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VOL. XVIII
PORT TRAFFIC PARALYZED; STRIKE SPREADS
MAN IS KILLED IN FIGHT IN WHITEHALL STREET
GATES OF FAIR SWING OPEN
L EXAIBITS
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Saturday Preparation
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- Day at Great Fair
M. STRIPLIN, secretary of
R- the fair association, at
noon Saturday made the follow
ing statement to The Georgjan:
“Saturday is always known as
preparation Day. Some of the
exhibits are always incomplete
“on Saturday, but this year the
fair is far more complete on the
‘ opening day than ever before.
All new exhibits are im, but some
exhibits that are to come from
the Alabama fair at Birming
ham, the Des Moines fair, the
Virginia fair at Richmond, the
Grand Circuit races at Lexington
and the county fairs In North
Georgia, were still arriving Sat
urday. They will all be in place
by Monday, when the entire fair
will be complete and the formal
program will be carried out.
The amusement part of the fair
will be open Sunday free of
charge to the public, and there
will be a free band concert, The
exhibit part of the fair will be
roped off and will not be open
on Sunday. ’
Although the Southeastern Fair for
;n’ally opened Saturday at Lakewood
Park, it will not get in full swing
until Monday, at whieh time it is ex
pected that all of the exhibits will be
ready and the amusements along thé
midway will all be open for business.
The first day was spent largely by
exhibitors getting ready for next
week, although t‘he grounds were
visited by many from the time the
gates opened.
Many of the exhibits are coming
from fairs that will not close until
Saturday night, and this is one of the
reasons set forth by the management
for the failure to be ready on the first
day. The Johnny J. Jones Carnival
Company will not leave Birmingham
until late Saturday night, but will ar
rive in Atlanta early Sunday mommg'
and will be ready for the opening
Monday. Y o
Most, of the first day crowd was
composed of those who are in the city
attending the Confederate Reunton,
Many of the exhibits were being put
in shape while work had not been
started on others. ‘
NO SET PROGRAM.
There was no set program for
the first day. This was explained by
Secretary R. M. Striplin, who declared
that the gates were closed primarily
for the purpose of speeding up, the ex
hibitors and giving them an oppor
tunity to get ready for Monday, when
“the actual opening will take place.
The agricultural and live stock ex
hibits were the center of interest for
the first day crowds. They were
more complete than the others and
farm machinery demonstrators had a
banner day. -
There is an exhibit of practically
every make and kind of modern farm
“implement (at Lakewood, and the
farmers spent most of the day in this
vicinity. There were few amusements
for the first day visitors anz no band
concert or other form of éntertain
ment had been provided.
One of the most popular exhibits
open was that of the reconstruction
department of the United States
Army. Although the wounded sol
diers who will work in the exhibit
Continued on Page 3, Column'd,
Full International News Service
Negro Freight Car
Rail Special Aggnt
Catching a negro robbing a
freight car in the Southern yards
near Marietta street, J. H, Kirk, a
special agent of the Southern Rail
way, shot and killed the negro when
the latter attacked him with a
monkey wrench.
The negro was later identified as
Mack Terrell. He was found by
~ Kirk inside the car, unloading flour
to the ground. Several sacks of
flour had been taken from the car
and placed where the -negro could
carry them away. When Terrell
saw Kirk approaching, he picked up
a big wrench, with which he had
pried open the car door, and start
ed for the detective.
The officer shot at him, the first
bullet taking effect. During the
last month there have been many
freight car robberies in the South
ern yards and special agents were
sent here to check the-thefts.
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A substantial reduction,—from 25 to
50 per.cent—in freight rates between
Atlanta and North Carolina points is
expected by Edgar ‘Vatlkins to follow
promptly an opinion recceived Satur
day by Mr, Watkins from the exam
iner o.f the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at Washington, befora which
body Mr. Watkins, representing the
State of North Carolina, had filed a
complaint.
“In my opinion,” sald Mr. *Vatkins,
“this reduction in freight rates will
bear directly on the cost of living in
Atlanta and North Georgia— in fact,
throughout Georgia and Alabama and
Mississippi.”
