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VOL. XXV,
REBELLION SPREADS
. ’ THROUGH RHINELAND
' AS VIOLENCE GROWS
Secessionist Troops Storm
ing Public Buildings of
Bonn Sanguinary En
counters Spreading
BERLIN, Oct. 2».—The Rhineland
republican movement was extended
L in some quarters of the occupied
area today but seemed to be reced
ing in the districts first affected.
Berlin maintains that the movement
has been generally defeated.
The most important new accession
of the separatists was Duisburg, in
, the Ruhr, where, according to a
Belgian official message, the republic
was proclaimed early today and the
public buildings occupied.
Dr. Hans A. Dorten, leader of
the previous separatist movement,
seems to have thrown in his lot
with the proponents of the present
venture as his followers are re
ported to have hoisted the republic
an colors on the government build
ings at Wiesbaden, his home town,
where ten persons were wounded in
subsequent rioting.
On the other hand Berlin dis-
• patches report the expulsion of the
republicans from Aix-la-Chapelle
c r where the present republican move
ment saw its inception early Sun
day. The former regime is declared
to have regained complete mastery
there and also at Muenchen-Glad
bach, where the separatists had
seized control.
Attack on Coblenz
Coblenz, which the republicans
plan to make their capital, was still
in the hands of the old officials
this forenoon, but the separatists
were said to be ready to seize it
before the day was over and expect- j
ed no opposition to the move.
There are conflicting reports re
garding the city of Bonn where the
republicans were reported to have
j’ seized the government offices. The
latest Berlin advices, however, de
clared the separatists had been de
feated there.
Treves, Mayence and all the cities
in the Ruhr except Duisburg ap
« patently are in the hands of the
» regular officials.
Overnight developments in the
Bavarian situation were negligible.
The aggressive attitude of Dr. Von
Kahr, the Bavarian dictator, and the
support given him against Berlin by
General Von Lossow, commander of
• the Bavarian Reichswehr, has made•
the Bavarian authorities masters of
the situation and left the central
government apparently helpless for
the moment to curb such independ
ent action as Bavaria may wish to
Lake.
Food Riots Continue
It is insisted in Munich, however, !
that Bavaria is not considering se
cession from the federation and that
the differences are solely with the
i present Berlin government. Mean
while the Reicherat or council of the
Reich, has been summoned to meet
v tomorrow to discuss the whole Ba
varian situation.
• Food disorders are continuing in
'ntcrior Germany. The most serious
developments now is at Hamburg
where rioters early today stormed
several police stations and retained
them for several hours, police rein
forcements recaptured them. There
was plundering of food shops and
disorders. The turbulence had
not been entirely subdued at the
latest advices.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
Virginia: Fair and slightly warmer.
North Carolina; Fair and some
-4 what warmer.
• South Carolina and Georgia: Fair,
c slightly warmer.
Florida: Fair.
Extreme northwest Florida. Ala
( hama and Mississippi: Fair, with
slowly rising temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair
slightly warmer.
Louisiana: Unsettled; probably
r rain; colder in northwest portion.
4 Oklahoma: Probably rain; colder.
East Texas: Probably rain; colder
in northwest portion.
West Texas: Unsettled, probably
ram in east portion: colder.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
CHlCAGO.—Senator Copeland says
Henry Ford will be the next presi
dent if nominated by either major
party.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Governor
Walton, of Oklahoma, is suspended
from office by 36 to 1 vote in state
senate.
WASHINGTON—-Richard Wash
burn Child, ambassador to Italy, is
guest of President and Mrs. Coolidge
at the White House.
BERLIN. —Butter is disposed of in
limited quantities at ten billion
per pound and price of loaf of bread
is five billion marks.
NEW YORK. —Dissolution of Ce
ment Manufacturers’ association on
the ground that, it is a trust is or
dered by Federal Judge Knox.
NEW YORK.—President Coolidge
calls attention to significance of Arm
istice day in message made public by
league of remembrance.
CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa.—Roscoe
E. Farris, 17 years old, quarterback
of Vinton High school football team,
dies of injuries suffered in game.
PANAMA. —All passengers of
steamer San Gil, which is ashore
off Nicaraguan coast, are reported
safely on board steamer Pastores.
BERLIN. —Seven policemen are
killed and 19 severely wounded, and
14 other persons killed and 103
wounded in rioting at Hamburg, it
is reported here.
