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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-11-04

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-11-04
PUNISHMENT

Pat any released from prison Massachusetts after
ing served 25year term.
Surely must this must have done particu
1ary awful nave paid for with Is years his life He
found guilty in 1895 of having stolen $84 worth of shoes.
For each So SO worth of stolen shoes Hane given year
in the penitentiary
That was Is years ago.
Just the the day that Pat of prison. the
United States Department of Agriculture announced that the Armour
Grain Co., of Chicago had been fined 81 $50 and after having
pleaded guilty he charge of aduerang and mbranng 28
loads of Nobody jail And the adueatng
of but carload producers and
tremendously greater than stealing $S4 worth of shoes
There little doubt but that the Goddess of Justice
is exceedingly well blindoIdedl
Convention of Germans appauded the suggestion that the mon
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
RECEIVED WARNING
TO AVOID WALL STREET
Mysterious Stranger on Train Told
ONeill Of Plot to Bomb
Financial District.

NUTLEY, N. j., Sept. 1S.-A warn
ing TO keep out of Wall Street until
after September 10 because Il was
known anarchists were plotting to
set of a bomb at that time was given
to Joseph T. O'Neill, twenty-four-
year-old son OF Thomas ]. O'Neill. n
vice president OF George Lamonts and
Son, bank note paper manufacturers
OF New York city. according to a
statement made by the son yesterday.
O'Neill was on n tube train from
Newark to Jersey City and got into
conversation with the man sitting
next to him. Tho stranger said no
was n secret agent attached to tho
French High Co nmission and was on
his way 20 Buffalo. where some an
archlsts were under arrest.
After he learned ONelll was em-
ploycd In lower Broadway office.
he warned O'Neln to keep away from
tho Wall Street district. The man
tald close watch was being kept
pf known anarchista. but the plot
might develop successfully I'M spite
Of precautions
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
MORGAN OUTRAGE
RECALLS 81 BLAST
Anarchist Wrecked Building in
Attempt Upon Life of Rus
sell SAGE.

The explosion in Wall Street on
Thursday recalls another blast which
occurred in the office of the late Rus
sell Sage. in the financial district.
Like the one yeserday, il occurred
about noon.
An anarchist named Norcross called
at Mr. Sage's office on December 4,
1891, and told a clerk he had a letter
of Introduction from John ID. Rookie
feller to Mr.. Sage. He asked that he
be allowed to present 1t in person. Mr..
Sage came out of his private office
and approached Norcross, who was
sitting in the lobby, with a carpetbag
on his lap.
AS Mr. Sage approached him, Nor
cross presented the letter. which
read:
THE bag I hold in my hand con.
talns ten pounds of dynamite. If !
drop this bag on the floor, the dyna
mite win explode and destroy this
building, and kill every human being
in II. ! demand 81 200. 900 or / will
drop the bag. VIII you give it? Yes
or no?'
Mr.. Sage read the letter twice and
then began to parley with Norcross,
saying that it would take too much
time to get that amount OF money,
and asking Norcross to return later
in the day. Norcross again asked Mr..
Sage II this meant a refusal and be-
gan to back out of The lobby. In doing
SO the carpetbag which he carried
struck desk, and a terrific explo-
sion followed. Several clerks in the
office and the anarchist were blown
to pieces, but by some miracle, Mr..
Sage escaped with few minor
bruises.
The building was wrecked and will
liam X. Laidlaw, a banker, sued
Sage for injuries which he received at
the time. The suit was one of the most
sensational legal battles of the early
00's. Laidlaw contended that Russell
Sage used him as a shield when Nor
cross was about to set off the dyna-
mite, and thus saved himself.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
EXPECT 500 TO TAKE
CITIZENSHIP COURSE

More than 500 men and women are
to be enrolled in the foreign classes
which will be conducted this year by
the Americanization Department OF
the District Schools, according to Miss
NJ. L. Alton, principal.
Glasses will open September 20 at
the Old Central school and the Web
.ter school. Glasses at the Central
will be at $3.50 In the morning and at
2o'clock in the afternoon. At Webster
they will be in the afternoon only,
from 2 to Q o'clock. The Georgetown
classes will be announced later. The
evening classes will begin october T.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
DENIES GIVING ANY
POLITICAL" ORDER
Civil Service Board Takes Issue
With Madden Statement on
Federal Employees.

