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VOL. XXV. NO. 150
OKLAHOMA CAPITOL
GUARDED TO KEEP
MiKEIIS OUT
Capita! City Mayor's Ulti
matum Results in Hasty
Return of Police to Civil
Authorities
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept.
I.— (By the Associated Press.) —The
Oklahoma City police department,
taken over by the military late yes
terday, was returned to civil authori
ties today when Mayor O. A. Cargill
served notice on Colonel W. S. Key,
military commander in charge of the
rity, that unless Ray Frazier, chief
t>f police, was reinstated at once, the
entire police force would be retired
by the city and the task of policing
the city would be left in the hands
of the military.
The mayor’s ultimatum fol owed a
called meeting of the city commis
sion. Orders were Issued by the
mayor at the same time 'o the mem
bers of the police force 0 be prepar
ed to leave their posts at 2:30 p. m.
unless the department had been re
stored to the regular authorities. The
mayor declared that should the ac
tion of Colonel Key in surrendering
military control over the department
be rescinded by Adjutant General
Markham or Governor Waltcn ni
would carry out his plans fc; the i
walkout and then put the matter to
a legaj test.
Military Courts Busy
Military courts of inquiry into the
activities of the Ku Klux Kian were
in operation Kday in the two larg
est cities in Oklahoma, Oklahoma
City and Tulsa.
The Oklahoma City court con
vened today and summoned as the
first witness Campbell Russell, for
mer chairman of the state corpora
tion commission.
In no other city of the state was
there any indication that military
rule, in effect more than a month
in Tulsa, had been extended to all
corners of the state.
Creek county, which, with Okla
homa county (Oklahoma City), was
placed under "absolute martial
law" Saturday night by Governor
J. C. Walton, was still without any
Vestige of military activity. No
troops had been mobilized and all
civil authority was undisturbed.
Adjutant General B. H. Markham I
arrived by airplane from Tulsa to
day and went at once into confer- i
ence with Colonel W. S. Key, in
command of troops here. The ad
jutant general declined to say
whether the state military head
quarters would be transferred here
from Tulsa.
The military court here is com-1
posed of Colonel Paul Walker, Col. i
E. N. Graves and Major L. H. Har- |
rold. It has established headquar- ■
ters in a downtown hotel. It was,
indicated that Russell was called ;
preliminary to the actual opening ]
of an investigation into alleged flog- I
Kings executed or directed in Okla-.
homa county. Machinery of rhe j
court is not yet completed, but the
full force of the investigation is ex
pected to be in effect tomorrow.
Meanwhile courts throughout the
«tate, including Oklahoma City and
Tulsa are in session. No interrup
tion of regular civil proceedure in
the state occurred. With the ex
ception that in Oklahoma City a
special grand jury summoned to
meet today was forbidden by mili
tary authorities.
No formal written order was
made, hut military authorities last
night announced orally that efforts
to convene the grand jury would be
thwarted.
Grand Jury Dismissed
Judge George W. Clark, therefore
Called the grand jury but dismissed
It at once, holding the veniremen
for petit jury duty.
The grand jury was to have in
vestigated alleged misuse of state
funds by the governor who was
charged in a petition circulated by
Russell with having used state em
ployes. to check signatures on an
initiated petition for an election on
n constitutional amendment to en
able the state legislature to con
vene without call bv the governor.
Capitol Is Guarded
Meanwhile at the state capitol a
detail of national guards ’with fixed
bayonets guarded entrances to both
house and senate chambers. No ex
planation was made but it was re
called that Governor Walton reply
ing to a threat pf members of the
legislature to meet in extra session
warned them last week that if such
. an attempt was made every mem
ber who appeared would be thrown
in jail.
No troops were in evidence here
today except those manning ma
chine guns that were an object of
interest to -busy throngs that were
about their every day affairs in the
neighborhood of the city hall, police
station, county courthouse and city
and county jails.