NEW YORK.—Victor Maurel, 75,
one of foremost French baritone
opera singers and for many years
principal in Metropolitan Opera
company, dies after illness of two
years.
TOKIO. —Four Japanese girl stu
dents at Yokohama High school,
buried under heap of debris during
earthquake, are rescued alive after
being imprisoned 25 days without
food.
WASHINGTON.—Senate commit-
THOUSANDS IN IRISH
JAILS DECLINE FOOD.
DEMANDING RELEASE
BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN
(Special Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1922.)
DUBLIN, Oct. 23. —Between two
and three thousand republican pris
oners and internes are reported to be
hunger striking throughout Ireland
today. Even the prison officials do
not know just how many there are.
They can guess from the amount of
food left untouched, but not until
time weakens the physiques of the
strikers will any definite data as to
the number be available.
The hunger strike is an attempt
to force the wholesale, unconditional
release of 10,000 republicans still in
jail. About 90 per cent of this num
ber could gain immediate release by
signing a guarantee not to take up
arms again against the state.
Blow Brings Memory
Back After 5 Years;
Remembers Lost Wife
ST. CLOUD, Minn., Oct. 23.—-The
blow on the head that knocked Ar
thur E. Whitney, federal prohibition
agent, of Minneapolis, under the
wheels of a truck at New Munich,
Minn., Wednesday night, fracturing
his skull, also turned the pages of
his life back five years, it was re
vealed here last night.
Whitney was overseas twenty
seven months during the World war,
was gassed three times and a victim
of loss of memory. His life after the
last gas attack was a blank.
After the war, he landed in New
York and obtained a job as a fed
eral prohibition agent. There he
met a young woman known as Ann
Whitney, who has lived in St. Paul
with him for the last two years.
When Whitney, at a local hospital
regained consciousness last night for
the first time since the blow Wednes
day, standing beside the bed was
Mrs. Luella Whitney, who married
him in Grafton, N. D. t in 1912 and
who bore him two sons.
He said he knew nothing of Ann
Whitney, nothing of the baby soon
to arrive, nothing of the almost
complete divorce proceedings be
tween himself and Luella. and noth
ing of how he was hurt.
Whitney had a faint idea that he
had been a government dry agent,
however. He asked his wife how the
boys were and apparently did not
realize the passage of time.
Physicians say Whitney will re
cover.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
tee investigating veterans bureu
hears of graft charges in connection
with purchase of site and preparation
of plans for yet unbuilt tuberculosis
hospital at Livermore, Cal.
NEW YORK.— Establishing new
record for typewriting speed, aver
age of 147 words a minute for one
hour, Albert Tangora, of Paterson,
N. J., wins official contest at open
ing of national business show.
LONDON.—Premier Smuts, of
South Africa, advocated conference
of powers to consider whoje Euio
pcan situation, attacks French policy
and warns England and United
States against remission of inter al
lied war debts.
BERLIN. —Rhineland republic is
declared practically dead in Aix La
Chapelie where Separatists are beat
en by Loyalists; Coblenz is taken by
Republicans who try to set up cap
ital but later are driven out, accord
ing to late advices.
NEW YORK. —Active campaign
against preparedness is being con
ducted by pacificts’ associations,
some of which are fostered and sup
ported either directly or indirectly
by alien or other agencies inimical
to our form of government, General
John J. Pershing declares in state
ment.
LONDON—Ambassador Harvcry at
Pilgrim dinner in London causes
French Ambassador some uneasiness
when he declares that billions lent
to Europe by the United States are
being used to keep greater armies
than have ever existed; declares
America hereafter must keep away
from Europe's broils.
CLEVELAND?—Dawid L. Rock
well, of Cleveland, announces he
has accepted post of national man
ager of movement to make William
G. McAdoo, former secretary of
treasury, democratic candidate for
presidency in 1924 and that national
headquarters for McAdoo pre-con
vention campaign will be opened in
Chicago November 1.
CONFERENCE CULLED
BF FORD CLUBS TO
FORM NEW PARTY
DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 23.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Formation of a
new national political party with
Henry Ford as its standard bearer
will be undertaken at a national or
ganization conference of all Ford
for-President clubs, to be held here
December 12, 13 and 14.
The call for the organization con
ference was decided upon at a meet
ing last night of several Michigan
Ford clubs. The conference, accord
ing to leaders of the movement, prob-'
ably will name a date and place for
holding a nominating convention
next spring.
