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Atlanta So ttnial
VOL. XXV. NO. 163
JACOBS ABANDONS
PLANS TO REMOVE
' OGLETHORPE'S BODY
University Head Declares
Part of Mission Accom
plished in Discovery of
Resting Place of Founder
LONDON, Oct. 16.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —In deference to Eng
' lish sentiment, Dr. Thornwell Ja
cobs has decided to withdraw the
request of Oglethorpe university
that (he body of General James E.
Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, be
transferred to the proposed shrine
on the campus of the university in
Atlanta.
Dr. Jacobs, in announcing his
decision, asked that this statement
be transmitted to America:
"The purpose of our request was
twofold:
"First, that the grave of our
founder, the exact location of which
had Actually been forgotten in Eng
land, might be made a center of in-,
struction for our youth in the great
principles upon which General Ogle- i
thorpe founded our community, thus
serving as a holy sahetuary of Geor- |
gia patriotism.
“The second purpose was our de
sire to make him and his sacred i
memory an eternal tie of good will j
between England and America.
"It is this last purpose that seems
at present impossible of realization. I
As to the first, it is already partly
accomplished. We now know where
Oglethorpe is buried definitely, and ,
by the gracious courtesies of the ,
English people Oglethorpe univer
sity will endeavor to see that his
grave is forever remembered."
“Also if the little church at Cran
ham will permit us to do so, we
shall endeavor in the future to show
it and its rector what the love of
millions of Georgian s’means for then
kindly sentiment and unanimous ap
proval. They will never be forgotten
' in Georgia.
“I take this opportunity of thank
ing the English friends of our plan,
including many members of the
Oglethorpe family, and of assuring
them that an enterprise indorsed
for the Georgians’ capital city by
its mayor, for the state by its gov
ernor and transmitted through the
state department in Washington
could have had only one actuating
motive —that of the deepest love and
affection for The rtffgotten founder
of Georgia to whom after a lapse of
two centuries England has raised no
monument.”
Dr. Jacobs expressed the intention
of returning to the United States im
mediately.
It is learned that Dr. Jacobs was
advised by the Rev. Leslie Wright,
rector of Cranham church, to aban
don his plan in view of the grow
ing opposition to the removal of the
body. Dr. Jacobs also undoubtedly*
was influenced by the strong opposi
t on of the English newspapers and
the action of a descendant of Ogle
thorpe in appealing to the king to
protect the ashes of his ancestor.
Further, it was feared that if the
project were prosecuted to the end
it might embarrass the state de
partment at Washington.
The vault containing the bodies of
General Oglethorpe and his wife will
be -reseated immediately and the floor
of the church replaced.
Referring to the protest made by
me Episcopal bishop of Georgia to
tae archbishop of Canterbury’
against the removal of General
-Oglethorpe’s body, the London
Times says today: “This should
prove the end of the project."
The Times, hitherto, has ex
pressed- no opinion regarding the
transfer of the general’s body to
America, but in its editorial this
t morning makes an emphatic protest
against such a step.
CITY COUNCIL INDORSES
EFFORTS OF DR. JACOBS
Indorsement of the efforts of Dr.
Thornweli Jacobs, president of Ogle
thorpe university, to remove the re
mains of General Oglethorpe from
England .to a shrine at the um
veristy here, was unanimously
voted Monday afternoon by city
i council. Aiderman W. B. Harts
field introduced a resolution giving
Dr. Jacobs * vote of approval from
the Atlanta council.
EDGAR WATKINS PRAISES
DR. JACOBS FOR ACTION
Edgar Watkins, well-known At
lanta attorney and president of the
board of trustee-founders of Ogle
thorpe university, on receiving a
cable Tuesday from Dr. Thornweli
Jacobs that he had withdrawn his
request to be permitted to remove
the bodies of General Oglethorpe and
his w-ife to the university campus, is
sued a statement in which he ex
pressed great respect for Dr. Jacobs’
reverence in withdrawing the re
quest rather than be the cause of a
controversy over the removal.
