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VOL. XXV. NO. 182
GERALDINE FARRAR
TABOO TO BAPTISTS
AND METHODISTS
« ATLANTA.—Geraldine Farrar will
sing tonight at city auditorium. Pro
moters of high school minstrel show
release auditorium to singer after
churches had closed their doors
against her.
BY BRADFORD BYRD
(Journal Staff Correspondent.)
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Nov. 29.-
“No one can make me disappoint
* my friends in Atlanta,” declared
Miss Geraldine Farrar, world fa
( ntous opera star, when shown the
exclusive story in Wednesday’s Jour
nal to the effect that Dr. W. H.
s LaPrade, Jr., had forbidden her con-
* I cert to be held in Wesley Memorial
church auditorium in Atlanta Fri
day night.
Miss Farrar wag v found in her
private car parked at the Birming
ham Terminal station. She is to ap
pear in concert here tonight at the
Masonic auditorium and- a large
audience will turn out to hear her.
“I am going to Atlanta tonight
after my concert here,” she contin
ued, “and I positively will sing be
fore an Atlanta audience Friday
night. I do not know in what hall
I will sing there, but I am going to
* r sing even if I must stage my con-
cert outdoors at Five Points.
“I love Atlanta and love her
people. They have always been won
derful to me and I know' that I
shall have a magnificent audience
wherever I appear there.”
When asked if she cared to dis
cuss Dr. LaPrade’s action in forbid
> ding her concert in the church, the
diva declared:
“There is nothing I care to say of
that. I would rather leave that
comment-to my managers.’’
Jack Savage the star’s manager,
declared that he and Miss Farrar
did not understand why Dr. La-
Prade closed the church against the
concert and added that until the
minister gave some reason for his
action he would have no comment to
make.
“Miss Farrar will not cancel the
, Atlanta engagement,” he declared,
t '' “She loves Atlantians too much to
disappoint them. I have arranged
for the concert in another hall and
I believe it will be packed.”
Mr. Savage declared that he had
talked over long distance phone to
the Atlanta -management for the
t concert and arrangements had been
5 made to hold the concert in the Bap
tist Tabernacle.
TABERNACLE REFUSES TO
' HOUSE FARRAR CONCERT
Geraldine Farrar, famous opera
star, Thursday was still without a
place to give her concert here Fri
day night, the doors of two churches
having been closed against her
after arrangements had been made
for her appearance.
Following the barring of Miss
Farrar from the Wesley Memorial
Methodist church auditorium Wed
nesday, it was proposed to have her
appear in the Baptist tabernacle' an
auditorium of about the same size,
but Thursday morning Dr. John W.
Ham, pastoi- of the tabernacle, an
r , nounced that the diva could not ap
pear there.
, “Miss Farrar’s performance in
‘Zaza’ here three years ago make.'!
it impossible for a church to per
mit the use of its facilities for her
appearance in concert,” said Dr.
Ham.
S. Russell Bridges, head of the
Southern Musical bureau, sponsor
ing Miss Farrar's concert here, was
entirely at sea Thursday morning.
The auditorium is engaged for Fri
day night by the Tech High school
for its annual minstrel perform-I
ance. With Wesley Memorial and
the Baptist tabernacle unavailable,
no other halls of sufficient size are
to be had, so that Mr. Bridges ’S
somewhat at a loss to provide an
auditorium for the diva.
Charles J. Foley, who is managing
Miss Farrar’s concert tour, is ex
r pected hourly to arrive here from
* New York.
# “I shall advise against any legal
action to force the Wesley Memorial
church authorities to permit Miss
Farrar to sing there,” said Mr.
Bridges, “although Mr. Foley has
wired me that he will insist on hold-I
ing the concert there in accordance j
. with the terms of his contract.
’ Foley on Way Here
, "Mr. Foley is on his way to At- :
lanta and should reach here some 1
time Thursday, but if he does not ar-!
rive, I shall get in touch with JatL ;
Savage, his representative, now in)
Birmingham, where Miss Farrar I
sings Thursday night.”
• Dr. W. H. LaPrade, Jr., presiding >
elder of the North Atlanta district 1
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, whose order barred Miss Far
rar from Wesley Memorial, refused
Thursday to elaborate on his state
ment of Wednesday further than to
say - that he was not at all dubious
about the outcome of any legal
action Miss Farrar’s manager might
institute.