The conference call will go out
within a few days, it was stated by
William Kronberg, secretary of the
Dearborn Ford-for-President club.
“It was decided upon,” he said,
“only after insistent demand from
Ford clubs throughout the coun
try.”
The Dearborn club, he said, had
been inactive for some time, owing
to its inability to obtain from Henry
Ford any statement as to whether
or not he would accept nomination
by a party the clubs might organize.
“We virtually were forced into ac
tion,” Mr. Kronberg said, “many of
the clubs in other states threaten
ing to proceed with a convention call
if we did not do so.”
Mr. Kronberg estimated the num
ber of Ford clubs now in existence
at between 300 and 400, and added
that he was advised the organiza
tion conference would attract at least
3,000 delegates and visitors. Sessions
of the organization conference, he
said, would be held in the auditorium
at Dearborn, home of Henry Ford.
Last night’s meeting, at w r hich
about a score of delegates were pres
ent, was presided over by Judge Ed
war Jefferies, of the recorder’s court
of Detroit. Among those present be
sides Judge Jefferies and Mr. Kron
berg were Clyde Ford, a cousin of the
Detroit manufacturer; Edward Fish
er, president of the village of Dear
born; Rev. William Dawe, president
of the Dearborn Ford club, and Hen
ry Ruduck, treasurer ot Dearborn
township.
Squirrel Puts Capitol
Os Nation in Darkness,
Stopping Senate Work
WASHINGTON Oct. 23.—A gray
squirrel, reconnoitering for food to
add to his winter store, persued his
quest into the capitol building today
with far-reaching results.
In the basement of the great
structure, where a dynamo works
constantly to supply light and power
to the entire Capitol group of build
ings, he became entangled in a deli
cate el ctric fuse which ended his
hunt forever. In consequence sev
eral miles of corridors and many ,
side rooms were thrown into com
plete darkness, while in the congres
sional library an dthe offices of sen
aters and representatives work had
to stop or else go forward uncer
taintly in the gray light of a rainy
fall day.
Two senate committees, hearing
evidence on weighty public contra-
I versies, grouped dimly over their
i documents in a semi-darkness that
I seemed to make even more obscure
i the tangled skein of affairs they
i were seeking to unravel.
After a search of a half-hour
electrician., found the dis-
abled fuse with the lifeless body of
the little squirrel beside it.
Rehearing Is Denied
For Editor Rumely;
Must Serve Sentence
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. The
supreme court today denied a re
view in the case of Edward A.
'Rumely and others sentenced to
the penitentiary during the war
j for failing to report to the alien
! property custodian their indebted
ness to the German government
in connection with the purchase
ot. the New York Evening Mail.
WALTON IMPEACHED
AND REMOVED FROM
OFFICE By SENATE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 24.
(By the Associated Press.) —The bit
terest fight precipitated since the
convening of the special session of
the Oklahoma legislature broke on
the floor of the house today when
Representative J. W. Callahan,
Democrat, Latimer county, intro
duced a resolution providing for an
investigation to determine who paid
' the expenses of house members
when they attempted to convene
September 26,. and were dispersed
by military authorities upon orders
from Governor J. C. Walton. Calla
han is a Walton supporter.
The resolution was adopted after
a brief but acrimonious debate and
i was referred to a committee investi
gation conduct of house members.
The resolution sought especially
an inquiry to determine whether the
Ku Klux Klan or certain ‘“interests”
in Tulsa had contributed funds for
the attempted session.
Says-He Has Proof
Representative J. B. Phillips,
Democrat, Cleveland county, assail
ed Callahan for his reflection on the
house members who sought to an
swer the call for the session that
was blocked by the governor. He
demanded an immediate investiga
tion of the charges and declared
that if it is proved untrue he would
move Callahan’s suspension from
thj house.
Callahan rejoined that he had the
proof and dared the house let him
produce his testimony.
While the house fight was in
progress both Governor Walton and
Lieutenant Governor Trapp arrived
ac their offices, and were officially
served with the senate resolution
adepted late yesterday suspending
the former temporarily and naming
the latter acting governor during the
impeachment trial of Governor Wal
ton.
