Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1921, Page 5

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It is the one beverage you never tire of. JOINT COFFEE TRADE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 74 Wall Street New York -the universal drink CUPers oal B {|ARREST NOT REPORTED HERE " | heen invi INGURY N SLAYG OFELEVENPUSHED Grand Jury Expected to Be Called to Take Up Killings in Peonage Case. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., March 29.—TInvesti- gation of conditions in Newton and| Jasper counties, Georgia, was continued today with state authoritles inquiring further into the = of eleven negroes on the John S. Williams plantation and federal agents continuing their efforts to gather evidence to justify indictments Ion peonage charges. | s current in Newton county nd yesterday that negroes were ng the white residents as a ult of the killings were expected to ken up by the grand jury at Co wherc much excitement w. investigation showed there County offi- id to hold the view that re spread with a view to troubl ! the reports w grand jury al- d Wiiliams and a negro . Clyde Mahning, on the trength of the latter's confession that three negroes were brought into Newton | a rowned, and the Jasper ted to be called Justice Department Unadvised of Williams’ Detention for Murder. No report has been received here | concerning the arrest of John Wil- l!mms. sper county farmer, charged ; with peonage and murder, officials at | the Department of Justice said, al- though agents of the department have gating alleged conditions in that section of Georgia for some ! time. In the matter of the murders, it was said, the state authorities have ihe case wholly in hand, but fear was expressed the deaths of the negroes would materially hamper peon- age prosecutions by the federal au- thorit Officials described the section where | the bodies of the negroes were found { as one of the worst for peonage known to the department and that there, as | in other parts of the country, investi- gation was difficult becausa of local feeling. CLAIM PEONAGE FLOURISHES. Negro Association Urges President Harding to Investigate. NEW YORK, March 29.—The Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People has made pub- lic telegrams to President Harding and Gov. Dorsey of Georgia. which al- lege that the peonage tem is gen- erally existent in “most southern states and particularly in the Mis- sissippi delta.” Urging President Harding to au- thorize a thorough investigation by artment of Justice “of peon- age conditions in Jasper county, Ga.,| whers John Williams, a white land- | owner, has Killed or caused to be killed eleven negroes who threatened to testify against Williams regarding | peonage.” the message declared: “This association has furnished nu- merous cases of peonage to the De- (partment of Justice. The entire eco- nomic future of the south and of America_is affected by this system.| Thorough investigation and punish- ment of those guilty of perpetuating is system, whatever the cost to the United States, must be made.” The telegram to Gov. Dorsey urged vou bring into the light this sy i . “Next to lynching,” it conclud- ed, “tHere is no greater cause of un- rest.” A telegram also was sent to At- torney General Daugherty urging that the entire machinery of the De- partment of Justice be placed behind the Georgia prosecutions. NEGRO DESERTER GUILTY OF KILLING NAVY NURSE {Sentence on Henry Brown Deferred ' Because of Motion for New Trial. BALTIMORE, Md., March 20.—Henry Brown, negro, deserter from the United States Navy, was tried and found guil of murder in the first degree last even- | {ing in the United States court on a! | charge of robbing and killing Miss Har- | {riett M. Kavanaugh, a nurse at the! iUnited States Naval Academy, on the | night of January 14 last. No criminal assault was attempted. The negro had deserted from the | { Navy and wanted money to pay his fare | | to Baltimore. The nurse was robbed of | I her pocketbook containing $8. She was | i killed by a blow on the head by a piece {of iron pipe and her body was rolled {down an embankment on the academy | grounds. Motion for a new trial caused { the judze to postpone sentence. Under the federal law the verdict of the jury calls for the death penalty, The courtroom was crowded, Annapolis being largely represented. - Navy, uni- forms were conspicuous, many of the officers and seamen betng witnesses in the case. RS S — $300,000 LIQUOR SEIZED. Biggest Raid Under Volstead Act ! Takes Place in New York. | NEW YORK. March 29.—Liquors | valued at $300,000 were seized by | prohibition agents here yesterday in | what was described by them as the biggest raid here since the Volstead ment act went into effect. haul resulted in the ehouse of the Menorah where 2500 cases of | ee , each con- were con- Langley, chief prohibi- cement agent, who con- ducted the raid, ssisted by three nbers of his staff. estimated the ue this liquor at | arlier in the day the | 4 visited five other places, | wh v confiscated wines and ! whiskies vilued at $50,000, 1 MISS ALICE CLARKE DIES. | DWN, March 29 rk Ohio, i i | i ! Amos W. McDevitt INTERIOR DECORATOR Formerly wita Lansburgh & Bro. 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