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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
CHAPMAN IS HIDING
NEAR ATHENS, SAY
OFFICERS IN PROBE

Gerald Chapman, 'million-dollar
mail robber," whose escapes from
the Atlanta federal penitentiary and
the Athens hospital, where he was
given medical attention after being
shot by posse, has baffled officers
of the state and government for
several days, is still in the vicinity
of Athens, in the opinion of federal
officers, who on Tuesday announced
that developments in the case were
expected in the next few hours.
Department of justice agents are
still in Athens at work on the case
and it is said they have evidence
leading to the belief that Chapman is
still near Athens. This theory, If cor
rect, is directly opposed to that ad-
vanced by William J. Burns, chief of
the United States secret service, in
statements given out Saturday prior
to his departure from Atlanta. He
commended that the report Of Chap
mans discovery in the basement of
the hospital two days after his es-
cape from the room in which he
was a patient was a ruse to give
him a chance to make a getaway.
In connection with the alleged Sec
ond escape from the hospital, it is
said, the two nurses and the guard
who are said to have seen Chapman
in the hospital boiler room, still
stick to their story. 1t was also
said that the nurse who be-
came hystericaI at sight of Chap
man and chung to the guards neck,
preventing him from intercepting
Chapman, had been carefully ques-
toned, and although at first had
been reticent in her answers, had
told a straightforward story.
The investigation of persons under
suspicion in connection with the
case has not been dropped, federal
officers asserted. They also limited
at possibilities of arrests during the
day, besides expecting action by the
federal grand jury now in session
in Athens.
The officers say the case is a
rather battling one, presenting
many angles, but they hope to clear
it up within a day or two. 49,
1t was learned Tuesday that Depu-
ty Warden F. l.. Fletcher, of the At
lanta federal penitentiary, has left
on 7 trip to Illinois. but Warden }.
E. Dyche could not be reached for a
statement as to whether Mr.. Fletch'
ers trip involved some phase OF the
escapes of Gerald Chapman, the
''rnillion-d dollar mail robber."
A development Of Monday was the
announcement that Miss Cora Lee
Ramey, a nurse in the Athens hos
pital, had received a note purport-
ing TO lave been written by Chap
man, begging food and money, and
requesting that the nurse meet him
at a designated spot near the hos
pital Saturday night. Officers waited
at the appointed time. but no one ap-
peared to meet the. nurse.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
HUGO SHINES AND
WIFE ARE AMONG
GERMANS SEIZED

BERLIN. April 10.-Hugo SHINES
and his wife were taken by French
troops from the industrialist's sleep
ing car attached to a train at
Scharnhorst and were placed under
temporary arrest in a freight car
early today.
Later the SHINES were released.
Many arrests were effected
throughout the new and old Occupied
areas by the French today on the
occasion of a nationwide funeral
for the krupp victims.
Former Ministers Giesberts' and
Stegerwald were taken into custo-
dy. State Secretary Hamm, of the
chanceIiory. was thrown into jail.
GERMAN SEPARATIST
LEADER NOW IN PARIS
PARIS, April 10.-By the Asso-
ris of DR.. Dorten, the Rhineland
separatist leader, is exercising the
newspapers which maintain, not
withstanding denials at the foreign
office, that he is here with the
knowledge. if not by the invitation
of the government. to give an opinion
on the Ruhr situation.
The correspondents learn that h.
has told French officials they nave
made a mistake all through the oc-
cupation by not applying force ruth
lessly.
AS an illustration, DR.. Dorter
told the newspaper Cablegramme
that Fritz Thyssen was originally
not hostile to the French The mag
nate, going before NJ. Coste, said
he was prepared to collaborate with
the economic mission if he could be
assured of serious support from the
French. Inasmuch as he could get
only vague statements from Nj.
Coste, Herr Thyssen after waiting
a week, said he had decided to obey
Berlin.
A few hours later the German in
dustrialist was arrested. This act,
according to Dir. Dorten, had the
effect of uniting all the Germans
in their resistance to the occupa-.
ton.
The journal asserts that the sep
aratist leader has pointed out 10
French officials that the Rhineland
cannot remain between the ham,
mer and the anvil, and must lean
on Paris if it is not to continue to
depend on Berlin.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
The Weather