In his complaint, won on all points,
Mr. Watkins showed that the exist
ing rates from points in North Caro
line to Georgia, South Carolina, Ala
bama and Mississippi points were
substantially the same as the rates to
the same points+from Richmond and
Worfolk.
“This was manifestly undulp frefer
ential to the Virginia cities,” said Mr.
Watkins, “and highly discriminatory
against Atlanta and other points in
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
“In the opinion, the contentions of
the State of North Carolina are sus
tained and lower raies are presently
ordered between North and South
Carolina and North Georgia and the
rates to other Georgia points, to Ala
bama and Mississippi are_gound to
be unlawful, but the exact adjustment
of these other rates is left for fur
ther consideration in connection with
other cases now pending. The State
of Nqgrth Carolina wins on all points
and gets at once a substantial ‘re
duction in rates-and with an order
properly to relate all other rates.”
Atlanta Pigeons to
Race Home Sunday
VALDOSTA, Oct. 11.—The - second
homing pigeon race this week from
Valdosta to Atlanta will come off
Sunday, when a number of Atlanta
birds will be released here. The first
race was held Wednesday, when three
pigeons made the 250-mile flight from
Valdosta to Atlanta ia #ix hours. The
Atlanta Homing Pigeon Club has sent
four more birds here, which will be
released by J. E. Massey, Southern
Express agent, Sunday morning.
Mr. Massey will wire the Atlanta
cinb the hour and minute of releas
ing the birds, and the flight wil_l be
watched with interest tn both cities.
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Atlanta’s 1919 Income
$3,205,225 Is Estimale
Atlanta’'s income for 1919, which
technically includes about $2,000,000
received for special purposes, will be
$6,462,390.11, according to estimates
of the Finance Committee of council
contained in the October finance
‘sheet, Taxes will provide $3,205,225.27.
The sheet, which makes the final
apportionment of the year, was filed
with City. Clerk Walter C. Taylor
Saturday and bore tha mayor's ap
prdval. It was adopted Monday by
council and concurred in Thursda
by the Aldermanic Board,
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TLANTA =7 GEOF
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Gy LEADING NEVSPAPER SO/ /e i |OF THE SOUTHEAST 77 %
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 11,—The great
5,400 mile trans-continental air race
narrowed down today to a thrilling
contest between Lieut. B. W, May
nard, Maj. Carl Spatz, Lieut, E. €.
Kiel and Lieut. Lowell H. Smith to
be the first to fimtsh on opposite
sides of America.
Lieutenant Kiel leads the aviators
coming East, reaching . Buffalo at
11:43 a. m.
Major Spatz was next, arriving at
Baffalo at 11:53 a. m.
Lieutenant Maynard was far in \tP'\e
lead of the other aviators who are
bound for San Francisco from Min
eola and just.before noon the Ameri
can Flying Club reczived a dispatch
from Battle Mountain, JNev, that
Maynard was only 351 m.iles from
San Francisco.
: MAYNARD NEAR GOAL.
The officials of the San Francisco
control station sent word that they
expected Maynard to arrive late in
the afternoon. .
Smith lost his lead when he was
forced to land betweefi Bryan, Ohio,
and Cleveland by a broken propeller.
He made hasty repairs, but at noon
had reached Martin Field, where he
must remain thirty minutes before de
parting eastward. His plane landed
less than a mile from Martin’s Field,
. Flying conditions were reported bad
in the Great Lakes region, but bar
ring accidents officials of the Ameri
can Flying Club predicted that Spatz,
Smith and Kiel probably would arrive
before sundown.
MAJOR MILLER QUT,
Another flier drdpped out of. the
race today. He was Maj. Henry J'
Miller, who was westbound in a De
Haviland four plane, with Capt. Ar
thur T. Simon as a passenger,
Word was received from Rock
Island that Miller made a foreed
landing near there because of an ac
cident to his planeand that he would
not attempt to compete any further.
A dispatch was received at Mineola
from General Menoher, director of the
American air service, stating that the
airplanes arriving at Roosevelt Field
from the West would be held pending
further orders. _
The original plans for the race pro
vided that the machines arriving at
Mipeola should start back for San
Frencisco .within forty-eight hours.
