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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
8 KILLED, 90 HURT
AS STORM WRECKS
MISSISSIPPI TOWN

MEMPHIS, March 16.-Eight
persons were killed and fifty or
more injured in storm which
wrecked the village Of Savage, in
Tate county, Mississippi, late yes
terday and swept through sections
of Pamela and Quitman counties,
according to word received today
from the stormswept area.
Savage, forty miles south Of
Memphis, on the Yazoo and Mis-
sissippi Valley railroad, was wrecked
by a windstorm two months ago, one
man losing his life.
Four of the reported fatalities were
negro farm hands living near Lam
bert, in Quitman county.
John Kerr, merchant, crushed
when his store at Savage was de-
molished, died early today at Cren'
shaw, where he was taken for med
ical attention, according to w. S.
Mccoy, a telegraph operator at
Crenshaw, who brought the first
definite news Of the storms havoc
to Memphis today, and three other
persons, a man named Chambers,
his wife and son, were drowned
when they were blown into Cold
Water river.
Mrs. T. II. Rich, of Savage, was
brought to a hospital here today
with her skull Fractured. Her con-
dition was reported as critical.
Relief parties were sent from
Crenshaw to Savage.
A church and three or four
homes were said to have been de-
stroyed at Phillip.
Property loss was suffered at Sar'
dis. Senatobia, fernando, Cold
water, and Sarah, while severe wind
or electrical storms were reported
at Tunica and other towns. Tupelo.
across in the eastern part of Mis-
sissippi, is reported to have ST
fered from high winds.
Tunica and Clarksdale were me
onlv points in the northwest sec.
ton early today which could be
reached by telephone from Mem
phis. Vicksburg, Jackson, West
Point and New Orleans were alike
inaccessible. by telephone.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
II Missing Spoons
Found in Stomach
OF Hospital Inmate

PARSONS, Kans., March 10
The mystery of the missing silver
ware at the. State Hospital Tor
Epileptics here was solved today,
when q teaspoons were found in
the stomach of James A. Malgrene,
a patient, physicians declared.
An operation on Malgrene's stom-
ach also disclosed a handful OF
wooden sticks and a safety pin.
Table silver disappeared mysterl-
ously for several weeks. An at
tendant yesterday saw Malgrene
top off a meal by swallowing one
spoon and reaching for another
An X-ray examination revealed the
silver chest and an operation was
ordered. Malgrene had been in ex-
cellent health.
Physicians and hospital attendants
were unable to explain the physical
feat wherein Malgrene could dis
pose of a teaspoon in a gulp.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Boy Shoots His Father,
Then Sobs Over Body
As Elder Lies Dying

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Mar. 10
Charles Mitchell, widely known bust
ness man, was shot and killed by his
son, Oscar Mitchell contractor. in
the street here Wednesday. The
elder Mitchell, according to the po-
lice, threatened his son.
When the father fell with four
bullets in his body. the sou dropped
to his knees, kissed the dying mans
forehead and wept.
More than 100 citizens signed the
sons bond of $4,000.
The trouble came to a head Febru'
airy Is, when the elder Mitchell was
released from Jail, after serving a
sentence for possessing moonshine.
After being released, Oscar de-
clared he fired when his father made
a motion as if to draw a pistol.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
The Weather

Virginia: Saturday fair and colder;
southeast and south gales shifting
to northwest Friday night.
North Carolina and South Caro-
lima: Saturday fair and colder;
strong southeast and south winds
and probably gales shifting to north
west.
Georgia.: Saturday fair and colder;
strong southeast and south winds
and probably gales shifting to north
west.
Florida: Saturday fair and cooler;
fresh to strong southeast and south
winds, probably gales over extreme
north portion shifting to northwest.
Extreme northwest Florida and
Alabama: Saturday fair; strong
northwest winds.
Mississippi: Saturday fair with
slowly rising temperature.
Tennessee, Kentucky: Saturday
fair; colder in extreme east ana
warmer in extreme west portion.
Arkansas: Saturday fair, not so
cold.
Oklahoma and West Texas: Sat
urday fair, rising temperature.
East Texas: Saturday fair, warmer.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Iowa Senator Declares
Water Must Be Taken
From Railroad Stocks

