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Vol. 53. No. 35.
"Pistol in the Hands of Young Negro
Man Caused Death of Boy ,
in Cartersville 7
The mystery of the killing of young
Albert Hughes, a 17-year-old white
boy, on the streets of Cartersville on
Sunday night, August 10th, has at
last been solved, :
Hughes had taken a young lady to
‘the tabernacle meeting and was driv
ing out of the town toward his home
in his buggy, at about eleven ©’clock
of the night named, when two-shots
were heard by residents of the vicin
ity, and the young man was found in
a dying condition in the street.
He never recovered sufficiently to
tell who his assailant had been and
the officers have been at work ever
since on the trail of the murderer.
Three young negro men are nNow
under arrest in the case, and according
to the ‘confessions of two of them the
crime was committed by the third,
named Fred Shelton.
We quote below from the report of
the Cartersville correspondent of the
Atlanta Georgian:
“The first one arrested was Datie
Maxwell. Under a stiff grueling by
the officers, assisted by Attorney J.
M. Neel, Jr., and Mr. Warren Tinsley,
Maxwell is said to have confessed that
he, with the other two now under ar
rest, were walking along the street,
threw watermelon rinds at the young
white boy, who drove a short dis
tance, hitched his horse and came
back. 1
“Maxwell’s story is to the effect
that he and Milner ran upon the ap
proach of Hughes, but Fred Shelton,
who was armed, did not, and a mo
ment later two pistol shots were fired.
Shelton then ran and caught up with
the Maxwell and Milner negroes, told
them to “beat it—l have just shot and
killed that white boy.’ _
‘t\iilner worked in Marietta and im
mediately after getting Maxwell’s
story officers went to Marietta and
arrested Milner. Upon being closely
questioned, Milner told a story that
coincided to the letter with that. told
by Maxwell.
“With these facts before them Shel
ton was taken into custody and
rushed to the Rome jail. Maxwell
was lodged in the Marietta jail -and
.Milner in the Atlanta Tower.
“Young Hughes was a grandnephew
of Georgia’s war governor, Joseph E.
Brown, and he, with his parents, lived
in Cherokee county until the family
moved to Bartow the first of this
year.”
ANOTHER SHORTAGE
OF CARS IS COMING
The following statement was au
thorized Thursday \by the Reginal
Director’s office, Southern Region,
United States Railroad Administra
tion:
“Another shortage of freight cars
is in prospect for the coming fall and
winter. Instead of the surplus of
equipment to be found, on nearly all
railroads during the dull days before
the after-the-war business revival set
in, every piecé of ‘equipment now is
in use on many lines and only the
most careful handling by the railroads
with consistent and whole-hearted co
operation from the shipping public
can prevent serio@s interference with
business.
“Federal managers have been called
upon by the Railroad Administration
to utilize equipment to the fullest
possible extent, and particularly to
see that cars are set in motion
promptly upon being loaded or un
loaded.
“Shippers are asked to lend a hand
both by reducing detention of cars
to a minimum and by careful and
heavy loading so that the greatest
possible service may be had from
each car. From a purely selfish busi
ness standpoint, of course, it is to
the interest of the individual shipper
and receiver of freight to do his part
toward minimizing the effects of a
car shortage from which he will suf
fer along with the public generally.”
THREE COTTON MILLS
CLOSED IN MACON
Macon, Atg. 28.—An indefinite sus
pefision of business by three of Ma
con’s largest cotton mills, namely the
No. 1 and No. 2 mills of the Bibb
Manufacturing Company, and the
Willingham mills, is the result of the
walk-out of the employes last Satur
day, because the mill owners would
not recognize the union of the labor
ers. At the present time over 1,000
workers are said to be out.
LIEUT. GUY NORTHCUTT
IS BACK IN NEW YORK
Late Thursday afternoon, Mr. R. H.
Northcutt had a telephone call from
New York, which proved to be from
his son, Lieutenant Guy Northcutt,
who stated that he had just arrived
there from overseas. He was well
and his friends will be delighted to
know that he is expected at home
some time next week.
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
CLAUD WARREN KILLED
BY TRAIN AT BOLTON
Claud Warren, a former resident of
Cobb county, was struck and instantly
killed by a N. C. & St. L. passenger
train at Bolton on last Saturday even
ing. One witness of the accident said
that Warren deliberately stepped in
front of the moving train, while an
other testified that he did not see War
ren until the moment the train struck
him. Warren was about thirty years
of age and had been married but sep
arated from his wife.
