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Secret Commission” of $50,000
Alleged to Have Been Paid for
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Influence” in Land Deal.
Disclosure of a $60,000 “secret com
mission,” alleged to have been paid
for “influence” in the sale of coal
lands in Georgia and elsewhere, was
made yesterday in the $2,000,000 suit
of O. T. Peeples, trustee in bankrupt
cy for the Georgia Steel Company,
ageainst Joel T. Hurt and others, and
told of exclusively in The Georgian's
Home Edition.
The suit, filled in the City Court,
named Joel Hurt, George F. Hurt,
Thomas B. Meador, Ernest Woodruff,
the Georgia Imon and Coal Company
and the Trust Company of Georgia as
defendants. Attorneys for the plain
tiff were S. B. Adams, Paul F. Aiken;
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children of all ages and for grown
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The litigation grew out of the sale
of a vast tract of ore land in Georgia,
Florida and Tennessee to the steel
company. It is charged certain de
fendants entered into a conspiracy by
which $50,000 was to be paid by the
Georgia Iron and Coal Company as a
commission for making the sale to
the president of the Georgia Steel
Company. |
* Disposition of “Fee.”
Out of this amount, it is claimed,
Thomas D. Meador, who was sald to
represent the Georgia Iron Company,
was to have §15,000; the Trust Com
pany of Georgia, who was said to
‘have assisted the Georgia Iron and
Coal Company in the trade, $5,000,
and the remainder to be divided be
tween the president of the Georgla
Steel Company, also a director in the
‘Southern Steel Company, and another
director of the Southern Steel Com
‘pany, who were to use “influence” in
putting the deal through.
- The price alleged to have been paia
‘for the land was $1,628,072.58, of
‘which $1,620,000 was paid for the real
‘estate and the rest for personalty.
It was represented to the purchasers
‘that the property was worth $8,000,-
000 and contained minerals, it is al
leged. For the purpose of inducing
the sale, it is charged, estimates and
reports were made of the prospects of
coal contained in the land then not
being worked. It i§ charged Joel Hurt
and his associates previously had fully
drilled out tracts of the land and
“fully demonstrated that coal and ore
veins did not exist in them, and that
they were worthless.”
Became Bankrupt.
The officer of the Georgia Steel
Company, it is alleged, accepted $15,-
000 éemmission and concealed from
his principal the fact it that had been
received, and the sale was “influ
enced,” notwithstanding it was
known the values were grossly over
estimated. If this was not known, it
was because he “shut his eyes,” the
petition sets forth. g
The fact that the president and di
rector had been hired to assist the
Georgia Iron and Coal Company in
making the sale, or that a commis
sion had been received, as not known
to the Southern Steel Company or the
Georgia Steel Company until April,
1913—four years later, it is alleged.
The Georgia Steel Company had gone
into bankruptey and the president no
longer had any power. The investi
gation in the Bankruptcy Court
brought to light the fact that the se
cret commission had been paid to him,
and that the other director of the
Southern Steel Company and the
Georgia Steel Company had allowed
itself to be made the victim of fraud,
it is charged.
Assisted in Sale.
As a direct result of the alleged
fraud, the Georgia Steel Company lost
the amount claimed, it is set forth.
While the commission was out of the
purchase price paid by the Georgia
Sl(-&el Company to the Georgia Iron
and Coal Company, nevertheless the
other defendants, knowing of tha}
fraud, assisted in putting through the
sale, it is charged. ‘
Joel Hurt was president and George
F. Hurt a director of the Georgia Iron
and Coal Company, and actually par
ticipated in making the sale and pay
ing the commission, the petition says.
Messrs. Meador and Woodruff and the
Trust Company of Georgia were act
ing as agents in making the sale, and
in inducing the president to buy, it is
charged, Mr. Meador and the trust
company, of which Mr. Woodruff was
an officer, shared In the commission,
it also is claimed.
The plaintiff sets forth the land was
worth not more than $500,000, and
that it had cost not more than from
$200,000 to $400,000.
