Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1933 — Page 5

FEB. 16, 1933

MICHIGAN LEADS DRIVE FOR NEW BANK SYSTEM Governor Says Holiday Will Lead to Change by Congress. Michigan' militant governor tartl*d the nation h*n h * rlowd all the banka In hi* state. Renercuaalona have been of Import all over the nation. In the following atorv. he tells hla rlewa of the current oroblema of monev and credit, hanking and barter, and men and mo- j titea BY WILLIAM A. COMSTOCK Governor of Michigan (CoDvncht. 1933. bv United Prefsi ! LANSING, Mich.. Feb. 16.- Anew banking system, based on present deflated values, may be created in the United States this year as a result of the bank holiday now in effect in Michigan. The new system probably will develop from banking mils to be introduced in congress and state legislatures during the next few months. Asa start toward the development of the new' system, bills providing for the separation of frozen and liquid assets in banks will be pre- j sented to the Michigan legislature within the next few days. The Michigan administration had thought of waiting for the "new deal" promised by the incoming Roosevelt administration, but the present crisis has focussed our at-1 tention upon the fundamental un-1 soundness of the present banking | system. C reate Own “New Deal” We find we can’t wait. So, wc plan to create our own “new deal,” j hoping our program for banking 1 reorganization and reconstruction ; will not conflict with the program I to be presented by the incoming I federal administration. The crisis in Michigan was caused i by attempts to repair credit ma- j chinery that should be replaced by , new standards of value. My proclamation for the eightday holiday gave bankers an oppor- j tunity to repair credit machinery j I hope they also will take advan- j tage of it to begin replacing some | of the old machinery with construe- ■ live action toward the new system to fit present conditions. I believe they will. The immediate action indicated appears to be a provision for banking reorganization without going through the slow process of receiverships and liquidations, with the consequent sacrifice of assets at forced sales. Quick and Liquid Assets A method should be devised by which immediate action could be taken under proper laws and authority to segregate frozen assets in trust for a rightful share of the debts of an institution. Then, these assets could be liquidated under proper management over a requite J period of years. Quick and liquid assets and the j deposits for which they are security j should be placed in a reorganized institution for the conduct of busi- j ness. While I can not forsec the immed- j: iat e result of the holiday, I sin-! cerely believe it will help bring i 1 about the new' system we must have to effect a permanent cure to the banking ills of today.” KILL ASSESSMENT BILL Senate Foes Brand Measure Move to Ruin 51.50 law. Described by its opponents as an j entering wedge to destroy the $1.50 tax limit law, a bill to permit boards j of assessments to make separate levies to retire bonds for debts con- | tract ed prior to Aug. 8, 1932, was■ killed in the senate Wednesday. j Senators from the larger counties, for the most part, were favorable. I but a solid front by members from j smaller counties kepi the measure | from receiving a majority vote. j

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Ghastly Story of Peonage Bared by Federal Sleuth

Tht* li the eighth of *rl* of stories ba'>d on Information from the flies of the United S'a'.ei Bureau of Investigation and other souroes telling for the first time the bureau's agents' part In famous mysteries BY LOU WEDEMAR Time* Staff Writer SPECIAL AGENT J-353, strolling on Broadway one January day on the lookout for a minor swindler, had no thought that he soon would be immersed in an investigation of one of the nation's most ghastly mass murders since the days of slavery. He watched the passing throng awhile and then called the bureau. "Report here at once," his superior instructed him. “You're leaving for the Atlanta office tonight.” Peonage, the last vestige of slavery, is prohibited by federal law It is defined as a condition of forced servitude by which a persons is compelled to “work out” a debt. In Georgia as late as 1912 peonage was prevalent in rural districts and local authorities were helpless. Not only Negroes but unfortunate whites, turned to the federal government as their only nope. A trembling Negro, Gus Chapman, had visited the Atlanta office of the bureau the day before J-353 was summoned. *He gave sensational information about John S. Williams, owner of a large plantation in Jasper county, Ga. The more I work.” Chapman complained, “the more I owe. I am afraid of my life. I ran away this morning, but there are a dozen or more still prisoners. He beats them with rubber strips and kills them.” We’ll protect you,” J-353 told Chapman. “And we'll see what we can do for the others ” J-353 proceeded to the Williams plantation He found him a pleasant, kind-mannered man; neighbor/ told him he always was good to his family and was law-abiding in every respect. ‘ But he has no feelings for the peons,” one neighbor said ‘‘They’re slaves to nim.” Williams, a hearty, bluff man of middle age was candid with J-353. Os course I work my plantation with these men,” he said. “I ‘buy’ them from the road gangs and chain gangs and jail, and keep them until thev work out that purchase price.” HE denied emphatically he deprived them of their liberty, however. .. , ? oin . t 0 a house Rome distance awav, on the bank of the sluggish Yellow river. That's where they live,” Williams said. But near it J-353 saw a more substantial structure with barred windows. This, he decided, was a St ?vm de descnbecl by the bureau's informant Williams said it haH not t

