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STBESEMINN CJLLS
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Looting of Food Shops
Spreads in Capital—So
cialists Promise Aid of For
mer Soldiers
BERLIN. Nov. 6.—Germany or
ganized her forces today to beat a
threatened monarch coup.
President Ebert's" proclamation
warning ruthless suppression of any
uprising, and calling for public sup
port was answered by Socialist lead
ers who said they could furnish sev
eral hundred thousand former sol
diers for the defense of the repub
lic.
Chancellor Stresemann was report
ed today to hav e been advised that
Thursday would be the zero day for
the putsch.
The government’s call for support
of the republic awakened realization
to the menace from the reactionary
Organization along the Bavarian bor
der and elsewhere.
Political parties plan to issue a call
today and tomorrow to all their fol
lowers to “be prepared” if the gov
ernment calls.
They altered the call to one of pre
paredness instead of a direct call to
arms because Chancellor Stresemann
and Minister of Defense Gessler op
posed the use of socialist “black, red
and gold hundreds.”
SEPARATISTS PLAN NEW
ATTEMPT TO TAKE AIX
BERLIN. Nov. 6. —Herr Mathes,
’•president of the Rhineland repub
lic,” has announced unofficially the
Intention of the Republicans of re
taking Aix-la-Chapelle, a dispatch
from Cologne said today.
FOOD RIOTS SPREAD
IN STREETS OF BERLIN
BERLIN. Nov. 6.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—The looting of food
and clothing shops continued
throughout the night in the north
ern districts of Berlin, while in the
fashionable West End section numer
ous automobiles were held up, the
occupants of the cars being robbed
Os their personal belongings.
Considerable anti-semitic rioting
Occurred in the Jewish quarter.
Much of the pillaging was done
by gangs of men and youths whose
numerical strength was in some
eases as large as 300. Women free
ly participated in storming the food
Shops.
The price of bread this morning
was fixed at 80,000.000,000 marks a
loaf, as against 140,000.000,000 Mon
dav.
The bourse had contributed $70,000
to the public feeding fund.
Believing that bread is more nec
essary than politics, German public
opinion is solidifying in favor of a
national dictatorship; a single man
or a limited directorate with power
to punish the food profiteers and
force the farmers to bring their
products into the cities.
Just who the diovtor or directo
rate should be, none < the elements
asking a change haKe so far ven
tured to suggest, and, although it
Is not improbable that a dictatorship
would be proclaimed, Chancellor
Stresemann is going ahead with his
plans for filling out the cabinet that
was depleted by the retirement last
week of the three Socialist members.
SEPARATISTS COMPLETE
EVACUATION OF COLOGNE
COLOGNE, Nov. 6.—The Rhine'-
jind separatists have completed
their evacuation of the Cologne area.
INTER ALLIED MILITARY
CONTROL AGAIN DEMANDED
PARIS. Nov. 6. —Premier Poin
care -oday on behalf of France and
her alies, sent a note to the German
government demanding that she
take slsps to permit '-resumption of
inter-allied military control, it was
learned. ,
The note insisted that Germany
jnust reply before the end of the
week.
BERLIN &ETS ARBITRAR'
QUOTATIONS ON MARK
BERLIN, Nov. 6—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —President Ebert's
emergency ordinance decreeing that
Berlin’s official quotation of the
mark shall be the only legal basis
for al) transactions constitutes the
first attempt by the government to
protect its paper currency from Hie
, ravaging effect of fictitious or nom
inal quotations from abroad.
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CALGARY—AIberta voters reject
prohibition and declare for govern
ment control of liquor sales.
PHILADELPHIA—One con vic
is shot and killed and three others
escape from penitentiary after at
tacking guards.
NEW BERN, N. C.—Auxiliary
schooner Pilot, of Nassau, with car
go of thirty barrels and 261 cases
of whisky, is seized at Bogue inlet.
