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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
DOUBLE SPRINGS. Drinking
poisoned whiskv is alleged cause of
death of Rufus Westmoreland. 12.
Several young men are arrested on
charge of giving whisky to boy, hut
are later released.
MONTGOMERY. New republic
of Poland vzants to get slant on
how state of Alabama conducts her
ejections. according to letter re
ceived by secretary of state from of
ficials of Poland.
BIRMINGHAM. Another sensa
tion is added to long list of arrests
_ and convictions of federal prohibi
tion enfor’cement officials, when
Prohibitum Agent Harris is arrested
here by department of justice agent,
SATTERFIELD LAYS
BLAME OF SMC
ON HIS RELATIVES
From his cell at the Fulton coun
ty tower, where he is held waiting
to pay the death penalty on the gal
' lows ne*xt Friday, J. B. Satterfield,
on Saturday afternoon, addressed a
communication to the public in which
he reviewed certain events in his
life leading up to the slaying of his
brother-in-l’w. R. H. Hart.
He declared that his relatives
started the fight which culminated
In the slaying in December, 1921, aft
" era discussion of his children’s wel
fare.
Satterfield also sent The Journal
a photograph which he said was
his favorite, declaring he did not
like others recently taken and pub
lished because they made hint look
Ike a criminal. The picture he
f favors was made in Seattle, Wash.,
' shortly before he came to Atlanta
in December, 1922, when the killing
occurred at a drug store near his
brother-in-law’s Trinity avenue
home.
The Condemned man had recover
ed his composure Saturday, after al
most collapsing in his cell Thurs
day afternoon following a prayer
service held with him by three Bap
tist ministers who visited the jail.
Satterfield’s Statement
“To the Public: An attempt has
been made to throw open my book
of life and weigh it in the scales for
good and bad deeds and it seems by
this situation, there is no good.
“In early married life, the wife
and I both made mistakes, her peo
ple rushing to her aid without con
sidering both sides, therefore, it in
jured my desire to ‘make good’ in the
world and destroyed the higher de
votion and love for the home.
"It was clearly a clannish and
selfish spirit and when our chance
came to take a step forward and
get above the wage earner’s life,
the wife and her people counseled
together and settled all questions,
instead of she and I.
"And all of this mud-slinging has
its origin and it dates back to those
days and it seems to me that any
broad-minded person can see that
this Clannishness is seated on an un
just foundation. We were young
and needed the advice of a mother
or father who had lived a life and
could impart something in common
to sustain the home instead of to
wreck it.
“Now we come to the passing
away of the wife, leaving me with
two girls, nine and eleven years of
age. Standing over the tongue that
was stilled by death, I helped to tie
rhe rope around my neck by not tell
ing or charging her serious mis
takes. Was that manly or not?
Death of Wife
"At the death of the wife, I did
wire her brother at Wattchaula, Fla.,
she was not. expected to live, and to
come, and later wired him in regard
to the funeral.
"My only reason for not attending
was I feared for the life pf the old
est girl, whose heart trouble still
holds her one foot in the grave and
he other on a banana peeling—that
s her own expression to this day
ind the brave little scout went down
wire while here at the trial. Now
lon’t you see I have a concrete rea
son and did \vhat I thought best,
though it served as fodder to the
•annon for her people—and I may
be wrong, but I felt it my duty to
preserve life and should she have
seen the remains, I still believe her
heart would have broken and slow
or immediate death would result.
“I slept with her in my arms and
I point to her words in letter or affi
davit form on record with the gov
ernor at this time which so far the
public knows nothing about. How
■an the scales be balanced by such
a one-side exposure?
“Here Mr. Hart comes in direct
# contact with our lives by being given
<)ur home and he comes down from
New York, is given full possession
• ind promises me- in these identical
words: ‘Jim, I come to help you
and will do all I can.’ That was to
my face and at the same sitting he
wrote to his sister from time to time,
toing so far as to say ‘wc will do as
ve d —n please.’
Moved to West
“Now we go to the sister in New
Mexico and 1 read that tetter and
ifter many things happen that
prove to me clearly they were not
our friends We moved out after
About two and a half months stay.
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iHE ihl-WhKhLY JOlhJiAb
, who claims he saw Harris accept
bribe from noted woman bootlegger.
Harris denies charge, saying wom
an slipped money into his pocket
without his knowledge.