Lieutenant Governor Trapp declar
ed that he would seek an opinion
from George Short, state attorney
general, as to the legality of the
senate resolution .lesignatinf him
acting governor during the trial of
the chief executive. He declared that
ha will be guided by the attorney
general’s finding and that if he is
informed he is the legally empowered
acting governor, he will perform the
now»al routiife duties of the execu
tive’s office.
An effort to file two executive or
ders with the secretary of state was
made today by a clerk from the of
fice of Governor Walton. Miss Una
Roberts, assistant secretary of state,
refused to accept the papers in view
of the resolution adopted by the
state senate suspending the gover
nor from office. Observers believed
the incident may be made the basis
for court action to test the legality
of the executive’s suspension.
The probability loomed that court
action would be resorted to by one
side or the other —possibly both —
before, the proceedings are complet
ed.
Court Fight Is Seen
Meanwhile, the senate during the
day is expected to organize as a
court of impeachment to try the gov
ernor for alleged malfeasance in of
fice.
Close followers of the situation
predicted that the governor’s first
move would take form in the action
in the criminal court of appeals
to nullify the impeachment proceed
ings. He would base his suit, it was
said, on grounds that since the legis
lature was called into special session
solely to enact anti-Ku Klux Klan
legislation, it is not empowered to
take up- other matters.
The senate likewise is expected to
seek recourse in the courts should
Governor Walton fail to comply
with the provisions of the suspen
sion order.
Two separate bills of impeach
ment were filed with the senate late
yesterday by the lower house, act
ing on evidence submitted by its
committee which investigated the
executive’s official conduct. The
first charged that the governor had
diverted state funds to his own use
by entering his private chauffeur on
the state health department payrolls.
The other alleged he committed a
constitutional offense by refusing to
permit a grand jury to meet after
it had been summoned to review his
official acts.
Twenty other counts contained in
the committee report are to be con
sidered and voted on by the house
immediately; and the senate has
announced it will be in readiness to
receive further bills of impeach
ment should any of the remaining
articles be accepted by the lower
house.
House Action a Surprise
All of these charges come under
the general allegations of moral tur
pitude, incompetency, corruption in
office and wilful neglect of duty.
Action of the house in suddenly
passing to a consideration of the
charges came unexpectedly late yes
terday. Previously, it had been
agreed to read the complete testi
mony adduced by the investigating
committee, and most of the day’s
sessions had been consumed in the
oral presentation.
Virtually without discussion the
second charge enumerated in the
. committee report, that alleging di
version of state funds, was accepted
by an overwhelming vote and it im
mediately was sent to the senate as
a. formal indictment. The upper
house voted in turn to receive the
charge and this was the signal for
introduction of the suspension reso
lution by Senator W. E. Gulager. of
Muskogee. This was passed with
but one dissenting vote and copies
of the resolution then were ordered
served on both Governor Walton
and Lieutenant Governor Trapp.
Within a few moments, the third
corrimittee charge against the gov
ernor had been approved by the
house and transmitted to the senate.
Both houses then adjourned, the
lower body announcing that consid
eration of the remaining counts in
the committee report would begin
today.
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TWO MEN ARE HURT
IN WALL COLLAPSE
IN FT. GAINES FIRE
FORT GAINES, Ga., Oct 24.
Fire broke out here this morning at
3 o’clock in the Mcßae warehouse
and completely destroyed it. George
Coleman and Floyd Puckett, with
others, were fighting the fire when
the entire solid wall fell, pinning
Mr. Coleman and Mr. Puckett be
neath the debris. Mr. Puckett work
ed his way out before assistance
reached him, but Mr. Coleman was
buried for fully 20 minutes under
the debris and water, and had to
be cut out by the fire department.
He was at first thought to be dead
when his body was recovered. Doc
tors state that his skull is frac
tured and many other bones are
broken and crushed. He has a
fighting chance to recover. Mr.
Puckett was injured about the head
and other parts of his body, but is
not thought dangerously hurt.
j Property loss was estimated at
| SIOO,OOO.
! The entire warehouse was de-
I stroyed with about 350 bales of cot-
Iton, 65 tons of farmers' co-op pea
nuts, 600 to 700 bushels of corn, 100
I tons of cotton seed, and a car of
! dressed lumber. Many farmers
did not have any insurance at
one of the heaviest losers, having
25 or more bales. E. W. Killings
worth, a local cotton buyer, also
had a lot of cotton in the ware
house. Very little insurance was
carried on the building and con
tents, and the loss will be heavy.