“The contract is not legally bind
ing, and I am not fearful of any
legal proceedings,” said Dr. LaPrade.
"No Methodist preacher, according
to the law of the church, has any
building beyond the next annual con
s ference, so that any contract made
control over the use of the church
„ or agreement entered into for the
use of the church after annual con
ference, becomes null and void when
or agreement entered into for the
use of the church after annual con
ference, becomes null and void when
the pastor making such an arrange
ment is transferred to another
charge.
No Reason Stated
“The law of the church vests the
control of the church building in the
hands of the presiding elder in the
absence of the pastor. It the ab
sence of Rev. Marvin Williams, who
comes to the church from St. James,
Augusta, for reasons satisfactory to
myself, I exercised the authority
vested in me and declined to permit
the concert by Miss Geraldine Far
rar scheduled for Friday night. I
took htis action as soon as the plans
« for such concert came to my knowl
edge.”
Dies as He Pulls Tooth
* .EVANSTON, Ill.—As he was pull
ing a woman’s tooth. Dr. V. C. Mul
len. % 70-year-old dentist, dropped
dead.
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal.—Two
men are killed at Thanksgiving day
automobile race.
BOSTON.—Charles Jenney, jus
tice of the Massachusetts supreme
judicial court, dies here.
LONDON.—Lady Astor tells Brit
ish Hecgkler that when she does she
will send her son to parliament.
SEATTLE. —Nell Uastin, missing
Seattle school teacher, is reported
found in a suburb of Vancouver,
British Colombia.
LOUISVILLE?—B? M. Starks,
general manager of Louisville and
Nashville railroad, died suddenly of
heart disease at home here.
NEW YORK?—William R. Wilson,
president of Maxwell Motors cor
poration, resigns, and resignation is
accepted by board of directors.
CH ICAGO.—Willard A. Smith,
publisher of the Railway Review,
and former trustee of the University
of Cricago, dies at age of seventy
four.
WASHINGTON. Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty states prohibition en
forcement, so far as the department
of justice has jurisdiction, is stead
ily advancing.
W ASH I NG TON—Republican 1 ead
ers increase pressure that President
Coolidge shall make definite answer
soon whether he will seek the nomi
nation in 1924.
LONDON. —Pumpkin pie, baked
with crust on the top, amazes mem
bers of the American society at
Thanksgiving dinner celebration in
a London
CEDARHURST, N. J.—Fight be
tween members of the American Le
gion and the Ku Klux Klan mars
exercises at dedication of monument
to nine young men who died during
the war.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oklahoma
senate passes anti-Ku * Klux Klan
bill, minus section providing for
making public of membership lists,
but making it unlawful to wear
magk.
ROME.—Former Foreign Minister
Schanzer states there would be
nothing on Italy's conscience should
she not pay her war debts to Amer
ica, as “Italy contributed in blood;
America in money.”
Chattanoogan Freed
In Chicago Kidnaping;
Father Put in Jail
CHICAGO. Nov. 29. Willard
Leonard, of Chattanooga, Tenn..
Wednesday, was freed of a jail sen
tence of thirty days imposed on a
charge of carrying concealed weap
ons at the same time his father,
Everett Leonard, was held to the
grand jury on a charge of kidnaping
and fined SIOO and sentenced to jail
for sixty days for carrying conceal
ed weapons.
Municipal Judge Holmes vacated
the sentence against the younger
man on the plea of counsel that the
Leonards business needed attention,
but he refused to vacate sentence on
the elder man.
The Leonards were arrested on
complaint of R. W. Naylor, of Chi
cago, who charged that father and
son, with revolvers and handcuffs,
compelled him to accompany them
to Chattanooga in an effort to col
lect a $9,000 debt. The kidnaping
charge against Willard Leonard was
dismissed yesterday.
Expensive Court
Session in Bainbridge
BAINBRIDGE. Ga.. Nov. 29.—Su
perior court adjourned here Tuesday
after one of the heaviest and most
expensive sessions in years. Most of
the cases being county cases, the ses
sion has been an expensive one to
the county. Four murder cases were
tried, the others were mostly for
whisky charges.
