.
The case against Mrs. Cohen,
vhich is of a sensational nature and
nvolves charges of mistreatment by
the police and at the hands of a pro
fessional bondsman, was first called
ay Solicitor General John A. Boykin
Wednesday. Ten witnesses for the
state were present, but there was
30 appearance for the defense and
the case was checked until Thurs
day, according to the solicitor.
Non-appearance of Mrs. Cohen on
Thursday, when the case again was
'ailed, prompted the solicitor to be
’•in the investigation which revealed
’he fact of her departure. Solicitor
Boykin then removed the case from
the calendar and excused the wit
nesses "for the very good reason that
there "was no defendant to place on
trial,” according to his statement
lr De a p y iity Sheriff J. Gordon Hardy
made the statement that he had been
charged with the responsibility of ar
resting Mrs. Cohen and having her
on hand for trial. “She was not pres
ent for the reason that
W. Paul Carpenter, broke faith witn
me,” he asserted Friday.
Attorney Denies Agreement
The deputy declared when a war
rant was given him for the arrest of
Mrs. Cohen, he followed an
fished custom and telephoned the a
- attorney, making the re
quest that Mrs. Cohen be brought to
the courthouse to arrange bond. This
nrocedute is followed m order to elim
mate unnecessary humiliation to de-
he explained. .
"Attorney Carpenter promised to
bring Mrs. Cohen to the courthouse
and fix the bond,” said Hardy, but
this was not done; indeed, it could
not have been done, for atthe tim
the defendant was in another state,
According to my iniormation. The
deputy declared this Is the first case
where a defendant’s attorney has
failed to deliver his client at the ap
pointed time under a previously
emphatically
Monies any agreement with Deputy
Wirdv and declares it has
S gen“rlny known in Atlanta for
several days that Mrs. Cohen was not
in “I he m C a i de’ efforts to have Mrs.
T*®
sought Attorneys Herbert Haas and
iiither Rosser. representing the
Silver company, from store
mv client was charged with lift
in* goods, and arranged with them
so? / continuance of the case. I ex
plained that Mrs. Cohen was only
visiting her daughter at Fort Mc-
Pherson, and that she was needed
at her home in a distant state. I
had kept her here for some time as
the result of these charges and al
though she is now at her home, I
am in dailv communication with
her and can have her here for trial
at any time which the court sets.
NATION'S BUSINESS
IS SAFELY PAST
CRITICAL PERIOD
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W. P. G. Harding Says Re
serve System Has Enabled
Country to Avoid Serious
Crisis
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Jan. 21.
Governor W. P. G. Harding, of the
federal reserve board, in an address
here today before members of the
Winston-Salem Chamber of Com
merce, said he believed “develop
ments of the past thirty days have
convinced even those who are never
so happy as when miserable, that
not only has all danger of a great
financial crisis or money panic been
safely over the most critical and
passed, but that business generally is
trying stage of the readjustment
period. ✓
“Heretofore,” he said, “following
periods of artificial expansion the
reactions that have come have usu
ally been sharp and sudden, accom
panied by money panics. Nothing
of the sort has occurred in the pres
ent readjustment period. While
many predictions were made that an
old-fashioned panic was inevitable.
I never once doubted the ability of
federal reserve system to prevent
any such condition.
“The decline in prices was neces
sarily disastrous to those producers
who had gone heavily into debt,
with the expectation that the level
of prices which existed a year ago
would be sustained or even advanced,
and in many individual cases great
losses will be suffered, but so far
as the community as a whole is con
cerned there is no question of sol
vency.
“In working out he situation, it is
necessary that those who have ex
tended credits should exercise pa‘-
tience, moderation and forebearance,
in cases where debtors show them
selves to be worthy of confidence
and are willing to meet reasonable
requirements.
“I have observed no disposition on
the part of the banks to force col
lections by foreclosures or other
drastic means except as a last resort
There are signs everywhere of . a
revival of business in the spring.
Tonight Governor Harding will b«
entertained at a dinner at which a
number of prominent business men
will be present. He will then return
to Washington.