Mr. Watkins’ staatement follows:
"Dr. Jacobs cables this morning
that he has withdrawn the request
of Oglethorpe university to be per
mitted to remove the bodies of Gen
eral Oglethorpe and his wife to the
• university campus.
“This action was made necessary
by the fact that an unseemly con
troversy had arisen and Dr. Jacobs’
reverence for the memory of the
great founder o£ our state is such
that he preferred to withdraw the
application rather than be the occa
sion of such a controversy.
“A great purpose would have bfeen
served could the body of Oglethorpe
have been placed on Georgia soil and
on. the campus of a university bear
ing his name. Closer sympathy be
tween America and England would
have been promoted, and a shrine
at which patriotic Georgians would
have reverently paid tribute would
have been established.
"The great idea was conceived by
Dr. Jacobs more than a year ago,
and he has quietly and reverently
pursued it. That he has withdrawn
I the application but proves his great-
I ness and his reverence for the great
•lead. All honor to Dr. Jacobs for
the magnificent vision and also for
foregoing it rather than to be the
innocent occasion of a controversy
for which he is not responsible."
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
LOS ANGELES. Reginald D.
Denny, motion picture actor, is badly
1 injured in auto accident.
DALLAS.—Sheriff and constable
shoot each other to death in main
; street at Marshall. Tex.
MARQUETTE, Mich.—Five men
are burned to death in forest fire
near Birch, Mich, twenty miles from
Marquette.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Ku Klux
Klan question may split wide open
American Legion convention here,
well-informed observers say.
SAN FRANCISCO. —Paris Ameri
i can Legion delegates assert that
I France is being discriminated
; against by influential men in
■ America.
WASHINGTON. '*ne 1 ' ?d
and ninety Masons are elected to
receive thirty-second degree by su
preme council of Scottish Rite Ma
sons at Washington.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Control of
Piggly Wiggly corporation passes
from common to preferred share
holders when latter meet and elect
new board of directors.
WASHlNGTON.—Supervisor of
United States lines is placed in
charge of committee composed of
Commissioners O'Connor, Plummer
and Benson by shipping board.
SANTA FE, N. M.—Total of 21,500
acres out of aggregate of 25,000
acres of oil leases, all on Navajo In
dian reservation, offered at auction
by government are sold under ham
mer.
WASHINGTON.—Decision to con
solidate five active north Atlantic-
United Kingdom trade routes and to
eliminate managing agent system
now in use is announced by ship
ping board.
WASHINGTON. —Efforts to pre
vent the monthly rush of immigrants
to American ports will be made by
Chairman Farley of shipping board
at coming trans-Atlantic passenger
conference in London, it is an
nounced.
BERLIN —Cabinet approves bill
granting charter for so-called gold
annuity bank, whose capital will be
furnished by industry, agriculture,
banking and commerce through com
pulsory hypothecation of their
realty and other holdings.
TOPEKA, Kans.—Former Gover
nor Henry J. Allen, of Kansas,
takes issue with Governor Pinchot
and declares it is duty of Pennsyl
vania to exhaust all its resources
to stop illicit liquor traffic before
bringing problem to White House.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Ladd, of
North Dakota, issues statement crit
icising President Coolidge for send
ing commission into wheat growing
states to organize farmers' co-opera
tive movement “after crop is har
vested and out of farmers’ hands.”
CINCINNATI.—"PowerfuI secret
organization with large financial re
sources,” is charged with working
in close affiliation with national edu
cation association to gain national
control over education, by Dean W.
P. Burris, of University of Cincin
nati.
WASHINGTON.—WiIIiam Allen
White, after talk with President
Coolidge, declares federal govern
ment cannot enforce prohibition
amendment because of system which
allows United States senators to
control appointment, of federal en
forcement officers in their states.
Coolidge Confers With
Charles Adamson on
Cotton Mill Situation
WASHINGTON, C-t. 17.—Condi
tions as to the prosperity of cotton
mill operators in the south and the
movement of cotton mills from New
England to the southern states were
discussed by President Coolidge to
day with Charles Adamson, a cotto a
mill operator of Cedartown, Ga.