All the remainder of the approxi
mately 300 guardsmen remained in
the armory where they have been
without interruption since thev
were mobilized late yesterday. No
officers except the regular pob’ce
force were on the streets last night
The only troop movement in the
state was noted at Enid where an
artillery company was mobilized
with orders to proceed at once to
Oklahoma City. Part of the com
pany left just before noon and the
remainder was to follow late today.
Light field equipment was taken.
Tire military court at Tulsa
worked today with only one guard
officer present. Captain Looney, act
ing judge advocate of the state.
It wart said unofficially at milita
ry heacquarters that only about 100
troops were still in the city. Neither
of the two Tulsa guard units has
been called into service.
Governor Walton today arrived
unexpectedly in Henryetta, where
the stat’e convention of labor is in
session. Statements emanating from
his residence here last night were
to the effect that he would remain
tn Oklahoma City.
Few Troops Used
In absence of official statements
of Adjutant General Markham ob
servers here inclined today more
strongly to the belief that but a
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Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
GENEVA.—Council of League of
Nations has storm session in debate
on how to deal with Italy.
CHICAGO. —Illinois Federation of
Labor repudiates William Z. Foster
in his plea for recognition of soviet
Russia.
OKLAHOMA ClTY.—Troops take
over control in Oklahoma City, lead
ing the way for martial law in rest
of Oklahoma.
SARATOGA, N. Y?— Mayor Hylan,
of New Y r ork, shows marked improve
ment and declares he thinks he has
won his fight.
NEW YORK.—Firpo, the Argen
tine fighter, announces at New York
that he can not m et Harry Wills
until a year hence.
ROME. —Flume government re
signs in desperation and head of as
sembly explains to Mussolini cabinet
that people face starvation.
PEKING. —Advices from Pao
tingfu, report an earthquake oc
curred Friday morning at Anh-
Sinh-Sien, east of Paotingfu.
MADRID. —King Alfonso dissolves
Spanish parliament; General Primo
Rivera remains as lone responsible
authority and his orders are law.
PARIS. —Poincare rejects Germa
ny's latest proposals, abandons con
ciliatory tone and infeists that treaty
guarantees shall be carried through.
TOKIO. —Five / thousand persons
are reported dead in flood after ty
phoon norhtwest of Kobe, Japan;
Tokio and Yokohama are afflicted by
deluge.
WASHINGTON. Tentative ap
portionment of delegates to 1924 Re
publican national convention is
made public at national committee
headquarters. ,
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge suggests to federal trade com
mission that it investigate possible
unfair practices in coal trade which
tend to increase prices.
WASHINGTON. —President has
no idea at this time of asking con
gress for authority to use nation’s
armed forces in enforcing prohibi
tion law’s, official WhiteXHouse ad
vices say.
WASHINGTON. —Sixty Californi
ans, including Roman Catholics and
Episcopalian bishops, ask President
Coolidge to free all prisoners now in
federal ...penitentiaries for violating
war-time’ laws.
TOKIO. —The Bank of Japan has
agreed to make loan of 50,000,000 yen
($25,000,000) to Japanese insurance
companies for payments on policies
for thousands killed in recent earth
quake and fires.
SEATTLE —Six survivors of Yoko
hama eax'thquake, suffering injuries
and shock as result of their experi
ence, all rushed to hospitals imme
diately upon arrival of liner Presi
dent Jefferson.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Governor
Walton, of Oklahoma, declares that
members of state legislature will be
put in jail if they attempt to meet
in extraordinary session to stop his i
war on floggings.
SOFIA. —One chief of police of i
Sofia is shot and killed during com
munist riot. One hundred and
thirty-two communists have been
arrested here and hundreds others
taken into custody in other prov
inces.
WASHINGTON. lnquiry . into
the loss of seven naval destroyers
off Point Hondo, Cal., will be con
ducted in public and will be de
signed to go to the bottom of the
incident, Secretary Denby an
nounces.