The lands involved are in Bartow,
Dade, Cherokee and Catoosa Coun
ties, Georgia: DeKalb and Jackson
Counties, Alabama, and Marion
Coum . Tennessee. There were 50,000
mrel?!ogmmeml lands, 30,000 acres
of coal lands and 15,000 acres of ore
lands. 2
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Services All Week
At Christian Church
A series of speclal services for the
week preceding and including Easter
Sunday will begin tonight at the First
Christian Church. The meetings will
be opened with a song service at §
o'clock each evening, except Saturday,
when there will be no service. The
Rev. 1.. O. Bricker, the pastor, will
conduct the services, and his sermons
will include the following subjects:
Sunday night, “While He Is Near;"”
Monday night, “The Comrade Christ:”
Tuesday, “The Christ of God;” Wed
nesday, “He Is With Us,and Yet———;"
Thursday, ‘“The Suffering Saviour;”
Friday, “If Death -Were the End;”
Easter Sunday morning, “There Was
a Garden,” and Sunday night, “Back
to Gallilee.”
‘Bill’ Johnson Wants
War on High Prices
Councilman Willlam H. Johnson, of
the Fifth Ward, yesterday announced
that he would make a new move in
his crusade against the high prices of
foodstuffs. At the meeting of the City
Council Monday afternoon he will of
fer a resolution asking for the ap
pointment of a special committee to
investigate the food markets and the
storage houses.
At the invitation of the Atlanta
Federation of Trades he went before
that body Wednesday night and de
livered an address on tfhe subject.
The federation pledged its co-opera
tion in the fight. Mr. Johnson said he
expected to go before other organiza
tions in the city and deliver more ad
dresses,
“The people of limited means in
Atlanta are demanding relief from
high prices,” he said. “It is the duty
of all city officlals to éhfer this fight
with all theiy energles.”
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Carranza's Policy to
Mine ws Serious
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Grave
concern was manifested at the State
Department tonight over General
Carranza’s insistence upon the strict
enforcement of decrees previously is
sued concerning the operation of
Mexican mines, many of them owned
by Americans, and that enforcement
will nat be released, except in cases
where ample reasons, satisfactory to
Mexican officials, have been given for
noncompliance with the decrees.
Ambassador Fletcher is taking all
steps necessary to prevent any unjust
practices against American-owned
properties. The Ambassador today
advised the department that the Mex
ican Minister had extended for one
week the decree requiring mine own
‘ors in Mexico to furnish certain data
with reference to their properties.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN _— A Paper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1917
CAMPAIGN BEGUN TO
GET MONUMENT FUND
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| Inspired by the desire to see the
great work begun and sent steadily
‘torward te completion, twenty-five of
Atlanta’s best-known citizens met
‘early last week in the office of Mayor!
Candler and resolved to begin a cam
paign to raise a SIOO,OOO fund. It was
given full legal authority from the
Stone Mountain Memorial Assocla-l
tion to go ahead with this work.
Broyles Unanimous Choice.
The choice of a chalrman was to
be determined, and {t was the unani
mous opinion of the committee that
Arnold Broyies, for years clerk of the‘
Fulton Superior Court, would be bct-|
ter qualified than any other citizen
for this post, if he would consent to
undertake the work. Mr. Broyles was
chosen for his wide popularity and
the public's confldence in his lnteg-}
rity and loyalty to his home city. He
was sent for, and after the importance
of the matter had been laid bhefore
him he consen(‘sd to serve as chalr
man.
The committee, enlarged to nearly
;one hundred members at later con
ferences, chose for vice chalrmanl
;
‘Mayor Candler, Captain James W.
}Enxlish, Mell R. Wilkinsdg, S. C.
Dobbs and G. F. Willis. It will be
gin its active campaign this week.
Mr. Borglum, who has been In New
York for several weeks, will return
in a few days and lend his enthusi
asm and detailed knowledge to the
work.