DIES MONIES. Ia, March ID
"Now that the ship subsidy is
dead the next big problem which
confronts congress is revision o.
the transportation act so as tc
squeeze the seven billion dollars OF
watered stock out of railroad valua
TONS Senator Smith w. Brook
hart, Junior senator from Iowa, de
clared here last night in speech
before the Des Moines Press club
Senator Brookhart said he was
opposed to the suggestion that the
government take over $4,000 miles
Of weaker railroads. "The Wal
street crowd would be only toe
glad to unload the weak roads on
the government and continue the
private. opera ton of the strong roads
at high rates and great profits,
he declared. IF the government
should take over any roads, 1t
should take over the Pennsylvania
system, the Burlington and the
Union Pacific first" he said.
The latest recruit to join the
army of propa gandists' who are
circulating beautifully pr1nte d
pamphlets everywhere in favor of
the railroads at the expense Of the
farmers, who pay for them in high
freight rates, is James C. Davis,
the, director general of the rail
roads, according to Senator Brook
hart
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Heaviest Snowfall
OF Winter Blankets
Nebraska and Iowa

OMAHA, Neb., March 1.-THE
heaviest general snow of the winter
blanketed Nebraska and western
Iowa yesterday and last night, and
is continuing this morning with no
sign of abatement.
The fall at Omaha has been over
8 inches, resulting in demoralized
street traffic. The fall over Ne
braska, according to railroad reports,
have averaged over inches. Sioux
City, Iowa, reported inches.
A brisk wind sprang up yester-
day and the snow began to drift
badly threatening to tie up rail-
road service.
Worth a million dollars" was the
unanimous opinion of ranchers or
stock men, visiting the live stock
markets at South Omaha Wednes.
day. Just what the winter wheat
needs" they said.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
BOARD EXPLAINS
Recommendations
IN CASE Of BAKERS
Was Cold BIooded Murder Of
Aged Man After Reckless
Youths Terrorized Train,
His Letter Says

A statement of their reasons for
recommending communication from
death to life Imprisonment of the
sentence of Ralph Baker and rec
ommending execution Of the death
sentence Of George Baker, the Wal
ker county brothers sentenced to
hang for the murder of j. w. Nor
ton, aged deputy sheriff Of that
county, was issued Friday by the
prison commission.
In the statement it is set forth
that George Baker was over twetl-
ty-one years old when the murder
was committed, that he approached
Morton and started an alteration
and slapped him, that he had a
pistol and joined in the firing, and
that Morton was wounded three
times, any one of which wounds
would have produced death.
Having provoked the difficulty,
there is no mitigation in his case,
and the evidence as to his mental
deficiency is not such as to change
the character. of the crime or to
mitigate the offense," says the state
ment.
Regarding Ralph Baker, the COM
missions statement sets forth the
conflicting contentious of his par
ents and the state, the former that
he was born in 1907, and the latter
that he was born in 1902, and out
of this conflict the commission
came to the conclusion that he was
born in 1906, which made him
slightly more than fifteen years old
when the crime was committed in
1921.
"A boy of that age" says the
statement, has not sufficient dis
erection to be held to such a degree
of accountability for his acts as
would call for the death penalty"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Woman Found Guilty
As Leader in Plot
To Loot State Bank

INDIANAPOLIS, March 16.-Mrs.
Mamie Isley, alleged leader of a
plot t. rob the Alert, Ind, State
bank, was found guilty by a jury
that returned a verdict today after
celebrating most of the night. She
will be sentenced next Saturday. The
maximum penalty is two to fourteen
years in the women's prison and a
fine of $1,000.
Mrs. Isley's trial was completed
yesterday. Eight other persons, in
GLIDING her husband, Alfred Isley,
and her daughter, Opal, are under
indictment in connection with the
robbery of the bank last May when
$4,000 in bonds and $4,000 in cur
rencV WAS stolen.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
TO |ND|CT
CARTERS IN ECHOLS
KILLING A FAILURE
Attorney General Napier
Writes Governor He Is Un-
able to Get Action in Cat
tIe-Dipping Death Case