Man Who Founded
S. C. Ku Klux Klan
Is Dead at Union
UNION, S. C., Jan. 21. —James Gid
eon Long, credited with having es
tablished the first Ku Klux Klan in
South Carolina during reconstruction
days, died at his home here yester
day at the age of seventy-three. He
celebrated his golden wedding last
November. .
Mr. Long served as sheriff \or
Union county for twenty years, and
on one occasion, with the aid of only
one deputy, prevented a mob of al
most 200 men from lynching a negro
accused of assault upon a white
woman. The negro whom the mob
sought to take from jail was later
proved innocent.
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BIGHAM'S BROTHER
IS UNDER ARREST
AFTER S. C. TRAGEDY
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Several Negroes Will Be
Held as Material Wit
nesses, According to Cor
oner in Case
FLORENCE, S. C., Jan. 21.—Ed
mund Bigham, brother of L. S. Big
ham, who was supposed to have kill
ed his mother; his sister, Mrs. Ma
rie Black, and two adopted children,
and then committed suicide at Pam
lico, near here, last Saturday, was
arrested this afternoon on orders
from Coroner Smith, who has been
conducting an Investigation of the
tragedy. Bigham was brought here
and placed in jail.
Several negroes will be arrested
and held as material witnesses, it
was learned tonight from the coro
ner.
Edmund Bigham was arrested on
the strength of a warrant sworn out
today before Magistrate Welmore by
John W. McCracken, father of the
two little children, Leo and John
McCracken, who were killed and who
had been adopted by Mrs. Black. An
affidavit by Phillip H. Arrowsmith,
an attorney of Florence, also de
clared that Edmund Bigham had
threatened the life of Mrs. Black
when she had attempted to recover
possession of three signed blank
deeds which had been taken from L.
S. Bigham by his brother.
In his affidavit Mr. Arrowsmith
declared Mrs. Black came to him on
January 8 and requested him to draw
a will for her, charging that Ed
mund Bigham had threatened her
life. The affidavit also stated that
Mrs. Black had told him she had giv
en to L. S. Bigham three signed blank
deeds; that Edmund had taken these
papers away from Smiley and when
she attempted to regain possession
of them Edmund had threatened her
life. Edmund had no interest in the
Bigham esta.te, having conveyed his
interest to his mother and brother,
it was stated.
Arrowsmith declared he drew the
will in accordance with instructions,
placing in it the reason why Mrs.
Black wanted to leave her property
to L. S. Bigham. The will has been
found, according to the authorities.
Seven Riot Calls
Stir Philadelphia
During Ship Strike
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.—Seven
riot calls were turned In last night
from widely scattered districts short
ly after workmen from the Cramp
Shipbuilding company, where a
strike is in progress, had left for
home.
One man, Sicklen Entrikin, was
beaten unconscious by supposed
Strike sympathizers. Two other
wormen were beaten and several re
ported having been attacked. Black
jacks were said to have been used by
the attackers.
$185,000, Stolen in
Chicago Mails, Found;
Preacher Is Arrested
MOUNT VERNON, Hl., Jan. 21,
Virtually all of the $185,000 obtained
in the theft of thirty-one packages
of registered mrfil here last Friday
was recovered today by postoffice
inspectors in several raids in Mount
Vernon. One of four persons arrest
ed on suspicion of complicity in the
robbery is the Rev. Guy Kyle, former
rector of the Free Methodist church
here.
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SLAYER OF BARTON
IS SET FREE BY
CORONER’S JURY
Testimony by tfia wffiow of The
dead man that her husband fired at
her brother when only seven fee’
away, Wednesday afternoon helped
to free Guy Wallace who, the night
before, had killed his brother-in-law,
Lee Barton.
The inquest was conducted by Cor
oner Paul Donehoo in the Barton
home near Hapeville, where the trag
edy occurred. The widow recited a
story of allleged mistreatment on the
part of her husband; told of her sub
mission and of the climax which re
sulted in the shooting. The jury
freed Wallace, holding that he had
shot in self-defense.
Brothers of Mrs. Wallace told how
it had seemed best to give her a pis
tol with which to protect herself
against her husband, and of Barton s
reported declaration that he would
“kill the man it belongs to.”
