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Atlanta Gai-WccKli) 2o urnal
VOL. XXVI. NO. 85
BODBED-HAIR BANDIT
HELD WITH HUSBAND
CONFESSES HOLD-UP
Bobbed Hair Hold-up Wom
an Caught by Gotham Of
ficers in Jacksonville.
Baby's Death Gave Clue
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 21.
Preparing to return to New York
this afternoon, in custody of two
New York detectives, are two of the
most notorious bandits ever to op
erate in the United States, according
to arresting officers. Edward
Cooney, 25, and his wife, Celia
Cooney, 20, the beautiful brunette,
bobbed hair holdup woman who has
terrified New York with 16 “jobs” i
during the last year, was captured
in Jacksonville early this morning
and at 10 o'clock had confessed to
the majority of the charges filed
against the pair, and bis wife freely
talked of the most recent affair, the
robbery of the National Biscuit com
pany's plant in Brooklyn, in which
one man was seriously injured. The.
couple waived all extradition papers
and told the detectives that they
would be glad to return to New York
and were ready to stand trial.
Detectives left at 12:01 over the
Atlantic Coast Line with the two
prisoners for New York. They ex
peer to arrive there Wednesday
morning.
Man Shields Wife
In his alleged confession, accord
ing to Detective Gray, Cooney did
all in his power to shie'l wife
from blame. He said his/ wife did
not shoot Nathan Mazzo, cashier of
the*National Biscuit company, dur
ing the attempted holdkup, but he
was the cpie who fired the shots.
Mrs. Cooney admitted rhe was in
the “bunch” during the attempted
robbery. The cashier is in a serious
condition and additional charges of
assault to murder may be instituted
against Cooney.
New York detectives had traveled <
through 13 states before the final
capture here Monday morning. Ihe ;
Cooneys were traced in some of j
the most up-to-date and expensive
Itotels in the country and that is
the reason Cooney wired his mother
for money with which to pay the
hospital bill. Detective Gray said, j
They were without funds when cap
tured, it is said
According to the detective, the gitl
admitted her identity and declared
she was the person who shot and
seriously wounded Nathan Mezzio,
an en.ploye of the National Biscuit j
company's offn> in Pacific street, I
Brooklyn ,on April 1, during a hold
up by a young woman and a male j
companion.
“It was all through me that my ;
deaf Ed went wrong/’ the detective I
quoted her as saying. “My husband
tiid not do any shooting."
The young woman refused to tell
of her parentage beyond saying she
was born 20 years ago on the Eqst
Side of Manhattan. As Cecile Cheri
son, she said she worked in various
laundries in Brooklyn. She also used ,
the name of Cecil Roth. She was ipar- ;
ried in May, 1922, in Brooklyn, she i
A declared. / i
The couple were arrested about 1 (
o'clock this morning by Jackson
ville police, city detectives and two
Kew York officers .n their boarding
rooms at 915 East Monroe street. Ac
cording to police, the couple had been
fri Jacksonville about three weeks.
Working on a tip, said to have
Been gainwi through either a tele
graph of’iLe or the mails, witen [
Cooney iS said to have communicated
with his mother in New York, ask-
Ing for funds with .vhich to pay hos- i
pttal bill* in the police and - ]
detectives entered the boarding l ouse I
early tbM morning and Lieutenant |
H- C. Brown knocked on the door i
Aeading to the rooms in which the [
two were staying. The arrest fol
lowed.
• The officers, F. S. Gray and Wil
liam G. Casey, said were con
fronted by an automatic pistol in
tho hands of the woman and two re
volvers held by the man, when they
broke down the door.
••Don't Shoot and 1 Won’t”
Detective Casey said the girl cried:
’‘Don’t shoot and I won't,” when the
door of the rooming house crashed 1
in. The girl's hair, which had been
blonde, the officers said, had been
dyed. She is a brunette.
The girl, according to the police, '
told them that her husband had
wanted to shoot her and commit
suicide when the officers were gain
ing entrance. She told the detectives
that she told her husband “not to
shoot unless they fired at us.” She
smiled, officers said, as she handed
over her pistol. *
Mrs. Cooney, according to police,
gave birth to a child here on April
11. Detective Casey said he and Gray
were Sctrt here from New York on
information that the couple had fled
to Jacksonville. They arrived last
night. Cooney, Detective Casey said,
asserted that he was responsible fuV
the shooting of Mezzia, and that his
% wife did not fire the shots. The child
died local authorities said, last Sat
urday. City Detective W. E Wether
ingion was assigned to assist the
New York officers.
Traced by Baby's Death
Trace of the alleged bandits. New
York officers said. was obtained
through the death of the baby.
Cooney. Detective Case' said, wired
'!• vninjoj ’j aSitj no pantnjito,))
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
hughes: original proposal
ADOPTED BY POINCARE, WINS
AS DAWES PLAN IS ACCEPTED
World News
'Told in
Brie/ '
CLEVELAND.—Xen C, Scott,
well-known football coafrii and sports
writer, dies, aged 42.