Organization in This State Endorses
The Purchase of Roosevelt’s
Mother’s Home‘
The old fashioned Southern home
of the Bulloch family, near Roswell,
where Miss Mattie Bulloch was mar
ried to Theodore Roosevelt, of Phil
adelphia, shortly before the Civil War
may be purchased by the Roosevelt
Memorial Association and converted
nito a national museum. This matter
was brought up Thursday at the
Piedmont Hotel by the executive
members of the Roosevelt Memorial
Association, who are meeting here for
the purpose of inaugurating a $5,-
000,000 campaign, this amount to be
used in erecting a memorial at Wash
ington to commemorate the late The
odore Roosevelt. F
The suggestion that the home be
purchased from Mrs, Barton Wing,
‘the present owner, met with the un
animous approval of the members, and
‘the matter will be taken up with the
National Roesevelt Memorial Associa
tion headquarters at New York City.
Thursday afternoon the fifty or
more members drove out to the aris
tocratic and neatly kept mansion at
Roswell and were conducted through
the building and Brounds of the es
tate. That the home would be an
ideal place for a national park with
its characteristic traditions, was the
opinion of all of the visitors.
Gen. Luke E. Wright, of Memphis,
at the monthly business session, told
of his relations with the former Presi
dent. under whom he was secretary
of war. Gen. Wright depicted the
“Great American” in a strikingly in
teresting manner, and his kearers ac
corded him close attention.
" Following General Wright’s address
other speakers were introduced by
Chairman Clark Howell, and the de
tails of the campaign to raise the
amount were discussed. Georgia’s
quota of the $5,000,000 is approxi
mately $125,000, and it is thought
little trouble will be experienced in
raising this amount.
The campaign is to be conducted
on a diflerent basis from others, no
solicitations personally will be made,
all contributions to be voluntary.—
Atlanta Georgian.
German Ambassador
Will Be Sent Back
Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen, for
mer counsellor of the German em
bassy at Washington, has been select
ed for appointment as German am
bassador to the United States.
No inquiry has been made of the
United States as to whether Haniel
von Haimhausen, former counsellor
of the imperial German embasy here,
will be acceptable as ambassador, but
there is every indication that this
will not receive Haimhausen or any
one else connected with the embassy
under the regime of Count von Bern
storff.
Nearly every one connected with
the German embassy in Washington
in a responsible position in the days
preceding America’s entrance into the
war is regarded by the government as
more or less involved in the intrigues
and plots which stirred up the coun
try. :
When it was proposed to send
Count van Bernstoff to Paris at the
head of the German peace commis
sion, the American delegation let, it
be known promptly that while per
haps they had no legal right to dis
tate the personnel of the German
commission, yet they would have no
communication with Bernstorff and
his appointment would certainly not
aid the Germans in securing the best
peace terms. "
Haimhausen’s attachment to the
German peace commission in the ca
pacity of secretary was scarcely less
welcome, but was tolerated by the
American commissioners for the rea
}.son that his familiarity with the issues
‘might make him useful, and his con
nection with the operations of the Ger
‘'man embassy here was less than that
‘of his principal.
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DAVIS AND HILL CEMETERY
~ TO BE CLEANED WEDNESDAY
! We have been asked to announce
‘that next Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, has
been selected as the day for cleaning
an the Davis and Hill cemetery in
Red Rock district, and to ask all those
interested to come with tools on that
day to assist in the work.
Ae Marietté, Georgia, Friday, August 29, 1919.
MISS LEILA ANDERSON, popular Marietta and Macon Georgia
girl who has just returned from Red Cross work in France, Miss Ander
son went over with the Emory Unit and was probably the last member
of this splendid organization to return to the United States. She is visit
ing her brother, George D. Anderson, of this city.
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rSoldior Loses Leg and Dies from the
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} After the Operation ’
As the Marietta-Cartersville bus,
'which left Cartersville at 9 o’clock
Monday morning, approached the W,
& A. Railroad crossing just below Al
latoona, the passengers were alarmed |
by the sudden discovery that the north
bound passenger train was very near
the crossing.
