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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Montgomery Police
Ordered to Arrest
Masked Paraders

MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 21.--
Orders were issued to Montgomery
police today to arrest any masked
person appearing on the streets OIL
Montgomery. The orders came from
James H. hardaway. commissioner
of police, who declared himself OPP
posed to any parades or demonstra-
lions by the Ku Klux Khan.
The orders sent to Chief OF Police
Taylor by Mr.. Hardaway follow:
81 am informed that posters nave
been placed over the city signed by
the K X X. See that these post
ers are taken down and IL there has
been anv heterogeneous of the laws
haze the n~ooer warrants issued TO-
the offending parties.
81 am informed that there will be
in the near future a masked parade
bv the Ku KluX Khan or some other
organization. Specifically instruct
YOUR men to arrest any person or
persons who violate the law in going
masked on the streets of Montgom-
cry. We do not wish this city ter
rorized and will hold to strict ac-
countability any person who permits
any infringement of the law The
enforcement of the laws is in the
hands of the state, county and city
We propose to keep that law OBJ
served
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Convict Is Accused
Of Forging Checks
In His Prison Cell

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July I'll
Stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cell. And a man.
though imprisoned, may still prac-
tice his profession.
For instance:
A Birmingham department store
received a 500 certified check, to-
gether with an order for merchan'
disc for that amount, from a post
office address in Montgomery. The
goods were sent-and the check
came back, which LED to investiga.
tions.
Detectives today announced that
the merchandise had peen found at
Kilby prison, the state penitentiary
together with large amount OF
other things ordered from various
national mail order houses. ]. T.
Mayes, convict, already doing six
years for forgery, is accused of hav-
ing forged the check and the certi-
fled stamp.
The case will be turned over to
federal authorities and charges of
using the mails to defraud Jrobably
will result, but Uncle Sam cannot act
until the states sentence against
Mayes runs out.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Mrs. Billiards. Case
Set for Tuesday in
Cobb County Court

MARIETTA, ca, July 23.-Triai
of Mrs. Ruth Billiard on a charge
of assault with intent to murder IL
connection with the shooting of her
husband, D. D. Billiard, at their
Powder Springs home the night of
July 9, is scheduled to begin in Cobb
superior court Tuesday morning at
9 o'clock. This hour has been ten
tatively set by court authorities.
Today's sessions of the court were
taken up with pleas of guilty ant
other cases of lesser Importance.
According to present plans. it is
understood that the case agalnsr
Simeon Edwards, also charged with
assault with intent to murder in con
nection with the shooting, will be
called after the conclusion of Mrs.
Billiards. trial. They are held I'm.
der a joint Indictment, but thei:
counsel elected to try the cases sep
9rately. Mrs. Billiard is held under
$4,000 bond, While Edwards is out
on bail of $4,000.
The prosecution, in the hands of
Solicitor General John Wood, viii
introduce between twenty and thir
ty witnesses. 1t IS understood that
Fred Morris, attorney for Mrs. Bul.
ard, plans to use at least eight Wit
neSses. Judge Newt Morris. coun
sci for Edwards, has not disclosed
his plans. although it is thought that
he will rely on an alibi to free his
client.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
CALIFORNIA JARED
BY SEVERE QUAKE;
THREE ARE INJURED

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July "a
(By the Associated Press .)-South-
ern California was Jared late last
night and early this morning by a
of sufficient violence to shatter plate
glass windows and send tons of stone
and brick tumbling from buildings.
The shocks were heaviest in San
Bernardino and Redlands, milder
shocks being felt between 11:2S p.
M, and / a. M, elsewhere from San
Diego on the south to Santa Barbara
Arizona state line.
Three men lying in their beds in
San Demanding were severely in.
jured by falling debris. Two dodgers
in a rooming house were buried
under a roof. Rocks weighing more
than 200 pounds, plunging from the
roof of higher building, crashed
into the room Of George r. Fisher,
shattering the bed in which he slept.
Fisher however, was hit by cQFll-
3paratively small missile, which
crushed his shoulders and fractured
one of his hands. Dozens of plate
glass windows were broken in Red
lands and several buildings suffered
minor damage.
Typical of the pranks reported
from all points were those of a sharp
tremor in Los Angeles. Here the
brief shocks stopped clocks, set off
burglar alarms, ratified and broke
dishes and cracked plaster.
Oil wells on the Warren ranch,
south of San Bernardino, which had
not flowed for years, gushed forth
Immediately after the quake.
Several hundred patients in the
Iona Linda sanitarium, near San
Bernardino, were alarmed when plas-
ter crashed from the walls and chem.
icl containers in the laboratory burst
with loud reports. The patients
were quoted and an examination
disclosed that none had been hurt.
In some instances power, light and
telephone service was disrupted for
a time.
Reports had it that tremors had
been felt in the northwestern part of
Arizona but there had been no con
f1rmation this morning as telegraph
and telephone service into that dis
trict from Los Angeles failed
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
ONE DEAD, z HURT IN
QUARREL OVER 81
At CHURCH MEET
Tom Afford Is Shot to Death
While Awaiting Doctor to
Dress His Knife Wounds
Griffin Brothers Disabled