PITTSBURG. Eleonora Duse,
Italian tragedienne, dies in_Pitts
' burg hotel, after brief illness.
BALTIMORE. Troup Howard,
55, prominent Atlanta cotton mer
chant, dies of bronchial pneumonia.
VAN COUVER, B. C.—Narcotics,
I valued at SI >OOO, are seized by cus
| toms officials on the steamer Achil
’ les.
* MOSCOW. —After six months of
non-participation in soviet affairs,
Leon Trotzky, soviet war minister,
re-enters public life.
PITTSBURG—M me. Eleanora
Duse, noftd Italian tragedienne, is
reported critically ill and threat
ened with pneumonia.
HAVANA. —Cablegram announces
that Yucatan peninsula, held for
some time by rebel forces, has been
retaken by Obregon troops.
MOBILE, Ala. —Benito Gonzales,
Villa Hermosa, Tobasco, Mexican,
declares Adolfo de la Huerta, rebel
leader, is in Washington, D. C.
MONT R E AL. —Alexa nde r Yaz.i
koff, official soviet agent, denies
that either he or his staff brought
(Propaganda literature into Canada.
W ASHING TO N. —Pres ide n t Ctool
idge enjoys a Sunday of complete
rest, attending church in the morn
ing and cruismg on the Mayflower
in the afternoon.
TOKIO--First reprisal in Japan
against American exclusion policy is
noted when Japanese Printing asso
ciation votes to place boycott on all
goods from California.
CHICAGO. —Baltimore and Ohio
engine runs wild from Chicago
roundhouse and crashes into auto
mobile, killing fotjr persons and in
juring another seriously.
BOSTON. —First national bank to
be conducted by a labor union will
j be opened by Brotherhood of Loco-
■ motive Engineers and capitalized for
($500,000, it is announced..
’ ADRIAN, Mich.—Former Secre
tary .Denby affirms he was fully re
sponsible for the initiation of the
policy of leasing government oil re
serves to private interests.
WA S HINGTON.—Depa rtmen t of
agriculture announces conference of
representatives of affected states
| will endeavor to agree on embargoes
against foot and mouth disease.
WASHINGTON. — In minority re
port on bonus bill senate Democrats
favor cash and insurance provisions,
but indicate willingness to support
committee bills, which provides
straight insurance.
I WASHINGTON.—An order is is
| sued gainst Eastman Kodak com-
I pany by federal trade commission
I declaring company is substantially
complete monopoly of positive cine-
I matograph film.
j MOSCOW. —Establishment of a
'“living synagogue” similar to the
soviet “living church” is planned
by Je'wish communists in Poltava, a
Jewish telegraph agency dispatch
declares.
TOKIO. —Premier Kiyoura and
Foreign Minister Matsui are direct
ed to appear before the privy coun
cil this week to explain situation
wherein American congress passed
I Japanese exclusion legislation.
i WASHINGTON. — Federal Council
lof Churches asks congress to re-
I consider Japanese exclusion section
of immigration bill and co-operate
. with executive department in solv
ing problem “in a more satisfactory
1 way.” , x
W A SHING TON.—President Co ol -
' idge in a statement issued on the
eve of the beginning of forest pro
tection week expresses the hope
Americans will come to abhor a fire
in their woods as much as they
abhor fire in their homes.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—A woman
' and man, answering to the names
I and description of Brooklyn's bobbed
I hair bandit and her companion, are
! arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., and
I man admits shooting of Nathan Mez
zia. for which couple are sought.
I NEW YORK.—John D. Rockefel
ler, Jr., in his Easter address to his
I Park Avenue Baptist church Bible
I class, says “it is easy to envy great
■ wealth but great wealth often car
ries with it, in fact always carries,
erushing responsibility.”
WASHINGTON^—WiIIiam B. But
ler. President Coolidge’s political
manager, announces in formal state
ment that 563 delegates instructed
or favorable to the president, eight
more than necessary for nomina-
I tion, have been selected.
1 HARRISBURG. Governor Pin
[ chot. of Pennsylvania, in a state-
I ment alleges opposition by W. S.
■ Wire. Philadelphia political leader.
I to his election as delegate-at-large
I to Republican convention is prompt-
1 ed by governor's activity in prohibit
j lion enforcement.
|_ The Weather
I FORECAST FOR TUESDAY
Virginia: Unsettled, probably
I showers.
North Carolina: Cloudy, possibly
. showers.
South Carolina and Georgia: Most-
■ ly cloudy, possibly local showers in
' north portion.
Florida: Generally fair.
• Extreme northwest Florida: Fair.
Alabama and Mississippi: Mostly
! cloudy, probably local thundershow-
I ers in north portion.