The president inquired particularly
as to the advantages of location of
cotton mills in the south near the
source of supply and asked for in
formation relative to the raising and
milling of cotton along the eastern
seaboard.
Elwell Slayer Known,
Police Official Claims;
Seeks More Evidence
NEW YORK, Oct. 17. —The slay
ers of Joseph B. Elwell and of Doro
thy King Keenan, victims in two of
New York’s most notorious unsolved
murder mysteries, are known to the
police, according to Police Commis
sioner Paright, but the evidence is
insufficient to warrant arrests.
... Elwell, sportsman and bridge ex
’pert, was slain in his apartment one
night in May, 1920, after he had
■been host at a roof garden party
atop one of this city’s most noted
hotels. _
Sanguinary Outbreak
Os Moros Is Reported
In Philippine Province
MANILA’. Oct. 17.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Another sanguinary
outbreak of Moros in Lanao prov
ince, island of Mindanao, was re
ported here today, and the aid of
United States troops was asked by
the provincial authorities.
The advices said the Moros, charg
ing on a school house at Lake Bu
loan last Sunday, killed three teach
ers and ten members of the Philip-
BERLlN.—Windows of bakeries
are smashed in demonstrations
against high prices.
BOSTON. —First race for interna
tional fishermen’s trophy wll be
sailed off Halifax October 27.
NEW YORK. —Cissie Ixtftus, fa
mous actress, arrives on Leviathan
and proclaims herself cured of drug
habit.
NEW ORLEANS.—PeopIe in Lou
isiana coast villages flee for safety
in face of warnings of hurricane in
Gulf of Mexico.
OKLAHOMA CITY. —Dam, hous
ing city’s reserve water supply,
gives way under pressure and flood
waters promise danger to thousands.
WASHINGTON. Philippine rep
resentative warns he will introduce
declaration of independence for the
Philippines admits this move is
near to sedition.
AUGUSTA, Me. —Maine voters re
ject referendum for forty-eight-hour
law affecting working women and
children, incomplete returns indi
cate.
NEW YORK.—Jewish congress
votes approval to plan of organizing
all Jews in United States into perma
nent body for advancement of Jew
ish interests.
MINNEAPOLIS.—In first public
address in United States after con
cluding tour of Canada, David Lloyd
George, former premier of Great
Britain., makes appeal for United
States to help Europe make peace.
TORONTO.—General V. A. S.
Williams, commissioner of Ontario
provincial police, says that Cana
dian-American rum running industry
is directed almost entirely by Amer
icans.
NEW YORK.—Landlords are sup
planting white tenants with ne
groes at increased rents and Har
lem’s black belt is rapidly growing
to the south, protesting New York
ers testify before state housing
commission.
WASHINGTON. One hundred
miles of Alaskan railway have been
put out of commission by severe
rainstorms and high tides, it is re
ported in message from Anchorage
to Secretary Work.
WASHINGTON. Two school
teachers, one supervising teacher, a
lieutenant, sergeant and eight pri
vates in Philippine constabulary
were killed by Moros in school house,
Manila dispatch asserts.
WASHlNGTON.—Citizenship con
ference declares American people
are impatient at disgraceful situa
tion created by successful operation
of rum-runners and asks President
Coolidge to see that coast is fetter
policed.
HAVANA. —Criminal libel proceed
ings against ninety-one signers of
charge that President Zayas and
members of senate and house re
ceived bribes for passage and signing
of Tarafa bill will be instituted pres
ident’s office announces.
ATLANTA.—GuIf Reifning com
pany announces cut of 2 cents a gal
lon in price of gasoline. Standard
Oil company announces similar cut
here, and Standard Oil company of
Kentucky likewise announces 2-cent
cut from Louisville, Ky.
Showers m Georgia
Forecast as Result
Os Big Gulf Storm
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The Gulf
storm has reached Missouri with
greatly diminished intensity, but
pressure remains quite low over the
southern states, the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea, the weather
bureau announced today
Rains have occurred within the
last 24 hours in the Mississippi and
lower Ohio valleys and the Gulf
states, being excessive along the Ala
bama and northwest Florida coasts.