Virginia: Thursday probably fair
with moderate temperature.
North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia: Probably fair Thursday
rising temperature.
Florida: Partly cloudy Thursday
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Partly cloudy
Thursday, mild temperature.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Probably
fair Thursday; mild temperature.
louisiana: Thursday, cloudy anG
unsettled; little change in tempera
ture.
Arkansas: Thursday unsettled; lit
tie change in temperature.
Oklahoma: Thursday partly cloudy
little change in temperature.
East Texas: Thursday unsettled
West Texas: Thursday cloudy and
unsettled; little change in tempera
ture.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Weary Of His Family
Troubles, He Kills His
Wife and ; Daughters

SEATTLE, Wash, April Ii
Walking into the police station here
this morninfi Mitsuzo Endo, a sec.
ond-hand dealer, announced that he
had shot to death his wife and three
daughters, two of them aged six and
seven and one infant, because he
was tired of so much trouble at
home"
Edo was locked up while police
men hurried to his home six blocks
away and verified his report that he
had shot his wife four times and
each of the children two or three
times.
The bodies were scattered about
bedroom Endo said he had used
SO many bullets because his victims
did not die quickly enough.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Vanderlip Returns
With Health Restored;
To Lead Quiet Life

NEW YORK, April 1O.-Frank A.
Vanderlip, former president of the
National City bank, was at ms
desk today after returning from Cali
fornia. where he went as a sufferer
from diabetes, declaring hlmself
again in robust health.
Fte attributed his condition 20 in
sulir, a new serum for .liaDates, de
velcped by DR.. F. c.. Banting, of the
University of Toronto. to which a
number 0f other cures Of the disease
recently have been attributed
81 feel well enough right now %
jump back into Wall Street." Mr..
Vanderlip said, 'but 1 shall not do
that. What's the use? [ have all the
money 1 need. L am getting along in
years and I expect to take things
easy for a while at least.
''I have an appetite like a hired
man, and L can eat anything,-yes
even the dishes that a diabetes pa
tent dale not look in the eye"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
GEORGIAN DESCRIBES
FLOCG|NC
Of FLORIDA CONVICT

MADISON, Fla, April II. - By
the Associated Press. -. Investiga
ton into the death of Martin Tabert,
North Dakota youth, while serving
sentence in a convict labor camp,
fourteen months ago, was starte'
today by the Madison county grand
jury.
Walter Higginbotham, alleged
boss of the convict camp Of the Put.
man Lumber company, where Ia
bert/was confined, located at Clara,
Fla, is in Jail here awaiting the
outcome of the investigation. Hig.
ginbotham is charged with murder
growing out of the death of the
North Dakotan, the state contend
ing that Tabert was f1ogged so Sc
verely that it produced death.
It is also charged that Tabert was
a victim of malaria fever and other
complications when he was given
the lash. Higginbotham, through
his attorney. has admitted the fog
girg, but contends that only few
light blows were given the youth.
and that death was due to pneu-
monia, according to the report of
the physician,
Charges True, Says Georgian
The state had assembled today
more than a score of witnesses,
some of them young men who were
arrested on minor charges and given
prison camp sentences and former
convict guards stationed at the lum-
Der camp where Tabert died.
"All of the activities at the camp
pertaining to brutalities to prisoners
are true" declared A. B. Shivers, of
Doe Run, Ga, a former guard. Shiv-
ers, while waiting to testify, told of
f1oggings ard other brutalities
which, he said. took place at the
prison camp. He said men were
forced to work waist high in water
in the swamp from sun-up to sun
down and that he was employed to.
stand over them with sawed off
shotgun to prevent their escape and
to speed them up in their work.
He declared that Higginbothanl.
rode around the camp astride a
white horse with a whip weighing
about seven and a half pounds hang
ing from the pommel of the saddle.
No man, he said, prisoner or guard
could survive the malaria il he re-
manned on the job. He said he quit
his job as a guard because of his
health,
J. w. Jackson, another guard, as.
serted he was prepared to tell
story Of how he made ready the
body Of Tabert for burial. He said
the body was almost mass of sores
while deep welts stood out on the
back of Tabeft. which he said were
caused by a heavy lash.
Jackson said that at least ten
men were whipped at one time in
the afternoon and at night. Among
them being Tabert. Tabert, he as
serted, was whipped severely.
More Than Ninety Licks
Jackson ard Shivers both assert
ed that they counted the ticks on
that occasion and they totaled more
than ninety.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Lyles are
on the list of witness. They said
they were in the vicinity Of the
prison camp on one occasion on a
fishing trip and declared ninety-six
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
$1,000 Is Asked
For Pint of Blood
In Seattle Court