Would Outlaw Pool
Rooms in Carolina
COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 20—A bill
prohibiting the operation of any bil
liard or poolroom in the state of
South Carolina and providing a pen
alty of thirty days’ imprisonment
or more or a fine of between $25 and
SIOO or both fine and imprisonment
for each day’s offense has been in
troduced in the house of representa
tives by Mr. Harris, of Spartanburg,
and referred to the committee on
police regulations.
SPEAKING OF “HOLD-UPS”
Eight Wounded in
Bomb Assaults on
Police of Dublin
DUBLIN, Jan. 20. —Eight men and
women were wounded in three bomb
attacks directed at the police lAt6
last night and early this morning.
The military devised a “human
screen” following the sudden spurt
of fighting. A proclamation posted
throughout the city declared that
known “rebels” would be carried in
every lorry patrolling Dublin or ad
joining Meath county.
Caricatures of ‘‘President’.’ De Va
lera were used by the crown forces
in new warnings of property pun
ishment. Posted on doors in county
Galway, the caricatures showed De
Valera with blood gushing irom
mouth and ears, revolvers pointed
at both temples. Below the head
was the warning: “Murderers —Re-
move this card and the house goes
up!”
Mississippi Greek
Charged With Painting
Boy’s Face Green
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 21. —Theo-
dore Grillls, a Greek merchant of
this city, was today fined SSO in po
lice court for giving a negro boy s
face a coat of brilliant green paint.
Some of the paint got into one of
the boy’s eyes and he may lose the
sight of the optic.
LIFEOFLENINE
IS REPORTED IN
SERIOUS DANGER
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RIGA, Jan. 20. —The life of Nikolai
Lenihfe is in serious danger, accord
ing to all reports reaching here.
Reports of the premier’s condition
are conflicting, but observers here
were convinced that from the smoke
clouds of rumor and unofficial re
port, there must be fire somewhere.
The latest report from. Moscow
was that Lenine, lying ill, is sur
rounded by detectives whose pre
cautions against a poison plot out
rival those of the guards of the
ancient czars. Servahts were said
to have been implicated in a con
spiracy to poison the premier’s food
and there were hints that his ill
ness was due to their partial suc-
Lenine’s guards were reported to
follow the practice in vogue during
the old regime. All foods are an
alyzed for traces of poison
where their P s "® p ?^ ed se t r y!
viands are offered first to tne sery
ants preparing them. If the servants
live, the premier may eat the same
preparation indicated a
Other re P°F*s j n Moscow,
grave . ap Ps®? e ”e to fear
, b / >?, serlo “ s aan ’
ger if Lenine sh ° uld it d has been re
and also that his heavy labors,
under the strain of his neavy
INSURANCE POLICY
TO PROTECT OWNER
OF A SEIZED AUTO
Dealers Also to Profit by
Confiscation Policy to Be
Offered by Insurers Fol
lowing Court Decision
The effect of the decision of the
United States supreme court, at
Washington, that automobiles captur
ed in the transportation of liquor are
subject to confiscation by the gov
ernment officers, regardless of their
ownership, will be neutralized, if not
nuillified by the big fire insurance
companies of the country engaged in
writing automobile fire, theft and
liability insurance.
The National Automobile Confer
ence, composed of insurance com
panies that write automobile fire,
theft and liability insurance, are en
gaged in the preparation of a policy
that will protect dealers and owners
alike against the loss of "their auto
mobiles through government confis
cation, if and when captured in the
transportation of liquor.
Announcement to this effect by
insurance men in Atlanta Friday
morning was the subject of general
and approving interest among auto
mobile dealers, bankers and others
who were apprised of the purpose
of the insurance companies associat
ed with the National Automobile
Conference, southern headquarters of
which are located in Atlanta.
Dealer Talks
“The action of the insurance com
panies in writing a so-called ‘confis
cation policy* to protect dealers
against loss through the seizure by
the government of cars captured in
the transportation of liquor is the
logical and inevitable outcome of the
supreme court decision,” said J. W.
Goldsmith, Jr., whose firm was the
plaintiff in error in the precedent-set
ting case decided by the supreme
court last Monday.
“The issuance of such policies by
the insurance companoes will meet
the situation created by the court de
cision and operate effectually to re
lieve conditions that otherwise would
work a hardship and . injustice not
only on legitimate autoinobile deal
ers but also upon innocent purchas
ers and owners of automobiles.”
