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AVERTED IT MEET
OF LEAGUE COUNCIL
Ambassadors’ Body in Paris
Is Asked to Find Some Ba
sis for Settlement of Greek
Dispute
GENEVA, Sept. 6. —The League ot
• Nations council avoided a break with
4 Italy late today.
After deciding at a private ses
sion to reaffirm the council’s com
petency to adjudicate the Greco-
Italian dispute, the only action the
,<' council took at a public meeting
later was to reepmmend that the
council ot ambassadors at Paris
find a basis for settlement of Italy’s
demand for reparations for the
death of their commissioners at
Janina.
The league council, despite pres
sure by a majority of its members
and of delegates to the assembly
which had adjourned pending ac
tion by the smaller body, did not
enter into tlie question of -whether
Italy’s occupation of Corfu was a
violation of the celebrated Article
* Answering Mussolini’s challenge
of incompetency, the council still
reserved for the league the right
to act in this matter, but took no
action.
SETBACK FOR LONDON
SEEN IN NEGOTIATIONS
By Edgar Ansel Mower
(Special Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1923.1
ROME, Sept. 6.—The Italian po
sition in its conflict with Greece,
now seems so strong that unless
something unexpected occurs, Great
Britain will receive another setback.
"The English will again have to
pay for backing the wrong horse,”
is the opinion expressed here.
Italy practically can do what she
likes, for the Franco-Britain diverg
ence splits the only European com
bination capable of forcing them to
' evacuate Corfu, or to accept the de
cision of the League of Nations.
* France and Italy apparently have
discovered a working basis for that
understanding which they long had
sought in vain, the writer believes
that the French will remain neutral,
will discourage Jugo-Slav action,
• will tacitly back Italy—and in re-
* turn will receive Italian support in
the Ruhr.
URUGUAY DENIES PLAN
TO SIDE WITH ITALY
MONTEVIDEO, Sept. 6.—ln con
nection with advices from Rome
that Uruguay and Brazil have de
cided to iftitruct theip representa
tives at Geneva to stand with Italy
and abandon the League of Nations
if she decides to do so. the Uru
guayan foreign minister authorizes
the following statement:
"Although after an exchange of
ideas with the president, the Uru
guayan foreign office has been in
cable communication with the Uru
guayan delegate on the League of
Nations council, Senor Guani, rec
ommending him to lend the most
deferential attention to the argu
ments of the Italian thesis, no such
instructions as is indicated in these
- advices has been sent, nor has the
Uruguayan attitude been compro
mised in the matter stated.”
ITALY CONFISCATES ARMS
ON ISLAND OF CORFU
CORFU, Sept. 6—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—The Italian occupa
tion authorities have ordered the
confiscation of arms of all nation
alities residents here, including
members of the Italian colony. British
subjects may store their weapons in
their own consulate. 1
This city is quiet and oWerly, but
the Inhabitants are anxiously won
dering how long the occupation will
last. * No Greek ships are arriving
or departing and it is impossible to
. proceed directly to Athens.
ATHENS ENDS INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS WITH ITALY
ATHENS, Sept. 6.—The Athenian
Chamber of Commerce has decided
to break commercial and industrial
relations not only with Italy, but
also with Italian firms in Greece.
•GREEK FLEET AVOIDS
CONTACT WITH ITALIANS
’ ATHENS, Sept. 6—(By the Asso-
* ciated Press.) —The Greek fleet has
received orders to retire to the Gulf
of Volo to avoid contact with the
Italian fleet, it was learned on good
authority.
The Gulf of Volo, an arm of the
Aegean sea, is on the eastern side
of the Greek peninsula and approxi
mately 90 miles north of Athens.
Information Sought
Os Missing Persons
G. W. Hair, Route 2, Lancaster,
S. C., desires information about W.
B. Caston, who was last heard from
while in Savannah, Ga„ in Novem
ber of last year.
Mrs. S. J. Montgomery, Route 2,
Sumner, Ga., seeks word of her
M son, Ernie, 14 years old, supposed
to have left Waycross in August
with a band of gypsies. He is slen
der, with light hair, blue eyes and
dark mark on under lip.
r
The Weather
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia: Fair with somewhat low
er temperatures.