Tennessee: Unsettled, probably lo
] cal thundershowers: cooler in west
j portion.
Kentucky: Mostly cloudy, proba
bly local thundershowers; cooler in
I west portion Tuesday.
Louisiana: Unsettled, cooler in
northwest portion.
Arkansas: Partly - cloudy, cooler.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy.
East Texas: Partly cloud.''.
West Texas: Partly cloudy.*
I Assertion That Reparations
Is Economic Matter, Not
Political One, Triumphs in
Fruit of Investigation
BV DAVID LAWRENCE
(Special Leased Wire to The Journal.)
XlCopyriglit, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Apirl IS. The
I triumph of an idea, obscured for a
I time and even seemingly defeated,
I but a triumph in the end —thus does
i the diplomatic world size up the re
• markable formula for the solution of
the six-year-old reparation contro
versy' drafted by the Dawes-Young
and now accepted by
Germany as well as, the allied pow
ers.
Secretary of State Hughes spon
sored thtf idea, fought long and
voluble diplomatic battles with Pre
mier Poincare, and finally won out
by the simple process of awarding
to the French premier the oppor
tunity to make the American idea
his own. The inside history of the
moves which have led to the happy
solution now in prospect, which is
filling the World again with opti
mism, can be revealed now as an
I enlightening chapter in the foreign
policy of the United States.
The story starts with the effort of
President Wilson to get senate con
sent to the appointment of an Ameri
can member on the reparations com
mission. He failed. President Har
ding expressed himself as willing to
have such representation authorized
but the temper of the irreconcilables
prevented action. An official Ameri
can member sat in the reparations
meetings, first R. W. Boyden and
then Colonel Logan. Neither were
permitted to vote, as America had
not joined the commission Officially.
But the commission was pro-French.
The Belgians'and Italians voted with
, the French while the British stood
more or less alone most of the time.
The deadlock prevented any solution.
Meeting Got Nowhere
Great Britain sought American aid
in vain. Finally through dipolmatlc
influence, the reparations Commis
sion was prevailed upon to invite
bankers and financiers to act as an
advisory committee in finding a
practicable solution. J. P. Morgan
was invited to sit on such a. commit
tee. But the sessions of the advisory
body came to naught, largely be
cause the French government insist
ed upon believing the plan would re
solve itself into a means of cutting
down Germany’s payments. Inter
ference with the scope of the com
mittee's work by the injection of a
controversy marked the end of the
meetings.
Diplomacy agan took up the]
tangle, but without success. Then
came 'the speech of Secretary
Hughes at New Haven in which he
argued that whan was needed was
not a political but an economic
state of mind. He proposed that the
matter be left to a. commission of
experts disconnected from political
or governmental influence. They
were to determine scientifically what
Germany could pay and find a]
formula whereby Germany would be
able to pay reparation debts. The,
suggestion fell on deaf ears in
France.
Then former Prime Minister David
Lloyd George came to America and \
pointed to the Hughes suggestion
as practicable and urged its accept- .
ance, or, at any rate, that the Brit-j
ish government take it up. Presi- [
dent Coolidge let it be known that
the Hughes plan announced under;
the Harding administration would
be the policy of his administration.
Mr. Lloyd George seized upop it as ;
a subject for further discussion. The ,
Baldwin government fearing that !
Mr. Lloyd George would make it an I
issue on his return, promptly ten
dered an invitation to the United
States and other powers to partici
pate in the selection of a commis
sion of experts as suggested by Sec
retary Hughes in his New Haven
speech
Poincare Skeptical
America promptly accepted, but
Premier Poincare was skeptical' of
the London proposal, as he was of
nearly everything of British origin.
Try as Secretary Hughes did
through numerous conversations
with Ambassador Jusserand to per
suade the French premier that the j
plan would not have to be accepted i
if it was unsatisfactory, the French j
government in effect rejected the
invitation bv imposing restrictions
on the scope of the committee
which the Washington government
deemed destructive, and hence the
British invitation failed of result.
During the correspondence with
the American government the
French had shown such an interest
in the main outline of the Hughes
plan that he was truly disappointed
when the negotiations collapsed
Feeling the necessity for an expert
inquiry, M. Poincare decided to is
spe the invitation himself, and he
sponsored a plan quickly approved
by reparations commission,
whereby that body formally invited
, the experts to advise it. The ex
perts were not necessarily .to be con
nected with governments. In the
case of the Americans invited —
Charles G. Dawes. Owen D. Young
and Henry M. Robinson —they were
selected with the knowledge of the
American government, but without
its specific authority. Indeed, the
American members prevailed upon
the other experts to cut loose from
their governments so as to speak
and look at the problem as a busi
ness matter without regard to poli
tics —exactly the Hughes formula.