Mr. Goldsmith added that the cost
of the premiums l on “confiscation
policies” logically will be passed on
to the purchaser, and that no cars
will be sold by Atlanta ashlers on
credit that are not covered fully by
“confiscation Insurance.”
MORPHINE FOUND
IN RAID HERE IS
VALUED AT $3,000
Federal narcotic inspectors raided
the apartment of Fred G. Bond, at
41 East Merritts avenue, Thursday
morning and confiscated imported
Spanish morphine valued at upwards
of? 3,000. Bond was held under ?1,000
bond by United States Commissioner
Colquitt Carter. He is said to have
been a former assistant cashier of
the Bank of Lithonia.
Bond, a confessed addict of the
drug, declared he was in possession
of the naorphine for his personal
use and not for commercial purposes.
He told the commissioner he bought
the supply on Bleecker street in New
York last July, paying $45 an ounce,
and that the peddlers who sold it
to him extorted S2OO additional from
him immediately after the sale under
threats of turning him over to the
police.
Narcotic Officer Y. T. Allen and
Inspectors E. E. Dixon and T. B.
Harris made the raid. They testified
that scales found in the room and
information given' them by persons
residing nearby, indicated Bond had
been retailing the morphine. They
offered no definite evidence of any
sales, but declared they had been
told by “dopes” that morphine could
be bought from Bond at $125 an
ounce.
Commissioner Carter said he doubt
ed the truth of Bond’s statement
that the narcotics were only for his
personal consumption.
Bail was fixed at SI,OOO. “If there
were any evidence of sale I would
make it much heavier,” said the
commissioner. “It certainly seems
unreasonable that you should have
bought this much morphine for your
own use.”
Bond pleaded for a lighter bond,
declaring the bond assessed was pro
hibitive. “I have nothing but $4
in cash and an automobile,” he said.
“I have violated the law, but 1 want
another chance.”
Witnesses stated the defendant has
been a physical wreck for several
months. Commissioner Carter sug
gested that he be taken before Judge
Sibley to enter a plea of guilty and
receive a sentence in the peni,tentiaiy
in order to take the government treat
ment for the drug habit, but
declared he would not go to the
penitentiary unless a jury sent him
tticre 1
Friends of the defendant were ex
pected to arrange bond for him
Thursday afternoon.
on Snoring Is
Proposed in Bill
Before Legslature
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 21.
Snoring, talking in one’s sleep or oth
erwise disturbing the “family and
neighborhood peace after 1 a. m.”
would be unlawful and punishable
by prescribed penalties under a bill
introduced in the Oklahoma legisla
ture today.
Loss of breakfast is prescribed as
the penalty for the first offense, liv
ing with a mother-in-law a certain
number of days is the penalty for
the second offense with fines ranging
from SIOO to SI,OOO for the third and
successive offenses.
5 CENTS A COPT.
$1.60 A YEAR,
LOVE FOR GIRL WIFE 1
SPURS HUSBAND TG I
TRY RANK ROBBERY )
Youth Is Foiled in Crude Ef
fort to Break Into Vault
of the Hapeville Bank,
Near Atlanta
BY WABD GREENE
Norman Day tried to rob the Bank
of Hapeville Wednesday night be
cause he was down to his last dollar
and the boyhood sweetheart he had
married last July was expecting a
baby and he had promised her it
would he born in their own home in- . 3
stead of the orphanage which wa»
the only home the two of them ever
knew.
This was the story the young hus
band told Friday morning in his cell
at the Fulton county Tower to news
paper men and to T. S. Scoggina,
superintendent of the Baptist Or
phans’ home at Hapeville, where Day
was reared from childhood and where
his young wife lies today, prostrated Y
by the news of his arrest.
Unembroidered by any phrases of v
the “sob artist,” it is one of the most
pathetic stories Fulton county ha>
ever known.
“Nick” Day, as everyone in Hape
ville knows him. is an orphan. He z
was born in Walker county, Georgia,
just twenty-one years ago, and hie
mother and father died when he was
only a little shaver. With a young
er sister and *brother, he was taken
care of at the Hapeville home.