B 1 R M I N G H A M. —Birmingham
votes $3,500,000 school bonds and
$650,000 additional bonds for nubile
i library btfilding.
MONTGOMERY. Travelers be
-1 tween Alabama points will continue
ito pay 3.6 cents per mile railroad
■fare. Reduction ordered by public
| service commission two years ago
cannot be made, owing to fact that
I interstate commerce commission can
cels order of Alabama commission.
; WEAVERS. —D. F. Weaver has
11, am approached from time to time
Iby this sister-in-law to bring the
girls back, but refuse and stay in
and around Albuquerque about two
and a half years and succeed in
climbing uphill, gaining in th e walks
of life and making a new ‘little
world’ in which we find friends aim
plenty to do an dlive on. I was so
I well pleased to get out from under
’ and away from all of this old past
' clannishness and fussing that we
I never bothered or referred back to
' them for anything, as I told the lit
i tie girl they were not intending to
|do as good and let’s find us new
people.
“We showed them we could bury
the past and go on without them.
1 Here we make for a broader ‘gap’
and I advance to Seattle, leaving
the girls behind till I get up there
and get settled. Now, realizing we
are about to get way beyond reach
and out of their lives altogether,
this sister-in-law goes to the extreme
and grabs my girls by persuasion
and then by guardianship proceed
ings. Then Mr. Hart commences to
help the children. And right here
you folks see now the positive proof
of clannishness or spiteful vengeance.
Don’t know that I can tell how
many ways or how much this hurt
me.
“However, they had them and it
was my opportunity to think of
them each night in my dreams and
live with them over the unfortunate
past, instead of their ever presence.
I could not support my little girls
in this home, because it would be
to acknowledge that I had given
away my own flesh and blood that
God and the higher laws of human
ity rule that it is something that
can’t be given away. Those of us
who grow to understand something
of the broad principles of life, see
children as a blessing to humanity
and the one thing upon which the
world depends for the coming of a
perfect day. Upon children every
thing depends,—even God depends
upon them for his use in finishing
or bringing the world to an end.
Worried About Daughter
"Now at this point, whatever time
it may be makes no difference, I
hear that my ‘baby girl’ is in jail
in Alberquerque. Any of you fa
thers that r"- ’ this, what wotdd you
do?
what kind of a man. I realize all
of the married life is full of mis
takes by the wife, by myself and her
following and that now these little
girls of ours are suffering the pen
alty of this clannishness of ven
geance.
"My first thought—Now it is your i
duty, Mr. Hart and sister-in-law, to
give the girls back this estate money.
And then we forget about money.
I get the little girl out of jail and
have her sent to me. When she ar
rived I saw it wasn’t my little girl
of two and a half years ago and X
was that easy in the matter of be
ing run over -in the past to show
Mr. Hart and my sister-in-law that
I could undo all they had done, by
dealing with my child and bringing
about a. complete recovery from the
awful past. Trying from June 18,
1921, to December, 1921, I failed to
make her see the light of a. new
day. And then it went so far that
I had to attend court and defend
her from insanity in trying to kill
herself. In this horrible stale I was
affected in my sleep and when
awake in away that is not clear
for description nr exactly satisfactory
to my own mind as to why, when,
or what.
‘ I do now faintly imagine that 1
thought or knew it would take Mr.
Hart and Mrs. Stuckey (Mrs. Brown)
to bring relief to this child. And I
headed for him and came to tell him
the condition and asked him to force
Mrs. Brown to hurry to Seattle and
save my child. I entered his home
manlike and received his Invitation
to sit down at his fireside and
so.
Conference With Hart
“We both commented on his family
and it stunned me to look over and
see he had a little girl. 1 remem
bered I was so shocked that it kept
me standing and was the last one
seated of the three of us, Mr. Hart
and wife and myself.
“And when we approached the
discussion of my girls, I changed my
niood. I was so full and tears were
coming from my eyes and in that
mood, he jumped on me and made
1 fight.
“Reader! What mind could stand
I that shock and come out clear? Call
■it ghost or whatever you will, my
I last say is that I never have realized
that I hit the floor, or do I know
! by realization that I slew my school
■ mate, life's boyhood chum and later,
| brother-in-law. I came to him to ask
i and demand a move to save my
; baby girl and then if he didn't or
( refused to help. I might have said,
‘We will shoot it out; there is a life
hanging in the balance and it's our
move.’