The Civil Service Commission de-
clared this morning that II had issued
no ''order" on the subject of political
activities by Federal employees, when
it's attention was called to the state
ment credited to Congressman Martin
i. Madden OF Illinois. to the effect
that the commission, at the instigation
Of Postmaster General Burleson, had
Issued an order shutting out 750, 900
women relatives of postoffice employees
nom participation in politics.
The commission declared that at
does not assume that Congressman
Madden made such a statement, but
IL constrained TO reply to the state
ment lest Federal employees may be
lpisled,' and presents the following
statement:
The Civil Service Commission has
issued no order on the subject of
political activities by Federal en-
ployes.
The commission has given an Of
hcial opinion interpreting the exist
ing civil service laws which prohibit
pohticai activity by Federal employees
In the competitive civil service.
The opinion relates equally to all
Federal employees in the competitive
classified civil service and is not lin.
tied to the postal service.
The opinion was not instigated by
Postmaster General Burleson or any
other person. No one outside the Of
flee of the Civil Service Commission
is responsible for the opinion, or any
part of It, nor did any one outside the
office of the commission have knowl-
edge of its terms before its publica.
ton
The opinion is a plain statement Of
the law as IL is written. 1t does not
affect the political activities of any
man or woman not in the competitive
classified civil service and subject to
the restrictive provisions of the civil
service laws. The opinion holds that
employees are not permitted to do
openly and directly they may not do
secretly and indirectly through the
controlled and concerted action of
women relatives. The present pro-
vision, of which tho opinion of the
commission is the only possible inter
probation, was written and promul-
gated by President Roosevelt in 1903,
and has been the law cont 4 ally
from then until now.
The opinion is not open to Just
criticism at any point, and resent
ment II any there be, against the
opinion or the commission Is based on
lack of information or misinformatlsn
as to its language and effect.
The opinion was given primarily for
the benefit of Federal employees who are
subject to the provisions of the civil
service laws and who are being urged
by misinformed and misguided friends
to violate the law on which the per
manency of their public employment
depends. G.. II. WALES.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
SAYS MORGAN WAS
WARNED WEEK AGO
Frisco Paper Prints Story That
Banker Had Been Informed
of Plot.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 9.-
Despite denials by police, postoffice
authorities, and Department of Justice
agents, q report persisted here that
warning letter. bearing San
Francisco date line, had been re-
ceived by the house of J. T. Morgan
more than a week ago.
The report frst gained currency
through the publication in a local
paper OF story that New York police
had telegraphcd local police TO in
vestigate the source of the alleged
letter.
According to tho story, Govern
ment agents and local police were
wired full particulars OF the threaten.
ing letter that had come to the Nor
gan house from San Francisco and
were furnished the date OF the post
mark and n detailed description OF
the stationery, the letter writing, and
the text"
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
BETHESDA 6. 0. P. CLUB
HEARS CONG. HHLMAN