Captain Smith Is
Ready for New Start
(By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND , Oct, 11.—Capt,
Lowell H. Smith, delayed here by an
accident, reached Martin Field at
12:48 and prepared to take off the
minute his half hour lay over is up. 1
“I'll make New York by .night
yet,” he declared.
Four Air Jockeys ‘
Off at Chicago |
(By International News Service.) |
CHICAGO, Oct, 11~—Four more air
jockeys flying in the great aerial
derby took off from the Grant Park
landing field here today.
Lieut. J. B, Newman, the only rep
resentative of the marine corps in
the contest, departed at 8:12 o'clock
for Rock Island, while Col. F. s.i
Bowen and Capt. D. H. Young fol
lowed him about 30 minutes later.i
Lieut. R. 8, Worthington, east
bound, left for Bryan, Ohio, at 9:02.
Courthouse Officials Go !
On Fountain Pen Hunt
Courthouse officials hunted Satur
day for a valuable fountain pen lost
Friday in one of the courtrooms by
Misg Anre Wade (.)'.\'eil of Chick
ashaw, Okla., a reunion visitor.
Miss O'Neil is here with her fa-‘
ther, who is a veteran,
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919
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~ The police dragnet thrown out in
many Georgia ¢ities and towns for the
masked auto bandits who robbed and
burned the Fairburn Bank Company
at Fairburn early Friday, brought its
first haul in the city of Atlana Sat
‘Purday. !
~ Detective Powers arrested as™a sus
!pect a man giving the name of A. D.
Parker, as he stepped from an in-‘
;coming rain from Winder, Ga., at the
‘Terminal Station. Winder is about
forty mileg from Fairburn.
. The suspect, taken to police head
‘quarters, was searched. No weapons
or money was found. He said he re
sided in Atlanta and that he had been
a street car conductor,
As the search of the suspect was |
going on detectives say they found a“
hat concealed in his clothes.
SHERIFF ON WAY. 1
Deectives Powers declares that the
suspect will be questioned about the
‘burning of a barn six miles from Win
der and that the sheriff of Barrow
County is on his way to Atlanta to
‘question the prisoner.
Detective Powers added that the
prisoner is believed to have been one
of the two men who, according to a
police “tip,” were seen in an auto near
‘Wlnder Friday. The auto broke down
and the men disappeared, the police
‘were informed.
~ The entire countryside in the
‘vicinity of Fairburn was still being
‘gone over Saturday. The Dbandits|
’early Friday burngd the bankl
and the building off the Fairburn
Market Company, adjoining, and
damaged a third, after binding andl
gagging Cashier William B. Greenl
’and making a futile attempt to get
into the time-locked safe, seem to
have vanished.
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH,
Officers began a systematic In
vestigation Saturday all along the
‘twenty miles of road between Fair
burn and Atlanta in the hope of de
‘veloplng a definite clue, with the
'posibility that some one might be
found who had seen ‘the speeding
bandit car and might possibly be
able to give a good description of the
car and the occupants. At' the same
time, Atlanta police and detectives
scoured the city for trace of the
bandits.
Detectives Meek and Holley were
espe'cially detailed on the case by
Detective Chief Lamar Poole, and
expected to hold a conférence Satur
day with officers from Fairburn with
the particular purpose of obtaining
the most complete description possi
ble ,of the two bandits.
. Cashier Green described one of the
robbers as tall and slender and the
other as low and of stocky build.
Both appeared to be young fellows
and clean shaven, he said. As the
faces of both men were half covered‘
with masks, however, he was unable
to distinguish clearly their facial ex-‘
pressions. |
CASHIER CONGRATULATED.
Cashier Green received many con
gratulations~Saturday and also on
Friday on his presence of mind in
crawling, bound hand and foot, to
the vault and closing the doors to
save the books and records of the
bank from destruction in the fire.
