The Atlanta Constitution
November 20, 1920

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To British Soldiers ’ Massed in Ireland Se in Ireland Give Evidence. a , P “lap “= cod . der. ‘mayor of Cork, will ~* ham sala the ‘“‘black and. tans” ~bayoneted two citizens of Balbrig- bayonet butt ‘ready to collapse at.each new out- |. ., Sroopers who gave no reason for another, Mr. Derham teld the com- ‘mission. L z ps : tin “a. - — ° - — -_ é > Di at copies: Daily, Sc; Sut : me + a : - niin . | « 2 ine ae A BE Be ‘errorism Charge “ John Derham, Town Com- - missioner of Balbriggan, and Americans Recently ARSON AND MURDER LAID TO THE BRITISH _ . BLACK CHAPTER, Home Town in Which Several Persons Were . Killed and Many Homes -Burned--American Wom- an Tells of Murder of Derham Tells of Raid on} Crippled Boy. ~ Washington, November 19.—(By the- Associated Press.)\—More eye- witness tales of violence in ireland and accounts of social and economic developments resulting fromthe ef- fort for Irish. independence were received today by the commission of the committee of one hundred in- vestigating the Irish question. The commission then adjourned over Thanksgiving to resume its inquiry probably the first week in Decem- | When it reconvenes, Mrs. Murie) MacSwiney, widow of the late Jord be the star witness. Personal accounts of the killing of citizens and police last September at Balbriggan, and the burning and looting of homes and stores there and at Galway and othe Irish towns were related by John Derham, town commissioner of Balbriggan, and Americans who toured the country recently, including Mrs. William A. King, of Ironton, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hackett, of New York. A copy of the report made by the, Quaker ‘commission from Great Britain, which investigated Irish af- fairs recently, was submitted by Paul J. Furnas, of New York, presi- dent of the Society of Friends. “Terrorism,” Say Witnesses. “Terrorism” was the term applied by all today’s witnesses te . the military-rule in Irefand. Mr. Der-| gan and burned 25 houses during a raid in reprisal for the shooting of two officers by unknown pers@nb, He said he was himself beaten wit¥ | ana Otherwise mal- treated. No compensation, he said, was offered by the British govern- ment for property destroyed by the military. ° “The ‘black and tan’ spent a night of yelling, burning and shooting,” said Mr. Derham. “All of us were break, for we did not knew what would happen to us next.” The Balbriggan commissioner de- clared that James Lawless and John Gibbons were stabbed by the militia, but that an inquiry by military authorities failed to establish who was responsible for the death- of the men. He ‘said ‘hat a score of houses were burned and that the contents of those left standing were wrecked. ~ *« Dragged From His Bed. Mr. Derham said he was dragged from his bed and severely beaten py their acts and then his own shop, over which he lved, was first tan- sacked and his stocks of liquor de- stroyed before the house was burn- ed. Mr.-Derham said he was drag- ged along’ the street to the police barracks and finally was placed in the town’s hotel along with a hun- dred other refugees, all of whom | believed they were held under ar- rest. eHis son, Matthew. also was clubbed and beaten by the police, he said, but finally ‘escaped. This raid followed the killing of one policeman and the wounding of The military inquiry, however, had failed to establish the identity of the persons who had killed the officer who was shot, he said, while in the act of taking: liquor from a barroom where the barmaid had refused to sell Rim more because of his intoxicated con- dition. — Terek Freely Used. The “black and tans,” Mr. Ber- Cenmtinued on Page 7, Column 3. | SAYS ASOUIT {Former Premier Says the British Course in Ireland Equals Blackést Annals of Lowest Despotism of Europe. — London, November .19.— Strong condemnation of the government’s Irish policy and reprisals in Ire- lamd was voiced by former Premier Asquith in a speech at the National Liberal club today. ~ He declared that cold-blooded, deliberate murder had been traced and credited to uni- formed servants of the crown and asserted things were being done in Ireland “‘by authority and incite- ment of the executive which would take a fitting place in the blackest annals of the lowest despotism of the European world,” “The plain truth ts,” said Mr. Asquith, “that since the adoption of this practice of reprisal, without parallel, so far as my knowledge goes, in the annals of ‘the British administration, justice has been put into the background and vengeance has been enthroned in its place. The executive, with its agents and servants. has allowed itself to te minister of a policy of blind, piti- less and indiscriminate revenge. “There is an overwhelming Case for inquiry, but as it Was con- temptuously and vigorously ecfused, one is obligea to draty one’s own conclusions,” MANY RAIDS IN DUBLIN. Dublin, November 19.