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Atlanta Constitution

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Apr 04, 1914

Page

1

$250 000 For Suitable Quarters For Regional Bank

Atlanta bankers press for site as government bank plans move forward. Debates over leasing space in the new Healy Building along Broad street intensify, with discussion of 200 foot frontage. Officials say nine days remain before federal reserve act deadlines. board seats and director classifications debated.

Atlanta Regional Reserve Bank Government Bank Healy Broad, Walton, Poplar Forsyth Streets Borsyth Street Poplar Walton Street Walter G. Cooper Chamber of Commerce Vian Ketsade Mell I. Wilkinson Cooper Rehamber of Commerce William Healy A. J. Liebman Flver Reserve Board Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Fights Emerge Over Reserve Bank Districts

Congress and public officials react to the reserve bank committee’s district plan. McAdoo and Williams on the Federal Reserve Board are unlikely to reverse positions, while several cities press for redraws. Opposition cites geography and political ties as districts form around trade and banking advantages.

McAdoo and Williams Federal Reserve Board Washington Reserve Bank Organization Committee Wilson Pick Flavia Burton Pittsburg Cleveland Littsburg Hitchcock Omaha Kansas City Chicago Richmond Williams Baltimore Kington Reserve Board Congress

Fake tale of train hold up ends in dismissal of Fletcher

Fletcher, a Seaboard Air Line bay express messenger on southbound No 14, admitted no bandit entered the express car and that all pistol shots were fired by himself. The story, blamed on wild western ideas, was dismissed as newspaper publicity. He has been dismissed from the company and left Atlanta. A fellow flatman confirmed seeing three rough men on the tracks.

B.L Bfletcher Bay Express Seaboard Air Line Comer. Ga Southern Express Company Express Company Boy Express Crom Fletcher Atlanta Bos Fred Eleteher J. D. Banby

Torreon Capture Spurs Rebel Plan To Take Tampico

Washington reports from April indicate Torreon has fallen to constitutionalist forces. Rebels, buoyed by the victory, prepare to attack Tampico as Admiral Fletcher notes 1,000 troops under General Castro approaching from the San Guis line and 1,000 mounted troops at Laguna Puerto ready to press the coast advance.

Washington Reorge C. Carothers Torreon Fletcher Tampico Mexico City Mr. Cacothery Jacked Maas Moore Velasco Cor Villa Aguilar Wilson Mexico Laguna Puerto Castro San Guis

New Orleans Plans Protest Over Regional Bank Titles

New Orleans leaders from business and banking circles called a mass meeting for tomorrow night to protest the decision not to include New Orleans in the list of regional bank titles. The meeting of commercial bodies agreed on the protest plan and next steps.

New Orleans

Senators Revolt At Closed Doors

Washington April 3 nine members of the senate headed by Senator La Follette openly revolted against proceedings behind closed doors after an executive session in which the senate by a vote of 36 to 27 confirmed Winthrop M Daniels of New Jersey to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The revolt sparked a three day fight over Daniels and touched off a bitter senate debate with supporters led by President Wilson.

Washington Senate la Follette Winthrop M. Daniels New Jersey Interstate Commerce Commission J.folletta Bristow Cummins Clapp Kenyon Norris Jones Grenna Poindexter Daniels Capitol Wilson Hughes Newlands Interstate Commerce Committee Pittman and Williams Ponmmoen Daniela White House Brandegee Bryjan Dillingham Fall Gallinger Gore James Johnson Lee Marland Lewis Lippit Lodge McLean Martin Myers Gilver Overman Owen Page Perkins Pittman Pomerene Ransdell Shafroth Sheppard Simmons Smith Georgia Maryland Swanson Tilman Townsend Warren Weeks Ashurst Borah Burton Catron Chamberlain Crawford Hitchcock Hollis Lane Sea of Tennessee O'Gorman Hsmith Michigan Smoot Sterling Thompson Vardaman Walsh Works

Birthday fete honors J N Young with nineteen children

Nashville Ga April 2 Special At the home of one of Berrien counties oldest cities were gathered yesterday three score of descendants of J N Young known as Uncle Jep to celebrate his seventy ninth birthday Uncle Jep fathered twenty two children all with the same mother who died many years ago He cared for nineteen of his offspring while the others were at school or elsewhere The elder Young served in the south during the Civil War and returned to settle in the county with most of his family.

Nashville Berrien County J. N. Young Jep Young South

Babe Born On Macon Street In Busy City Scene

On Macon Street in Georgia a woman in distress collapsed on a sidewalk near Cotton Avenue by the city hall. Three newspaper employees aided her, an ambulance was summoned, and she was taken to a hospital. The mother refused to give her name and the baby’s details remain unclear. Local nurses say the woman is believed to be married.

Macon Cotton Avenue City Hall Bat&queen Deinz Ni

House Rejects Move to Lower Congressional Mileage Rate

Washington April 3 after a heated session the House declined to cut the 20 cent per mile travel allowance for members going to and from Washington The regulatory executive and judicial appropriation bill would have ended the present mileage rate and allowed actual travel expenses for a single trip for each member and dependent family member The proposal was stricken out by 83 to 46 and the current rate was kept In the vote the House preserved current mileage policy and policy details followed in the bill.

Washington House

Miss Johnston to Wed Baron After Wealth Lost in Mexico

New York April 3 Special Baron Von Heitmuller says one true love per lifetime. Miss Alice Johnston of Savannah confirms this, leading to a Savannah wedding that will make her Baroness von Hellmuller. After twenty years of rejections, a Mexico oil investment collapse and revolution prompted her acceptance.

New York Baron von Heitmuller Alice Johnston Savannah Elief Miss Johnston Baroness von Hellmuller Haron

West holds Senate seat fate as Slaton pledges support

On the eve of a state Democratic meeting the fate of the Bacon Senate seat hinges on W S West. Governor Slaton says he offered West the Bacon vacancy with no strings and will back him if he runs. West arrived in Atlanta and declined to announce his plan, saying only he would decide later.

State Democratic Executive Committee A. 0 Bacon W. S. West Slaten Senator West Colonel West Winecoff Kimball House The Constitution Dam Nator West West Slaton Felder Hardwick Gones

Committee to report on school books draft subcommittee named

After an all day session the state school check commission formed a subcommittee to draft a report for April 28. The panel includes Sr. L. Brittain C. R. McCrery and H. C. Shun trine. Chairman Brittain will insert the findings in his May report. Printing costs for the investigations are in doubt and McCrory warned he might quit the meeting. H. S. Bowden of Blakely, a superintendent candidate, spoke at length. Continued on Page Two.

State School Check Commission Sr. L. Brittain C. R. McCrery H. C. Shuntrine General Assembly M. L. Brittain McCrory H. S. Bowden Blakely

Burns Plans Restart of Phagan Case Probe

Detective William J Burns, en route to Atlanta, said in a Chicago interview he knew who killed Mary Phagan but would not name the suspect. He argued Frank might not be capable of the crime and noted earlier reports and defense counsel dispute the completeness of his findings.

William J. Burns Mary Phagan New York West Chicago Atlanta Reuben Arnold Herbert Haas Frank Burns Atlana Borns Associated Press William J. Buens Atlanta, Ga Leo M. Frank Kansas City Europe Youngs Lef Frank Burna Key West Ilm Bat Burny

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