OAK PARK, Ga, July 23.-In a
knife and gun battle staged on the
main business street of Oak Park
Sunday afternoon, Tom Afford, thir-
ty, was cut and shot to death, Eden
Griffin was seriously shot and
wounded, and Walton Griffin was
badly wounded by blow over the
head.
The row, according to officers,
started Ger 81 at church near Oak
Park, where an all-day singing
was in progress. Later, it was re-
newed at the home of the Griffin
boys and terminated in a fight later
in Oak Park.
Walton Griffin early in the bat
tie was knocked unconscious by a
blow over the head with the butt
end of a pistol. Eden Griffin turned
on Afford with a knife and almost
severed one of his ears. also cutting
him badly about the face and chest.
DULL lll1Il anu AllOLo ga
changed shots and Griffin fell to
the ground with a bullet wound
above his heart. The shooting sub
sided for few moments and doctors
we're. summoned.
While waiting on the doctors to
arrive, the belligerents, it is said,
reloaded their pistols and started
firing at one another again. Afford
fell MORALLY wounded and died be-
fore medical aid arrived.
The, dead man is a brother of j..
A. Afford, who, several years ago,
shot and killed Deputy United States
Marshal Ben Wilson. at Soperton,
Ga. He was unmarried. He was en-
ployed by the Georgia and Florida
Railway company.
The two Griffin boys are World
war veterans and reside at Oak Park.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Supreme Court Rules
On Ala. Timber Land
Case, Filed in 1911

DETROIT, July 21.-The state
supreme TT late yesterday got a
load off it's chest when it rendered
a decision in Michigans longest
and bulkiest law suit.
The decision upheld that OF Judge
Clyde Webster, in circuit court here
four years ago, awarding 100000 to
Samuel A. Wilson and associates in
their action against Chester G.
White and associates.
The suit had it's inception in III L.
The case involved the purchase III
1888 of $1,000 acres or Alabama tim
Der land by seven Michigan men, in
Guiding Wilson and White. The
group later sold it's holding for 81
100000. While acting as agent in
the south for the group, Wilson
made individual purchases and the
other members of the group sought
a share in these profits.
Under an injunction granted VIII
son in 1911 the entire fund was held
up and several years later partial
settlement was made under which
Wilson was given $4,000. BY the
decision affirmed yesterday he is
given an additional 100000 and the
case is closed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Dismissed Tennessee
Professors Do Not
Seek Reinstatement

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 21.-
None of the seven professors of the
University of Tennessee who failed
of reelection last Tuesday has
taken any public step toward a pos
sible reinstatement.
Although President H. A. Nor.
gan has indicated that he is recep-
tive to any negotiations the ousted
professors or their friends may wish
to inaugurate, none has acted. 1t
is understood efforts are being made
to bring about another meeting of
the board Of trustees. with a view
to possible action, but this plan has
taken no definite form.
General Cary F. Spence, of Knox
vile, was yesterday appointed by
Governor Austin Peay as successor
to Justice E. T. Sanford on the
board of trustees. Justice Sanford
declined reappointment because of
having moved his residence from
Tennessee to Washington, when be-
coming a member fthe United
States supreme court. General
Spence is known to be a staunch
friend and admirer of President
Morgan
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
DIVIDED SESSIONS
IDEA IS ABANDONED,
GOVERNOR REVEALS
Leaders Of House and Sen
ate to Meet in Effort to
Eliminate Friction Over
Taxation Problem

