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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
GRAND JURY |NL)|CTS
!. THREE ON CHARGE
III,
!: Of GRAVE ROBBERY

Hynt
!. AS startling as it was in the begin
ming it appears that the SouthvieN
cemetery graveyard robbery" al
ready famous as one of the most
,Rruesome sensations in the history
Of this section, is destined to fur
,fssh a new sensation almost every
aour.
~c,gOn Tuesday the major develop
.ments were, briefly, as follow: s
4. The returning of three sep
aEate indictments, each of them
GENTLY charging S. F. Ware, pro-
prietor of the Atlanta Undertaking
company, and Claude Maddox and
Thurman Jones negro grave diggers,
with removing the bodies of Nancy
Joyce, Anne Battle and Laura Perry,
three negro women recently buried
at SouthvieW from their graves for
the purpose of pilfering their collins,
a felony under the laws OF Georgia
and punishable by from one to TWEEN
fy years Imprisonment.
=. Statements by the two negro
graye-diggers in which they told of
an alleged system of coffin rental,
whereby negroes, for a moderate
cost, could secure an elaborate and
pretentious funeral from Ware, with
the p-oviso that he should later
transfer Their relatives bodies from
the handsome Caskets in which they
Were buried to cheap pine boxes.
I 8. The receipt by the local police
of. a letter from a negro named S.
B. Lewis, secretary of the Southern
Undertaking & Supply company. Of
Jacksonville, Fla, in which he sug-
geSted that some of the collins al
legged to have been stolen at South
View may have been sold in the
Florida city.
4. The withdrawal of a petition
for writ of habaes corpus, filed
late Monday afternoon by Attorney
Roy S. brennan, counsel for Ware,
and designed to secure the release
of that individual. The petition was
Withdrawn after the indictments
were returned.
5. The raising of the bond under
which Ware is being held from $4,000
ito $1,000, under order from Solicitor
John A. Boykin.
In their cell at the Fulton county
tow er the two avediggers outlined
the scheme which, they said, Ware
told him he practiced in order to
furnish his patrons with EYE" flu
nerals, and later recover the caskets.
Jones did most of the talking, Mad
dox saying little but occasionally
nodding in affirmation.
Ware told us he was not stealing
these collins" Jones said. He said
he had just rented them tc the fami-
lies of the dead negroes, so they
could make a big show and have a
fine funeral for almost nothing.
"One time a woman died and we
were all at the cemetery with her
relatives. He told us land the wom-
ans relatives were there, that he
wanted US to help him get that coffin
back. Her relatives heard him say
that we thought it was all right. He
paid us SO q piece for every night
we, worked. We never worked but
two nights"
Detectives Sturdivant and Camp.
bell. who have been working on the
case, were investigating the story
of the two negro grave-diggers AMI
expressed to a Journal reporter the
opinion that '"Ware might have told
them that to put them off their
guard" They stated the did not be-
ffeye Ware l. ad any such agreement
With the relatives OF dead persons,
1,ofrovar
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
BIRKHEA I'D LAWYERS
MAY APPEAL CASE
AGAINST GOVERNOR
OXFORD, Miss, Dec. 1--we

OXFORD, Miss, Dec. 13.-"We,
the jury, find for the defendant"
This verdict OF seven words fur.
nished dramatic climax to a suit for
damages filed by Miss Frances c.
Birkhead. stenographer, against Lee
NJ. Russell, Mississippi's chief eXecu
tive.
Miss Birkhead asked for 500, 900
DANA ges-$50, 900 each on two
counts-one charging betrayal and
the other impairment of health as
the result of an alleged operation
which she declared the governor
had connived at.
Submission of the case to the jury
came after four hours of argument
by an elaborate array of counsel.
The verdict was presented just TWEEN
ty-eiyht minutes after the conclu.
sion of arguments and a charge Civ
en- the jury by Presiding Judge f.
r. Holmes.
Neither Of the principals We're i'll
court when the finding of the jury.
composed of men ranging in age
from forty-siX to seventy-six years
of age, was reported. Thirty -fou.
witnesses were examined during the
seven days trial of the case, which
first was filed in United States dis
trict court at Jackson, where it was
dismissed because OF lack of juris
diction. Later it was relied in the
state court in the capital and finally
at Oxford, when service was secured
on Mr.. Russell while here in Septem.
Der to cast his vote in a primary
election.
AS a result of his failure to re.
spond to summons by counsel for
the plaintiff, a citation has been is,
sued for Theo G. Bilbo, former gov
ernor, and it is expected he will be
required to appear before Judge
Holmes at the April term of court.
C. M. Mcneil, chief counsel for
Miss Birkhead, has indicated an ap'
peal would be taken.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Tragic Premonition
Fulfilled as Woman
Is Killed at Church