“I don’t know what the challenge
would have been, but I do know the
unusual record of holding position of
station agent for Southern railroad
here for past 47 years.
MOBILE.—AII persons, except
women and attorneys, are searched
before entering court room where
big whisky ring trials are being con
ducted. Revolvers are found on per
son of four former officers, under
prohibition indictments.
GADSDEN. —Mag Kellogg, negress,
is charged with violating prohibition,
but as she weighs over 400-pounds
and is unable to walk officers are
at loss to know what to do with
her.
MONTGOMERY. Gov. W. W.
Brandon knows nothing of report
ELDERS GIVES OUT
HIS PLATFORM IN
GDVERPIORSHIPRACE
REIDSVILLE, Ga., May- 19. —Re-
peal of the tax equalization law-, lim
itation of city and county tax rates
to fifteen mills by constitutional
amendment, opposition to “any bond
issue for roads or any other pur
pose, and radical changes in the va
rious courts of justice of the state,’
are embodied in the platform of H.
H. Elders, of Reidsville, candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
governor, which wag made public
Sunday.
Mr. Elders, representative in the
state legislature from Tattnall coun
ty, declared that the chief "plank
in his platform on which he will
make the race for the office of chief
executive of the state, will be “econ- i
omy and tax reduction.’’
He advocates the levying of a ,
“real inheritance tax and luxury I
tax” to take the place of the ad va- j
lorem tax of five mills for state pur- |
poses, which he claims, is “out of
date and must be taken off our tax
payers.” He also stated that “the
tax levy for education should be by
the county and limited to just
enough to run our schools when
added to state aid funds.” His plat
form opposes an income tax.
Election of the county boards of
education and the conversion of the
state school fund into an “equaliza
tion school fund, so that the children
of all counties may have the same
opportunities.” are favored by Mr.
Elders, according to his platform.
Against Bond Issues
Declaring be is opposed to "any
bond issue for roads or any ether |
purpose,” Mr. Elders stated that “in
road building we must pay as we
go-”
As to the courts, he says: “There
should not be but three classes of
courts: Justice courts, superior
courts and the supreme court. We
must enlarge the jurisdiction of our
justice courts, abolish our city and
county courts, and combine the
court of appeals with he suprem
court and have a civil and criminal 1
division of the supreme court.”
Mr. Elder’s platform, in full, was
announced as follows:
“Ninety per cent of our people
must be relieved from tax burden
and Georgia must have a better day, I
and our taxing system must be stab
ilized so that outside capital will
flow into the state. To that end, I
take as my text: ’Economy and tax
reduction’."
“Economy: Every useless job must
be abolished; duplication by differ
ent departments of the state stop
ped, and every wasted dollar saved.
The details of this program will be
explained during the campaign.
Taxation Plank
“Taxation: The ad valorem tax
of five mills for state purposes must
be taken of our taxpayers. It is
out of date. That will save five 1
million dollars to our taxpayers.!
One-half of this can be supplied by j
a real inheritance tax, the only tax |
that cannot be passed on to the i
consumer, and the other ope-half >
can be supplied by a luxury tax, a
tax that cannot be passed on to the
poor consumer.
“The county tax must be limited,
not to exceed fifteen (15) mills, and
this written into our constitution.
“The city tax rate must be limit
ed, not to exceed fifteen mills, and
this written into our constitution.
“The tax levy for education should
be by the county, and limited to just
enough to run the schools when add
ed to state aid.
“The tax equalization law must be
repailed.
"The above tax program would
stabilize our tax laws for this gen
eration and bring relief to ninety i
per cent of our people, and cause I
untold millions to come into our I
—— —— i
burden of saving my child was the
one thing clinging like glue to my
every thought and move.
“We have at this time sworn
statements from the people who
have a keen 'sight: to the life the
girls and II . in New Mexico. Mr.
Public and M.. Law. are you going
to judge all of this from one side
by not exposing them and hanging ;
them, to find out later you were j
misled? I dare you to expose I
them.