The grand jury of Echols county
has refused to indict Mann Garter
and his son, Will Carter, for the
murder Of Max Lockridge, a cattle
tick inspector, whom they are &C
cused Of shooting to death on Feb
ruary 8, according to information
received by the governors office
Friday morning from Attorney
General Napier.
The attorney general went to
Statewide, the Echols county
seat, at the direction of Governor
Hardwick for the purpose of pre-
senting the evidence to the grand
jury and requesting an Indictment
for murder. In sending the attorney
general on this mission Governor
Hardwick stated that he regarded
the killing as a direct assault upon
the state. Colonel Napier arrived
in Statewide on Tuesday morning.
His letter containing the announce
ment of the grand jury refusal to
indict was mailed Thursday and
reached the capitol Friday morning.
Roy Richie, a cattle tick in
spector in company with Lochridge
when the killing occurred, gave the
grand jury an eyewitness descrip-
ton. He is said to have testified
that the Carriers attacked him and
Lochridge with shot guns while
their backs were turned and that
Lochridge was killed by the first
volley and that afterwards he was
shot through the stomach with a
shotgun while he lay dead on the
ground. Richie testified that he
escaped with his life by running
through the woods and wading
through a swamp. He was shot
several times in the back with shot
guns and once in the back with
a pistol as he ran. He testified
that he was not armed and that
Lochridge was not armed; that the
killing was unprovoked and grew
out of nothing more than service
upon the Carriers of a notice that
some of their tick-infested cattle
had been put in quarantine.
What further action, if any, Gov
ernor Hardwick will take in the
case could not be learned. The gov
ernor left Thursday morning for
Florida and did not expect to be
back in his Office until about the
first of April.
Before sending the attorney gem
eral to Statewide, Governor Hard
wick had offered a reward Of $500
each for the arrest of the Carriers.
They are still at large.
DR.. Bahnsen, state veterinarian,
in general charge Of cattle tick eradl-
cation, informed the attorney gen.
eral before the 1atter's departure Tor
Statewide, that the Carriers, in his
opinion, are hiding in Echols county
and could be apprehended in a few
hours if a sincere effort were made
ty the local authorities.
DR.. Bahnsen had previously, in
letter TO the governor, accused the
sheriff of the county Of being in sym
pathy with them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Girls $4,000 Suit
Against Babe Ruth
Is Filed by Attorney

NEW YORK, March 16. - The
$4,000 suit of Dolores Dixon against
Babe Ruth, Yankee home run slug
ger, accusing Ruth of attacking her
during motor trips to Long Island,
was filed in the New York county
clerks office today by George Fem
berg, her lawyer.
The complaint alleges that Ruth
is the father of a child, as yet I'M
born to Miss Dixon.
The complaint against Ruth,
sworn to by Barbara Escoe, guar
dian ad Item for Miss Dixon, de-
clares also that Ruth was q visitor
at her home during July and Au-
gust, 1922, and that hetreated her
brutally.
Ruth, who is training with the
New York Americans at New Or
leans, several days ago, through his
attorney, characterized the charge as
blackmail. He claimed he did not
know Miss Dixon
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Young Woman Leaps
Into the Niagara River;
Is Swept Over Falls

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, March
15.-A woman leaped into the river
about 80 feet above the brink of the
American falls today and was swert
to- death over the cataract. She
apparently was about 25 years Id
and we'll dressed, wearing a brown
tailored suit, gray stockings and
chinchilla dolman. She engaged
an automobile at the Imperial hotel
earlier in the day to make ii to;ir
Of points of interest.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Jeffersonian Magazine
Nav Be Revived