Pensacola reported a 24-hour rainfall
of 6.82 inches.
. Indications are for showers in the
Ohio valley, Tennessee, the east Gulf
and South Atlantic states tonight
and Thursday. The temperature will
not change materially.
Small- craft warnings remain dis
played on the Gulf coast from Bay
St. Louis, Miss., ot Appalachicola,
Fla.
Johnson and Smith
Are Exonerated by
Richmond Grand Jury
AUGUSTA, Oct. 17.—The Rich
mond county grand jury indicted W.
P. O'Keefe here yesterday for larceny
after trust but charges against J. B.
Johnson and G. C. Smith, also alleged
to be involved in the cotton thefts,
were dismissed by the grand jury.
The announcement made here yes
terday that Johnson and Smith were
indicted was in error, and the action
,of the grand jury exonerates these
I two men
Comiskey Accepts
Gleason’s Resignation
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Wiliam “Kid”
Gleason, manager of the Chicago
White Sox today handed his resig
nation as pilot of the club to Owner
Charles A. Comiskey, and it was ac
cepted.
pine constabulary. The troops slain
included a lieutenant, a sergeant and
, eight privates.
REVOLT IN SAXONY
FEAREO BERLIN
5S HUNGER GROWS,
Stresemann Plans Stern
Measures by City Police to
End Food Rioting of Ruhr:
Populace
I __
BERLIN, Oct. 17.—The German I
federal government is preparing to
use drastic measures against Saxony
unless conditions there show an im
mediate improvement, it was learned
today.
The military dictator already has
been ordered to proceed with the dis
solution of the so-called “red hun
dred companies.”
It is indicated he will use soldiers
if necessary.
Berlin officials were ordered to use
sharper measures against rioters if a
repetition of yesterday’s demonstra
tions is attempted in defiance of the
provisions of the limited state of
siege.
Arrests of some of the ringleaders
in yesterday’s demonstrations are
proceeding, and authorities ordered
police today to arrest women and
girls if they lead the way in the '
riots.
City authorities must preserve
order by force, it was directed, if
they are unable to prevent disturb
ances by providing bread.
Steps Against Defiance
“Vorwaerts,” commenting on the
I new directions, said that the govern-
I ment is sharp in dealing with Sax
i ony, but pointed out that hitherto
lit has taken no steps against the il
legal organizations in Bavaria or
against the general Bavarian defi
ance of the reich.
Government reports from the oc
cupied areas indicated many places
are almost without potatoes. Such
as exist, it was reported, are pro
hibitively priced at $lO a “sentner."
New food riots were expected in
many places, it was said today be
cause the unemployment doles,
though recently doubled, amount to
barely two cents a day.
With the average pay of fully em
ployed workers now barely equal to
the cost of eight or ten loaves of
black bread a week, national and
city authorities commenced to put
foodstuffs on the -markets at fixed
prices under current rates.
After yesterday’s food riots in the
heart of Berlin, revealing the immi
nent menace of hunger to the coun
try, city officials announced the sale
of American and Argentine frozen
meats at less than current prices.
Even with money, purchases of
potatoes, meat, butter, lard and
eggs was made with the greatest
difficulty.
Starvation Race On
The government’s attempt to es
tablish a stable currency which
would give confidence to traders in
the country as well as facilitate pur
chase outside has become, it was
agreed today, a race against the
danger of starvation in Berlin. Re
fusal of peasants and land-owners
in many places to accept paper
marks in payment for grain added
to the desperateness of the situation.
Creation of the new currency will,
it was said, take several weeks.
Meanwhile the government had
decided, it became known today, to
commence immediately to build up
a governmental grain reserve of
from half a million to a million and
I a half tons. .
'ONE KILLED, MANY INJURED
IN MANNHEIM RIOTING
MANNHEIM, Germany, Oct. 17. ■
One man was killed and several in- i
jured in severe rioting between po- !
lice and demonstrators here last •
night.
Police fired on the demonstrator? .
when they refused to obey an order :
to disperse.