Appeals to Mrs. Hart
"And let me say for Mrs. R. H. |
Hart that I knew by her letter to ’
the girls, that she never entered ,
into this clannishness and has proven |
to be a woman of a higher type and I
would have never stood as a stone |
j wall between the girls and me. And j
| I am glad that I lived the inter- ■
l pretation of that letter to The Jour- ■
I nal where it was construed to in- ,
I elude her life in jeopardy as false. '
One can imagine under the condi
tions and strain I wa’s in that these j
words and some others had no in- ;
tent behind them, when I was sur- :
I rounded by normal '-onditions and
< had my mind under control. I was
’ back here on business for two days
! and lived in three hours’ journey
jof this city for one year. So that
I proves 1 have nothing like that
; at heart.
j "And if Mrs. Hart will divorce ,
I herself from suggestion of this clan
nishness element and let her own
heart direct her words. I will never j
hang, but of course might get some
punishment; I don’t know as to I
that.
“If Mrs. Brown had been a worn- |
an of Mrs. Hart’s type, this trouble |
and three premature graves would ;
not have been. There is no place ;
we have lived but what I can go i
back and join in a circle of friends
and be invited to s r, ''nd the evening
■ Now folk . are you hanging that
I man for one put out before th
’ public at the precent time? Are you
i going to have a question mark
eighteen incites broad and six fee’
high on the end of a rope supposed
to represent fairness and law and
judgment by fellowmen without get-
■ ting all the ~--’dence in?
“I have riskC my own life and
have been fired upon in upholding
the law and nrote Ing the citizens
of Atlanta and did it willingly. Now
T am a subject of the same law an '
by the same reople and really I
don’t believe vou have been fair.
“If I am wholly wrong. I drm’’
| want to complain, but there is
proof here that has not been used.”
from Washington, D. C., that he is
slated to place name of Oscar W.
Underwood in nomination before na
tional Democratic convention.
• BIRMINGHAM. - —' All of William
G. McAdoo's campaign literature is
being printed by The Advance Com
pany, owned by Phil Painter, local
politician.
NORTH CAROLINA
H ENDERSON TILL E— Local
newspaper carries story to effect
that J. H. Todd, of Hendersonville,
invited Governor Morrison to leave
his car and meet Todd in physical
encounter, after their cars had met
in collision when governor and wife
were returning to Raleigh after at
state to develop our resources. This'
would cause Georgia to follow North
Carolina and regain her place as
the foremost state of the south.
“I am opposed to an income tax,
for it is not needed, and wealth
needs a rest from taxation.
! “Education: I have stood for ten
I years, in the legislature, for all pos
sible aid to education from the pri-
| mary grade to the top of the uni
| versity, but the homes of the farm
ers and laborers 'must not be sold
for taxes for education.
For School Equalization
“The state school fund should be
converted into an equalization school
fund, so that the children of Daw
son county would have the same
opportunities as those of Fulton
county.
“The county board of education
should be elected by the people for
they now have tax levying powers.
“The county should be a unit of
education and every child given the
same opportunity in life, with at
least one high school in every rural
county in Georgia.
“Public roads: By next year we
will be getting eight million dollars
for building and maintaining our
public roads and that is enough.
| “I am opposed to bond issue
' for roads or for any* other purpose.
In road building, we must pay as
we go, build permanent roads and
waste no money on the job.
“The four hundred dollar car
should not pay the same motor li
cense tax as a four .thousand car.
We must lift the tax burden off the
poor man.
“Courts: There should not be but
three classes of courts: Justice
courts, superior courts and supreme
courts. We must enlarge the juris
diction of our justice courts, abolish
our city and county courts, and com
bine the court of appeals with the
supreme court and have a civil and
criminal division of the supreme
court.
“I will not. sign any appropriation
bill until I have approved the tax
acts, and I will not sign tax acts
unless they afford relief to our suf- :
sering people.
“I will stand for the rigid enforce
ment. of all laws by the solemn judg
ments of orderly courts and not
otherwise must any one attempt to
execute the laws.
“Freedom of speech and of the
press, must be maintained at any
cost.
Declares Independence
“No sect, faction, clique or clan
should run the, governor’s office. If
elected to that high office, I will
know how to say ‘yes’ to my enemy
when he is right and ‘no’ to my
friend when he is wrong.
“The spirit of civic righteousness ■
must be brought into our politics |
and into the affairs of our state in 1
an effort to approach the spirit of
divine righteousness as lived by our
Christian citizens.