DEPERE, Wis, Dec. ia pre-
monition of impending misfortune
came true in tragic fashion here
Sunday when Miss Mary Johnson.
forty-three years old, slipped and
fell on the steps of the Presbyterian
church, dying instantly from a frac-
tured skull.
Before leaving home she told
members of the family that she felt
as though she should not attend
church Sunday, feeling that some
thing would happen.
Unconscious Of the fact that one
Of the members was lying dead
just outside, the worshipers contin
ued the services until passerby saw
1oHJr
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
BY EDWIN CAMP

HEERY now and then one
= of the enthusiastic mem
bers of the Georgia Cot
ton Growers Cooperative asso-
citation runs across a farmer who
says:
II am free, white and twenty
one, and I don't intend to turn
MY cotton over to any set Of
men. I am going to sell it ac-
cording to MY judgment"
That's the only real obstacle
cooperative associations meet in
seeking new memberships in
born desire for independence and
freedom of action that every
man has. It is an understand
able emotion.
Yet it is the gospel truth that
no one is less free agent or
is more creature of manipu-
lation than the independent"
Georgia cotton farmer who
thinks he is selling according to
his own judgment.
The truth is that 80 times in
a hundred he sells at the time
the cotton buyer wants him to
sell.
How could it be otherwise?
There are more than a million
cotton farmers. There are only
a few thousand cotton buyers.
SO there are more than a million
men bidding against each other
and forcing the price of cotton
down, for that is exactly what
happens when a million people
are trying to sell the same COM
modify in the same three or
four months.
When the bulk of the south's
cotton is handled through eight
or nine cooperative associations,
the shoe will be on the other
foot. The thousands of mills
then will be bidding against each
other and forcing the price OF
cotton up.
Let us take a look for a few
minutes at cotton prices during
the past few years. An astound-
ing thing is revealed.
The Year 1915-1916
To save space We will begin
with the cotton year of 1915
1916. We will take New York
spot prices all the way through.
In the fall months of 1915,
when 80 per cent of the farmers
had to sell the result of their
years labor, the following prices
were recorded:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
One Killed, Another
Badly Hurt Kodaking
On Top Of Trolley Ca1

GARY, Ind, Dec. 13.-Daniel Nc
Intvre was killed and Frederick
Paul probably fatally injured while
having their photograph taken
on thp of an electric suburban
car by two young women Compan-
ions.
At the command: Look pleasant"
Mcintyre, who had climbed to the
top of the waiting car, stood up,
his head coming ir contact with
the heavily charged trolley wire. He
was killed instantly.
Paul tried to recover his compan-
ions body and also sustained a
shock. falling from the top of the
car to the pavement. His skull was
fractured.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Dry Nays Mystery
Ship Captures First
Whisky-Laden Cruiser

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The "mys-
terry ship" of the dry navy, recently
obtained to combat the small boats
reported to be active in ferrying hoI-
iday liquor from beyond the three
mile limit, has captured the Thelma
a 35.foot cruiser, with fifty cases of
whisky and a number of bags con.
tanning various bottled liquors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Texas Town Quiet

STREETMAN, Tex, Dec 13.-
Authorities believed they had the
situation here in hand today fol
lowing the lynching of one negro
and narrow escape Of a second,
George Gay was hanged and his
body riddled with bullets few
hours after he had mistreated d
yohng woman member of a promi.
nent Texas family. He implicated
Roger Payne in his confession and
the frenzied mob had a rope around
Payne's' neck when Sheriff Mayo
arrived and rescued the negro.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Costa RIGA Withdraws
From Washington Meet

conference of Central American Re-
publics meeting here under the aus
pices Of the United States, was inter
rupted unexpectedly by the res
ignation Of the Costa Rica dele
cation who served notice they would
not speak further for their govern
ment.
They declared their action was
prompted entirely by the internal
political situation in Costa RIGA.
AS a consequence of the develop
ment the conference adjourned until
next Monday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
more Than Six Million
Dollars Yearly Needed
For Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 13.-
1t costs more than six million dol
lars a year to run Harvard univer-
sity.
The annual statement of the treas
urer, Charles Francis Adams, made
public today, shows that the total
expenditure reached the sum of &c.
045,071, involving an operating def
icit of S77,56369 for the year end
ing June 80.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
CAROLINA SUPREME COURT
WILL GET CASE AGAIN

