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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1921
Page
6
Councilman W. Hoffman filed charges against James L. Beavers during Thursday afternoon hearings before the city committees. The report notes formal accusations were presented but details remain limited in the fragment.
A city police committee voted to investigate claims of harassment surrounding the Ansley hotel after a New Year Eve party led to disorderly house charges against proprietor E L Potter. Judge Calhoun’s court will hear the case soon. Potter disputes threats against his hotel and notes police inaction on the New Year party.
The House Military Committee ordered a report on arranging the return from France of an unidentified soldier for burial in the new amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. The War Secretary would be authorized to make necessary arrangements.
President-elect Harding is expected to announce his cabinet selections by next Monday. Rumors place Frank C. Lowden as Secretary of the Navy and confirm others including Charles E. Hughes and Andrew Mellon in top posts with several slots still open. The list hints at regional balance and notes opposition to an army officer leading the War Department.
Roanoke Virginia February 3 Norfolk and Western railroad headquarters reports passengers on an eastbound Pullman car from Columbus Ohio were held up and robbed by a lone bandit a short distance west of Bluefield West Virginia last night Details of the robbery are unavailable at this time
Mrs Julia Taylor 43 died Thursday at residence in East Point. Survived by two sons Clifford D and Samuel C Taylor. Mrs J W Little 77 died Thursday at daughter Mrs J W Ashbys 161 South Ashby Street. Also survived by daughter two sons Joseph and Arch Little and grandsons Robert and Joel Rankin.
Two men, J H Harris and G J Middlecoff, were arrested after hundreds of dollars in coats and ladies wear were stolen from 27 East Alexander Street during a gathering. Harris was detained at the terminal station as he prepared to leave the city, Middlecoff found with several suitcases in a downtown building. A fur coat valued at 700 dollars, jewelry, and about 30 dollars in cash were recovered. Both remain detained on charges of disorderly conduct and larceny from the house.
Primble Barnett and Jim Franklin, laborers from Chattahoochee, Ga, were arrested after trying to sell automobile skid chains to plainclothes officers at a downtown garage. The pair allegedly admitted theft of the chains and are held on suspicion of larceny pending full investigation. They initially offered to sell the chains to garage owners, then to the officers for one dollar.
In Deland Florida George A. Allen is identified by Arthur Hames as not the man he grappled with the night Grady Hames was killed. Hames says the man in jail is not the killer and efforts will seek to release Allen. Allen had been bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing. Grady Hames died last December when attempting to defend his father from a crowd of men who assaulted him.
In Mobile on February 3 a second search of the Steamer Federal led by Sheriff Holcomb found two hundred quarts of whisky and vermouth aboard. Captain H. A. von Plugha and steward John Vickery were docketed for violating the prohibition laws.
Minneapolis February 3 15 M Stewart Chicago pilot in the Minneapolis Chicago air mail service was killed today when his plane fell three miles south Mendota near here Mechanician George V Samson of Minneapolis was injured
Police hunted a band of men who blew open the Pinellas County bank vault in Largo near St. Petersburg, wrecked a railroad station, and fled with about 25000 in cash and securities after terrorizing the town. A 17 year old youth found locked in the vault was held by the States Attorney.
A masked robber forced a man into a bank vault with a revolver and opened the vault with nitroglycerine. Loot left behind includes 1,500 dollars in silver. Lookouts at bank corners, disruption of wires, and bright searchlights marked the raid on the village. Money, said to be a Gaines ville native, had recently been in Largo.
A small fire broke out this morning under the roof of Georgetown University’s North Dormitory. It burned for some time before discovery but was controlled before causing serious damage to the building.
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