“No political loafer, ring politi
cian, or ‘live beat,’ need call at my
headquarters, tor I am a poor man
and I will not obligate myself to a
crook for the governor’s office.
“I favor putting county officers
on a salary in the. large cities, but
not in the rural counties.”
Mir. Elders declared he expects to
campaign in every county in the
state between now and the date of
the election. The state primary will
be held September 10, it is stated.’
Although Mr. Elders is the only
candidate who has made a forma 1
announcemen . -for Walker is
expected to be a candidate for re
election, and George H Carswell,
president of the state senate, also is
expected to enter the race.
“Come and Get It”
Say Flags in Code
On Rum Ship Masts
WASHINGTON, May 17—Smug
! pled rum is coming into the United
i States at the rate of hundreds of
cases a month, according to coast
guard headquarters, and there are
indications that the amount is in
creasing with the advent of warmer
weather and smoother seas.
More and more ships carrying
cargoes of liquor are lining up out
side American territorial waters un
der flags of the international code,
i meaning, “Come and get it,’’ and
i the coast guard is convinced there
are numerous citizens of dry U. S.
I who welcome that sign and do go
and get it.
; Seventy odd ships - ere noted at a
| distance of 300 miles of Atlantic
I coast line this week, all waiting cus
j toilers and watching _->r an oppor
i tunity to slip closer in shore.
Proof that •' ame of these craft
; were able to get close to land is seen
iin the exports of liquor from for
| eigp ports on. which landing papers
i have never materialized.
I Masons of Blakelv
J
Acquire Ancient Bible
Published m 1540
BLAKELY, Ga.. May 17.—Mag
nolia lodge, No. 86. F. <R- A. M., ot
Blakely, is the possessor of a genu
' ine Tyndale Bible, published in 1549.
! The lodge acquired this valuable edi
; tion through the efforts of Colonel
| W. L. Stone, of Blakely.
This rare Bible has hand-carved
I solid oak back and front, with large
brass clasps. On the back is the in
scription: “The Holy Bible—Tyndale,
i 1549.”
There is evidence that the Bible
after being worn anil ragged, was
mended, patched and rebound. The
I original covers are entirely pre
i served, however, as well as many
i notes on the margins of the leaves,
'it is 375 years old.
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tending social function at Asheville.
Todd says governor agreed to* pay'
repair bill.
WILMINGTON. Approximately
10,500 carloads of material ordered
by fertilizer maufactufers were
shipped over Atlantic Coast Li le
from this to inland alate points in
the. period from January 1 to May
1, which exceeded 1923 movement oy
3,000 cars, railway headquarters here
announces.
RALEIGH.— Berry shipments by
growers of state have attained high
daily volume, according- to reports
to state department of agriculture,
which announces shipments of May
9 totalled 121 cars, compared with
CfIPT.PHELPSWILL
REST AT COMS.
HIS FORMER HOME
Funeral services for Captain Wil
liam H. H. Phelps, widely-known
Confederate veteran and a former
leader in religious movements and
civic reforms, who died Sunday aft
ernoon at the Confederate Soldiers’
Home, were held Monday after
noon at 4 o’clock from the chapel of
H. M. Patterson & Son, funeral di
rectors.
At 7:40 o’clock Tuesday morning
the body' will be sent to Columbus
Ga., the place of his birth dnd the
scene of many of his herioc activi
ties during the War Between the
States, to be buried with honors by
the Masonic order, of which he was
a lifelong member.
The Rev. Marvin Williams, pastor
of the Wesley Memorial church, of
which Captain Phelps was a mem
ber, and Dr. C. O. Jones, a life-long
friend, will officiate at the funeral
services here, while honors will be
paid by the Gideons Association of
Atlanta, members of which have
been invited to attend.
Sacrificed His Fortune
Before the War Between the
Stiites, Captain Phelps was in busi
ness in Columbus, where he was
born on February 10, 1839. He was
possessed of a considerable fortune,
practically all of which was wiped
out in the expenses of war and his
widespread benevolent activities dur
ing the period of reconstruction.
At the outset of the war, Captain
P.ielps organized and drilled a fight
ing unit known as the “Muscogee
Rifles,” and led this command as
first lieutenant through many bloody
encounters during the early part of
the war.