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 19,-The
South Carolina supreme court will
again be asked to pass on the case
of Ira Harrison, 81, convicted with
Frank M. Jeffords and Glenn Treece,
of the murder last spring of J. z.
Annette, Jeffords' business partner,
it was announced here by his attor-
yoaHc
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Supreme Court Denies
Appeal of Jeffords

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The SUI
preme court of the United States will
not review the conviction of Frank
M. Jeffords for the murder of j. G..
Annette at Columbia. S. c., last
spring, it was announced by Chief
UNof
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

What does it show?
Two things.
ONE-Those farmers who
have not the credit facilities
and who are therefore forced to-
sell at ginning time ALWAYS
get the short end of it. They
lose anywhere from SIS to $50
a bale.
TWO-Those farmers who
have credit facilities and can
hold are able to avoid the period
of inevitably lew prices, but
they can never tell when to sell.
No one in this world is able to
know what the high price will
be. One can only guess. Those
who held for so cents when cot
ton was bringing 45 were as
misguided as the poor fellows
who have to sell at harvest time.
The unacceptable Conclusion
What is the conclusion, then?
Merely this: that since cotton is
always below the average price
at the dumping period, and since
no one in the world can tell
WHAT the high price will be,
or WHEN it will be, the only
way to- get a fair price is to sell
gradually on the market, after
the recovery from the effect of
the annual dumping.
That is what the Cotton
Growers Cooperative associa-
tons are doing.
They are doing it in Arizona
and in seven southern states:
Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabama. Arkansas,
Texas and Oklahoma.
And the only farmers who are
not joining are those who prefer
to call themselves Independent"
but who really are the abject
slaves of the gamblers in Broad
street, New York, and Gravier
street, New Orleans.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

all sorts of conflicting factors
in the market, but two things
stand out just as in previous
years: first, there was a vigorous
rise Immediately after the far
mers finished dumping, and Sec
ond, the price was highest at the
end of the year.
Off 6 Cents in Thirty Days
Yet cotton which in July was
worth $3.50 cents a pound was
worth only 1886 a month later.
The record follows:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
ROYAL Flush Fatal

CHICAGO.-Drawin one card in
a game of penny ante" Henry Col
son made a royal flush. He fell to
the floor dead as he picked up the
card
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

The man Who sold MS cotton
in August or September got less
than 10 cents for it on the basis
of middling in New York. The
lowest price after December 1
was 11.20 and the average was
we'll above - cents.
Now let US look at 1916-1917:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

Unless You see the name "Bayer"
on package or on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer prod
ut prescribed by phi. -.cians over
twenty-five years and proved safe by
millions for COLDS, headaches, tooth
ache, earache, neuralgia, lumbago,
rheu.na ism, neuritis and --r pain in
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

Cotton, you see, which was
worth 34.1O in July when the
farmer didn't have any to sell
was. worth only 29.70 in August
when he had some, and a mere
27.75 in November when he had
q lot.
But after the farmer had sold
practically all of his cotton, the
figures ran like this:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
Department Devoted to the Pool Selling of All Farm Products

cotton the previous year than
ever before. Therefore for the
first time in his experience he
was able to hold for a set price.
So, when those who We're unable
or unwilling to hold, had dumped
theirs on the market in August
and September, breaking the
price from $500 in July to 2S.45,
a little over $40 a bale, those in
position to hold sounded the So
cents cry and sat back. They
never got the so cents but the
price went a-callyhCotin' and
a-humpin', as we agriculturist1
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
Bottom Drops Out