SEATTLE, Wash, April 10. A
jury in superior court here today
faced the task of setting the value
of a pint of blood.
Arthur Castellani, waiter declared
itsworth $4,000. and is plaintiff in a
suit for that amount against Domi-
nick Bozzello, his employer.
Castellini alleges that he gave the
blood for a TRANSMISSION operation
upon BoZzello, when the latter was
i'll year ago.
Bozzello has set up a defense thai
he was unconscious when the opera
ton was performed, and knew moth
ing of it until afterWard, and could
not have agreed to pay Castellini
any definite price.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Vets Bureau Graft
Revelations Predicted
By General O'Ryan

WASHINGTON, April 11.-A pre-
diction that dishonesty on pretty
big scale w: be revealed here
and there" by the senate investiga-
ton Of the veterans bureau was
made today by John r. Organ, spe-
cial counsel for the Investigating
committee, on the basis of informa-
ton gathered by him in a prelini-
nary survey of conditions.
General Organ declined to go
into details, but indicated his belief
that to great degree the very
method of handling large funds in
the bureau had encouraged irregu-
larities. He said that wherever evil
dence of criminal acts was uncover
ed it would be laid before the de-
partment of justice.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
z Accused Of Being
Klansmen Abducted;
Left With Warning

CINCINNATI, April 11,-Bearing
on thei; backs. in stencil, the words
HE is a I<u Klux Hammer" two
men blindfolded and CARRIED only in
trousers and undershirts, were
thrown from an automobile in the
heart Of the city last night, in the
view of scores of persons.
Later two men appeared at police
headquarters and reported they had
been abducted by five unidentified
men, who, after taking them on a
wild ride in an automobile, took most
of their clothes, and warning them
not to take the matter up with the
police, under penalty of death, "
threw them out at prominent
downtown corner and sped away.
The victims, who gave their
names as William L. Miller and Err
win j. Burkhardt, statesmen, said
they are not members of the khan.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Asks Divorce, Charges
Wife Smokes Cigars
And Goes on 'Carousals

Alleging that his wife smokes both
cigars and cigarettes, and is only
home when she comes in from one
"carousal' and rests up for another,
Herman Smergel has filed suit for
divorce in the Fulton superior court
against Mrs. Nellie Smergel
The petitioner says he was mar
ried in July, 1917. Three years later,
he says, he instituted divorce pro
ceedings against his wife as a result
of domestic troubles, but withdrew
them when she promised to conduct
herself more agreeably.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Body of HeadIesS Victim
OF Texas SLAYER Identified

SULPHUR SPRINGS, Tex. April
9.-The body Of a man with. the
head shot off, apparently by a shot
gun, discovered three miles from
here yesterday, was identified today
as that of Ed Douglas, a painter of
Pittsburgh, Tex. He had been en-
ployed here several weeks Officers
say he was murdered, but that they
have no clue as to the identity Of the
slayer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