The Cuthbert fire department an
swered the call and made a record
run here, but the fire was under
control on its arrival.
E. E. Worsham’s grocery stoiy
also was burned, but his stock was
partly covered by insurance. A. W.
Holley’r estate also lost a building in
the fire and at one time it looked
like the entire block was going to
i be destroyed.
FOUR BUILDINGS BURN
IN MORVEN; SIO,OOO LOSS
QUITMAN, Ga., Oct. 24.—Fire of
unknown origin in Morven, fourteen
miles north of Quitman, in Brooks
county, destroyed three buildings
and a residence before it was extin
guished this morning.
The loss, estimated immediately
after the fire was got under con
trol, is between SIO,OOO and $12,000,
with very little insurance.
Victim of Mysterious
Shooting Said to Have
Atlanta Police Record
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 24.—Wil
bert Grant, who, with his wife, was
killed in St. Louis yesterday, and
Wilfred Stalnaker, their chauffeur,
who was wounded, are known to the
Kansas City police, according to 1.
B. Walston, chief of the city bureau
of detectives.
Grant and Stalnaker were arrested
. here in connection with the blowing
i of the safe of the Pantages theater,
. November 13, 1922, Walston said,
i Both were released because of lack
! of evidence.
Grant, Walston said, was a com
panion of Richard K. Osborne, noted
safe blower, who was killed recently
at Childhowee, Mo., in an attempted
burglary, and “Diamond Joe” Sulli
van, convicted recently of the mur
der of a patrolman in Little Rock,
Ark.
Grant was arrested ten years ago
lat Atlanta, where an attempt was
I made, Walston asserted, to round up
! a gang of safe blowers.
British and U. S. Sailors
In Battle; One Is Killed
t ANTWERP, Oct. 24.—(8y the As
' sociated Press.) —A British sailor
| was killed by a knife thrust through
■his heart last night in a fight be
tween sailors on the United States
cruiser Pittsburg and the crew of
the Britis hmerchant steamer Me
lita.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, October 25, 1923
To the Rescue
Georgia Man Killed
By Military Guard
At Kentucky Post
FORT THOMAS, Ky., Oct. 23.
Private Miles P. Walker, of Thomas
ton, Ga., military prisoner here, wai
shot and killed late Monday by Pri
vate D. F. Nichols, of Eagle Port,
Ohio, who was acting as guard over
the prisoners. According to* infor
mation in the hands of officers at
the fort, Walker threw rocks at the
guard. Nichols was placed in con
finement preliminary to a hearing
before a general court-martial.
So Yamm”
CASE GOES TD JURY
ON TOM NIGHT
MACON. Ga., Oct. 23.—The fate of
Dr. C. A. Yarbrough in.his third trial
for rioting in connection with the
flogging of W. O. Barnett went into
the hands of the jury at 11
o’clock tonight. Testimony adduced
was much the same as offered in the
first two trials, in which he was ac
quitted and given a mistrial respect
ively, and rapid progress was made.
The state rested its case at 11:00
o’clock this morning and the defense
closed .in the afternoon with a brief
statement by the accused dentist, in
which he said that he had nothing
to do with the series of floggings in
Macon. As in former trials, he ad
mitted membership in the Ku Klux
Klan. Arguments began at 4 o’clock,
each side being allotted an hour and
a half. The arguments were to be
followed by the judge’s charge and
the delivery of the case to the jury.
Judge Will Gunn announced this
morning that the trials of C. F.
Alexander, merchant, and J. P.
Durkee, membership solicitor of the
Ku Klux Klan in Bibb county, set
for trial this week, would go over
■until the December term of the city
court for the reason that he had
been unable to get a judge to try
the Alexander case. Judge Gunn is
disqualified from presiding in the
Alexander case by reason of distant
kinship to the defendant.
Judge Gunn stated that he had
endeavored to get Judge Holmes
Johnson, of Gray, but that he was
off on a vacation and could not be
reached. He stated that he was also
unable to get Judge H. A. Mathews
or Judge Malcolm D. Jones, of
Macon, for the reason they were
both engaged in trying cases in
Houston and Crawford counties.
Judge Ogden Persons, of Forsyth,
could not be secured on account of
being engaged in holding court this
week.
Jurors excused Monday after the
beginning of the Yarbrough trial
and ordered to report back Thurs
day morning need not return, Judge
Gunn announced. This also applies
to witnesses.