P-atrols passed through the streets
today forbidding all gatherings.
Major Lee H. Coart
Taken to State Farm
To Serve Life Term
TALBOTTON, Ga., Oct. 16.—Ma
i jor Lee H. Coart, convicted here
i about a year ago of the murder of
A. B. McNiece, superintendent of
Talbot county schools, and given a
life sentence, was taken today to the
state farm to begin serving his term.
The former army officer’s appeal for
a new trial Recently was rejected by
the Georgia supreme court.
The state prison commission de
clined to grant the request in a peti
tion, signed by a number of citizens
of this county that Coart be allow
ed to serve his sentence on 1 the coun
ty chaingang.
Twin Sisters Wed
Twin Brothers in
Double Ceremony
MOULTRIE, Ga., Oct. 17.--A
double marriage ceremony in which
the bridegrooms were twins and the
brides twins also, was staged here
yesterday afternoon. The principals
were Wheeler and George Mercer
and Misses Mary and Mamie Reg
ister.
Miss Mary Register became the
bride of George Mercer, while Mius
Mamie Register was married to
■ Wheeler Mercer. The ceremony was
l performed by Ordinary R. A. Cooper,
j The brides are 18 years old and are
i daughters of J. E. Register, a well
i known Colquitt county farmer. The
i Mercers are 24.
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WATERS RECEDING
AT OKLAHOMA CITY:
DAMAGE 52.500,000
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 17.—(8y
the Associated Press.)—Oklahoma ;s
emerging today from the most dis
astrons flood in its history. Witn
thousands, of persons homeless, mil
lions of dollars in property laid waste,
railroad and highway traffic para
lyzed, the state set about relief and
reconstructjpn measures as the cri
sis passed and the unprecedented
overflow waters in most sections be
gan to recede.
Oklahoma City bore th e brunt of
the deluge, but virtually the entire
northwest, northeast and central
parts of the state along the water
sheds from the Kansas line down
ward were engulfed by’ streams swol
len out of all proportions by recent
torrential rains.
The total loss here alone is placed
at. $2,500,000.
Two are known to ue dead and
other fatalities may be recorded as
the receding waters of the north Ca
nadian river permit searching par
ties to penetrate farther into the
flood-stricken lowlands on the south
side. Many persons are ill in hos
pitals from exposure.
The dead are Mrs. R. H. Loose
and her eight-year-old daughter,
who were drowned when a boat
capsized as they attempted to es
cape from their home In Wheeler
park, a municipal resort. Loose
and another daughter, who also
were in the boat, were rescued
hours later from the tree tops,
which they grasped as the current
bore them rapidly away.
The bodies of Mrs. Loose and the
child have been recovered
Dr. Durham Speaks
To Business Men’s
Evangelistic Clubs
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 16.—The
third annual conefrence of the Busi
ness Men’s Evangelistic clubs, in
session here three days, was conclud
ed Sunday afternoon, the final ses
sion being featured with an address
by Dr. Plato T. Durham, of Atlanta.
Divine worship, addresses by mem
bers to the Bible classes and con
gregations of various local churches,
and a conference, at which Dr. J.
P. McCallie, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
spoke on the “Field for Lay Activi
ties,” followed by an open discus
sion on “How Can We Meet the
Larger Opportunities?” were the
outstanding events during the morn
ing.
During the three days of session,
approximately 390 delegates from 155
i clubs, located in twelve states and
l fifty cities, participated in the de
' liberations. Os this number, seventy
; were recently formed clubs. In the
j number of clubs, South Carolina led
l with thirty-five, and Georgia came
i second wfth thirty-two. The rep
| resentation from other states was:
; Alabama, 20; Mississippi, 17; North
| Carolina, 11; Tennessee, 9; Virginia,
; 6; West Virginia, 5; Kentucky, 2, and
Indiana, lowa and Pennsylvania one
each.
Invitations from Richmond, Va.,
Columbus,. Ga., and Spartanbufg,
S. C., to act as host to the organi
zation at its next conference were
received but no definite action was
i taken to designate the convention
city.