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia: Probably local thunder
showers; somewhat lower tempera
ture.
Florida, extreme northwest Flor
ida: Partly cloudy, local thunder
showers.-
Alabama, Mississippi: Fair, slignt
ly cooler in interior.
” Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair.
West Virginia: Fair with mod
erate temperature.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy, probably
, • local thunder showers.
Arkansas: Generally fair.
’ Oklahoma: Generally fair.
i East Texas: Partly cloudy; prob
l ably scattered thunder showers.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
HONOLULU. —Kilauea volcano in
Hawaii resumes activity and molten
lava is hurled 150 feet into the air.
MANILA.—Three distinct earth
quake shocks were felt here between
8 and 9 o’clock Wednesday morning.
TOMIOKA, Japan.—Three Amer
ican destroyers arrive in Yokohama
and take 300 Americans aboard.
ROME. — King of Spain informs
the quirinal and Vatican that he will
visit Italian sovereigns in Novem
ber.
SAN FRANCISCO. Yokohama is
a charnal house with its canals and
waterfront choked with dead, direct
Tokio advices say.
MILWAUKEE. Gayloid M.
Saltzgaber, Vanwert, Ohio, is elected
commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oklahoma
authorities publish facts in floggings
that prompted Governor Wilton to
invoke martial law in Tulsa county.
ATLANTA. —E. R. Dußose, of the
firm of Chamberlin-Johnson-Dußose
C 0.,, and Will S. Ansley, veteran
real estate man, die here Thursday
"flight.
GENEVA. —Italy’s refusal to rec
ognize right of the League of Na
tions to intervene in Greek dispute
imperils League of Nations, and Brit
ish view is that foundations of Eu
rope are shaken.
..WASHINGTON. Mrs. Harding
leaves Washington for Marion, and
plans to close up affairs of the late
president .including filing of his will.
VALPARAISO, Ind. Valparaiso
university will continue to operate,
regardless of discontinuance of ne
gotiations whereby Ku Klux Klan
was to have taken over institution,
it is announced by President H. M.
Evans.
WASHINGTON. Two thousand
immigrants nt'ho were rushed to New
York before midnight August 31 in
order to beat time barrier on immi
gration quota for September, are or
dered admitted, but fines of S2OO for
each of them is ordered imposed on
steamship companies.
CHICAGO. —The valuation of the
farmer's income on this year’s crop,
of $1,000,000,000 more than for last
year, is challenged by IT. W. Moore
house, director of American farm bu
reau federation’s research depart
ment, which claims that estimates
had been put on July crop not yet
harvested, and that the bureau’s es
timate for sales indicate an increase
of $200,000,000,
Hudson Brothers’ Trial
In Macon Flogging
To Open on Monday
MACON, Ga., Sept. 7—No ar
rangement had been made up t-j
Thursday for employment of addi
tional counsel to aid Solicitor Roy
Moore in the prosecution of charges
against the three Hudson brothers,
arrested here in connection with re
cent flogging episodes and an at
tempt to whip Emory Roberts, ne
gro. The man will be placed on trial
in city court next Monday, the cases
of J. C. and S. R. Hudson having
been placed at the top of the docket.
It is also stated that court official*
are planning to take up the cases ot
.J F. Alexander, Dr. C. A. Yar
brough, J D. Patrick and W. F.
Delamar immediately after the Hid
s oncases are disposed of.
Judge Will F. Gunn, of city court,
who will be disqualified for sitting in
the trial of Alexander by reason of
kindship, has not yet designated a
judge to preside during his trial.
Dr. Yarbrough,' Patrick and De
Lamar, throuogh their attorneys, an
nounced this afternoon that they
would enter a plea of not guilty to
charges of assault and battery and
rioting.
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LONDON.—Cholera has broken
out in Yokohama, Kobe unconfirm
ed news agency report says.
SAN FAANCISCO.—Pacific mail
liner President Taft sails with a
sehipment of 300 tons of rice for Jap
anese earthquake victims.
BERLIN. Germany’s floating
debt August 31 was more than one
quadrillion marks. In round fig
ures, 1,235,067,000,000,000.
ROME. Official announcement
made of occupation by Italy ot
Paxos and sev al small islands to
complete the ring around Corfu.