SOFIA. —Jugoslavia has accept
ed Bulgaria’s offer of $57,900,000 in
agreement to settle all disputed
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PHILADELPHIA. Governor
Pinchot and federal authorities win
first court victory in Philadelphia in
campaign for injunctions against sa
loon men.
CALEXICO, Cal. Most pro
nounced earthquake shock felt in re
cent years in Imperial valley is re
corded, several buildings being dam
aged.
BERLIN. —Separatists, repulsed in
early attempt to occupy town hall of
Kaiserlautern, finally succeeds in
taking over building as well as law
courts.
BRUSSELS. Belgium’s repara
tion policy is her own; she does not
follow blindly either Great Britain
or France, semi-official communique
declares.
WA S 111 NG T ON. Secretary
Hughes and Ambassador Jusserand
decline to reveal any information
after conference on proposed repara
tions inquiry.
HAVRE. —British steamship Han
nington Court, with cargo of cotton
from Galveston to this port, is re
ported afire 1,200 miles southwest of
Queenstown.
BERLIN. —Jewish shops are loot
ed and stocks of clothing are taken
by poor; Jews suffer severely in out
breaks when crowds are aroused by
increasing prices.
JACKSONVILLE. British
schooner Louise F., is captured £y
federal authorities off Florida coast
and 3,900 cases of liquor valued at
$375,000 are seized.
BERLIN. —Both democratic and
social-democratic parties issue mani
festos urging supporters to be pre
pared to defend republic against any
attempts to overthrow it.
CHICAGO —J. G. Luhrsen, presi
dent of American Train Dispatchers’
association, announces intention to
file action in federal court to test le
gality of certain decisions of United
States railroad labor board.
DOORN. —Confirmation is obtained
that former Crown Prince Frederick
William is still at Weiringen. For
mer Emperor William is maintaining
close relations with the monarchist
movement in Germany, it is said.
BERLIN. Central government,
aroused by apparently dangerous sit
uation created by Bavarian national
ist preparations on Bavariah-Thur
ingian frontier, orders dispatch of
three Badenese reichswebr regiments
to region.
PARIS. —Premier Poincare has ap
proved suggestion of Great Britain
that allies make joint representation
to Holland to prevent former Crown
Prince Federick William from leav
ing Holland for Germany.
HAMILTON, ” Ont.—Only 20,000.-
000 of 105.000,000 people estimated
in United States can be classified as
intellectual. Dr. William Starr
Myers, successor to Woodrow Wil
son in professor’s chair at Prince
ton, tells Canadian club.
Another Province
In Canada Repeals
Prohibition Laws
CALGARY, Alta, Nov. 6.—Alberta
today was in that list of Canadian
provinces that has thrown prohibi
tion into the discard, having voted
yesterday to permit sale of liquors
under control and regulation of the
government, and to allow the sale
and consumption of beer on licensed
premises and in the home.
Although complete returns from
yesterday’s election had not been
received early today, enough polling
places had reported to show a de
cisive majority for proposition “D,”
one of four the voters had to choose
from in expressing their opinions as
to how and where intoxicants should
be sold or drunk. The result indi
cated that the voters were well
pleased with the system in vogue in
• other provinces where the liquor
| business is managed by the govern
ment.
OEMOCRATS MAKE
SIGNIFICINT GAINS
IN STATE ELECTIONS
Republicans Lose Control of
' Kentucky by Big Vote in
Most Important Contest of
Day
(By the Associated Press.)
Democrats were elected Tuesday
in all threej states where there were
gubernatorial elections Kentucky,
Maryland and Mississippi.
Vermont, where the only sena
torial contest was held, returned a
Republican—Porter H. Dale, who de
feated Park H. Pollard, cousin of
President Coolidge.
In the seven contests for the house,
the Democrats won four and the
Republicans three, one of the Re
publican victories being an upset, in
which former Representative Fair
child defeated his Democratic oppo
nent for the place made vacant by
the death of J. Vincent Ganly n the
Twenty-fourth New York district.
Party alignment was unchanged in
the other congressional elections.
