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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Sister Sees Crash
Georgia License Tax
On Commission Men
Held Valid by Court

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Geor
gia's license tax upon brokers, mer
chandise and commission merchants.
a part of whose business was inter
state, was declared valid and con.
stitutiOnal by the supreme court to-
day in. a case brought by j. r
Railey e Brothers, and others
against the tax collector of FpltJ..
county.
A number of commission mer-
chants of Atlanta, who represented
principals living in Georgia as well
as in other states, cOntended that
the tax was invalid because it was
imposed on all business done by
them, including interstate, which
they insisted could not be subjected
to a state tax.
The state courts sustained that
part of the law which levied the
tax upon those brokers and 'mer
chants who handled on commission
merchandise coming to them from
nonresident and resident principals.
but held that the tax could not be
applied to those handling only me-
chandise shipped in by nonresident
principals.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
NEW SENSATIONS
SPRING UP DURING
OIL PROBE RECESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Despite
the ten-day recess of the investigat
ing committee, developments in the
oil scandal whirlcd along today at
their customary break-neck speed.
Coincident with the resignation Of
Secretary DENLY, there were predic-
tons among senators that important
disclosures of new and sensational
character were imminent.
These predictions revolved for the
most part about the inquiry that
committee experts are making into
the books of various brokerage
firms, in search of evidence of oil
stock speculation by government Of
fcials.
senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, who has taken a hand in the
inquiry in the absence from Wash.
inSt6n of his colleague, Senator
Walsh, declared Harry Payne Whit
ney and members of the Bernhard
broker firm in New York undoubted-
w would be summoned before the
committee as a result of informa-
ton that has reached the capital.
Mr.. Wheeler also asserted that
important information" had been
given senators by Wilton j. Lam
bert. attorney for Edward b. Nc
Lean, publisher of the Washington
Post. Mr. Mclean came to WASH
ington from Palm Beach in response
to summons from the committee.
There were reports that those
members of the oil committee who
are in Washington might confer
during the day behind closed doors
with regard to the latest develop
ments Chairman Lenroot, however,
said that no meeting had been called
and that there had been no change
in the plan to delay further hearings
until next Monday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Tumulty Says Wilson
Threatened to Resign
If Canal Tolls Stood

NEW YORK. Feb 16.-The
! olzlyn Eagle today publishes a
letter to Herbert r, Gunnison, its
p ..sher, fl Joseph P. Tumulty,
former secretary to the late Wood
row Wilson, ST ag Mr.. Wilson had
determined to resign as president in
1914 if did not accede to
hi; Cel-aud '--~ Il, repeating
the Panama canal tolls.
In the letter. Mr. Tumulty writes:
AS an interesting Sidehght on
thl courage L Woodrow Wilson in
connection with this controversy, |
wish 1Jr the first time TO call at.
tentlon 10 the fact that ii the most
solemn way ne made the statement
10 me that in case congress should
Sc to repeal Papa,-sA tolls theG e
nothing ., fo. lin 70 do but
resign IS president Of the United
states. The conversation | had
with I'm in this matter TOOK place
Immediately after the delivery Of his
message to congress- when il looked
as if the tides Of opposition were
running very stronSlN. IN discuss
ms the matter OF MS s@S:gua ton
with me. he said
II woul not want to be pres
ldent Of a.cuu--try that would VIC
late solemn treaty, In case of
fai'ua in rs matter, | shall 80
before the country after my reSigna-
ion is rendered and ask it TO say
= vn>ther Ame".oa Is 10 stand before
the world as a nation that violates
its contracts - 4 mere. matter Of
convenience. upon basis Of expe-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Don't Disappoint
Yourself

TWO hundred and seventeen subscribers let their time
| run out in January and wrote in after We had been
forced TO stop the paper asking for issues that they
had missed
Some of these requests we filled. Most OF them
we were unable to fill We cannot print and keep any
considerable excess of papers. Further, is unfair to
ask us to bear the expenseWhch heavy in the course
of month-of sending back numbers to those |ho
we're careless about renewing.
We must stop the paper this month to 10000
subscribers if they do not renew.
Examine the label and if you are in arrears
or if your time expires "16FEB24." If so, send IN
YOUR remittance and order Now so as to avoid miss
ing issue.
Why not send us money order for $1.25 and
get The Tri.Weekly Journal for eighteen months
234 issues?
Then you won't have bother with it until Sep
tember of next year.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Youthful Groom Maintains
Vows Were Jest, but Girl
CIaSSnnate He Wed Cannot
See 1t That Way
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Feb. 16.