Returning to Columbus In the
spring of 1862 on a brief leave of
absence, Captain Phelps married
Miss Lucy Elizabeth Briggs,.of that
city, and it was in her honor that
he named the next fighting unit
organized by him, “The Lula
Guards.” He was appointed captayi
of his company when he presented
it to the Confederate government,
leading it through many fierce bat
tles from 1862 to April 9, 1865, when
he surrendered to General Benth
well, of the Union army.
At the time of the surrender, Cap
tain Phelps’ company was fighting
in the brigade commanded by Gen
eral Howell Cobb, in the vicinity of
Columbus.
Equipped His Companies
In equipping and training the two
companies which he presented to
the Confederate government and in
furnishing them with food and am
munition during the four years of
war. Captain Phelps expended more
than $30,000, he later told intimate
friends.
And after the war, when bis state
and section still was staggering from
the effects of the great conflict,
Captain Phelps expended other large
sums. One of his notable acts dur
ing this period was at the Anderson
ville prison camp, in south Georgia,
where he personally furnished food
for hundreds of guards and Union
prisoners who were at the point of
starvation.
For this and other acts of kind
liness and heroism, Captain Phelps
was awarded a hero medal in 1866
by the original Ku Klux Klan, of
which he was a member. He kept
this medal until his death, treasur
ing it si le by side with the Con
federate Veterans Cross of Honor,
which he always wore.
Captain Phelps’ activities during
and after the War Between the
States, according to his intimate
friends, were typical of the fine spir
it of benevolence and thoughtfulness
or others that was manifested
throughout his life.
He was an outstanding leader in
many civic' movements, taking a
particularly active part in the fight
for prohibition. He was the owner
of the bell that called together the
citizens of Madison, Ga., for the
first anti-saloon league rally ever
held in the state, more than a quar
ter of a century ago.
He also was particularly active
- c lurch work and was a member
of the Methodist church for more
than fifty years; Twenty years ago.
when he first came to Atlanta, he
became affiliated with the Grace
Methodist church and lated with the
Wesley Memorial church, in which
he was a steward at the time of his
death: He was for many years a
teacher in the Sunday- school of that
church, relinquishing his duties only
when his health failed.
For many years Captain Phelps
was engaged in the brokerage busi
ness in Atlanta, being forced to re
tire several years ago, however, be
cause of failing health.
On June 18. 1923, he entered the
Old Soldiers’ Home, and there, sur
rounded by his comrades of the
sixties, he spent his last days.
Captain Phelps is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. E. R. Schaldach, ot
Santa Maria, Cal.: two granddaugh
ters, Mrs. E. S. Astin, Atlanta,
and Mrs. M. A. Davis, Chicago, and
one grandson, Wilbur Phelps, of Mi
ami, Fla.
Greenville Father
And Son Convicted
Os Slaying Constable
GREENVILLE. S. C.. May 18.—
Alexander Pitman and Holland Pit
man, father and son. were convicted
of murder by a jury in the court of
general sessions here late Saturday
in connection with the slaying of
Constable Howard during a raid on
a still January 31. last.
The penalty under the law is
death by electrocution, but sentence
was automatically stayed when de
fense counsel entered a motion for
a new trial, arguments on which
will be preserved Monday, Judge
Mauldin announced.
total of 247 cars reported for whole
country by federal department.
KINSTON. — Lenoir copnty poul
trymen ship 18,000 pounds of poul
try to northern market in co-opera
tive selling movement directed by
Agricultural Agent Brickhouse.
GOLDSBORO?—WhistIe on South
ern railway engine "sticks” and for
two hours after arrival continues
blowing, whole town aroused in
night time, two fire trucks making
tour of city in search of suspected
fire, before source of disturbance was
found.
WlLSON.—William Williams, 69,
and Mrs. Mary E. Felder, .29, daugh
ter ot Mr. and Mrs. Joe White, are
married by Magistrate Farmer.
RALEIGH.— Imprisonment tor
contempt of court is threatened by
Judge Henry A. Grady when warn
ing R. E. Williams, court reporter
of News and Observer, against writ
ing another story about judge, who
is grand dragon of Ku Klux Klan,
such as one recently published deal
ing with court clerk’s inability to
find judge, then attending Klan
meeting, to receive verdict of jury.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG. —Cow belonging
to Andrew Williams falls in well,
when it jumps over fence to get
at young calf, and to rescue it city
fire hose are used. Well is filled
with water and cow floats ou’ to
safety.