HONOLULU.—“HeiI” alone can
describe the scene in Tokio during
the after-the-earthquake, Tokio cor
respondent- of Hawaii newspaper de
clares.
OMAHA. —The Omaha Bee asks
government to buy great quantities
of flour for Japan and links earth
quake necessities with emergency of
farmers in the grain belt.
CHICAGO —Fred W. Upham, treas
urer of Republican national commit
tee, announces that he will ask
President Coolidge to intervene in
the Franco-German reparations dif
ficulty.
MARION.—Mrs. Harding approves
plan of Marion civic committee to
hold a memorial for the late presi
dent in Marion November 2, the 58th
anniversary of his birth.
NEW YORK.—Wage adjustments
for employes of United States Steel
corporation whoe working day was
reduced from 12 to 10 hours will be
an increase of about 10 per cent, it
is indicated by Elbert Gary.
WASHINGTON. Proportionate
distribution of the proceeds of sales
to members of co-operative associa
tions was declared by the internal
revenue bureau to be the only i..eth
od by which the income of such as
sociations could be tax exempt.
SALEM, O. —Prof. Irving Fisher,
Yale economist, is barred from
speaking here because of his recent
statement that President Harding
favored the League of Nations, but
did not dare to make public his per
sonal views.
WASHINGTON.—AII previous rec
ords for loading a of revenue freight
were broken during the week ending
August 25, when 1,069,932 cars were
loaded, it is announced by car serv
ice division .of American Railway
association. Total exceeds previous
record of the week ended July 28 by
28,888. - f
Lightning Bolt Kills
Woman and Injures
Husband and Children
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.,—A stroke
of lightning late Wednesday killed
Mrs. Rufus Proctor, probably fatally
injured her husband and severely
burned their two small children at
their home at South Side, Montgom
ery county. The house was badly
damaged.
Baby Is Drowned
In Garbage Can
GURLEY, Ala., Sept. 6. John
Cloud, two-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Cloud, of Gurley, was
drowned at their hoine Wednesday
by falling into a garbage can head
foremost. He had been dead an hour
when his mother found him.
Carolina Editor Hurt
MEBANE, N. C.. Sept. 6.—C. F,
Parnell, editor of the Mebane En
terprise, was painfully hurt about
the back and legs here late Wed
nesday when an airplane in which
he was riding was badly wrecked.
The pilot. William H. Fillmore, of
Reidsville, here for exhibition fights
at the Mebane fair, escaped injury.
DESTROYER FLEET
HUNTS HK
MISSING 11'1 JAPAN
Imperial Bank’s Millions
Saved by Vaults —U. S.
Relief Ships Arrive and
Distribute Supplies
BY CLIFFORD FOX
(Special Cable tv The Atlanla Journal and
Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1923.1
PEKIN, Sept. 6.—The first relief
commission from Pekin left for Ja
pan early today.
A second contingent of American
naval destroyers has been dis
patched from Ching Wang Tao to
search for Miss Marian Halsey, sec
retary of the Rockefeller Hospital
here; Miss Eva B. MacMillan, regis
trar of tne same institution; Miss
Helen Downes, an instructor; Dr.
and Mrs. W. T. Councillman and
their daughter, and Dr.' R. E. Mc-
Cullough and his wife, all of them
hospital attaches who were vaca
tioning in Japan.
BANK’S MILLIONS SAVED
BY FIREPROOF VAULTS
OSAKA, Sept. 6. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —All money in the
Bank of Japan .vaults was sqyed
from destruction in the fire which
followed the earthquake and tidal
wave, it became known here today.
AMERICAN RELIEF SHIPS
ARRIVE IN JAP PORTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—(By
the Associated Press.) —The Japanese
nation, stricken by what is probably
the greatest disaster of the modern
era, turns bravely to the tremendous
tasks ahead, marshaling her shat
tered resources to succor the hun
dreds of thousands who suffer from
injury and from hunger, and laying
her plans for the rebuilding of her
ruined cities.
While the rest of the world hur
ries its ships of war and commerce
to Japanese waters, deep laden with
relief supplies, Premier Yamamoto
broadcasts a message to his people
urging them to unite in the trying
hours through which they are pass
ing and appealing to them to make
a supreme effort to relieve the suf
fering and expedite the work of re
constructions.