Court will re-convene Monday, De
cember 3, with Judge W. V. Custer
again on the bench. Conrad Harrell,
whose trial for the alleged murder of
young Herschel T. Nazworth, of Gra
dy county, resulted in a mistrial after
the jury had been out from Thursday
till Saturday night at 10:30 of last
week, will be tried next week on two
other indictments, one for possessing
whisky and the other for making it.
His bond of $5,000 was increased to
SIO,OOO after the grand jury indicted
him for murder, and his bonds for
the bills are S2OO for having whisky
in his possession and S3OO for making
it. It is rumored that his case for
murder will also be tried again next
week.
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KEW YORK. —Prof. William Lyon
Phelps, of Yale, in address, expresses
the hope that President Coolidge, as
a Christmas gift, will pardon all men
in the United States who were con
victed of war-time offenses.
BERLIN. Germany announces
that a three-party coalition, compris
ing the clericals, people’s party and
democrats, will succeed the deposed
Strgsemann ministry and Dr. Wil
helm Marx, clerical leader will be
chancellor.
LONDON. British newspapers
print news agency report,that Great
Britain is seriously concerned over
military preparations in Germany;
British foreign office denies that any
official authority can be attributed to
the statement.
SEATTLE. Mystery surround
ing the disappearance Sunday night
of Miss Nell Austin, pretty Seattle
school teacher, deepens as unidenti
fied woman telephones police that
missing girl is under influence of
narcotics in house in University dis
trict.
INDIANAPOLIS. Mrs. Helen
Hagen Whelchel, young widow,
whose body was found under a
bridge, was kidnaped and attacked,
then thrown on railroad tracks in
hopes a train would wipe out all
evidence, police believe.
BERLIN.—Adam Stegerwald, for
mer premier of Prussia and Centrist
leader, notifies President Ebert he
will be unable to accept chancellor
ship and task of forming ministry
to succeed that of Dr. Stresemann.
MARIETTA, Ga. —Jury returns
verdict of not guilty in case of
Parks B, Cook, charged with flag
ging Mrs. Bertha Holcombe, widow,
on the night of November 16, and
court dismisses indictments against
Kelleher Hasty, Philadelphia Ameri
can league pitcher and others in
volved.
DUSSELDORF.—Separatist move
ment splits, and conflicting state
ments regarding break are issued
by Joseph Matthes and followers
of Dr. Dorten, former alleging a
military coup, and Dortenites claim
ing Matthes was expelled from
party.
Statue That Weighs
700 Pounds Stolen
From Street Corner
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—Theft
of a bronze statue, “Soif” (thirst),
weighing between 700 and SOO pounds,
which has been a landmark at the
intersection of Columbus avenue
with Powell and Union streets in |
the North Beach district, f sixteen I
years, is being investigated by the j
police. The statue was presented to I
the city by its sculptor, Earl Cum- I
tilings, a San Francisco architect. I
Two Alabamians Dead
After Street Duel
SELMA, Ala., Nov. 29.—D. P. 1
•Waalker, 46, former mayor of Mon- I
tevallo, was brought to Selma mor
tally wounded last night and died
at 6 o’clock this morning at a local
hospital, the result of a three-cor
nered duel in which Allan Mahan,
his life-long friend, was killed and
which made Dewey Lucas, who is
alleged to have fired the fatal shot,
at Walker, a fugitive from justice.
Mahan died at Wilton late yesterday ,
afternoon on the way to Selma and
the body was carried back to Monte- I
vallo.
Thirteen Found Guilty
On Aulo Theft Charges
MONROE, La., Nov. 29.—W. Gar
land Grace, former night chief of I
police of Eld.■>’ado and twelve other |
South Arkansas residents were
found guilty by a jury in federal I
court today of conspiracy to violate '
the federal motor vehicle theft act
in connection with an alleged auto
theft ring in which about 200 auto
biles were stolen.
Boxing Promoter Held
On Tax-Dodging Charge
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 29. I
Floyd Fitzsimmons, widely known
boxing promoter, was arrested in j
Benton Harbor this morning and
arraigned here on a charge of fail
ing to turn over to the government
some J 5.500 collected as federal tax
on a boxing match held in Michigan
City. Indiana, July 4. last year.