There the red-headed, freckle-faced
youngster grew up to be one of th*
best boys at the home. When he was
sixteen he was doing a man’s work
in the fields and learning telegraphy
in the class room and helping Mr.
Scoggins and “Mother” Scoggins with
the younger children.
One of these was Della Willis, an
other orphan, who early became
Nick’s sweetheart. He loved her and
she loved him —that was all there
was to it. And under the kindly eyes
of Mr. and Mrs. Scoggins there wM
a courtship as gentle and sweet as
it was open and frank.
Bought Drug Store
Then the war came, Nick enlisted,
of course. He was not then twenty
one, but his course In telegraphy at
the home stod him in good stead.
He was in the radio corps for J
whlie, and then, because it attracUd
him, was transferred to aviation. He
was a mechanic and in November,
1918 waited at an embarkation camp
near New York for the great adven
ture overseas, when the signing or
the armistice put an end to all that.
While he was in the army Nick
came home on furlough, brave in his
uniform, and asked Mr. Scoggins for
Della. And Mr. Scoggins gave hi*
permission for them to marry after
the war, when Nick should havs
made good in the world.
Nick came home to make good.
And for a while he did. Della, who
had learned stenography at ths
home, had a position in Atlanta.
They both boarded at the home,
where they were right, hands to the
superintendent and his wife.
“I noticed he used to stay around
the home Saturday afternoons, when
I was likely to be called away, said
Mr. Scroggins. “It was the only day
off for him and Della, and I told him
he oughtn’t to do that—he should
take her out for a ride. But he
said no, that “Mother Scroggine
might need him. Nick was that
kind of boy.” • .
Nic through the aid of Mr.
Scoggins, bought a litle drug-store
business on the west side in A tian
ta. Mr. Scoggins put up the money
for it and Nick paid him back on
the instalment plan. He did well,
he never failed to make a payment,
finally he sold out at a profit and
reimbursed Mr. Scoggins to the last
penny. He had something of his
own and a good job as switchman in
the N. C. & St. L. yards.
Married East July
Nick and Della were married last
July. The wedding was in the par
lor of the Hapeville home and all of
Nick’s friends in Hapevile—there
were many of them —came to se<
and to congratulate them. There
was never a happier day.
But it took almost all of Nick’s
money. Two, he found, cannot live
as cheap as one, whatever people
say to the contrary. They still
boarded at the home, and Della gave
up her job in town.
But Nick wasn’t discouraged. He
began to plan ways to make extra
money. For expenses had to be met.
they wanted to “get ahead, and
above all, they wanted a home of
their own. And then—there the
baby. Nick knew there would be a
doctor’s bills, nurse’s bills, certain
food that had to be bought. And he
promised Della their baby should
have a home, a real home, from the
first. .
So he borowed some money, his
credit was good; he had gotten loans
and paid them before at the very
bank he tried to rob. And- he
bought him an automobile truck.
Working nights in the yards and do
ing dray work in the daytime, he
began to get ahead. v
If it hadn’t been for the slump In
business last fall, this story might
never have been written. But the
railroad began to cut down. Nicks
eight hours a night sometimes were
only four hours, and sometimes none
at all. People, it seemed, did not
ned drays as much as they did be
fore, either. Expenses were get
ting heavier; income was dwindl
ing; he was having a-kard time meet
ing the notes on his truck.
Nick didn’t tell his troubles much.
He kept them to himself, trying to
find away out. Mr. Scroggins knew
he was worried, but not until Fri
day did he know how hard pressed
the boy was.
“I couldn’t tell you," Nick said to
him. “You’ve helped me so much
already. I couldn’t ask you for
more.”
Decides on Bobbery
January 1, Nick and his wife had
to leave the home. The baby was
coming, you see, and everyone
thought it best not to stay there.
The cheapest place they could gat
in Atlanta, said Nick, was $65 a
month. That didn’t help any. Work
in the yards and with the dray was
getting scarcer and scarcer, the rent
was heavy, the notes on the truck
fell due with terrible regularity, it
cost more to live in town, and Del
la’s time was drawing closer week
by week.
So Nick faced the future. It is
probable that no one else knows just
how dark it was to him, how haV
rassed he was, how driven to it for ’
some way out. And then—so he told
the story—an idea came to him
Tuesday night while he lay in bed,
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