The victory of the Democrats in
Kentucky, where Representative
William J. Fields defeated Charles
I Dawson, represented a swing of
the pendulum which, at the last elec
tion, swept Governor Edwin P.
Morrow, Republican, into office. Mr.
Fields’ majority was decisive, and
he will have a Democratic legisla
ture to support him.
Ritchie Is Re-elected
Governor Ritchie, re-elected in
Maryland over Alexander Arm
strong, Republican, had an increased
majority over his first election. H.
T. Whitfield, Democrat, had no . op
position in Mississippi.
In New York state the Republicans
retained control of the general as
sembly, but the Democratic judiciary
ticket in Manhattan and the Bronx
was swept into office, overwhelming
the Republican. and independent
ticket supported by William R.
Hearst. The soldiers’ bonus appar
ently was carried and the hydro
electric power project beaten.
Local issues were voted on in
various sections of the country. Vir
ginia turned down a $50,000,000 bond
issue for good roads. Ohio elected
mayors supported by the Ku Klux
Klan in Youngstown, Portsmouth,
Akron and several smaller cities.
Philadelphia returned W. Freeland
Kendrick, Republican, as mayor, by
an overwhelming majority.
In Illinois, Miss Mary M. Bar
telme, the first woman to be ele
vated to a circuit court judgeship,
was elected in Cook county. She is
a Republican and led the ticket. The
Republicans elected eleven and the
Democrats nine judges of the’supe
rior court.
G. O. P. Holds Jersey
The New Jersey legislature re
mained in the Republican column,
nothwithstanding the vigorous cam
paign waged by Governor Silzer,
Democrat, for a Democratic law
making body. American party can
didates, who waged a fight in Utah
under the slogan, “Separation of
Church and State,” were beaten.
Mayor Rolph, Republican, of San
Francisco, apparently was re-elected.
The results of the senatorial and
congressional elections will leave the
two houses of congress with this
line-up: House —Republicans, 225;
Democrats, 205; Socialists, 1; inde
pendent, 1; farmer-labor, 1; vacan
cies, 2.
Republican majority, IS.
The Republican majority in the
senate will remain at six.
REPUDIATION OF HEARST
HAILED BY GOV. SMITH
NEW YORK. Nov. 7.—Charles F.
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall,
today issued a statement in which
he attacked William Randolph
Hearst for his failure to support the
Democratic judiciary ticket in yes
terday’s election.
He said the voters by their ballots
had rebuked Mr. Hearst for his at
titude.
Reconstruction Figure
Dies m Greenville
GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. G
James H. Maxwell, 70 years old,
journal clerk in the famous “Wal
lace House” of reconstruction days in
the South Carolina legislature, died
at his home here Tuesday of paialy’
sis. He was stricken several days
ago.
Mr. Maxwell was born •n a Ander
son county in 1853.
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NINETEEN TIX BILLS
ABE INTRODUCED IS
ASSEMBLY MEETS
Flood of Bills- in House With
Many Changes in the:
State Revenue System:
Proposed
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Nineteen bills providing for ,
changes in the present tax system of
the state of Georgia and two meas
ures providing for free school books
were introduced in the house of rep
resentatives when the Georgia gen
eral assembly convened in extra ses- ,
sion at the capitol Wednesday. The I
tax bills introduced included meas- .
tires providing for an income tax, a
classification tax. a luxury tax, a
corporation franchise tax, a gross
sales tax, exemption of new indus
tries from all taxation for seven I
years, repeal of the tax equaliza- .
lion law and creation of a budget ,
commission and a state auditing de
partment.
The house overwhelmingly voten
down a resolution to adjourn sine
die offered by Representative Wim
berly, of Laurens eounty, despite an
impassioned speech by the author,
who declared that th e ‘farmers or
the state are already groaning un
der tax burdens and the extra ses
sion was not called for the purpose
of relieving them.