I The following officers were elected
1 Saturday: Alexander Long, Rock
i Hill, S. C„ president; C. R. Caldwell,
i Scranton, Pa., vice president; A. M.
i Aiken, Chester, S. C., secretary-treas-
I urer; and W. G. M. Thomas, of
1 Chattanooga, Tenn.; J. B. Spillman,
of Charlotte, N. C.; Dr. W. R. Bar
: ron, of Columbia, S. C.; George V.
| Denny, of Savannah, Ga.; Charles T.
I Paxton, of Jacksonville, Fla.; S. G.
I Dakey. of Roanoke, Va.; J. P. Alex
■ ander, of Jackson, Miss.; S. J. Cas
' seis, of Montgomery, Ala., and W. J.
| Hightower, of Charleston, W. Va.,
. members of the executive committee.
•
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, October 18,1923
Aged Man Kills
Wife by Accident
Then Kills Himself
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 16.—0. M.
Rhodes, 69-year-old quarry worker,
and his 67-ycar-old wife were found
shot dead at their home in New
Brookland, a Columbia suburb, early
today. According to reports receiv
ed here, Rhodes accidently killed- his
wife while cleaning a gun, and, over
come by the tragedy, committed
suicide.
Both Rhodes and his wife were
shot twice. According to Mrs. Sallie
Black, their daughter, after her
mother was accidentally shot, her
father rushed out into the yard of
their home, and attempted to kill
himself, inflicting a flesh wound in
the head. Apparently frantic, he
came back into the house and fired
another shot into his dying wife’s
body, the daughter said, and then
shot himself through the heart.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary on
September 30, when there was held
a family reunion at their new
Brookland home. Attending the re
union were forty-one grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren, besides
eight married sons and daughters.
Mr. Rhodes had just finished
breakfast when the tragedy occur
red. He had returned from the quar
ries, where he was employed as
night watchman, bringing his gun
with him in a sack. In some unex
plained manner, the gun was dis
charged and Mrs. Rhodes fell wound
ed, probably fatally. First reports
that the weapon fq’as discharged
while Rhodes was cleaning it were
later declared incorrect.
Atlanta Spot Cotton ,
Quoted at 29 Cents,
Fifty-Point Advance
Spot cotton was quoted here at 29
cents Monday afternoon, following
bullish trading in the New York fu
tures market which closed 68 to 78
poinnts up.
Atlanta spots thus were 165 points
or $8.75 a bale more than the quota
tion on Monday, one week ago, when
local spots were 27.35. The advance
registered Monday was 50 points.
The high mark for the season was
made < über 19, when local
spot cotton was 29.75 cents. The Oc
tober 8 quotation of 27.35 cents was
the low mark.
New York spot cotton went over 3<J
cents Monday afternoon, hitting 30.45
after an advance of 75 points. New
Orleans spot cotton was 87 points up
at 29.25 cents.
Okeechobee Levee
Breaks All Repaired
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 16.
All gaps in the Lake Okeechobee
leve e at Moorehaven and vicinity
have been repaired, and the streets
are dry from wa’w-'s th. t covered
the town last Monday night whe a
heavy northeast gale broke the uykes
in several places, said a statement
issued by the chief drainage en
gineer.
Two dredges are still on the job
strengthening the levee from Moore
haven to Sand Point at places where
the greatest damage resulted from
the gale, tb’= statement said. The
level of the lake stands at 19 feet.
Four Die as Gasoline
Cruiser Sinks in Gulf
NEW ORLEANS. La., Oct. 16.
News of the sinking of the gasoline
cruiser Fidget of New Orleans and
the deexth of four members of the
crew five off the north shore of
Breton Island in the Gulf of Mexico
on October 7, was brought to the
quarantine station at the mouth of
the Mississippi river today by the
lone survivor. Rengard Johan Olsen
Rydmingon, of Haugsund. Norway.
Goodyear Raincoat Free
Goodyear Mfg. Co.. 6028-R Goodyear
Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., is making an
offer to send a handsome raincoat free
ito one person in each locality who will
i show and recommend it to friends. If
sou want one, write today.