Governor Walker and leaders Of
the house and senate will hold a con-
ference Monday evening in an effort
TO reach 3n agreem mt whereby both
branches Of the general assembly
will be willing to work in harmony in
solving the tax problems of the
state.
1t will be an open meeting and the
governor and a number of legisla-
tive leaders, including President
George Carswell, of the senate, and
Speaker Cecil Neill, of the house, are
scheduled for speeches in which they
will frankly express their views on
the tax questions now pending.
Perfect harmony between the two
branches is what I most DESIRE the
governor said, "and 1 believe the re:
suit of this conference will insure it.
"There is no indication of leg1s-
latIve row this year, Notwithstanding
reports to the contrary. The mem
bers of both houses have thus far
shown an earnest desire to serve the
state well, and am greatly pleased
with the progress that has been made
to date"
The discussion in the conference
naturally will turn to the probable
attitude of the senate on the bill re-
pealing the tax equalization law,
which has passed the house, and the
attitude of the house on the Lank-
ford income tax measure, which has
passed the senate.
Would Avoid Controversy
Efforts will be made to have the
house proceed at once to act on the
income tax measure, it being the
view of the governor and other lead
ers that the senate would readily re-
peal the equalization act if the house
voted for a substitute taxation Sys-
tenn.
Last week, the governor has been
informed, some house members de-
clared they would try to block all
legislation until the senate concurred
in the repeal of the present tax act.
At the same time, he was told, mem
bers of the senate made ready to
combat the repeal bill until an in
come tax or other revenue-produc-
ing measure had been approved by
both branches.
A prolonged controversy between
the house and senate, the governor
thinks, would not be welcomed by
the people Of Georgia, and it is to
avoid any such situation that Mon
day nights harmony conference.
has been called.
II am satisfied that an agreement
is in sight continued the governor
land that harmony in the general,
assembly will continue to prevail"
"Split Session" Abandoned
Governor Walker announced that
he has abandoned his suggestion
that the assembly remain in session
thirty days and adjourn to come
back later in the year and devote
the remaining twenty days to the
exclusive discussion of the tax ques-
ton.
"It looks now" he said, ''that the
tax problem will be solved satisfac-
torily within a few days, a, there
will be no need for a split session,
nor for an extra session later in
the year."
The governor approved The plan
of house leaders to hold afternoon
sessions. beginning Monday. in or
der to get the many important
measures thus far introduced in
readiness for final action. He said
leaders had informed him Saturday
that the appropriations bill will be
ready for submission to the house
within A. few DAVIS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Young Boy, Sentenced
For Theft of a Dozen
Eggs, Is Given Parole

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 21.-
The S-year-oid boy who was SEN
fenced to the state reformatory here
for stealing a dozen eggs, has gone
back to the farm, to his home in
Green county, Tennessee.
His parole was issued Friday aft
err serving only short part of his
sentence.
The case is paralleled in Tennes-
see history only ~ that OF a youth
who was sent to the reformatory
here last year charged with having
stolen an Eskimo pie valued at ten
cents, and who is still confined.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
The Weather

Virgins. Generally fair Tuesday.
North Carolina: Generally fair
Tuesday.
South Carolina: Tuesday, prob
ably fair.
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi:
Generally fair Tuesday, except prob
ably scattered thundershowers in
extreme south portion.
Florida: Local thundershowers
probable Tuesday.
. Tennessee and Kentucky: Partly
cloudy Tuesday.
Louisiana, Oklahoma and west
Texas: Tuesday, generally fair.
Arkansas and East Texas: Tues
day, partly cloudy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
POSSES COMD|NC
KILLS FOR ELEVEN
ESCAPED MA|VIACS