An enthusiastic meeting of the Re-
publican Club OF Bethesda, Md, dis
trict was held Thursday night in the
Bethesda Garage building. The hall
was crowded to capacity, more than
200 being present.
The speakers were Congressman
Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland,
who spoke OF the work of the war
Congress-; Mrs. Eugene Stevens, who
told of tho part women must play in
the political life of the nation, and
Frank L. McMillin, president Of the
club, who spoke of the League OF Ma
tions.
The club will meet every Thursday
night.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
MORGAN BUILDING
NEARLY yB0MBPR00F
Walls Two Feet Thick Made OF
Concrete-Bronze Gratings
Shield Windows.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.--The home
Of ]. p. Morgan & Co, at % Wall
street, was erected for the Morgan
company at a cost of $4,000 900, ac-
cording to Goodhue Livingston, a
member OF the firm OF Trowbridge
& Livingston, architects. 52T Fifth
avenue. This firm drew the plans for
the building and supervised it's con-
struction. II was built by Marc Ed.
litz, contractor.
While no building, said Trowbridge
yesterday, is actually bombproof. the
Morgan building Is as near being
bomb-proof az structure can be.
When the building was under con-
struction the architects bore in mind
that at some time II might be sub
Jected to tho terrific shock OF an ex-
plosion.
The walls OF tho building are two
feet thick and are made of concrete.
Stretched across the top of the build
ing Is a heavy wire mesh, which, &c.
cordlng to Livingston, will cause
any bomb or missile thrown on the
top Of the building to rebound upon
striking the net. All windows in the
building ara covered by gratings OF
bronze. The immense vault Is be
meath the building.
During the war, when J. y. Nor
gans life was threatened many times
because OF hia activity in granting
loans to the allies, the Morgan build
ing was constantly guarded by spe-
clal detectives. Detectives remain
ed on duty In the vicinity at ell
hours for many months, and many Of
them were stetionCj In the Mills
building iU" adjoining he Morgan build
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
MAXIM DOUBTSTNT
WAS USED IN BLAST
Noted Explosives Expert Be-
Iieves Dynamite Caused Wall.
Street Havoc.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1S.--Hudson
Maxim. famous inventor OF high ex-
plosives and AN expert on their use,
declared today his belief that from
100 TO 200 pounds of dynamite had
been carted to Wall Street on Thurs
day and set off with a time fuse.
The belief that INT was used
in the bomb" he said. land that there
fore some extraordinary means must
have been used to gain possession OF
such an explosive is not warranted.
IL the explosive was taken to wall
Street in a wagon and dicharged
there, dynamite would have had the
same effect as INT. INT Is not
more violent an explosive than dyna-
mite. Ordinarily 90 per cent gelatine
dynamite Is just as powerful as
INT.
The explosive, IL in wagon
would have been too high above the
pavement to have ripped a hole. The
popular belief that the force of dyna-
mite is directed downward is false
when the explosive is on a platform
such as a wagon bed. All explosives
would have acted in the same manner.
THE perpetrator OF the outrage
could easily have driven his deadly
bomb to the curb, stopped, lighted
fuse that would given him ive
minutes TO escape, and leisurely
walked away A clock could have
been used and il is not improbable.
in view of the fact that the explosion
came just at noon.
My belief. gained from newspaper
accounts. is that the explosive was
taken in a package crudely made,
but reinforced with sash weights
slugs of various kinds, and other
scraps of metal. This would have
furnished the necessary resistance
for such an explosion"
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
LEAGUE ASKED TO
SETTLE FIRST
DISPUTE

PARIS, Sept ls-Tbe council
Of the League Of Nations has been
called upon for the first time 10
arbltrate Q aispste betwees tive
countries In an effort 70 avoid war.
The dispute Is that betwees Pc
land and Lithssaia. and was pre-
seste< 70 the council yesterday BY
Ian PaAerewski, on behalf Of Pc
lasd. and Prof. WaiAeaar. Of
Lithsasia-
A decision In the eoptreversy 10
net expected before acxt week, or
perhaps lstey
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
DELEGATION OF VETS

President Wilson today received =
delegation of members of the Veter-
ans OF Foreign Wars, who are In
convention here. The delegation was
headed by Capt. Robert Woodside, OF
OF the organization.
The President complimented the
veterans and extended his thanks for
their service in the world war and
other foreign wars,
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
WOMEN REGISTERING
IN FAIRFAX COUNTY

Women are registering rapidly in
all the voting districts of Fairfax
county, Va, following the urging Of
tho Rev Albert II. Zimmerman, In
dependent League candidate for Con-
sress Registration closes October 2.
Dr. Zimmerman will make three ad-
dresses sunday on community better
ment. speaking at Chesterbrook at II
q m. Foree'rille at ., and Great
T.rs ~
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
JURY FINDS B0LLINGER
DEATH ACCIDENTAL