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Feb. 16
Is marriage a joke or a tragedy?
Two young students here-one a
pretty girl of humble home, the
other a dashing boy of wealth and
influence-are wondering. For their
futures depend on their finding out.
They have appealed to the courts
for judgment. And now their case is
before the supreme court of the
state-on which sits the father of
the boy.
The actors in this drama of real
life are:
Ann Victoria Shakespeare, the
daughter of former mill worker.
who now run a little confectionery
store in this small college town. Her
father worked hard to give her the
best of everything-and she got it!
She became one of the most popular
students in the West Virginia uni
VerSity.
Jamison Meredith, i. the son of
Judge James A. Meredith, of Charles
ton, member of the supreme court of
appeals Of the state. The family is
mingled in the best society and be-
came a lion on the university cam
pus.
The boy and girl met They be-
came close friends.
Their Sc eft Gets Out
On August IA. 1922. they went out
for an automobile ride. According
to the story told in court, there was
a proposal of marriage and an ac-
ceptance. Then they drove on and
got a marriage license, declaring
that they were twenty-One years old,
although they were only nineteen.
A visit to a church, a consultation
with a pastor, a ceremony-and
promise not to tell soul.
The pledge of secrecy continued
for two DAYS and then the story
leaked out The elder Merediths got
busy. They started court action for
an annulment.
THE marriage was entered into
as a jest and we never intended to
fulfill the marriage vows" the boy
is reported as saying.
But the girl has another view.
we were serious and I still am
serious" she says. Il was and am
ready and willing to take my place
at Jamison's side and appear before
the world"
Continuing, the attractive little
girl declares that the ceremony was
not enter into in the exuberance
of youth and as a college boy and
girl prank" as is alleged in the court
action.
What About the Girl?
"An this has caused me untold en-
barrassment and now they want to
have the marriage annulled for his
sake" she went on with tears in her
eyes. But what about me-?
When the case came up in the cir
cult court of MonOngahela county the
judge refused to annual the mar
riage
Nov the case is being carried 20
the higher couTts-and the boys ia
Their is one Of It's members,
While it is making up its mind,
both the young principals are contin.
uing their studies at the university;
both are taking a prominent part in
the activities Of the campus. They
sit in the same class rooms, have the
same friends-yet they are as
strangers to each other.
For the boy sees the situation as
a joke.
But the girl sees it as tragedy
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Savannah Klansman,
Expelled, Threatens to
Give Membership List

SAVANNAH, Ca, Feb. %
Homer f. Geiger, a life member"
of the Ku Klux Khan, got a letter
Monday morning from Imperial
Wizard Evans expellng him from
the order.
Mr.. Geiger says, he is not going
to submit to expulsion. He declares
he will go into the courts and en-
Join the order from getting rid OF
him. as his life membership is IT.
revocable.
He created a sensation by saying
that if it is necessary when he files
his injunction in the courts, he will
file with it list of the entire mem
bership OF the local khan and make
them, cO-dp PENDANTS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
$40 50 C0ODYEAR RANC0AT FREE

Goodyear Mfg Co., 6022-R Goodyear
Bldg, Kansas City. Mo, is making an
offer to send = handsome ralncoat free
show and recommend It to friends. If
you want one, write otday
. .(Adysrtiament.l
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19

WASHINGTON. = Secret service
operatives arrest James c. Hough-
ton, employee of the bureau of en-
craving and printing, and Curt ia
cobson in connection with an alleged
conspiracy TO make and distribute
counterfeit treasury notes of $1,000
denomination.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Z CHILDREN KILLED.
z HURT WHEN TRAIN
CRASHES INTO BUS
Virginia Harper y, and
Ruby Brown, ~ Are VIC
tims-Injured Are Brought
to Atlanta