OSAKA. —Although it is estimat
ed that eighty thousand persons
perished in recent-- disaster in To
kio, all bodies have been removed
from streets and motor bus and
tram car service has been restored
in several districts.
WASHINGTON. —Maternal mor
tality was greater in United States
during 1921 than in nineteen of more
important foreign nations, it is
shown by statistics made public b.v
children’s bureau of department of
labor. Death rate in United States
in that year from child birth was 6.8
for every l,0t)0 live births.
BRUSSELS: —Paper marks valued
at five trillion, five hundred billion
comprising cargo cf German air
plane, which is forced to land at
Knocks-Su.’-Mer, north of Zebruggc,
are seized by Belgian authorities and
three Germans in the plane are plac
ed in jail. It is said money was en
route to London.
Nine Escape Death
By Narrow Margin
In Hephzibah Fire
AUGUSTA. Ga., Sept. 15.—Fleeing
from the flames in their night
clothes, William J. McGee, of Hephzi
bah, his wife and seven children nar
rowly escaped death in a fire which
completely desroyed tneir home Fri
day night.
Mr. McGee and his family were
asleep when the fire broke out. Gain
ing quick headway in the frame
building, the flames soon were be
yond control. The heat and smoke
awoke the occupants who barely
made then escape before the roof col
lapsed. The house and all furnish
ings were destroyed, with the excep
tion of some personal effects saved
by a neighbor who sheltered the fam
ily following the fire.
“Starving Old Man,”
Arrested for Begging,
Has Fat Bank Book
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 15.—Ben
: Evans, aged one-legged negro beg
l gar, was arrested today for begging
pennies on Main street.
"Please give a starving old man
a penny,” Ben was pleading.
Police searched him at the station
and found# a bank book, showing
regular deposits with a total of sl,-
161.22.
Business was best in summer
months and he was getting ready
for winter, Ben said.
Goodyear Raincoat Free
Goodyear Mfg. Co.. G027-R 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
i friends. If you want one, write today.— (Advt.)
KUN INITIATION
HELD IN CAPITOL.
MIWINraS
The Ku Klux Klan initiated sev
eral new members at a ceremonial
held in Room 321 of the state capitol
on the closing night of the Georgia
legislature’s recent session, Louis P.
Marquardt, an attache of Solocitor
General John A. Boykin’s office,
testified in Fulton superior court
Monday on the stand as a witness
in the hearing of a contempt pe
tition brought by Nathan Bedford
Forrest Klan No. 1 against imperial
officers who are charged with enlist
ing members of the second klan
branch in Atlanta in violation of a
restraining order issued by Judge
George L. Bell.
Room 321 is the heaaquarteis of
the state game and fish department.
When the legislature adjourned
Frank Rhodes, of Athens, was game
and fish commissioner, but Las since
been succeeded by Peter S. Twltty,
of Dublin.
No one at the capitol seemed to
knew who issued authority for the
ceremony to be held in the game
warden’s office.
“I knew nothing in the world
about it, and had never heard that
room 321, which is my office in the
capitol, was used for a klan initia
tion until told of this testimony,”
Mr. Rhodes declared.
‘‘However, .if the gentlemen who
used the office were friends of mine,
I am sure they were welcome, as I
found nothing in the room that had
been disturbed, when I got there the
next morning.”
“I am just taking over the office
today,” said Mr. Twitty, “and this is
the first I have heard of a klan
ceremonial being held at the capi
tol.”
T. E. Massengale, of Norwood,
was custodian of the capitol on the
closing night of the assembly, but
has since resigned. He was out of
the city Monday and could not be
reached for a statement.
Mr. Marquardt testified that he
was one of the new members taken
in at the capitol ceremonial, and
that Represeritative J. O. Wood and
M. O. Dunning, chief of staff of the
Georgia klan, officiated. The initia
tion began immediately after the
assembly adjourned sine die after
midnight, he said.