Then came the deluge. The
justly celebrated but none the
less painful period of DELLA.
TION set in. In order to save
space and spare the healing
wounds of the sad winter that
followed we will not republish
the figures. 1t is amply suf-
flcient to say that the cotton
balloon burst along with all the
other pretty balloons, and cotton
never stopped falling till it
reached 1886 in New York in
June, 1921.
The foolish holding movement
was responsible for the precipi-
tate decline, as much as any
thing else. But that is quite an
other story which will be told
in these columns at another
time.
1t should be said here, at this
moment, that the cooperative
marketing associations are not
holding" organizations They
are gradual selling" concerns.
Let us continue our figures for
1901 1000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

general. Accept only "Bayer" pack
age which contains prop.r direc-
ton Handy boxes of twelve tablets
cost few cents. Druggists also sell
bottles of "a and 100. Aspirin is
the trademark of Bay Manufac-
turer of Observation-Disclosures of
Salicy1icacid.- (Advertisement.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14
The Germans Break Through


For the sake of clarity, l will
not continue the table for the
rest of that season. In March
the Germans brok through the
British line and it looked for
three or four months that they
would win the war before
America could get into action.
Hence the fall from around 36
cents to a low in May of 25.70.
But the cotton, year closed with
a price of 34.10 in July.
In August cotton began to
come in again, so the price
promptly fell despite brilliant
military victories by the allies
which promised to end the war.
Here is the way the record
stands.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

SO the record runs.
What does it show?
Two things.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-14

But, it will be recalled, that Mr..
Wilson was one of the first to send
q message of congratulations to
Governor Edwards, of New Jersey,
on his election as United States sem
ator on a wet platform. Mr.. Will
The Washington times., 1922-07-27
DELINQUENCY
IN TAXES WILL
CARRY PENALTY
Twenty Per Cent Surtax VIII
Be Added if Payments Are
Not Made on Time.

Washingtonians who are hesitat-
ing about filing their personal taxes
should remember that a 20 per cent
penalty is added to the bill II 1t IN
not filed by next Tuesday, which II
the time limit. w. p. Richards, Dis
trict assessor. said today. 1t was
said that the people are not paying
their bills in proportion to the time
allowed them. In other words,
thousand a day should make their
returns, whereas only about 900 are
visiting the tax collector. 1t Is ex-
pected that a general rush will be
made at the last minute.
Next year the taxes will be cob
lected in two installments, one In
May and the other in November. The
reason for the change is because
Congress frowned on the plan of
drawing on the United States Treas
ury for a whole years financial sup
port. Congress advances the money
to operate the city government, and
when the taxes are collected the
Treasury is refunded. Under the
new arrangement only half the
amount will be advanced to the city
government
Auditor Daniel Donovan has fig
ured out a rate which will insure to
the city government a surplus after
all expenses are betrayed. The extra
amount will not be very much, but
the nucleus OF the fund will be as
sured. Eventually it is hoped that
this fund will grow sufficiently TO
enable the city government to meet
expenses without having to draw
upon the United States Treasury for
advances. Should the surplus &C
cumulate to such proportions and
| the $4,000, 900, which is being dis
cussed in Congress, should be given
| the city, the local goVei nment viii
| have sufficient on hand to meet any
| emergency.
The Washington times., 1922-07-27
Evans Old Sweetheart
Advanced Her Money
for Hospital Expense
BY Universal Service.

NEW YORK, July T.-Money 10
bring Sonny" the nineteen
moths old baby of Evan Burrows
Fontaine, into the world was ad'
vanced by Jay J. Meagher. a Chi
Cago stock broker.
This interesting angle to the sen
sational charges made by Miss Fon
taine. who has started legal action
against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney to establish the paternity OF
the baby, was made public today by
the fascinating dancers mother
Mrs Fawn Evan Fontaine.
II gave the broker my personal
notes for 81 .450 to cover the loan.
she said, 'and ] intend to repay In
full The money was used to cover
hospital expenses when the baby
was born" To this she added:
My daughter was engaged &c
Mr. Meagher at one time. This
was more than two years before I1y
daughter met Mr.. Whitney. The
engagement was broken by Evar
because Mr.. Meagher was twenty
seven years older than she. They
remained good friends, however. and
are until this day"
The Washington times., 1922-07-27

