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New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
killing of Beck
Closed, So Fa1. as
Oklahoma Goes
Military Board, However,
Casts Doubt on Judge
Days Testimony and U. S.
May Take Up the Case
spectol Dtspotch TO Th. r,tbyn.


OKLAHOMA CITY, April $50 far
as the State Of Oklahoma is concerned
it's case against Judge Jean P. Day,
former member of the State Supreme
Court Commission, for the Staying of
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ward Beck in
the Day home is closed, and it will re-
main SO unless further evidence is
placed in the hands of the County At
torney, Forest Hughes. A Coroner's
jury last night held Day blameless.
The attitude of Lieutenant Colonel
Beck's fellow officers al Fort Sill is best
summed up, perhaps, IN the signed
statement which the board Of inquiry
gave to Hughes early this morning,
The statement read:
"The board does not believe the YER
sion of the Days as to the conduct of
Lieutenant Colonel Beck on the fatal
morning was true. However. It does
not believe that the testimony intro
duced at the inquest would justify
filing of a charge Of murder against
Jean P. Day"
The statement was signed by Thomas
G. Lanphier, member Air Service,
president; V. L. Burge, captain Air
Service, member; Roger S. Mccullough,
captain Air Service. recorder.
Lieutenant John Beck, nephew Of
Colonel Beck. was particularly vehe
ment in his statements concerning the
verdict Of the Coroner's jury.
"Let them find Judge Day not guilty
if they want to- ne said, "but there is
one other equally to blame III the case
as we'll as my uncle. Colonel Beck
would not have attacked any woman,
nor would he have hidden behind any
curtains at Judge Days or any one
else's approach"
Before reboarding the train that is
taking his uncle's body to Washington
Lieutenant Beck said that the matter
wolud be laid before the Intelligence
Bureau Of the Army at Washington.
transcripts Of the testimony given at
the inquest yesterday are being pre-
ington S soon as possible. The belief
is held here that this action will result
in an investigation of the affair being
made by William J. Burns, chief Of
the United States Secret Service and
Department of Justice at the request
of the Army Intelligence Bureau.
Colonel Beck was attired in full uni
form when his body left here to-day
Wings. insignia Of rank, and ornaments
were IN place. FORMAL denial was Is
sued by army officers of report that
the dead mans uniform had been
stripped of insignia after the shooting.
1--WE, of course, are gratified by the
jury's verdict" Mrs. Day said to-day.
eve anticipated nothing else from
fair-minded men. The verdict upholds
our, honor-in measure obliterates the
stain that perhaps a thoughtless world
OF worldly minded persons would have
laid upon US. The numerous messages
We nave received from all over the
state and the nation of sympathy and
of'ere ot assistance, it seems to me. are
assurances that tllsre is great heart
IN the world which recognizes there
need not be sacrifice of virtue and
honor in the depths of tragedy"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
Fatally Shot,
Wife Accuses
Major Bryson
War Surgeon Says Wound
Was Self-InHicted and
Hurries Her to Hos
pital in a Hearse
Tells of Quarrel; Dies
Veterans Arrest Follows at
Cassville, Pa; Said to
Have Suffered Shell Shock
Special Dispatch to The Tribun.