OLD MEMPHIS W
DF JEFFERSON DAVIS
WILL BE PRESERVED
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 17—The
old home of Jefferson Davis in this
city is to be repaired and preserved
as a two-fold memorial of the Civil
war and the World war. The quaint
old structure is to be maintained
in its original plan and design in the
midst of a small group of mansions
of other days which will stand in the
heart of the downtown district.
Veterans of the World war have
sponsored the movement, which has
as its object not only the preserva
tion of tlie Davis home for th e his
torical value of its Civil war associa.
tions, but also to give Memphis Post
No. 1, American Legion, a home that,
is to serve as a memorial to World
war dead.
Jefferson Davis lived in Memphis
two years during the reconstruction
period. His home was located jxt
what is now Court avenue and
Fourth street, almost within a
stone’s throw of Main street. The
house was the center of the city’s
social activity during the brief pe
riod the ex-president of the Confed
eracy and his family lived here. But
when Mr. Davis moved away, the
dwelling was permitted to fall into
decay, and as the business district
pushed eastward from the river, it
became enmeshed in a crowded dis
trict of business structures.
The legion's appeal for funds has
found ready response among the peo
ple. of Memphis and in the surround
ing territory. The legion asked for
$50,000 with which to buy the prop
erty and pay for its repair. The ma
jor portion of the sum has been paid
in, and the first two payments have
been made on the purchase price of
the property.
Retail Food Prices
Shown on Decline
By Bureau Report
WASHINGTON! May 17.—An av
erage decline of two per cent in retail
food prices in the United States dur
ing the month ending April 15 was
reported by the labor department’s
bureau of statitics. The trend of
wholesale commodity prices also con
tinued downward during the month,
the bureau's weighted index number,
including 404 commodities, declining
to 148 as compared with 150 for the
month before
Decreases in retail food prices in
51 of the 52 cities for which figures
were reported ranged from five per
rent at Buffalo, Minneapolis, New
Orleans. Providence, and Scranton
to less one per cent at Atlanta.
Los Angeles. Portland, Oregon, and
Salt Lake City. For the year end
ing April 15 the average decrease
was given as 1 per cent.
Decreases in foodstuffs and metals
were chiefly responsible for the av
erage drop in whole sale commodity
prices during the month. Smaller
decreases were reported in the
groups of cloths and clothing fuel
and lighting and chemicals and
drugs.
Farm products showed an increase,
due to advances in cattle, hog's,
sheep, poultry, cotto-n, hay, potatoes,
and peanuts. The general commod
ity price level for April was nearly
7 per cent lower than in the same
month last year.
First Dawes Boom
For Vice Presidency
Starts in Earnest
CHICAGO. May 17.—The first
public booming of Brigadier General
Charles G. Dawes, former director of
the budget and chairman of the
committee of experts of the repara
tions commission, for the Repub
lican nomination for vice president,
has been started here, where thou
sands of placards, bearing likenesses
of President Coolidge and Dawes,
have been mailed. The cards bear
the slogan "America First,” with
biographies of both and a tribute to
Dawes on the reverse side and are
designed for framing.
General Dawes is said to have ex
pressed scant sympathy with the
idea of making him President Cool
idge’s running mate when the propo
sition first was made to him.
Cancer Is Contagious;
Cure Near, Says Mayo
FAIRBULT, Minn.. May 17.
Within a short time cancer will be
considered as a contagious disease
and with the germs discovery, doc
tors may b? able to prevent infection
and bring about a cure. Dr. Charles
Mayo, Rechester, predicted in an
address at the public health forum
last night. Dr. Moyo cited the case
of a New York doctor who has been
studying cancer for eight years and
is now able to develop it in animals
As a result of this work it will not
be long before it will be possible .■
discover the rancer germ and con
trol the disease, said Dr. Mayo.
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1924.
ANDERSON. —W. C. Gordan, Iva
chief of police, on trial here for mur
der of Ira E. Wiles, while Wiles lay
in barbershop chair getting shave,
testifies in own behalf, pleading
self-defense, stating that Wiles left
chair and was reaching into coat
pocket, following words, when he
fired.
CHESTER.—L. A. Oliphant, who
last year gathered 3,600 quart? of
strawberries from his .patch, con
templates crop of 10,000 quarts this
year.