—From early this morning until this evening the military was busy_ raiding in all parts of the city. The places raid- ed included the offices of the food emergency committee in the city hall. Twelve pé@rsons * were 4af- rested. ep tas ~ e- 5 | Defying Parson Russ Baritone —_——_——_- ~ Intends to. Sing; All Stars of the Chicago Opera Company Back Baklanoff—Preacher Ob- - jects to Baklanoff Be- cause of Mann Act Charges. ee J ‘ } Chicago, November M.—Backeoa up by a testimonial signed by alf! the stars of the Chicago Opera company, Georges Baklanoff, Rus- sian baritone, Geclared today he would sing in “Tosca” tomorrow night, despite a written protest by Dr. MePbert L. Willett, president of the Chicago Church federation. Dr. Willett sent a letter to the opera director demanding that Bak- lanoff be barred because of his re- lations with Mlle. Elvira America- gar, a Russian singer, who caused his arrest last winter on Mann act charges. Baklanoff was held for a time at Ellis Island on his arrival in t@is. country a week ago, and was ordered deported, but later paroled. f “The ability of a singer is para- mount,” Baklanoff declared after reading Dp. Willett’s letfer, which characterized him as “notoriously immoral.” Continuing, the singer said: “Tl am no minister or priest. Very few artists make any pretensions of being particularly moral. Anyhow, very few church people go to the grand opera; 80, if they object to me, the opera company will lose nothing.” Samuel Insull, president ‘of the Commonwealth Edison company, and ene of the directors ef the opera company, gaid: -~«*-* “The right of the public to ap- praise moral values in the person- ality of an artist is a question I would not care to discuss., This is a matter for the grand opera people themselves to decide.” ¢ i Trotzky Outlines . Bolshevik: Threat The Constitution tomorrow will publish an exclusive statement by Leon Trotzky, co- dictator of Russia, in which hé gives the aims of the bolshevik extremists, who now control Russia and menace the of vast importance. os \ a. This is the only authorized statement issued by the soviet government in many months. Trotzky’s frank outline of the purpose of the Russian Reds reveals the full danger of the soviet threat, and makes this: — Tomorrow s peace of Europe. article one ji , | ~ Const itution STRUCK BY AUTO, YOUNG GIRL DIES AT LINGO HOSPITAL Miss Erby Waltz, Student at Cox College, Knocked Street Car Friday. FRANK DELAND, DRIVER OF CAR, IS ARRESTED Autoist Was Traveling With Family From Home Spend Winter. Miss Erby Waltz,-aged 13, a. stu- dent of Cox college, was fatally in- jured at 5 o’ clock Friday afternoon at Hapeville, when she was struck after alighting from a street car, by an automobile driven by Frank De- land, of Lansing. Mich., wh, .with en route for Winter Haven, Fla. Miss Waltz was rushed to tte Lingo hospital, where she died at 9:30 o'clock Friday ‘night. Mr. De- land was arrested by county police- men and held without bond at Ful- ton Tower; charged:with felony. ' According to statements’ by Mr. Deland made at Fulton Tower Fri- day night, he struck. Miss Waltz.a few moments after she had alighted from the street car. He said that Miss Waltz started for the sidewalk as she got off the car, but upon see- ing his automobile approach, turned back toward the car track, after the street car had passed on. On seeing her start toward the sidewalk, according to Mr. Deland'’s | Statement, he turned in toward the ear track, in an effort to avoid | striking the young woman. Unfor- ‘tunately, she had started back just as he rned in, and was struck. He. States that one of the wheels passed over the young woman's body, al- though he applied his brakes as soon as possible, seeing that the accident would be unavoidable. The young woman was carried into a private home in the vicinity by Mr. Deland and others, and an ambulance was at once summoned. At’ the" hospital, it was found that. the automobile had. passed’ over her head and chest, dislocated her lower ‘jaw. fractured. several of. her.ciba, gauged internal injuries. n the autothobile with Mr. Deland rere his wife and his two daughters, {iss Alma and Mis@# Inlo Déjand, ail three of whom are now: stopping ‘at a local hotel. He states that had the young lady either stood still after alighting curb without hesitating, the accident would never have happened. Miss Waltz is survived by her mother, Mrs. Louise Waltz; two sis- ters, Mrs. H. H. Lewis. and Mrs. | Flourney Poole; three brothers, _ Lewis, Thomas and James. Georgia Hunters Now Enjoying Splendid Season Hundreds of Sportsmen ‘Are Taking Advantage. of Opportunity to Kill Doves and Quail. BY MARION KENDRICK. If you heard the roar of* distant guns this morning as the first rays marching on Atlanta and other | Georgia cities, for with the game commissioner Predicting the best hunting season of many years, hun- dreds of sportsmen within the bor- ders of the Empire State were tak- | ing advantage of their first oppor-. tunity in many months to bring home doves and