Specahf Dispatch 10 The Tribun.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. April Or
Herbert Bryson, who served with dis
t'nction during the World War as n
Major in the Army Medical Corps. il
under arrest here charged with having
fatally shot his wife, Helen Kirby
Bryson, at their home at Cassville, Pa
twenty-tnree miles from here.
DR.. Bryson is forty eight years old
o son Of Mrs Bryson, of Washington,
ID. c., and graduate of WASHINGTON
University. His wife. an attractive
brunette, was eighteen years his Junior.
lhey came to Cassville about a wear
ago.
The shooting took place about $40
O'Clock Saturday afternoon. Dr. Bry-
son telephoned to DR., Fred Hutchison.
OF huntington. that his wife had shot
herself. In an snte-mortem statement
made to District Attorney Chester D.
fettcrhoff, Mrs. Bryson accused her
husband of shooting her. His arrest
followed
While no further information could
be obtained to-day as to the past life
OF Or; Bryson or his wife, it Is said
that the physician suffered shell shock
IN the Argonne. In September, 1920, he
married Mrs. Bryson, who is the
daughter of Mrs. c. G. Kirby, of Nv
York. The couple moved to Cassville
from Washington, D. c.
MAJOR Bryson Informed Dr. Hutchi-
son that his wife had shot herself and
ne wanted the Huntingdon physician to
60 out to Cassville to treat her. DR.
Hutchison said this would involve un
necessary delay. and told Dr.. Bryson to
brlng Mrs. Bryson to the Blair Memo
rial Hospital at Huntingdon.
Unable to obtain an ambulance, Or.
Bryson got in touch with Myron Nc
Claim, an undertaken, and the woman
was taken to the hospital in motor
hearse' He arrived at $3.50 O'Clock last
night. There he again told Dr. Hutchi-
son that the wound was self-inficted.
Mrs. Bryson recovered consciousness
later and told DR.. Hutchinson that the
wound had been inflicted by her hus-
band District Attorney Fetterhof r~as
summoned. and, after taking her ante
mortem statement, ordered DR.. Bry-
sons arrest.
Mrs. Bryson told the prosecuting at
torney that she and her husband had
quarreled. Following the argument she
went to the second floor Of her home
and took bath, she said. Mry. Rry-
son told District Attorney Fetterhoff
tiidC alter palhlng She went TO the
dressing room of her home and locked
the door. DR.. Bryson followed her W
stairs, smashed the door of the room
and then shot her with his 5-calber
army revolver, she asserted.
Mrs. Bryson died this morning. Ex-
animation Of her body showed that the
bullet had entered her stomach. Neigh
bors say that Major Bryson and Mrs.
Bryson were apparently devoted to
each other.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
Griffith Denounces Opposition


be removed
Griffith Denounces Opposition
CAVAN, Ireland, April 9 (By The AS
sociated Press ).-Arthur Griffith, ad il,
dressing large meeting outside the
Town Hall here TINS afternoon, re-
ferred to what he termed Eamon de
Valera's strenuous but vain attempt
during his visit to the United States
to secure American recognition of an
Irish republic.
He tried for eighteen months. said
Mr.. Griffith, with all the support of
the Irish people and the irish in
America, but failed. 1t wasn't De
Naiera's fault, but what De Valera had
failed to secure from the most friendly
country in the world he did not be
lleve the people of Ireland in a few
months could make England consent
to give them.
Mr.. Griffith characterized the tactics
OF De Valera and his followers at the
present time as "meaner than those
of the black and tans"
Would Transfer U. s. Consulate
CORK, April 9.-Owing to the
enormous increase in the volume of
the cargo and passenger traffic between
Cork and the United States the Cork
Chamber of Commerce has decided to
apply to official quarters in Ireland and
Washington for transfer of the
American Consulate from Queenstown
to Cork
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10

rear, all of whom were thrown to the
noor. but none Of whom was hurt.
Even the motorman escaped unscathed.
Battalion Chief Quinn, whose quar-
ters are in the hook and ladder com
pany,s station, came changing through
the debris of the collision, his driver,
John Schneider. slowing down and max
ing a quick turn here and there to
avoid PROSTATE fireman. He did not
stop. Whatever happens, a fireman S
duty is to reach the fire
AS soon as he discovered that il was
a false alarm Chief Quinn returned to
the scene of the collision. The re-
serves from the Fifth Street police
station were striving with crowd
which blocked the thoroughfare. while
doctors from tho Peoples Hospital and
from the New York Eye and Ear In
frmary were binding up cuts.
The eight injured fremen were
placed in automobiles and taken to
their quarters, where they were at
tended by DR.. Herman Refs. Fire De-
partment surgeon, after which they
were sent to their homes. 1t was
found that Reilly and Kamerer were
the, most seriously injured, having
broken bones besides their cuts and
bruises. Reillys left wrist and left
arm were broken and Kamerer has a
fracture of the left ankle and what
may prove to be a fracture of the
right foot
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10