Daily meetings will be held as soon
as the active campaign for funds be
gins, and reports of subscriptions
made public. It is expected the SIOO,- |
000 desired will be raised within a
short time. i
Pledge of Faith. l
“This SIOO,OOO is to be Atlanta's
pledge of good faith and interest,”
said Mr. Broyles yesterday. “We have
been assured that when we raise this
sum at home several wealthy Eastern
men will at once donate $150,000 to
the I’und. and this will give the asso
clatibn the $250,000 to complete the
first great group of generals, When
that is completed, and the fame of the
memorial is drawing thousands of
visitors to Atlanta and Stone Moun
tain from all over the country, there
will be no trouble in completing the
carving of the marching armies.
“We should remember that Atlanta
is the only city that will draw a di
rect commercial profit from the Con
federate memorial, though that is not
the principal object we have in view.
Such a monument as that, most co
lossal in all the world, will bring to
Atlanta more tourists than we had
ever dreamed of. They will come
from all over America, and visitors
from Europe will come to Atlanta as
they go to Niagara Falls and the Yo
sentite. A magnificent boulevard will
be built between Atlanta and Stone
Mountain, and within a few years the
city should grow out that boulevard
until Atlanta, Decatur and the town
of Stone Mountain merge into one
municipality.
“It is up to Atlanta to give liberal
ly to this undertaking. We have the
opportunity to have at our doers an
eighth wonder of the world, costing
$1,500,000, for the expenditure of
SIOO,OOO. Even from a cold, counmer
cial viewpolnt, we can not afford to
overlook it."”
Businesslike Handling.
The fund is to be nangied in a
strictly businesslike manner. The
committee was formally authorized
by the Stone Mountaln Memorial As
sociation, a chartered corporation, to
collect and disburse the money re
celved. The face of the mountain
and the park at its base was formal
ly deeded some time ago to the memo
rial association by the owners of the
mountain, the Venable estate, and
neither the death of any party in
volved nor other complication can af
fect the future of the project.
Stone Mountain, sixteen miles from
Atlanta, is a natural curlosity, a
mammoth monolith of granite rising
from the plain llke a mesa in the
Southwestern desgert. The north side
is almost perpendicular, 787 feet high.
The figures will be more than 50 feet
high, and from the first figure to the
last the distance ;vill be 2,000 Reet.
The head of a soldier in the fore
ground will be four 'feet from brow to
chin. |
Series of Groups. ‘
The marching armies carved from
the gray granite will not form a con
tinuous column, but a series of groups, ‘
emerging boldly from the mountain
here and there and melting away into
the granite. There will be infantry,
cavalry, artillery, some carved in de-!
tail, some mere shadowy sugsosnons,\
fading into the stone: 1
The carving will be 400 feet above
the base of the mountain, and the
face of the precipice which forms the
frame of the granite picture is taller
by far than the Washington Monu- |
ment, twice the height of the largest
pyramid, and almost as tall as the
Eiffel Tower, of Paris. The Lion of
Lucerne is known to all European
travelers, and the largest example of
relief carving from the living rock,
will become a miniature beside the
memorial to the Soldier of the South.
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor
chosen by the Daughters of the Con
federacy to carry out the work, is
easily first among American sculp
tors. His statues have the place of
honor in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art In New York and wherever mod
ern sculpture is displayed. The orig
inal idea of the Daugnters of the
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{ Monumental Association follows: |
! Arnold Broyles, chairman, §
{ Asa (. Candler, vice chairman. S
; Capt. J. W. English, vice chairman, §
¢ Mell R. Wilkinson, vice chairman. |
! 8. C. Dobbs, vice chairman. §
! G. I, Willis, vice chairman. 3
( Wilmer L. Moore Frank Hawkins )