GARREH DN TRIAL
AGAIN FOB Uli
. BAPTIST MINISTER
CUMBERLAND COURTHOUSE,
Va., Oc. 16.—(8y the Associated
Press.) —After a number of post
ponements and two mistrials, the
Pierce-Garrett murder ease again
was called for trial in the Cumber
land county court today. Though
his brother, Larkin G. Garrett, was
jointly indicted with him for first
degree murder for the frtal shoot
ing Rev. E. S. Pierce, Baptist
minister, last June 5, only the case
of Robert G. Garrett, county clerk,
was set for trial today. This, the
second trial of the elder brother, was
originally set for September 25, but
Judge B. D. White, of Princess Anne
county, who was designated by Gov
ernor Trinkle to preside, announced
at that time that he would grant
the state a change of venire. This
he did and directed that a jury be
drawTi from Southampton, county.
The venire reported here early this
morning, accompanied by a number
of special deputy sheriffs. Special
police guards from Portsmouth and
Petersburg also were on hand.
Both Robert and Larkin Garrett,
the latter also a county officer, ad
mitted at their previous trials that
they fired at the minister, but claim
ed they shot only in defense of their
lives.
Larkin was first brought to trial,
but the prosecution challenged the
right of several members of the jury
to sit. After all evidence was in
and the case ready for argument
Judge White declared a mistrial.
There was no change today in the
former array of counsel.
All technical questions that
caused weeks of delay when the
case was first called for trial were
brushed aside by Judge B. D.
White, presiding, and the task of
selecting a jury from the venire of
sixty Southampton county \citizens
brought here under a change of
venire was begun a few minutes
after court convened.
Governor and Senators
To Attend Macon Fair
MACON, Ga., Oct. 16.—Wednes
day, October 24, is expected to be
one of the biggest days of the Macon
fair. Governor Walker and his staff;
United States Senators William J-
Harris and Walter F. George and
Congressman J. Walter Wise, of the
Sixth district, will be the guest of
the association.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood, of
Alabama, possible Democratic nomi
nee for president, has also been in
vited to attend, and a reply is ex
pected from him within the next
few days.
Among the special features this
year will be automobile races the
closing day. Saturday, October 27,
when Ralph de Palma, Joe Boyer.
Ira Vail, Louis Chevrolet, Harry
Hartz and other celebrated dirt track
auto daredevils will be seen on the
Macon track.
On Friday afternoon, the day be
fore the races, the Mercer football
team oppose the Birmingham South
ern eleven. This game will ba
played inside the mile track.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia: Showers; little change in
temperature.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia: Showers: little change
in temperature.
Florida: Showers.
Extreme northwest Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi: Probably
showers Thursday: little change in
temperature.
Tennessee, Kentucky and West
Virginia: Showers. Storm warnings
remain displayed on the gulf coast,
from Bay St. Louis, Miss., to Pen
sacola.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy; probably
showers in northeast portion.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy: probably
showers in northeast portion.
Oklahoma: Probably fair.
East Texas: Partly cloudy.
Wes-t Texas: Generally fair.
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BODY UNEARTHED.
MAN’S WIFE «
BROTHERARRESTED
Accused Woman Makes
Stout Denial of Charges
Before Leaving for Doug
las in Custody of Sheriff
AVON PARK, Fla., Oct. 17.—L. S.
Rogers, former mill hand and farmer
of West Green, Coffee county, Geor
gia, was brought here under arrest
this afternoon at the request of
Sheriff Tanner, of Douglas, who ar
rived to take the prisoner back with '
him to ansvter a charge of killing his
brother there nearly a year ago.
Rogers was arrested here yesterday
by L. M. Marsh, city marshal, at
the request of the Georgia
ties, and taken to Arcadia for safe
keeping, there being no jail here.
“God knows we’ve ' done nothing
wrong," was the statement of Mrs.
Rogers, when she and her husband
reached here from Arcadia. .
She said they arrived here about
a week ago and had been visiting
B. C. Moore and wife, friends of s
Mrs. Rogers, who knew her when
she married John Rogers. Mrs.