American Loan a Forerunner
Such an attitude has brought out
a plan now regarded as a master
piece of adroit phraseology and
diplomatic handling of an admitted
ly complex situation. Neither
France nor Germany was offended
by the recommendations. The na
tional honor and obligations of both
sides was recognized. Fiscal recon
i struction for Germany was assured,
provided France withdrew her eco-
I nomic stranglehold on the. Ruhr.
Nothing was said about continued
i military occupation of tiie Ruhr by
j the French, which probably will be
perfunctory, but which nevertheless
j will satisfy French pride without in
terfering with Germany's produc
tiveness.
Just how much the gradual fall
of the franc has had to do with the
! tractable spirit of the French gov
ernment in the recent parleys can
only be conjectured, but in the midst
of the crisis over the franc. Ameri
can bankers came forth with a big
loan which stabilized the French
situation. These bankers would not
Cl» BROTHERS
AND STEWART FLEE
HALL COUNTY GANG
Men Serving Life Terms for
Killing Deputy Marshal
Were Trusties at Camp.
Mother 111 in Atlanta
GAINESVILLE, Ga., April 21.
George and Decatur Crawley and
Blaine Stewart, three of Georgia's
most notorious prisoners, escaped
from the Hall county chaingang
about 9:30 Sunday night, according
to advices reaching here. Details of
the escape are lacking, the report
merely stating the three men were
missed when*a final check-up for the
night was made by camp officials.
Authorities throughout Georgia
and neighboring states have been
notified, and'a posse has been or
ganized here to scour surrounding
territory lor the escaped men. Lt
is believed '.hat the two Crawley
boys are heaiel for Atlanta, where
it is reported their mother is criti
cally ill. She is said t olive on West
North avenue, and the Atlanta po
lice have been asked to watch for
the two li-ya and arrest them if they
attempt to ses her.
The three men were serving sen
tences imposed in connection with
the killing of United States Deputy
Marshal Ben F. Dixon, six years
ago. George and Decatur Crawley
were life-termers, while Stewart had
served two years of a ten-year sen
tence. Stewart is a cousin of the
Crawley brothers.
. According to officials at the camp,
the three men had been supplied with
citizens’ clothes smuggled Into the
camp, as their prison garb was found
about three miles from the camp on
the railroad. The three were trusties,
having made model prisoners, ac
cording to officials, who said from
the time of their incarceration they
had been excellent in their deport
ment and had won the confidence of
their guards.
,The Crawley case was one of the
most celebrated in the history of
the state and attracted nation-wide
attention.
Killing of Deputy
/ The escaped men were accused of
killing the deputy marshal who had
gone to the Crawley home in the
fastnesses of the mountains near
Blairsville, Ga., to arrest George and
Decatur Crawley for violation of
the selective service The mar
shal was accompanied by the s her- ;
iff of Union county, and when the
two approached the house—a small
mountain cabin —the Crawley boysj
i with their sis.u#f and Stewart, bar
ricaded the door and refused them
admission. When the marshal ap- -
proached, a shot, from the interior ■
killed him. It was never establish- '
ed who fired the shot.
Immediately after the shooting, the
.boys and the gitl escaped into North i
Carolina, wlie.e they hid themselves
in the mountains. A detachment of
I'nited States soldiers from Camp
(Gordon, went after th out was
; unsuccessful.
Captured By Young
Later, S. Glenn Young, who re- !
i cently has gained considerable pub-,
licity through bis connection with!
the Herrin, 81., prohibition raids,]
and then ay United States deputy rev-1
enue agent stationed ity North Caro- i
‘ lina, went after the quartet and ar-'
- rested them single-handed.
The capture was spectacular. I
Young discovered their hiding place
(ip a densely wooded mountain sec-
I tion, and surprised the group early |
one morning. They surrendered
I after he had slipped into the house i
j unawares and had covered them with ;
( his revolver.
Sentenced to Hang
The trial attracted huge crowds,,
and the three were sentenced to
hang after they had been found I
guilty. Rose Crawley was given a
- life sentence, also being found guilty
i by the jury.
The quartet was brought Io At
lanta and confined in the Fulton
county tower. A bitter and lengthy
legal battle was immediately begun
by attorneys who sought to have the
sentence set aside, finally resulting
in the four getting a new trial.
At the second trial, George and
Decatuy were given life sentences
■ and Stewart ten years. The case
I against Rose Crawley was nol
• pressed after the three men had been
j sentenced.
V i
Four Hurt as Bomb
| Explodes in Tenement;
Black Hand Blamed
NEW YORK. April 21. —Four per-j
sons were injured early today when
a bomb exploded on the first floor
of a lower East Side tenement
house. The neighborhood was
] thrown into a panic by the explo
: sion, which shattered hundreds of
i windows' in nearby houses, and po
! lice reserves were rushed to ""the
! scene.
The bomb was placed close to the
( door of a small shoe-repairing shop
conducted by John Arssensa, who,
j the police believe, may have been
the object of a blackhand plot.