SUSPECT CONFESSES)
TENNESSEE ROBBERY:
SECOND MAN HELD
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 29.—A tel
ephone message received here short
ly after 10 o’clock this morning stated
that a confession had been obtained
from a man arrested at McKenzie,
Tenn., early today in connection
with the robbery of the bank of Mc-
Kenzie yesterday and that h® had
volunteered to accompany officers to
a swamp where bonds stolen in the
robbery are said to have been hidden. I
A second arrest was reported to )
have been made at the town of Rou- )
ten, a short distance from McKenzie.
A man giving his name as Buck
Lacy and his address as “nowhere,”
was taken from ,a coal car on’a pass
ing freight traip at McKenzie this
morning at 2 o’clock by a posse
searching for th© two bandits who
Wednesday afternoon raided the
Bank of McKenzie, striking Miss An- I
na Ray Sedberry, young bookkeeper,
on the head with a.pistol and after
forcing her and two customers into
the bank vault, making off with
something like SIO,OOO in money and
bonds.
When the prisoner was searched !
$9,100 was found in various places i
about his clothes, $2,500 of it being |
in gold and the remainder in curren- )
cy. No bonds were found on him. )
The currency was done up in pack- i
ages such as banks use. The prison
er was identified by Fred Hill, Jack
son taxicab driver, who was engaged
by two men in JacksOn to drive them
a few miles out in the country and ,
who said he was overpowered on the ,
road and later thrown out of the c. c, 1
bound and gagged, and also identified I
by F. D. Durham, one of the two cus- I
tomers forced by the bandits into the )
bank vault.
Bonds to the amount of $11,350
were recovered by the party of offi
cers and bank officials directed by
the alleged bank bandit captured at
McKenzie this morning. They were
found under a log on the Porter farm
half a mile north of Routon. The
prisoner was carried on to Paris for
fear of mob violence, but later was
returned.
Only a couple ,of hundred dollars
of rhe loot of the bank now is miss- (
inig. [
Simmons’ Attorneys
Facetious in Answer
To Evans Libel Suit
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 29.
A semi-humorous tone was adopted
yesf'ercla’y by attorneys for William (
J. Simmons, emperor of the Knights ■
of the Ku Klux Klan, in their an- ;
swer to the amended complaint filed,
I
against Mr. Simmons by Dr. Hiram
W. Evans, imperial wizard of the
klan, who seeks $150,000 hr a libel .
suit in circuit court here against
the emperor.
The answer demands to know 11
“why the reputation of Dr. Evans |
is of fluctuating value,” and asks | 1
why he is “undertaking to collect)'
money from an individual when he '
has access to the klan treasury.” It !
asks that the complaint be made ;)
more specific and declares the,
amended complaint “does not show ,
that the plaintiff has any reputa
tion left.” The answer requests that ,
Di Evans be required to show why ;
“the wizard’s reputation is more l
vaiuabie now than it was in May.” )
and that he also be required to “spec- ;)
ify the full value of his reputation.”
The answer further asks that Dr.
Evans be required to disclose what
dispositicn has been made of 93<>,-.
00b '>oo in initiation fees and S2O,- I
00‘),0.'(; in dues, alleged to have been I
collected f.im klan members.
The answer was character!d by I
James A Gomer, grand dragon for I
the realm ot Arkansas, as “cheap |
comedy, tail a poor attempt to heap )
rid.cule mi the organization.”
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morning which began falling about |
5 o’clock.
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snow on the ground and still falling I
at 7:39 a. .m. This is the first snow )
of the whiter. damage has been I
reported. '
NEW ORLEANS DAMAGED
BY ELECTRICAL STORM
NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 29.—|
Houses were damaged, garages and
signs destroyed and several persons
slightly injured by a heavy gale and
electrical storm which struck the
residential section of uptown New
Orleans around midnight. Damage
was estimated at $25,000.
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DISMISSAL DF SIX
ENDS TBULS FOR
SMYRNA FLOGGING
BY DINBAR HAIR
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
MARIETTA, Ga., Nov. 29. —Five
men indicted along with Parks G.