The cables say that already orders
for (building materials have been re
ceived in England, while leading
construction engineers and architects
in New York have proffered their
assistance in making a new Japan.
> Desolation at Yokohama
Yokohama is a city of desolation,
far more severely smitten than is
the capital, Tokio. A message re?
cived from Kobe at the state depart
ment in Washington confirms pre
vious word that the great port of
Japan has been completely destroy
ed, with a tremendous loss of life,
including Americans. The city’s
streets and canals are filled with
dead; one dispatch says that only
three or four houses have been
spared. The harbor is practically
of no value to the relief ships, for
the floor has been raised, the break
waters torn asunder, and the many
lighthouses, with only two excep
tions, demolished.
Five hundred foreigners are said
to have been killed in Yokohama.
Included in this number, according
to various reports, are the follow
ing Americans:
Captain McDonald, of the Grand
hotel; Mrs/' Root and son; Max, D.
Kirjesoff, American consul; Ghief
Pharmacist L. ZembeCh, of the
United States navy hospital, and his
wife, and two enlisted men. The
hospital buildings were wrecked.
Other Americans Killed ’
Other Americans reported killed
are Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bur
nett, military attache at the Ameri
can embassy, at Tokio; Bess apd
Richard Mendell, of Cleveland; Eliza
beth Dodson, of Kinston, N. C., and
W. T. Blume, of the General Elec
tric company. The latter was sta
tioned in Tokio.
A dispatch from the Tokio corre
spondent of the Central News, re
ceived in London, says, that 200.000
are dead in that city; but the corre
spondent of the Associated Press,„
in a dispatch filed on Tuesday, puts
the number of 50.000. Not less than
200 foreigners, he estimates, per
ished in Yokohama.
Throughout the stricken area the
authorities are trying to meet the
two immediate needs of the situation;
care for the wounded and food for
the hungry. Supplies of rice are be
ing requisitioned throughout the em
pire, while engineers, working with
makeshift forcee, repair the rail
ways to rush the f6od to the starv
ing.
Meanwhile there are no reports of
disorder, although there is some
plundering and* looting. General
Kukuda is determined to quiet the
population of the capital as quickly
as possible in order that martial law
may be revoked.
American Relief Arrives
The organization of relief- work
throughout the rest of the world
proceeds rapidly, and already the
United States has been of material
assistance. The American destroyer
No. 221, arrived in Kobe yesterday
with supplies, followed soon after by
the shipping board steamer City of
Spokane, which leaves for Yokohama
todav with 6,000 tons of flour.
Many other American-owned ves
sels are either on cargoes of
relief supplies at Pacific coast <*orts
or are on their way to Japan. In
San Francisco alone five shipping
board steamers are being fitted out
as relief ships.
America’s response to the call f°r
assistance has been immediate and
from all parts of the country come
announcement of gifts in money and
kind. A group of lumber exporting
mills on the Pacific coast are to
donate 45,000,000 feet of timber to
the Japanese government.
The British China squadron has
been ordered to purchase supplies
and food and proceed to Japanese
waters to render whatever assist
ance is needed.
CAROLINA GIRL KILLED;
WAS ON EXTENSIVE TOUR
KINSTON, N. C., Sept. 6.—Miss
Elizabeth Dodson, reported in press
Jispatches received here'last night
to have been killed in the Japanese
earthquake, had been traveling in
Europe, the Near East and Asia
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FLOGGINGS IN TULSA
ARE LAID TO KU KLUX
BYLHWIMIEE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept.
7.—(By th® ’Associated Press.)—The
Ku Klux Klan was revealed today
as the organization charged by
Governor' Walton with responsibil
ity for the lash reign in Tulsa
county.
Evidence gathered by the mili
tary court investigating mob flog
gings in the vicinity of Tulsa lays
authorship of the outrages directly
at the door of the klan, it w’aszde
clared by Aldrich Blake, counsellor
to the governor. Blake was com
missioned by Governor Walton to
review the testimony taken by the
military authorities and tell “the
story of Tulsa.”
In all the testimony of more than
five hundred witnesses examined
not a suspicion has been cast upon
a single person outside t)»e “in
visible empire,” Blake declared.
