Attacks on Speer Continue at Savannah Hearing
Savannah January 2. The special congressional committee investigating Judge Emory Speer heard four Savannah bar members testify to alleged partiality and misconduct. Alex A Lawrence charged Speer with selective juries in the Greene Gaynor case and keeping lists secret. John Rourke Jr said Speer refused to sign a reversed mandate, and Gordon Lausey and Judge A J Cobb corroborated improper conduct claims. Hearing adjourned to 10 tomorrow with Felder likely to testify.
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Southern District of Georgia
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Savanah
R Colton Lewis
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Charman Webb
Thomas Felder
Georgia
General Assembly of Georgia
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Greene-Gaynor
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Sager
Dozen Girls Named in Sergeant LeDuc Shortage Case
Sergeant LeDuc formerly commissary sergeant now private of the Seventeenth Infantry faces a general court martial for misappropriating $2500. At least a dozen unnamed women allegedly received gifts as investigators seek repayment. Col Van Orsdale reports LeDuc admitted guilt and relatives may offer restitution. Penalty for such a shortage could reach several years in a federal penitentiary.
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Washington
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Watkins Accepts Commission Offer
Edgar Watkins a leading Atlanta attorney and bar association president has accepted a counsel position with the Interstate Commerce Commission. He will join five officials in Washington, earning 5000 per year, while maintaining Atlanta ties and continuing his Shippers and Carriers manuscript. Other appointees include Haines Lawsville Wood Indianapolis and Berry and Broun of the interstate commission.
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Lawsville
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Food Temptation In Jail Inspires Cabaret Singer
Olas Gertrude Whinner a cabaret singer tied to Dr E G House of Chocoloski Fla faced bond after posing with her husband in Atlanta and other cities. She praised the Fulton County jail menu saying its excellence would deter a hunger strike, noting she could not be served the same meals as Mrs. Pankhurst and would not die of starvation.
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Dr E G House
Chocoloski
Fla
Atlanta
Pankhurstie
Trains Equipped With Wireless Telegraphy
An eastern railroad the Lackawanna has installed a wireless telegraph system on several express trains. The new service, already tested commercially, links important cities with receiving stations along its line. The first wireless message from a moving train was sent recently, with operator dispatches shown from Scranton Pennsylvania and the train in question.
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Scranton
Girl Offers Self to Secure Food for Father
Wilkesbarre January 2 County authorities halted a proposed marriage between a 45 year old mine worker and a 10 year old girl who had agreed to wed to provide necessities for her injured father, John Sodusky. The court remanded the child to United Charities and held the man and the mother for further hearing.
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John Sodusky
Cout
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Three Neighbors Shot by North Georgia Man
Hugh Walls a middle aged white man shot three neighbors in Bold Spring Franks county twelve miles east of this place on a Saturday evening He was with a friend Pitts at the Cantrell Manley home over a trivial business matter Walls drew a gun and shot Hanky in the knee and head Pitts was shot in the breast leaving him paralyzed Cantrell was hit in the hip Walls tried to flee but was captured and jailed at Franklin county jail in Cahnesville He was reportedly drunk and the shooting was unprovoked.
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Franks County
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Cainesvile
Red Light District Bill Advances in Washington
Washington January 26 The red light bill advocated by Senator Kenyon and urged by Representative Prouty passed the Senate and House without opposition to curb immoral districts in the capital. The measure allows injunctions against properties used for immoral purposes, seen as a blow to graft schemes tied to vice. Republican leaders and others supported the bill as a step to curb vice and reform local law enforcement.
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Representative Prouty
Iowa
Mann
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Arrest on Train Stirs Passengers in Atlanta suburb
Detectives Vickery and Hamby arrested Kolmeher aboard an Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic train near Bellwood Avenue after he allegedly attempted to pistol whip arresting officer Fincher. Fincher, once a police patrolman, faced embezzlement charges as passengers fled amid screams while Fincher and his wife and infant were taken to police headquarters.