George W.Seals well known fol-
lower of the late United States SEN
ator Thomas E. Watson, has issued
a call to the several hundred stock
holders in the old "Jeffersonian" to
communicate with him at once, in
order that an early meeting of the
stockholders may be held in At
lanta.
1.-THE Columbia Sentinel, one of the
late senator's publications, now is
being published with the equipment
of the Jeffersonian Publishing COM
pany," said Mr.. Seals. 1--WE want
the stockholders to get together in
order that we may revive the JEFF
fersonian and place it in charge of
an editor who will perpetuate the
policies for which Mr.. Watson stood
during his life time"
Mr.. Seals said persons interested
could reach him at 497 Stewart ave-
nue., Atlanta.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
School Children Drunk,
Dry Agents Raid House
On Boards Complaint

NEWARK, N. j.. March 10
Stirred by reports of children stag
gering to school so drunk they had
to be taken home, federal prohibi-
ton enforcement agents Thursday
raided a Tyler street dwelling and
seized a quantity of homemade
liquor and a f1ve-gallon still.
The attendance department of the
Newark school board filed the COM
al
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TOLD IN BRIEF

BaltimOre.-Wliliam S. Carter,
former president Of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
| men, dies.
st. Louis.-Friends OF missing
Father Vranial, Of Virden, ILL.,, will
lay their problem before Bishop
Ryan, of Alton.
New York.-Cotton mill workers
rivet their attention on Fall River,
. Mass, where thirty-six thousand
! operatives seek wage advance.
Dublin, Ga.-Miss Marie Dykes.
Of Cochran, representing Bleckley
county, is crowned queen of the
Twelfth district at the fair here.
Helena, MOnt.-Governor Dixon
signs a bill. recently passed by the
state legislature, providing for the
sterilization of congenital idiots and
insane.
Milledgeville, Ga.-Colonel j. N.
Haddock, president of Georgia Mill
tary college, who has resigned, an
nounces he will open a boys school
in Atlanta.
New YOrk.-Heroic work of 80 sis
tiers Of Providence saved the lives
of $50 patients when the Roman
/ Catholic home for incurables here
is destroyed.
New YOrk.-Irish republican sym.
pathizers ask Mayor Hylan to stop
st. Patrick's day parade but Hylan
tells them police will avert any
possible trouble.
Louisville, Ky.-Mrs. Mary K
Mack pleads guilty to defrauding
the late DR.. J. E. Harper, of Chicago,
and William F. Casey, San Antonio,
| Tex, of a sum in excess of 100000.
Northumberland Orange lodge, OF
Manitoba, meeting at Winnipeg, pro-
tests against suggested visit of King
George to Pope Plus this spring as
an outrage upon Protestant constitu-
| ton.
Augusta, CAB. B. Smith, f1f-
teen-year-old boy held at the city
stockade as runaway from his
! home at Gainesville, is drowned
while trying to swim the canal and
escape.
New YOrk.-Girl known as
Dorothy King, an. artists model,
found dead in an apartment in Fifty.
seventh street, New York city, and
authorities are baffled, by what looks
like mysterious crime.
Aberdeen, Miss.-Mrs. High Nor
ris is found guilty Of the murder Of
her husband by poisoning and is
given life Imprisonment. She hears
the verdict without show of emotion
though her four small children weep
bitterly. An appeal will be taken.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17