St. Elmo Massengale Alex C. King
Preston 8. Arkwright V. H. Kriegshaber §
Charles 1. Ryan Robert J. Lowry {
8. H. Venable Sam D. Jones
John W. Grant Beaumont Davison
{ Charles D. McKinney Ermest Woodruff
> J. M. Slaton Joel Hurt
¢ Ivan E. Allen Morris Brandon <
J. 1. Eagan Sanders McDaniel
( Hon. W. T. Newman Charles Sciple §
. #rank laman H. Y. MeCord ¢
¢ John 8. Cohen H. W. Miller {
J. K. Orr Forrest Adair
{ Hugh Dorsey Edwin Johnso
§ Morrs Rich James R. Gray {
| General A. J. Weat 8. A. Carter §
) L. Gholstin H. 8. Johnson )
W. L. Peel J. Epps Brown {
W. G. Bryan James B. Nevin %
( Frank E. Block H. M. Atkinson $
E. C. Peters Charles J. Haden d
Alex Smith W. H. Kiser 3
Ed Alfriend Walter Gi. Cooper 2
« Luclen Knight E. H. Inman )
) Hooper Alexander L. D. Hicks (]
¢ John M. McCullough Charles A. Wickersham |
' 1. T. Holleman C. F. Naegele {
¢ Robert F. Maddox Joseph Jacobs S
Milton Dargan George M. Brown {
{ Clark Howell C._E. Currier |
Oscar Elsas Bolllng H. Jones (|
{ F. J. Pazon George Hillyer “
Reuben Arnold C. W. McClure {
Charles J. Metz Jack J. Spalding ‘
E. P. Mcßurney Dr. E. L. Connally {
H. G, Hastings Eugene Black $
W. T. Gentry $
J. K. Ottley A. G. Rhodes §
W. W. Orr Nym MeCullough
Hunt Chipley R. L. Foreman 2
Confederacy, growing out of the sug
gestion of W. H. Terrell, Atlanta at
torney, was a great stone face, that
of Robert E. Lee. But Borglum had
a greater vision. ‘
“It is too big a thing for that,” he“
said. “Not even Robert E. I.ee! Thig!
must be a tribute to the soldier in the|
mass, to the army of the (‘onfedera(-y,‘
the men in the ranks as well as the
general. There must be infantry, ar
tillery, cavalry, eternally marching
onward!"” |
Mr. Borglum has been told by a
numbeém™ of wealthy men of the East
that they will gladly give large sums
toward the completion of the monu
‘ment. He expects liberal gifts to pour
in upon him when the work is well
under way.
“But first, Atlanta, most of all citlesg
identifled with the memorial; and the
South, whose soldiers it commem
orates, must show their faith by their
works,” he said. “Let us raise SIOO,-
000 or more at home, and then we
may, with good grace, invite the na
tion to share with us in this stupen
dous work.”
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T. C. Dunn Dies .
0f Stroke on Train
T. C. Dunn, 45, representative of the
Tennessee Fertilizer Company, of Mount
Pleasant, Tenn,, dled at a private sani
tarfum yesterday afternoon, following
a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Dunn was
stricken in a day coach on the Seaboard
Alr Line Rallway, while en route to his
home in Winder.
The train was stopped in the raflway
vards, two miles out of Atlanta, and a
call sent to Greenberg & Bond for an
ambulance. Mr. Dunn died a few min
utes after he was removed to the hos
pital. Mr. Dunn is survived by a wife
and three children,
JOHN F. McMILLAN,
Rev. John F. McMillan, 60, retired
Methodist minister, died yesterday
morning at the residence, No. 695 Rast
Fair street. His last charge was at
Athens. Mr. McMillan is survived by a
}wlfe, three sons, John M., A. D. and
J. T. MeMillan, and by two daughters,
Mrs. H. W. Talley and Miss Hattie Mc-
Millan. The body was removed to the
‘c)mnPl of A. O, & Roy Donehoo pending
‘the arrival of relatives.
‘ RUBIN GARNER,
Rubin May Garner, 14, son of Mrs.
Emily Hartsford, died vesterday after
noon at the residence in Fast Point.
Funeral services will he conducted this
afternoon at 2 o'clock from Christ
Church, East Point. Interment will be
in Red Oak Cemetery. The decreased is
survived by his mother, one brother and
one gister,
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System at Meeting.
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Dr. Thomas D. Lockwood, of Bos- |
ton, general patent attorney of the!
American Telezraph and Telephone |
Company, will address the Telephone
and Telegraph Society of Atlanta at
its meeting Tuesday evening, Apri] 3.
The subject of Dr. Lockwood’s ad
dress will be “The Telephone and the
Telerhona Systems-—Recollection of
Their Earlier Days and Reflections on
Thelr Later Days.”