Rogers said they had corresponded
with relatives in Georgia since their
arrival, and this was confirmed by
the Moores, who said the Rogers
told them that everybody was leav- ,
ing Georgia because of crop condi
tions, which they gave as their rea
son for coming here.
Under questioning by Mr. Moore,
she stated that she and L. S. Rogers
were married early this year after
John had left her and ran away to
Jacksonville with another woman.
She said she got a divorce on
grounds of desertion, but could not
remember the names of the lawyers
nor the circumstances of the pro
ceedings. She added that they have
been living with her people in Geor
gia for the last few weeks.
INDICTMENTS RETURNED
BY COFFEE GRAND JURY
DOUGLAS. Ga., Oct. 17.—Indict
ments charging murder were return
ed here this morning by the grand
jury, now in session, against L. S.
Rogers, charged with slaying his
brother, John Alton Rogers, and
Mrs. John Alton Rogers, widow of
the dead man, who left with the al
leged slayer about a month ago. Both
were arrested Tuesday in Avon Park,
Florida.
Sheriff Tanner, of Coffee county,
has notified local authorities that he
will i eturn with his two prisoners to
morrow morning. This was an indi
cation, according to the local author
ities, that the man and woman had
waived extradition rights.
. t was reported here this morning
that it was /mother- pug of Rogers'
brothers that told the story of the
killing, which brought about the ar
rest of L. S. Rogers and his sister
in-law in Florida. This brother, it
is understood, appeared before the
local grand jury and charged his
brother with the murder.
The crime charged against the
man being held today in Florida ex
plains the mysterious disappearance
of John Rogers, from this vicinity
during November, 1922. The crime
is alleged to have occurred on Nov
ember 18
According to the story which, It ■
is said, L. S. Rogers confided- to his
brother, and in several close friends
living in this county and in Florida,
on that day he slew his brother while
they were both working in a corn
field. L. S. rlogers is charged with
shooting his brother, stripping him
of all clothing, wrapping the re
mains in a n-iflt, and burying his
body in the co-nfield.
When spring came, the brother,
still living on thetfarm, ploughed the
field, even over the exact spot wher«
his brother was buried, according to
the story related before the grand
jury here.
Coroner G. L. Sims went to she
farm last Sunday and dug up the
body. The skeleton was brought to
Douglas for interment later.
Upon notification of the arrest of
Rogers and his brother’s widow at
Avon. Sheriff Tanner, of Coffee coun
ty, left for the Florida town to bring
the prisoners back to Douglas to- be
tried for murder. The dead man’s
wife formerly a Miss Yarbrough,
of West Green.
Court is now in session, but It is
hardly probable the defendants will
be vried at this term of court.
Youth Charged With
Killing 6-Year-Old Boy
Is Given 3-Year Term
BAXLEY, Ga., Oct. 16.—Grady
Simmons, sixteen years old. late ia«t
night was found guilty of involun
tary manslaughter in the commission
of an unlawful act in connection with
the killing of Raymond Carter, six
year-old boy, April Hothis year, find
sentenced to a term of thre«
maximum and minimum.
The case was tried in Appling, su
perior court Monday. In hi s state
ment to the jury, Simmons claimed
that the shooting was entirely acci
dental. He said that he and the lit
tle boy were the best of friends.
When he came into the room where
the boy was at his mother’s home,
he said that the pistol had been
taken from the mantel Ly the child.
He tried to take it way, but the bo-/
resisted, holding onto the barrel, and
the weapon was in some manner dis
charged.
There were no eyewitnesses to the
killing, but Earl Mobley, a small bov
nine years old, testified that Sim- .
mons had threatened to get rid of
Raymond Cart r “if he had to
drown him.”
The mothers of.both boys were in
court, Mrs. Katie Carter sitting near
the solicitor general, and Mrs. Jane
Simmons near the defendant. They
both frequently broke into tears.
Mrs. Carter is the widow of Mr. John
Carter, who himself was accidentally
killed a few years ago when an auto
mobile ran over him, just as he was
alighting from another car.
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