/ NeHS RIVER, Nt.-Harry A. Black,
Vermont secretary of state, is in
stantly killed by train.
/ ChicagO.-Horace G. Stone, law
yer, inventor and chief assistant to
William H. Taft in the presidential
campaign of 1908, dies.
London.-Lady Aston wins a vic
tory over the "wets" in the house
of commons when an amendment to
, her dry bill, which she opposed,
is defeated.
Mobile, Ala.-Mrs. F. f. Stephens,
is elected president of the Woman's
Missionary council of the Southern
Methodist church, and Tampa, Fla,
chosen as the next meeting place.
New YOrk.-Eight young women
Salvation Army workers are injured
when a speeding taxicab crashed
into the ranks of fifty girls who are
marching.
New YOrk.-The prohibition law
lis damnable and impracticable" and
|, should be repealed because it is i'm
practicable" United States Senator
Edward l. Edwards, New Jersey, de-.
clares.
New YOrk.-"Broadway white
| lights may remain but the hilarious
light of liquid joy must co." Prohi-
bition Commissioner Garfield says,
and asserts, 1--WE will make New
York dry or bust and we won't
bust
Chattanooga, Tenn.-Anti-Ku kluX
Khan candidates, including a Catholic
and Jew, are elected as city COM
missioners over those backed by the
| khan, although the khan candidate
for city judge defeats the incum.
| bent.
LOndOn.-Bonar Laws tory gov
eminent suffers it's first rebuke in
commons. The followers of Asquith
and Lloyd George unite and defeat
tories by vote of las to 1873. Sit
uation serious but belief is Bonar
Law will weather the storm.
LOndOn.-England is aroused over
its own folly in starting long dis
lance dancing contests and the
mayor says cts an idiotic idea verg-
ing on lunacy." He adds that the
regular licensed hours for dancing
will be vigorously enforced in the
future.
London. - The most active cam
paign in the Ruhr is against rail-
road men, a dispatch to the Times
from Dusseldorf says. In addition
to SO families evicted Saturday, 600
more are threatened this week be-
cause the men refuse to work under
Franco-Belgian direction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Student Flies ESQ
Miles in rs Minutes

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, April
10.-Lieutenant Thomas Thompson,
reserve officer in the air service. to-
day held a record of flying from Ell
Paso, Texas, to Albuquerque, N.
Mex, $50 miles, in one hour and
fifty-five minutes. Thompson made
the flight yesterday.
He is a student of the University
of New Mexico here, ard earns h.s
way trough school by giving "joy
rides" in his plane.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Ignoring of Foster
Worst Punishment,
Says Labor Leader

CHICAGO, April 3. - Matthew
Vol, vice president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, today call
ed upon the state of Michigan to
"inflict the greatest punishment pos
sible upon William Z. Foster, liberal
labor leader. by ignoring him"
VOL issued a statement declar-
ing that to retry Foster in the Mich
icA1 Communist cases wcul1 lie
making something out Of nothing, -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
President Assured
Tariff Has No Effect
On Price Of Sugar

WASHINGTON, April 10. -Presi.
dent Harding has received informal
assurance from the tariff commits
sion that the new tariff law has had
no effect on the price of sugar, and
it was indicated at the White House
today that the commission would
confer with him on the subject some
time during the week.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
VOTING DISADVANTAGES
FOR AMERICA DENIED
By David Lawrence

Especial Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
Copyright, 1881
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Ofi-
cial assurance was given today that
those who have been worrying about
"Britain's six votes to Americas
one" in choosing judges for the
world court were unnecessarily dis
turbed. <,
The government feels that the
United States is sufficiently protect
ed against any supposed inequality
in voting and the following eXpla-
nation is given on that point; Nomi-
nations for judges are submitted to
the council as well as to the assem-
bly, of the League of Nations. The
United States has one vote on the
council, and the entire British en-
pire has only one. In order for d
nomination to be ratified by the
council it must have a majority vote
of that body. Without the concur
renee of the council elections made
by the assembly are ineffective.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Florida Farmer Jailed
On Lite Girls Story

ARCADIA, Fla, April 10.-A. L.
Wilson, farmer, thirty, married, liV-
ing two miles south of, Wauchula. is
in Jail here today charged with at
lacking a ten-year-old girl residing
on a neighboring farm. The alleged
attempt was made while she was on
her way to school Monday.
According to Sheriff C. S. Dis
hong, who brought Wilson here be-
cause, he said, feeilrg was running
high against the mar in Wauchula,
added that the prisoner had signed
q statement confirming the child's
story except that he attacked her.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF

ChicagO.-Senatoc Fess, at Hamil-
ton club, asserts that President Har.
ding will be renominated without
/ opposition.
! Bochum. - Germans hold demon
stration as the first carload of grain
sent by Soviet Russia for Ruhr re-
| lief arrived.
New YOrk.-Conference Of Meth
odist Episcopal church votes against
ordaining women as ministers III
that denomination.
Des Moines, Ia.-Women are eX
horted to do their mightiest to stop
wars at conferences of National
League of Women Voters.
Washington. - Arthur c.. Louder,
former postmaster and defeated can
didate for mayor of Chicago, is -ap-
pointed acting postmaster there.
Riga The anti-Jewish agitation
in the Homel district causes the emf
grafton of more than 500 Jews, des-
tined for the United States or Pal
estine.
New York. - Mr.. John Blackwell
Strong, capitalist, sixty-five, is found
dead in room on train on it's arrival
at Pennsylvania station from Hot
Springs, Ark. ;t.tr
Washington. - American govern
ment shows it's adherence Of Soviet
government by refusing admittance
to Madame Kalinin, wife of Rus.
sian president.
Baton Rouge, La.-Suit contest
ing nomination of II. F. Brunot for
associate justice of supreme court
thrown out of district court. Brunot
was anti-klan candidate.
Observation-Disclosures university over
seers vote that institution shall
maintain its traditional policy of
freedom from racial or religious dis
elimination in rules for admission.
Philadelphia.-Coney c. Slaughter
is arrested here, having been want
ed in Colorado for looting Mercan-
tile National Bank of Pueblo of more
than $350,000 while cashier i'll 1915.
Perry, CAT. o. Teal goes on
trial for murder of 3. j. Houser at
Grovania, pleading not guilty. Hous-
er was killed when struck by Teal's
auto. State contends Teal was drunk
ADMINISTRATIVE reduction in
Bell telephone rates ordered by
public service commission. Every
town except Albany affected. Re.
duction will amount to $32S,235 a
year. ------- r---s----=-as= .s=,,r--y a---=s.-
New YOrk-Miss Alma CUMMINGS,
of San Antonio, Tex, skaters the
long distance dancing record by
stepping for so continuous hours.
She uses up the energy of two or
chestras and seven men partners.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12

blows were given a prisoner.
Glen Thompson, native OF Iowa,
who served d sentence in the Put
man Lumber companys camp, and
who is said to have started the inVes-
tigation into the, death of Tabert,
asserted that the North Dakota
youth died as result of a whip
ping given him by Higginbotham
He declared that Tabert at the time
was almost blind with malaria and
that he helped the North Dakotan
from a freight car to camp on the
afternoon of the flogging and was
leading him to his bunk when the
order was given for Tabert to lie
down on the ground for the whip
ping.
Another f!ogging was given the
youth, Thompson said. as he lay on
his bunk that night. Tabert, he al
legged, never recovered from his
semi-stupor, dying three days lat
er He asserted that other prisoners
begged the guard to remove the body
from the bunk house.
Tabert's Burial
Tom Virgins, q former negro
convict, arrived from his home III
Taylor county. as one of the wit
nesses. Virgins declared that he
helped prepare the body Of Tabert
for burial, and that the shroud used
was the clothing of a negro con-
vict who had escaped the previous
night. Virgins asserted that the
coffin was an ordinary pine box
and that the body was buried in
the convict cemetery near Clara
Florida.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Bold Robbers Obtain
Pistol and Is Cents
From Bank at Ora,

GRAY, Ga, April 1.-THE bank
here was entered last night and a
pistol and rs cents stolen from
a drawer. The vault was not en-.
tered. No clue to the robbers has
been found.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
u. S. Debt Commission
To Meet on Monday to
Finish Funding Plan

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE
American foreign debt funding COM
mission has been called to meet next
Monday to give further study to the
British debt settlement, which is
now approaching completion.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
Florida Sheriff Resigns
To Manage Stock Farm
Near Cleveland, Georgia

FORT MYERS, Fla, April a.
Frank Tippins, for % years sheriff
of Lee county, resigned today to be-
come manager of large stock farm
near Cleveland, Ga. His successor
has not been named.