Wickershams on Vacation
ASHEVILLE. N. U.. April 21.
George W. Wickersham, of New
York, former attorney general of the
United States, and Mrs. Wicker
sham. have arrived in Asheville to
spend a short vacation.
Struck by Baseball; Dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 21.
William Pennington, twelve, died to
day from injuries received when
struck by a baseball while he .was
j playing.
have made such a loan without
knowing what the French fcould do
about the'acceptance of the Dawes-
Young report. The French govern
ment was in constant touch with
the work of the Dawes-Young com
mission. When the Morgan' loan
was made, the financial world, as
i sumed the French would accept the
experts' report. And that has hap
i pened. The reparation problem has ;
from the start been an economic
j question, but it could not be solved i
!if viewed as a political affair In
! either Germany or France.
Mr. Hughes insisted that it was i
I a matter of economics. His view
. has triumphed. All of which shows
that in diplomacy persistence wins
i in the end.
STALE DEMOCRATS
MEET WEDNESDAY
I TO RATIFY PRIMARY
r Harmony Assured for Mc-
I Adoo Forces of Georgia.
. Half of Delegates to At-
. lanta Are Women
The Democratic stat*e convention
1 for the election of delegates to at
s tend the natityial convention in New
] .York city on June 24, and support
T William G. McAdoo for the presi-
I dential nomination, will be held at
t the Lyric theater in Atlanta on
p Wednesday of this week, the first
session beginning at 10 o’clock. G.
t E. Maddox, of Rome, chairman of
1 the Democratic state executive com
mittee, will call the convention to
C order.
r r The convention will be composed
J of 412 delegates and approximately
c 1,200 alternates, representing the
■ various counties in the state. Under
the rules of the Democratic party,
each county is entitled to two dele-'
. gates for each member it ’-.is in the
i Georgia house of representatives.
Th.s gives all counties at least two
i
. delegates, and the larger counties
1 six delegates. The party rules do
' not limit the number of alternates.
The delegates and alternates to
the convention \,ill be approximate
( ly fifty per cent women, because of
, the activity of the women of the
I state in liehalf of Mr, McAdoo, and
, in consideration of the request of
Mr. McAdoo that the women voters
. be given full recognition in the se
-1 ection of party representatives.
I Harmony Assured
The delegates and alternates were
' all selected by the designated repre
sentatives. of Mr. McAdoo in Geor
■ gia, in compliance with the rule
adopted by the state executive corn
■ mittee last January. The fact that
all the members of the Convention
are McAdoo supporters assures a
harmonious, and probably a brief
I convention. The only business be
' fore it will be the sounding cam
paign keyno'teg and the election and
[ instruction of the national conven
tion delegates.
j Georgia is entitled to two dele
i gates to the national convention
' from each congressional district, atid
; four delegates from the state-at
large, making a total of twenty-eight
; delegates. Since the Baltimore con
i vention and at the St. Louis and San
! Francisco conventions fifty six dele
gates have been elected with a half
] vote each—eight delegates at large
' and four from each congressional dis
! trict.
It will be left to the convention to
decide what percentage of the dele
gates to the national convention
shall be women, and for that reason
the McAdoo campaign managers in
Georgia have suggested that the
1 county delegates do not hold district
.caucuses until after that point is
| settled. It is the plan to have the
I cont ention decide upon the percent
. i agj of women in the national deje
| gation at its first meeting, and then
adjourn the general convention for
district caucuses.
It is probable that the delegates
to the state convention will go on
record in favor of a national com
mitteeman from Georgia, to be elect
' ed by the delegates to the national
i conventions.
| Major John S. dohen, president
and editor of The Atlanta Journal,
land an active supporter of Mr. Mc
; Adoo in the recent primary L. Geor
gia, has" announced that he is a car
l dictate for the national committee
manship.
The delegates and alternates to
the state convention were named by
Thomas J. Hamilton, of Augusta'
Miller S. Bell, of Milledgeville: Hol
lins N. Randolph and Mrs. Edgar
Alexander, of Atlanta, manage, s of
the McAdoo campaign in Georgia,
upon written authority of ~n, Mc-
Adoo, and after consultation with
the friends and supporters of Mr. Mc-
Adoo in the various counties of the
state. Their selections were later ap
proved by the primary subcommittee
of the state executive committee.
The Lyric theater, with a seating
capacity of approximately 2,000 per
sons, will provide ample accommo
dations for the crowd that is ex
] pected to attend the convention, and
is well arranged for convention pur
poses.
Great Satisfaction
Expressed by National
Manager of McAdoo
CLEVELAND, Ohio. April 20.
, Great satisfaction with the progress
made during the past week in ob
taining delegates favorable to' Wil
liam G. McAdoo’s candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomination I
was expressed in a statement to- I
' night by David L. Rockwell, nation- ■
,al manager of the McAdoo cam- '
paign.