A resolution by Representative
Whitley, of Douglas county, to re
cess from next Friday until nine
days previous to the regular session ,
in June, was referred to the rules i
committee.
First House Motion
The first motion made in the house
was one of Representative McMich
ael, of Marion county, that all tax
bills be referred to the committee of
the whole house, to be reported upon
within one week. Mr. McMichael de
clared that all the members wished
to be familiar with the provisions of
tax bills, and could give them con
sideration, as they are the only
measures to come up.
Representative Barrett, of Stephens
county, stated that such a move
would be a fine one, if the legislature
desired to kill time, but if it really
wanted to do something, it ought to
follow the regular order of things.
He also declared that reference of
bills to the committee of the whole j
house would preve_nt proper debate. ;
The motion was overwhelmingly de
feated.
Representative McCrory, of
Schley county, introduced a resolu
tion to suspend the rules that pro
hibited any member from intro
ducing more than one general bill
on the same day. He pointed out
that some members had several tax
bills to introduce, and should be |
given the privilege of getting them j
up for consideration as soon as pos- I
sible. There was some opposition- i
but after the rules committee had
recommended the passage of the
Resolution it was adopted.
Representatives Milner, of Dodge ;
county; Aubrey, of Bartow county
and Fleming, of Hancock county, ap
pointed to act on a joint committee
with Senators Johns and Phillips in
notifying Governor Walker that the
general assembly was in session, re
turned with a report that the gov
ernor probably would communicate I
with the legislature on Thursday.
A motion by Representative Mil
ner that the senate and house meet
in joint session Thursday morning
at 11:30 o’clock to hear a message
by the governor, was adopted.
The first bill introduced in the
extra session was the same as house
bill No. 1 at the last regular session, j
a measure by Representative Stovall, i
of Elbert county, to repeal the tax
equalization law. Getting first posi
tion on the calendar gives the au
thor of a measure a strategic advan
tage over authors of other measures.
At. the last session the house passed I
this bill, but the senate refused to I
pass it until some substitute meas
ure had been adopted. There are
predictions that the senate will take
a similar stand at this session.
Elders Offers N. C. Plan
Representative Elders, of Tattnall
eounty, introduced six tax bills based
on the North Carolina tax system.
He has two additional measures
which he said he would offer Thurs
day. One of the bills introduced
provided income tax not to i
exceed three cents on the dollar on |
net incoihes.
The general and occupational tax |
act, known as house bill No. 510 in ;
the last session, was reintroduced I
as house bill No. 11, by Representa
tive Ennis, of Baldwin, and others.
This bill doubles the tax rate on in
surance companies and makes other
changes in the present law calcu-
I lated to increase the state’s revenues ;
more than $500,000.
One of the school book bills intro- :
duced. that by Representative Stan- i
ford, of Lowndes county, provided I
I that the state furnish books for all
! pupils in the common schools, while !
another, introduced by Represent a- I
tive Stovall, of Elbert county, sought |
to appropriate $60,000 to buy books '
for first grade pupils.
The house adjourned at 11:30 a. |
m. until 10 o'clock Thursday.
Bills Introduced
The following bills were introduced
Wednesday:
By Messrs. Harris and Smith, of
Jefferson —To impose a graduated
income tax, with exemptions, not to
exceed five per cent.
By Mr. Stovall, of Elbert—To ex
empt new industrial enterprises com
i ing.into the state from all taxation
I for a period of seven years.
I By Mr. McCrory of Schley—To sup
ply free school books to first grades
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2)
The Weather
, FORECAST FOR THURSDAY:
i Virginia: Fair; no change in tem-
I perature.
North Carolina South Carolina
; and Georgia: Fair; no change in tem
perature.
> Florida, Alabama and Mississippi:
Fair; no change in temperature.
: Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair
> and warmer.
1 Louisiana: Fair.
Arkansas: Fair: rising tempera-
- ture.
1 Oklahoma: Fair.
East and West Texas: Increasing
cloudiness.
PRINCIPALS TN THE DOWN
TOWN SLAYING MONDAY.