quail. “We aon a special inves- tigation as conditions of game in the state just prior to the open- ing of the season today.” Clyde Mathews, state game commissioner. sai’, “and no season in Georgia of reeent years has developed. such splendid reports from different county wardens. ‘from the reports in south Geor- gia,.there is a great increase in the hunting of wild turkeys. Pos- sibly the most, reports as to thé | quantity of quail come from the | piney woods section of this state. Although we have better reports from middle Georgia than in any previous time, sportsmen who have been out heretofore report a large ) increase in the number of deer. In fact, there Is more hunting this | year than usual. The sale of li- censes from the department have been unusually encouraged. The general public has awaited the opening of the season more patiently year than usual. This department has had fewer complaint than any time in its history as to people hunting ahead of the season,” he eontinued, , “The recent rains will, no doubt, be of great advantdge to dogs and to sportsmen. The dry season has, broken and we believe the men in Georgia who will enjoy the best or’ all sports will have a séason bet- ter than they have enjoyéd in many }years. This department is anxious th eperatior of all aD Down After Getting Off in Michigah to Florida to’ his wife and two daughters, was” from the car, or else walked to the of the sun heralded; thé dawn of a| ; new day, don’t imagine an army is SWINDLE CHARGE BY “WIRETAPPING ‘Separate South Carolin- ian From His Bank Roll. Abe Powers Is Arrested. Abe Powers, of St. Louis, Mo., was arrested Friday afternoon in con- nection with an alleged “wire tap- ping” swindle, on complaints of MM. C. Holley, of Aiken, S. C., who states that he had been swindled out of $11,000 in a fake horse race scheme. Detectives are investigating the circumstances, under the belief that ithe scheme may be a more exten- sive one than is indicated by the facts thus far brought to light. Mr. Holley states that at the time of the arrest of Powers, he had in hfs possession checks ‘aggregating in value $80,000 from which he be- lieves the litigation has been watched with great interest by business men and bankers all over the country. The decision of the federal circuit court of appeals sustains the posi- tion of the federal reserve board at Washington in regard to “par clear- ance,” as well as the position of the officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Some extremely important ques- tions arose in the litigation, one of which was Whether a Federal Reserve bank, under the federal re- serve act, is the same as a national bank’ under _the national banking act. Under the court’s decision, which was favorable to the Fed- eral Reserve bank, on this issue, as well as on all others, it has now. been judictally established, by proba- bly the highest court to which such a question could be taken, that the Federal Reserve bank stands in a different class and category from a national bank, or, in other words, are entirely different and dissim- ilar in law as well as in fact. May Appeal Further, The case originally was brought in January of this year by the American Bank and Trust Company 400 other state banks of the south. The action was heard in Fulton county superior court, before Judge W. D. Eliis. The defendants were the federal resérve bank of ,At- reserve bank of Atlanta removed the case to the United States dis- trict court for the northern district of eGorgia, although the state banks vigorously resist.d its removal. In the United States district court it developed that Judge Samuel H. Sibley, the judge assigned, was dis- qualified, some of his relatives be- ine stockholers in one of the plain- tiff banks. When that developed, Judge Richard W. Walker. the pre- siding judge of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Georgia or Fifth circuit, appointed Judge Beverly D. .Evans, judge of the United States district court for the southern district of eGorgia, to prefide. / Suit Is Dismissed. Ay trial was had before him in Atlanta March 24, 1920, and, after a hearing, he dismissed the guilt, thereby deciding in favor of the f-deral reserve bank of Atlanta. Shortly afterwards, the American Bank and Trust company and the other plaintiff banks carried the case by appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals for this cir-4 cuif. The casé was argued before Tontinued on Page 6, Column S. — OLD AMERICAN | OF BALTIMORE fe GOES TO MUNSEY Baltimore, Md., November 19.