Mr. Marquardt was placed on the
stand in an effort to prove that
members had actually been enlisted
i na second Atlanta klan in viola
tion of the court’s injunction order
‘‘There w r ere six or seven new mem
bers taken in,” Mr. Marquardt testi
fied. "I was one, and there were
men from Augusta and Dawson. I
do not remember the others.”
Asked whether he was inducted
into the Nathan Forrest
klan or into another Atlantal trar.ch,
the. witness said he did not know
which of the klans he belonged to.
Henry J. Norton, exalted cyclops
of the Forrest klan, followed Mr.
Marquardt with testimony that Mr.
Dunning had no connection with the
Fcrrest klan but worked under the
office of General Nathan Bedford
Forrest as an organized from "Klan
No. 2.”
General Forrest, Imperial Wizard
H. W. Evans and Attorney Ben H.
Sullivan were the three defendants
in the proceeding. More than a
dozen witnesses testified during the
morning, and when court adjourned
at 1 o’clock, Attorney W. S. Coburn,
representing Nathan Bedford For
rest Klan No. 1, had other wit
nesses waiting to be called.
Practically all the witnesses put
up by Attorney Coburn said they
had heard of the organization of a
rival klan in Atlanta, and some of
them said they had ben asked to
join. On cross examination, ques
tions were asked seeking to bring
out that these witnesses were asked
to join the rival organization prior
to the court injunction.
After court adjourend Judge Bell
went into conference with attorneys
on both sides, who finally agreed to
drop the proceedings and take no
further action until the main ques
tions involved, now pending in an
other suit, are setled by the court.
Officer Stigall Faces
Trial on Charges
Os Murder Tuesday
Policeman E. C. Stigall will go on
trial Tuesday before Judge John D
Humphries in the criminal division
of Fulton superior court on an in
dictment charging him with the mur
der of W. H. Hr.mes, a private de
tective.
Officials at the Fulton county
tower, where,Stgall is awaiting trial,
said he was cheerful and seemed op
timistic over the outcome of his
trial. He is not confined to a cell
but is allo.wed the liberty of the cor
ridor between the tiers of cages.
I Solicitor General John A. Boykin
who will handle hte prosecution, an
nounced Saturday that he w’ould be
ready to begin the trial Tuesday and
Attorney William Schley Howard
representing Stigall, said he expected
to be ready to go to trial when the
case was called. It is expected tha*
the trial will consume several days.
College Name Changed
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 11.—
Governor Brandon Monday signed
the bill changing the name of the
Alabama Technical Instttu'e and
College for Women, at Montevallo,
to Alabama college.
The Weather
Virginia, North and South Caro
| lina, Georgia: Fair Tuesday; no
j change in temperature.
j Florida: Cloudy in north and prob
ably showers in south proticn Tues
day.
Alabama, Exfreme northwest Flor
ida; Tuesday unsettled.
Mississippi: Showers Tuesday.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Tuesday fair
in east, probably showers in west
portion; no change in temperature.
Louisiana, Arkansas: Tuesday
partly cloudy, occasional showers.
Oklahoma: Tuesday generally fair.
East Texas: Tuesday partly cloudy,
occasional showers; cooler in north
west portion.
West Texas: Tuesday generally
fair; colder in north portion.
LEAGUE OF NOTIONS
FOBBING TO FRONT
AS ISSUE FOR 1924
BV ROBERT T. SMALL
;Special Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1923.)
''-NEW YORK, Sept. 15. —Political
observers returning from abroad —
and New York has been filled with
them lately—are convinced that
there will be no escaping the League
of Nations issue in next presi
dential campaign. The international
situation is certain to remain acute
and America’s relations with the rest
of the world must come jn for great
er and greater consideration.
When Fred Upham, the hard-head
ed if not "hard boiled” treasurer of
the Republican national committee,
a regular of the regulars, came
home to announce that the United
States must act in Europe if the
world is to be saved, he but express
ed the views of others who have fol
lowed him. Then there are those
! who say that America should thank
I her lucky stars that she is not in
l on any of the European strife and
! trouble and that she should continue
! to keep her skirts clear of all pos
| sibility of entanglement.