completed in August, 1919. In October
OF that year she was taken over by the
ohited States Shipping Board from the
army transport Service and tied up at
ner dock in Hoboken. 1t was thoueht
that she would be Immediately recon
ditloned and put to work in the Ameri-
can merchant service.
All sorts of difficulties interyened
ne cost of rehabiitating her, greater
then than now. was appalling. Com
,nerclai condltions were unsettled: the
germans demanded that the Shipping
hoard pay $1,000,00O for the necessary
pans and specification which would
permit the reftting to be made, and
her hard driven career as troonsh;n
had led to greater deterioration tha N
mad at hrst been considered probable,
Costly While Idle
The government paid 100000 for
,ne privilege of keeping the big boat
IIed up at Hoboken until yesterday.
On one occasion il looked as though
,ne snip would be destroyed where she
lay. In August last fire which broke
out in the vicinity swept the sheds and
the dock where she was anchored, and
only through the efficiency of the fire
guards placed on the ship by the Ship
ping Board was she saved from burn
Ing; The fire did some damage to her
hull and decks, but was not allowed to
get grip on the ship.
Finally the Shipping Board decided
to take the matter into its own hands.
and bids were called for putting the
snip into commission once more,
! here ensued another controversy fol-
lowing the awarding of the contract to
the Newport News Company, which was
the lowest bidder. The bids ran AS
high as s11,11e,447, and the highest hid
was almost twice the amount of the
lowest
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
Bandit Herds WOmenin
Meat Shop With Cleaver

Daniel Marcellina, twenty-e eight years
old, Of 404 Pleasant Avenue was ar
rested in Second Avenue, near 123d
Street, yesterday, accused with an
other man, who acted as lookout, Of
attempting to hold up David Glanza.
butcher, his wife and two women Gus
toners in Glanza's shop, at 354 East
l23d Street.
Marcellina, according to Glanza, en-
tered the store and, selling a cleaver
from choppng block drove the three
women to the rear Of the store. He
then wrestled with Gianza for the cor
tents of the cash drawer. The screams
of the women frightened him away.
Patrolman John Conway saw MAY
cellina and the lookout sprinting from
the store. He Captured Marcellina, who
was held in $4,000 bail for the action
Of the grand jury on a charge of at
tempted robbery when arraigned be.
fore Magistrate Corrigan in Harlem
court
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
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|'7lI5' HERE arc said to
I@iEK@ be seven stages
ls4Az3 of concentration.
Practically anyone can
reach the seventh, or high
est stage, by concentrating
on the contents Of
Schraft's Home Made
Package. AS for lis, we
have just finished conccn-
trating on a wondrous
round Easter Box, espc~
oially designed to take the
breath. While they lastl
SChRAFfrS
Superb Confeetions at hmfa6ie Prtees
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
De Valera Is
Said to Have
Been Deposed

Continual from oaoe on.)
pictures or other exhibits belonging
to persons in the northern area must
be removed.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
SPiritualism Seized$53O,OOO
10 Win World, Rum, Arrest SO,
Asserts Doyle Quell Wet Mob

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New-York tribune., 1922-04-10

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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
WOMAN KILLED AS
AUTO TURNS OVER
Mrs. M. Howell, of Birmingham, Is
Instantly Killed

ABBEVILLE, Ga, Oct. 31.-Mrs
M. Howell, of Birmingham, Ala, was
killed instantly, Sheriff o. L. Smith
and his wife were painfully hurt and
Mrs. Batrice Nixon was seriously in
jured here this afternoon when Sher-
iff Smiths automobile turned turtle
on the muddy road between Abbevi1le
and Rochelle. Mrs. Pearl Reid another
OCCUPANT was injured.
Sheriff Smith was driving at the
time. A negro eye witness said that
the machine turned turtle three times
when the sheriff looking backward
lost control of the machine which was
new.
A freight train passing few min
utes after the accident, was waved
down by, Mrs. Annie Oliver. The
train crew took poles and raised the
carr of Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Howell
who were pinned beneath the ma
chine. Local doctors summoned two
physicians and three nurses from Fitz-
gerald to care for the injured
Mrs Howell lived in BIRMINGHAM
Ala. She leaves a daughter and two
sons, living here She was the moth
er in law of Sheriff Smith.
The automobile was wrecked COM
p1etely.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
Notice To Dairymen
OF Ben Hill County