vvunams sam it, naa not been used in many years, although J-353 discovered tiers of bunks inside sufficient to accommodate fifteen or twenty persons, its doors were secured by heavy locks and chains. Outside the stockade was a shoe repairing outfit, at which an elderly Negro was busy resoling shoes with strips of rubber from old automobi* tires. Several days later as J-353 was mapping his campaign one of hi/; comrades passed him an afternoon newspaper. The bodies of two Negroes, chained together and weighted down with iron, were lound this morning in the Yellow' river in Jasper county." the story read. J-353 leaped into action. He and three of his aids sped to Williams’ plantation. Wo it n HEN they arrived next morning a group of men was gathered on the road. "They found another dead Negro this morning,” J-353 was informed. He w r as in the South river, the other side of the Williams' plantation.” Tlie bureau set up emergency headquarters in an old house within a cw miles of the Jasper plantation and communicated with Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, w'ho promised full co-operation in the investigation. Under cover of darkness that same night Ebhardt Craw'ford slipped into the agent’s headquarters. He was apparently in the reign of a wave of terror, which J-353 felt was sweeping Jasper county. “I just happened to say that I thought those dead men had worked for Williams,” he stammered. “Since then, Williams has been to my house twfice. After he came the second time, a lot of men surrounded my house and fired shots into it.” With this information J-353 conferred with Governor Dorsey, who ordered a special session of the Stone Mountain court grand jury. A subpena w'as issued for Williams. Bearing it, J-353 and the sheriff and a squad of deputies proceeded to the plantation, from which until that time the local officers had been barred. a a a THE plantation was deserted, it seemed at first. The Williams family mansion was unoccupied, its front door standing open. There w'as no one in the peons’ house or in the stockade. But as the posse was about to depart, two frightened Negroes came out of a thicket by the river. They were Clyde Manning and Clyde Freeman. They told of Williams’ flight and led J-353 to the Hiding place or another of the peons.

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; Frank Dosier, a Negro, w'ho had i gone to college. It took hours to restore their confidence so they would talk. But finally they began to give a little information. J-353 w’as not sure Manning and Freeman w r ere not romancing, although they seemed in deadly , earnest. “Prove it,” he said. The Negroes looked at each other. Dosier stood up. “Come on,” he said. “We’ll all go.” ; Moonlight was streaming down on ! the plantation as J-353 followed the three men to the edge of a copse. * Dosier pointed to a depression in the earth. “Dig.” he said. The deputies dug. Five minutes j later the body of John W T ill Gaither j lay before them. He had been muri dered by the blow’ of an ax on the back of his head. Now will you believe?” asked Dosier. “Williams brought Big John over here to dig a w’ell. Big John dug his own grave. Then Williams had another man hit him with an ax and kill him.” NEXT they went to the pasture near Williams’ house, w’hore the body of “Johnnie” Williams was found buried. ”1 killed him,” said Manning. “Williams made me do it.” On Water's bridge over the YelS low river, Dosier pointed to a piece | of an iron wheel weighing about a hundred pounds. “This is from the tw T o men they found the other day,” he said. “They were ‘Red’ Brown and John Beni ford. Williams had told them they could go home, and put them in a

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car to drive them to the railroad station. They were very happy. But when they got to the bridge he chained them together. “ ‘Red’ got dow’n on his knees and begged for his life. ‘All right,’ Williams says. ‘You push Eenford off the bridge, and you’ll be let go. ’Red’ | wasn't very bright. He pushed Benford off the bridge and was dragged dow r n himself.” a o MANNING w’as talking. He had been arrested, partly to pro- | tect him. for the authorities believed I the murders he had committed had ! been forced upon him. A search for Williams was spreading over the south.

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“Williams kept a pack of bloodhounds.” he told J-353. “He allowed them to chase us Saturday afternoons and Sundays just to keep I them in practice.” Other members of Williams’ family fled from the state, and never ' were found. Williams finally was arrested, on a tip from a Negro, and brought to trial. One of the chief points of evidence, in proving that the Negroes were Williams' peons, was that all wore shoes soled with rubber cut out from old auto tires. In some ! cases the rubber was matched and found to fit. Manning, who had been clay in his master s hands, was found guilty of murder and given a life seni tence. Williams was found guilty by a jury, which recommended mercy, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Manning died in prison of tuberculosis. Williams soon became a trusty in the state farm at Milledgville, Ga. When several prisoners tried to esI cape in an automobile, Williams ran I in front of the car and tried to stop it. He was run down and killed. | Next—Firebugs in New York.

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