A coroner's jury yesterday returned
verdict OF accidental death In the
case OF Robert 10. Botilnger, 72 years
old, OF IA Nineteenth street north
west. who died Rt the Emergency
Hospital Thuraday M a result OF In
juries received when Knocked down
by m automobile at Nineteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at = o'clock at Gawlcr's
undertaking establishment Intcrmcnt
Win hr ~ Rock crook Ccm'ior'
The Washington times., 1920-09-18

fore the explosion. Nor could any
OF the injured remember the color OF
the smoke that rose amidst the
wreckage Immediately after the blast
WARNED NUMEROUS FRIENDS.
Fischer. who sent the bomb warn
inss, was formerly employed by the
French high commission In this city.
II was learned that he not only gave
warnings OF Wall Street bomb plot
to Ketchledge and 10 members OF the
French high commission, but 10
numerous other friends as FAR back
as two weeks.agO.
1t was learned that Fischer sent
several postal cards through the mails
from Toronto, with warnings OF an
impending catastrophe scrawled upon
them.
One of the warning cards was re-
ceived by Thomas Delehanty care
taker of the tennis court at Ninety
thru street and Amsterdam avenue.
Fischer played tennis himself and fire.
quented the Ninety-third street courts.
Members OF the club. which owns the
tennis courts. were said TO have re-
ceived cards and letters from Fischer
telling them that wall Street was
going TO be blown up on September
IS"
The habitues OF the tennis courts
regarded Fisher as eccentric, but
harmless. They paid no attention tp
his repeated warnings.
HINTED AT BIG THINGS.
FISCHER was most mysterious in
giving his warnings and making
predictions. and he liked TO hint at
big hidden things which he knew
were coming but could not discuss"
said Dalehanty. "He told me that
Wall street was going to be blown to
pieces. He came to me recently and
gave the warning in these words:
tom, l want to tell you a great
secret. We are going to blow up
Wall street on the 18th. We have got
them where we want them. Be sure
not to go into Wall street on the
18TH
IL did not pay any attention to
Fischer's talk. / thought IT meant
Before news of Fischcr's arrest II
was reported that he was under
observation in sanitarium in
Toronto.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
NEW REOLAW
PALM|ER'SA|M
Attorney General to Reopen
Fight for Legislation to
Curb Radicals.

Attorney General Palmer. as a re-
suit of the Wall Street bomb ex-
plosion, will renew his request at
the next Congress for drastic legis-
lation to curb extremists, it was
stated at the Department Of Justice
today.
DRASTIC LAWS NEEDED.
The Attorney General will seek to
have Congress pass laws which will
give the Department of Justice more
freedom in curbing extremist activi-
ties and will declare that such
catastrophes as the Wall street ex-
pIosion are bound to recur until the
Government deals more sternly with
extremists, according to officials of
the department.
The Attorney General will also re-
new his fight to have full power for
dealing with alien extremists placed
in the hands OF. the Department of
Justice, rather than in the Depart
ment of Labor.
Increased appropriations also will
be asked by the Attorney General in
order that the forces of the depart
ment may be kept up to a sufficient
strength to deal with extremist
forces.
The Wall street explosion will be
used as the basis for a number of
recomme mendations in the annual re-
port OF the Attorney General. which
is now in preparation, it was said.
SUSPECT SOME BAND.
Officials here today were OF the
opinion that the New York explosion
was caused by the same band which
bombed the home Of Attorney Genera,
Palmer more than q year ago. Ac-
cording to q report received by the
Department OF Justice, literature was
found near the scene of the Wall
street explosion bearing the sigma
ture American Anarchist Fighters"
and this signature also was used on
literature found in the debris of the
explosion at the Palmer home.
At the Department OF Justice, re-
ports transmitted by Chief Investiga-
tor Villa M. Flynn, at New York,
1t was declared. had revealed that the
bomb disaster probably was the work
OF a class OF extremists who have for
some time been the object Of attack
by the Attorney Generals forces.
CATALOGUE OF SUSPECTS.
Officials said that records carried
to New York by the Attorney General
and his chief aide, Francis p. Garvan,
included an up-to-dste catalogue OF
anarchist suspects, with most complete
data bearing upon the habits, customs,
movements, and pecularities of the
particular groups now under scrutiny.
That the search for the instig ators
of the plot may lead to cities outside
New York was said to be probable,
but on this as well as other vital
points greatest secrecy was preserved.
Federal secret service operatives al
ready have been drawn from many
districts under orders to aid in a
solution of the Wall street mystery.
These additional forces already on
the ground in New York, constitute
the picked men of the Governments s
detective forces. Work upon numer-
GUS inquiries now pending has been
held in abeyance temporarily, in order
that the New York investigation may
be expedited.
The Washington times., 1920-09-18