Summing up the “brutal refrain ’
of the 1,200 pages of the testimony
already adduced, the executiveXpour.-
sellor asserted:
“It’s always the klan or some
members of the klan.”
The report not only names the
organization as responsible for the
whippings that multiplied uncheck
ed in Tulsa county for more than
a year, until martial law was in
voked, but the klan also was re
vealed as the force which Governor
Walton charged “has honeycombed
the courts and civil officers of the
county, protecting floggers and mak
ing justice impossible.”
First Direct Accusation
It has’ been no secret that klans
men were involved in certain of the
floggings, but, until last night.
Governor Walton and his advisers
had refrained from directly accus
ing the klan as the agency that
introduced the lash rule in Tulsa.
Shortly after the military court,
began its inquiry some three weeks
ago, four members of the klan con
fessed participation in whippings
and pleaded guilty to charges of
rioting, each being sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
Scores of victims of Tulsa mob
rule have fled in fear of their lives,
and the entire story can never be
told, Blake said. Tulsa county’s
“most famous whipping pasture,” a
spot a mile and a quarter southeast
of Alsuma, was described by Blake
as a place of torture from which
“strong men stagger away ruined
for life.” A broad leathei' strap,
“cat-tailed” at the tip, was the in
strument of punishment, he pic
tured.
The files of the military court
yield the story of a prominent Tulsa
citizen, formerly a member of the
klan, who attended a whipping par
ty. A man from some other town
conducted the proceedings, he said.
“I did not know him; you see they
usually have a man from some other
klan, a stranger to the community,
to take charge,” he testified. At
least 150 masked men attended the
flogging party, according to the tes
timony.
Woman Describes Whipping
A woman tells how she was
dragged out of bed at night by a
band of men and was taken to the
whipping pasture with her husband.
Both were flogged. j
Another victim, an elderly man,
was whipped because he signed a
petition opposing the local school
administration.
One man, a member of a town
ship school board, escaped punish
ment when he promised to vote for
a school head favored by his ab
ductors.
Reports circulated in the state
that the klan in Tulsa had offered
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, September 8, 1923
OFT ON A STILLY NIGHT
NOMRESTSNUDE
IWKTIONm
ELLENWOOD MURDER
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga., Sept. 7.—A
throng of sorrowing friends and rel
atives attended the funeral at 10
o’clock here this morning of Mr. W.
F. Grant, telegraph operator who
was slain Wednesday night at his
post of duty in Ellenwood. Rev.
Joe Thrailkill, pastor of the Method
ist church here, officiated. The
Stockbridge lodge of Masons con
ducted the services at. the grave.
Clayton county officers and rail
way special agents have been busily
engaged on the case with local au
thorities here and at Ellenwood, but
so far little light has been thrown on
the crime which has stirred the
whole countv. Mr. Grant was well
known. It was said authoritative
a better reputation among his fel
lows. If he had an enemy, it is not
known. It was said authoriatative
ly this morning that no arrests had
been made in connection with the
case. Reports yesterday to this ef
fect were in error, it was said, .and
any arrests made at that time were
in connection with other cases.
The coroner’s jury assembled by
Justice of the Peace W. R. Whit
aker, reconvened this morning at 9
o’clock and resumed their investiga
tion.
Officers are confident that intent
to rob Mr. Grant was not the motive
of his assailant, and they are busy
trying to develop some other motive.
Mr. Grant, who was 53 years old,
is survived by his wife; three sons,
Cecil Grant, Atlanta; Fred Grant,
Atlanta, and Jesse Grant, jf Macon;
two daughters, Mrs. Hugh Calloway,
of Atlanta, and Mrs. Frank Wil
liams, of Macon; two brothers, R. E.
and Ed Grant, of Atlanta, and one
sister, Mrs. Emma Berry, of Stock
bridge.
to disband if Governor Walton
agrees to withdraw his military in
vestigators and lift martial law
have found no official confirmation.
Governor Walton refused to com
ment on reports that Adjutant Gen
eral B. H. Markham, who came
here Wednesday for a conference
with the executive, brought with
him a peace offer from klan offi
cials conditioned upon withdrawal
of troops from Tulsa county.