"Foofie," now Mrs. RoderiCk Tower,
as messenger to "smugg. let
ters out of his fathers AdirOn-
dack camp, where he had been
"marooned" following the discov-
cry of his romance with Evan
Burrows Fontaine, pretty Oriental
dancer, is revealed in an excerpt
from one of the wealthy young
Yale students letters, made public
today.
'Foofie' will take this letter
and mail it for me-" young Whit
ney wrote. II am not allowed to
leave the camp"
The letter began. Dearest Sweet.
heart" and wound up. "Devotedly
and lovingly, Sonny"
1t is expected TO figure among
the exhibits of the suit which the
dancers mother says is being
brought against young Whitney to
enforce" the legitimacy rights OF
Miss Fontaine's baby, Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney, jr."
Mrs. Tower, then Miss Flora
Payne Whitney, was helping her
brother to while away the loneli-
ness OF his exile" from Broad.
way.
fa00le0 len MlleS.
Miss Whitney. in her capacity
as mail carrier" would take the
letters to Racquet Lake, the near.
est postoffice, ten miles away
sometimes by blackboard and at
other times by canoe, rowing the
entire distance, 1t is said.
Whether Miss Whitney twas igno,
rant of the strenuous efforts being
made by her parents to break up the
young mans attachment for the
dancer or whether she connived in
the youths scheme to outwit his
parents is not known. At any rate.
it was through her efforts that Miss
| Fontaine has been supplied with
some of the most priced exhibits of
the array of documentary evidence"
she is preparing to introduce in her
The Washington times., 1922-07-27
Tender Mother Love for
Sonny Traced in Heart
Poems of Evan FOntaine
BY WILLIAM PARKER
Copyright. 1922. by Cosmopolitan News
SeryiceO

Copyright. 1922. by Cosmopolitan News
serviceD
LOS ANGELES. July 27-Love
has played a somber dirge on the
heartstrings OF Evan Burrows Fon.
taine.
Twice has tragedy entered the life
of this twenty-three-ye year-old inter.
prefer of Oriental dances, featured
beauty of the Ziegfeld "Follies," and
descendant of a proud old Southern
aristoCrat.
Once she found what she believed
was her ideal in stalwart manhood.
Then, inspired by the glamour OF war
and deeds of valor, she took the mar
rage vow. Her happiness was short
lived, shattered, in fact, in a single
day. And this, the first real romance
in her life, she says. eventually cul'
minated in a mysterious death.
Then. as though fate were seeking
to heap irony on irony. her confessed
love for the son Of one of the richest
men in the world encountered an i'm.
movable obstacle as il trooped gayly
toward the altar.
AS a result Of this romantic state
ment, Evan has now begun suit in
the courts OF New York State to
have Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
declared the father of plump little
nineteen-month-o old bov whom she
affectionately calls Sonny" the
same nickname famillarly applied TO
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney by
the elite of two coasts.
Love Traced In Poems.
The fateful story OF this dark.
haired, somnolent-eyed dancers love
for young Whitney Is traced in a
well-thumbed volume OF poems
wherein she apparently has noted
milestones in her path of romance
by marking and emphasizing specific
stanzas, while at the top of other
poems she has boldly written his
name.
The poems are those Of that vivid
expressionist Of hopeless love and
fiery passion OF the mystic Orient,
Laurence Hope" a masculine cloak
for a feminine bard who also wrot e
the widely read 'India's Love
Lyrics"
Evan. too, appears to be somewhat
of a sweet singer of sentiment her.
self, for on the fly leaf of the Lau.
renee Hope book she has penciled
and dedicated a poem to sonny"
1t follows:
I NEVER KNEW.
I never kneU
That skies Cere blue
UntH adsed at them Nth you.
I never kneiC that hearts tDere true
UntH ! looked in
The heart Of 70
I never knetD
That JlotUers greiC
In radiant fields
Tul I met YOU.
I neDer knetO
That clouds tUere fetC
TIL sunshine proved
part Of YOU.
Deep and tender significance Is
to he read in the Laurence Hope
book, on page four, where one is
a four-stanza poem entitled, Il
Shall FORGET" Written down with
a pencil at the top Of the page Is
this notation: Dedicated 20 Son
The Washington times., 1922-07-27

two men held up the Oakley-Vihont
auto stage thirty-five miles south
east OF Twin Falls late yesterday.
They lined UP the two passengers
and the driver. and after a hurried
examination OF the contents of the
vehicle disappeared.
The mail sack contained pay
checks for the Vihont mine, but
these were untouched. Heretofore
IL has been customary TO send about
$4,000 in currency with which to
cash the payroll checks. An armed
posse and an airplane are in pursuit
OF the highwaymen.