Regarding the Missouri situation i
Mr. Rockwell said:
Ai the Missouri state convention <
last week a majority of the dele
gates were chosen pledged to Mr.
' ; McAdoo's candidacy.
Hie unit rule was adopted giving
i McAdoo, without reservation, the
<-hirty-six Missouri votes in the na
tional convention.”
' IX all the votes cast for McAdoo
in the Ohio primaries, April 29 are
' honestly counted. I have no "appre-i
hension as to the outcome,” Mr. I
Rockwell said. “Mr. McAdoo will
I carry the state.”
MORE CQOLIDGE DELEGATES
AKE CHOSEN IN .MISSOt Rl
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. April 20. 1
. Two delegates to the Republican na- i
tional convention were selected here
i today by the Fifth district repub
lican convention after a disposition
of resolution indorsing the nomina
tion of President Coolidge.
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J J
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, April 22, 1924
We Cannot Be Expected
To Favor Our Opponents,
McAdoo Wires Leaders
Thomas J. Hamilton, general chairman of the McAdoo cam
paign committee in Georgia, Hon. Hollins N. Randolph and Hon.
Miller S. Bell Saturday received identical telegrams from
William G. McAdoo, at Spokane, Wash., urging his ‘‘friends in
Georgia not to'permit misrepresentation of any kind to make
mischief, but to do their utmost to secure absolute harmony in
the state conventioi .”
In the telegrams, Mr. McAdoo declared, among other things,
that ‘‘we cannot be expected to favor our opponents or those who
did not respond when needed.”-
The telegram follows:
“Spokane, Wash., April IS. 1924.
“Thomas J. Hamilton,
“Healey Building, '
“Atlanta, Ga.
“Permit me to reaffirm my complete confidence, in you as man
ager of my Georgia campaign. I know of courss that you ate not
infallible and that you do not claim to be. Doubtless you have
made some mistakes, but always I am sure you have been moved
solely by considerations of what is best for the cause of progres
sive democracy and carrying out the wish of the people of Georgia
as expressed in the primary.
“It was inevitable that in the selection of such a large number
of delegates to the Atlanta convention the list in its entirety would
not be altogether what the McAdoo managers desired. lam con
vinced, however, that the mistakes are relatively few and that the
Georgia convention will be composed of tried and true men and
women, determined to carry out the will of the people of Georgia
in the selection of a delegation to New York which will stand
firm in the fight until the victory is won.
"I beg my friends in Georgia not. to permit misrepresentations
of any kind to make mischief, but to do their utmost to secure ab
solute harmony in the state convention.
“I stand for my friends.
“We cannot be expected to favor our opponents or those who
did not respond when we needed friends.
“We must all pull together. If we do Georgia’s verdict on
March 19th will be ratified in the national convention in New
York next June.
(Signed)’ “W. G. M’ADOO.”
INVOKING OF NAPOLEONIC
CODE ENABLES ACCUSED NEGRO
TO ESCAPE MURDER TRIAL
Statement of Shooting Vic
tim, Made oiT Deathbed,
Held Illegal by Court in
Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, April 19.
! George Jones, alias George Moore,
i negro, was at liberty today because
a man the authorities say he fatally
wounded - , did not believe be would
die. Jones is expected to be re-ar
rested and tried for but will
escape trial for murder because of
one of Louisiana's unusual laws, an
inheritance from the Napoleonic code
i upon which the state’s statutes are
| .based.
A negro entered a suburban
! grocery eperated b.v Louis Parenton
on last November 23, presented a
siufll calibre rifle, backed Parenton
against a wall and robbed him oV
$630. As the bandit left the place
he turned and shot the grocer.
Moore was pointed out to the po
lice by a young negro as the ban
dit, and, after his arrest, was taken
i
Ito a hospital for identification. Par
enton, who believed he would re
cover, declared Aloore was his as
; sailant, adding:
“I’ll never forget that negro’s face
as long as I live.”
Parenton died it few days later
and Moore was charged with mur
der.
The grand jury this week refused
to indict the negro because of the
law relating to death bed statements.
I'rider the statute Parenton’s as
sertion could be accepted as a death
bed statement only in the event Par
enton believed at the time he would
' succumb. The assertion of the
grocer, while a death bed statement
lin the true sense of the word, was
(not legally considered as such, and,
j therefore, positive identification of
the negro as the murderer was not
(established under the law r .
Mrs. Parenton, the widow, went
to the district attorney’s office sev
eral days before the grand jury re
ported to plead for justice against
the man her husband had identified
as his assailant and who was found
in possession of evidence that he had
[robbed another store. She said she
iwas told she “might as well go home
[and forget about it,” for the negro
: would have to be released.
} “I haven’t got the education to
■ say what I feel,” she told newspaper
i men today ‘ but I would like to know
’ what chai.ce. a poor widow has to get
I justice in New Orleans?”