To the members of the Ben Hill
County Dairy Association and ali who
are interested in live stock are re-
quested to. be present at the Chamber
OF Commerce, Saturday, Nov. 4th at
5 o'clock for the purpose of consid-
ering premiums to be awarded to those
who put On exhibits in connection with
the Club Fair which is to be held on
Nov. 24-25.
Interesting premiums will be award
ed to the ones exhibiting the best
Iregistere Jersey bull, the one exhib-
ting the best Jersey COW, the. ,best
Jersey bull calf, the best Jersey heif-
er calf and the best herd of Jerseys
meaning three or more. The display
will be held in the park in front of the
Chamber of Commerce on Saturday
the 18th from 10 to 4 o'clock, for all
livestock. If you are interested in
building up the dairy and livestock
business in the county be at this meet
ing, and assist in formulating plans
for this fair.
Matthew Hunter, Pres. y7.g
]. Roscoe Kimball, Sec.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
Highway Travel Is
Greatest In History

Hundreds Of tourists are passing thru
Fitzgerald now daily, enroute to and
from Florida on the Central Dixie
highway, this thoroughfare having be-
come known throughout the states as
the best and nearest route into Flor
ida Nightly numbers of tourist camp
ers are taking advantage of the camp
ground prepared by the City in the
Blue and Gray Park and many ex-
pressions Of appreciation are heard
from our visiting friends. When tray
Ell is once opened UP from the west
and east on the Jefferson Davis high
way, we expect to see the number of
tourists passing through our city more
than doubled; especially do we expect
to secure large additional number
of cars from the East, as they would
find it the shortest and best route
from Augusta via Vidalia, McRae and
Fitzgerald to Florida.
Western tourists to Florida. who
now come from the Alabama side. via
Columbus or via Albany are taking
either the National at Triton or the
Eastern route thru Hawkinsville, all
OF which would find it more pleasant
and convenient to take the shorter
route connecting here with the Gem
trail Dixie.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
BANKERS HELPING TO
DEVELOP POULTRY, EGG
AND BUTTER BUSINESS

Editor, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
Dear SIR
The bankers of Georgia are receiv-
ing request for their help in develop
ing the poultry and egg and butter
business in the state. These requests
come from dealers in Atlanta who
say that they are equipped in the
most modern way for handling poul-
try, eggs and butter in unlimited guam
titles.
Business people are seeing that
there is money to the farmer in these
products and they see that there will
be big business in Georgia in this
line of produce and they are organ
izing to handle it on large scale.
Parsons, Knapp & Stuart, Atlanta
have just asked us to say to the people
of our section that they can handle
these products in unlimited quantities.
Our correspondents in Atlanta tell
us that these are nice reliable people
and are doing an extensive business.
We suggest that the. above informa-
ton might encourage the production
of eggs, poultry and butter in larger
quantities in our territory.
Yours very truly,
J. Z. Turner, V-Pres.
Exchange National Rank
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
Democrats Sure
To Win Elections
Hull Prediction
Only Question Remaining in Doubt
Is Extent of Victory, Asserts
National Chairman

WASHINGTON, D. C. = Cordell
Hull, chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee, declared in a fore
cast of the senatorial and COMPRESSION
al elections that "a democratic victory
is now assured at the elections Novem-
Der 9TH.
The only question in doubt remain
ing" Chairman HulPs statement add
ed, is the extent of the victory. Prac-
tlcally every section of the United
States will contribute share Of that
victory, and every class of voter will
be largely represented among the vic
tors"
Referring to reports Of so-calleG
apathy among voters, Mr.. Hull as
serted this was due to the fact that
the great mass of voters have already
made up their minds definitely ant
finally and had decided ito rebukt
the republican party for its failure tc
keep its election promises"
Declaring the question had beer
whether republicans would stay away
from the polls, cor turn to the demo.
cratic party for relief Mr.. Hull add
ed:
IF the stay-at-home republican vote
should be larger than anticipated by
democrats there will nevertheless be a
very substantial democratic victory.
IF on the other hand the present
tendency of republicans in revolt to
actively support the democratic ticket
Is general tl'1e is reason to believe
thu Cemc cratic party on Tuesday
November 9TH will register one of the
most sweeping victories it has had in
ary rnld-c:e, ton.
At tbs TIME ! co not hesitate to
assert that every indication is the
democratic. victory will be larger than
the republican leaders OH the inside
really believe their victory may be-"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
James A. Holloman
Arrives In City
To Be Guest of Board of Govern
ors Tonight