Murder Theory in Case
Os Unidentified Body
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 23.—N0 clue
had been found today, according to
public authorities, to the identity of
an aged man, whose decomposed
body was found Sunday in the sub
urbs of Ybor City. Plans made to
hold an inquest announced yester
day were countermanded. The body
will be held for a few days, however,
in hopes that some one will be able
to identify him. A bullet hole in
the skull and a bruise on the chest
led police today to advance the the
ory of murder.
Savannah Dentist
Dies of Injuries
GREENVILLE, S. C„ Oct. 23.
Dr. Henry L. O’Connor, 40, dentist of
Savannah, Ga., died in a local hos
pital last night from injuiies re
ceived yesterday morning when his
automobile went over an embank
ment on the Augusta road near this
city. His negro chauffeur, who was
driving and who was the only other
occupant of the car, escaped with
only minor hurts. Dr. O'Conner was
returning home after a vacation in
Ashe ' . N. C.
TWOWOMENARE
VICTIMS OF DEADLY
AX IN BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 23.
Birmingham’s “ax murder” record
reached a total of twenty today
when Mrs. Frank Romeo died from
wounds inflicted by a person who
entered the shop and home of Ber
nard Vigilante, her son-in-law, last
night, at which time Mrs. Vigilante
was probably fatally injured by the
same axman. The assailant of the
two women used a meat cleaver. Six
ty dollars was removed from the
cash register, police reported, after
the attack. It was said at a hospital
where Mrs. Vigilante was removed
that her wounds were of the most
serious nature.
Besides twenty deaths from suci
attacks wthin the last two and a half
years, eighteen other persons have
been injured and have recovered.
Numerous arrests have been made
in connection with the various at
tacks, but few convictions have re
sulted. The victim in nearly every
case was a small shopkeeper, set
upon in the night by a person using
an ax. Most of the persons attacked
have been foreigners or persons of
foreign extraction, police records
show.
Criminologists have offered vari
ous suggestions in connection with
the repeated attacks, but all lines of
inquiry appear to haye led nowhere.
In some cases robbery appeared the
motive, the records reveal, while in
other instances there were no signs
of robbery. The attacks have been
most fiendish in execution, the
throats of women being slashed in
many instances, while the bodies of
men and women have been hacked
to pieces.
Jim Taylor, negro, was arrested
several hours after the attack upon
the women, and is held for* examina
tion. .
Mrs. Renfroe Granted
Temporary Letters for
Woodward Estate
Another complication was added
Wednesday to the already involved
litigation surrounding the will of
the late Mr. James G. Woodward,
four times mayor of Atlanta, when
Mrs. Nannie Woodward Renfroe,
only daughter of Mr. Woodward, ap
peared before Ordinary Thomas H.
Jeffries and secured temporary let
ters of administration allowing her
to settle pressing obligations and
current expenses of the Woodward
estate.
A legal fight for the estate of Mr.
Woodward was begun several weeks
ago when his will was offered for
probate, cutting Mrs. Renfroe off
without a penny, leaving his home
and a monthly allowance of $75 to
his second wife, Mrs. Violet Wood
ward, and providing that the great
er portion of his estate, amounting
to more than <550,000, should go to
the Union Printers’ home, at Colo
rado Springs, Col.
Mrs. Renfroe and Mrs. Woodward
immediately filed a caveat to the
will, contending that the former
mayor was mentally irresponsible at
the" time the document was drawn
Ordinary Jeffries granted the caveat
and declared the will null and void.
The Union Printers’ home, major
beneficiaries under the will, immedi
ately filed in Fulton superior court
a petition asking that Ordinary Jef
fries’ decision be set aside, and that
the will be declared valid in its
original form. Hearing on this peti
tion still is pending.
The letters of administration
granted Mrs. Renfroe Wednesday al
low her to administer the estate only
to the extent of paying pressing
debts and current obligations. They
do not allow her to effect a final
settlement until after the case is
decided in the superior court.
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HUM MADE FORBES
LOAN WHILE BIDDING
FOR WORK. CHARGE
Contractors Also Paid for
Many Liquor Parties for
Veterans’ Bureau Chief,
Witness Testifies
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Princi
pals of the Thompson-Black company
loaned $5,000 to Charles R. Forbes,
while he was director of the veter
ans’ bureau, at a time when the com
pany was seeking a contract for the
construction of a government hospit
al, Elias H. Mortimer, Philadelphia,
a former agent o fthe company, tes
tified today at the senate investiga
tion of the veterans’ bureau.