Top, Captain W. S. Coburn, at
torney for the Simmons faction
of the Ku Klux Klan, who was
shot and killed in his office at
the Atlanta Trust company
building, and, below, a draw
ing of Philip E. Fox, held as
the slayer. This drawing was
made by A. W. Brewerton.
Journal staff artist, after see
ing Fox for but a moment
Tuesday for the first time.
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the big lumber plant of the Jackson
Lumber company of this city. One
of the trucks and four firemen .were
hurried to the scene.
The plant is owned by Justice
Jackson and his associates, of this
city, and was formerly the Clemen’s
Lumber company. It is valued at
more than one SIOO,OOO. It is not
known how the fire originated. It
is understood that the company car
ried very good insurance.
The dry kiln and planing will
burned, together with a number of
homes of operatives. The main mill
building was catching when the Val
dosta firemen arrived. By hard
fighting they managed to check the
flames and save the mill and much
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Atlanta, Ga,. Thursday, November 8, 1923
Klan Leader Kills Another;
Refuses to Discuss Matter
CHIEF OF SIMMONS’ STAFF
THREATENED; PLOT IS HINTED
Peace warrants were issued Tues
day night for the arrest of Dr. Hiram
VV. Evans, imperial wizard of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, anil
three other officials of the imperial
palace, on complaint of Dr. Fred 15.
Johnston, chief of staff of Colonel
William J. Simmons, klan emperor.
Others named in the warrant were
H. K. Ramsey, imperial kligrapp, or
national secretary; Brown Harwood,
imperial klazik. or head of all grand
dragons, and T. J. McKinnon, head
of the klan investigation department.
Tile warrants were subsequently
dismissed except that against Evans,
who had not been served.
Charges that Philip E. Fox, klan
publicity director, who shot and
killed Attorney William S. Coburn
late Monday afternoon, threatened
Sunday night to shoot Dr. Fred B.
Johnston, chief of staff to William
Joseph Simmons, emperor of the
klan, have been made by Dr. John
ston in a statement issued Monday
night, after the slaying of Mr. Co
burn.
Dr. Johnston says Fox visited the
f'mmons heme on Peachtree road
Sunday night, apparently much ex
cited and somewhat under the influ
ence of liquor. Asking for Colonel
Simmons and being informed by Dr.
Johnston that he was not at home,
Fox engaged Dr. Johnston in conver
sation and bitterly denounced various
klan officials, according to the state
ment.
After discussing klan affairs for
some minutes, Dr. Johnston says,
F< x pulled a pistol out of his over
coat pocket, leveled it at him, Dr.
Johnston, and remarked: “Dr. John
ston, I have been sent here to kill
you, but I just can’t do it,” and
herded the pistol over to Dr. John
ston. i
Death Plot Intimated '
“You and Simmons and E. Y.
Clarke and Bill Coburn are slated to
go ” Fox is quoted as saying.
Dr. Johnston declares Fox offered
no explanation of his remark and
refused to say who had issued in
structions for the slaying of the
four persons mentioned.
Dr. Johnston’s statement is cor
roborated by Norris A. Moore, a
friend, who was a visitor at the Sim
mons home at the time of Fox’s visit.
Fox, according to the statement,
declared he had quit the Evans fac
tion and was leaving his post as
publicity director preparatory to re
turning to his home in Dallas, Texas,
which he left about a year ago to
accept a position with the klan in
Atlanta. ■
Dr. Johnston’s Statement follows:
“Colonel Simmons was called out
of town privately and unexpectedly
Friday night without anyone know
ing of this fact outside of his im
mediate family, his mother at Bir
mingham having sustained a broken
arm through a fall and-he was hur
riedly summoned.
“About 8:30 Sunday night a man
unknown to Mrs. Simmons called at
her home at 1840 Peachtree road
and urgently asked to. see Colonel
Simmons and seemed disturbed and
disappointed when repeatedly as
sured that Colonel Simmons was
away from home and out of the city.