OttaWa.-The house OF commons
defeats a resolution calling for the
rehabilitation of the royal Canadian
mounted police.
New York. - Willie Hoppe, world
.1S.9 balk line billiard champion, re-
tains his title, defeating Jake Schaef-
er, 1900 to 1,S41.
Paris.-Allied ambassadors circum-
vent feared trouble by fixing the
frontiers between Poland and Rus
STA in sanctioning the Ria treaty.
Berlin. - The Allgemeine Zeitung
declares thunder hangs in the air
over the Ruhr, and if it ever breaks,
woe to the French and woe to all
Europe"
AtIanta.-W. H. Abbott, secretary
Of the Georgia association, an,
nounces negotiations are under way
to bring a colony of Swiss dairymen
to Georgia.
New Orleans. - Authorities make
the first of thirty or forty expected
arrests in the cleanup of white
slave and smuggling ring operating
out of this port.
Springfield, IlIs.-The Illinois leg
islature orders a complete investiga-
ton of the rioting. at the Lester
strip mine at Herrin last June in
which twenty-five lives were lost.
Chicag0-Rodolph Valentino and
Winifred Hudnut, whom he married
in Mexico last year, are remarked
by justice of peace at Crown Point,
Indiana.
Ottawa, Ont.-House of commons
is told Chief Justice Taft, of the
United States supreme court, was
given a $4,000 fee for acting arbi-
traitor in the Grand Trunk railroad
cases.
MineOla, n. VA jury selected
for its professional ability to try
the case on its merits, unhampered
by the defendants SEX acquitted
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Billie) Wells
of the murder of James M. Petit,
innkeeper.
LOndOn.-Russia's leaders, Lenine
and Trotzky, are doomed to die, ac-
cording to Charles r. Crane. former
American minister to China. The
premier is in a dying condition, and
Trotzky is afflicted with an incurable
disease, he says.
Lawrenceville, Ga.-Mrs. w. r.
Holmes and her daughter, Mrs.
Irma McCown, are acquitted by
jury Of charges brought against
them and the complainant. r. 3.
Fortune, attorney of this place, is
charged with malicious prosecution.
The women had been passengers in
a car in which liquor was found.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Notice

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Confessed Texas Slayer
Is Guarded at Trial

WACO, Texas, March 15.-With
Texas rangers and McLennan county
peace officers on guard, Roy Mitch
ell, negro, went to trial today charg-
ed with the murder of w. E. Holt.
January 10. Mrs. Ethel Denecamp,
Hollis companion, also was killed
and Mitchell is charged with STAY
ing her.
On March 6 the McLennan county
grand jury returned nine indictments
against Mitchell, for murder and as
sault. Yesterday the grand jury
billed Mitchell on four other counts.
He has confessed to twelve of the
charges.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Gold Imports of u. S.
During February Were
Smaller Than Usual

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Im-
ports of gold to the United States
during February were valued at S.
382.736 and were smaller than those
of any month il the last three years.
Gold exports totaled $1.399,039, close
to the average.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17

MISS EVELYN LYONS. of
Escambia, Mich, whose item
perature" of ia degrees, main
tanned for weeks, puzzling ply
sicians of her home town, only
recently was found to be
hoax, accomplished with the
aid of hot water bottles.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
First Of Army Plane
Fleet Reaches Haiti
On Porto Rican Trip

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. March
l5.-(By the Associated Press.) 1.-The
first of the six United States army
airplanes engaged in a test flight
from San Antonio to Porto Rico ar
rived here soon after 1880 o'clock
this morning.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Father and Three
Children Burned to
Death in Tennessee

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March 10
Albert Russner and three children
were burned to death near Coalfield
last night. Their bodies were found
in the ruins. Another child was Wis
iting relatives. They are of prom
inent family.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
12-Year-0 Old Hero

CHICAGO.-Twelv -year-old Ed
ward McEwan jumped into the river
and rescued a child who had fallen
in.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
YOUTH KIDNAPPED WHILE
SCHOOLMATES LOOK on

MlLLEDGEVlLLE "a, Mafch 10
While officials and pupils of the
boys training school looked on yes
terday afternoon, Eugene Kitchens,
fourteen, a pupil of the school, was
kidnapped by two. men.
Kitchens was committed to the
school, which is an institution for de-
linquent boys, about a week ago
from Augusta.
All the boys in the school are put
on an honor system, and yesterday
afternoon when a stranger, giving
his name as John Davis, appeared
and asked to see young Kitchens, the
boy was permitted to walk to the
gate with the man. Shortly after
wards, another man drove up in an
automobile. The boy and Davis got
into the automobile, and were driven
hurriedlY aWaV.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-17
Two Men Arrested on
Charge of kidnapping
Training School Boy

THOMSON, Ga, March 1.-two
men, said to be John Davis and Col
lie Jones, of Augusta, were arrested
here this afternoon on a charge of
kidnapping Eugene Kitchens, a youth,
an inmate of the training school for
moys at Milledgeville.
Officers said that the men ad-
mitted that they kidnapped the boy
and left him in Macon. They will
be carried back to Milledgeville and
lodged in the Baldwin county Jail to
await trial.