The currency and Liberty bonds in
the inner safe were already safe
from both the bandits and the!
flames, owing to the time lock, which
held them secure until 7:30 o'clock
ll"riday morning, when the lock went
off. In discussing the sum missed
by the bandits, Cashier Green said:
“Had the bandits succeeded in get
[ting inot the inner safe, they woula
have made a considerable haul, as it
contained $50,000 in currency and
bonds, of which sum about SB,OOO or
SIO,OOO was in currency.”
’ The bank. was reopened Saturdayl
in temporary quarters in the depart
ment store of W. T. Roberts, presi
dent of the bank, only a few doors
'rrom the burned buildings. All of
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How Can Atlanta
Improve Her
Playground and
Recreational
Activities?
Not “How MIGHT™ she im
prove” them; but “How CAN
she improve” them. “CAN"—
meaning “to be able”+-and mean
ing, moreover, to secure PRAC
TICAL suggestions along this
vital line of ecivic development
for The American Forum of
the next Sunday American. |
We have secured them. |
1f youl will read the discus
sion Sunday, -you may be
amazed to find what avenues
of progress lic open to us AT
SMALL COST; and demanding
only . YOUR AWAKENED IN
TEREST in this most impor
tant of guestions ‘for their suc
cessful approach.
The contributors are:
ALBERT BAUMBERGER,
Community organizer, Atlan
ta War Camp Community Serv
‘ice. d
JULIAN V. BOEHM,
Chairman of the Committes
on Public Recreation, Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce,
E. H. CONE,
President of the Rotary Club
of Atlanta.
MYRA N. GRAVES,
Director of physical training,
Atlanta Public Schools.
VICTOR H. KRIEGSHABER, ™
President and organizer of the
Atlanta Commission on Train
ing Camp activities.
ADA S. WOOLFOLK, :
Sociological worker, now with
the Southern Division of the
Red Cross. |
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(By International News Service.) |
WASHIMNGTON, Oct, 11.-—~While
President iWlson continues to gain:
in strength it will be a long time be
fore he is able to ‘leave his bed, ac-‘
cording to an offlcial bulletin issued
at the White House this afternoon,
following a consultation participated
in by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson‘
and E. R. Stitt, Dr. ‘Sterling Ruffin|
and Dr. F, X. Dercim, the noted
Philadelphia neurologist. “
- All four physicians signed the
bulletin. It reads: ‘
“The President shows signs or‘
continued improveemnt, but his con-|
dition is such as to necessitate his
remaining in bed for -an extended
period, |
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“RUFFIN. i
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~ Amplifying the bulletin, Dr, Gray
son said he had been convinced for
some time that an absolute rest for
a considerable period was necessary
lt() the President’'s complete recovery,
‘and Dr. Dercum and the other phy
’sicians who parti¢ipated with him in
‘the conference today agreed with
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Bride Disappears and
He Is Seeking Divorce
The matrimonidl experience of C.
(. Kennebrew, now a resident of At
lanta, proved decidedly brief, accord.
ing to a petition for divorce filed
Saturday in Superior Court against
Mrs. Frieda Gottschalk Kennebrew of
New York.
They were married in New York in
July, 1913, and Kennebrew said his
bride deserted him one weck after the
wedding. No expianation was given
for the desertion, Attorney Horace
Russell filed the suit.
Claude Hanie, a returned soldier,
brought suit for divorce Saturday
from Mrs, Nell Hanie of Columbus,
Ohio, charging that when he re
turned from the war he found his
wife had been entirely too friendly
with other men while he was fighting
the Germans.
\ In addition to this, he said, his wife
cursed and abused him. The suit was
‘{lled by Attorney B, L, Chappell,
Tasucd Daily and Entered as Second-(lass Matter al
the Postoffice at Atlanta U nder Act of March 3, 1875,
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Finding his wife out walking with
a man known as “Dutch” Elliott; Til
ley Ellis, a decorator, 612 Ashby
street, shot and killed Elliott in a
fight in Whitehall street at noon
Saturday.
Mrs. Ellis and Elliott were walking
in Whitehall street near the Empire
Printing and Box Company, where
Mrs. Ellis was employed, when the
husband, who ‘had just returned from
a visit to Tennessee, found them,
“I told you to keep away from my
wife,” yelled Ellis, drawing a pistol
from his pocket. ,
Elliott grappled with him, and Mrs.