He then wanted to see Dr. Fred B.
Johnston and when told that Dr.
Johnston was at Captain Coburn’s
home he asked if he could remain
until the doctor‘returned. He said
that he was from the palace and had
some very important information to
communicate to the colohel person
ally but that he would talk to Dr.
Johnston. He said the information
he had would absolutely tear up Dal
las (Texas) klan, No. 66.
Called Dr. Johnston
“Mrs. Simmons said she "was wor
ried and disturbed by the man’s gen
eral actions but invited him into the
colonel’s study and telephoned Dr.
Johnston to come home at once. Dur
ing the interval Mrs. Simmons’ son,
Kirk, remained with the man in the
colonel’s study, and says that he re-
I ferred repeatedly to his regret that
he could not see the colonel. Accord
ing to Kirk Simmons, ‘the gentle
map emphasized his desire to see
Colonel Simmons personally, saying
that he ? d information that would
tear up Dallas Klan, No. 66. and get
Texas by the horns for the Simmons
faction,’ and stated that of course if
he could not see the colonel he
would like to see Dr. Johnston. After
a period of about twenty minutes
Dr. Johnston, accompanied by Mr.
Moore, nf Texas, who was in the city
on personal business, arrived and
they went immediately into the
study to see the ’sti-anger.’
“Upon entering the study,” Dr.
Johnston’s statement contiues, ‘I
recognized Fox and extended my
hand. He shook hands and ex
claimed ’.Hello, Phil.’
“Fox: ‘Well, J ’mston, I have quit
the palace.’
“Johnston said: ‘I am sorry, you
are the ; °st man they had left.’
“Fox: ‘That’s kind of you, but I
can’t stand to continue to prostitute
myself as I l ave been compelled to
do •and as all of them who are stay
ing will have to do.’ Here he com
mented on Ramsey and Hardwood.
“Dr. Johnston: ‘Well, somebody
has done something to you. Was it
1.. Evans?’ ‘No, Dr. Evans is a
nice man, but the trouble, you know
is that Mrs. Evans is the imperial
wizard. When she speaks, he jumps,
and the situation is impossible. I
won’t stay and continue to prosti
tute myself. The place can kiss my
toe good-by, as I am going to my
little home at No. street, Dallas,
Texas, and be a re-pqr-ter again’
(emphasized).
Criticizes Palace
“In further criticism of the palace
officials and staff officers, he said
that:
“Ramsey (referring to H. K. Ram
sey, imperial kligrapp) is impossible,
without intelligen.ee and was contin
ually trying to ‘get’ George Butcher
fired. (Butcher, one of strongest
men in Texas klan circles.) . . .
“And Hardwood (Brown Hard
wood) was at palace today arid said
that he has been limping around
over the country.with one kidney on
klan money, but was entirely use
less.
“About Ralph Cameron, who,- it
has been rumored, was going to be
displaced as grand dragon of Texas
in favor of Marvin (Zeke Marvin, of
Dallas), Fox says, ‘I don’t see why
he should be; he hasn’t any brain.’
“H. C. McCal’ imperial represen
tative at Washington, ‘lacked brains
and executive ability and failed
wherever brute force failed.’
“After our exchange of greetings 1
had asked him to have off his over
coat. and he replied, ‘No, thank you.
I will only be here for a few min
utes.’
“He took a seat and kept his hat
and coat on and Moore and I sat
down.
Wrote Evans’ Speech
“I asked him whp wrote Evans
Dallas speech and he said ‘I did.’
“Fox says, ‘Doctor, I am thirsty,
will you get me a drink of water?"
“I left the room and secured the
water, returning in a moment or
two.
“Fox: ‘Captain, are you the Morris
Moore, with the Texas rajigers?’
“ ‘Yes, I am,’ Moore replied.
“Fox: ‘Well, you are a bunch of
fools’ (referring to daring of the
men, evidently).
“Moore smiled, ‘I thank you.’