These divergent views are the
basis for the statement that the in
i ternational situation can not be kept
I out of the next campaign no matter
i how loudly the tom-toms of domestic
j questions may be beaten. The battle
I will have to be fought all over again
I and the Democratic leaders who
I talked with Governor Cox during his
I long visit to the metropolis said they
I felt their party was in a much bet-
I ter position than the Republicans to
i "thresh out” international questions.
1 This they said, was because the
| Democratic party will come out
j straight for participation in the
; League of Nations, for joining the
: World Court organized under the
j league, and for a general foreign re-
I lations program of helpfulness,.
Committed to World Court
The Republicans, it is contended*
I will be handicapped by the division
lin their ranks. President Harding
| committed his party, so far as he
could as the constituted leader of
it, to the world court. It is confi
dently believed by the Republican
leaders that President Coolidge will
follow in Harding’s foot-steps on this
issue. He has virtually said as much.
On the other hand some of Mr. Cool
idge's strongest supporters for the
next nomination are opposed to the
court. The Republicans are faced by
the necessity on the stump of op
posing the League of Nations but
of approving the world court which
was created by the league. The claim
! of some of the Republicans that the
court can be divorced from the
league is contested by the Republi
cans who oppose entry into any sort
of court.
The Democrats cldim the Repub
licans will not be able to place their
attitude clearly before tlie people and
that this will give strength to the
more definite Democratic platform.
George W. Wickersham, attorney
general under President Taft, and
recently an observer in Europe, has
just come out with a strong defense
of the League of Nations in its
handling of the Greco-Italian con
troversy. Mr. Wickersham was one
of the 31 distinguished Republicans
who, in the campaign of 1920, made
a public appeal for support of Mr.
Harding on the ground ■ that he
would have a definite plan for an
association of nations—a more prac
tical plan, it was declared, than any
thing the Democrats could Revise.
The Wickersham statement is taken
as an indication that the attitude
of the pro-league Republicans of 1920
has undergone no change but per
haps, has grown stronger than ever,
for they are once more talkng of
the league as it exists, rather than
an association to be formed at some
time in the future.
Bitter Fight Forecast
Nor have the Johnson and other
anti-league wings of the party
shown any signs of weakening, so
it is safe to say that in the next
Republican convention the fight on
the foreign declarations of the G. 0.-
I P. platform is going to be one of the
bitterestin the history of the party.
I The resolutions committee, which
will draft the platform, will be more
carefully selected than ever before
and the chairmanship of the com
mittee will be in a position of the
greatest responsibility.
One great difficulty about the
i League of nations issue in a cam
i paign is the hyphothetical quality
I of it. The opponents of the league
I say it has failed, that it was doomed
I to failure from the start, and that
the United States did the wise thing
in staying out. The friends of the
league say the reason it is weak to
day is because the United States has
not lent its moral support to it. They
say that if America were in the
league, the moral force of the league
would be so great that no nation
would wish to defy its mandate and
stand scouraged before the world.
But so long as the United States
scouts the league it is not surpris
ing that the smaller powers are in
clined to treat it in the sanie.manner
I when some curtailment of their aims
; is the' issue.
The Democratic national commit
tee is proceeding with much pub
licity on the tariff and other domes
tic questions. Many Democrats un
doubtedly favor a domestic cam
paign but as the international situa
tion presses forward more and more
the likelihood of that issue being the
paramount one next year grows
greater and greater day by day.
Four Missing Aviators
Are Reported Safe
NEWPORT NEWS. Va., Sept. 7.
I Lieutenant Cole and three mechanics
I of Langley Field, who were reported
I missing yesterday, are safe at
; Charlestown, West Virginia, accord
ing to telegraphic advices to Lang
; ley Field, near here, today.