Ellis, in dn effort to avert the strug
gle, mixed into the fray. During the
fight the pistol was discharged. The
}bullets struck Elliott, kiliing him in
‘ stantly,
SCREAMS DRAW CROWD.
Mrs. Blis’ screams and the fighting
of the men attracted a large crowd,
and several of the bystanders at
tempted to separate the combatants,
Elliott, it was said at police head
quarters, lived inßellewood avenue,
Policemen Fay and Anderson, who
{vere several blocks distant, saw the
fight and ran toward the men, but
before they reached the scene of the
struggle the shots were fired, killing
Elliott.
Ellis was arrested and taken to the
Tower by the officers. Detectives
Powers and Whitley were assigned ‘o
the case,
Ellis, at the Tower, said he had
warned Elliott to stay away from his
wife, and that when he returned from
the visit to Tennessee he learned that
the man had been paying marked at
tention to Mrs. Ellis during his ab
sence, :
WOMAN DISAPPEARS.
After the shonting Mrs. Ellis dis
appeared and the detectives started a
search for her, They said they want
ed to question her about Elliott and
to probe the acts of the couple that
led up to the fight and shooting. |
Examination of the body at Harry
G. Poole's undertaking parlors
showed Elliott was shot once under
the right eye, once in the left breast
and once in the left leg, the limb
being broken, His face was badly
burned by the discharge from the
gun. Elliott carried no weapon it is
said.
Elliott lived at 270 Bellwood avenue
with his father and mother, Mr, and
Mrs. Joseph Elliott. He was em
ployed at the Home Art Supply Com
pany on Whitehall street,
Mrs. M. E, Rahrer, a sister of the
slain man, called at the undertaking
parlors and fainted acposs the body.
She lives at 2756 Bellwood avenue.
Three other sisters are Miss Lucy‘
Merriman Elliott, Mrs, Bay Barnes, |
108 Vine street, and Mrs. Eva Bat
tle, 270 Bellwood avenue, He also
is survived by four brothers.
Ellis wag held by the police on a
murder charge while the detectives
began the investigation of the case.
Ellis, acdording to the story told
the police, had been employed by the
W. E. Drown Company as a decora
tor, and that he had been in Chatta.
nooga on a trip for a decorating com
pany.
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Col. House Sick at Sea;
Due to Arrive Monday
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct, 11,—Col, Ed
ward M. House, returning American
delegate to the peace conference at
Paris, is ill aboard ship, according to
a wireless message received by the
state department today. Colonel House
is not seriously ill, Secretary Lansing
stated.
Colonel House is on the steamer
Northern Pacific, which is due to dock |
at New York Monday. }
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Probably showers
tonight and Sunday; cooler Sun
day.
Temperatures—~6 a. m, 67; 8 a.
m., 70; 10 a. m., 73; 12 noon, 77.
Sun rises 6:40, sunsets 6:09,
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“I love a city with sentiment,” said
Dr. Livingston Farrand as he looked
at the flags that had decked Atlanta
for the reunion. “And if I couldn’t
be here for the gathering of the vet
erans of the Confederacy, I am at
least very happy to speak in Atlanta
for the Red Cross, so close on the
heels of this reunion. e
“The spirit that greeted these old
heroes so beautifully is the spirit to
which the Red Cross most appeals.
I love a city with sentiment. It is all
too rare, these days.”
Dr. Farrand, head of the geentral
committee of the American Red
Cross, reached Atlanta Saturday and
at 11 o'clock spoke to a great assem
blage of Red Cross workers and of
ficials from all parts of the South
ern Division, gathered at the Capital
City Club. He spoke for the third
Red Cross roll, call campaign, No
vember 2-11, in the interest of which
his present tour, through all parts of
the ccuntry, is planr‘xed. !
At the Georgian Ter¥ace, before
going to the club, Dr. Farrand took
occaslon to commend the work and
record of the Southern Diviston
through the war period and espe-
Qally in the readjustment period ft_)l
lowing. s
PRAISES SOUTHERN DIVISION.