“Dr. Johnston returned with water
and Fox took it.
“I again asked J’ox to take off his
overcoat and have a seat.
“He replied: ‘No, thank you I wii'
be here only a few minutes.' He
took a seat and Captain Moore and
I took seats. Fox immediately
launched into a tirade against E ans,
rown Harwood, N. J. Mahoney, im
perial klokard.
“He told me that he had left the
palace and probably had some infor
mation that I wanted.
“I told him to go ahead and teil
me, but he insisted that I ask him
some questions.
“He appeared ill at ease and art
peared to try to impress Captain
Moore and I that he was drinking.
In fact, he told Moore and I later
that he had had several drinks Soon
after he had taken the watei Cap
tain Moore, thinking probably tha:
Fox wished to say something to me
personally, quietly withdrew from
the room.
• Draws His Pistol
“No sooner had Moor© cleared the
room and closed the door, than Fox.
who had shifted his position in the
meantime from a chair to a standing
position, pulled out his revolver and
said:
“ ‘Dr. Johnston, I’ve been sent here
to kill you, but I just can’t do it,’
and handed the pistol to me, muzzle
first.
“I not ; ced the hammer was back
and immediately pressed my thumb
between the cocked hammer and this
breech. Instantly almost, I released
the hold and told him to. go ahead
and shoot me. He reiterated that he
‘couldn’t do it.’ I asked him who
sent him here and he said ‘I can’t
say.’
‘After I was convinced that he
didn’t Intend to carry out his threat,
I insisted that he take off his over
coat and have u seat apd we would
I talk about something more pleasant,
j He took off his coat and hat and tool;
! his seat.
I “After Fox had calmed down
j some I asked him ‘Who sent you
, here to kill me?’ ‘I can’t say,’ he re
’ plied. ‘You (meaning Dr. Johnston).
Simmons, E. Y. Clarke and Bill Co
burn are slated to go.’
“I endeavored to ascertain whethet
or not Fox had been instructed to
get. all of us, but he evaded a direc f
reply, repeating ‘You, Simmons; E.
■ Y. Clarke and Bill Coburn are slated,
i to go.’ ”
I
Accused Wife Freed
In Fatal Shooting
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1 Thelma Pace, West Greenville, Tues
day was acquitted of the murder cf
: her husband. Arthur Pace, in a di
i rected verdict of not guilty. Judge
W. H. Townsend, of the court of
; general sessions, ordered the verdict
1 after evidence adduced by the state
indicated that Pace was accidentally
I killed while he was showing his wife
■ how to shoot a pistol. The gun. evi
l Hence showed, had only one cartridge
in it at the time. 1 ■
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Only Three Witnesses Heard
by Grand Jury Are Attor
ney's Secretary and Men
Who Detained Fox
Philip E. Fox, publicity chief for
the Ku Klux Klan, and editor of
“The Nighthawk,” official klan or
gan, was indicted on a charge of
murder Tuesday afternoon in con
nection with his shooting to death t
Monday afternoon of Captain W. 8.
Coburn, attorney for the Simmons’
faction of the klan.
The grand jury did not return the
indictment until 2 o’clock, although
the case was presented at the begin
ning of the Tuesday morning ses
sion, It was stated at the office
of Solicitor General John A." Boykin
that no date has been set for the
trial, although officials indicated the
case would be called as soon as nec
essary preparations could be made.
Meanwhile, nervously pacing his
cell in the fulton county tower, Fox
refused to discuss the slaying or to
give any reason why he shot and
killed Captain Coburn as the latter
sat at his desk in the Atlanta Trust
C(*mpany building.
“I haven’t anything to say,” Fox
told reporters, leaving his statement
Monday night that he shot Captain
Coburn because the latter had
threatened “to ruin him” as the sole
explanation of his act. Fox v r ould«
not explain how he believed the at
torney was planning to ruin him,
other than saying the lawyer had
threatened to publish certain affi
davits, which he said were untrue
and which would reflect upon his 4
character.