Cook, of Smyrna, who was acquitted
late Wednesday afternoon on the
charge that he participated in the
alleged flogging of Mrs. Bertha Hol
combe, young .Smyrna widow, and
her escort, S. H. Morton, on the
night of November 16, will not be
called upon to face trial.
True bills against Kellar Hasty,
pitcher for the Philadelphia Ameri
can league baseball team; Frank
and Arthur Hasty, his brothers;
Tom Black and Joe Bramlet, were
ordered nol pressed shortly after the
jury had returned a verdict of “not
guilty” in Cook's case.
Immediately after the trial of
Cook had been completed and the
verdict of the jury announced, So
licitor General John Wood moved
that the other indictments be nol
prossed, and Judge D. W. Blair
granted the motion. /
Besides the indictment on Avhich
Cook was tried, he and the other
five were indicted for assault and
battery in connection with the flog
ging of Morton, for rioting in con-,
nection with the flogging of Mrs.
Holcombe and for rioting in connec
tion with the flogging- of Morton.
Similar indictments to the assault
and battery indictment, in connec
tion with the flogging of Mrs. Hol
combe upon which Cook was found
not guilty, had been returned against
his alleged confederates. All the
bills were ordered nol prossed, So
licitor Wood stating that he had
presented all his evidence at the
trial just past.
The jury acquitted Cook after de
liberating only a short time, the case
going to the jury about 4 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon. Cook took
the stand Wednesday noon and made
a sweeping denial of the charges
against him. declaring that he spent
the night of November 16 at home
with his? wife and children and that
he "never struck a lady” in his life.
Cook's Statement
Cook’s statement to the jury, in
part, follows:
“Gentlemen, I tell you I never in
my life belonged to any organization
except Yhe Baptist church. I have
never had a mask over my face, and
I have never struck a lady.”
“I said my prayers at 8:30 o’clock
that fight, and I never left the house
until 6:45 the next day when I went
to catch a car for Atlanta.
“Gentlemen, I tell you I never
heard of any one being whipped un
til the next day when they locked me
up in Atlanta. I thought at first
that some one had stolen mj» auto
mobile and had got into trouble. Then
I found out that they wanted me
in connection with the whipping of
this woman and her companion.
“Gentlemen, I take an oath that
Mrs Holcombe did not see me. In
the chief’s office at Atlanta they ask
ed Mrs. Holcombe if she recognized
me as one of the men who whipped
her. She said she did, but gentle
men, I told her ‘I beg your pardon,
Miss Bertha, you have got the wrong
man.’ ”
“Gentlemen, she said that I said
she was pretty. I did not and God
is my witness that 1 did not.
As to Automobile
“She said I offered to give her an
autonlobile. Gentlemen, I did not.
I offered to sell her a car—part cash
and part on Hme; and I told her that
for good measure and because I need
ed the money that I would throw in
my old car. That’s what she's talk
ing about.”
“Gentlemen, she testified she rec
ognized me when I raised by mask
to wipe away the tears. She could
not,, for I was home with my wife
and little chilldren. In all my life, I
never hit but one man and that was
in Athens, Ga., on a stret car. But,
gentlemen, I never struck a lady.
“Gentlemen, all I ask is justice.
I am a man with a wife and seven
children who pays his honest debts
and has a reputation for sobriety,
clean living and good character. You
have heard character witnesses tell
of my character, but there is more
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, December 1,1923
Auto Falls 35 Feet
On Tracks m Front
Os Tram; 5 Killed
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.—Five
persons, three men, a wdman and a
girl, were killed early today when
(their motor car plunged through a
guard rail near the Pennsylvania
avenue entrance to Fairmount park
and dropped 35 feet to the Reading
giving morning, but none were to be
railroad tracks below.
The machine landed in front of a
moving freight train which mangled
some of the victims almost beyond
recognition. The identified dead
were Harry Graham and his sister.
Catherine Graham, and Joseph Pier
son. all of Philadelphia.
Details of the accident were lack
ing, but it was presumed the. driver
of the automobile was unfamiliar
with the neighborhood and instead
of switching into Fairmount park,
kept straight ahead and crashed
through the railing.
By grim coincidence the engine
man of the locomotive is a neighbor
and friend of three of those who were
killed.