Two children were killed, one in
stantly, and two other occupants of
a Douglas county school bus were
severely injured early Monday morn
ing when the bus was struck by
Southern railway train at Harper's
crossing, one mile west of Lithia
Springs, Ga.
The dead are:
VIRGINIA HARPER, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit
Harper, who reside within sight of
where the accident occurred.
RUBY BROWN, 9-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Posey Brown, of
the same vicinity.
The injured, who were brought to
the Georgia Baptist hospital, are:
William Harper, 1S-year-oId broth
er of the dead girl, who was driving
the truck. He suffered compound
fracture of the right leg and his fore
head was lacerated.
Catherine Harper, Is years old, sis
ter of William Harper and of the
dead girl, whose right leg was
broken.
Dense Fog Blamed
Catherine Harper declared that
heavy fog blinded the driver and
prevented any of the occupants of
the bus from seeing the train until
it was directly upon them. The cyl
inder of the locomotive struck the
bus with such force as to hurl it
clear off the track.
Rlsby Brown was dead when medi-
cal aid reached the group, her head
being severely mangled and Virginia
Harper died on the train en- route to
Atlanta. The accident occurred at
sos o'clock and the train reached
here at 9:15 o'clock, where it was met
by ambulanCes which had been sum-
moned from II. M. Patterson & Son.
These ambulances rushed the injured
to the hospital
Engineer j. NJ. Cox, of the train,
which was known as the Helm ac-
commodation, No. "a, reported that
the bus approached on the side OPP
posite his seat but that his fireman.
Ed Ray, yelled at the driver in an
unsuccessful attempt to stop the bus
DefJre it was struck. He said that
the train blew for the crossing,
which is situated on private road
leading from the Harper home to the
main highway into Lithja Springs.
Sister Sees Crash
Geraldine Harper, another sister
of one of the dead girls, was sit
ting on the front porch of her home
ard saw the train strike the bus.
She ran into the house and notified
her parents, while the train crew
stopped and rendered whatever first
aid it could. DR.. Charles Haggart
vIs hurriedly summoned from Ma
bleton, Ca, after efforts to locate a
physician in Lithla Springs had
proved unaVailing.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
Gasoline Mistaken for
Kerosene, Man, Wife,
BABY Badly Burned

ASHEVILLE, N c., Feb. 18.-
Carmen Smith, his wife and infant
child, were seriously burned at
their home near the city this morn
ing by the explosion of gasoline,
used by mistake instead of kerosene,
in starting fire. Smith is in
local hospital and if is said he may
not survive The family was living
in Il garage while their home was
being built
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
WILL TREAT CATARRH DEAF
NESS AND HEAD NOISES FREE

Davenport. Iowa.-Dr. W 0. Coffee, suite
2116 st. James Hotel bldg, announces he
found a treatment which completely cured
him of catarrh of the nose, deafness and
head noises. Thousands have used it sue
cessfuly He believes it will relieve any
case. He offers a Today supply Free to
every reader of this paper who writes him.
Send your name and address
(Advertfsement.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
ATLANTA WOMAN
KILLED IN WRECK
ON DIXIE HIGHWAY
], w, Mashbufn, Jr,, Atlanta
Policeman Driving Car,
Pinned Beneath 1t 2 Hours,
Second Woman Unhurt

HAMPTON. Ga, Feb. 1S.-Mrs.
H. Y Galloway, of 615 Ponce de
Leon avenue, Atlanta, was killed
when a large car driven by j. w.
Mashburn, Jr., an Atlanta police
man, turned turtle on an embank-
ment on the Dixie highway half
mile above Hampton this morning
about l o'clock. A woman who gave
her name as Mrs. Johnson, and VINO
said that at present she mad no
home address, was thrown clear OF
the wreck and was able to walk TO
a nearby house for help. OFFICERS
and others lifted the car off Mash
burn, and he was found to be practl-
callv unhurt, Mrs. Galloway appa-
rently had been killed instantly.
According to officers, Mashburn
said that he lost control of the car
as he tried to pass an automobile
meeting him. The car was found
headed toward Hampton on the lett
side of the road, and the tracks
showed that it had Travelled some
distance on the side of the road be-
fore it overturned.
Mashburn hired a /taXicab here
and he and Mrs. johnson left for
Atlanta. Mrs. Calloway's body is
held at a local undertaking es-
adjustment. II is understood that
Mashburn will return later to com
plete arrangements for sending tie
body to relatives. Mrs. Galloway,
who wore three diamond rings, a
wedding ring and other jewelry, APP
parently was about rs vars old.
Eighty-seVen dollars in money was
found on her person.
Mrs. Johnson, young woman in
her early tWenties, said that there
were two men in the car, but when
the car was righted, only one man
was found. When Mrs. Johnson was
asked where the other man was
Mashburn spoke up and said that
there was no one else in the party.
He stopped Mrs. Johnson from talk
ing.
A bank book found near the wreck
bore the name of Mrs. Ruth Ken
dali. The name of the bank was
"The Hlnk of the Bay of Biscayne,
Miami" The car, said to belong to
Mrs. Galloway, bears Florida license
tag No. ia, 347-C.
Mrs. Johnson said that Mrs. Cal
loway's husband was in Jackson.
Vile Mrs. Johnson called jack
sonville long distance and tried to
get the Radio TaXicab com pany, ask
ing for Harold Long, said to be
known in Atlanta. A small quantity
of whisky was found at the wreck
according TO officers
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-19
MASHBURN WAS TAKING
TWO WOMEN TO JACKSONVILLE