COLUMBIA. Advices received
from Washington quote Senator N.
B. Dial as saying he does not want
to be elected delegate to national
Democratic convention in New
York, preferring that others have
high honor,
COLUMBIA. “Palmetto Qfieen”
is name adopted for South Carolina
peaches, by executive board of state
peach growers’ association, In ses
sion here. T. N. Young, presiding.
gray ’ine
of soldiers of 60’s meet in annual re
union here, addressed by Governor
Thos. G. McLeod and others.
ST. GEORGE. —Naval airplane
driven by Lieut. J. M. Schumacker,
of marine corps, with Private Robert
Patterson as mechanician, is almost
completely wrecked when forced to
: land near here because of lack of
I oil. They wert enroute from Quan
tico, Va., to Pensacola, Fla. Fliers
I are unhurt.
Congressman Admits
Framing Irrigation Bill
To Benefit His Clients
WASHINGTON. May 17. Repre
sentative Swing, Republican. Cali
fornia, author of the Swing bill for
government construction of the
Boulder canyon dam on the Colora
do, testified under questioning be
fore a house committee today that he
was employed as counsel last sum
mer at $25 a day by the Imperial Val
ley Irrigation district, which com
mittee members declared would bene
fit by the proposed construction.
“I am a man who has to live on
my salary,’’ he said, “and I was
glad to accept employment during
the recess of congress.”
He added that his services termi
nated with the end of the congres
sional recess.
The California representative’s tes
timony was given before the irriga
tion committee which has his bill un
der consideration, and was in re
sponse to questioning b.v Representa
tive Leatherwood. Republican, Utah.
Boston Club, Exclusive
New Orleans Social
Organization, Raided
NEW ORLEANS', May 17.—The
Boston club, the oldest social or
ganization in New Orleans and one
of the more exclusive in the south,
where Rex, king of the carnival,
drinks to his queen on Mardi Gras
day, was raided last night by dry
agents headed by Max Overpeck,
prohibition director for Louisiana
and Mississippi.
One hundred bottles of fine liquors
were confiscated, the agents report
ed.
No arrests were made, but several
persons, whose names were not
j made public, were notified to appear
| before United States Commissioner
Carter to explain the presence of
the liquor.
The club has a selected member
ship of about 400, among whom are
the leading business and professional
men of New Orleans.
Wife Claims Officers
Shot Husband in Back
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 17.
Thorough investigation into the
death of Y. H. Hunter, of Taft,
Tenn., shot by raiding deputies just
over the line in Tennessee Thurs
day, was demanded by his wife to
day.
Mrs. Hunter claims to have In
formation that when the deputies
were raiding the still, her husband
starter to run and was shot in the
back. He died in a local hospital at
midnight.
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are directly implicated in the dyna
mite attack on the home of Deputy
Sheriff John Bobo on the night of
April 14, according to confessions
made by Will Swent, one of the
four men, at a preliminary hear-,
ing granted Walter Heegetach. also
one of the four, Thursday afternooq
before Judge John B. Reew.
Frank Williams and Carl Lesaxs
ter, both serving sentences tn the
Floyd county chaingang, t Were Miso
implicated by the revelation made
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turning state’s evidence.
The witness testified that he and
the other three men stole 50 sticks
of dynamite on Friday night pre
ceding the attack, Monday night,
and that all four drove to the offi
cer’s home. Lemaster and Williams
placed two sticks of dynamite under
the house, and that they then places
the remainder of the dynamite In
the roof of the Antioch Baptist
church.
The dynamite was found in the
church by Deputy Sheriff Salmon
and other officers several days age-.
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story told by Swent, who is remem
bered as the man who was shot and
seriously injured by Millard Sim
mons shortly after the dynamite at
tack. Lemaster and Williams were
out on bond at the time of the
bombing. They were captured while
in possession of liquor only a few
days before the dynamiting by Dep
uty Sheriff Bobo and other officers.
The entire evidence in hand tends
to bear out the first conclusion of
officers that the attack on Bobo was
made by Floyd county’s bootleg ring.
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probably will be called to handle
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Randall Refuses to Run i
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Charles 11. Randall, former congress
man, mentioned as a presidential
candidate on the prohibition ticket,
announced here that he was not *
candidate and would not accept the
candidacy if it were offered him.
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