May Never Explain
“I don’t want to be rude, boys,”
declared Fox Tuesday. Fox is a for
mer newspaper man of Dallas, Tex.,
and used the familiar greeting em
ployed by many in addressing re
porters. “But I can’t say a word
now and I don’t know if' I’ll ever say
anything.”
The grand jury completed its in
vestigation of the shooting at 11
o’clock Tuesday morning. Only three,
witnesses were heard, one of these
being Mrs. W. A. Holbrook, a stenog
rapher ;in Captain Coburn’s office,
and a witness of the shooting.
The other witnesses were Thomp
son Rogers, a client of Captain Co
burn, and Attorney George C. Spence.
These men captured Fox on the floor
directly below the Coburn office, as
the slayer fled after the shooting,
which occurred about 4:30 o’clock,
Monday afternoon, in the ninth-floor
office of Captain Coburn.
Wife Visits Fox
Although Mrs. Fox was reported
1 ill at the home on Wesley avenue,
• she' visited the jail twice Tuesday
I morning, conferring once with her
i husband and leaving hastily upon
I the second visit When jailers warned
her that reporters wished to see her.
Reporters who visited the Fox home
early Tuesday morning were barred
by a heavy set man who refused to
. give his name and who unceremo
niously turned them away.
I A number of telegrams were re
| ceived at the jail and delivered to
j Fox. No counsel had been engaged
lup to early Tuesday ' afternoon.
; While he was held at police head-
• quarters, Fox asked for Hollins Ran
i dolph, of the firm of Randolph &
I Parker, but Mr. Randolph was out
I of the city Tuesday. *
A Journal reported talked to Fox
■ within twenty minutes after the
i shooting, as he was held in a cell ‘
at police headquarters. The prisoner
was extremely nervous and disin
clined to discuss the affair, but he
answered several questions before
the police intervened and barred
further communication. He was
more nervous Tuesday, with blood
shot eyes, disheveled hair and a
day s growth of beard.
In his statement Monday night,
Fox denied his connection with “The
■1 Nighthawk,” or with the klan, lie
. was asked point blank whether the
. shooting was the indirect result of
' the factionalism now raging in the
klan. Fox replied:
“The shooting had nothing what
soever to do with the Ku Klux
Klan. It was a personal matter btu
tween myself and Coburn.
“He was • about to publish affi
davits against my character and rep-
I utation, made by other people. They,
' were untrue. I tried to reason with
him, but he still threatened to pub
! lish them. I had gone to see him
! Monday in an effort to reason with
1 him. It was no use.”
A previous attempt upon Captain
Coburn’s life and a death threat re
ceiver 30 days ago at his home were
reported Tuesday morning by H. J.
Norton, exalted cyclops of Nuthan
Bedford Forrest klan No. 1. Mr.
Norton said that Captain Coburn
had suffered an acute attaefe of
poisoning last July after taking
lunch at u hotel with a man sup
posed to be a "friend,” but who later
was found out as an enemy. Thiiay
days ago, Mr. Norton said, a deal it
’ threat was pushed under the door
'of the Coburn office.
Klan Statement Likely
Several statements were given out
;or were in process of’ preparation
>■ Tuesday. Officials at the imperia’.
I palace on Peachtree road annouricea
■that a statement probably would be
forthcoming later in the day; Dr;
: Fred B. Johnston, chief of staff of
ihe Simmons faction, charged that
; Fox had visited the Simmons home
and attempted his (Johnson’s) )j£4
j last Sunday night: and an unsigned
: statement was given out by an un
named klan official, declaring the
shooting was "a deplorable affair”
I and that “it must have been a per-
■ son.al matter between the partici
i pants.”
.I Colonel William Joseph Simmons,
emperor of the klan, was in Bir
mingham Tuesday, according to dis
patches, which quoted him as hav
ing no comment to make in connec
tion with the shooting. Colonel
Simmons, it was stated, is in Bir
mingham to see his mother, who is
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