Mrs. Parenton, the mother of four
[ young children, is grey-haired, al
, though she is only 36 years of age.
Clarke Rum Charges
At Indianapolis Are
Dismissed by Judge
INDIANAPOLIS, Apr! 19.
Charges of violating federal prohi
bition laws against Edward Young
Clarke, of Atlanta. Ga.. former im
perial wizard pro te mos the Ku
Klux Klan, were dismissed by Fed
eral Judge A. B. Andegapn today on
the motion of Homer Elliott, United
aStates district attorney.
Clarke was placed under $2,000
bond last September when informa
tion was, filed b.v the district attor
ney charging that a quart bottle
containing liquor had been found in
Clarke’s traveling bag.
Clar kedeclared the finding of th
liquor was a “crude attempt to'
frame him."
Two Held in Death
Os Young Farmer
GAINESVILLE, Ga.. April 19. ,
Richard Edwards and Paul Sigman, j
garage mechanics residing here, •
were being held in the Hall county
jail Saturday without bond in con
nection with the death of Lester
Whitmire, a 19-year-old farmer boy,
residing near here, on a warrant
sworn out Saturday by members of
the family of the dead boy.
Young Whitmire died at a local
hospital Friday night at 9 o’clock,
five hours after compressed air had
been administered to him in the
garage in which Edwards and Sig
man work, according to police offi
.ers who investigated the*death.
HLm PRISON
CDNDITIDNSSCDRED
IN DAUGHERTY QUIZ
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Testi
, mon,'- of J. E. Wilkins, former guard
I and superintendent of the prison
school at the Atlanta federal peni-
I tentiary, that George Remus, “boot
; leg king,” occupied a special suite
- in the prison hospital ward, featured
[ Monday’s hearing of the Harry M.
Daugherty investigating committee.
I Wilkins also declared dope condi
lions at the institution were bad and
had not been remedied since the in
vestigation last year.
Further chai-ges of dereliction in
enforcement of 'he prohibition and
anti-trust laws under Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty also were heard.
F. M. Boucher, a former depart
ment of justice investigator, testi
fied that confiscated liquor was
“sorted out” at the department while
he was employed there, and the best
of it kept in a safe, in the office of
the chief of the investigation bureau
to supply “officials” and others. He
was followed on the stand by Alonzo
E. Bunch, who told .he committee
that 100 cases of whisky illegally
itaken from him had been “hauled
away and delivered to people all
over town.”
Trade Board Chief Testifies
Called to testify regarding anti
trust cases, Houston Thompson,
chairman of the federal trade com
mission, said it had been “useless”
for the commission to turn over to
Mr. J laughertv the evidence, it had
ga’therejd from time to time warrant
ing criminal anti-trust prosecutions.
Until (he impeachirfent charges were
made in the house against Daugherty
in 1922, he said the commissoin could
not even get replies to Its letters on
these subjects.
Speaker Gillett appeared at the
committee hearing today and ques
tioned H. L. Scaffe, committee
witness, as to his statements that
liquor seized in Washington by pro
hibition agents some years ago went
to Gillett’s office.
“Where did you get your informa
tion?” the speaker asked.
“Most of it came from Mr. Wood
ruff.” said Scaife.
“Congressman Woodruff?”
“Yes.”
(Representative Woodruff, a Re
publican, is from Michigan.)
Scaife, a former department of
justice investigator, Insisted that his
original testimony “needed no cor
rection” to his knowledge. He re
iterated that his “information” was
that the speaker got the liquor for
a "constituent."
. Liquor Trunk Empty
The witness then turned to the
speaker and asked if he “denied”
that the liquor had gone to his of
fice.
“I certainly do,” said Gillett.
“Do you deny that a trunk went I
there?” Scaife persisted.
Gillett said a constituent’s trunk I
had been taken to his office but
that it had do liquor in it.
$4,367,311.91 Paid
Government in 1924
On Georgia Incomes
During the (it'st four months of
1924, Georgians paid $4,367,311.91 to i
the federal government on a total
of 76.644 tax returns on income for
1923, according to figures made pub
lic Monday by J. T. Rose, collector)
of internal revenue in Georgia.
The figures, in both money and re
turns, surpassed those of 1923, the .
sum of $3,563,680.27 having been paid ]
in during the first four months of I
last year on 73,765 returns oj» in
come for 1922.
Lion Kills Tamer
VIENNA.—A theatrical audience
was thrown into a panic and many
hurt when a lion turned on his wom-
alNd killed her in the cage ]
on the stage.