John H. Sewell, a young Marine o
furlough, was one of the passengers
on the bus and in his alarm and fear
threw himself from a window of the
bus, falling partly on the track. The
fall so stunned him that he was unable
to get off in time to prevent the wheels
of the engine cutting off one of his
legs. :
~ The bus crossed the track in safety,
‘the driver not being aware of the
'accident until told to stop by other
passengers. %
~ Sewell was taken aboard the train
and carried to Cartersville fof surgical
‘treatment. He failed, however, to
rally from the shock and died on Mon
‘day night.
Tt is said that he had suffered from
'shell shock while in France, and was
still in an extremely nervous condi
tion, which probably accounts for his
excited action. It was evident that
he saw the train approaching, and
thinking it would catch the bus, he
tried to leap out before it reached the
track.
The young man was a son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Sewell, who live near
Kennesaw. He also leaves three
brothers and four sisters.
} Being at home on a furlough he
’had visited friends in Bartow coun
ty, and was on his way back home
‘when the accident occurred.
1 He was buried in Bartow county
‘where the family had formerly lived.
Macland College Will
| Open on Wednesday
} The Seventh District A. &M. Col
'lege at McLand will open its fall term
on next Wednesday September 3rd
and a large attendance is expected.
; Among the Marietta boys who will
‘enter this term are Kenneth Camp
}bell, Fleming Comfort, J. B. Hawkins
and Henry Ward.
'ELBERTON VOTE SOLID
| FOR ISSUE OF $50,000
! The city of Elberton on Wednesday
voted for $50,000 in bonds for exten
‘sion of water and sewerage and the
erection of an auditorium for the high
s~hool and the building of a negro high
school. There was only one vote
‘against bonds.
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1 HINDENBURG FOR PRESIDENT
{ Berlin, Aug. 28.—The national peo
‘ple’s party has decided to nominate
;Mnrshal von Hindenburg as its can
didate in the next presidential elec
tion, it is reported authoritatively.
. No date has been announced for a
presidential election in Germany. The
president, according to the constitu
tion, serves seven years, but the orig
inal plan was that President 'Ebert
should hold office only provisionally.
‘The people’s party is consrevative in
its make-up policies.
By ALICE V. S. GRANT, 1
Chm. Publicity, Cobb County Chapter
Washington, Aug. 10.—Plans for
a nation-wide Red Cross campaign
opening Monday, November 3, and
closing Armistice Day, November 11,
were formally announced tonight by
Dr. Livingston Farrand, chairman of
the executive committee of the Amer
ican Red Cross. The primary object
of the campaign, which will be known
as the Third Red Cross Roll Call, will
be .to enroll members for 1920, but
there will be in addition a general ap
peal for $15,000,000 to enable the
organization to complete its war ob
ligations at home and abroad. There
will also be local appeals, where nec
essary, conducted by the chapters,
to secure funds needed for local pro
grams.
| During the war there were two an
nual Red Cross campaigns, the War
Fund Drive in the spring and a Christ
mas Roll Call for membership. The
only campaign this year will be the
one in November and in succeeding
years there will be only an- annual
Roll Call in which the Red Cross
‘will seek the re-affirmed allegiance of
‘the American people expressed in dol
-Ilar memberships. The money so de
rived will be used for American pur
‘poses and the aprpoval thus received
is to be regarded as a mandate to car
'ry on future programs.
~ “The first task of the American
Red Cross is, of course, to complete
its obligations to American soldiers
;and sailors,” said Dr. Farrand in an
‘nouncing the program. “The organ
‘ization plans, as its future policy,
‘to concentrate its efforts upon peace
problems at home, unless America
should again be involved in war or
confronted by great disasters creat
ing special emergencies.
/“The Red Cross programs are pri
arily within the field of public health
and will aim particularly at co-ope
ration with official activities, federal,
state and local. The Red Cross will
seek not to duplicate the work o fes
tablished organizations, but will en
deavor to supplement other agencies
where they already exist or to stim
ulate and organize work where none
such exists.”
The tremendous task of the Ameri
can Red Cross in the war has, how
ever, left a continuing obligation
which cannot be fulfilled for some
months to come, Dr. Farrand sta
ted. In an amendment to the Army
Bill, Congress has prolonged the re
sponsibility of the Red Cross abroad
by authorizing Secretary of War Ba
'ker to transfer to the Red Cross such
lmcdicnl and surgical supplies and sup
plementary and dietary foodstuffs now
n Europe as is not needed by the
army abroad or at home “to be used
by the American Red Cross to relieve
and supply the pressing needs of the
countries involved in the late war.”