Police Monday were detailed by
Assistant Police Chief f. J.. Jett to
Investigate the report made to him
earlier IN the day by PatrOlman j.
w. Mashburn, Jr., about the acct
dent in which Mrs. H. Y, Galloway
was killed near Hampton, Ga, early
Monday morning.
Officer Mashburn told Chief Jet
that he was taking Mrs. Galloway
and Mrs. Bobbie Johnson, of Atlanta,
to Jacksonville, where he was to
leave them, and return by train to
Atlanta. Mrs. Galloway was to con-
tinue to Miami, where she was to
join her husband, he said.
Officer Mashburn also said he
wished to emphatically deny that
there was any whisky in the car, or
that any of the trio had been
drinking.
He said that the accident was oc.
casioned by him becoming blinded
by the bright lights of a car APP
preaching him, and that unable to
see the road, he skidded off an en-
bankment, the car turning over and
pinning all three of the occupants
beneath it.
He said Mrs. Johnson was riding
on the back seat, and managed to
eXtricate herself. She went to
Hampton and got help, he said, a
number of people assisted him in
getting from under the car Mrs.
Galloway was dead when she was
taken from the wreckage he said.
The fashionable apartment Occu-
pied by Mrs. Galloway on Ponce de
Leon avenue was rented in NoVem-
Der according to the renting agents
Neighbors of Mrs. Galloway stated
that her husband was a, travelling
man and was away from home quite
a good deal
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
KINGMAN CHINAMAN
DIDN'T KNOW BOOSE Law

A warrant was issued out of the
u. S. commissioners court June 21,
charging Lee Wah, who conducts a
Chinese laundry, with the crime of
selling Intoxicating liquor at his place
of business on. the 18th Of the month.
Two federal officers visited the abode
of Lee Wah on the 10Th of the month
and purchased two or three drinks Of
booze and wound up the bout by buy
ing pint of the liquid. These men
came directly from Prohibition Direc-
tor Cassidy's office and they made
quite a cleaning while here. They
captured about 20 gallons of booze at
Chloride and made two arpests there,
being assisted by the forces of Sheriff
Mahohey. Lee Wah~ has been a resi-
dent of the United States for the past
forty years but. did not know that the
country of Uncle Sam had tabooed the
sale and use Of the liquids containing
a high alcoholic content, with the ex-
ception Of medical concoctions. King
man Miner.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
WHY PURE-WOOL LAW
is BADLY NEEDED

II am more than ever for q law
compelling manufacturers to state on
any article containing shoddy the
amount or percentage of shoddy it
contains. The American people are
being frauduIently held up for shoddy
goods to d point where they win re-
bel, and we shall be the suffers. We
need a pure-wool law, and we need a
growers selling combination which
will finance the whole wool clip of
the country and sell it at the foreign
market price, plus whatever tariff we
may be lucky enough to have. How
many Of ussliave agreed to that cent
per head of our lambs to help finance
the only really fighting force we
have? The National Wood Growers
association needs all the assistance it
can get. A cent per head ON the lariIb
we sell would never be missed; in the
aggregate it would be d sum that
would mean something. A full-page
advertisement III the Saturday Even
ing Post giving the cest Of wool, the
amount per yard Of cloth, the cost Of
raising wool; in fact everything
truthful about the business. That
costs money, but it would be well
spent. From now on we should fight
for our interests tExtracts from a
letter df Hugh Sproat, Boise, idaho,
June, National Wool Growers Maga-
zifieI.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
POOLE MAY BE SUCCESSOR
OF MIKE CASSIDY