CHESTER, ILL.,, July 23.-All but
eleven Of 81 convicts who escaped
during riot they precipitated at
the Illinois State hospital for the
criminally insane, had been recap
tured today.
William Jackson, Chicago MUIR
derer. was killed and four guards
and DR.. Frank A Stubblefield, SUI
perintendent of the hospital, were
wounded in fighting that accom-
panied the outbreak last night.
Seventy-five convicts took part in
the fighting. Those recaptured were
found hidden among the hills, in un-
derbrush and in barns after they
had stabbed guards and battered q
hole in the barrel steel fence around
the hospital "bull pen"
DIR. Stubblefield said the hundreds
of guards, deputies and citizens
searching surrounding Illinois and
Missouri territory expect to capture
the eleven still free today.
| Business. in Chester, a town of
I 1000, is suspended while armed men
guard their homes and women and
children are kept locked indoors.
About thirty men stabbed and
| fought their way to freedom, before
reserve guards stopped the STAN.
pete. six of these later being cap.
tured.
Superintendent Trampfed
Dr. Stubblefield was knocked
down, trampled and sustained a
| fractured arm in leading the guards
against the craZed men. Posses to-
falling hundreds of casylum guards,
deputy sheriffs and citizens ranged
the counties of Randolph. Perry,
Jackson and Monroe, Illinois, and
immediate territory across the river
in Missouri, in search of the men to.
day.
Many adjacent homes were barri-
caded against invasion of the con-
victs, many of them murderers. The
countryside was thrown into a state
OF terror akin to panic when the
break became known.
Ralph Dilbay, James Benny,
George Clark and H. S. Lamb,
guards. were stabbed. Two of them
may die.
How the half dozen inmates OBJ
tanned the knives is a mystery that
is being investigated by prison of
ficials.
Batter Hole in Cage
The knife wielders were on top of
Dilbay, Benny, Clark and Lamb so
suddenly that the guards had no
chance to defend themselves. The
other convicts surged for freedom.
They pounded down enclosures and
other obstacles.
A score seized a bench and used
it as battering ram to tear hole
through the bars of the steel fence.
The inmates who escaped dashed
out this hole before guards could
stop them. Those who were trying
to crowd out halted when Jackson
was killed.
The town of Chester was an armed
camp throughout the night. Men
folks of the 1000 inhabitants guard
ed homes with rifles and revolvers.
Sheriff c. w. Haine swore in depu-
ties and threw a Gordon about the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Russell Has Pardoned
70 ConViCtS This Year

JACKSON, Miss, July 21.-Gov-
ernor Lee M. Russell, of Mississippi,
whose orders of executive clemency
took a sudden squirt yesterday with
the issuance of forty-four suspen-
sions of sentence in one batch has
pardoned rs convicts since January
1, and granted suspension of SEN
tence to 1S1 others, according to
records in the office of the state
penitentiary. The records also show
that since the first of the year Al
convicts have escaped from the
stateNpenal farms.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Savannah S First Bale
OF 1923 Cotton

SAVANNAH. Ga. July 20.-The
first bale of the 1923 cotton crop
arrived at the Savannah Cotton eX.
change today. 1t comes from the
Florida farm of W. S. Richardson,
at Whitney. The cotton is classed
good middling, and will be auction
ed at noon The bale was shipped
to Gordon & Co.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
15-Year-Old Girl Slayer
Flees Arkansas Prison

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 21.-
State and county officials, as well
as the superintendent and matron
Of the Arkansas Girls Industrial
school, located at Alexander, fifteen
miles south of here. have so far
been unable to locate Sophie Jordan,
fifteen-year-old Fort Smith girl STAY
err, held in the institution on an in
discriminate sentence for the killing
of a Border City grocer, and who
escaped from the reformatory more
than a week ago, taking along with
her Fay Bumpass, also Of Fort
Smith. an inmate of the nlace.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
$4,000 Fire in GOIdsbOrO

GOLDSBORO, n. c., July. I'll
Seven dwellings and small store
in a southern suburb of Goldsboro
were destroyed by fire at noon to-
day The fire started in the. kitchen
of one of the homes While dinner
was being prepared. The nearest
fire plug was half mile away. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Automobile Accident
Is Fatal to Girl