James A. AHolloman, Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition and one of the best known
newspaper men of the South will ar
rive in the city this afternoon, accord
ing to telegram received by this
office, to be the guest of the Board
of Governors of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr.. Holloman, twenty-six years ago
as correspondent of the New York
Herald, was in the Colony domain,
when the first settler arrived from the
West and will find the changes from
the primitive forest conditions of 'o5
like leaf out of the Arabian Nights.
The luncheon will be given in the
dining room of the Lee Grant Hotel
at 500 P. M. Mr.. Holloman comes
here from Bryant County, where. he
with number of Congressman, have
been hunting for the past few days.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
Justice Fish Dean
Mercer Law School
Eminent Jurist Will Take Charge in
January

MACON, Ga.,- Chief Justice Viii
liam H Fish of the Supreme Court
of Georgia, has accepted the deanship
of the Mercer University School of
Law. and will take active charge Of
the school in January.
This announcement was made today
by DR.. Rufus Weaver following sew
eral recent conferences with the jurist.
The addition of Justice Fish to the
Mercer law faculty is the last step
of its enlargement program, started
last year to make it an A-Standard
School and to meet the requirements
for such by the American Bar Asso-
citation.
During the fail term, three full time
professors were added, all three of
whom are men of scholarship and repu-
tation in law schools of the East.
Five thousand law volumes and a sep
crate law library, with three new law
class rooms, have also recently been
a part of this expansion program at
Mercer University. :
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
Small State Banks
May Enter Reserve
Farm Bureau Federation Endorses
Legislation of Georgia Senator
Which Will Aid Farmers

ATLANTA, Nov. 2-The Ameri-
can Farm Bu:eai Federation accord.
ing to news received in Atlanta tcday,
has announce ed that the bill. OF u. S
Senator Wn. ]. Harris Of Georgia tc
permit small state banks 70 .ricr rl.e
Federal ;ses3.ye System, would be
urged as part of the program for leg
islation in behalf of the farmers dur
ing the coming short session Of con-
gress. It has passed the Senate and
is pending in the House.
1t is likely that the Farm Bureau
Federation will also include the bill
of Senator Harris to strengthen the
Federal warehouse act, so as to help
the farmers in getting advances on
their products upon warehouse receipts
This bill has passed the Senate and
Is pending in the House.
Other legislation supported by the
Federation, and backed thy he agri-
cultural "bloc" of which Senator Har-
ris is a member, is the Ford offer for
Muscle Shoals; broadening laws for
farm credits legislation; increasing
limit for farm loans, all of which will
be urged at the coming session Of
Congress.
Small Banks Will Grow
Discussing the bill of Senator Har-
ris to enable small banks to join the
Federal Reserve the statement from
the Farm Bureau, made public in At
lanta today, said:
"The bill provides that the banks
having 90 per cent of the required
capital stock may become members
Of the Federal Reserve System pro-
vided they increase annually their
capital amounting to 20 per cent of
its net earnings until it meets the
present requirements as to capital
stock, which is $4,000. The end
sought through this amendment is to
make larger number of small local
banks now having capitalization of
say $12,500, eligible to the Federal Re-
serve System rather than making it
incumbent upon them to borrow thru
correspondent bank which is a
member of the Federal Reserve. AT
present only about one-third of the
banks of the country are members of
the. Federal Reserve. 1t will have the
effect also of encouraging the small
banks to increase their capital stock
and of putting them in better posi-
ton to accommodate their customers"
Hon. H. E. Wellborn, governor Of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Allan.
ia, and other leading bankers, have
strongly endorsed the Harris amend
ment to permit small state banks to
enter the Federal Reserve System. IT.
is pointed out here that the Federal
RRcAFlya RonL hara x.,k,rG Al
Sixth federal district, has proven it's
elf a great agency in advancing the
agricultural interests of the section,
and with the passage of the Harris
amendment permitting small state
banks to enter the system, its useful.
ness will be greatly increased.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-11-02
FIFTH TO PLAY ASHBURN
HERE ON FRIDAY

One of the best games of the season
is scheduled for Friday when Fitz-
Hi meets Ashburn Hi on the local
field at 400 P. M.
The Creamery City" Lads have a
strong team, having lost only one
game this season, that being to AL
bany Hi. Fitz-Hi has won all her
games in Fitzgerald. Ashburn won
over Cordele 2777. Fitz-Hi defeated
Cordelel to the tune of 1910. So dope
has it that they are evenly matched.
At the Eastman-Fitz HI game there
was very large crowd, but for this
game everyone should turn out and
support the local team.