Dr. Lockwood has been associated
with the telephone business from its
earliest days and has contributed in
no small measure to the achlevements
of the Bell Telephone System. He
will be recalled as the presiding officer
of the convention of the Telephone
Pioneers of America, which met in
Atlanta last October His address
was one of the notable features of
that ocecasion.
The Telephone and Telegraph So
ciety will hold its meeting in the
Chamber of Commerce Hall and a
large attendance is assured.
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Coupes Sedans ~wwm “F‘%\ a 2 M‘. D PR/
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Prices Effective April
Ist, 1917.
Light Fours
Touring. . . .$695
Roadster. . . S6RO
Country Club. $795
Big Fours
Touring. . . . 3850
Roadster . .. $835
Coupe. . . 31280
Sedan . . . .$1450
Light Sixes
Touring . . . $985
Roadster. . . $970
Coupe. . . .SIBBB
Sedan . . . .$1585
Willys-Six
Touring . . .$142%
Willys-Knights
Four Touring . $1305
Four Coupe .$1650
Four Sedan . $1950
Four Limou
sine . . . .$1950
Eight Touring $1950
Advance in price, Big
Four and Light Sio
models, May Ist next—-
deferred until that date
account too late to cor
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pearing in magazines
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U. 8. Formally Takes
Over Virgin Islands
Danish Minister Handed Treasury
Draft for $25,000,000, Price
Fixed in Treaty.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Sover
eignty over the Danish West Indies,
rechristened Virgin [slands, formally
passed from Denmark to the United
States today. The State Department
made public a proclamation issued by
President Wilson announcing the
formal taking over of the islands at
11 o'clock.
Danish Minister Brun received from
the hands of Sccretary of State Lan
sing a draft for $25,000,000, the pur
chase price, drawn upon the United
States Treasury, and signed by Pres
ident Wilson, Secretary of State Lan
sing and Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. Secretary McAdoo and Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels, as well
as Secretary Lansing, attended the
ceremonies,
Although the treaty providing for
the transfer of the islands to this
Government provided for the payment
of $25,000,000 in gold, payment was
made by dratt to the Banish diplomat.
But instructions were dispatched to
the Federal Reserve Bank at New
York to hold $20,000,000 in gold sub
ject to the order of Minister Brun,
Similar instructions were sent to the
New York subtreasury, where $5,000,-
000 is being held. The coin will be
deposited by Minister Brun in three
New York City banks. ‘
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Nails in Shoes
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Electrocute Man
PUEBLO, COLO. March BlL.—Hob
nalled shoes, worn by James L. An
thony, an employvee of the steel millg,
are blamed for his death, when he was
killed: by a current of 2,300 voits of
electricity which passed through his
body. Anthony was killed instantly.
The steel mill worker was waliting
for a street car at a corner. The elec
tric light was out. Belng an electri
clan by trade, Anthony grabbed a chain
attached to the lamp to try and relight
it, when the current, forming a cireuit
through his body and the hobnailed
shoes, brought death
The coroner found the electricity had
burned every one of the hobnails from
the soles of the shoes which Anthony
wore.
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(Claims Invention o
‘Synthetic’ Potatoe
Synthetic’ Potatoes
PORTLAND, ORITG., March 21.—Mel
ancholy gays are In store for the tuber
trust. Henri Thiele, a chef announced
that he had invented synthetic pota
toes. He declares they are more nour
{shing than the real article and 50 pe
cent cheaper,
Here's the recipe:
Two and one-half quarts of _water
1 pound soft summer wheat four, 1
pound potatoes, half pound split peas,
3 ounces of lard.
After proper preparation, Henrl molds
his material into real murphy shapen
‘nnn says the substitution can not b
detected, even though the food Is boiled
|fr|end. mashed or haked.
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Negroes Plan Ball
For War Sufferers
The Champion Social Club, an or
ganization of negroes, announced yes
terday that it would give a charity
ball at the Odd Fellows' Roof Gar
den on the evening of April 16 for the
benefit of the ¥French war sufferers.
The promoters of the event said
that 1,000 couples were expected dur
ing the evening
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el
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