Inventories- of these supplies are
now being made. To them will be
added such material as the American
Red Cross itself has in Europe and
these will be distributed in the coun
‘tries where the organization is con
cluding its war relief program and
iwhere, because of the ravages of war,
famine and epidemie, the distress is
'most pronounced, as in the Balkans,
}Poland and other Eastern European
countriea. To meet these obligations
t (Continued on page eight)
|COBB SUMMER SCHOOLS
WILL CLOSE THIS WEEK
The summer schools of Cobb are
closing this week with a few excep
tions that will close next week.
While these schools do much good
‘the terms are all too short. Before
the children get right down to study
the term is over.
What Cobb needs is a full schol
astic year in all her country schools.
The ratification of the school tax
law passed by the last legislature will
give this to her.
MILTON JAIL EASY
Saw Through Jail Bars Before They
Could Be Sent Off To
Chain Gang
We told last week of a case of
quick justice in Milton county in the
case of an auto thief, who stole a car
Sunday night, was arrested in Rome
on Monday, convicted and sentenced
to the chain gang on Wednesday, and
we presumed was serving his sentence
by Friday. We were too hasty in our
conclusion however for it seems that
for some reason he was left in. the
Alpharetta jail until Saturday night,
and concluded the whole matter by
sawing his way through the jail bars
to liberty again.
A Sunday dispatch from Alpharetta
tells the story thusly:
Two young men by the name of
Streetman and Gently, who were con
victed of stealing an auto in Milton
county superior court two days ago
and sentenced by Judge Newt Morris
to from one to five years in the chain
gang, last night made their escape
from the jail here and have not been
apprehended.
It was discovered today that the
two men had sawed their way out of
the steel cage, though no clue as to
how they obtained the saws could be
obtained. It is believed that some un
known party or parties aided in the
escape and took the young men out of
Alpharetta in a waiting car.
Current Events
The president is being overwhelmed
with invitations to speak in cities all
over the country, since it became
known that he would go on a:tour
of the states. The eagerness of the
people to hear him is only in part
manifested by these invitations and
we predict that his tour will bring a
hearing from the people to those sen
ators who have been doing all they
can to undo the work of the peace
conference.
Acceptance of President Wilson’s
offer of a small wage increase pend
ing the outcome of the government’s
efforts to reduce the cost of living
was advised by the executive council
of the railway shop unions in a let
ter sent Thursday to all union locals
throughout the United States.
For the white primary in Atlanta
on September 3 there will be 17,916
qualified voters, of which number
3,766 are women. This is the first
election in which women have been
permitted to vote and much interest
is manifested in how they will exer
cise their franchise. An interesting
fact is brought to light by the regis
tration of more white women for this
primary than there were negro men
registered for the election and the
white registration of men was more
than six times that of the negroes.
This ought to dispose of the negro
bugaboo advanced against letting the
women vote.
The attorney general is said to be
meeting with success in his endeavor
to get the shoe manufacturers to fix
'a maximum price at which shoes may
be sold. It is thought that there has
been considerable profiteering 1n shoes
and the government is going to keep
a watch on this business from this
time.
Atlanta is discovering that dead
men have been drawing money right
along on her pay rolls. Names of men
‘whom nobody ever saw or knew were
on the rolls also opposite to good
‘money put up by the city. A com
‘mittee is now going into the matter
and will try to stop some of the leaks
'in the city finances.
f In Andrew Carnegie’s will is found
a provision for an annuity of $5,000
each to Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Also a be
quest of $lO,OOO to Wm. H. Taft, and
a like amount to David Loyd George.
The Bibb county jail is full, the
Bibb county mills are closed on ac
count of strikes and Macon is suffer
ing from the effects of unusual dis
orders. Only recently her entire de
tective department was in jail charged
with murder, and she seems to be
overwhelmed by a wave of crime.
Atlanta, however, is no better off ou
the crime score—more than twenty
murder cases now being on the dock
ets of her court.
Established 1866
Murder Cases and Others of Some
Interest Will be Tried in
This Session
Monday morning the adjourned
term of Cobb Superior Court will take
up its work again and a number of
important criminal cases are on the
docket. :
Henry Robertson, colored, charged
‘with the murder of Miss Julia Green,
will probably be the case that will at
tract the most attention, but Ed
Walker another colored man will face
a murder charge for killing a young
negro woman at Kennesaw about the
first of August. -
0. H. Bruce, white, has a forgery
case to answer to while Jake Dan
iell, colored, will be tried for automo
bile stealing.
