Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-26

here April Ii of Deputy Sheriff
Holder, Clyde Gillen, B F. Nichols
and George r. Hacker are ordered
held without band after an allday
hearing in municipal court. Their
alleged accomplices, e. B. Robbins,
L. A. Purdue, J. K. Greer and Earl
Bowman, are each fined $50 for
violating the prohibition laws and
released. All are High Point men.
StatesvilIe-H. H. Chatham, fed
eral prohibition officer, is acquitted
after trial in federal court on
charge of murder growing out OF
the killing at Salisbury of Douglas
Durham.
CharlOtte-The annual meeting Of
the Charlotte Federation of Parent.
Teacher associations is featured by
an address by DR.. n. L. Englehart,
Of the faculty Of Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York. The
speaker described one Charlotte
school building as "a veritable fire.
trap"
Star.-Three men, two Of them
white, are killed and lives of twenty
others are jeopardized when a tale
mine here operated by the Standard
Mine company, of New York, caves
in,
CharlOtte.-Souther Power COM
pany announces determination to
hold in allegiance all plans for hydro
electric development, owing to high
and increasing construction cost. 1t
is added the Rhodhiss project may
be one of the first to be taken up
when costs are more favorable. APPS
plications for power equivalent to
$4,000 horsepower are reported on
file with the company and there Is
no prospect of supplying this de-
mand.
Raleigh.-Charles H Medlin. Wake
county farmer is awarded $4,000
damages in his suit against the Nor
folk Southern railway over broken
wrist.
Greensboro. -- Roanoke Rapids
High school musicians win first
honors in the annual high school
music contests with a score of tWen-
ty-six points, China Grove being sec.
ond with fourteen points.
adkinviIle.-Henry M. Mackie.
retired merchant, sixty-three, dies
suddenly while walking with his
wife.
Charlotte.-John l.. Power, of
Wichita. Kan, director of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce, ad-
dresses members Of the local cham
Der.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by state
officials discloses Sam Lee" who
died April l., at Natchez, Miss, after
confessing he was a fugitive slayer
from North Carolina, may have been
John W. Lee, of Halifax county,
who was wanted for killing woman
there forty.five years ago.
CharIotte.-Efforts to locate .rela-
tives Of Archie Bailey, travelling
salesman found dead a week ago at
hotel here, proving fruitless, flu
neral services for him are held at an
undertaking establishment, followed
by interment IN Elmwood cemetery.
WilmingtOn.-W. w. Yopp, seven
~ I'LL &C, oIIS OL Cue Olu6SC OQ0 Eel
lows of the state, drops dead here.
MOnroe.-Neal Harmon, twenty
five, arrested here for theft con.
fesses he is a fugitive from Barn
well county, S. c., and expresses a
Willingness to return there to com.
plete stence of ten years for kill
ing another negro.
CharlOtte.-Deeds for property val.
ued at $651,18S are filed with the
Mecklenburg clerk of court. repre-.
senting the greatest total ever filed
here in day, twenty-five parcels of
land being transferred.
LenOir.-Representatives of g, Dan,
vile, Va, syndicate are surveying
an 180-acre tract near here prelim-
mary to purchase and DEVELOPMENT
of kaolin and aluminium deposits.
CharIotte.-The infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. John L. Humphrey is
found dead in bed. The father is
held on $1,000 bond pending hearing
on his appeal from recorders sen.
tence Of two years on the roads for
brutally whipping his f1fteen-year-
old daughter
Winston-Salem.-Internal Revenue
Commissioner Blair in a statement
sent from Washington to home.
folks, denies reports that he intends
to resign.
WillningtOn.-The recently COM