Punctured 603 Times
Tire No Air
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DRASTIC MEASURES
TO SEIZE VALUABLES
STIBSJLLGEBMffI
BERLIN, Sept. 15, —Banking cir
cles in Berlin experienced an entire
ly new thrill this morning in the
seizure of private bank safety de
posit valuables by agents of Herr
Fellinger, the new commissioner in
charge of th e foreign currency sit
uation here.
News of the seizure quickly spread
in the Bourse and among banking
institutions, causing the greatest
financial sensation in months, as
much publicity accompanied Heir
Fellinger’s appointment as financial
dictator, and the simultaneous an
nouncement of the government de
cree temporarily setting aside the
clauses of the constitution guaran
teeing the sancity of homes, offices,
safetv deposits, etc.
Appeals to Herr Fellinger after the
seizure brought a relaxation in the
extreme proposal, as he asserted the
incident was a mistake. Later it was
explained that one of his department
officials had acted on his own initia
tive and .without Herr Fellinger’s
knowledge.
BERLIN SENDS TROOPS
TO PREVENT OUTBREAKS
BERLIN, Sept. 15.—Germany ap
peared balancing on the brink of new ,
bloodshed tonight following the gov-'
ernment’s move in stationing strong j
detachments of troops in the suburbs |
of Friedenau and Zeuthen.
The troop movement was taken as
fulfillment T>f Chancellor Strese
mann’s recent declaration of war
against “wreckers of the republic,’’
whether monarchists or communists. |
The government, it was learned,
consulted the big industrial leaders
before ordering the picked regiments
to be stationed on the outskirts of
the capital.
Gas Price Reduced
In Atlantic States
And New England
NEW YORK. Sept. 17.—The tank
wagon price of gasoline today was'
reduced one cent a gallon in New
England and eight Atlantic seaboard
states by the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey and the Gulf Refining
company.
The new price ranges from 18 cents
in Washington, D. C., to 21 cents in
Virginia, where there is a state tax
of three cents a gallon.
The Texas company announced
it would meet the reduction. The ter
ritory in which the cut w T as an
nounced by the Standard of New
Jersey includes also New Jersey,
North and South Carolina. In addi
tion to the New England states, the
Gulf Refining company reduced the
price in New York and New Jersey.
1
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Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, September 18, 1923
Sky Writer Burned
To Death As ‘Plane
Falls Near Nashville
I NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 15. —
! Captain Berec Shepperson, of Lon
don, England, aviator, fell on the
Hermitage property, twelve miles
east of Nashville, this* afternoon,
after he had completed a flight over - i
the city in which he did sky writing, j
advertising a brand of tobacco. He !
was burned to death.
The plane fell on the Hermitage I
property about 100 yards from the
Blackwood aviation field, according
to persons who were watching the
flight. The aviator evidently was
trying to make a landing, and hit
the top of a tree, the plane falling
to the earth. The plane burst into
flames, and Captain Shepperson was
literally burned up. #
Persons near the scene were un
able to rendei’ any assistance or ex
tinguish the fire. At 3:10 o’clock,
the body had not been recovered
from the debris.
The smoke letters of the sky writer
were still mingling with the light
fleecy clouds over Nashville when
the watching street crowds were
shocked with the news of his death.
SHEPPERSON A VETERAN
OF ROYAL AIR FORCES
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 15. —The
aviator reported killed in a fall with
his plane at Nashville, is believed to
be Derece Shepperson, of London.
England. He left here shortly after
noon today to fly to Nashville. Shepp
person was a veteran of the royal
air force of the British army, and
saw service in France during the
i world war. He at one time was an
j instructor in British aviation schools.
Maryville Man
Is Named to Head
Tennessee Legion
■ MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 15.—For
the next year J. G. Sims, of Mary
ville, Tenn., will be commander of
j the state American legion forces. He
was elected to succeed Granville
I Ridley, retiring commander, at the
I final session of the state convention
I here Friday.
j The fight was between Sims and
IAI F. Law, of Chattanooga. After
I the final ballot, Law made a motion
| to make Sims’ election unanimous.