A A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
NO THREAT MEffi
HANIHARA ASSEHTS
IN NOTE TO HUGHES
/
Japanese Ambassador Ex
plains Use of Words ‘Grave
Consequences’ and Says
They Were Misconstrued
WASHINGTON, April 20.—A spe
cific diSCliJmer of any intent to con
vey a “veiled threat” in the use of
the phrase “grave consequences” ih
his recent communication to Secre
tary Hughes protesting against the
Japanesse exclusion feature of the
I immigration bill is made by Ambas
sador Hanihara in a second letter to
] the secretary made public today and
I characterized by Mr. Hughes*as a
“frank and friendly explanation.”
The ambassador’s letter and a re
ply by the secretary were made pub
lic by the state department, Mr.
j Hughes’ letter saying that, in the
; light of the Context of the original
letter, and prevailing friendship and
understanding between the two coun
tries, he “had no doubt that these
! words (grave consequences) were to
be taken in the-same sense you have
stated, and I was quite sure that it
was far from your thought to ex
press or imply any threat.” ~
The correspondence was made pub
i lie after Secretary Hughes had given
] much of his time for the past two
'days to a consideration of the in
■ ternational issue involved. He eon
- ferred again today with President
| Coolidge and befdre receipt of the
i ambassador’s* second letter had been
I advised of the desire of officials of
the embassy to .have an explanation
I of the language of the protest placed
I before the public.
Senators Silfc t
What effect the explanation may
have on the pending exclusion leg
islation in congress was not apparent
tonight. Senator Lodge, chairman
of the senate foreign relations cohi
mittee, who in senate debate charac
terized the phrase “grave l conse
quences” as a "veiled threat,” on
recent days has conferred with Pres
ident Coolidge on the question, but
leaders in congress desired oppor
tunity to study the language of the
latest letter before appraising thfe
situation.
Steps to send the immigration b'H
to conference were taken at the cap-
Upl today and the conferees are ex
pected to begin work without delay
It is understood that the ambas
sador made his explanation with rhe
approval of the Tokio foreign office
which had given its explicit ibdors 0 -
ment to the wording of the iet+cr.
Both communications, however, were
made public without comm apt, -
The letter written bv Seci+tary
ughes to the ambassador said:
"1 am gratified to receive your
letter of the 17th instant with your
frank and friendly explanation of
'.he intent of your recent note fri
relation to the pending immigration
bill. It givbs me pleasure to be able
to assure you that reading the
words ‘grave consequences’ in the
: light of their context and knowing
I the spirit of friendship and under
standing you have always manifest
e<\ in our long association, I had no
doobt that these words were to be
taken in the sense you have stated,
and I was quite sure that it wus
far from your thought to express oi
imply any threat. I am happy to
add that I have deeply appreciated
your constant desire to promote the
most cordial relations between the
peoples of the two countries.
“With high esteem, I am, my dear
Mr. Hanihara,
“Very sincerely yours.
“CHARLES E. HUGHES.”
Ambassador Hanihara’s letter, un
der date of April 17, said;
"Mr Dear Mr. Secretary:
“In reading the congressional,rec
ord of April 14, 1924, I find that th*
letter I addressed to you <>n> April
10, a copy of which you sent to the
chairman of the senate committee
on immigration, was made a sub
ject of discussion in the senate. In
the record it is reported that some
of the senators expressed .the opin
ion, which was apparently accepted
by many other members of that
body, that my letter contained ‘a
veiled threat.’ As it appears from
the record that it is the phrase
‘grave consequences’ which I used
in the concluding part of my letter
that some of the senators construed
as a ‘veiled threat,’ I may be per
mitted to quote here full text of
sentence which contained the words
in question.
“‘Relying upon the confidence
you have been good enough to show
me at all times 1 have stated or
rather repeated all this to you very
candidly and in a most friendly
spirit, for I realize, as I believe you
do, the grave consequences which
the enactment of the measure re
taining that particular provision
would inevitably bring upon the
otherwise happy and mutually ad :
vantageous relations between our
two countries.’
“Frankly I must say I am unabl*
to understand how the two words,
>ead in the context, could be con
strued as meaning anything like a
threat. I simply tried to emphasize
the most unfortunate and deplorable
effect upon opr traditional friendship
which might result from the adop
tion of a particular clause in ths
proposed measure.
Would Impair Relations
• “It would seriously impair the
good and mutually helpful relation
ship and disturb the spirit of mutual
regard and confidence which char
acterizes our intercourse of the last
three-quarters of a century and
which was considerably strength
ened by the Washington conference
as well as by the magnanimous
sympathy shown by your people in
th* recent calamity in my country.
“Whereas there is otherwise every
promise of hearty co-operation be
tween Japan and the United St? tea
which is believed to be essential’to
the welfare not only of themselves
but of the rest of the world, it wofild
create, or at least tend to create, an
unhappy atmosphere of ill-feeling
and misgiving over the relations be
tween our two countries.
“As the representative of my
c< untry, whose supreme duty is to
maintain and if possible to draw
still closer the bond of friendship
so happily existing between our two
pe >ples, I honestly believe such ef
fects, as I have describvl to b«
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