SOLICITOR GARRETT SAYS
BLAMES KLAN IN f’LOGGINGS
MACON, Ga., Sept. 7.—Charles H.
Garrett, solicitor general of the Bibb
circuit, superior court, who is in
charge of the preparations of evi
dence for the trial of seven persons
accused of flogging in this county,
declared last night that the mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan'are deep
ly involved in the local cases.
“Evidence in a vast majority of
the cases,” said Mr. Garrett, “indi
cates that those persons arrested in
connection with floggings are mem
bers of the klan. There also is evi
dence of organized activity on the
part of members of this body. This
is apparently well understood by the
people of the community.”
Mr. Garrett said that in connec
tion with the seven persons under
arrest, against each of whom there
are two or more cases, “the evidence
overwhelmingly indicates member
ship in the Ku Klux Klan.”
Klan headquarters, Mr. Garrett
stated, is denying that the local acts
were authorized by the kfen as an
organization. He expressed the be
lief that klan headquarters “is
spending money with appar- it sin
cerity in connection with the local
investigation and appears to be es
pecially desirous of .posing its own
members who have heen trapped as
participants in floggings."
FORD MAY MODIFY
OFFER ON SHOILS
TO SUIT COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—(By the
Associated Press.) —After confer
ences with President Coolidge and
Secretary Weeks here today Henry
Ford announced that he had “taken
under advisement” a request of the
war secretary, concurred in by the
chief executive, to modify his offer
for the purchase and lease of the
government’s power and nitrate
projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala.
The meeting between Mr. Ford and
Secretary NVeeks lasted slightly
more than half an hou* and Secre
tary Weeks the nestorted Mr.
Ford’s group to the White House
where they were received by Presi
dent Coolidge. i
Secretary Weeks is understood to
have informed Mr. Ford that the
government would be compelled un
der the contract agreement with the
Alabama Power company to sell the
Gorgas power plant on the Warrior
river to it, although there was some
dispute as to the legal status of the
agreement. It was the war secre
tary’s belief that Mr. Ford could
eliminate the Gorgas unit from his
offer without sacrificing the end he
has in view relative to the operation
of Muscle Shoals property.
In the event the Gorgas property
is eliminated from those Mr. Ford
seeks to purchase, it is planned that
the money paid the government by
the Alabama Power company would
be allowed aa a credit on the pur
chase price fixed by the Ford offer.
Throughout the congressional hear
ing on the Ford proposal, representa
tives of the Detroit manufacturer in
sisted that the Gorgas unit be in
cluded, and they -steadfastly refused
suggestions from members of the
house and senate committees that it
be eliminated.
Mr. Ford is said to hold the same
opinion today, and to still, believe
that the property is indispensible to
the success of the plan he has in
mind for the development of the
shoals prop<-ties. It is understood,
however, that final decision on the
proposal made today by President
Coolidge and Secretary Weeks would
be communicated to the Washington
office as soon as it has been given
due consideration in Detroit.
Neither President Coolidge nor
Secretary Weeks was willing that
the Alabama Power company should
be allowed to buy the Gorgas plant
until Mr. Ford had been consulted.
The power company had formerly
offered 53,000,000 for the plant, and
if the ‘fefile is executed, it is under*
stood that this sum would be deduct
ed from the $5,000,000 which Mr.
Ford offered for the Gorgas plant
and the nitrate factories.
The Alabama Power company, act
ing in accordance with the agree
ment entered into with the govern
ment when the Gorgas plant was
constructed, has served notice that
the war department should vacate
the property not later than October
14. Presy/nably Mr. Ford’s answer
to the request to eliminate it as a
part of his purchase offer will be
made known to the war secretary be
fore the date fixed for the evacua
tion.
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Father’s Defense for Killing
Is Monomania Induced by
Trouton’s Whipping His
Daughter
NEWNAN, Ga., Sept. 7.—With
their father convicted of first de- -
gree murder, Grady and Jeff Min
ter, and their brothers-ln-law, Floyd
Weldon and Leon Goodrum, will ba
quickly tried for their lives in
connection with the death of Mil
lard Trouton, another brother-in
law.