- “In this I wish to include the Gulf
Division also,”” Dr. Farrand said.
“The grand work done by these two
divisions in the war period goes
without saying-—everybody knows
that, |
“But T must add that I understand
the extraordinary problems that con
front these two divisions, both
during the war and in this vastly
important after-war period—the race
question is one of those problems.
And T have a profound admiration
for the splendid way in which the
Southérn and the Gulf Divisions
have handled, and now are handling,
the after-war work of the Red Cross;
the home service—the attention to
soldiers’” families; disabled fighting
men, and all the rest of it.”
The morning session at the club
was attended by more than 200 Red
Cross officials and workers, half of
them from out of the city, coming
from all parts of the Southern Di
vision. E. R. Black, division man
ager, presided and Col. Alexander
Lawton of Savannah welcomed the
delegates. Dr, Farrand spoke at 11
o'clock,
THE FUTURE SERVICE.
After a brief and impressive sketch
of the Red Cross work in France—
Continued on Page 2, Column 1, |
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(By International News Service.)
. NEW JXORK, Oct. 11.—Traffic in
the harbor was completely paralyzed
today by the worst marine strike in
the history of the city., The long
shoremen’s strike ' spread suddenly
and unexpectedly overnight to the
workers on ferryboats, tugs and
lighters, and all were tied up. Strike
leaders declared the movement would
’extend to the whole Atlantic coast
from Maine to Florida.
' Thousands of New Jersey commu
ters literally fought to get into the
Hudson tube trains to get to work
in New York city, Men and women
were knocked down and trampled in
the Jersey City stations and ihe jam
became so great and the menace to
li‘te so dangerous that police reserves
were rushed to the scene to keep or«
der. ¥
FOOD SHORTAGE FEARED.,
There ig danger of a food shortage
and great stores of provisions lying
on the docks are in danger of spoil
ing.
There were some ferries operated
by the Lackawanna Railroad running
during the early morning hours, but
the boats of the Erie, Jersey Central,
‘West Shore and Pennsylvania Rail«
- roads were all tied up. Z “
Thousands of vehicles were ma
rooned in Jersey City, including a
score of trucks with the city’'s morn
ing milk supply.
Arthur Williame, federal food ad
ministrator for New York, appealed
to the strikers to handle 5,000 car
loads of foodstuffs that are lying
upon the piers, but they made no
move to do so.
“If ¢his food is not moved soon, it
will not be fit to eat,” declared Mr.
Williams., The shortage caused by*
the damage to this supply would af
fect the families of ‘strikers as well
as others, :
U. 8. MAILS MOVE.
United States mails were carried
across the Hudson on a single boat.
There are approximately seventy
thousand men idle in all branches
of marine work. The strike was be
gun by the longshoremen, who de
manded more money, and then spread
to the workers on the boa’s.
Fourteen ocean.going shops sched
uled to leave port were held up by
the strike, '
The National Adjustment Commis.
sion has been holding Aheal‘ingl in
this city and Willilam Z. Ripley, di- ;
recor of the organization, planned to !
meet a committes of strikers this
afternoon to make another effort to '
induce them to return to work. 1 |
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30,000 Jews Slain in fl
Last Year in Ukraine
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Oct.- 11.~Thirty
thousand Jews have been slain since
last November in the Ukraine, says
a statement issued by the Zionist
Organization of America,
Soldiers acting under General Pet«
lura and Gregorieff have wiped out
entire communities, the pogroms bhe
ing carried out both by bolshevik and
anti-bolshevik forces, according to
the statement.
Railroad Pays $11,550
For Death of Negro
BRUNSWICK, Oct. 11.~What is
sald to be tne largest sum ever paid
by a railroad for the death of a ne=
gro, $11,550, was turned over to Car
-lie .Sheffield ty the Atlantic Coutm
Line for the death of her husband,
Jackson Sheffield, which occurred
several months ago when an oute
bound passenger train hit his auto
mobile at a crossing,
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson of At
lanta repersenetd the plaintiff. Jack=«
son Sheffield was one of the wealth
jast negroes N .Somh Georgia anad a.
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