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Tincher
Union Station
Fort McPherson
Lovejoy
Tragedy in Batavia Panic Kills 75 at Movie Show
A fire at a moving picture show on a plantation in Surabaya Dutch East Indies January 26 caused 75 deaths. Fifty-eight children fifty six and one man were among the victims who were trampled or suffocated in the panic.
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Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Surabaya
Nolan Seized in Cobb County on Warrant for Robbery
James Nolan, a notorious train robber with a long criminal record, is held in Cobb County jail on a warrant sworn by Sheriff W Swanson charging him with larceny from a Pullman parlor car aboard the southbound N and St L train. He faced a habeas corpus bid. a preliminary hearing was set, amid assertions of a Des Moines record including safeblowing and burglary.
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Cabb County
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Crimial
Superior Court
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Hil
Herbert Clay
Cobb County
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Hese
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Tango Was Danced For The Governor And He Never Knew
Indianapolis January 26 Governor Samuel M Ralston attended a dance party with statehouse officials and employees. The governor requested the tango and was surprised to learn it was the same dance he had seen most of the night. He and Mrs Ralston led the grand march and enjoyed the evening with about seventy two couples present.
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Indianapolis
Samuel M. Ralston
Atatehouse
Ralston
Boy Kills Father To Save Mother In Natchitoches
In Natchitoches Louisiana on January 26 thirteen year old John C Clark Jr shot and killed his father in the family home to protect his mother and siblings. The coroner heard testimony that the father arrived intoxicated and threatened household members before advancing on their 18 year old daughter prompting the boy to fire. The boy was not arrested and a wife and nine children survived.
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Mary Clark
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BUL & Clark
Finance Sheet Sparks City Budget Board Showdown
The board of aldermen deadlocked after council rejected caucus amendments on a $175,000 finance sheet delaying spring street plans and Peachtree widening. A conference committee will rework the proposal as Mayor Pro Tem Candler mulls appointments.
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Progressive wife and mother runs for Congress in Kansas
Eva M Murphy of Goodland announces candidacy for the sixth Kansas district as a progressive. She cites being a wife and mother and vows to push for constitutional amendment for national prohibition. Murphy is active in the Kansas State WCTU and Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs. The district includes two counties Tubn R Connell y represents the seat as a Democrat in Congress. Chicago women file council petitions include Miss Sarah Hopkins and Miss Marion Drake seeking city office.
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Goodland
Congress
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Thare
Chicago
Misa Sarah Hopkins
Worch
Howr A Friand
Marion Drake
John Coughlan
Hermit sentence passed by judge on aged forger
San Jose Cal January 36 Frank D Murray convicted forger was sentenced today by Superior Judge William Beasley to serve two years of hermit in the mountains forty miles from here. Murray 58 years old, the judge avoided a hard law sentence, allowing him to adopt employment but prohibiting visits to any city or town for the years. The court will monitor him during that time. What this man needs is to be kept away from temptation for a while, said Judge Beasley.
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Frank D Murray
Willlam Neasly
Murray
Jude Beasly
Judge Opens Bars and Digs Political Grave
Judge Tom W Reed in Jefferson County court grants thirty seven retail liquor licenses and four brewers licenses while denying any family stock in breweries. A petition with thirteen thousand signatures seeks to bar liquor licenses in Jefferson County.
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Tom W Reed
Reed
Jefferson County
The Constitution Guides Where to Live by Want Ads
The Constitution offers a Bureau of Boarding and Rooming House Information to help citizens find housing. Boarders or roomers can move easily by using this service, and owners with rooms to rent are advised to place Want Ads via the Clerk. Call Main 5000 or Atlanta 5601 for listing details.
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Bureau of Boarding and
Atlanta
Weather Prophecy for Georgia Fair Today
Georgia forecast calls for fair skies and warmer interior conditions today. Wednesday will bring increasing cloudiness with cooler air toward the western portion.
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