Mortimer also told the committee
that the negotiations for the con
tract with Forbes were marked oy
a number of “drinking” parties la
Washington, Atlantic City, Philadel
phia and New York. He declared
the former director was a frequent
dinner guest at his hotel apartments
here and that he paid the expenses
of a four-day party at Atlantic City
and also the expenses of two parties
at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia.
Mr. Mortimer said it was near the
end of long negotiations for the con
tract that Mr. Forbes told him at a
hotel in Washington that Mrs.
Forbes had gone abroad and that he
was very hard up and desired a loan.
The witness said Forbes fixed tne
sum at $5,000 and he arranged with
Janies W. Black and J. W. Thomp
son, who then were at the hotel to
advance the money.
Mortimer said ire personally de
livered,, the $5,000 to Forbes at a
party in Chicago, and that Forbes
merely thanked him for it.
“I asked him for a note for the
amount, ’ the witness continued, “but
he just laughed.”
The committee was told by Dr.
R. L. Chandler, officer in charge of
dental surgery in the bureau, that
there had been “innumerable” cases
in which it was alleged that dentists
had charged the government for
work which they had never per
formed for former service men.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa
chusetts, said this was a broad as
sertion, and Dr. Chandler replied
that he could produce the records.
Dr. Chandler also told of one case
where the bureau had purchased
“gold brick.” a batch of meta!
supposed to be gold and costing
them about SBSO, which had turned
out to be some other metal.
Major General O’Ryan read into
the record a form card from an un
named dentist of Liberty, Ky..
which he said had been mailed In
numbers to former service men and
which invited them to have dental
work done at government expense.
Never Paid Loan, He Says
Questioned by members of the
committee, Mortimer said Forbes
never had given him any record to
show for the indebtedness nor had
he ever paid the loan. He added
that he had, advanced money to
Forbes at other times, but did not
give the amounts.
Mortimer testified that he obtain
ed an advance of SIO,OOO just before
he paid the money over with a view
to using the second $5,000 to pay the
expenses of a trip he took with. Mr.
Forbes to the Pacific coast. He
asserted that he paid all of Mr
Forbes’ expenses except railroad
fare, which was paid by the govern
ment.
The series of “parties,” the wit
ness said, took place between Feb
ruary, 1922, and June, 1922, and
during this time, he added, Mr.
Forbes had conferences with Mr.
Black and Mr. Thompson concern
ing contracts and had promised that
their firm would be taken care of
in the letting of contracts, over
which he claimed he had absolute
authority.
Officials of the company also were
given a confidential list of the sites
where it was proposed to erect hos
pitals, Mortimer further testified,
and after an insp etion they decided
they would want to build the pro
posed plant at Northampton, Mass.
The director then, according to
the witness, supplied them witn
plans and specifications in advancJ
of the general distribution “to con
tractors.” Mr. Mortimer said this
naturally g-ave his firm a tremen
dous advantage.
Mr. Thompson was told that if
any other bid was submitted lower
than that of the Pontiac Construc
tion Company of Detroit, tlm-.
would be made the essence of the
Northampton contract so as to as
sure its award to the Pontiac com
pany.
Coast Trip Cost $5,<10
The cost of the Pacific coast trip,
made by Frobes for the purpose of
inspecting government hospital sites
was estimated by Mortimer at $5,-
400. He said there were a number
of “parties” on the coast and that
“drinking” started within an hour
after the Forbes party reached the
Fairmont Jiotel at San Francisco.
At Stockton, he continued, a
party was arranged for “Rough and
Ready island” and it finally wound
up at the home of a woman friend
of Mr. Forbes at Stockton, whose
name was -withheld from the record.
The witness said the home referred
to had a bar in it “as long aa this
room.”
Season’s First Snow
Falls in Tennessee
And North Carolina
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Oct. 23.
The first snow of the season was
recorded here this morning when In
termittent flurries were in evident*
for several hours. At 9:30 o’clock
the snowfall continued unabated
and was beginning to lie on the
ground.
NEAR RECORD IN ASHEVILLE
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Oct. 23.—The
first snow of the season fell this
morning in Asheville and vicinity.
Since 1906, only four snows have
been recorded in Asheville earlier
than October 23.