; Johnson City was selected as the
[ 1924 convention city.
R. J. Foster, Memphis, was chosen
I vice commander for West Tennessee.
I and G. M. Stegall was elected vice
commander for the middle district of
whe state.
The convention voted in favor of
a permanent pension system for dis
abled veterans.
Mrs. Sarah Hiers Dies at 90
MOULTRIE, Ga., Sept. 15.—Mrs.
Sarah Ann Hiers died at her home !
near Berlin yesterday at the age |
of 90. She was for more than 70 |
years a resident of Coluitt and was I
one of the oldest and most widely I
known women in the counts. Mrs.
Hiers was born in Berrien county I
l long before the Indians were driv- I
! en from that section, and among her I
: earliest memories were stories of I
1 battles between the whites and the i
red skins.
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W HIGH FIGURE
9EICIIEO BF SPOT
go™ in num
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j Atlanta spot cotton jumped $5.25
• a bale Monday in response to cor
responding advances in New York
spots and futures, which went sky
ward as the result of heavy Liver
pool buying and reports of damag
ing rains in Texas and Oklahoma.
Spot cotton in Atlanta touched a
new high mark for the season at
29.25, having advanced 625 points,
or $30.25 a bale since August 2,
when the season’s law was reached.
The New York futures and spot mar
kets opened bullishly Monday morn
ing and quickly ran* pricss up to new
high levels for the season. Spots
closed at 30.05 or 115 points up from
Saturday’s close, and futures closed
107 to 133 points aoove Saturday.
New Orleans futures closed 155 to
143 points up and the spot market
advanced 125 points to 23 75.
The Atlanta spot market closed
at 28 cents Saturday, after a week
of fluctuation from the previous high
mark of 27.75 established Septem
ber 8.
Spots in Atlanta during the past
three years have established, the fol
lowing records for the respective
seascons:
1919 — High, 42.50 on June 17, 1920;
low, 28.70, on October, 6, 1919.
1920 — High, 39 cents, on August
1, 1920; now, 10.25 on June 20, 1921.
1921 High, 23.90, on July 3, 1922;
low, 11.65 on August 1, 1921.
1922 High, 30.85 on March 14,
1923; low, 20.45 on September 30,
1922. . •
Alabama Convicts
Mutiny in Coal Mine,
Dynamiting Machinery
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 16.
Five hundred state convicts work
ing in a coal mine at Banner, mu
tinied, destroying all machinery and
holding captive for twenty-four hours
Asa Gibson, superintendent, it w r as
learned last night.
The miners, using dynamite fur
nished them to mine coal, wrecked
the pumps, hoists of the mine and
other machinery as protest against
the failure of the legislature to alter
the -leasing system, according to re
ports received here.
Family Bible Contains
Records Back to 1770
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 15.
A family Bible, with records of the
j family back to the year 1770, is in
the possession of M. A. Roberts, mer
chant of Talbot, Tenn., near here. It
was handed down to Mr. Roberts
from his grandfathef,, who came from
Pennsylvan’a to Rockbridge count.
Virginia, married there, then settled
in Tennessee. Mr. Roberts has let
ters -written by brothers of his grand
father to his grandfather before ■
postage stamps were used.
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City Solicitor Moore to Con- j
tinue Prosecution of Oth- -j
’ers Accused of Implication |
in City Whipping Cases
MACON, Ga., Sept. 15—(By the
Associated Press.) —Dr. C. A. Yar- ; J
brough, Macon dentist, today was
acquitted of a charge of rioting in Ji
connection with the flogging last -J
year of R. F. Mills, former Macon . j
chiropodist and barber.