A policeman saw the automobile
approach the tunnel opening and dis
appear. He fired his pistol to sum
mon other policemen and started for
the railroad signal tower to stop
trains. He was a moment too late,
however, for the milk train passed
the tower just befo/e a signal was
set against it. When rescuers reach
ed the wreckage in the smoky tunnel
four of the six who were in the ma
chine were dead. Catherine Kelly
died in a hospital.
Coolidge Has Enough
Dogs, He Tells Former
Owner of Laddie Boy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—Presi
dent Coolidge has enough dogs.
When Marshall Sheppey, Toledo,
Ohio, banker, who gave Laddie Boy
to President Harding, called at the
White House today he told the
president that he would not offer
him an Airdale because he “seemed
to be long on dogs.”
“Yes,” the president replied, “I
guess the lists are closed on White
House dogs.”
Boy of 12 Acquitted
Os Murder Charge
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 29. —King
Walker, a 12-year-old boy—the
youngest ever tried in Muscogee
county for murder —was acquitted
of’ the charge in connection with the
killing of James Mason, another ne
gro boy, while in a tussle some weeks
ago. The case attracted much inter
est owing to the youthfulness of the
defendant. The boy claimed the j
killing accidental.
yet if you care to see it or heart it.
We have a letter from the most
prominent people in White Plains
and Siloam, in both of which places
I used to live, and that letter gives
me a good character.
"Gentlemen, all I want is justice.
I believe you good men will give it
to me.”
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compromise will be, consummated
whereby his aunt, his brother and
lands left many years ago by Bishop
Key, of whom they are lineal de
scendants.
Mr. Young withheld the names of
the Atlanta attorneys and the New
York lawyers through whom, it is
stated, the compromise has been
effected. He also withheld definite
of the property, which is
"understood to be situated in the
proximity of Broadway and Twenty
third streets.
The Caleb Key fortune, to which,
it is said, Mrs. Mahone and ner
nephews are about to fall heir, dates
back to the time when New York
City was New Amsterdam. The prop*
erty then acquired by Martin Key,
founder of the fortune, has, it is
said, been held intact since these
pre-revolutionary days, until now
the holdings comprise some of the
most valuable realty in the great
city.
Realty Held Intact
At his death, it is said, Martin
Key requested that his realty hold
ings be not sold, because even then
he realized their potential value. His
wishes were respected and through
the intervening years the land has
never been sold, though, of course,
it has been improved and, indeed, is
now tenanted by lessors.
Bishop Caleb Key, a native Geor
i gian, inherited the valuable estate.
At the time of his death, the prop
erty was leased, and his will made
no disposition of the fortune, ac
cording to the heirs.
Mrs. Mahone is a daughter of the
late Bishop Key, but untli last sum
mer she made no move toward es
tablishing her title to the property,
as the surviving heir of her father.
But last summer, negotiations were
begun that had for their object the
restoration of the Caleb Key for
tune to its legal and rightful
owners.
Life Term in First Trial,
Acquitted in Second
DECATUR, Ala., Nov. 29. —Harry
Bolton was acquitted Wednesday in
his second trial for the murder of
Dennis Cheatham. A jury in circuit
court found Bolton not guilty after
he had been convicted and sentenced
to life imprisonment. The supreme
court ordered the retrial.
S CENTS A COPY,
$1 A YEAR.
MACON ENGINEER
KILLED IN CRASH
NEAR WAYCROSS
I
Reacts Launch Investigation
of Mysterious Cause.
Evans Dead at Throttle, Is
COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 29.—John
H. Evans, of Macon, Ga., is dead,
and at least twenty-four other per-'
sons slightly injured as a result of
a wreck near Nahunta, Ga., late
last night, when Southern railway
passenger train No. S, the “Kansas
City-Florida special,” ran into the
rear of Louisville and Nashville pas
senger train No. 32. the “Southland,”
according to information given the
Associated Press by the dispatcher’s 1
office of the Southern railway here
this morning.
Mr. Evans was the engineer, and
the reported injured were passen
gers on the Southern railway train.
No information could be obtained
here as to the probable cause of the
collision.
Several Atlanta persons were
named among the slightly injured
in an official casualty list issued:
STEEL CARS SAVED MANY,
ACCORDING TO DISPATCHER
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., r Nov. 29.