Some other cases of interest are
also on the docket, but it is probable
the term will be a short one. The
same grand jury that served at the
July term will be used while the fol
lowing are the petit jurors drawn for
this adjourned term:
B. A. Sullivan W. R. Haney
H. A. DuPre T. C. Barfield
C. J. Griggs J. R. Summerhour
G. W. Davenport Bernard Awtrey
J: L. Ellison John Warren
G. W. Fagen J. E, Williams
H. P. Kirkpatrick J. S. Dempsey
C. A. Lovinggood R. P. Norton
E. E. Mayes T. N. Camp
E. C. Buchner J. H. Hendrix -
C. C. Fowler A, M. Hardage
G. F. MontgomeryJ. W. Petty ..
G. H. Whorten Leonard McLure
C. D. Miller W. W. Dobbins’
W. M. Bolling J. T. Carrie” -
J. W. Greenway R. J. Dickerson
J. A. Mohon B. T. Mcßea {
R. N. Moore ‘i J; M. Page
W. F. Lang . - J. H. Robertson
J. H.. Mabrey J. H. Sauls :
D. W, Goddard @ W. L, Cottrell .
J. H. Frisks T. N. Newton
A. J. Nichols W. W. Bowen
T. J. Croker~ J. N. Delk ‘
P. L. Conner B. F. Hood :
F. M. Boring H. G. Howell f
T. W. Whitfield Wm. Johnson f
4.. B, McLain 1. C. Ferris
W. H. Dunn W. N. Nichols
T. G. Elliott C. S. McKelvey
J. R. Humphries T. E. Lee :
J. A. Miller J. A, Glore
J. M. Austin J. E. Ridings /
R. P, Stephens Joe T. Camp
R. D. Delk Lot Reeves
ATTACKS P. H. RANDALL
John Foster, colored, a convict in
the Fulton County chaingang, was
shot and killed by J. 0. Glisson, &
guard at the portable convict camp on
the Mount Perrian road Wednesday
when he attempted to strike Captain
P. H. Randall, in ¢harge of the camp,
with a paving hammer.
Captain Randall had started to pun
ish the negro for violating a rule of
the camp when the conviet jumped
up and wrenched a hammer from the
hand of another convict and made a
rush at Randall. Acting, it is said,
upon command from Captain Randall,
Glisson fired at the enraged negro,
killing him instantly. Captain Ran
dall was unarmed at the time. Foster
was serving his fourth sentencz on the
chaingang. .
Coroner Donehoo empanelled =
jury, which, after an investigation,
rendered a verdict of justifiable hom
icide. 2 :
Captain Randall will be remember
ed as road superintendent in Cobb
county several years ago, going from
here to Thomas county, and more re
cently to Fulton county. His friends
congratulate him upon his narrow es
cape.
WELL-KNOWN COBB COUNTY
WOMAN DIED ON THURSDAY
Many friends and relatives were
saddened Thursday by news of the
death of Mrs. J. J. Northcutt, widow
of the late Colonel J. J. Northeutt,
who passed away Thursday morning”
:at 9:30 o’clock at her home in Ae
‘worth, Ga. ' TR
~ Mrs. Northcutt was ill about two
‘weeks with a stroke of paralysis, and
‘prior to that time her health had been
good. Her husband died a.year ago.
He was one of the prominent lawyers
of northwest Georgia. Mrs. Northeutt
‘was forty-nine years of age. .
i She leaves two sons, one daughter
and other relatives. Her mjzh
J. A. Northcutt, who is connected.
‘the state department of education im
the office of M. L. Brittain, and W. 8
Northcutt, whose home is at Acworth.
Her daughter is Miss Evelyn Nort %,
cutt, who also resides in Aéworth.
l Besides these she is survived by
one sister, Mrs. C. F. Burnett, of -
port, Tenn., and three brothers, N. B
W. Stokely, Newnan, Ga.; D. B
‘Stokely, Sandiman, Cal.; J. C. Stoke=
| ly, Acwortk. ::
l The funeral will be held at }/
o’clock this (Friday) aftsrnoes -
$122
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