— General’ Felix Agnus, the veteran “publisher of The Baltimore Ar_-r- ican and The Baltimore Star, will announce in The American tomor- row that on December 1 The Amer- icah and The Star will pass under the control of Frank A. Munsey, owner of The Baltimore News. The New York Herald, The New-York Sun, The New York Telegram and other publicatiotis. The American: is one of the oldest newspapers in INVOLVED IN THE CASE | wary. fic’ May, the young confed- Reign of BANDITS WANTED. “IN MINNEAPOLIS Authorities of That City Anxious to: Get Posses- sion of Eric D. May and Stuart Taylor. | r An unexpected development inthe case of the boy bandits, Erie D. May, aged 17, and Stuart Taylor, aged 19, arrested shortly after robbing the Stevens d Hawkm drug store at the corner of West Peachtree and Fourteenth streets, at 11 o’clock Thursday night, came last night in the receipt at police headquarters here from Minneapolis, of a- tele- gram reading as folléws: “Erie May and Stuart Taylor are wanted here. If you can turn them! over please advise. Send picture and finerprints. -J. Francis Walker, su- perintendent of potice.” The boys are now at Fulton tow- er, held in default of $6,000 bond. ture of the youthful pair Thursday night. They described in detail not only how they had robbed the safe of the Stevens & Hawks drug store of $82, after compelling the manager of the store, at the point of a pistol, that would not shoot, to open the safe, but of the manner in which, with handkerchief masks over their features, they had held up the Parker-Brennan drug. store, at Peachtree and North avenue, lin- ing up customers and clerks at the counters while one of them rifled the cash régister. ‘ Taylor was arrested about half an hour after he had gone into a drug store at the corner of Wth and Peachtree streets Thursday night, without his mask, for the purpose, it is believed of looking the place over with a view to future opera- tiens+there. The arrest was made by Officers McDaniels and Harrison, after the youthful desperado had been pointed out to the policemen by Marvin ,Morrison. negro mes- senger boy. of the Stevens. & Hawks drug store, wha had followed him from—the store after the rob- erate of Taylor, had taught a street car, and gone to a local hotel with the money. | Detectives who arrived‘ on the scene shortly after the apprehension of Taylor, forced from him the name of the hotel at which his companion could be found and May’s arrest fol- lowed. Shortly after the arrest of May, Roy Stone, who, with Sam Campbell, both of Macon, was caught by | ” = Continued on Page 13, Column — DR. HAWKINS INDICTED. False Swearing in Auto- Burning Case Charged. Pr. David B. Hawkins, whose au- tomobile was found, destroyed by fire on a public road a mile west of Bélton August 25, was indicted Yfri- day by the Fulton county _ grand jury on a charge of false swearing as the result of an affidavit, made by Hawkins in an, effort to obtain insurance amounting to $4,050 on .the car. ey % The affidavit, which was made a part of the indictment, sets out that the car belonging to Hawkins “was. damaged by theft and fire while in charge of unknown persons between August 24 and 25.” The affidavit was made under oath before a no- tary public. The indictment charges that Hawkins swore falsely in that he had placed his car in the hands of O. N. Cribbs for the Peres of having it destroyed by fire. It is claimed that Cribbs, acting for the accused, persuaded J. W. Gilbert and J. B. Neal to drive the car to the place where it was found and to set fire to it. The case is being investigated fur- ther by W. T. Gloer, of the Adams National Detective agency. For the Red Cross Laid to Moyers Atlanta Lawyer Is Indict- ed- on Four Different Counts at Meeting of Grand Jury Friday. W. T. Moyers, an Atlanta lawyer, was indicted by the Fulton county grand jury on four different counts friday, includjng a charge of stab- bing Morris Markey, reporter for ’The Journal, of pointing a pistol at another, and carrying a pisto] with- out a license. Accordng to witnesses, Mr. Moy- ers curtiy refused to join the Red Cross, when a prominent young plady and a business man of the city canvassed the office building in which his office 1s located and it was stated by Red Cross authorities | that Mr. Moyers told the man that he “would beat the hell out of him, }if the young lady wgs not present, When this report reached Markey and Roy C. Flannagan, another re- porter for The Jougnal, they decid- ed to call on Mr. Moyers to ask him to join the Red Cross and ibly get a story out of his refusal, it was stated at the courthouse. s they asked Moyers to join the Red Cross, he drew a,knife and slashed fa ond panes ps an then he ewe . é ed them until they backed out Ra Grafte Never Challenged ~ Full confessions followed the cap-, & Stabbing Worker} Acéording to the reporters, when | 7 | o€ nie ef iae inte the . SM * ee at Ar Excess since January 1, inches,16.7; eerernvee Ges 6% 34 b | 5 OL 7 a. m. Noon. 7 ae 40 34 58 Dry temperature. Wee DOD. 0s éeawae Rel. humidity Reports of Weuther Bureau Stations STATIONS Temperature. j Hain, and State of | 24 urs ____- WEATHER. |70.m. | RG ATLANTA, cleari Birmingham, clr ton, cldy ... uffalo, cldy .. Chafleston, clear Chicago, pt. eldy! Denver, clear . Des Moines, p c Galveston, clear, Hatteras, clear . Havre, clear ... Jacksonville, clr! Kan. City, | Memphis, clear . Miami, clay ... 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