The case against Grady Minter
closed Friday morning and argu
ment began in' the afternoon. *
Trouton, weighed down with rocka
fastened about body by a plow
line, was thrown alive into a shallow
creek near here a month ago. Ac
cording to Sheriff S. P* Carpenter,
the father, J. W. Minter, made a
confession to him admitting he and
his sons adjusted the weights, threw
Trouton into the water and followed
the body as it moved slowly down
stream to "make sure it did not
come to the surface.”
Trouton was sentenced to death
by the Minter family, according to
evidence brought out at the trial
yesterday. The Minters charged
him with having whipped his wife,
Mrs. Mary Minter Trouton, so se
verely that it caused her much suf
fering. .
Mrs. Trouton left her husband
and returned to make her home
with her father. Later, Trouton
wrote her a letter in an effort to
bring about a reconciliation. The
letter was produced at the trial yes
terday. In it, Trouton professed
his love for his wife and cautioned
Minter not to interfere with the
plans 'for j econciliation.
Minter, it was said, then called
his two sons and two sone-in-law
into council and the plans were laid
for Trouton’s abduction. William
Feltman was secured to lure Trou
ton from his home after which th*
Minter clan kidnaped him and car
ried him to the woods where he was
given a speedy trial and put to
death, according to Minter’s confes
sion to- the sheriff.
It is said Minter’s trial was one
of the shortest in the history of
Georgia courts.
Judge C. E. Roop announced at
the opening of court that he would
defer sentencing J. W. Minter until
the trials of the other defendants
had been concluded. He stated that
to sentence Minter now might bo
inimical to the interests of the other
defendants. Since Minter was con
victed without recommendation, th©
court’s sentence can be hanging
only.
Attorneys for the defense have an- .
nounced that the case will be ap
. pealed. It is understood that the
grounds will be that the burden of
proving the sanity of the defendant
is on the state, when this issue is
raised in the case. It is said that
a recent supreme court decision up
held this view.
Brief Trial
When the jury brought in the
verdict in we Minter case last
night at 6:15 o’clock, it marked the
end of one of the shortest trials in
record in Georgia in a similar case.
The case was called at 8 o’clock
Thursday morning, and the jury
had been secured at 9:07. The case
of Grady Minter was expected to
follow about the same course to
day, and the evidence will be larga
ly the same.
Confessed, Sheriff Testifies
A crowded courtroom heard Sher
iff S. P. Caruenter, of Coweta coun
ty, testify that J. W. Minter on three
occasions admitted to him he kill
ed Trouton. Twice, said the sheriff,
Minter declared that he shot Trouton.
The third time he said that he and
his sons and sons-in-law, indicted
also for the murder, tied Trouton
with rocks and threw him into Line
creek.
The sheriff’s testimony was cor
roborated by D. W. Dial, his deputy,
who described how the body was
bound with rocks, and how he found
blood in Leon Goodrum’s automobile,
which, Minter said, according to the
deputy, was used by the party in
carrying Trouton to the creek.
A doctor gave drowning as the im
mediate cause of Trouton’s death. 4
Ben Freeman described the man
ner in which Trouton was seized on
the ./light of August 10 and whisked
away in a car. He identified J. VY-
Minter as leader of the band of men
who seized Trouton on the street.
Mrs. Mary Minter Trouton, widow
of the slain man, was the first wit
ness for the defense. From ques
tions addressed to her by Attorney
Finch, it was evident that one phase
of the defense would be evidence that
Trouton repeatedly beat and abused
his wife, and threatened her and her
father; and that Minter, the de
fendant, knowing of thpse things,
lost all distinctien between right
wrong.
Mrs. Trouton identified a waist aj»
the one she was wearing in Alabama,
when, as she alleged, Trouton so se
verely I eat her that the law inter*
ferd and punished him for it. Sh*
identified a portion of what seemed
to be a bed slat, broken across on® •
end, as part of the stick he had use 4
to beat her with in Alabama over ft
year ago. She said Trouton threat
ened her father every day she lived
with him, but that she never heard
her father say anything againsft
Trouton. She identified a letter ex
hibited -y Attorney Finch as one she
had received from Trouton after she
returned from Alabama. She did not *
read it, she said, being herself un
able to read or write. Some one read
it for her, and told her its
and she told her father. She said it
nearly drove him crazy.
Faint Scar on Head
Answering in the affirmative td
the questions as to whether she had
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