KOsCIUSKo, Miss, July 22.-An,
ME Maud Floyd, 10, was killed, and
two girl companions were seriously
injured near here Saturday when an
automobile Criven by Joe Johnson,
10, of Leake county, turned over on
a sharp curve.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
W0rM Nezvs
Told In
Bret

| WI ~ III IhuSSIc 1OI lWO Col o. leaves
for home by way of London.
Columbus, OhiO.-Mrs., Clara. Van
Kirk Mitchell, aunt of President
Harding, dies at home of presidents
brother, DR.. George 4. Harding, Jr.
Mexicali, Lower Cal.-Two persons
are killed and seven others stabbed
by man believed to have been crazed
by drugs in crowd on railroad plat
/ form.
ChicagO.-Organization of 375 900
steel workers scattered about foun.
| dry centers of country begins after
arrival of William Harmon, general
organizer of A. F. of L.
Chateau-Thiery, France.-Belleau
Wood. which Marshal Foch called
''the cradle Of victory" at formal
ceremony, is consecrated to memory
/ of Americans who died there.
DH llAuS idlH'-OSHdCOr. oscar w
Underwood, of Alabama, declares he
will announce his course in 1924
presidential campaign when he ad-
dresses state legislature July 81.
Villiers- C0tterets, France. Pre-
mier Poincare speaks at ceremony
at unwilling of monument to sol.
diers who fell in World war, but
makes no allusion to British note on
PREPARATIONS.
Dublin.-President Cosgrave tells
Dali Eireann that government con-
siders time opportune for carrying
out Anglo-Irish treaty provisions
dealing with boundary between.
North and South Ireland.
Atlantic City, n. J.-Dr. George
Cajon, Jersey City, N. J., negro
leader, at republican conference
here. declares President Harding has
done much less for negroes than
OLACA pI6SloGIllS.
BerIin.-German government an.
nounces agreement by which Rus
STA will deliver 400, 900 tons of grain
to Germany before November, part
payment for which will be taken in
German industrial products.
ChicagO.-Head of American Farm
Bureau federation announces plan
to withdraw 2OO,O0O,OOO bushels of
wheat from market and store it un.
der government seal in farm ware.
houses until price advances.
ChicagO.-New York city will make,
strong bid for national democratic
convention, George E. Brennan, II
linois patty leader, asserts, after
French Lick Springs conference
with Charles F. Murphy and Tom
Taggart
/ Thomson, Gal C. Wall, mer
| chant, and E. H. Miller, lawyer,
have encounter in street here in
which Miller fires pistol at Wall at
short range, powder burning face of
latter. Quarrel arose over article
in Columbia Sentinel.
Administrations bus plying be-
| tween Atlanta and Douglasville
| strikes touring car near Bolton and
seven occupants of auto are serious
ly injured, one, a baby, being hurled
thirty feet into field. d. T. Cog
gins, of this city. is the most serious
ly hurt.
ChicagO.-Donald D. Richberg,
general counsel for national confer
ence on railroad valuation, denies
that conference has made any move
that could result in government con-
t1scation or ownership of railroads,
in reply brief which he files before
interstate commerce commission.
Columbia, Tenn.-Ophir Digger, in
sudden fit of melancholy, cuts throat
of his wife and two children, killing
them, then turns weapon on self and
will die. Tragedy happens at home
of w. j. JacGsA at Carriers creek.
Digger ana ramny recently came
here from Plainsville, Tex. He has
! been unable TO obtain work.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
Health Forces Texas
Politician Off Stump

SHERMAN, Tex, July 21.-For-
mer U. S. Senator Joseph Weldon
Bailey today cancelled all of his
speaking dates for this summer on
account of i'll health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-22
KU KLUX ARE AIDING IN FLOGGING PROBE
Macon County And City AuthOri-
 ties Hold Conference

MACON, Ga, August 2l.-Ctty and county authorities were in consulta- tion late today with several special investigators of the Ku Klux Kan in connection with the investigation of wholesale floggings in Macon re- cently. it was announced. No state ment was issued at the close Of the conference.
 The police continued to work in effort to round up an alleged organ ized party of men who officials said were financing and giving orders to a hand of men as to who tC kldnap and apply the lash. The authori- ties made this announcement yester- day following an examination of the three Hudson brothers who was said to have been caught flogging two negroes Sunday.
 Ku KIux Klan leaders from the Imperial Palace in Atlanta hastened here today On the heels of the sheriffs activity and a number of them were said to have been in the sheriff's office throughout the after noon. The only announcement from the klan leaders came from M. c. Dugan, who said he is chief of staff of the realm of Georgia, to the eff feet that he had made personal de- livery of a reward of S1,500 for the roundup of the Kidnapping gangs.
 One of the features of the day was the arrest of Emory Roberts, one of the negroes whom the Hudsons were said to have been attempting to flog. The man is being held, &C., cGrding to the authorities, as a ma- feria1 witness