fer one dollar for every day In
service. is expected 20 be reached
tkts Afternoon. IL IL very likely "a
will be pA~.ea.
War risk, a new plan OF organi-
zation, announcement OF appointive
Officers. installation OF officers, and
other important matters crowded the
closing session OF the twenty-first
national encsmpment, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, In Trinity Church to-
day.
One OF the most important actions
taken at the encampment was the
adoption OF a bylaw providing for
State departments, like those In the
q. A. r., Spanish War Veterans, and
other veteran organizations. ANY
State having five posts with a total
membership OF I. 900 may apply to the
national council for a charter. The
new plan is expected to make the
rganiIation more flexible and also to
provide a field where aspirants for
national recognition may win their
spurs before entering a contest for
office in the main organization.
ADOPT WAR RISK REPORT.
The association this morning un-
animously adopted the report OF the
committee on war risk insurance.
headed py L. o. betteiheih Oh "a
ington.
Ihis report recoH,'enue 'nat .ne
work OF .he Noeaiohai ua'n'ns o1'
war Nisk insuIance ahu
nc hes.h oer.oe, 80 " ny
Nn,,,i,,a 80,
equai pasis unuer one e1ecu.Ne OF
ficer OF the Cabinet, with the addi-
.io rri
o''
Th nr, ao,o,,.s .ry a,,sun,
to maLn soldier re,ief .:n,avthine
',., IL .t,anai
oterSns -, 81. .ssnci.,ion 10 ohtai,
oxnsn.s,ons tn ,,ri,tns Fror, all presi-
SentiaI cardid.tss nrom,sinr to kee.
tha r.iiar .nrL ou, ~ no,Itics
Tbe nat,onaI of6rer. are directed to
prpe Senator Smoot chairman of the
S.na.e Comnittee on Appropriations.
to call up Immediately on the reas-
sembling OF Congress the Wason bill.
passed by the House, establishing
fourteen regional war fisk ofnces.
PLAN AN OFFICE HERE.
uo.,, s.rv;c. ooice is to he
.,aiu,ninod IN washinpton bv the
na,.rans IN care for claims and
go. % ,,o rbars ~ the association,
The renort recommends the extern
sior n, yoca,ionaI contamination to
aiI man bonorabIv discharged with a
w,Ii, ,raoaahy. - Wounds and to
,.i;Sa, ,a ornh.ns NJ nen who died
- ,ror,ds aIso to American soldiers
na ,,,i,h 80 NJ tho allied
conpre.s is asked to establish a
,,o,,S,. ,,nd ~ xnoo 600 for tempo-
-. ,naS. - s,,nnnrt yeterans under
,.a,, ,ionaI, aducatior untir they re-
80 tn.;, sr.t TortniphtIy pay
ssI.
,,oo, s,r;o., ora hosni,al
IN ,on.tinro,
...Ianns ;,iTrnS ~ an u,hije under the
nSaS hnara
asEaa ~ tbe so-
An ~ a~,enoiie" -, ,.;sa ray-
csieu Dai.o" o ~ o,,ano,
,re;nss o instead oT onlv those in the
large cities.
u-o~rx xor .nMvTTED.
r. I'll, No. he admitted to
women "in o' ..u. ~ ~
nie1nen sup ". Tha assoc;atinp
.us .s,. aaor,.d tho renort Of
thts Iilornne iac,;no q
no;U,ian .ne Io,' 80 odna;, IN membersbip
~ - ,,.or,n, in .ctual on
nurse "'u oI'e' "''0''
iisIeu SCI - .,;r,,,s IN
ihese a,,s aSxii,ary
l" ,innai msetirCs
"h,cn nou 49, go ti,ns and nlncr
o.,I eb Z
The Washington times., 1920-09-18
VETSASK aid
FOR WOUNDED
lndorse Extension OF Vocational
Work and Other Measures
At Final Session.