About six of the persons injured in
the collision of the Kansas City Spe-
I cial and Southland at Nahunta, Ga.,
) were taken to a Waycross, Ga., hos-
I pitul, but none was said to be hurt ,
■ severely.
The baggage -and mail cars of the
I Kansas City Special were derailed,
but the rest of the train proceeded
after about an- hour’s delay. All
steel equipment probably prevented
heavy loss of life, the dispatcher’s
office at Savannah said.
The Southland, the crack Louis
ville and Nashville train from Jack
sonville to Cincinnati, left Jackson
ville at 8:20 p. m., over the Atlantic
Coast Line tracks. It crosses to the
Central of Georgia at Albany, Ga.,
and from Atlanta to Cincinnati goes
over the Louisville and Nashville
tracks. The Kansas City Special left
five ixinutes after the Southland,
traveling ever the Atlantic Coast
Line tracks to Jesup, Ga., where it
crosses to the Southern tracks for
Kansas City.
Information at the Savannah dis
patcher’s office indicated Engineer
Evans had run past a red light sig
nal. The Southland had stopped to
cross over to the Albany line, ac
cording to the dispatcher’s office. The
Kansas City Special, it was esti
mated, had slowed down to 20 or 25
miles an hour for the railroad cross
ing where the crash occurred. z
BOTH JUMPED, FIREMAN
ON EVANS’ ENGINE SAYS
MACON, Ga., Nov. 29.—The Kan
sas City Special train over the
Southern railway, wrecked last night
at Nahunta, Ga., arrived at Macon
at 7:30 o’clock this morning, bring
ing the body of Engineer John H.
Evans, of Macon, the only person
killed. Engineer Evans lived at Ma
con. His negro fireman, named
H cks, accompanied the body to Ma
con. The nf'gro was not hurt with
the exception of a few bruises. The
negro said he and Engineer Evans
both jumped just before colliding
with the rear end of the Southland.
The body of the engineer was y
moved to a local undertaking estab
lishment.
COAST LINE LAUNCHES
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 29.—H. R.
Youngblood, law agent for the At
lantic Coast Line railway here, left
at 3:30 o’clock this morning for the
scene of the wreck of the Southern
railway near Nahunta, Ga., to make
a complete investigation. „ .
E. C. Clarke, chief dispatcher, of
the Atlantic Coast Line here, stated
this morning that only about four
or five passengers were hurt on the
L. and N. ‘Southland and these were
taken to Waycross for treatment of
minor injuries.
ENGINEER EVANS DEAD
BEFORE CRASH, IS THEORY
ALBANY, Ga., Nov. 29.—Members
of the crew of the Southland L. and
N. Florida tourist train, which was
in a collision with the Southern rail
way’s Kansas City-Florida Special,
last night at Nahunta, Ga., expressed!
belief that John D. Evans, of Macon,
Ga., engineer on the Southern train,
wa; dead before his train ran into
the rear end of the Southland.
This belief, it is reported among
railroad men here, is based on the
alleged fact that the Southern train
ran over torpedoes and past Hare
signals placed by the crew of the
Southland to protect it while making
the transfer at the Nahunta junction
to the Albany-Brunswick line of the
Atlantic Coast Line. The Southland,
it is stated here, was making a de
tour byway of Nahunta because of
an obstruction on the straight line
between Folkston and Waycross.
20 Injured When Train
Jumps Track in Virginia
OTTER. W. Va.. Nov. *29.—W. C.
Arnold, of Charleston, W. Va., suf
fered a broken arm and let and
twenty other passengers were cut
and bruised when the locomotive, ex
press car and two coaches of train
No. 57, on the Charleston division of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, top
pled over a bank north of here and
fell to the edge of Elk river early 1
today. 1
The Weather'
FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
North Carolina and South Caro
lina: Fair on the coast.
Georgia: Fair.
Florida: Fair. ,
Extreme northwest Florida and
Alabama: Fair.
Mississippi: Fair.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Fair.
Louisiana: Generally fair; rising
temperatures.
Arkansas: Fair, rising tempera
ture.
Oklahoma: Fair.
East Texas: Fair. 1 ' - -A
West Texas: Generally fSYr.