Frank NJ. Poole Of Winkleman, is
in the lead as successor to Mike Cas-
sidy, retired prohibition director, ac-
cording to a well founded ruinor.
It is understood that Mr.. Poole has
been notified of his, recommends dation
for the position by Senator Ralph III.
Cameron, and that his acceptance is
reasonably sure.
Mr.. Poole has been a prominent
lumberman Of Winklenan for the past
Is years. He came to Arizona in
1882, and located in Tucson. Later he
was engaged in teaching in Cochise
and PinaI counties. He IS a man
thoroughly cognizant OF the duties of
the office, and is well known through>
out the state.
Mr.. Cassidy, who had served as
director of prohibition for the past
few years, rendered his resignation
June /, to. become effective July /.
He viii enter the practice Of law, and
it is understood will have charge of
Dwight B. Heafd's campaign for gov
ernor.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
PHOENIX MAN KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Ben Heyne, about 30 years of age
and resident of Eleventh avenue
and Madison street in Phoenix, died
in Mercy hospital at Prescott Monday
as the result of an automobile acci-
dent which occurred about three miles
south of Mayer on the Black Canyon
highway earlier in the. afternoon.
Harry Ketchum, also of Phoenix, who
was with Heyne in the car, was bruis-
ed and shaken but otherwise unhurt.
Heyne was taken to the Mayer hos
pital, where he was given first aid by
DR.. Henderson and then was taken to
Prescott to the local hospital. His
head had been injured in the fall, how
ever; and he did not survive. Ketch-
am was treated at the Mayer hospital
and was able to continue his trip to
Prescott.
According to Mr.. Ketcham, the car
struck rock, such as frequently is
left in the road by Ford drivers, and
.the steering rod broke. Heyne saw
that the car would run off the road
and down a bank about so feet, and
jumped, striking his head on a rock in
his fall Ketcham stayed with the
car.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
PHOENIX AGAINST WEEK
END ROAD TO CALIFORNIA

The official bulletin ssNow," Of the
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce for
June, which is the annual facts and
figures" edition, will contain the fol-
lowing editorial regarding the pro-
posed Phoenix Blythe road:
"The road committee of the Phoe-
nix Chamber of Commerce and the
board of directors of the Phoenix
Chamber of Commerce have gone on
record formally and unanimously
against any proposed bond issue for
the Blythe road.
"The directors of the Chamber of
Commerce as well as many Of the bus
mess men do not believe this to be
the propitious time to burden the tax
payers Of the state with additional
taxes, moreover the Phoenix Yuma
road will soon be completed and will
furnish an excellent highway to the
Colorado river, and the distance to
Los Angeles Wis Yuma, Holtville and
Mecca IS only a short distance far
ther then the Blythe road. The Yuma
road is on the state highway system
while the Blythe road is not.
'sThe Chamber of Commerce early in
the year adopted the following road
policy:
81. A road east and west across
the state through Phoenix, of such
c o n $ III j 0 n as will meet
federal aid requirements.
On the west this road shall reach
the state line at Yuma, Arizona, in
cluding a bridge at Gillespie dam; on
the east, it shall reach the state line
through Springerville, as well as
through Clifton and Duncan.
20. A north and south highway
across the state through Phoenix
from Flagstaff to Tucson and Nogales.
3. All necessary roads to connect
Phoenix with the county seats and
other important centers of population
in the state.
"A. The construction of the road
from Rice to Springerville is recog-
niZed as of primary Importance, and
the Chamber of Commerce Of Phoenix
should put forth all possible effort to
see that this road is constructed as
promptly as possible.
"5. The Chamber Of Commerce be-
lieves it to be essential in connection
with the road policy for the state of
Arizona that state highway code be
adopted, and that a permanent state
highway commission be provided for
under such a plan as will insure per-
manency and continuance of policy
and of road construction.
The board of directors and the road
committee of the Phoenix Chamber of
Commerce believe that the advocacy
of the Blythe road at this time is not
in keeping with the announced policy
of the Chamber of Commerce in the
building of one road to California.
Indications are now that there is
no disposition on the part of the bus
mess men of Phoenix. and the Salt
River valley to deviate in any material
manner from the policy of the road
committee as established above
Frank O. Smith, chairman of the
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce road
committee.
The Coconino sun., 1924-07-04
ARIZONA RATTLE ERS
HAVE STRIKING WAYS

A tourist, who possibly had seen the
trick of swapping off snakes head
during his schoolbey days, tried the
experiment on rattler that he had
picked up on the highway between
Kingman and blackberry, the other
day, and received a bad bite on the
arm, the rattler wriggling up and
sinking his fangs in the fellows flesh.
He was taken in charge by the other
members of the party, who admins
tered first aid, and then rushed to
the Mohave general hospital, where he
was treated and allowed to go his way
the following day. Men who think
they can pick up rattler by the tail
and snap his under jaw off are unde-
ceived whenever they try it on an
Arizona reptile. They have strik-
ing way about them that is. most eff
fective.- Kingman Miner.