ystiaG On the place of the ssst
essv~sttss OF the veterans began
st IzI4s O'Clock tsdny. Ii will be
either seattle or BsffsIe.
The b~ass s~ssisties, previeiaS
fer one dollar for every day In
service. is expected 90 be reached
tkts afternoon. Ii Ia very likely "a
will be passed.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-23
STEUBENVILLE

STEUBENYILLE. Ohio. Ian. "a
SUIT for $4,000 damages was wrought
in Common Pleas court today by Frank
Wagner. aged fifteen years, b. his next
friend. John II. Wagner, against the
llartJc Paper Manufacturing company
Uf Toronto, for injuries sustained Dec.
-. 1919. when he was caught in the -
NolvInG shaft!ng Of III elevator At the
cOmpanyS plant, lie charges tho COM
panv with negligence IN not properly
protecting the machinery Of TN" "lcva-
tor He was employed as II screen boy
and was trying 10 adjust Il pulley To tho
Shafting OF tho elevator when caught
aud drawn into the ShaftInE. lie al
!cE"s that hr viii h" Il cripple for life.
The St"uhcnvIllc and Wheeling Trac-
,ion company was mad" defendant III
$4,000 damage Sait entered today by
Albert J. Hirsch. for injuries sustained
Nov. -. 1919. when an Intcrurh"n car
on which h" was riding was struck by
several tons Of rock slipping from a
hillside near Ming" Junction. II" al
lCS"S he was hurled against seat 10y
the impact and Sustained injuries 1" his
back that ar" permanent. Tic charges
that tn" company WAS negligent IN not
property protecting ITS tracks ana cars
from hillside Sins.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-01-23
Moundsyille Personals.

Mrs Il. ii. Mccoy. "f Pittsburgh.
who who has been visiting friends in
This city for the last fcw days, has left
for her home.
Mrs. !. Is. Richcy. Of Glen Easton,
spent yesterday in this city on business.
Warden J. u. Terrell, Of the prison. is
still confined TO his home with sick
ness.
Mrs. J. W. Woodruff. OF South Bend,
Ind. Is visiting h"r son. Mr.. W. l..
Woodruff and family, on Morton ave-
nue..
Mrs Marietta Weaver. OF Lafayette
avenue. and Mrs. J. W. Galahcr, Of
Wheeling.
Mrs. e. u. Wilson who is i'll at her
home on Sixth street. is slightly I'M
proved.
Mrs. \. l.. Francis. of jefferson ave-
nue.. and Mrs. A. +. Francis. Of Tomlin-
son avenue, went to New Martinsrille
yesterday, being called there by the
death OF their ncice's husband, Leon
krcuzbcrg.
Mrs s. W. Booher. who has bccn
seriously i'll for tho past few days, has
developed a case Of pneumonia. Miss
Jcanncttr Buuhor. Of Homestead. IA.
arrived HON" yesterday evening TO care
for her mother.
Jacob Allen is confined To his home on
Second street with severe cold.
Earl .DohbS is seriously i'll At his
home on PARROT avenue.
Miss Leone II-lhrook is confined TO
her home on Eighth street with Sick
ness.