Judge Gunn, when it W’as an
nounced the verdict had been reach
ed, warned the spectators, who filled g
about two-thirds of the courtroom, J
against making any demonstration. .1
When C.- W. Schaefer, foreman of
the jury, handed the verdict to So
licitor Roy W. Moore, the courtroom
was absolutely quiet. When the ver- fl
diet was read there was no demon- '/I
stration. Dr. Yarbrough sat quietrly ’3
until court was adjourned, when j
friends crowded around to congratu
late linn. Among these -were scores
of women. »
Congratulated by Scores
The affair developed almost to
the proportions of a reception for ,3
Dr. Yarbrough and his attorneys.
The jury was out three hours •
and five minutes. The case was ™
placed in their hands at 12:15
o'clock. At 3:15 p. m. Judge Gunn
entered the courtroom and instruct- |
ed the sheriff to bring in the jury.
As the judge completed his instruc
tions to the audience the jury filed
m and at 3:20 the foreman handed
the verdict to Solicitor Moore. The
verdict was read one minute later. i
The solicitor said that J. F. Alex
ander, who is charged with having
been one of a band of men who
flogged Ollie Perry, probably would ’
be the next accused man to be tried.
City Judge Holmes • Johnson, of
Grays, will hear the Alexander case,
it was announced. Judge Will Gunn. '
of the Macon city court, is distantly
related to Alexander, and for this
reason is disqualified.
Couitrootn Crowded
The courtroom at today’s session
was crowded to capacity. Scores of
, women were in the crowd.
The jury came into, the court
room at 1:35 p. m. to receive from'
Judge Gunn an explanation of the
i charge as to the necessity of one of
the men named in the charge with ,<
Dr. Yarbrough being proved to have
been on the scene of the flogging
D. Patrick and J. E. Bloodworth
are named in the charge against Dr. 4
Yarbrough but the cases were sepa
rated.
After the judge had read hi
charge again he notified the jury
that he would have their dinner sent
to them in the jury room. Court then
recessed until 3 o’clock.
Today was the fifth day of the
trial in Macon city court. Attorneys j
said this was the longest trial of a
misdemeanor charge in a court in
Bibb county in many years.
Dr. Yarbrought. admittedly a
member of the Ku Klux Klan, was
put on trial last Tuesday on the
first of seven charges against him.
Selection of the jury took up the
first half day and the taking of evi
dence lasted until noon yesterday,
I the defense being virtually confined
to an effort to discredit state wit
nesses through bringing out of alle
gutions derogatory to their charac
ter. A number of the witnesses in
behalf of the denist, including his J
leading counsel, John P. Ross, ad
mitted their membership in the Ku
Klux Klan, while others testified
they had made application for mem
berghip or asked that they be not
required to answer the question,
j ; ———
Sensational New
Evidence Claimed
In Flogging Cases
MACON, Ga., Sept. 17.—Solicitor 1
Roy Moore, of the city court, an
nounces that there will be no flog- ;
ging trials this week. All cases hav«
been continued until a week from
today, he said. "There will be no fl
cases nolle pressed,” he added.
New'evidence of a sensational na
ture has been disclosed during the
last day or two, Mr. Moore stated
He 9aid that he desired to get this j
in shape for presentation in the next .J
trial, hence it was necessary to do
i more work on the preparation of the
I cases.
Trial of a number of smaller crimi
nal cases during this week will give
him an opportunity to complete tha
preparation of the bigger cases, Mr.
Moore stated.
Asked if the new evidence was any |
stronger than had been presented
to the court, Mr. Moore stated: “Lt
could not be stronger, but there
more of it.”
Eight persons besides Dr. C. A
Yarbrough, who was acquitted on
one charge on Saturday, are charged
with implication in floggings. There
are six more charges against Dr
Yarbrough.
The persons still to be tried ar’
J. F. Alexander, J. D. Patrick, J. E.
Bloodworth. VC. F. Delamar, J. P
Durkee and S R., J. C. and C. E
Hudson.
Doxology vs. Dance
FOLKESTONE, Eng.—When lo
cal magistrates refused a license for 1
Sunday dances in hotels several
clergymen sang the Doxology in
court.
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